Chapter XI. Beiyangshouma
appeased his "employee" plain clothes' careful thoughts, early in the morning, Mao Jue had to be cheeky and take a carriage to Nanshan Taoist Temple again, not to mention, with the impact of silver is immediate, just arrived at the entrance of the Taoist Temple, I watched a few Taoist children carrying the blue cloth that had just been pulled back from the market, as if they wanted to give the Taoist priests full of patches to renew, as soon as they saw him and Suyi, these little Taoist priests immediately took out 120,000 points of enthusiasm to greet them.
"Master, Mao Gongzi is here to incense again!"
The breakfast was a lot richer, there was an extra tea egg, watching Mao Jue arrive, yesterday he also shirked the silver and spent it today, Xuankong Lao Dao seemed a little embarrassed, and said with a little embarrassment: "Poor Dao has seen the son, I don't know if the son is coming today, what is the matter?" ”
Mao Jue also felt a little embarrassed about this, yesterday he pretended to be a local tyrant to give silver, and today he came to ask for something for nothing, it is strange that Mrs. Shen is really too deceitful, and it is also a little stumbling, Mao Jue hugged his fist in embarrassment.
"I don't know if there is any saltpeter in this view?"
"Didn't have enough yesterday?"
As soon as he mentioned this, Xuankong Lao Dao became energetic, and before he finished drinking the porridge, he pulled Mao Jue and walked to the inner room like the alchemy.
"Yesterday, after the son left, Poor Dao refined a batch of water made by the child, this water is really amazing!"
Not to mention, the old man is very curious, the kind of solvent refined by Mao Jue yesterday, this Xuankong Lao Dao directly put out three jars, and in one of the jars, there is actually a metal magic sword.
"Childe, this water is sour! This old magic sword, or the old Taoist ancestor invited from Laoshan Mountain, the sword rust is difficult to remove, after washing with this water, the light is as bright as new, and it seems to be a little sharper, and the poor road also added iron ore to it, those slag was easily refined, and the remaining pure iron, I just don't know what will happen to the alchemy of this thing? ”
Holding a bronze sword with a cold light, Xuankong Lao Dao smashed his mouth at that thing, and Mao Jue hurriedly waved his hand in a panic.
"Dao Chief, this thing is highly poisonous, you can't use it!"
"All things are yin and yang, yang is yin, this mercury, lead and mercury are not still highly toxic, the application of the law, is not surrounded by three clears, the ancestor blesses, under the food, every day the lotus flower falls, the fairy sound surrounds the ears, such as entering the realm of heaven......"
"Dao Chief! Michigan! ”
This old guy had complications of heavy metal poisoning, foaming at the mouth, he was crooked there, staring at the dog for a while, and he didn't squeeze it a few times, Mao Jue simply picked up a jar and walked away.
Anyway, this one is not going to be given silver.
Although Xuankong Lao Dao peeked at his secret recipe, he finally saved Mao Jue a morning's time, about nine o'clock in the morning, sitting in a bumpy carriage, the two returned to Mao Jue's own small building again.
Yesterday I threw one out, not to mention entering the people this time, Mao Jue's Xiaolou flies didn't come in, but once he was bitten by a snake, he was afraid of the well rope for ten years, Mao Jue still locked a few pieces of glass taken back from the glass workshop in the cabinet, and opened three layers of locks before taking it out.
"Young Master, what are you doing here? Do you want to open the furnace for alchemy? ”
For a few days, it has been mysterious, watching from the side, Su Yi's big eyes are curious, but unfortunately, the angry person is not paying for his life, and he is selling Guan Zi He smiled, Mao Jue continued to do his work, and also took the glass bowl back from the glass workshop, and put the baby liquid from the old road of Xuankong into it, and then his face was full of pain, and he stretched his hand into Su Yi's arms.
Uh, don't think about it, Mao Jue took out a piece of broken silver from his plain purse, threw it into the glass bowl, and after a while, a little bit of foam began to bubble up.
"It's gone! The silver has melted! ”
Covering his chest, Su Yi clapped his little hands in surprise and shouted, in his gaze, there were more and more bubbles, and the broken silver was getting smaller and smaller.
In the end, the silver was reduced to a core, and the solution seemed to be saturated, Mao Jue quickly took out the silver with chopsticks, and then grinded a few pieces to a smooth level, and spread the notebook-sized oval or square glass in the basin, and used a brush to evenly apply the solution that had been dyed with a layer of silver to the back of the mirror.
The most important step came, in Su Yi's surprised eyes, Mao Jue didn't know where to steal a handful of rice, put it in the water to make rice washing water, and waited for the silver liquid to be almost even, and then carefully arrived with his hands dipped in water.
"Young Master, what are you doing?"
A woman's curiosity is comparable to that of a cat, she is really curious, Su Yi once again pulled Mao Jue's sleeve, almost let him spill the rice water, it is really difficult for women and villains to raise, far away is resentful, close is not inferior. Putting down the bowl, Mao Jue was depressed and simply assigned her a job.
