Dragon Pattern Roll Set

"Why are these mirrors so strange?"

Gongsun, who came in behind, frowned, and the shadow guards behind him lit up the lamps, and after the room was brightened, the weird feeling was also reduced.

Zhan Zhao took a step back, and then took a few steps forward, and couldn't help complaining, "Oh, how did Wang Linchun make this vanity mirror? What kind of material is the mirror, it's crooked."

At this time, a yamen servant from Changzhou Mansion said, "Master Zhan, this is the best-selling mirror recently."

As the yamen servant said, he moved a stool and put it in front of the vanity mirror, "Sit down and have a look."

Zhan Zhao walked to the table and sat down. He looked in the mirror and was startled, "Wow! It's so clear!"

"Really?" Gongsun stood behind him, "I don't know, it's true that the twisted faces are kind of scary."

"Sit down and watch." Zhan Zhao stood up and let him.

Gongsun sat down and took a look, and sighed, "It's so clear!"

Others also came to try it. It turns out that the mirror must be taken at close range, and it is best to sit and face the mirror. It is so clear that even the fine hairs on the face can be seen.

"Hmm... so I look like this." Zhao Putting his chin in his hand, he looked at himself carefully, carefully looking at his two eyeballs with different colors, "Hey, it's still quite obvious."

At this time, Xiaoye also came in. Although he had injuries, they were not serious, just a few scratches. Gongsun applied ointment on him. After a while, Mr. Bao asked him in detail.

Zhan Zhao asked Xiaoye, "Why is this mirror so clear?"

Ye Quan walked over to have a look, nodded, and said, "Oh, this is a gray bone mirror."

"A gray bone mirror?"

At this moment, Pang Yu and Bao Yan also ran in.

"What is a gray bone mirror?" Pang Yu went to the mirror and sat down to look at it, admiring, "Oh, it's so clear! Get some for my aunt, second mother, third mother, fourth mother, fifth mother, sixth mother, seventh mother, and sister. go back."

Everyone couldn't help but twitch their mouths, how many mothers are there...

"How is this mirror made?" Bao Yan was curious.

Xiaoye sighed, and said, "My master researched it, and there are two types, one is cheap, and the other is very expensive. This kind is still cheap, and the very expensive one is upstairs. It is clearer than this."

Everyone was surprised.

"How exactly is it made?" Bai Yutang was puzzled,

"This kind of glass mirror is made of transparent white glass first, and then painted with a layer of silver powder on the back. The most important thing is to seal the silver powder with my master's special ashes powder, and it will be done." Ye Quan pointed Pointing to the upstairs, "There are a few very expensive ones upstairs that are custom-made by others. The mirrors are not glass, but water jade, and some are simply ice jade. They are all ordered by girls from rich families, or those who are courtesans. made."

"What is bone powder?" Bai Yutang was well-informed, but he had never heard of it, and Gongsun and the others didn't understand.

"This is my master's unique secret recipe." Ye Quandao, "I only know that he and his wife will go to the Old Crow Valley to pick up things every once in a while, saying that they are the raw materials for making ashes powder. After returning home, they will grind them into powder and stir them into a paste. Brush it in the mirror."

Zhan Zhao was curious, "You don't know what the ingredients are?"

Ye Quan shook his head, "Master said that I was still young and would inherit his mantle in the future, he would tell me again, and said..."

"What are you talking about?" Zhan Zhao saw that he was hesitating, and seemed to have some scruples, "Your master and wife are dead, what are you afraid of?"

Ye Quan gritted his teeth, seemed to be cruel, and said, "I was hungry once at night, so I ran to the kitchen to get something to eat. When I passed by the yard, Master and Mistress were making ashes, and I heard them talking. Mistress When I asked Master when he would teach me how to make powdered ashes, Master said that this is an outrageous thing after all, and it’s fine if they do it, don’t ask me to do it.”

"Unreasonable?" Zhan Zhao and the others were a little curious.

