"Young Kirin Town Tomb Beast."

Dharma Mountain on the sea, a private museum on the second floor, Anna added.

Qin Beiyang's eyes froze for half a minute, and he was firmly pulled by these four inconsistencies and tied a dead knot, if he didn't swing his sword to cut it, there would be no possibility of separation. It's not a red-maned horse, it's not a dragon's nine sons, and it's not like Chu Ci's "How can the elk eat in the court?" What is Jiao's descendant? But the snow-white antlers were clearly elk, with a red flaming mane and tail like a lion, fish scales and armor like dragons, and four thick legs like tigers and leopards......

Not to mention four dislikes, eight dislikes, sixteen dislikes!

He stared into the eyes of the Tomb Beast and asked, "Where did it come from?" ”

"I heard that it was just dug up from a Tang Dynasty tomb. You seem to know it? ”

"No, the first time I saw it." Qin Beiyang's heart twitched, and the jade pendant on his chest became warmer and warmer, "Even if you know, it's a matter of the previous life!" ”

"It's only been ten days since it arrived at our house, but I love this baby, it's beautiful and it's cute, isn't it?"

"Because it's a young beast, and it's not yet an adult. You can see from the proportions of its head and body, as well as its demeanor and expression, all like kittens and dogs. ”

Anna held her chin and nodded, "Well, you have a point!" Forget to get down to business, can you fix the potholes in here? It's all bullet holes, my dad said it was machine-gunfired, and the warlords were barbaric. ”

"Well, it should be the bullet marks of the Maxim machine gun, which is not the same as the Gatling gun."

"You even know that?"

"I know a little bit about it."

Qin Beiyang smiled awkwardly, built Yuan Shikai's mausoleum, and lived in the Taihang Mountain engineer camp for a year, so he had a little dabbling in various weapons.

"Can you fix it? But without destroying the original state. My dad said that many of the Western artifacts in the Louvre and the British Museum were put on display after several rounds of restoration, and when they were first unearthed, they were too dilapidated to be seen. ”

"Can you open the cabinet and let me take a closer look first?"

Qin Beiyang didn't dare to say it directly, my family was the ancestral craftsman who built the tomb beast.

The glass case opened, and he reached out and touched the belly of the town's tomb beast. On the surface, it looks like it's all scales, but the belly is very soft, and it's impossible to determine what kind of material it is. According to the general rules of production, the inside of the bronze or stone slab shell is a hollow structure similar to ceramics, which contains spirit stones, the things needed by the tomb owner to "plant the soul", and various delicate gears, clockwork, and springs.

But this one is different, it is definitely different from the two tomb beasts that Qin Beiyang has personally made. Could it be that the technology of the tomb beasts of the Tang Dynasty was better than that of the Qing Dynasty? After more than a thousand years, it has regressed? Or has some of the ancestors' mastery been lost?

"Who?"

The middle-aged man's voice came from behind.

Anna stomped her foot: "Dad, he is the craftsman I hired, and the music box left to me by my mother has been broken for two months, and it has also made me lose sleep for sixty days, and he actually helped me fix it." ”

"You're going to let him repair my young Qilin Town Tomb Beast?" The man twisted his Napoleon III-style beard and had a straight face, "Ridiculous!" Anna, give him a hundred silver dollars and send them out. You are strictly forbidden to bring any outsiders into this room! I'm going to confiscate your keys. ”

Qin Beiyang glanced back at the tomb beast in the town, and reluctantly prepared to leave.

"Wait a minute, you're not allowed to go!" Ouyang Anna grabbed him, turned her head and said, "Dad, you let him stay and try." ”

Although the man had a serious face, he could see that he doted on this daughter very much: "I am Ouyang Sicong, the owner of Dharma Mountain on the sea, the little girl is young and ignorant, please forgive me." ”

"But what if I really know how to fix this grave beast?"

"Impossible! The skilled craftsmen in the world who can repair the tomb beast have already entered the grave! Unless it was a royal craftsman of the Qing Emperor. ”

Qin Beiyang didn't dare to tell the truth, so he could only beat around the bush: "Today, many iron factories use Western techniques, and they can repair the steel shell with sheet metal technology, but if it is used for the tomb beast in this town, I am afraid it will destroy this treasure." The best repair is to remove the shell first, and then use a slight simmer to repair at least half of it. The rest is glued with other materials and then painted to enhance the appearance. ”

"How do you know so much at such a young age?"

"Mr. Ouyang, this tomb beast is the treasure of your town hall, how can it be easily accessed? However, I think the other treasures in your house are also incomplete. I'll start with these artifacts and try a few things for you, and you'll know my craft. ”

Ouyang Sicong smiled indifferently, showing off antiques was his greatest pleasure. Fortunately, in front of him, although he was dressed shabby and carried a toolbox, he talked well and gestured, unlike the pawns of the peddlers.

"Okay, let's talk about this Tang Sancai!"

"You mean this Tang Sancai Bactrian camel figurines? In front of the Hu people holding the reins, the animal face pattern is decorated with a pack bag, the neck is opened, the front legs are slightly bent, the hind limbs are erect, and the sky is long and hissing. ”

Qin Beiyang gushed endlessly, and talked for half an hour Tang Sancai, including some simple repair methods. Ouyang Anna listened dryly, as if she was listening to a teacher's lecture in the school. Ouyang Sicong also nodded frequently, as if he had met a long-lost colleague.

