Lin Hainan and Feng Jianfei walked out of the Forbidden City's human resources office together.

The two were silent, not knowing how to speak, could it be that the friendship of many years faded like this?

"You ......"

"I ......"

The two spoke at the same time, but they stopped at the same time, perhaps, this is not embarrassment, but also a kind of fate.

Lin Hainan motioned to Feng Jianfei to say first, but Feng Jianfei didn't twist, and simply asked directly: "Where have you been in the past few years?" I never thought that we would also break off contact. ”

"It's not like we've broken the contact, it's just that there's too little contact. Facing Feng Jianfei's widening eyes, Lin Hainan arched his hand as if begging for mercy, "I moved to W City back then, and I have been staying there ever since." I don't know how I lost touch like that, but I was very busy, but I wasn't very busy. ”

Feng Jianfei pursed his lips disapprenosingly, "Then how can you be willing to come back?"

"My mom left last month, and before leaving, she hoped that I could do the same work as my dad and do the restoration of cultural relics, so I went back to Beijing. ”

"Huh? I'm sorry. ”

"It's fine. Lin Hainan smiled and asked, "You work in the Forbidden City?"

Although Lin Hainan looked thin and tired, looking at his familiar smile, Feng Jianfei knew. This is still the Lin Hainan he knew many years ago, and he also understands that he can come out of the shadow of losing his mother by himself. Feng Jianfei didn't say any more comforting words, "Well, I've been in the Forbidden City for more than three years. It's in the conservation team. When are you coming to work?"

"Tomorrow. ”

"Good. Would you like to have a meal today to pick you up?"

"Another day, don't you still have a job?"

There is still some restraint between the two, Feng Jianfei is not forced, he does have a job to do: "Okay, go back and be lively with the people in the group, you can't stand them." ”

Lin Hainan was only polite to Feng Jianfei, and the two said goodbye.

It's not that he doesn't miss his old friend for many years, it's not that he doesn't want to sit down and chat about the current situation, but Lin Hainan cares too much about the content of the second half of the note.

Fly to Beijing early in the morning, and then go directly to the Forbidden City to see Cheng Pengju, Lin Hainan was already hungry, so he ate something casually, and took a taxi to No. 23 Shitong Hutong - that is, Lin Hainan's former home.

No. 23 is not deep in Shitong Hutong, the place is not big, but the courtyard should have, there is a small jujube tree in the yard, or Wang Xiuzhu was pregnant when Lin Feng planted, until Lin Hainan left home at the age of eighteen, the original small jujube tree, is already very high. The memories are a little charming, and Lin Hainan smiled slightly in the taxi.

Finally, after nightfall, he returned to Lin's house.

Opening the familiar door, Lin Hainan felt as if a part of his perception had died before, but now he was coming back to life.

After closing the gate, walking through the courtyard, entering the main hall, and turning on the light, Lin Hainan's eyes narrowed slightly, and he felt a little wrong.

The floor was clean compared to the rest of the room. There was dust on the table, and the dust cloth on the TV was dusty, but there was very little dust on the floor, as if someone had cleaned it.

That's a bit of a weirdness.

Lin Hainan vigilantly checked the anti-theft net first, then returned to the door to check carefully, and finally walked into every room and turned on the light, except for him, there was no outsider. Lin Hainan breathed a sigh of relief, and he returned to the front hall to carefully examine the upside-down cups on the table. The tea tray contains a white kettle of cold water and four blue and white porcelain cups. Three were covered with dust, but one was clean.

Lin Hainan picked out the clean cup and put it aside. Turn on the TV, just tune up a random channel, and leave it alone.

Looking around, most of the furniture and supplies were not taken away when I moved, but the house has not been rented out in recent years, and it has been idle, but many things are unusable, and there are no electrical appliances. If you want to stay, you still need to buy something. Today was too hurried and nothing was cleaned up, Lin Hainan began to think about whether to go to the hotel to live, and besides, it seemed that someone had come to the house, and it was not very safe.

Lin Hainan hesitated and walked into his bedroom, the small bed was still there, but it was not covered. Opening the door of his closet, it was empty, Lin Hainan went to his parents' bedroom again, hoping to find a quilt. But the door of my parents' closet was locked.