Ye Quan nodded, "I took a peek inside. Under the moonlight, I saw my wife smashing a skeleton with a mallet. The skeleton looked gray... It was scary. I was scared away, but I didn't dare I didn’t dare to ask aloud, I think it’s probably because I’m sleepy and my eyes are dazzled.”

When everyone heard this, they looked at each other silently—grey bones?He couldn't help but think of those gray fingers that hit the roof of the carriage when he passed by Old Crow Valley.

Now that I think about it, those bones are a bit petrified, they feel like they are crunchy, but what made the bones like that?

In addition... If these two couples really used human bone powder to paste the mirror, how many people would die?Did they kill them or is there a mass grave in Old Crow Valley?

Zhan Zhao frowned.

Bai Yutang asked him, "Is there a mass grave in Old Crow Valley?"

Zhan Zhao shook his head, "No, I haven't heard of it."

Zhao Pu wanted to ask the two shadow guards to visit Old Crow Valley, but Zhan Zhao stopped him, "Wait a minute, if you don't know the way, don't go in Old Crow Valley, it's very dangerous."

Zhao Pu stopped several shadow guards, and Ouyang Shaozheng asked, "Isn't it just a ravine, how dangerous is it?"

"In fact, there are many forks in the road, and there are many gravels on the mountain. Rocks may fall at any time. If you are not familiar with the road, you will easily get lost. Especially at night, there are many crows. When it is dawn, find a few guides who are familiar with the road, and then lead them to the road. Two dogs, it's safer to go and explore."

Everyone had to wait until dawn.

At this time, Bai Yutang suddenly asked Ye Quan, "Your master and mother have been to Old Crow Valley, have you been hit by bird droppings?"

Yuan was stunned for a moment, then nodded, "Yes! Master does."

Zhan Zhao frowned, subconsciously looking for the fourth son.

"My teacher's mother was slapped with bird droppings on her neck. She came back and washed several buckets of water. I don't know how much powder she put on it and said it smelled of bird droppings." Good man."

Everyone looked at the crying Xiaoye sympathetically.

Gongsun suddenly asked Xiaoye, "Your mistress, did bird feces slap your neck?"

"Yeah." Ye Quan nodded.

Gongsun thought for a while and asked Zhan Zhao, "Where's your clothes that were stained with bird droppings just now?"

Zhan Zhao looked at Bai Yutang.

Bai Yutang replied confidently, "Throw it away."

The corner of Zhan Zhao's mouth twitched, "It's still wearable after washing!"

Bai Yutang looked at Zhan Zhao with disapproval, "Absolutely not!"

Gongsun was quite helpless, and Zou Liang also lost Lin Yehuo's piece.

"Do you think there's something wrong with that bird droppings?" Zhao Pu asked Gongsun.

Gongsun thought for a while, then nodded, "There is no reason for such a coincidence... What about the insider in the yamen? I still want to ask."

So, Zhan Zhao called all the insiders of those yamen, and Gongsun asked in detail about the mad teacher and Mrs. Liu who committed suicide, where they were photographed by bird droppings.

After everyone recalled, Mrs. Liu was photographed on the head, and the master was even worse, the face was photographed.

The corners of everyone's mouths twitched, imagining the situation of being covered in bird feces, and they were all speechless.

Gongsun said to Zhao Pu, "Can you bring me some bird droppings tomorrow?"

Zhao Pu nodded and told the shadow guards to pay attention.

Gongsun felt that it was not safe, so he asked the shadow guards to remember to protect themselves tomorrow, and don't get bird droppings. In addition... if possible, catch a crow and tell everyone not to be pecked by the crow.

After everyone went back, they told Lord Bao about the incident.

Lord Bao frowned, and sent someone to distribute umbrellas at the entrance of Old Crow Valley, and all travelers who passed by must wear umbrellas, and they must not be photographed by that bird droppings again.

That night, everyone lay in a daze for a while, and the sky soon dawned.

