Chapter 40: The Death of the Metropolitan Museum

Zheng Xudong slept very comfortably this night, he completed his coming-of-age ceremony in a dream, and even he couldn't tell whether it was illusory or real. He only felt indescribably relaxed, he had never felt this way, and he had never felt so relaxed.

When I woke up, I found that I was still lying on the massage table, with a white towel covering my abdomen, and the yellow gauze girl in the house was gone, leaving only a wisp of the fragrance of the girl's body in the house.

He got dressed and went outside to give the girl with the yellow gauze some tips, and the girl's massage technique was really amazing! He found the waiter who had brought him here, told him his thoughts, and asked him to help find the girl, but the waiter told him that the girl's name was Lily* JESSICA, A MASTER'S STUDENT AT THE WEILL SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT CORNELL UNIVERSITY IN NEW YORK, WAS INTRODUCED BY THE HOTEL BOARD OF DIRECTORS, AND TODAY SHE CAME TO US DURING SCHOOL BREAKS TO EXPERIENCE LIFE, JUST ONE DAY, YOU ARE HER FIRST GUEST, AND HER LAST GUEST.

Hearing the waiter say this made Zheng Xudong a little in a trance, he always felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't say it. The shy face of the yellow gauze girl and the thin and fair body always lingered in his mind. Let it be, there are some things that can't be forced, if they are fated, they will meet again in the future.

"I just absorbed a faint amount of energy!" said Zhihe Xiaoqiang.

"What, what kind of energy is it, how did you get it?" Xiao Qiang was directly confused, could he still get energy from sleeping!

"I can't say what kind of energy it is, but I'll tell you when there is this energy in the future, and you'll know. Zhihe Xiaoqiang said slyly.

After eating and drinking, I washed away the dust all the way, and I left the hotel to find a place to stroll, but I couldn't stay in the hotel when I arrived in New York. At this time, the phone rang, "Ivanka, dear, I'm near Central Park in New York right now, and I'm about to walk around the neighborhood, are you still busy!"

Ivanka's tired voice came from the other side of the phone, "Honey, I just finished a meeting here, and managing a large multinational group company has a lot of daily affairs, and my father is just proposing an idea for a project, while our senior management has to improve it. Just now, my father said that the company was entering Abu Dhabi, and it was going to develop large-scale entertainment facilities there and seize a piece of the market... If you don't have any plans, I'll recommend you a place, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and you won't regret it. ”

"My dear, you have to take care of your body, don't get tired, the most important thing is not to get tired, it's worth the loss to get your plump body from D to B, you can find a professional manager to help you take care of your father's business, and free yourself from busy work!" Zheng Xudong said distressedly.

"My dear, my body will not get tired and thin, and I will keep in good shape for you. My father is now ready to train me to become a professional manager, and when I can do this job well, my father is ready to hand over the group to me to take care of, and he will retire and enjoy his old age. Okay, the secretary has urged me, and I have to participate in another meeting, my dear, I may have to be busy for a while recently, I promise you that I will accompany you when I have time, come, kiss!"

The two hung up the phone after showing affection. Zheng Xudong decided to follow Ivanka's advice and go to the Metropolitan Museum. Ask about the location, the museum is only about a 20-minute walk from the hotel, so I didn't take a taxi, and walked out of the hotel along the world's most famous gold cave, a paradise for women, and a hell for men - Fifth Avenue in New York to the museum.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is the largest art museum in the United States and is a world-renowned museum. Located at 82 Fifth Avenue in New York, USA, it is opposite the famous American Museum of Natural History and the Hayden Planetarium in New York. Covering an area of 130,000 square meters, it is one of the four major museums in the world, along with the British Museum in London, the Louvre Museum in Paris, and the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia, with a total collection of 3 million exhibits. It is one of the largest museums in the world. But it only exhibits a very small part of them, some cultural relics whose origin is not clear cannot be exhibited, you know, museums are not a good thing, cultural relics obtained by legal and illegal means around the world account for six or seven percent of the cultural relics in their collections.

Admission to the Metropolitan Museum of Art is $25 for adults. The exterior of the museum is made of cyan marble and looks a bit like Buckingham Palace in the United Kingdom. The exhibition hall of the Grand Museum has three floors, a sprawling building on 80th to 84th Streets on Fifth Avenue in New York, and contains five major exhibition halls, including European paintings, American paintings, primitive art, medieval paintings, and Egyptian antiques. There are a total of 248 showrooms in the museum, and tens of thousands of exhibits are displayed throughout the year.

