Chapter 2 Primer two

I am an antique collector, and now I am in a very good mood, because today I picked up a Phoenix Peony Mirror by chance on Lingshan Mountain. Bronze mirrors are most famous in the Warring States Period, Han Dynasty and Tang Dynasty. The patterns on the back of the bronze mirrors are very colorful.The Warring States Period and the Han Dynasty were the heydays, and the Tang Dynasty was even more prosperous. Mirrors with mountain characters in the Warring States Period, mythical animal mirrors in the Han Dynasty, and sea animal grape mirrors in the Tang Dynasty are all typical masterpieces with a sense of the times.It is exquisitely cast, colorful in shape, gorgeous in decoration and rich inscriptions.

In the Yuan Dynasty, the shape of Liuling flower or Liukui flower was mostly used, but the decoration has gradually become rough and simple. There are two types of mirror patterns in the Yuan Dynasty: bas-relief and relief. At this time, the bronze mirrors include peony mirrors, fairy mirrors, character story mirrors, double dragon mirrors, "Shoushan Fuhai" inscription mirrors, plain mirrors, and dragon mirrors in the fourth year of the Yuan Dynasty. Mirror and so on. The bronze mirror I picked up is about seven centimeters in diameter, with plain edges and round knobs.The inner area is decorated with five auspicious beasts chasing each other, and the outer area is decorated with four phoenix birds shuttling among peonies.

The outer edge of the bronze mirror is a fourteen-petal rhombus pattern, and the exterior is decorated with fourteen cloud patterns.The four phoenixes have different shapes, the feathers on the tail are carved in high relief, and the eight peony flowers are different in shape, charming and enchanting. Although my appreciation ability is not good, I often buy fakes in the antique market, and I rarely miss the real ones, but even a small layman like me can be sure that this thing is definitely the real thing just by looking at it.Moreover, it is worth a lot. The five auspicious beasts in the inner area of ​​the mirror and the phoenix pattern in the outer area all represent patterns that only existed after the Sui and Tang Dynasties, while the peonies in the mirror were only formed in the Yuan Dynasty, which is very realistic.The decoration of the whole mirror is full of innovative spirit, including its high relief technique.

Throughout the history of bronze mirrors, there are quite few bronze mirrors in the Yuan Dynasty, and there are even fewer large and fine ones, so this thing is even more precious. When I picked it up, it was said that there was a murder case in Lingshan last night, and five young people were torn to pieces on the slope of Qianshan. Alas, these days, the crime rate is too high, and the red moon the night before was also very strange, which shocked me when I got up to go to the toilet by chance. I returned home happily, there was no one in the living room, it was probably too late, and everyone fell asleep.So I prepared to carefully store the Phoenix Peony Mirror.

"Dad, what's that?" At this moment, a crisp and tender voice sounded behind me. It's my four-and-a-half-year-old daughter Tian Tian.She pulled my clothes, looking sleepy.When did this little girl run behind me? I smiled and picked her up. "Good girl, this thing is a treasure that only your father got." "A baby more precious than Tiantian?" Tiantian's eyes stared straight at the mirror in my hand, which made me very strange. "Of course it doesn't have my sweet baby, how can this be compared." I kissed her sweet little cheek hard, "Why? Tiantian also likes this mirror?"

The little girl shook her head without hesitation: "I don't like Tiantian, this mirror is good or bad, it's so scary. It's still emitting black smoke." I looked at the mirror on my right hand suspiciously. The surface of the bronze mirror shone coldly under the light, and there was no black smoke. "Tiantian is sleepy and confused, good boy, daddy will take you to sleep." I carried her back to the bed, put the mirror in the safe in the collection room, and then returned to the bedroom.My wife was already sound asleep, and I tiptoed onto the bed, sniggering happily when I thought of the mirror I picked up, and fell asleep after being excited for a long time.

