"If you go down there," old man Qi said earnestly, "don't ask, don't touch, don't be curious, just do your work and come back when you're done, do you hear me?"

Bao Le nodded obediently.

The old man Qi was usually amiable, and rarely had such a serious expression. After thinking about it, he also knew that the money was not easy to make this time, and Bao Le even wanted to retreat.

Old man Qi looked at Jiang Ning who was at the side again: "You take this jade bi, if I had known it was such an unlucky thing, I wouldn't have taken it."

Jiang Ning raised her eyebrows.

"Don't let Bao Le get hurt."

Jiang Ning said: "I can assure you that this trip is not too dangerous."

"You think I'm still as easy to deceive as before, who doesn't know..." Old man Qi went on to say melancholy, "Once you embark on some roads, there is no possibility of turning back, let alone walking halfway."

Jiang Ning did not refute this time.

The two talked to each other, like playing a riddle, and Bao Le was in a fog, unable to catch any useful information for a long time.From the kitchen came the sound of the casserole lid being pushed up by the steam. Old man Qi got up unsteadily and ran into the kitchen to mess around for a long time.Bao Le looked at his back, wondering why this man seemed to be discouraged all of a sudden, and he had never seen him like this before.

Coming out of the kitchen, old man Qi went straight into the study.He never married in his life. In this small three-bedroom house, the two rooms facing the south were opened up as study rooms, but he slept in the small room facing the north at night.Bao Le didn't understand it before, but later he realized that this person just really loves books.

Both Jiang Ning and Bao Le didn't know what he was doing in the study. During the boring time of waiting, Jiang Ning took a vicious look at the old man's chaise longue.

After a while, old man Qi's voice came from the study.

"Who is leading the archaeological team this time?"

Jiang Ning replied: "It is said that it is a man named Shen Yan. I will meet you in Chengdu after an appointment in three days."

It turned out to be someone with the surname Shen. don't know what it has to do with Shen Wangyan, but the surname Shen doesn't seem like a coincidence. In all likelihood, this Shen Yan is also from the Shen family.

Old man Qi came out of the study, holding a pile of books, with a stack of yellowed manuscripts on top.He gave all of these to Bao Le.

"If you don't go, I have studied a lot of information." Jiang Ning shook the chaise longue, giggling.

Old man Qi ignored her, and told Bao Le: "These books are nothing, you can just read them casually. The manuscripts were sorted out by me more than 20 years ago. Maybe they will be helpful to you."

"Master has been to Ya'an more than twenty years ago?"

Bao Le flipped through the manuscript, this thing really has a sense of age.What they do is really difficult, not the restoration itself. Although this is a test of professional ability, it can only be regarded as a job that anyone can do as long as they are patient and lonely.

What is difficult is the restoration of the restoration itself to the history and the reshaping of the objects.This requires a lot of historical data research, some can be queried from books, some can be queried from inscriptions, and some can be queried from various places, stories, legends or formulas handed down by word of mouth.

Not only that, if there is no accurate data, but only a rough shape can be calculated from various data, and the work of repairing the missing part requires the restorer to have his own imagination.This kind of imagination is different from creativity. It is a kind of thinking and imagination in the same direction from the perspective of predecessors. This is the most difficult core of this job.

Just like the repair of a private blood jade bracelet, the actual repair work can be completed in less than two hours, but Bao Le's hard work behind it far exceeds this period of time.That's why she can be appreciated by Mrs. Shen, so she thinks that she is worthy of this income. As the saying goes: expensive, there is a reason for it.

For this operation, he had to visit Ya'an in person. Although Shen Wangyan didn't say it clearly, Bao Le personally guessed irresponsibly that the objects to be repaired should be relatively large ones.

Some objects, smaller in size, needless to say, are best restored in the studio.Most of the murals and wall carvings can also be taken out of tombs or ancient palace ruins for restoration by manual extraction. Only a small part of them cannot be transported, and restorers need to work on site for cleaning, reinforcement, protection and restoration..And only after this step of restoration is completed, can it be rubbed, passed on, and placed in the museum for future generations to appreciate.

Bao Le studied restoration, but before that he had no contact with the actual restoration of tomb cultural relics.Again, she has theoretical knowledge, but no practical experience.

Old man Qi has been in the antique business all these years, taking her to appraise treasures everywhere, and occasionally accepting a few orders to restore antiques, and he can also give her very professional advice. He must have done this kind of work before.

But even if Bao Le thought that old man Qi must have been invited before her, he never thought that he had been there more than 20 years ago.

How much did the old man hide from her?

Old man Qi waved his hand, not wanting to say another word on this matter.

