Episode 500
After all that bickering, we went to Hangzhou’s nostalgic guesthouse and ate dongpo meat instead of the most delicious guesthouse in Hangzhou.
“I met my brother here. maybe?”
“huh. I was very surprised at that time. “What kind of child is so good at forensics?”
“At that time, my brother put in a large silver coin. That was the beginning of our relationship~”
Sima Hyun hummed and reflected on the past.
Why?
I thought that if I let him go like this, I will never see him again.
I don’t know why.
No, I think I know.
The fact that that guy came to the end and asked his brother for help also meant that he was so concentrated.
‘Damn you.’
He was reflecting on his humanity.
I was holding it all in and contemplating whether to throw it away or keep it.
[I only trust you.]
“Hmm?”
[wait. [Don’t be impatient.]
Let’s hold on to it for now. Before this guy crashes.
Should we let it go back to its original history?
Then the Peking opera began.
It is the same opera as Sima Xuan did in the past, but with a mix of children and adults.
Jin Cheon-hee said.
“Baeklin’s Pavilion is protecting us.”
“I heard that my brother cleaned up the streets of Hangzhou~”
“Yes.”
The King’s Farewell Party begins.
Sima Hui forgets to eat the dongpo meat and looks at the opera with shining eyes.
“Oppa, it reminds me of the old days.”
“….”
The love story of Hang-woo and Woo-mi-in.
Why? Some things never fade even though they cross eras and eras and are passed down from word to word.
Humans become immersed in a story that everyone knows and continues to repeat.
Even though I know this ending.
[Hyuna. What you have in your hands cannot be replaced by anything else. You can’t let go of that hand just to get something else.]
[Chopsticks with dongpo meat?]
[Yes. Those chopsticks. Hye-ah handed it to me.]
[….]
Anguish passes through the side of his noble-like face.
The temptation that if I become the golden king, I might be able to stop fighting.
Wouldn’t it be okay to put it down for a while?
As soon as I put it down, wouldn’t it be okay to deal with it quickly and hold Hye-ah’s hand again?
If you get to that position, if you have that power…
Xiang Yu in the Peking opera showed soft and disciplined movements.
His fingertips draw a gentle arc and then stop in time with the song.
Finally, Sima Xuan spoke.
[I see an easy way. In fact, it will be very easy if you just walk a little sideways. Everything.]
-Power uproots mountains and force covers the world (力拔山兮氣蓋世)
[I know what I have. brother. I just need to bring out the fire inside me just a little bit. Then I will become the golden king. Everything might become easier.]
-What should I do if Ochuma cannot advance? (騅不逝兮可奈何)
[If we lose like this. I might lose everything. There is no way the next golden king will leave me alone, and that is the law of the dark path.]
Sima Xuan’s electric sound rings out in the opera.
Although his expression was calm, Jin Cheon-hee felt a fire burning inside him.
The reader knows what kind of fire that fire is.
It was a fire that would burn the world, and once it went out, it was a fire that would cover mountains and rivers.
[Are you afraid of losing Hye-ah?]
[I’m used to being hated. are you okay. But Hye-ah must be alive. If only Hye-ah can be saved, I…]
-Woohee, Woohee. What should I do with you? (虞兮虞兮奈若何)
[Hyuna. are you okay. are you okay. Everything will be okay. Because I have a brother. Because I will protect you.]
[I know that…]
[I know. That you have stronger pride than anyone else. He has such strong intellect, such great intelligence, and such an outstanding appearance. I know very well that you have a hole in your self-esteem.]
[You watched me as much as I watched you.]
[That’s right. So I’m talking about it. If you let go once, you will let go twice.]
Eventually, Jin Cheon-hee sent a message.
[Fortunately… I seem to have found a way.]
[Hmm?]
[The answer was in Farewell My Concubine.]
As Jin Tianxi said that, he looked at Sima Xuan.
The older brother looked at his younger brother’s distorted face with the same elegant and noble expression as before.
As if adversity was nothing.
Jin Cheon-hee said.
[Thank you for sharing your concerns with me. Hyuna.]
Will the day ever come when that face breaks?
The older brother, who is small for a military man, carries a gun and smiles leisurely.
[It may be a little difficult, but yes. Let’s do it together. Hyuna.]
A path where you don’t have to let go of what you’re holding in your hands.
How did my brother find it?
Sima Xuan became curious.
Then Hye-ah said.
“I think my brother is the best at Peking opera.”
As he said that, he held Jin Tianxi’s and Sima Xuan’s hands one by one with both hands.
“Hehehe. “It’s great that the three of us came to play.”
“….”
I’m glad I didn’t let go.
The human Sima Xuan made another choice.
It was because of the two hands that held him.
I just hope that the ending doesn’t end like Farewell My Concubine before my eyes.
* * *
next day.
Jin Cheon-hee walked around diligently and ordered ingredients.
‘Yuho… Yuho is not there.’
Can not help it. Since I don’t have an all-purpose MacGyver knife, I have no choice but to do it myself.
“Brother, what on earth are you doing?”
A temporary building in the vacant lot behind the Uigak.
Although it is part of the land granted by His Majesty, it has not yet been developed in earnest and is being used as a warehouse.
Here, Jin Cheon-hee is touching a pile of sand.
