Chapter 3: London
Once the scar pressed on the bottom of the heart is revealed, the scar becomes longer. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info Lin Hainan has always thought that he killed his father, and there has always been a hurdle in his heart that he can't get over, no one knows how many times he will suddenly wake up in the dead of night, holding his father's portrait and crying.
"Xiaolin, don't be like this...... You have to cheer up, learn from the masters, and finish what your dad didn't finish......"
"Section chief, can you tell me about my father's work? I asked a few masters, but they didn't say anything...... If my dad was just repairing cultural relics in the Forbidden City like I am now... Why did my mother say it was dangerous?" Lin Hainan raised his head and looked at his father's old friend in front of him,
Asked with a serious face.
"Your dad...... His job is not only to repair artifacts, but also to complete the notes that you have now......"
"Notes?" Lin Hainan only knew that this note was left by his father.
"That's right, the notes in your hand were recorded by your father when he was working in the Forbidden City, and he was with other cultural relics restorers, and I can help too!"
"Why is this note dangerous?"
"Son, I can't finish talking about your father for a while, and I'll tell you when you get back from London. ”
Lin Hainan wanted to know about what happened to his father, but he was still young at the time, and his mother was silent, and now he finally met his father's old friend, he was a little anxious to know the truth of the year, he always thought that his father's death was not accidental, because he knew that his father was a very strict person, he didn't believe that his father really drove too fast and hit the wall as the police said, which is why he didn't see the body and thought his father was still alive. It's just that seeing that the section chief doesn't mean to say anything now, he has to leave with a lot of heart.
Lin Hainan is very serious about doing things, is the kind of person who will definitely go all out as long as he decides to do something, so he is absolutely enthusiastic about going to London to participate in the treasure appreciation conference, and he will consult all kinds of materials about London in his spare time in addition to following the master to check the architectural structure of each palace, and there is also a lot of information about the world's famous cultural relics.
This time, the items that the Forbidden City is going to bring to London for exhibition are not ordinary cultural relics, although they are not antiques, but they are also valuable, that is, the miniature model of the Forbidden City. This model is based on the actual area of the Forbidden City, which covers an area of 1:1000, and all the palace courtyards appear on a plate 0.96 meters long and 0.75 meters wide. There are more than 980 buildings and more than 8,700 houses. The Forbidden City is surrounded by a 10-meter-high city wall, and there is a moat more than 50 meters wide, all of which are reduced according to the scale of 1:1000. The combination of indoor and outdoor architectural space, the matching of building volumes, the use of materials, the furnishings of sketches, the production of decorations, and the selection of colors have all reached a very high level.
Lin Hainan from the beginning of the work in the Forbidden City, followed the carpentry group Master Wang is responsible for the maintenance of the main building of the Forbidden City, so he knows the entire Forbidden City well, this trip to London, is to use the Forbidden City to show the world the beauty of traditional Chinese wooden architecture, with Lin Hainan is the most suitable.
Lin Hainan, Director Hou and two assistants boarded a plane with a miniature version of the Forbidden City and flew to London, England, where they stayed in the embassy and waited for the opening of the National Treasure Exhibition the next day. Held at the Museum of London, the seven-day exhibition will bring valuable cultural relics from more than 30 countries to the museum, and many antiquities lovers will appear at the exhibition.
The sky of London is very similar to Beijing, the thick fog is heavily pressed in the sky, giving people a feeling of suffocation, as if if a little carelessness, the heavy fog will be pressed down and swallow everything, making people feel a strong sense of oppression.
"Kobayashi, I don't know why the section chief insisted on letting you come to London this time, but since you have been here for a few days, you will definitely learn a lot. "Director Hou has always been a little dissatisfied with this young man, I don't know who he relied on to work in the Forbidden City, why a group of old men take good care of him? Even the National Treasure Exhibition and Conference let him participate on behalf of the Forbidden City, which made him very incomprehensible.
"Director Hou, I will definitely do my job conscientiously. Lin Hainan felt that Director Hou seemed to be a little hostile to him, but he was a senior after all, so he had to endure it.
"Xiaolin, in fact, you still have the ability, but as for people, you can't climb too fast, otherwise you will fall very painfully. Director Hou said softly while shaking the wine in the wine glass.
"Director Hou, I don't quite understand what you mean. Lin Hainan replied unhurriedly.
"Huh! Do it yourself!" Director Hou didn't speak again, picked up the wine glass in his hand and walked out of the balcony.
Lin Hainan stood outside, and suddenly thought that Director Hou had been working in the Forbidden City for more than ten years, so his father used to be a colleague with him, maybe he would know something about his father, and he wanted to take this opportunity to ask him about it, but after thinking about it, this Director Hou has not been very kind to him, so let it go.
The next day, Lin Hainan and they came to the London Museum, the London Museum and the Palace Museum are completely different, whether it is from the decoration style or the distribution of exhibits, the Forbidden City is an oriental antique feeling, and the London Museum embodies a Western style of science and technology.
At the beginning of the exhibition, the Museum of London was the first to exhibit their exhibited item, the jadeite carved bowl. The staff placed it on a tray and walked to each country to make it available for viewing, and then walked to the center, where someone first introduced the bowl in English and then translated it in Chinese.
"Hello everyone, and welcome to this treasure appreciation conference, and now we are going to introduce the collection of jadeite carved bowls provided by the Museum of London. After research by archaeologists in our country, it was confirmed that this bowl should have come from more than 1,000 years ago, and it was directly polished with a whole piece of jadeite, and the whole bowl was carved with peony flowers, which looked lifelike, which showed the superb carving technology. But this is not the most magical part of this bowl, I will take you to witness the miracle below. ”
After the introduction, another staff member walked to the central booth with a kettle, he poured hot water into the bowl, and everyone, including Lin Hainan, looked at the booth above with wide eyes. After two minutes of hot water infusion, you can see that the color of the bowl begins to change, the original carved peony is no longer the green of jade, but has become the peony should be purple and red, but the green leaves have not changed, still maintain the green of the jadeite, commensurate with the color of the peony, it is completely the beautiful landscape painting of Luoyang peony in full bloom. The envoys from all over the world who sat down frequently praised it, only Lin Hainan stared at the bowl alone, he always felt that he had seen this bowl somewhere, he must have seen it. Otherwise, the scene of the peony changing color will continue to flash in my mind when the water is filled.