It was a copper lock. It's the kind of copper lock that locks a big box that can be seen in the TV series. This lock is no stranger to Hainan at all. In the partial corner of the yard, there is the tool room, and Lin Feng sometimes tinkers with some small things in it, or does carpentry or something. There are a lot of imitation wooden boxes in the tool room, and there are such locks on them, and the boxes are just some miscellaneous items, not valuable things. It's just that when I was a child, I was afraid that Lin Hainan would encounter it, and when I grew up, I would be a savings box. The key to the lock hangs on the wall of the tool room.

If it's strange that someone has ever visited, a locked wardrobe is undoubtedly weird.

Maybe it was his mother who locked it, but Lin Hainan didn't have any impression. When he left Beijing at that time, his mother Wang Xiuzhu was immersed in grief, and Lin Hainan was responsible for the specific matters of moving, and he was sure that he did not lock the wardrobe with copper locks.

The warmth brought by the original memories dissipated, and Lin Hainan began to feel that this house was strange and terrifying.

Lin Hainan turned around and went to the tool room, took out the key, and before leaving the tool room, Lin Hainan glanced at the ground, there were only three of the four boxes left, and one was missing.

Facing the lacquered wooden wardrobe that has been around for years, Lin Hainan couldn't help but shudder when he thought of all kinds of news about hiding corpses on the Internet. Taking a deep breath and opening the lock and removing it, Lin Hainan opened the wardrobe suddenly.

--There is no imaginary plot to hide the corpse, but unexpectedly, there is a transparent toolbox inside.

Lin Hainan took out the toolbox. There wasn't much dust on the box, but it was impossible to determine how long it had been locked in the closet. When I opened the toolbox, there were several packets of broken porcelain tiles.

Lin Hainan carefully opened one of the packets, these broken porcelain, the fetal bone is thinner, the glaze is evenly glazed, the glaze is verdant and lush, and the brilliance is shining. It should be the Yue kiln celadon of "the more the kiln opens in the nine autumn wind and dew, and the green color of the thousand peaks is won". The glaze is blue and yellow, which should be the Yue kiln porcelain of the Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties. In this period, the kiln was mainly decorated with plain noodles in the early stage, and the later piles were especially carved flowers, and the themes were mostly figures, landscapes, flowers and birds, and animals. There are many different forms of art and rich and colorful artistic styles. However, the patterns on these broken porcelain pieces are not decorative patterns such as landscapes, flowers and birds, but characters and landscapes, but the size ratio is a little strange.

Lin Hainan opened the second paper bag again, and it was also Yue Kiln porcelain with the same texture and similar texture pattern, and the third and fourth all the way to the sixth, all the same.

But Lin Hainan is more concerned about the fact that these Yue kiln celadon are cultural relics that have been repaired once, but in the paper bag, in addition to the fragments, there are many debris, which shows that someone has wrapped them in the paper separately and broken them again, so that there is the broken porcelain in front of Lin Hainan's eyes.

Lin Hainan was in no hurry to repair these porcelains. He sat on the ground, holding his chin and thinking, if these things were for ordinary people to see, it might just be a pity, or even throw them away, but if it was a cultural relics restorer, it was very likely to restore it. And if it is repaired and broken, and placed in the Lin family's wardrobe, then Lin Hainan will 100% repair these Yue kiln celadons.

So, is this for him, and who put it here?

At first, Lin Hainan also speculated about her mother Wang Xiuzhu, but soon, Lin Hainan denied her speculation - this is not her mother's style.

After thinking about it, Lin Hainan had no clue, Lin Hainan decisively gave up figuring out, but rewrapped the porcelain, put it in the toolbox, and went to the tool room.

There are a lot of tools for the restoration of cultural relics in the tool room, and some of them are even very new. Lin Hainan's heart jumped suddenly, and he even boldly thought that it would be his father Lin Feng who came back. Then he dispelled his thoughts again, smiled wryly and shook his head. At present, the only thing that is certain is that the person who entered the Lin family may not have malicious intent.

Carefully check the original repair traces on these broken porcelain tiles, smooth and subtle, smooth and skillful, I have to say that this is a veteran of the restoration of cultural relics, so natural and frank, must be engaged in the restoration of cultural relics for many years.