Zheng Xudong is not very interested in the cultural relics of other countries, looking at the free booklet of the museum introduction distributed at the door, he found the Far Eastern Cultural Relics Exhibition Hall located on the east side of the third floor, and walked slowly to the museum, the door is a spacious and bright hall, close to the four walls is a row of bulletproof glass cabinets with a height of about four meters, and there are more than a dozen rows of display cabinets like bookshelves in the center of the hall, which are also bulletproof glass, which are displayed in the Far Eastern cultural relics, the Far Eastern cultural relics are the most important Chinese cultural relics, its number accounts for ninety percent of all cultural relics, and the other are dotted with some small Japanese benzene, cultural relics of the Korean Peninsula, and their cultural relics are usually related to our country.

Zheng Xudong saw that the main cultural relics in the display cabinet were divided into three types, bronzes, Dunhuang cultural relics and porcelain. The bronzes are marked with cultural relics from about 3,000 years ago in the Shang and Zhou dynasties of China, mainly living utensils and ritual utensils, there are more living utensils, there are pots, basins, drinking wine, etc., its shape is similar to that used in our lives today, it seems that our ancestors and nobles have used bronze items three thousand years ago, they have been buried in the ground for too long, has shown blue-green, but Zheng Xudong knows that the real bronze is gold-like color when it is first made, and it is more shiny than the pure gold of our gold shop, but they have been underground for a long time, and time has covered them with a green veil, but still so beautiful. Bronze ritual vessels are mainly used for sacrifices, various shapes of tripods, animals, livestock, etc., he saw a pair of sheep back to back sharing a body, camel a big tripod shape of the bronze, very beautiful, even the sheep's eyes are painted pupils, you can see the meticulousness of the craftsmen back then.

Dunhuang cultural relics in the number is the most in this Far East Museum, there are various shapes of Buddha statues and colorful murals, Buddha statues have posture and sitting, there are lying, there are lying down, there are kneeling on one knee, there are naked body, there are wearing robes, there are ribbons flying in the sky, the shape is plump, the demeanor is realistic. This is enough to see that the level of painting and sculpture in the Tang Dynasty at that time was second to none in the world.

Most of the rest are all kinds of porcelain, there are Yuan blue and white, Ming Hongwu big bowl, Yongzheng plum vase... Hundreds of pieces.

Zheng Xudong browsed here for more than two hours, their common feature is that they are not donated by the Chinese state through normal channels, as for why they appear here, everyone knows it, many years ago, many domestic or foreign businessmen sat in the fields, and as soon as you unearthed here, they immediately spent tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of dollars to take them away. These collections are all facing east, as if one day someone or some force could bring them back to the land where they were born and "made".

"Xiaoqiang, can I take them into the space and take them away?" asked Zheng Xudong.

"Yes. Then they are taken and taken to the lab for sectioning. Zhihe Xiaoqiang replied ruthlessly.

"Say no, you can't do it!"

"Look around you, there are more surveillance cameras than tourists, how do you want to take them out, even if you want to deal with them after they are taken out? Do you dare to take them out when you go back to China? Think about it!"

Zheng Xudong thought carefully about what Xiaoqiang said, yes, how to take it out is a problem, and how to deal with it after taking it out is a problem, these cultural relics can't see the light, they are legal in the United States (if they are not legal, they will not be exhibited, and they will not be taken out until the day of legality).

I'm really depressed! I don't look at it, things from other countries have nothing to do with me, and when I have the ability to do some of their things back to China for exhibition, do you want to see them, come to my house to see it? Before leaving, I took a look at the Astor Garden, which was built in the spring of 1981 in the Chinese and American joint construction on the model of the Spring Bun and its backyard in Suzhou, China, and it is in the east wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which displays Chinese Ming Dynasty furniture.

As for the Dande Temple donated by the Egyptian government to the United States, it is said that it is the only ancient Egyptian temple in the world outside of Egypt. There is also the Watson Library, which claims to be one of the most complete libraries in the world for art and archaeology, etc., which have nothing to do with him.