Chapter Sixteen: Ancient Mirror Record

  When they came into the house, Song Wen asked a few young men to sit down and picked up the kettle to boil water for tea. However, he suddenly remembered something and hurriedly took the kettle and went inside.

  Several young men began sizing up the house as soon as they came in.

  When Song Wen asked people to build a house, the front house was built in the style of Minnan's two-room and one-hall round-eared tile house, but it was deliberately raised and widened, making the house look not as low and small as the tile house.

  The hall after expansion has nearly fifty square meters, making the entire hall look very large and giving people a sense of grandeur, feeling very comfortable.

  In the corner of the hall, a set of antique solid wood sofa and tea table was placed. Looking up, there was also a European-style copper pendant lamp hanging above it. The sudden addition of this European-style pendant lamp to the traditional Chinese-style furniture did not give people a sense of incongruity, but rather a fresh and novel feeling of East-meets-West fusion, making one's eyes and ears feel refreshed.

  Song Wen came inside and quietly took out a little spring water from the Ruyi fan, added some mountain spring water to it, before going out to boil the water.

  He thought that if he drank the spring water from Ruyi fan and nothing happened, what would happen to others? So he took some to let Song Hu and others try. Of course, he didn't dare to use all the spring water from Ruyi fan at once, but added some mountain spring water, fearing that they would drink it and get diarrhea like him last time.

  After brewing tea, several people drank it.

  Song Wen asked with a bit of tension: "How is it? Isn't this tea good?"

  "Not bad? It's utterly disgusting, but this water is good." Song Hu said gruffly.

  "This water is quite sweet."

  "It's very sweet."

  Actually, Song Wen wanted to ask if they had any stomach problems. Now that he sees they're fine, he can finally breathe a sigh of relief. It seems the spring water is drinkable after all, but you can't drink it directly from the Ruyi fan's spring; you have to dilute it with some mountain spring water or else you'll end up like him with diarrhea.

  After drinking the spring water and having diarrhea for a few days, he felt that his vision, hearing, physical quality and other aspects had improved significantly. So he wanted to see if his parents could drink it too. After all, his parents were old, their functions were aging, and he wanted to see if drinking the spring water from Ruyi Shan would improve some of these issues. Even if it couldn't improve them, boosting their immune system and strengthening their physique would be good too. But he was also afraid that they would get diarrhea after drinking it, which is why he asked Song Hu and others to try it out first.

  If they knew that their good intentions today had become Song Wen's test subjects, I wonder if these people would find him and fight with him to the death.

  After drinking several cups of tea, Song Hu and others bid farewell and left.

  Song Wen asked him to help carry the bucket of fish meat down the mountain and then let his father follow them to distribute the fish meat to relatives and friends.

  The meat of the big fish is not very delicious, and it's so big that they don't know when they'll finish eating it. It's better to share the joy with others than to enjoy it alone, so let's just have old father take it away as a gift for someone else.

  In the evening, Song Hu brought his wife and children over. His father, Song Yuanshan, also came to see the novelty after hearing that Song Wen had caught a big fish. Unfortunately, the fish had already been distributed, leaving only a large fish head.

  The two families are considered one family, and for dinner, Song Wen personally went to the kitchen to cook with earth pots, making dishes such as steaming, stir-frying, and simmering, even including the caught sugarcane insects, creating a table of delicious food.

  Delicious food was served, and a group of people were eating with big smiles on their faces. Heehee and Kiki were especially enjoying themselves, and their bellies were getting bigger by the minute. The little dog caught wind of the delicious smells and ran to the table, barking nonstop, but unfortunately, it hadn't grown teeth yet, so Song Weng ignored it. After eating to their heart's content, Song Yuan Shui brought out his treasured Yangmei wine and started drinking with Song Yuan Shan. In the end, they both got drunk and passed out. Song Hu couldn't drink much because he had his wife and kids with him, but seeing his father get drunk, he didn't know how to take him home, so he let him sleep there instead. After carrying his father to bed, he left with his family. Since it was getting late, Chen Xiuhui and Lin Qinglan also stayed overnight on the mountain. There were plenty of rooms available, and the bedding was all prepared, but the decorations in the room were sparse, making it look empty.

  With a full stomach and plenty of wine, Song Wen returned to his room and felt sleepy.

  Suddenly thought of this afternoon seems to have not seen the little hedgehog, wondering if it was left in the backyard, so hurriedly picked up the flashlight and went to the backyard.

  The little hedgehog is still a cub, the mountain night is cold and clear, if it's frozen for one night, I'm afraid tomorrow can only collect its body.

