In the afternoon, Dong Qing looked at the store downstairs, Ye Xiaochi went upstairs and maintained the remaining few washed bamboo carved pen holders one by one according to Dong Qing's requirements, and after they were done, he took a soft cloth to wipe the beads and ornaments in the cabinet and various bamboo and wood antiques.

Zuo Yucheng went back to the store before she got off work, and Dong Qing saw him and asked, "How is it?"

Zuo Yucheng carried the bag into the inner room, pressed the electric fan button to blow the wind for a while, then took out the half-eaten bread from the bag and put it on the coffee table, sat down and said to Dong Qing: "He temporarily received instructions from his superiors to participate in the maintenance of the bronze armillary sphere and the simple instrument of the observatory, just the two of the Southern Observatory. As you know, those two celestial measuring instruments have been kept outdoors for more than 500 years now, and they will inevitably need to be repaired. He shouldn't be able to spare time lately. ”

Of course, Dong Qing knew about this, a hundred years ago, when the war was raging, those two instruments were robbed by foreign countries, and they were returned after a few years. After all, it has been hundreds of years since the manufacture of those two things, and they are exposed to the wind and rain outside every day, especially in recent years, when there are more and more people, and air pollution has gradually appeared, which also has an impact on those bronze instruments placed outdoors, which will aggravate the degree of corrosion.

"Tomorrow, Professor Xu will lead the team to set off, and I don't know when I will come back, so he asked me to wash out the photo of the Boshan furnace first and send it to him. He will take a look first, and if it is bad, he will wait for him to come back and fix it. Otherwise, he asked his apprentice to come and deal with it. ”

"Which apprentice?" Professor Xu has cooperated with them many times, his apprentice Dong Qing knows a few, but there are several who have not yet left the school, as an assistant, he can repair their Boshan furnace alone, ordinary people Dong Qing is not at ease, it is better not to repair it if it is broken.

"The one surnamed Liu, you've seen it. This time he didn't go with him and stayed in Luochuan. ”

Zuo Yucheng said, leaning back on the sofa and picking up the half of the bread and continuing to nibble.

"Oh, it's him, that's fine. ”

The surname Liu is Professor Xu's most proud disciple, and Professor Xu will usually take him with him if he has any big tasks. I don't know why he let him stay in Luochuan this time, or is he going to stay himself?

At this time, Zuo Yucheng finished eating the half of the bread, drank a few sips of water, and then leaned back on the sofa to rest for a while, only to remember that there was a new employee in the store today. The first day she came, he almost forgot about it.

"She's up there?" Zuo Yucheng pointed upstairs. The soundproofing of all his rooms here is very good, and if Ye Xiaochi is not loud upstairs, they can't hear movement downstairs.

"Well, I just came down once. Chengzi, the person you are looking for this time is not bad, he learns things very quickly, and he is willing to learn, and he is not hypocritical. ”

Dong Qing's attitude in the morning was obvious, and now that he could say such a thing, it was obvious that he was more satisfied with Ye Xiaochi.

Zuo Yucheng originally thought that the person he picked should be good, but now it seems that he can do it, but whether it will work or not will have to be seen again.

After all, many of the items in his store are very valuable, so it will take time for him to fully trust and let her be in charge of looking after the store, whether it is in terms of technology, ability, or character.

When Zuo Yucheng went up, he found that Ye Xiaochi was looking at an agarwood mountain ornament. Ye Xiaochi heard the footsteps, turned his head, and said to him, "You're back." ”

"Well, you're very interested in this mountain?" Zuo Yucheng walked over and picked up the ornament carved into a mountain shape and looked at it. I could tell she had just wiped it.

"Yes, it's a bit strange, there are several ornaments similar to this here, all carved into the shape of a mountain, generally not as intricate as other jade carvings and ivory carvings. ”

Ye Xiaochi didn't tell him that he had the strong feeling when he encountered these mountain-shaped ornaments, this kind of thing was buried in his heart, but still buried......

"You mean these few, these are all agarwood carving, the texture of agarwood is soft, the softness and hardness inside are uneven, the strength of the knife is difficult to control, it is very difficult to carve it, it can be said that it is the most complex ornament of the process. You look at this piece, not to mention the preciousness of the material, this kind of detail here and the deep scene of these places, with this carving, the value is not low. This one will be put away for the first time, and it will not be sold for the time being. ”

Ye Xiaochi understood that he was going to keep it first, and only consider changing hands when the price was right.

At this time, Ye Xiaochi's eyes looked at the four-like ornament in the corner of the cabinet, and asked Zuo Yucheng: "What is this carving?" The material is not different from those few, but it is not mountain-shaped. She couldn't tell.

Zuo Yucheng laughed at himself and took the more than ten centimeter-high agarwood block in his hand: "Isn't this not decent?"

"A little, the overall shape is not smooth, the transition is unnatural, and I can't see what is carved?" Ye Xiaochi also knew the preciousness of agarwood at this time, but she could see that this piece was not carved very well by a layman, why did she carve precious agarwood like this?

"Well, this is the ...... of my youthful and energetic moments a few years ago."

Ye Xiaochi: "......" he carved it?

"At that time, I didn't listen to persuasion, and I didn't say that I practiced my hands first, I thought it was just a piece of cork, what was so difficult, but you also saw the result. Can you see what I'm going to engrave?"

Ye Xiaochi really didn't see it, and she didn't know how to answer for a while, because she didn't see it very clearly.

She looked around in circles for a while, and finally said very honestly: "I don't see it, it seems to be carved into a pot......"

Zuo Yucheng listened to her words, and almost spit out a mouthful of old blood, what he wanted to engrave was a tripod, the kind of tripod that sacrificed to the sky in ancient times!

And the side should be engraved with dragon and cicada patterns......

To her became a pot......

The Ding of the Heavens, the pot for cooking rice, this contrast still frustrates him. It seems that he still needs practice.

After Ye Xiaochi finished speaking, he also felt that he, a man who worked in an antique shop, wanted to carve not a pot, but she had this impression at first sight. It seems too late to retract this sentence now.

In fact, she also complains a little about herself, now she is a wage earner, who comes out to work for others, how can she speak so freely?

Probably because this person has always been very easy-going with her, which made her let her guard down.

So she tried to remedy it and said, "It must be an antique that looks more like a pot, right? Maybe I've seen too little of it, so I didn't guess." ”

Zuo Yu sincerely thought that he still wouldn't tell you, if he did, what would you think when you saw the real bronze dragon cicada pattern ding?

So he silently put the agarwood block back to its original place, and said to Ye Xiaochi: "This thing is here." It's half-past four, and you can go home. If you go back to Liudaogou in the next few days, you can go back. After officially going to work, you have to take a day off every week, and you must say hello in advance if you really have something. Absenteeism without reason will deduct money. "Zuo Yucheng is talking about ugly things in front of him.

"Got it, thank you, I'll go back at the end of the month over there in Liudaogou. I'll go first. ”