When Gongsun got up, he heard a "quack" sound coming from outside. He took his fourth son and went out to have a look. He saw a big bird cage on the stone table in the yard, and there was a black lacquered bird in the cage. crow.

It turned out that Ziying and Zheying went to Old Crow Valley early in the morning, and brought back a crow with a net.

Everyone was watching by the cage at the moment.

Zhan Zhao frowned, "How big is a crow?"

Bai Yutang also stood aside and shook his head, "This is not a crow, it's bigger than a chicken."

"I can't see it from a distance." Ouyang Shaozheng also felt strange, "Oh, it's a bit too big when you look at it up close. No wonder the bird droppings are so big."

With crows, there will naturally be bird droppings. At this moment, there is already a lump at the bottom of the cage, which is not yellow.

Gongsun picked out a bit with a bamboo stick and put it in a porcelain jar, ready to study it.

The crow was still flopping about in the cage, screaming "quack quack" incessantly.

However, everyone looked up, down, left, and right, and they didn't see anything wrong with this crow, except that it was a little bigger.

At this time, Bao Yan and Pang Yu came in from outside, each holding a pair of fried dough sticks wrapped in oil cakes.

"What is this?" Zhao Pu was curious, looking at a piece of red and white oily cake.

"It's rice cakes. Southerners eat a lot of them." Zhan Zhao didn't eat them for a long time, so he wanted to go out and buy them.

"I bought it." Pang Yu took out a big paper bag and put it on another table. Everyone washed their hands and prepared to eat breakfast.

The shadow guards found a curtain to cover the crow, and hung it on a tree in the corner of the yard.

The crow tossed about for a while, but then it was covered by the curtain and could not see outside, so it became quiet.

Pang Yu chewed his snacks and said, "Hey, let me tell you gossip, and tell you a ghost story, which one do you want to hear first?"

Everyone looked at each other, and the fourth son stretched out his hand, "Gossip."

Xiao Liang smiled and took the handkerchief to wipe the powdered sugar on the corners of the fourth son's mouth.

Pang Yu grinned and said, "I went out just now and found out a lot of interesting things. I heard that the master of chopsticks wanted to kill the prefect of Shen. It was the prefect who found out that he secretly collected money and helped to do a lot. What a bad thing. Prefect Shen quarreled with him for a long time before the incident happened, and later he said that he would be brought to justice. However, someone persuaded him that the master is so old, and he can be sent away if he is not beaten in his seventies or scolded in his eighties. Shen Zhifu's heart softened and he spared his life, but unexpectedly he was murdered."

Bao Zheng was surprised, "Then the master killed someone premeditatedly? Is there any evidence?"

Pang Yu shrugged, "Maybe, I just listened to those three aunts and six women on the road."

Everyone nodded, motioning for Pang Yu to continue.

"Then, there seems to be a reason for Liu Tian's original wife to go crazy." Pang Yu smirked, "Liu Tian is said to be good, but he is a bit playful and romantic. He originally wanted to take a few concubines, but unexpectedly his original wife refused. Later I heard that Liu Tian was going to divorce her, she was jealous and had no children for so many years, there are already two out of seven, no one can say anything if she divorces her."

The crowd frowned.

Pang Ji stroked his beard, "Well, although that lady is a bit extreme, it's also a very reasonable reason to kill her husband. After all, after so many years of husband and wife, you can't abandon a bad wife."

"Is there any more?" Zhan Zhao asked curiously.

"Yes." Pang Yu bumped his arm into Bao Yan, who was eating very seriously, "Hey, Mantou, tell me one, don't tell me all."

"Huh?" Bao Yan blinked, quickly chewed and swallowed the breakfast in his mouth, and said, "Also, Wang Linchun, the owner of the Linchun Mulou, is said to have been secretly carrying his wife behind his back to have sex with a kiln sister outside. He even gave her the best small folding mirror made of ice jade and ashes bone in the shop. Because of this, the couple quarreled every day. I spent a lot of money, so it became very powerful... Now people in the street are talking about that men will become bad when they have money, and even a poor wife can't compare to those beautiful flowers."