"You also drop it in, you want to drip evenly, and you slap a little bit if you leak a little! When you're done, you'll see for yourself! ”
All of a sudden, her little face was flushed, but she didn't forget the family law that Mao Jue set for her last night, and spit out her little tongue, and this girl quickly followed the rice water, drenching little by little.
"Wow!"
By one or two o'clock in the afternoon, the solution gradually dried, and the residue behind it was evenly swept away, and the boss of the small cherry mouth in plain clothes screamed incredibly as if he had seen a dinosaur.
"Wow, this is really me, I look like this!"
Now it can't be called glass, it should be called a mirror, pick up one, Mao Jue also rubbed the sweat on his forehead excitedly, looking at these things, he seemed to see the rolling silver, in the late Ming Dynasty, if you want to live well, you have to have silver!
In the evening, it was still the Yuxuan Building.
is exactly the same as Suyi, Qian Zeng's mouth is as big as a goose egg, and he can't put it down and holds the mirror and looks at it repeatedly. At this time, the mirror is different from the afternoon, the Wen family relatives are really anyone, Wen Meng, a hundred households, happened to have a carpenter before, and nailed a frame with boxwood in the afternoon, framed it, and applied some paint, but in such a hurry, there is no way to carefully carve some lines, and the frame can be plain.
Around this, Qian Zeng still wanted to stuff his head into it.
"Tsk, it's so clear, and it's a hundred times brighter than the bronze mirror, it's definitely the Western mirror that the West brought brought, it's so beautiful, it turns out that my son is so handsome!"
I've seen narcissism, I've never seen such narcissism, Su Yi covered her little mouth and smiled secretly, while Mao Jue was helpless with chopsticks and took the opportunity to pull the vegetables into her mouth.
There is no monosodium glutamate in these years, there are no additives, in fact, the dishes are not as delicious as those in later generations, but they are also better than fresh, natural, this head of the dishes is almost empty, Qian Zeng just got out of his beauty, and asked Mao Jue in surprise.
"How did Mao Gongzi come up with it!"
Speaking of this, Mao Jue's heart couldn't help but rise a wave of happiness, it was also that trip, after going to the glass workshop to play, he was more real, on the Internet to check how to make a mirror, there were just two Ming Powder and Ming Hei in the bar to compete with each other, Ming Hei thought that in the Ming Dynasty no matter how to make a mirror, and Ming Fan listed a lot of refutations, the focus of which is the silver mirror reaction.
The so-called silver mirror reaction, using nitric acid to dissolve silver into silver nitrate, brushing behind the glass, and then using glucose to react, after a fine series of chemical formulas that Mao Jue does not understand, silver ions will be separated from the silver nitrate, evenly covered on the surface of the glass layer, thus forming a mirror reflective layer.
However, there was no nitric acid in ancient China, but fortunately, the Ming Fan greatly listed another ancient Western achievement, the great Arab alchemist Jaber in the eighth century. According to this. Through the method of dry distillation of potassium nitrate, Hayang extracted nitric acid, the ancient potassium nitrate, which is one of the materials used by Xuankong Lao Dao for alchemy, saltpeter.
That's why the girl who came over yesterday to peek at the flip burned her hands.
Of course, this process is confidential, and it is impossible to talk to Qian Zeng, wiping his mouth, Mao Jue was like a blind fortune teller in his house, revealing a mysterious smell, and he shook his head.
"Brother Qian, do you remember that a few days ago, Ben Shao fell into the water once."
"Oh? Could it be that it was caught in the sea? ”
"Definitely! Definitely! ”
Hurry up to stop the impulse of jumping into the sea to catch the baby, Mao Jue shook his head and blew it.
"Originally, I sank to the bottom of the sea that time, but two big turtles dragged me from the bottom, let me float up again, at that time my head was dizzy, as if I heard someone vaguely tell me, there is a mirror in the North Sea, the Westerners take it, this descendant is not filial, my people in Beihai have forgotten the mirror of the North Sea, and now pass it on to you, don't make this Beiyang Mirror picture dust!"
"The day after I came back, I didn't know why, I knew this recipe inexplicably, but the price paid, I forgot most of the past, and it wasn't a blessing?"
The truth of the performance, even Mao Jue himself sighed sadly, the plain clothes next to him believed it for the first time, and a pair of cute big eyes went straight to the little star, as for Qian Zeng, it would be good to believe in three points, but he was also sighing on the side.
"Brother Mao is a man of destiny, and he will be rich and prosperous in the future, and he is not too worried about the past."
Saying that, in envy and reluctance, he returned the mirror to Mao Jue's side, which made Mao Jue stunned, picked up the mirror, and asked in dismay.
"Isn't Brother Qian looking for a mirror? It's ......"
"Brother Mao is willing to cut love?"
His eyes also lit up, but before Mao Jue nodded, this guy shook his head like he was angry and didn't pay for his life.
"Qian was just talking about it at the beginning, but he actually couldn't afford it! Tens of thousands of taels, almost catch up with more than half of the Qian family's belongings! ”
These words almost didn't make Mao Jue angry, I can't afford you to mumble a fart there, and I have to toss it for so long!