At the foot of Jingting Mountain in Xuancheng, southern Anhui, there lived an old scholar with the surname Shang. He had an adopted daughter named Duan Hongyan, who was twenty-eight years old, with bright eyes, bright teeth, and charming and moving. There was a mirror hidden by her side, and this mirror was no ordinary mirror. No matter how vicious the villain was, as long as he encountered a mirror, he had to be at her mercy.
Duan Hongyan was originally from Suzhou, and her father, Duan Tianyu, was a local businessperson who ran several rice shops. He somehow offended a prefect named Jin Shouli, and the surname Jin was stunned because he made up a charge of rebellion for him. At the court, the emperor issued an order to behead the Duan family. In the middle of the night, the Duan family was sleeping, and the surnamed Jin brought a group of people to Ma Chong, and other than Duan Hongyan, the others of the Duan family were brutally killed. At that time, Duan Hongyan was only 6 years old, begging all the way, and fled to southern Anhui. Later, he was adopted by an old scholar and taught her to read and practice martial arts.
On the night of the full moon, Duan Hongyan liked to take out a square piece of jade from her bosom, collect the dew on the grass leaves under the moonlight, put it on the piece of jade, and polish it carefully. Every time she polished, she would cut her fingers and use fresh blood to clean the dirt on the jade piece. Over time, although Duan Hongyan's martial arts were ordinary, the crystal jade was polished by her like a bright moon in the blue sea night sky, and she even named it the Phantom Moon Mirror. But Duan Hongyan never imagined that it was this Phantom Moon Mirror that brought death to Shang Lao Xiucai's family.
One evening, Duan Hongyan had nothing to do, and a few brothers and sisters adopted by the monk Lao Xiu were chatting. As the sky darkened, she rolled her eyes and asked with a smile, "Are you all a little hungry? Tonight is my treat, and I invite you to Guanghan Palace to taste Chang'e's good dishes!" Everyone laughed when they heard it: "Hongyan, you really know how to joke, how can you get to this Moon Palace?"
"You don't believe me?" Duan Hongyan winked at them slyly and said, "I'll take you there right away!" As she spoke, she asked someone to blow out the candles, take out the Phantom Moon Mirror from her bosom, and take a breath at the top. In an instant, the Phantom Moon Mirror shone brightly, and the whole room was shrouded in light, like daylight. Everyone present stared at the mirror with surprise. Strange to say, the Phantom Moon Mirror seemed to be getting bigger and bigger in front of people's eyes, and when it was as tall as a person, gradually Qionglou Yuyu appeared in the mirror, and silk bamboo was constantly accompanied by the sound of singing and dancing. Duan Hongyan smiled and said, "Okay, let's go to Guanghan Palace to play!" Then she took a step ahead and stepped into the Phantom Moon Mirror. The rest of the people seemed to have been enchanted and stepped in involuntarily. In a trance, everyone seemed to have come to the outskirts of the city. Duan Hongyan waved his hand and called for a carriage from the side, and everyone got into the carriage.
Everything was like a dream, the carriage was carrying a group of people, and they did not know how long it had been driving, and Qionglou Yuyu in front of them was getting closer and closer. In front of them, Duan Hongyan led them in, passed through several corridors, came to a hall, and went up the stairs at the side of the hall, and actually came to a restaurant. She took them to sit at a table, and someone had already brought wine and food. Through a screen, more than a dozen young women were singing and dancing there, and the group ate and drank. Only then did she ask Duan Hongyan what was going on, but she took out the Phantom Moon Mirror from her arms and smiled without answering. For a time, everyone was confused: everyone obviously followed her into the mirror, but why was the mirror in her arms?
The news that Duan Hongyan had a magic moon mirror spread within a few days. Early that morning, the sky was just bright, and Duan Hongyan went to Jingting Mountain to practice martial arts as usual. When she went home after three days, before she entered the house, there was a bloody smell. She knew something was wrong, so she strode into the house, only to see her adoptive parents and and siblings all lying in a pool of blood. "Oh my god!" Duan Hongyan couldn't believe her eyes, threw herself on Shang Xiucai's body and cried loudly, "Father, what's the matter? Wake up!" Fortunately, Shang Xiucai still had a breath, he opened his eyes and told the ins and outs of the matter. It turned out that this morning, when Duan Hongyan went up the mountain to practice martial arts, a person who called himself Chu Tianfei came. There was an oblique knife scar on his face, and he was holding a knife three feet wide in his hand. Hongyan, "Shang Laoxiu said angrily," The person surnamed Chu will definitely look for you. I told him that you were out of town, you... You should run away... "As soon as he finished speaking, he swallowed."""" No, I will not escape, "Duan Hongyan knelt on the ground and screamed at the sky," I want to avenge you! "
A few days later, when Duan Hongyan carried Chu Tianfei's head back to Xuancheng, it caused a sensation, and no one knew how she killed her enemy. The county magistrate of Xuancheng saw that Duan Hongyan was not a tyrant, and asked the imperial court to commend her. After more than a month, the imperial decree came down, and she was awarded Duan Hongyan as the "number one chivalrous woman in the world". At the same time, the county magistrate of Xuancheng also held a banquet in the yamen and held a grand celebration ceremony for Duan Hongyan. Duan Hongyan was a person who did not taste alcohol, but could not stand the repeated persuasion of the county magistrate, so she reluctantly drank a small sip. Who knew that as soon as she drank it, the world spun, her eyes turned black, and she fell to the ground, unconscious.
