"Hello, Ouyang!"

"Hello, Professor Holf!"

"Long time no see!"

"It's not been long!"

"How's it going?"

"Still researching?

It's been three years, and that's your sincerity? ”

"If you can't wait, you can change to someone else!"

"Hehe, do you mean to let me change Nie Yuanbin?"

"Don't let you beat him!"

"Don't worry, we're the closest allies, how could I easily swap out allies!

Ouyang, I look forward to your good news! ”

Professor Horf paused and continued,

"MAY YOU BE THERE?"

Ouyang was taken aback,

"How did you know she was coming?"

"What I don't know, young man!"

"You sent her?" Ouyang asked.

"I don't, but she's going to get you what you want faster."

At the end of the call, Ouyang sat on the sofa and lit a cigarette.

Professor Horf is the top chemical expert in the United States, and has made countless scientific research achievements, and the fuel catalyst developed has greatly increased the combustion rate of aerospace fuel to 90%, greatly reduced fuel waste, and made great contributions to the aerospace cause of mankind.

At the same time, he is also a collector.

He bought an island with all kinds of showrooms on display of his collections.

He is especially fond of Oriental culture, and he believes that the beauty of Oriental culture is a symbol of primitive human nature, restrained, calm, but vivid, so that you can't help but want to look at it, ponder it, and touch it.

The professor has no wife and no children in his life, except for experiments, which is with his collection. He believes that the pleasures of the body are short-lived and superficial, and that life can only be considered perfect when the spirit is satisfied, and that the spirit is with the universe and will never be extinguished.

Three years ago, Ouyang accidentally learned that the ancestral manuscript was with Professor Holf, and he tried every possible way to get in touch with him and wanted to get the manuscript back. When he learned that Ouyang was the descendant of the painter back then, the professor was overjoyed, and God was really generous to devout believers and gave him such a big gift.

"I can give you my house, my car, and all the cash!" Ouyang said.

"Hehe, I've done it all, do you think I still need those things?" Professor Holf poured a glass of whiskey and handed it to Ouyang.

"Thanks, I don't drink!" Ouyang said,

"How can you give me the manuscript back?" Ouyang looked at Professor Holf,

"If you want to get the manuscript back, you can! Then exchange it for something more expensive! Professor Holf said.

"More expensive? Is there anything more expensive than a national treasure? ”

"What a smart boy!" Professor Holf smiled and took a sip of whiskey,

"I want you to take down the murals in the grotto and give it to me!"

"Impossible, it's a national cultural relic, I'll give it to you, I won't steal cultural relics!"

"Strictly speaking, it's the protection of cultural relics!" Holf took another sip of wine,

"Since the discovery of the Mogao Grottoes, in the past 100 years, what have the murals been ruined into, oxidized, peeled off, and even burned by human smoke, scraped with knives and axes, and how many cave murals are complete?"

"In the past, the old society was due to the inaction of the imperial court, which led to the destruction and loss of many cultural relics.

But now it's different!

Now the country's economy and science and technology are very developed, and a lot of manpower and material resources have been invested in the protection and restoration of Dunhuang murals, and the preservation conditions of the murals have been significantly improved, and we have also used digital image technology to preserve the existing mural contents, and then use image simulation means to restore the ......color of the year," Ouyang said confidently.

"The color of the year? What color did you see back then? Even if you restore it through a computer image, will you be able to restore the stunning color at that time in terms of the existing pigments?

In the past, many experts believed that the discoloration of the Dunhuang murals was due to the use of lead powder in the paint of the ancients, and the oxidation of the lead powder caused the discoloration of the murals, but new scientific analysis shows that lead powder was not used in the skin color and similar colors of the characters in the Dunhuang murals.

Later, researchers conducted X-diffraction analysis on the pigment sampling of the figure paintings in the murals, and found that the discoloration of the Dunhuang murals was related to three factors: first, the use of Zhu Dan and the blended color containing Zhu Dan, after thousands of years of oxidation reaction, completely changed the color of the initial painting; second, the plant pigment is directly faded by thousands of years of oxidation, or is covered by the color of the underlying change; Third, the soil of Dunhuang is a seabed soaked in seawater, which contains a large number of alkaline elements, which become a catalyst for the chemical reaction of pigments.

