Pharmacist Li rushed forward and said, "Taoist Priest, can you make a prediction for me in the evening?"

The Taoist looked at Pharmacist Li calmly and asked, "What do you want to ask, Master?"

Pharmacist Li said: "I want to ask about the bronze mirror tonight."

The Taoist laughed and said: "Young master, I also heard that I have a bronze mirror in my possession and I want to sell it to a good businessman. This bronze mirror has an extraordinary origin. If you are really sincere, I would like to talk to you."

Pharmacist Li bowed and said, "I would like to hear the details in the evening."

The Taoist raised his fly whisk and said, "In this case, please ask the young master to move the jade."

He walked away without waiting for Li Yaoshi's reply.

Pharmacist Li had no choice but to follow quickly.

The Taoist seemed to be walking calmly, but Li Yaoshi almost tried his best to keep up with him.

Li Yaoshi thought he was quite familiar with Dongshi, but he had never been to the path this Taoist traveled.

The East Market was bustling and noisy, but after following this man around three turns, the surrounding environment became very quiet.

At this moment, the Taoist stopped.

Pharmacist Li stopped following the Taoist, his chest already feeling like he was panting.

However, seeing that the Taoist was still calm and calm, he refused to show weakness and just secretly adjusted his breath.

The Taoist smiled and said: "Young Master's cultivation is already excellent among the younger generation. I am disrespectful to the old man. May I ask what your name is?"

Pharmacist Li tried his best to hold back his breath, bowed his head to the Taoist and said, "I don't dare in the evening. In the evening, Pharmacist Li in Sanyuan, I don't dare to ask the Taoist priest."

The Taoist said: "It turns out that this is a famous sect in Sanyuan, but the old Taoist is disrespectful. The old Taoist Xu Hongke cultivated his true nature here."

I saw Xu Hongke pointing casually, and the two wooden doors in front of him opened.

Xu Hongke raised his hand to greet the guest: "Master Li, please."

Pharmacist Li looked up and saw a huge and thick wooden plaque above the wooden door, with the word "Qing Ming" written in huge ancient seal characters.

After he entered the door, he found himself in an ancient Taoist temple.

Xu Hongke took him into the temple and soon took out a wooden box.

He opened the wooden box, took out a bronze mirror and gave it to Medicine Master Li.

Pharmacist Li took the mirror and saw that the bronze mirror was of an ancient style, about eight inches in diameter, and the knobs resembled a crouching unicorn.

In the four directions of the unicorn, there are green dragon, red bird, white tiger and Xuanwu, arranged according to the directions of the four elephants.

Besides the four images, there are the Bagua, and besides the Bagua, there are also the images of the twelve zodiac signs.

In addition to the twelve zodiac signs, there are twenty-four ancient characters with outlines around them, the style is like seal script, and the dots and lines are perfect, but Pharmacist Li does not recognize them.

Xu Hongke said: "This is the image of the twenty-four solar terms."

At this time, the sun had not yet set. Li Yaoshi reflected the sunlight into the mirror and saw that the patterns on the back of the mirror were faintly visible, but his own image in the mirror was also intact.

Pharmacist Li flicked the back of the mirror again, only to hear a clear sound like a chime, going around the beam slowly and continuously for a long time.

If compared with Princess Lechang's half-faced bronze mirror, the workmanship of this mirror may not be as gorgeous and delicate as it is, but its quaintness and simplicity are far superior.

He knew in his heart that just as Xu Hongke said, this mirror must have an extraordinary origin. He thought that he could not afford to purchase it, so he handed it back to Xu Hongke: "Taoist priest, this mirror is indeed a masterpiece."

Xu Hongke smiled and said: "In your opinion, how valuable is this bronze mirror?"

Li Yaoshi said: "Taoist Master, this mirror is a priceless treasure. If I introduce it to an ordinary person later, I'm afraid I won't be able to enjoy it."

Xu Hongke smiled and said: "How can there be a priceless treasure in the world? Why don't you bid whatever you want?"

Seeing that Xu Hongke kept forcing him to bid, Li Yaoshi thought that he might as well take out Princess Lechang's half of the bronze mirror and let him bid, and then he would make the calculation.

Then he said, "Taoist Priest, I happen to have a bronze mirror with me in the evening. Can I ask Taoist Priest to take a look at it?"

Immediately, he took out the bronze mirror from his arms and handed it to Xu Hongke.

