if relics could talk

Tourists can only see black rhinos in specific activity areas at a distance.

"It's strange, it's not black at all, why is it called a black rhinoceros." Tao Le muttered in a low voice.

Qin Yi, who was filming, answered her: "The white rhino corresponds to the black rhino. In fact, there is no significant difference in their body color. There is actually an oolong in the name. It is quite a story. If you are interested, You can look it up."

In fact, Tao Le just said it casually. She didn't expect Qin Yi to actually do research. She said with emotion from the bottom of her heart: "Why do you know everything?"

"I just did a little research before going out, but it's not considered 'knowing'." Qin Yi finished taking a photo and looked down at the results. "In terms of traditional culture, I know even less."

Tao Le remembered how he was rejected by Zhang Puhe, and didn't know how to comfort him.

But Qin Yi didn't know that Tao Le already knew what he was hiding, so he lowered his head to fiddle with the camera after he finished speaking, and quickly enlarged the photo he just took, and handed it to Tao Le for her to see: "It's taken."

Tao Le leaned over to look at it, and immediately became happy: "It's really true!"

The navel of the rhinoceros is very prominent, probably because it always lies on the ground, so it forms layers of swirls.

Tao Le was satisfied, and asked Qin Yi: "Can you send me this photo?"

"of course."

It seems that he didn't want to delete every photo he took if he wasn't so satisfied.

"I still need to ask you for authorization," Tao Le said with a smile, "I think I will enlarge this picture and display it in the corresponding part of the video, so that my audience can see it more intuitively."

"no problem."

Qin Yi readily agreed, then lowered his head to look at the photos he had taken, but raised his head and asked her without any other reaction, "Are you still shopping?"

"I won't go shopping anymore," Tao Le said, "I just happen to have a rhinoceros lacquer round lid box as the theme cultural relic in this issue. When I go to the museum in the afternoon, I can just take a good look at it."

For today's visit, Qin Yi has already done his homework on the Internet in advance, and he probably knows which cultural relics are being exhibited, but more specific information is not clear.

Because the appointment was for tickets in the afternoon, Tao Le still had some time to do other things.

"I have to go to another place," Tao Le asked him, "Are you interested in going together?"

Everyone from Qin Yi has already arrived, so of course they will go with her.

"it is good."

When Qin Yi parked the car in the parking lot of an antique street according to the navigation, Qin Yi asked: "What is this here for?"

"You don't even know what I'm doing, so follow me, aren't you afraid that I'll trick you into selling you?"

"Then you must sell it for a good price."

This guy looks cool, and he's pretty good at answering questions.

Tao Le stopped joking with him, and answered him seriously: "To make a theme video, there are too many things to prepare. When I re-read the script in the morning, I felt that the content was still a bit empty, and I wanted to add something. So I came here to visit someone."

The theme of Tao Le’s video this time is a rhinoceros lacquer box with a round lid. She wants to add content to the video. The best way is to make this artifact and actually bring it into the video so that everyone can enjoy it more. It's interesting to see it intuitively.

But it is definitely impossible to get real cultural relics into her video, so what Tao Le has to do is to reproduce such a cultural relic.

Tao Le doesn't have such skills herself, so she has to ask for foreign help.

The third shop at the entrance of Antique Street is a shop that sells wooden accessories. The shop is not big, but it is very interesting starting from the plaque, which says "fake hands for people".

There are still people who use these four characters as the name of the shop.

Tao Le took a GoPro and used a selfie angle to shoot himself and the store plaque together: "Hi everyone, this is Xiaoba's channel. Today I will take you to visit a woodwork master, Mr. Jiang Zhaohe, who is engaged in woodwork. It has been almost 50 years since the restoration of cultural relics, and after retiring, I opened a small wood shop, let's go in and have a look!"

Qin Yi followed Tao Le, watching her recording a video while walking inside, while he used the second camera to take a few photos with his camera.

Tao Le didn't notice this, she had already briskly ran in.

Qin Yi was a little strange at first, and didn't know what the name of the store called "Fake Hands for People", but he followed Tao Le in and took a look. On the showcase facing the store entrance, there were two pairs of fake hands on the C position——

Four hands carved out of wood are tightly held together.

This picture seems familiar.

An old gentleman was sitting under a lamp and was carving wood. He wore a lovely apron, but even so, he was covered with sawdust.

This should be Mr. Jiang Zhaohe in Tao Le's initial introduction at the door.

"Grandpa!" Tao Le jumped over to act like a baby with a smile on his face, "I miss you so much!"

The old man Jiang Zhaohe, who was called "Grandpa" by Tao Le, nodded slightly, his eyes were raised to avoid the coverage of the presbyopic glasses, and he looked at the figure who was still staring at the C wooden sculpture on the showcase.

"You know it?"