If it is sent to me, with our scientific and technological strength, we will quickly develop new pigments to restore these amazing works of art to the greatest extent. But you guys, maybe it will take 50 years or more to develop, and by then, I don't know what will be left. The professor took another sip of wine.

'Yes, how can the mural be restored without new paint?' Ouyang thought to himself,

"Can you give me a drink?" Ouyang said to Professor Holfe,

"Absolutely!

Do you want to add ice? Professor Holf asked,

"No thanks!" Ouyang took the wine and drank it all.

[Ouyang's ancestor was a painter who was taken to Guazhou by degraded officials. When painting in the grottoes, a manuscript was also preserved by the way, which is the ancestral treasure of the Ouyang family.

At the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, with the advent of the Tibetan Scripture Cave, various powers began to come to Dunhuang to seize the treasure one after another.

In order to prevent these rare treasures from falling into the hands of foreigners, Ouyang's grandfather went to report to the official.

Unbeknownst to them, the officials learned of the preciousness of these scriptures and frescoes, and they tried their best to take possession of them.

Knowing that his grandfather still had an authentic manuscript from a thousand years ago in his hand, he used various means to coax and rob it, but he still didn't get it.

In a fit of rage, he sent Ouyang's grandfather to work in the coal mine and could not come back until he died.

Grandpa worked in the coal mine for decades until the founding of New China.

By the time he returned, everything had long since disappeared, and the manuscript was gone.

"This is an ancestral treasure, and it was lost like this, so how will I face my ancestors in the future!"

In this way, my grandfather spent his whole life searching for the whereabouts of the manuscript, but it was still fruitless, and he left with regrets.

Ouyang's grandfather is a child adopted by his grandfather, watching his father run for a manuscript all his life, although he doesn't know what the manuscript looks like, but his father said that this is the most valuable thing left by his ancestors, and there will be no more in the future, lose one less one.

Ouyang's grandfather wanted to know why this manuscript was so valuable, and finally he chose the Dunhuang Academy to study and restore murals, and he worked for the rest of his life.

Ouyang's grandfather found what he loved in this job, and it turned out that the charm of Dunhuang art lies in people's hearts, in the fact that you have never been able to truly understand the meaning of color, and that you keep wanting to explore it more. It was also here that I met Nie Yuanbin's grandfather, a person who loved Dunhuang art to the core.

Ouyang's father did not inherit his grandfather's wishes, and he felt that it was too boring for generations to do what they had to do in their lives, neither eating nor drinking. His ideal in life is to be rich and rich, with endless money and endless happiness.

In those years, the coal mine business was very hot, so he ran to dig coal, and finally became the director of the coal mine, seeing that he was getting closer and closer to realizing his wish, but was killed in a gas explosion.

At that time, Ouyang's grandfather was already on the hospital bed, and after hearing the news, he had to go home and kowtow to the ancestral tablet, saying that his father was to blame for not keeping the ancestor's things, and the ancestor was to blame, and the lack fell on the child.

After this blow, his grandfather died 2 months later, and Ouyang was adopted by the coal mine owner along with his sister. When Grandpa finally returned to the light, he kept saying that the manuscript was a statue of a Bodhisattva, and asked Ouyang to find the manuscript and not let the Bodhisattva wander outside. 】

Ouyang thought for a while and said,

"The grotto is very closely watched, the original painting is not so easy to reveal, I need to think of a way to get the best of both worlds, give me a little time!"

Professor Holf smiled victoriously, he poured another glass of wine for Ouyang, raised the glass in his hand and touched it with him,

"Happy working together!"

Ouyang extinguished the cigarette butt in his hand and prepared to take a shower.

Over the years, he often dreamed that Holf had gone back on his word and did not return the manuscript to him after taking the original painting of the grotto; Nie Yuanbin learned of his deal with Holf and left angrily, never to be seen.

He was tortured like this, glamorous in the crowd during the day, busy for his faith, and at night like a ghost in the dark, looking for a way out in the abyss of the devil.

Faith can't be lived up to, last wishes can't be lived up, Nie Yuanbin can't live up, so who can live up to it?