After everyone listened, they thought about it... It is true that the three cases were a bit too intense, but the assailant did have a reason to kill.

"What about the ghost story?" Bai Yutang asked.

Bao Yan bumped into Pang Yu, which means - you come.

Pang Yu wiped his mouth, took a sip of tea, and said in high spirits, "Do you know that there are ashes bone mirrors in the homes of these three dead families!"

"What?" Everyone was surprised, what a coincidence?

"It's still that kind of good water jade gray bone mirror!" Pang Yu lowered his voice and said mysteriously, "Wang Linchun's wife has it in her room, so don't ask, she sells it herself and she can use it herself. Liu Tian's original wife had a dressing table, which seemed to be bought by Liu Tian. It was originally intended to be given to the concubine he loved the most, but the original wife asked for it first, so he had to give it to her first. It seems that Liu Tian also ordered a few , but it will take time to do it, and we have to wait.”

"It's normal for two women to use a vanity mirror." Bai Yutang asked in puzzlement, "That master is an old man, why do you need a mirror?"

"puff."

Bai Yutang asked, but Pang Yu still hadn't answered, so Bao Yan was happy.

Pang Yu also couldn't help laughing.

The fourth son tilted his head, "What's fun?"

Pang Yu pointed to his eyebrows, and said, "The chopsticks master has no eyebrows, so every morning he has to draw a little bit like a woman, otherwise it will be too ugly. Originally, the mirrors are all bronze mirrors, so they are unclear. Sometimes the painting is crooked, sometimes one side is high and the other is low, which is always a joke. But since he got the gray bone mirror, his eyebrows are very energetic."

When Pang Yu said this, he still put on a particularly amusing dead character, and rubbed against his father by the way, Pang Ji raised his hand and slapped him on the forehead, "No matter how poor you are."

Pang Yu rubbed his head and laughed.

Everyone couldn't laugh or cry, but...

"Where are the ghosts?" The fourth son tried his best to hear ghost stories, thinking it would be scary, but he didn't hear any ghosts after listening for a long time.

"Cough cough." Pang Yu coughed, sat up straight, and said seriously, "The horror is coming soon... Do you know? There is a person living in that gray bone mirror."

"puff."

"Cough cough."

When Pang Yu spoke, everyone choked on porridge or soy milk and looked at him speechlessly.

Zhan Zhao was puzzled, "How can people live in the mirror?"

Pang Yu said seriously, "It is said that the night before the murder, Master Chopsticks once smashed the mirror and said that there was a human face in the mirror."

Bai Yutang drank his tea, "When he looks in the mirror, there must be a human face in it."

Pang Yu waved his hand, "Say it's the face of someone he doesn't know!"

The crowd frowned.

"Master Chopsticks was not normal that night, and he was nagging all the time the next day. He didn't expect...to kill the magistrate at night." Pang Yu continued, "And Liu Tian's original partner, it seems that the incident happened. That afternoon, I suddenly screamed, smashed the mirror with a vase, and said there was a ghost in it, and another person's face."

Everyone frowned—is it the same?

"It is said that Liu Tian thought she lost her temper and scolded her, and then said that the lady was not normal, and at night..." Pang Yu made a killing gesture, "chopped ten pieces at once. A few mouthfuls!"

"What about Wang Linchun's wife?" Zhan Zhao asked.

Pang Yu blinked, "I don't know." Pang Yu spread his hands, "Ask that little apprentice."

After breakfast, Chao Mahan went to Linchun Mulou to find Ye Quan, and at the same time, they brought something.

The yamen servants put a big box in the yard.

Everyone gathered around to watch.

Ye Quandao, "This is the vanity mirror in my teacher's room."

The yamen servants opened the box and took out the mirror.

I saw that it was indeed a very exquisite vanity mirror. The vanity table itself was made of mahogany. You could tell it was a precious old mahogany by looking at the wood grain. The carvings on the wood were even more ingenious. Picture of Eight Ladies.