"The soup is ready, let's go after eating." He said.

What he said, it seemed that after eating this meal, they would never see each other again, which was unlucky no matter what, Bao Le ate and ate and sneezed big.

...

Leaving from Old Man Qi, Bao Le and Jiang Ning were planning to part ways. There were less than three days before the departure date. Bao Le wanted to sort out the information that Old Man Qi gave her, and also to see if there was anything to add.Naturally, Jiang Ning also wanted to buy some outfits.

"By the way, how do you go back?" When they came, they were in Bao Le's car.

It would definitely not be appropriate for Jiang Ning, who is so eye-catchingly dressed, to take the bus to squeeze the subway. What Bao Le wanted was to call her a taxi, but Jiang Ning didn't think so at all.

"Don't worry, I still have something to do, and someone will come to pick me up when I'm done."

Seeing her holding the jade bib box that came from old man Qi, Bao Le smiled, never expecting that so many people snatched something, and it finally came into her hands.

"Unfortunately, you won't be able to get the golden powder brew today."

Jiang Ning stroked the box gently, as if she was touching her lover's face.It turned out that she would show such an expression, and Bao Le felt that he had seen a strange thing.

"That's right." Bao Le remembered something, opened the back door of the car and rummaged in the car for a long time, finally found what she was looking for, she called Jiang Ning to turn around.

Jiang Ning was suspicious: "What are you doing?"

"Turn around." The little girl frowned, with a smile on her lips.

Jiang Ning did so, and as soon as she turned around, she felt Bao Le's fingers inserted into her hair.She froze for a moment, and saw from the rearview mirror of the car that the little girl in a floral dress was tiptoeing and braiding her hair.She was holding a wooden hairpin in her mouth, without any carvings, the most unpretentious kind.

After Bao Le finished braiding, he skillfully rolled the braid into a flower shape, and then fixed it with a wooden hairpin.

"Okay, it's so hot, it's too inconvenient to let your hair loose. Fortunately, there is a spare hairpin from before in the car."

Bao Le got into the car after combing her hair. He was bowing his head and fastening his seat belt when he heard Jiang Ning knocking on her car window outside.The little girl opened the window and asked puzzledly, "What's the matter?"

"In the evening, I asked Shen Wangyan to send you the content of this operation, do you have an address?"

Bao Le took out a note from the car, wrote a string of letters, opened the car window and handed it out: "This is my WeChat."

After Bao Le drove the car away, Jiang Ning looked at the note in her hand, looked at it for a long time, and said "I'm getting old".

...

The first thing Bao Le did when he got home was to take a delicious bath, the second thing was to make himself a bucket of braised beef noodles, and the last thing was to hold the noodles with tears streaming down his face, nestling in his own little world,Holding a laptop, chasing the latest episode of "Ultimate Notes".

Looking at Zhengxiang, a message popped up on Tencent News in the lower right corner that a huge group of tombs was discovered in Ya'an.

The ancients paid great attention to geomantic omen in the construction of tombs. Sometimes there was more than one tomb in a geomantic treasure site. Not only people from the same dynasty built the tombs together, but even princes and nobles from different dynasties sometimes made do with each other, forming a group of tombs.For example, the Qixingdui tomb group covers an area of about 2 square kilometers. There are more than 40 large and small tombs, and there are many types of dynasties.

Judging from old man Qi's manuscripts, what they excavated more than 20 years ago is just the tip of the iceberg of today's tombs, but it is also understandable that the exploration technology at that time was not as advanced as it is now, and many of them were buried deeper.Or tombs that are disturbed by the environment are not easy to be excavated.

The manuscript records that there were seven or eight ancient tombs unearthed that year, and the focus is on two of them, both of which are Han tombs, and the distance between them is about one kilometer in a straight line.One is in the underground of Guyu Township, 30 to 40 kilometers south of Ya'an, and the other is in the mountains and forests in the southwest.The two tombs are of a certain scale, and one of them has the same three tombs except for the two ears to confuse the tomb robbers. Compared with the preservation, it is relatively complete, and the burial objects are large and exquisite. Most of the cultural relics excavated at that time are nowIt is exhibited in the Chengdu Museum.

Ya'an is located in a basin, surrounded by mountains and forests, with a subtropical monsoon climate, and it is rainy and relatively humid all year round. This is the main difficulty for the archaeological team to explore.At present, the tombs have been discovered one after another, ranging from the Warring States period to the Song Dynasty, and they are of different sizes. The most are earth pit tombs, with only one coffin and burial utensils.

