Chapter 1246 - 155 Mirror (First Update)
"Woah, there are so many!" Although she had been prepared, when Lin Yuan saw the dazzling glaze in front of her, she was still greatly astonished.
The room was originally used for storing herbs, but when they heard that Lin Yuan and Xia Zheng had stocked up on some rare items to store, they cleaned it out overnight. The lingering scent of herbs could still be faintly smelled in the room.
The pieces of glaze in front of her were each separated by thick quilts. Lin Yuan roughly counted about seven or eight pieces, each about three feet square. In addition, there were quite a few pieces of glaze with some cracks in the corner of the wall, presumably damaged during transportation. Looking at those badly broken pieces, Lin Yuan felt a pang of pity in her heart.
Unlike the glaze pieces she had seen in Xia Zheng’s room, these were the most primitive, simply cut without any carving. Lin Yuan had previously described to Xia Zheng the look of a mirror, so these pieces of glaze must have been specially cut into half a finger thick slices by a unique technique, a method not just anyone could achieve. They must have been cut in the Western Region.
"Yes, if you like them, I’ll arrange to have more transported here," said Xia Zheng with a chuckle, yet he felt a pang of regret inside. In fact, they had initially transported two large carts full, but an incident had occurred along the way, and the other cart of glaze had been seized.
He naturally hadn’t told Lin Yuan about this. Otherwise, given Lin Yuan’s fondness for wealth, she would have run off to Xiliang to chop up the scoundrel who dared to stand in the way of her fortune.
Although Xia Zheng didn’t mention it, Lin Yuan knew that it was definitely not as simple to transport these fragile glaze pieces from the distant Western Region to Dayong as Xia Zheng had made it sound.
"There’s a saying you should know, ’the rarer, the more valuable,’" Lin Yuan said with a smile, stroking a piece of glaze almost as tall as a person, "If our mirrors were as common as the bronze mirrors sold in the streets, how could we make any money?"