  I walked around the backyard but couldn't find the little hedgehog.

  Song Wen felt strange and thought to himself, "Could it have fallen into the drain?" He quickly picked up his flashlight and searched the drain, but still couldn't find anything. For a moment, he was puzzled, thinking that maybe it had run away. Just as he was wondering, a rustling sound came from the corner of the wall, and when he shone his light in that direction, he saw the little hedgehog squatting at the entrance of a hole, "chirping" at him.

  The little guy had a muddy face and was chirping "cheep cheep", looking adorable.

  Seeing that Xiao Ci was still there, Song Wen felt relieved, but since the weather outside was cold, he didn't feel at ease leaving Xiao Ci here, so he put it into his fan.

  As soon as he got back into the house, he saw the little dog standing on his bed frolicking. Seeing him return, it immediately started barking "wang wang".

  This guy followed XiXi all day, and he thought it would sleep with XiXi today, but unexpectedly ran back. Thinking that the puppy was still young and had no resistance, it also took it into the space in the Ruyi fan.

  Look at the time, it's almost ten o'clock. I wanted to sleep, but suddenly remembered that I had to plant sweet potatoes in Ruyi fan, so I thought it wouldn't make a difference for a while and went downstairs to get the sweet potatoes brought by Song Hu and started planting them in Ruyi fan.

  Sweet potatoes must first be sprouted, and after a few days the sweet potato vines will grow out. Then they can be cut off and planted. So planting is also very simple, just dig a hole casually and throw it in, then fill with soil.

  After transplanting, he took some water from the pool and watered it again, then exited the Ruyi fan.

  Just as I was about to fall asleep, I suddenly remembered something and my heart skipped a beat. The copper mirror that I had dug up from Grandfather's room appeared in my hand.

  Every time he thinks of the last time he looked in the copper mirror, the strange scene that appeared in the copper mirror and the feeling of dizziness and headache make him feel a chill, so he hasn't dared to move the copper mirror for a while. But he can't help but wonder why he could see his mother cooking in the kitchen through the mirror.

  Curious in her heart, although still having lingering fears from last time, she couldn't help but be curious again, holding the copper mirror and looking into it.

  In an instant, a flash of light flashed across the empty mirror surface, and then a picture appeared.

  After watching for a while, he suddenly found that the picture inside was very familiar.

  Strange? Song Wen scratched the back of his head, couldn't figure it out, but suddenly remembered that the scene inside wasn't his dad sleeping, was it?

  He couldn't help but laugh when he saw his dad lying on the bed, snoring loudly without any posture. Luckily, his mom didn't sleep with him tonight, or she would have nagged again. But then he suddenly felt something was off - how could this copper mirror clearly see things in the room downstairs?

  Her eyes widened in shock, her face filled with incredulity, feeling utterly unbelievable.

  Could it be that this copper mirror can penetrate everything and see things far away? He raised the copper mirror with a skeptical look, and everything in the house below was clear to his eyes, as if it were right in front of him. Even the foundation of his own home could be seen.

  Suddenly, he remembered that he seemed to have read a book that recorded such a copper mirror. He hastily got out of bed, opened the computer by his bed, and started searching online. After much effort, he finally found it, which was "The Ancient Mirror" recorded in Tang Dynasty legends.

  The book tells the story of a Wang Du person who obtained an ancient mirror. According to the book, the ancient mirror is 8 inches in diameter, with a nose made of Qilin squatting and four squares around it, with turtles, dragons, phoenixes, and tigers arranged according to the directions. Outside the four squares are the eight trigrams, and outside the trigrams are the twelve earthly branches and the ten heavenly stems. Outside the earthly branches and heavenly stems are twenty-four characters, surrounding the edge of the mirror in a circular pattern, with a style similar to that of official script, without any missing strokes, but not belonging to any known script.

  Song Wen compared the ancient mirror in "Gu Jing Ji" with the copper mirror in his hand, and found that they were completely different. The back of the copper mirror in his hand was a ferocious beast with a cruel face, and a bat with its wings spread wide, staring at him with blood-red eyes.

  It doesn't seem like a mirror after all, Song Wen thought helplessly.

  He actually remembered that the chat room also recorded such a mirror, but he didn't know what chapter it was in and couldn't find it, so he gave up. He picked up the copper mirror again and took a casual glance, until he felt dizzy, then put the copper mirror away. After this commotion, he was tired, and his eyelids drooped, so he turned off the computer and went to bed.