"It's so strange. The paintings in the bronze mirror can no longer be seen after turning on the light."
Chujiu lay down in front of the bronze mirror and stroked the mirror surface with his hands again. There were no lines on the mirror surface.
"Smooth as a mirror means just that."
I thought about it for a long time and couldn't think of a suitable word to describe it, so I came up with "Smooth as a Mirror".
"Okay, just make sure it's okay. It scared me for several days."
Zhang Ying stretched and was finally able to sleep peacefully.
Chujiu guessed that maybe this was the feature of this dressing table, but the staff forgot to introduce it.
The probability of this conclusion is almost zero, or at all, there is no way any staff would forget to introduce the features of their own products to customers.
Saying goodbye to Zhang Ying, we have to rush back to school. The first class after the holiday will start tomorrow.
Zhang Ying handed us two bottles of mineral water and told us that her store on the pedestrian street had ordered a batch of display wardrobes from a furniture factory so that we could go to the pedestrian street if we had time.
"Processing factory? On the ninth day of the lunar month, I probably know what the bronze mirror is about."
When Zhang Ying talked about processing plants, I suddenly remembered that Deng Deyou said that he had a factory specializing in the production of furniture.
This set of dressing table is probably based on the old objects that Deng Deyou recycled, then carved out the design, made the base out of new mahogany, and then installed the original bronze mirror on the new dressing table base.
"Sister, you saw this dressing table in the furniture store, right?"
She received a positive reply from Zhang Ying. This dressing table is a limited supply for one year and only one set is available in the store. It is one of the treasures of the furniture store. Because the price is a bit high, this year's dresser had not been sold when she went there.
Sure enough, Boss Deng made a mistake this time.
"Guo Guo, you are talking about spreading, what did you find?"
Chujiu rolled her eyes at me, saw me standing aside and giggling, and urged me to tell him quickly. Zhang Ying also blinked with curiosity on her face.
I told Chujiu my guess that this bronze mirror should be the reflection in the mirror placed in the homes of powerful people in ancient times.
When Deng Deyou recycled old furniture, he didn't think about this at all. He used new materials to imitate the base. In order to show luxury and nobility, the original bronze mirror was directly installed on the base.
Just when I said the shadow in the mirror, Chujiu suddenly realized it and asked Zhang Ying if there were any candles at home.
After Zhang Ying found the candle, Chujiu excitedly called us to go upstairs again.
Sure enough, when the lit candle was placed on one side of the bronze mirror, the smiling face of a beautiful ancient woman clearly appeared in the mirror.
"Sister, you are rich, this is an antique."
Chujiu grinned and told Zhang Ying that she must have a big meal another day.
According to records, the method of making the mirror image was mysteriously lost at the end of the Tang Dynasty, so this mirror image is at least a product before the Tang Dynasty.
Chujiu told us that in the Taoist books at his home, it was recorded that during the Ming Dynasty, Taoist masters had done research on the method of making images in mirrors. They developed their own method and used this method to successfully replicate a mirror. China Shadow Bronze Mirror.
The material used in this method is bamboo sweat, which is to burn green bamboo with charcoal fire, and the water droplets will appear on the bamboo pole.
If you have gray hair, wash your hair with soap leaves several times until the oil on it is thoroughly washed away, and then the gray hair will be burned out.
Turtle urine, as the name suggests, is the urine of a turtle. The way to obtain it is to put the turtle in a crystal container and then use a mirror to reflect sunlight on the turtle, and the turtle urine will flow out.
The paint for painting is made from the above three raw materials plus toad oil.
The painter uses the finest brush and dips it in paint to paint in the bronze mirror.
The finished portrait is then dried in the sun, then polished with talcum powder, polished again with vinegar, and finally polished with mercury.
In this way, the bronze mirror will become extremely bright, and the painted image will remain on the bottom of the mirror.
At night, under the illumination of candlelight, people think they are the immortals in the mirror, lifelike.
"Chujiu knows so much, I will definitely treat you to a big dinner some other time."
After Chujiu finished explaining, Zhang Ying laughed and said she didn't care at all whether it was an antique or not. To her, it was just a beautiful mirror.
Zhang Ying meant that it was already midnight, so she just stayed here to rest, and went back to school when she woke up in the morning.
I quickly refused. If I stayed here any longer, I didn't know what embarrassing things might happen.
It was almost four o'clock in the morning when I returned to school. Chujiu was clamoring to go to the Internet cafe to buy some drinks and snacks. The refrigerator in the apartment must have been completely wiped out by Zhang Feng and the others.
The parking lot of the cemetery is not too far from the Internet cafe, but the Internet cafe is closer to the school entrance.
"Sister Zhang Ying called us over in the middle of the night and didn't treat us to a big dinner. She didn't even give me any favors."
Chujiu muttered that going to an Internet cafe would definitely cost a lot of money. I slapped her on the forehead. Is she a money addict?
I remembered that the pager had been out of power for several days, so I asked Chujiu to check if there were any batteries for sale at the stall in the Internet cafe.
Chujiu did not disappoint me. He ran out of the Internet cafe carrying a large bag of snacks and drinks, and forgot to ask the boss if he had batteries.
"Guo Guo, you go to bed first, I'll play some games."
Chujiu rubbed his head and curled his lips. It would soon be six o'clock and he would have to get up for morning exercises right after going to bed, so he simply stopped sleeping.
Do you think I beat you all the way because you didn't help me ask about the battery?
There is a saying that old and new grudges are settled together. I took a shower and lay comfortably on the big bed.
I flipped through the class schedule and saw that today, Thursday, a pseudo-weekend, there was only one career planning course in the afternoon by an old Marxist-Leninist.
I don’t believe that the smart Chujiu didn’t expect that today is Thursday. It seems that he didn’t sleep because he was fighting against me and beating him all the way.
It was almost noon when I woke up, and Chujiu was lying on the sofa, fast asleep.
On the coffee table in front of the sofa is a portion of fried noodles and two batteries.
The pager vibrated several times, mostly weather forecasts sent by the paging center.
The weather forecast of this paging center is really disappointing. It has never been accurate.
One time at noon I received a pager message that there would be heavy rain in our city in the next two hours. I urged Zhiyong and the three of them to bring umbrellas.
Then we took our umbrellas and went out in the sun. When we returned to the dormitory in the sun, we were laughed at by our classmates for several days.
Another time, the weather was a bit gloomy in the morning, and Zhiyong asked me what the weather forecast said.
I threw the pager in my hand to Zhiyong, and Zhiyong took the umbrella from Liu Yang and threw it aside. He had an umbrella with a hammer. The weather forecast on the paging station said there would be no rain.
Then the four of us were soaked in the rain.
Many years later, when we talked about this, Zhang Feng shook his head and smiled bitterly. Today's weather forecast is even more troublesome. It doesn't matter whether you believe it or not. It all depends on luck.
"It's so accurate to go to school. Just do the opposite of what it says."