When Duan Hongyan woke up, he found himself lying in a strange place. This place seemed to be a large living room, surrounded by many guards with knives. In the middle of a Nanmu Grand Master's Chair sat an old man with a sharp mouth and a cheek that was nearly half a hundred years old.
"Duan Hongyan, you really slept for a long time," the old man saw Duan Hongyan wake up, shaking the two strokes of mouse whiskers under his nose, and suddenly said with a grin, "One sleep is five or six days, it seems that your Xuancheng county magistrate's Mongolian sweat medicine is really powerful." Duan Hongyan was shocked: "Who are you? What place is this? When did you search for my Phantom Moon Mirror? Give it back to me!"Haha, you want to know who I am?The old man said, "I might as well tell you that I am Jin Shouli, the governor of Suzhou back then. Thinking back then. For this piece of jade on your body, how much painstaking did this old man spend? I didn't expect that you had polished it into a Phantom Moon Mirror for many years, and it became a peerless treasure. Tell me, why did this mirror change color in my hands? "
It turned out that the jade hidden in Duan Hongyan's body earlier, also known as Tian Lingyu, was given to him by a friend of her father Duan Tianyu when he went to Korea. It is said that this jade can be psychic, and it will have a super sensing ability on its body, which can sense the life and death of relatives thousands of miles away. Jin Shouli somehow found out about this matter, so he wanted to take it as his own, and sent someone to the Duan family to ask for it. Who knew that Duan Tianyu didn't buy his account at all, but this made him very angry, so he went to the court and fabricated a crime to kill the Duan family. But he didn't expect that he killed Duan Tianyu's family, but he didn't find Tian Lingyu. Later, he became a high official in the capital by virtue of his connections. It was not until not long ago that the Xuancheng county magistrate told the imperial court to commend Duan Hongyan. Only then did he find out that Duan Hongyan was Duan Tianyu's daughter, and she had polished the Tianling jade into a magical magic moon mirror.
When she heard what had happened, old hatred and new hatred surged into Duan Hongyan's heart. Facing her enemy, she pretended to be calm and said, "So you are Lord Jin! Do you know why this Phantom Moon Mirror turns black in your hands? Because your heart is too black!"Nonsense," Jin Shouli was annoyed when he heard that, "you must make it white for me today, or I will let you die immediately!Duan Hongyan pretended to be afraid and said, "Lord, you give me the Phantom Moon Mirror, I have a way to make it return to its original appearance!" Jin Shouli looked at the many guards with knives in the hall, and when she saw that it was difficult for her to fly, he handed over the Phantom Moon Mirror .
As soon as the Phantom Moon Mirror arrived in Duan Hongyan's hands, it instantly became crystal clear and transparent. She took a deep breath and immediately released a clear radiance, and the entire hall seemed to be covered in the moonlight like water. The Phantom Moon Mirror became bigger and bigger in the eyes of everyone, and Duan Hongyan turned around, jumped into the mirror, and turned to run. Jin Shouli seemed to remember something, stomped his feet and shouted at the guards with knives, "Quick, catch that Duan back for me..." As he said that, he took the lead and jumped into the mirror. When the guards followed and ran into the mirror, the room suddenly went dark, and the mirror, Jin Shouli and others suddenly disappeared.
In fact, this Heavenly Spirit Jade had another wonderful thing. If it was polished into a mirror with dew and blood on the night of the full moon, it would not only be able to shine like the moon, but also produce magical illusions according to people's thoughts. When the mirror grew bigger and Duan Hongyan jumped into the mirror, it was an illusion, but others couldn't see it.
More than half a month later, someone found Jin Shouli's body by a cliff dozens of miles away from the capital. But for some reason, his body was hanging from the top of a tree more than ten feet high, looking like he had committed suicide. Some of the guards with knives were lying under the cliff, some had their heads stuck in the gutter, and some were sitting cross-legged on the ground, holding knives in one hand and their heads in the other...
No one knew where Duan Hongyan went, and no one knew the whereabouts of the Phantom Moon God Mirror.