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Chapter 11. Northern mirror

To comfort his "employee" Su Yi's little thoughts, early in the morning, Mao Jue had to ride a carriage and go to Nanshan Taoist Temple again. Not to mention, the impact of money was immediate. As soon as he arrived at the entrance of the Taoist Temple, he saw several Taoist boys carrying the blue cloth that had just been pulled back from the market, as if he wanted to prepare a new era for the Taoist priests full of patches. As soon as he saw him and Su Yi, these little Taoist priests immediately took out 120,000 enthusiasm to greet them.

"Master, Mr. Mao is here to burn incense again!"

The breakfast was much richer, and there was a tea egg. Seeing Mao Jue coming, I refused yesterday and spent the money today. Old Master Xuan Kong seemed a little embarrassed and bowed a little embarrassedly and said, "I have seen the young master, but I don't know what the young master is coming today, what is he asking for?"

Mao Jue also felt a little embarrassed about this matter. Yesterday, he pretended to be a rich man and asked for money, but now he came to ask for something for nothing. It was just a bit of a mistake for Mrs. Chen to be too bullying and stuttering. Mao Jue clasped his fists awkwardly.

"I don't know if there is saltpeter in this view?"

“Isn’t yesterday enough?”

When he mentioned this, the old Taoist Xuankong became more energetic. He had not finished drinking the porridge and walked towards Mao Jue like the elixir-refined inner room.

"Since the young master left yesterday, I have refined another batch of water made by the young master. This water is really amazing!"

Not to mention, people are curious. The solvent that Mao Jue refined yesterday, today Xuankong Taoist directly put out three jars, and one of them was actually a metal sword inserted into it.

"Young Master, is this water sour! This old magic sword was invited by the old Taoist master from Laoshan. The sword rust is difficult to remove. After washing it with this water, it is as bright as new and seems to be a little sharper. Moreover, I also added iron ore to it. The slag was easily refined. The remaining pure iron is just not sure what will happen to this thing in alchemy?"

Holding a bronze sword with a cold light, Old Taoist Xuankong was still slamming the thing, and Mao Jue was so panicked that he waved his hand quickly.

"Master, this thing is highly toxic and can't be used!"

"All things produce yang, and yang produce yin. This mercury lead and mercury is still highly toxic. The method of application is not surrounded by the Three Pure Ones. The blessing of the ancestors, after taking it, the lotus is descended every day, and the sound of immortals surrounds the ears, as if entering the realm of heaven..."

"Master Taoist!Master Taoist!"

This old guy had a complication of heavy metal poisoning. He foamed at him and was stumbled there for a long time. He was stunned for a while and he didn't squeeze him in several times. Mao Jue simply picked up a jar and left.

Anyway, I don't plan to give this money.

Although Old Xuankong had peeped at his secret recipe, he saved Mao Jue a whole morning. At about nine o'clock in the morning, he could get a carriage while riding a bumpy ride. The two of them returned to Mao Jue's own building again.

One of them was thrown out yesterday. This time, not to mention entering, Mao Jue's small building flies did not come in. However, he was bitten by a snake. He had been afraid of the ropes for ten years. Mao Jue still locked a few pieces of glass retrieved from the glass workshop in the cabinet. He opened the three-layer lock before taking them out.

"Young Master, what are you doing? Do you also need to open the furnace to refine the alchemy?"

It has been mysterious for several days. When I watched from the side, Suyi's cute eyes widened curiously. Unfortunately, she was so angry that she was so angry that she was not worth her life and smiled. Mao Jue continued to do his work, and also brought the baby liquid from the old Taoist Xuankong into the glass bowl that he brought in from the glass shop. He immediately had a painful face and reached into Suyi's arms.

Uh, don't think so, Mao Jue picked up a piece of silver from his plain purse, threw it into a glass bowl, and after a moment, a little foam began to emerge.

"It's melted! The silver has actually melted!"

Covering his chest, Suyi clapped her hands in surprise and screamed. As she watched, there was more and more bubbles, and the piece of silver became smaller and smaller. When this girl was so excited that she couldn't get more, Mao Jue grinned in pain. The landlord's family had no Yu Yin. This was his last two taels of silver. He didn't succeed after it was melted, but he became a pauper.

Finally, the silver melted to a core, and the solution seemed to be saturated. Mao Jue quickly picked up the silver with chopsticks, and then grinded a few pieces smoothly and horizontally. He spread the oval or square glass as big as a notebook in a basin, and evenly applied the solution that had been dyed with a layer of silver to the back of the mirror.

The most important step came. In Suyi's surprised eyes, Mao Jue stole a handful of rice from somewhere and put it in the water to make rice washing water. Waiting for the silver liquid to be almost even, he arrived carefully with the water on his hands.

"Young Master, what are you doing?"

A woman's curiosity is as good as a cat, and she is really curious. Suyi once again grabbed Mao Jue's sleeve and almost let him sprinkle rice water. It's really hard to raise women and villains. If it's far away, it's resentful, and if it's close, it's not bad. After putting down the bowl, Mao Jue was so depressed that he simply assigned her a job.

