The bronze mirror is slightly smaller than the washbasin, with perfectly round dark iron as the mirror base. The brass is polished smooth and moist, like the slightly raised bottom of a pot, and is perfectly embedded in the mirror base.
On top of the black iron mirror base, black jade is used to surround the edge of the bronze mirror. The surface is engraved with spray water lotus patterns. It is smooth, delicate, translucent and oily. The four hexagrams of Kun, Xun, Li and Dui are embedded in the grooves, and the gold sparkles slightly. To this day Extravagant and gorgeous!
He held his breath and used his strength to pull the bronze mirror up from the sink.
He originally thought that the dark iron bronze mirror would be heavy and would not be difficult to pick up with both hands. He thought for a moment and realized that the base of the mirror was probably hollow-cast in order to reduce its weight.
Turning over the back, there is no mirror occupied, and the black iron mirror base has much more space for decoration.
The decorative carving on the back is divided into three parts, the outer edge, the mirror center and the mirror body.
The outer edge is half an inch wide, and is engraved with wave patterns on the silver edge. Strange beasts are carved on it with red copper.
Look carefully, you will see that this strange water beast has a lion's head and wolf teeth, a dragon's scales and a tiger's body, a crocodile's webbed claws, and a thin tail with brown hair. It lies on the ground and is embedded in the wave pattern. There are twelve in total, evenly distributed along the edge of the mirror. distributed.
The center of the mirror is particularly gorgeous, it is about the size of a fist, perfectly round and in the middle, and is carved to look down on a lotus pod!
Each lotus seed is inlaid with yellow glass beads, with burr marks and round like fine beads. There are twenty-four of different sizes, which are so lifelike that if you get closer and smell them, you can smell the fragrance of the lotus seeds.
Between the silver pattern of the waves and the mirror center of the lotus pod, there is a large area of tin anemone disk!
The color of tin silver is silvery white with light gray.
Outside the lotus pod, there are a total of forty-five gradually enlarging lotus petals, with five circles of nine petals each, which is exactly the number of ninety-five.
The lotus petals are so realistic!
Not only does the image look lifelike, but the fine vertical lines, shades of color, and opening and closing of the curled edges are just right, as if a Buddha lotus was inlaid on the back of a mirror.
On the lotus tips of each petal, there are azurite, stone green, cinnabar, earth red, black black, placer gold... various colors of chalcedony beads are inlaid on them, no more, no less, exactly thirty-six.
The entire mirror back is intricately carved, inlaid with gems and jade, gorgeous in shape, extravagant in color, and majestic.
Yue Guanchao didn't know what it was. He only knew that this thing had a history of at least a thousand years, and it was very impressive!
He speculated that if the mirror was really completed at the same time as the temple, it would probably be an ancient artifact from the Haidong Kingdom thousands of years ago.
"No matter who you are, I will definitely move you up."
Yue Guanchao took out the rope and was about to lift it up with a big five-flowered tie. When he turned over the mirror, he accidentally shined sunlight from the well entrance into the arch hole, and the dark entrance was completely illuminated.
Many things that were originally hidden in the dark arch gradually revealed their true identities in the light.
He finally understood where the rotting smell of corpses in the cave came from.
Although the water in the arch cave is blurry, it can still be seen that there are many river fish inside.
Those are densely packed catfish carcasses!
This place is like a market stall where fish are killed and sold for meat. The dead catfish are lying head to tail, squeezed from side to side. Some have rotted away and turned into fish bones. Some have been corroded to the point where they have missing arms, rotten fins, broken tails, and abdominal bulges. There are still some leftovers. In the next breath, his stomach turned and he vomited dirty blood.
At this moment, Yue Guanchao felt a chill on his back, his hair was standing on end, and he swallowed unconsciously.
No wonder there was such a strong smell of rotting corpses. The arches wider than the carriage were all covered with corpses. It must have accumulated years of rotting flesh and corpses to achieve such a stench.
According to Old Man Yu, the black catfish is the incarnation of the Dragon King, and the six animals they put into the well are to sacrifice to the Dragon King.
Well, all the black catfish were dead, which meant that the livestock they fed were probably highly poisonous.
It was the first day of the new year a few days ago. This black catfish that kept turning its belly must have been poisoned a few days ago and was not completely dead yet.
No matter how stupid Yue Guanchao is, he still knows that the Jiaolong Temple is weird. Judging from the respect that Old Man Yu and Ge Da have for the black catfish, they don't know anything about the killing of the catfish.
Then, the entire ceremony to honor the Dragon King becomes a massacre ceremony for killing catfish.
The original intention was to sacrifice to the dragon, but they poisoned these black catfish. What were they hiding, or who had deceived them? Yue Guanchao became more and more confused as he thought about it.
Now, the bronze mirror needed to be sent up first. He tied the bronze mirror like a crab and was pulled out of the well mouth by everyone.
"Is this the water mirror?"
Yue Erpao almost committed suicide by throwing himself into a well the day before. He untied the rope and looked at the front of the bronze mirror. The slightly convex mirror made it impossible to see his face clearly.
Once a human face is caught in the mirror, it is usually distorted into a monster with tight features and a big brain, which looks extremely funny.
"This thing looks so ugly on people. Will anyone really use it to look in the mirror?"
Before Yue Erpao finished speaking, Song Siyuan walked up to him, looked into the mirror, and explained to everyone:
"The mirror is not necessarily used to reflect people. This mirror has a face like this. It is probably not made for dressing up. It probably has other purposes."
Master Mao has been stroking his beard and squinting carefully since the bronze mirror was salvaged. He walked to the mirror and patted the back of his head:
"Everyone, I seem to know what this thing is and what it is used for."
This sentence attracted everyone. They came to the corridor. Mr. Cat put on his reading glasses and praised:
If I'm not mistaken, this bronze mirror is the most precious treasure of Haidong Shengguo - a water-calming and evil-proofing mirror!