“Hyuna. “You want to live a normal life, right?”
“huh.”
“Of course, if you follow the path of the dark path, you will live with blood on your hands, but you still don’t want to betray the human duty, right?”
“….”
Instead of answering, Sima Xuan just looked at his older brother who was shorter than him.
There are times when the sincerity is conveyed by not answering some things.
This is how it is.
My brother feels a stronger affirmation than any other ‘Yes’.
“good. Let’s keep it a secret from Hye-ah until it’s completed. “Because you don’t want Hye-ah to know what happened.”
“huh.”
He didn’t want his younger brother to see even a single ounce of dirt.
understood.
For Hyeon-i, Hye-ah is like the force of gravity that keeps him attached as a person.
You don’t want to show anything like your dirty side.
So…
“But does it have something to do with your sand play?”
“huh. First of all, uh… it may look like just sand, but it’s a mixture of silicon dioxide, sodium carbonate, and lime. “We will also use glass powder here.”
Saying that, he put sand into a strange-looking kiln, started a fire with a black stone, and began to gather his inner energy into it.
Jin Cheon-hee’s hair rises softly. The powerful heat of the sun began to melt the sand.
Gugggggg-
‘The glass window itself was discovered in the ruins of Pompeii in 79 AD.’
The beginning has to go all the way down to Egypt.
I think the discovery itself was made by looking at residual glass left over from volcanic activity.
Either way, glass is an important item to humans.
It melts and flattens and cools slowly through the inner cavity.
Sima Hyun squats down with his chin resting on his face and watches with interest what his brother is doing.
It seems like he uses internal energy in the middle, but I’m not sure about the details.
How long has it been like that?
A fairly decent plate glass was completed.
“Here, melt the silver on the back surface of the glass…”
After that, Jin Cheon-hee himself lay down exhausted, probably exhausted.
“No…making just this is harder than blowing up the strength. “Wow… wow…”
Sima Hyun walked towards what his brother had created.
A flawless and clear mirror appeared there.
“I have quite a few different mirrors, but this is the first one that is so perfectly clean. brother.”
It was like that.
There was a large mirror there that was clear enough to reflect even light.
“As expected, I think I’m kind of handsome. Go~?”
How many times will you have the chance to see your own face this clearly? Jin Tianxi said, ignoring Sima Xuan’s question.
“Don’t you think it will make money? “I guess you’ll want to buy gold no matter how much it costs, right?”
“Of course I do. I have never seen anything like this, and even the Golden King would want it. But to run a business, you have to mass produce. “If you’re producing while using your energy like your brother, the unit price won’t be right~” “
Yes. that’s right. “This is just a sample product for you to see, and there is a separate method for mass production.”
Even if you do that, it will be difficult to follow Yuho’s skills.
Jin Cheon-hee swallowed her words.
“Is it possible for someone who has not learned martial arts to make one~ Gaga?”
“of course.”
‘How on earth did my brother know that?’
Sima Xuan was lost in thought.
It was as if my brother was bringing out knowledge that did not exist in this world whenever he needed it.
So, I guessed that he might have come from the West Continent, but sometimes he brought out knowledge that did not even exist in the West Continent.
“What are you thinking about?”
“I am considering the value of the product~”
And I know that this good wise man will never teach me.
Although he didn’t seem like an older brother, he was a man with many secrets.
At first I thought it was because it was Zhuge Sei, but nope.
“What is the value of the product?”
“Assuming what my brother said is true and that the manufacturing process is good, I would probably save twenty times the original cost.”
“okay. “It will happen.”
It was around the 12th century that glass mirrors first appeared in human history.
So, naturally, there are glass mirrors here in Moorim Land.
‘Look. What are you trying to make with your sand? ‘What is this shiny, transparent thing?’
‘Ah, you don’t know. This is called glass. Otherworldly clichés like ‘You can make a mirror with this’ are impossible.
If you do that, you will be looked at with sad eyes.
This is because they already know how to make glass mirrors and make a living.
Of course, it is extremely expensive and is only slightly better than a copper mirror without glass, so it is not widely used.
The reason was technology.
The fact that the glass in this world is made flat and even depends solely on the skill of the craftsman.
In addition, glass mirrors made in this world are made by applying a thin alloy of tin and mercury to one side of the glass.
First of all, the reflectivity of tin and mercury alloy is not very good, and because it is handmade, the surface is uneven and the image is not reflected properly.
Therefore, most of the glass mirrors in this world were so curved that they could not properly reflect and show images.
however.
purple.
What Jin Cheon-hee has made now reflects very clearly.
‘Earth’s mirror must have a reflectivity of over 80%, and the only metals that can achieve that are aluminum and silver, I guess?’
Jin Cheon-hee recalled a documentary she had seen in her past life.
It becomes a mirror only by coating one side of transparent glass with silver or aluminum.
The important thing here is that this coating must be done very evenly.
Of course, among those who reached the realm of peace, Jin Cheon-hee was able to manipulate empty objects with great precision and had great internal strength, so she was able to perfectly level and unite, but for others, it would have been impossible.
Jin Cheon-hee, who was thinking so briefly, heard a voice in her ear that said she still didn’t know.
“Is this really mass-produced?”