The Red Chamber: Starting from Saving Xue Baochai

Chapter 102 I have something to say to Lin Daiyu

Xiangyun blinked and curiously took the round mirror from Shen Yuan. Then several girls gathered around and looked at it carefully.

The mirror surface is smooth as silk without any flaws.

Glass is mentioned many times in the original novel of Dream of the Red Chamber. There are also some glass products in the Ning and Rong mansions, such as glass kang screens, glass hydrangea lamps, etc.

But even in the luxurious Duke's Mansion, glass is a rare item and is not common. Daiyu and Xiangyun's daily dressing mirrors are still bronze mirrors.

Seeing such an exquisite glass mirror at this moment, the girls with golden hairpins couldn't help but feel amazed.

"This mirror is so bright! It reflects very clearly."

The girls looked at themselves in the mirror and felt an inexplicable excitement and surprise.

Compared with the slightly dim bronze mirror, the image in the glass is many times brighter, making the girls look even more bright and charming. Of course, it is also because these girls with gold hairpins are all beautiful.

Shen Yuan looked at the group of beautiful girls and felt very pleased. He smiled and said, "Turn the mirror over and take a look."

After getting the hint, Xiangyun turned the round mirror over with her soft and cute white hands with an expression of curiosity and confusion.

She leaned in to take another look and was suddenly startled. Her delicate hands trembled and she lost her grip on the mirror, nearly dropping it on the ground. Fortunately, Tanchun was quick to help hold it up.

At this moment, not only Xiangyun, but also Baochai, Daiyu, Tanchun, Yingchun and Xichun who were surrounding her, all had an expression of surprise on their faces.

In the mirror, the girls' pretty faces all looked very big, especially Xiangyun. Because she was so close, her round apple-like face almost filled up half of the mirror, and it was not fully reflected.

"Brother Shen, what's going on?" Tanchun was the first to come to her senses and asked the question in her mind.

"This is a glass mirror. One side is flat, which reflects the normal appearance, and the other side is convex, which can magnify the objects reflected." Shen Yuan explained in detail.

This kind of double-sided mirror with one flat and one convex side was extremely common in later generations. It was mostly used by women to put on makeup. Some of the convex sides could even magnify dozens of times, so that even the pores were clearly visible.

Of course, the convex surface that Shen Yuan took out was only magnified about three times.

The girls listened to Shen Yuan's explanation. Although they didn't fully understand it, they understood it roughly.

When she looked at the round mirror again, she felt very curious.

Shen Yuan looked at the girls' expressions and understood what they were saying. As he expected, this mirror was very attractive to these rich ladies. If he sold it, he would definitely get a good price and it would probably be in short supply.
Seeing that the girls couldn't let go of the round mirror, Shen Yuan shook his head and smiled, "Sisters, should we start playing pot tossing?"

After hearing Shen Yuan's reminder, the girls calmed down and returned to the topic.

Xiangyun found a corner in the pavilion, placed the small clay pot, drew a line two meters away, and then introduced the rules to Shen Yuan.

"You have to stand outside the line, and each person throws five arrows. The one who hits the most arrows wins."

As the little girl spoke, she glanced at the round mirror with her beautiful eyes. She probably had no chance of winning the prize, and she couldn't help feeling a little disappointed.

Tanchun looked at Shen Yuan with her bright eyes and said expectantly, "Brother Shen, you come first."

Shen Yuan nodded. He had seen many scenes of pitching pots in movies and TV dramas in his previous life, but this was the first time he played this kind of game in the inner chamber.

If you master one method, you will master all methods. Similar to archery, pitching a pot actually tests your control over strength and direction.

After Shen Yuan simply tried throwing two arrows, he quickly mastered the key.

Then the game officially began. He shot the first three arrows in a row and hit the target with ease. As for the last two arrows, he simply shot them together and, as expected, both went into the pot.

He made all five shots and even did a few fancy moves without stopping.

Baochai, Daiyu, Xiangyun and the three girls in the three springs were all amazed by what they saw.

"Sure enough, Brother Shen is a monster." Xiangyun sighed. Tanchun looked at this scene, her bright eyes flashing with a strange light.

Daiyu glanced at the side, and suddenly eight words emerged in her mind: Young and handsome man, put everything first.

At this time, Baochai's almond-shaped eyes were filled with smiles as she looked at her husband quietly, but she saw the young man's eyes also looking over at her and their eyes met.

"Sister Xue, come and try it too."

Baochai was under the watchful eyes of her husband, and her face turned slightly red as she hummed softly.

She took the short arrow handed to her by her husband, stood outside the white line and started shooting, but she missed all five shots.

Shen Yuan smiled slightly when he saw this. His wife, who was very smart and clever, was not very good at sports games.

"Brother Shen, I..." Baochai raised her eyes and looked at Shen Yuan, her fair and delicate face showing shyness and a hint of embarrassment.

Shen Yuan took a step forward, took his wife's soft hand, patted it gently, and said in a warm voice: "It's okay, it's just a game. If you want to practice, your husband will teach you later."

When Daiyu, Xiangyun and other girls saw how deeply in love the couple was, they had different feelings, but they all felt envious.

After that, it was Xiangyun, Daiyu, Tanchun, Yingchun and Xichun's turn to play the game of tossing pots.

The result was not unexpected. Tanchun got four out of five correct, while the other girls only got one or two correct.

"Sure enough, the prize has fallen into the hands of Third Sister." Xiangyun could not help but envy her. Then she smiled at Tanchun and said in a coquettish voice, "Third Sister, please lend it to me tomorrow."

Before Tanchun could respond, she heard Shen Yuan say with a smile, "That's not necessary. I'll give one to each of my sisters some other day."

Upon hearing this, Xiao Xichun looked at Shen Yuan with blinking eyes, revealing an expectant look.

Baochai, Daiyu and Xiangyun were all a little surprised. They originally thought that the double-sided mirror was a rare item given by the palace.

Xiangyun asked curiously, "Is there really still one? Did Brother Shen make this thing himself?"

"I didn't make it." Shen Yuan said in a clear voice, "I asked a craftsman to make it."

"Really?" Xiangyun said happily, "Then Brother Shen will give me the same one as my third sister."

The girls all looked happy, and they were looking forward to the days ahead.

Daiyu stole a glance at Shen Yuan and became even more curious. This Brother Shen actually knew everything about creation.

Shen Yuan had sharp senses, so he could naturally detect when someone was peeking at him.

He turned his head and looked at the quiet Lin Duidui, and said in a clear voice: "Sister Lin, there are some things I was going to let Sister Xue convey to you. Since we happened to meet today, I will tell you directly."

When Daiyu heard this, her beautiful face paused and she pursed her cherry lips. Although she didn't know what the boy wanted to say, she still nodded gently.

Baochai, Xiangyun and others were also curious about this.

"It's not a matter of words. Let's sit down and talk slowly."

Afterwards, Shen Yuan and several girls sat down around the stone table in the pavilion.

"Time flies, and several years have passed in the blink of an eye. Sister Lin should have not returned to Yangzhou for a long time, right?"

Daiyu heard this, and her bright eyes under her smoky brows suddenly became filled with melancholy. She said softly, "It's been more than seven years."

(End of this chapter)