Time flies, time flies like an arrow.

It has been half a month since the arrival of the Wu Shunqing team and the departure of Dong Wenhui's team, and since the arrival of the Wu Shunqing team, they only rested for half a day, and then devoted all their energy to the restoration of this batch of water-saturated bamboo slips in the Spring and Autumn Period.

Wu Shunqing, as the world's top expert in the restoration and restoration of saturated bamboo slips, has the same quality and character as Zheng Daoquan and Zhou Huahai, in his work, has always been serious and rigorous, focused and careful, his team under his leadership, the work progress has always been continuous.

As we approach May, daytime temperatures in Los Angeles are still around 20 degrees.

This temperature is neither hot nor cold, just right, and it makes people feel very comfortable.

After more than ten long days of waiting, Tang Yuan personally watched the water-saturated bamboo slips that were dried and shrunk into dry sticks, in the hands of Wu Shunqing and other experts, turned decay into magic, gradually extended, bloomed, and became larger, and finally became the appearance of bamboo slips in Tang Yuan's impression.

The restoration and restoration of saturated bamboo slips, decolorization and dehydration are two indispensable links, and now the dehydration link has been completed, and the next is the crucial decolorization link, which will directly determine the restoration of the saturated bamboo slips, whether the text can be displayed.

At this moment, Tang Yuan was standing in front of the test bench that had been temporarily set up in the living room, he looked at the soaked bamboo slips in the ten containers in front of him, and a little expectation and apprehension flashed in his eyes.

There are only two days left before the end time of the beginning of the five-star mission, if the water-saturated bamboo slips restored this time still can't meet the requirements of the system task, then Tang Yuan can only choose to give up the task, so these water-saturated bamboo slips in front of him are Tang Yuan's desperate bets, and there is no way back.

"Tang Dong, then we start now?"

Wu Shunqing is almost seventy years old this year, although his hair is gray and his skin is loose, he does not look old at all, he is energetic, and he is old and strong.

"Director Wu, let's start."

Facing Wu Shunqing's inquiry, Tang Yuan took a deep breath and bowed slightly.

When Wu Shunqing heard this, he didn't say anything more, and commanded the researchers in the team to start the last step of the restoration and restoration of the saturated bamboo slips, that is, the decolorization link.

Soon, the five researchers approached the bench and began to get busy as planned.

Time passed by minute by second, and the whole living room was silent.

Tang Yuan and Wu Shunqing stood in front of the experimental table, silently watching the operations of the five researchers, compared to Wu Shunqing, an expert, Tang Yuan was confused, but in order to avoid the distraction of these researchers, he didn't ask much.

Anyway, Tang Yuan only cared about the result, what the specific process was, he really didn't care.

About half an hour later, the researcher on the left was the first to raise her head, with a slightly surprised expression on her face, and said to Tang Yuan and the others: "Director Wu, Tang Dong, my water-saturated bamboo slip has shown color, and I can probably see the words on it!" ”

As the female researcher's words fell, the other four researchers did not react, and still concentrated on handling the water-saturated bamboo slips in their hands, but the other researchers and experts who were watching couldn't help but be curious, because of Wu Shunqing's authority, none of them dared to come forward to take a look, at most they were talking twice.

"Tang Dong, let's take a look?"

After more than half a month of hard work, he finally got results, Wu Shunqing's mood was naturally quite good, he turned his head to look at Tang Yuan, and asked with a smile.

"Let's go!"

Tang Yuan couldn't hold back his excitement for a long time, so after Wu Shunqing spoke, he took the lead and walked towards the female researcher.

At this time, the successfully restored water-saturated bamboo slip had been taken out of the decolorization solution by the female researcher, although it still looked wet on the surface, it did not affect Tang Yuan and the others to see the handwriting on it clearly.

"This doesn't seem to be the text of the Spring and Autumn Seven Kingdoms, this seems to be ......"

"Jin Wen?"

After Tang Yuan looked at it for a moment, his brows furrowed slightly, and there was a little suspicion in his words.

"That's right, this is Jin Wen." Wu Shunqing glanced at Tang Yuan and said with a smile: "Before the Spring and Autumn Period, it was the Zhou Dynasty, and the mainstream text of the Zhou Dynasty was Jinwen, but I didn't expect Tang Dong to be young and still have research on ancient texts?" ”

"A little bit of understanding, a little understanding."

Tang Yuan modestly replied that in fact, he was able to know so many ancient texts, all thanks to the grandmaster-level calligraphy skills he had acquired.

"Tang Dong, don't be modest."

"If you don't really know the ancient text, how can you take a look and know that the words written on the water-saturated bamboo slip in front of you are gold."

Wu Shunqing said with a smile.

Tang Yuan smiled, this time he didn't continue to be modest, but refocused his attention on the water-saturated bamboo slip in front of him, wanting to see what was written on it.

About ten seconds later, Tang Yuan stumbled out the words that appeared on the water-saturated bamboo slip according to the memory of Jin Wen in his mind: "Fu Wei...... Not...... ...... For...... Yes...... Virtuous ...... Expensive...... Bear? ”

"Director Wu, am I right?"

After Tang Yuan finished reading, he looked up at Wu Shunqing and asked with some uncertainty.

"That's pretty much."

Wu Shunqing nodded and responded softly.

After Tang Yuan was affirmed, he felt a little confident in his heart, and then quickly connected the words on this water-saturated bamboo slip: "The husband is the only one who has no way to live, is he virtuous and noble?" Is there such a sentence in the existing historical documents? ”

"Kind of familiar......

Wu Shunqing frowned, revealing a little thoughtfulness.

"Director Wu, Tang Dong, my water-saturated bamboo slip has also successfully appeared!"

Just as Tang Yuan and Wu Shunqing were thinking, another researcher suddenly passed on the good news.

When the two heard this, they immediately hurried over.

It is still golden, and the handwriting on this water-saturated bamboo slip is almost exactly the same as the handwriting on the water-saturated bamboo slip just now.

Seeing this, Wu Shunqing couldn't help but speculate: "Looking at the appearance, the historical documents in this bronze tripod should be left by the same person." ”

Tang Yuan bowed slightly, agreeing with Wu Shunqing's inference, at this moment his attention was all on the text of this water-saturated bamboo slip, about two minutes later, he slowly spoke: "The world is weaker than water, and the strong can win, with no easy way?" ”

With Tang Yuan's words, Wu Shunqing, who was already frowning slightly, frowned deeply again.

Suddenly, Wu Shunqing's body shook slightly, and then the old face, which was mostly unfazed by Gu Bo, showed a look of extreme shock and even disbelief for the first time, his lips trembled slightly, and his voice seemed to murmur: "Could it be that the bamboo slip hidden in this bronze tripod is the Tao Te Ching?!" ”

As soon as these words came out, the audience was silent.

(End of chapter)