Chapter 516_1

Zhao Erhu still feels the pinch when he talks about it to this day. Lin Yue looked at the few mirrors inside the box—indeed, they were not large. The biggest was scarcely bigger than the palm of a hand, and the smallest was not even half as big. There were a total of five pieces, and they had cost over five hundred taels of silver—truly an exorbitant price.

It's not that there were no glass mirrors in the Great Zhou Dynasty, but it would be inaccurate to call them glass mirrors—they should be referred to as colored glaze mirrors instead. There's a difference between colored glaze and glass. The nobles in the Imperial Palace and those from the aristocratic families also used them, and Lin Yue had seen them both at Commandery Princess Roujia's and Princess Yongle's places.