"You also drip in, and you need to drip evenly, and you will slap it with a little leak! You can watch it yourself when you finish it!"

His little face turned red again, but he didn't forget the family rules that Mao Jue set for her last night. He stuck out his tongue. The girl quickly followed the rice washing water and drizzled it bit by bit.

“Wow!”

After spraying this for noon, I ate lunch with these chemical-smelling things. At one or two o'clock in the afternoon, the solutions gradually dried up, swept away the residue evenly, picked up a glass, and the boss with a small cherry mouth in plain clothes screamed incredibly as if he had seen a dinosaur.

"Wow, this is really me, so I look like this!"

Now he can't call it glass, it should be called mirror. After picking up one side, Mao Jue also excitedly rubbed the sweat on his forehead. Looking at these things, he seemed to see the rolling silver. In the late Ming Dynasty, if he wanted to live well, he had to have silver!

In the evening, it was still the same Yuxuan Building.

It was exactly the same as the plain clothes. Qian Zeng's mouth looked like a goose egg. He couldn't put it down and looked at the mirror repeatedly. The mirror was different from the afternoon. There were really all kinds of relatives in the Wen family. Wen Meng, a hundred families, happened to have a carpenter who used to be a carpenter. He nailed a frame in the afternoon with boxwood, framed it, and put some paint on it. However, in such a hurry, he couldn't carefully carve any patterns. The frame was plain.

This is true for Qian Zeng, who still wished he could stuff his head in.

"Tsk tsk, so clear, and a hundred times brighter than the bronze mirror. It is definitely the Western mirrors brought by the Esperanto. It's so beautiful. It turns out that this young master is so handsome!"

I have seen a narcissistic person, but I have never seen such a narcissistic person. Suyi covered her mouth and smiled secretly, while Mao Jue held the chopsticks helplessly and took the opportunity to pick up the dishes in his mouth.

There is no MSG or additives these days. In fact, the dishes are not as delicious as later generations, but they are better than fresh. Naturally, the dishes are almost empty. Qian Zeng then escaped from his beauty and asked Mao Jue in surprise.

"How did Mr. Mao make it work!"

Speaking of this, Mao Jue couldn't help but feel a sense of gratitude. It was also the same trip. After going to the glass shop, he was still very serious. He went online to check how to make a mirror. There were two Mingfans and Minghei competing with each other. Minghei believed that in the Ming Dynasty, there were no mirrors that could not be created, while Mingfan listed a lot of rebuttals, the key point was the reaction of this silver mirror.

The so-called silver mirror reaction uses nitric acid to dissolve silver and make silver nitrate, brush it behind the glass, and then react with glucose. After a series of chemical formulas that Mao Jue doesn't understand, silver ions will break out of silver nitrate and evenly cover a layer on the surface of the glass, thus forming a mirror reflective layer.

However, there was no nitric acid in ancient China. Fortunately, the Ming Powder listed another ancient Western achievement. In the 8th century AD, the great Arab alchemist Jabir Yiben Hayan extracted nitric acid by distilling potassium nitrate. The ancient potassium nitrate was one of the materials used by Xuankong Laodao to refine alchemy, saltpeter.

This is also why the girl who came to peek at her and flipped around yesterday burned her hands.

Of course, this process is confidential, and it is impossible to tell Qian Zeng that after wiping his mouth, Mao Jue exuded a mysterious smell like a blind fortune teller at his house, and he shook his head very well.

"Did Brother Qian remember that I fell into the water less than once a few days ago."

"Oh? Could it be that it was caught in the sea?"

"No! No!"

He quickly stopped this guy's urge to jump into the sea to catch the treasure, and Mao Jue shook his head and started blowing.

"I had sunk to the bottom of the sea that time, but two big turtles dragged me from underneath and let me float up again. At that time, my head was dizzy, as if I heard someone tell me vaguely that there is a mirror in the Beihai, and the Westerners took it. Now my descendants are unfilial. The people of the Beihai have forgotten the Mirror of the Beihai. I am telling you that I should not let this Beihai mirror image get dust again!"

"The next day I came back, I didn't know why, but I knew this prescription for no reason. However, I forgot most of the past and the past, and it was not a blessing or a blessing?"

Even Mao Jue sighed sadly when the truth was played. Su Yi next to him believed it ten times at the first time, and her cute big eyes were full of small stars. As for Qian Zeng, it would be nice to believe it by three points, but she was also sighing from the side.

"Brother Mao is a man of destiny and will be rich in the future. He will not be too worried about those in the past."

As he said that, he was envious and reluctant to leave again, and returned the mirror to Mao Jue. This action made Mao Jue stunned. He held up the mirror and asked in surprise.

"Didn't Brother Qian want to ask for a mirror for a thousand gold coins? This is..."

"Brother Mao is willing to give up?"

His eyes lit up, but before Mao Jue nodded, this guy shook his head as if he was so angry that he was not worth his life.

"Qian was just talking about it at the beginning, but it was actually impossible to afford it! Tens of thousands of taels, so you can get more than half of the Qian family!"
Chapter completed!
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