Xu Hongke took Princess Lechang's half of the bronze mirror and looked at it. He sighed loudly at the bronze mirror: "Bronze mirror, bronze mirror. In the prime of life, couples are separated in two places, so they rely on this mirror to keep in touch!"

He played with it repeatedly, and the light and shadow of the setting sun reflected through the bronze mirror onto the beams in the room, like birds and magpies flying.

Suddenly the sun shone brightly, and Pharmacist Li instinctively squinted his eyes, but out of the corner of his eye he seemed to catch a glimpse of a group of light and shadow rushing out of the house and flying straight into the sky.

When Pharmacist Li opened his eyes again, Xu Hongke had put away the bronze mirror and handed it back to him, saying: "The mirror of the old Taoist is just an ancient relic for taking pictures and recognizing shapes; the mirror of the young master is the half-life union of a couple." This half of the bronze mirror, Master, is truly a priceless treasure."

When Medicine Master Li heard this, he was shocked and couldn't help asking: "According to Taoist Master, can the other half of the bronze mirror still be found?"

Xu Hongke had a sly smile on his face and said something mysterious: "If we can't find it, wouldn't the later allusion of 'broken mirrors reunited' be lost?"

Medicine Master Li knew that he had met a strange person, so he quickly bowed and asked, "I dare not ask the Taoist Master, but is the other half of the bronze mirror already found?"

Xu Hongke smiled and said: "The time has not come yet, what's the use of being anxious, sir?"

Pharmacist Li hurriedly asked: "I don't know when is the right time?"

Xu Hongke laughed and said: "On the night of the full moon during the Mid-Autumn Festival, it is the time when the broken mirror reunites.

At that time, the young master will go to Dongshi and see for himself."

Pharmacist Li knew that it would be useless to ask more questions, so he sat down for a while and then stood up to leave.

Xu Hongke saw him out of "Qingming", but the two wooden doors closed again.

Pharmacist Li saw darkness outside the door, and smoke and dust obscured his eyes.

He slowly groped forward, and when the smoke and dust cleared, he found himself back on the main road of the East Market.

Pharmacist Li looked into his arms and found that half of the bronze mirror was still there.

He thought to himself that this bronze mirror had been in his hands for more than a day, and the sunlight had never shined as brightly as it did today.

When curiosity arose, I took out the bronze mirror and tried to reflect the lingering sun.

However, no matter how he turned the bronze mirror over, the light and shadow were just blurry.

He sighed softly, and when he was about to put it away, he suddenly discovered that the exquisitely carved magpie with broken feathers on the back of the bronze mirror had disappeared, leaving a blank space in its place.

He was greatly frightened. When he looked again under the sunlight, there were faint lights and shadows of colorful magpies flying in the blank space.

He put away the bronze mirror in a daze, and couldn't help but wonder, who is Xu Hongke?

He also thought, since Xu Hongke and other foreigners said that broken mirrors can be reunited, why should he worry in vain? So he stopped going in and out of Dongshi and just waited for the Mid-Autumn Festival to arrive.

At that time, the Mid-Autumn Festival was just a day to worship the God of Agriculture. Not only had it not yet become a major festival in China, there was not even the custom of admiring the moon.

Compared with the Hungry Ghost Festival, when Taoists pay homage to the souls of their ancestors and Buddhists hold the Bon Festival, the Mid-Autumn Festival in the Sui Dynasty was a rather deserted full-moon day.

In the afternoon of that day, Pharmacist Li came to Dongshi again.

Since Xu Hongke said he saw what he saw, Li Yaoshi didn't have to look for it deliberately and just wandered around casually.

When the sun turned slightly, the sun suddenly shone brightly. Pharmacist Li instinctively squinted his eyes again, and he seemed to catch a glimpse of another group of light and shadow rushing into the city from the corner of his eyes.

When Li Yaoshi opened his eyes, he could only hear the noise of birds nearby.

He knew something was wrong and hurriedly followed the sound of the birds.

When he got closer to the sound of birds, Li Yaoshi saw a group of birds flying away in front of him.

He found that he had come to the place where bronze mirror vendors gathered again, and a merchant in front of him was greeting him.

Pharmacist Li saw the merchant who told Xu Hongke that he wanted to sell the bronze mirror because he saw him playing with it, so he walked up to him.
Chapter completed!