The news could not give more information, but Bao Le guessed that what she was going to this time should be an ancient tomb of the Han Dynasty, otherwise her master would not have given her such detailed information about the tomb of the Han Dynasty.

Just as he was thinking, the phone vibrated, and Bao Le took the phone out of his bag. It was an unknown number.

"It's me, Shen Wangyan."

Bao Le looked at his mobile phone, he dialed a number and it was good: "I remember I didn't tell you the number, and didn't I write you the WeChat ID? The phone bill is so expensive, we can't use WeChat voice!"

Shen Wangyan said lightly, "I don't use WeChat."

Well, this family is really strange, just dump her bank card, this one doesn't have WeChat yet.

"Do you have an email address? I'll send you the information."

All right, she doesn't have WeChat, so Bao Le can only dig out her Netease mailbox that she hasn't used for hundreds of years.Shen Wangyan's work efficiency is very high. Hundreds of megabytes of data were uploaded at once. There are many types of documents, tables and pictures, sorted in chronological order.

"You open the 1920 copy."

There were only three pictures in the folder in 1920. Bao Le double-clicked to open it and found that the first one was a hand-drawn map, or the distribution map is more accurate.The background drawn in the entire drawing should belong to the Sichuan Basin, with the interior in the hinterland and the surrounding mountains stretching.There are seven distribution points in the picture, which can be connected into two triangles and a single point, half of which is distributed in the south of the map, half of which is distributed in the west, and that single point is the southwest junction.If there is no difference in the background and landform of the painting, it is in the middle of the mountains and forests.

The second picture is not a photo either, but a charcoal sketch.An octagonal building is drawn, with a cauldron-shaped monster sunken in the center, surrounded by water seepage, and a strange-shaped fish in the water is specially marked in the picture.There is a mural on each octagonal wall. The person who painted the mural did not clearly draw the content of the mural, but drew a few people who are repairing the mural.Calculated from the proportions of the people in the paintings, each mural, that is, each wall of an octagonal building, has a width of about ten meters and a height of about eight meters.There are stone pillars between the walls to bear the weight. The painter numbered each load-bearing pillar, and don't know what it means.

The third picture is the photo, which shows a canal surrounding the open space in the center.There are boats all over the canal, and the open space in the center is also octagonal, and there is a bronze statue at each corner, carved in the shape of a human, holding an oar in a rowing posture.

She didn't see any tricks in the first picture, but the second and third pictures were weird.

The octagonal building in the second picture is surrounded by walls, but has no doors.

And in the third picture, the boat in the canal is not like a normal boat. This boat...has a cover and is tightly sealed.

Shen Wangyan said: "Your job this time is to complete the restoration of these eight murals, and I will pay you 500,000 yuan for one piece."

Good guy, I call it a good guy, one and a half million yuan, these eight yuan are not four million!The little girl had never seen so much money in her life, and she couldn't help but gasped.

But it's not right to think about it.

"Someone has repaired these murals before, so many people haven't finished it?" The mural is so big that she alone will have to restore it until the year of the monkey, and I don't know the exact extent of the damage. "There is a photo version of this pictureIs it?"

Shen Wangyan said: "This is the leftover information from 1920. In fact, our people have been looking for it since the last century, but so far we have not found the tomb in the sketch. This is our job and has nothing to do with you. As for the manpower, youDon’t worry, we have a contract with the archaeological team, if you are short of people, you can go to them to transfer, as well as the equipment you need.”

In other words, as long as you come, we will arrange everything else for you.Bao Le was a little flattered. The archaeologists accompanying the archaeological team should not only be professors, but also experts in the industry. It is always embarrassing and unreasonable to hear her dispatched by an inexperienced and fledgling girl.no.

"Look at the rest for yourself. If there is anything you don't understand, we can communicate at any time," Shen Wangyan said, "I have someone book a ticket for you, and the plane will fly to Chengdu at 9:00 am the day after tomorrow."

"I have another question."

Shen Wangyan was slightly taken aback.

Bao Le opened his mouth slowly: "During the Qin and Han Dynasties, Bashu culture was integrated into the middle land, which not only affected the humanities and customs of Shu, but also affected the form of tombs. Although boat coffin burials were popular in Bashu, they gradually melted into history at the same time.Changhe. Although there is not much information in the photo, judging from the boat coffin in the canal, it should be earlier than the Qin and Han Dynasties, and it is likely to be a Warring States tomb. However, the open space in the center is like a Han-style altar, so I guess, this should beIt’s not a tomb from the same era, right? On the basis of the Warring States tombs, later generations built a Han-style altar?”

Shen Wangyan opened his eyes slightly, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but raise a smile.