At that time, the royal craftsmen withered, and Qin Customs was summoned by the Empress Dowager Cixi to the Summer Palace to restore Lafayette's favorite treasure. He followed many old craftsmen and worked in the Summer Palace for ten years, learned almost all the handicrafts, and passed them on to his son as they were.

Qin Beiyang is a wood-carved Buddha statue, facing the small town tomb beast, the Buddha statue has three broken fingers, a piece of lip is missing, there is a crack on the face, and the color is mostly peeled off, but it is still solemn and awe-inspiring.

"This is a Buddha treasure." Ouyang Sicong said, "The Empress Dowager Xiao Yanyan of the Liao Kingdom is enshrined, and the Buddha statue imitates her true appearance. Originally hidden in an ancient temple in Shuozhou, Shanxi, Gengzi was robbered away and exiled to the people. I got it for eight hundred dollars. ”

"Mr. Ouyang, I can guarantee that within three days, this wood-carved Buddha statue will be restored."

Seeing the sincerity on Qin Beiyang's face, Anna tugged at the corner of her father's clothes and said, "Dad, let him try." ”

After thinking about it again, Ouyang Sicong agreed, and set up a studio next door for Qin Beiyang to repair.

As soon as there is such an opportunity, let Qin Beiyang forget to sleep and eat. He instructed his employees to buy raw materials, such as fish bladders, which could be mixed into natural glue for bonding. Another example is the natural pigment of ore, which is used to color wood carvings. There are also many old woods. For two nights in a row, he did not return home and worked day and night to restore the Buddha statue. The maid brought him three meals a day, and set aside a room for him in the attic.

Anna stood by and watched as he carved out three severed fingers and glued them together. She had countless question marks, and Qin Beiyang was silent.

"Hey! Ignore me? You're quite arrogant! ”

"I'm not arrogant, I'm just a little craftsman." He concocted paints and paints, "Miss Anna, please let me continue my work." ”

The girl left angrily, but left him a pot of eight-treasure porridge.

In the dead of night, Qin Beiyang repaired the woodcarved Buddha statue alone. He always felt some strange sound in the next room, like the town tomb beast in a glass case, staring at his back through the wall.

When coloring the fingernails of the Buddha statue, this finger, which was the same size as a real person, suddenly moved one by one, glowing with a golden shimmer, and Qin Beiyang sat down on the ground in panic.

The lamp went out, and a glowing lotus bloomed on the fingers of the woodcarved Buddha statue of the Liao Dynasty.

Qin Beiyang knelt down and folded his hands, and when he turned on the light again, the lotus flower on his fingertips quickly withered and turned into ashes.

I guessed uneasily, I hope that his restoration was approved by the Buddha statue, or by Xiao Yanyan, the Khitan queen? He continued to color the fingers, bringing them back to life and radiance.

On the third day, Qin Beiyang was completed.

Ouyang Sicong looked at this Liao Dynasty woodcarved Buddha statue in surprise, it was like having plastic surgery, but the color was the same as before, maintaining the simplicity of thousands of years, and it did not damage the original pattern.

Qin Beiyang was hired by the Ouyang family, with a monthly salary of thirty yuan, living in the attic with food and food, and specializing in repairing all kinds of damaged antiquities.

He went home first. When he arrived at the street crossing building of Tiantong Road, Qi Yuanshan said with red eyes: "My God! You'll know you're back! I didn't close my eyes for three days and three nights, looking for you all over Shanghai, and I thought you had been kidnapped! If you don't come back, I'll report to the museum and post a missing person notice. I don't go to the patrol room, where there are so many missing cases that no one cares about. ”

"Well, you say this, like a daughter-in-law asking a man where he has gone into the wilderness."

Qin Beiyang hesitated for a long time, but still confided the truth - he was going to move to "Dharma Mountain on the Sea".

"You're leaving me?" Qi Yuanshan paced anxiously, "This is betrayal!" ”

"I'm going to work, I'm not going to prison, I still have personal freedom, as long as I don't work, I can run out at any time, we can eat together, go to the bookstore to listen to the commentary, go to the Bund and the racetrack."

"Okay, Beiyang, since you found a good errand, then I'll also find a good errand."

"You've got a job?"

Qi Yuanshan fiddled with his fists and kicks twice: "This morning, at the head of Sichuan Road and at the gate of the General Post Office, I saw a group of men in black holding axes and slashing around a car, and the driver and bodyguards were hacked to death. A middle-aged man jumped out of the car and ran away, just bumping into me. When the axe party was about to chop him to death, I grabbed a bamboo pole and knocked down one guy sideways, and stabbed another one vertically, which is my family's ancestral marksmanship. The police arrived with a whistle, and only then did they drive away the Axe Party. ”

"It's good, the road is uneven, draw a knife to help."

"You can't guess, the guy I saved my life was actually the boss of the Green Gang, and in order to thank me for saving my life, I was invited to his house to do things." Qi Yunshan added, "By the way, his name is Ouyang Sicong." ”