When he woke up again, he was awakened by a scream.The screams came from Tiantian's room. I was so startled that I jumped out of bed and quickly ran to her bedroom. I saw Tiantian curled up in the corner by the bed, shaking all over her body. , staring at the opposite side without blinking. "My dear girl, what's the matter with you?" I pressed the light switch, looked around the whole room, but found nothing, so I carefully held my daughter in my arms and asked. "Grandma Xiong, Granny Xiong is here. She's here to eat sweets!" The daughter's voice trembled, almost distorted.

I secretly blamed my wife in my heart. This woman just likes to scare her child with unreasonable things.I patted my daughter on the back lightly, and managed to calm her down, but her eyes were still looking behind me without blinking, and her straight eyes were full of fear that never faded. I followed her gaze, and I saw the mirror I picked up quietly placed on the table next to Tiantian's bed.The bronze mirror glowed with an ice-cold light like water, and even if you looked at it even more, you would feel a chill coming from your body. "Tiantian, when did you bring it in? It's not how many times I told you, you are not allowed to take dad's things without permission!" I frowned and reproached softly.

"Tiantian didn't take it, it ran over by itself." The daughter didn't look at me, she was still looking at the mirror. "The mirror has no legs, so how could it run over by itself? Tell me the truth, Dad won't blame you." My tone was a little more serious. This child, who obviously took things and learned to lie, didn't even know Where did you learn it, you have to educate it well. "I didn't take it, Tiantian just didn't take it." The daughter said stubbornly: "It's the mirror. The stinky mirror brought Mrs. Xiong here. She wants to eat Tiantian."

"Stop lying!" Just as I was furious and ready to teach her a lesson, suddenly a flash of inspiration flashed through my mind.wrong!The mirror had obviously been put in the safe, how did she get it out? Only my wife and I know the password of the safe. There is no reason for my wife to get up in the middle of the night and take the mirror out of the safe for Tiantian to play with.And the daughter is still very young, even if she knows the password, she will not operate the safe to open it. Could it be that there are thieves? "Sweet, don't talk or make a sound from now on."

I hugged my daughter and sneaked into the kitchen, picking up a sharp kitchen knife.With the knife in my hand, I suddenly felt more courageous. I turned on the lights in the whole house and searched room by room. The house is not big, with three bedrooms and one living room, more than 100 square meters, and the inspection will be completed soon.But nothing was found in the whole house, let alone any traces of thieves coming in and out. Strange?How did the mirror get into Tiantian's room?Is it true that as Tian Tian said, she has grown legs?I shook my head. After being overly frightened, my daughter has already fallen asleep in my arms.I carried her back to the bedroom and gently put her on the bed. When I was about to go back to my bedroom, I suddenly felt that there seemed to be something I had overlooked. what is it then?Always feel something is important! correct!It's the wife!Why did Tiantian scream, and then she made so many noises, but her wife didn't wake up at all, and was still asleep? This is not in line with her style at all. She is a light sleeper and is easily awakened when encountering a disturbance. And as far as she loves Tiantian, even if Tiantian snores a few more times, she can sense it in her sleep. But today, why is it so abnormal?I pushed open the bedroom door suspiciously and glanced at the bed. The wife is still on the bed, but this woman is really dishonest when she sleeps, and she doesn't know where she has shrunk to on the bed.All I could see was a pile of high bumps in the quilt, and the feet sticking out of the quilt. "Hey, wake up, I have something to tell you!" I patted her body, and my wife's body was a little stiff. A bad premonition suddenly appeared in my heart, and I lifted the quilt vigorously. The wife, the head of the wife is missing! There was no blood on the bed, but the corpse on the bed was lying in a strange shape without a head. I screamed in fear, and felt a warm current flow from my lower body. I was so frightened that I lost control of my urine.I crawled out of the dormitory, my heart was beating wildly, my breathing was short of breath, and I was so scared that I was about to suffocate to death. "Call the police, call the police immediately!" Trembling all over my body, I picked up the phone and dialed it. The moment I was about to dial, I suddenly found that under the light, there were two shadows on the opposite wall. One is mine, and the other is a weird shadow, sticking tightly behind me... "Hi, this is the Lingshan City Police Station, what do you need?"