In the middle of the dressing table is a half-height large mirror, which is crystal clear, surrounded by mahogany, and is carved with red cotton pheasant wood, which is exquisite and extraordinary.

Bai Yutang looked at it, "Is the whole piece ice jade? Complete?"

Ye Quan nodded, "This is the treasure of the shop, 1000 taels of gold."

The corners of everyone's mouths twitched, 1000 taels to buy a mirror... How about taking a picture with a basin of water?

"By the way, Xiaoye, your teacher's wife..." Zhan Zhao didn't have time to ask.

Ye Quan said, "Brother Zhan, my teacher was fascinated by a ghost last night!"

Everyone heard what Ye Quan said last night, so they asked him to explain in detail.

"Ms. Niang sits in front of the mirror to comb her hair every night before going to bed. Last night I suddenly heard her shouting, saying that there is a ghost...there is a ghost in the mirror!"

Everyone frowned and looked at the mirror subconsciously, thinking that it wouldn't be so evil, right?Every mirror has a ghost?

"Then I heard a quarrel upstairs. It seemed that my wife was going to smash the mirror, but the master wouldn't let her do it." Ye Quan said, "The two of them have not been on good terms recently because of my master and sister Yao. The two quarreled more and more, so don't fight, just go upstairs and watch. I just went upstairs when I suddenly saw the master rushing out covered in blood, and the teacher's wife stabbed him to death with a knife behind her, and then she wanted to cut me again, saying What, kill you... I ran down quickly. Mistress is so fierce, I was scratched a few times and fell downstairs, but I grabbed the handrail and didn't get hurt. She might have stepped on the skirt and fell directly fell down and died."

Everyone looked at each other when they heard this, and stared at the mirror together.

Although the mirror is crystal clear, but when viewed from a standing or sideways angle, the figures in it are distorted and weird, but it still looks like a person, but...

Everyone was studying, when Lin Yehuo suddenly moved a stool, sat in front of the dressing table, and stared at himself in the mirror.

After watching for a while, he suddenly gasped and covered his chest with his hands.

The fourth son was standing beside him, looking up at him, "Xiao Linzi? What did you see?"

Lin Yehuo covered his chest, stared at the mirror in shock and opened his mouth wide, almost speechless.

"What did you see?" Xiao Liang was also anxious, and everyone looked at Lin Yehuo in surprise, thinking that it wouldn't be so evil, right?How can a thin mirror live in a person?

Lin Yehuo was stunned for a long time, then suddenly put his hands on his face, intoxicated, "Ahhh! I'm so beautiful!"

……

Looking at the people around, even Mr. Bao was holding his forehead, and the others looked at him with disgust.

Xiao Liang jumped up and grabbed his shoulder and shook desperately, "Die, you bloody nympho."

Lin Yehuo was still holding his face, "Ah! There is no flaw at all! Whose beauty is this? How can anyone be so beautiful in this world, ah! You make no one live in the world!"

Everyone lowered their heads powerlessly, and many local yamen servants who had never seen Lin Yehuo around them, including Ye Quan, looked at Lin Yehuo in puzzlement, while Zou Liang leaned against the tree with arms folded and frowning, not looking at that idiot.

"Mirror mirror." Lin Yehuo approached the mirror with his face in his hands, "Am I the most beautiful person in the world?"

As soon as Lin Yehuo finished speaking, suddenly, everyone heard the sound of the mirror, "Ca", a crack appeared on the mirror.

Everyone was taken aback, and Lin Yehuo was also taken aback, staring at the mirror.

Then, the crack began to extend to both ends, and soon, the mirror shattered into two halves. Ye Quan took a deep breath, and at the moment when everyone was wondering why the mirror suddenly shattered, Lin Yehuo suddenly "噗" "I jumped up with a sound, and my hairs stood up like that.

"I'm @#@OXX!" Lin Yehuo leaped to the side and uttered a swear word, and yelled, "Damn it, there's someone in the mirror!"