Then, the purpose of breaking these things a second time should be to hope that the restorer will pay attention to those strange patterns.

Immediately decided, Lin Hainan no longer hesitated, and devoted himself to the restoration work. The first step is to clean, use clean water to clean the soil attached to the surface of the cultural relics, if the soil adhesion is strong, you need to place the cultural relics in clean water to soak for a period of time. If the artifact has been glued together before, it needs to be glued with a blade or a chemical agent called B72.

The second step is bonding, which is a vital part of the restoration of cultural relics, the fragments are tightly spliced together, using the first large pieces and then small pieces, first local and then the whole way of splicing, the original appearance of the cultural relics is presented, the cultural relics are fixed with tape, and then the glue is poured into the gaps.

The third step is to fill in the gaps. The cultural relics are well bonded, and there are still defects in some places, which need to be filled with gypsum proofing, and then mixed with 3A glue to add porcelain powder or talcum powder, and fill the gaps in different ways according to different materials. And these cultural relics in Lin Hainan's hands have already undergone a restoration, so they are particularly handy when they are restored again.

The last step is to color, which requires the restorer to paint the color by hand, and because of the aesthetics, this process is very elaborate on the art skills of the restorer.

It stands to reason that no step is missing from cleaning, bonding, supplementing and coloring, but these porcelains in Lin Hainan's hands only need to be well bonded. All six pieces of porcelain had been restored, and it was already half past three in the evening.

That's really Yue kiln celadon, and there's nothing wrong with that. This is a set of six series of jars, the fetal quality is delicate and dense, the fetal bone is fine and light, the enamel is moist and uniform like jade, the glaze color is yellow or green with yellow, the carcass is gray tire, delicate and firm; the glaze is green glaze, crystal moist, such as jade and ice. On the whole, this set of jars is very neat and meticulous. The edge of the mouth is made into a flower mouth, a lotus leaf mouth, a sunflower mouth, and the bottom is widened, making a jade bi, jade ring or multi-curved structure, which is very beautiful.

After seven hours of continuous work, Lin Hainan was too tired to lift his arms, but this set of jars finally showed his true face in front of him.

Very rarely, the pattern on the jar is a narrative record, and after careful identification, Lin Hainan quickly arranged the six jars in order.

This is a very complete narrative of an event.

From the first jar, it is a group of people who set off from a bustling place with a large number of items. It may be a caravan, but it is more likely to be a ceremonial team on a mission to another country. At the front of the line, there was a tall and mighty leader.

The team set out with abundant supplies, and after a long journey, entered a vast desert. It was so close to their destination, they were all very happy, singing and dancing, and the leaders were drinking and celebrating. But then, the team was confronted with a terrible desert disaster.

The team was badly wounded, and the man who led the team even broke away from the team during the fight and lost his way in the desert.

The man walked for a long time in the desert, and when he knew that he was about to die, an oasis appeared in front of him. The oasis is large and beautiful, and in the middle of the oasis there is an incomparably magnificent and magnificent complex of buildings, inhabited by kind and friendly people. The man was helped, and later reunited with his own team, and he gave many gifts to the local residents. As a token of gratitude, the leader of the oasis, a man in a robe and a feather mask, led the man into the depths of the complex, and in the hinterland of the oasis the man found a wonderful, heavenly place. In the end, the party returned with the only people and things left, while the leader of the group, the man, remained in this oasis deep in the desert.

Lin Hainan frowned, studied these jars repeatedly, and the story was very clear, but Lin Hainan had no impression that such a thing had been recorded in history.

Moreover, this story is really similar to the experience of Lin Hainan's father Lin Feng's team.

Thinking of this, Lin Hainan took out his father's notes from his schoolbag. At dinner in the afternoon, Lin Hainan had already roughly read the second half of this note, but compared with the content of the first half of the book, the content of the second half of the book was very regular, recording the people and things encountered by the expedition team in a table format, time, place, and events were all available, but they were all summarized in a brief sentence, until the last work record, but only a scribbled sentence, which read: "On May 3, 2001, the expedition was forced to be suspended. All returned. ”

Lin Hainan frowned and thought, this story has a faint sense of familiarity, and after thinking about it again, isn't this very similar to what his father Lin Feng's expedition team experienced?