"I have seen its original exhibit," Qin Yi looked away from the wood carving, and greeted the old man very formally and politely, "Hello, Mr. Jiang."

But the old man didn't stick to these etiquette, and asked: "Where have you seen it?"

"In an art gallery, the piece of art I saw at the time was called "Untitled," Qin Yi replied, "It's the same as your wood carving, and the four hands are tightly held together."

"Do you know whose hand it was?"

"The smaller one represents the hand of Bourgeois, the larger one is the hand of her assistant, and there is a small house on the arm of the exhibit. The small house represents the stability brought to Bourgeois by their cooperation. sense of security and safety.”

The old man seemed a little surprised, he nodded, and said to Tao Le who was beside him, "Help Grandpa take off his glasses."

Tao Le turned off his GoPro first, and then reached out to help him take off his reading glasses, and also helped him untie his apron, holding it in his hand, and naturally helped the old man remove the sawdust from his body. Dust all clean.

"Do you often go to art exhibitions?" the old man asked.

"No, I don't see many art exhibitions, but I usually go to photography exhibitions."

Only then did Tao Le remember to introduce: "Grandpa, this is my friend Qin Yi, he is a photographer."

At this moment, the old man moved his eyes to the camera hanging around his neck.

"Hi Mr. Jiang, I'm Qin Yi."

Jiang Zhaohe's hands were full of sawdust, he still hesitated, but Qin Yi reached out his hands and held his hand.

"Okay," Jiang Zhaohe felt that this young man was good from the moment he entered the door, sensitive, stable, and self-restraint, "This wood carving of mine is indeed the re-engraved "Untitled", but I didn't engrave the little house on the arm. why?"

"Don't dare to speculate." Qin Yi bent slightly before continuing, "But I watched it closely just now, and I feel that it is still somewhat different from "Untitled."

Tao Le turned to look at Jiang Zhaohe, and found that his expression was a little different.

"What's the difference?"

"The four hands of Bourgeois are the concrete embodiment of her and her assistant's hands, but your four hands are not from two people, but four people."

The four hands are different in size, texture, and shape.

They are four hands clasped together.

Perhaps it represents more than four people.

"You observe very carefully," Jiang Zhaohe laughed, "In our line of work, one's own ability is very important, but the ability of teamwork is more important. Restoring a cultural relic is far beyond the power of one or two people. "

This time the old man took the initiative to extend his hand that was still covered with sawdust: "Nice to meet you, young man."

Qin Yi still held his hand with both hands: "My honor."

The old and the young, they hit it off quite well.

Jiang Zhaohe's shop is not big, and it's not for shopping, it's more like a studio.

He was here alone, slowly polishing every day, and made a lot of wooden products, some were painted, some were not painted, and they were all placed in the showcase one by one.

"I heard from your father that you plan to do the restoration of cultural relics?"

I don't know if Lao Tao made a mistake in communicating, or Jiang Zhaohe misunderstood, Tao Le shook his head and explained: "No, Grandpa, I plan to make a series of videos to introduce cultural relics, like you and my dad, we will work together for the rest of our lives. The restoration of cultural relics, but now many young people don’t understand it at all, so I want to make a video to popularize the stories behind the cultural relics.”

"Your father can't even understand what he said," Jiang Zhaohe hummed, "Is there anything grandpa can do to help?"

Tao Le smiled "hehe" and said, "I want to learn from Grandpa to make a rhinoceros lacquer box by myself."

In the restoration of cultural relics, the entry point is to start with the re-engraving of cultural relics. If you can't make fake cultural relics that can be confused with real ones, you can't easily start to restore real cultural relics.

"Rhinoceros paint," Jiang Zhaohe said, "Why don't you go to Xiao Zhang?"

Zhang Puhe, who is now the chief of the lacquerware group of the cultural relics restoration room, is still the same "Little Zhang" in the old man's mouth.

"I'll go find Uncle Zhang when I'm painting," Tao Le winked at the old man, "Then you promised to teach me? I want to record a video!"

"Learning carpentry is not something that can be learned in a day or two. Can you endure the hardship?"

"Of course!" Tao Le straightened his back and said confidently.

Jiang Zhaohe is such a precious granddaughter, and his focus is: "Then you will have to report to Grandpa every day from now on."

Hey hey, with my granddaughter working with me, my waist is no longer sore, my legs are no longer hurting, and I don’t feel tired making another screen in one go, let alone a box with a round lid!
The old man had a wicked smile on his face, he was just an old naughty boy.

As soon as he turned his head and saw Qin Yi, he asked casually, "Are you here to record the video?"

Qin Yi and Tao Le were stunned at the same time. Tao Le was about to explain when he heard Qin Yi say, "Of course it's my honor for the old man to let me shoot."

This is the second time he has said such a thing within 10 minutes.

The old man patted him on the shoulder roughly: "Why is the young man talking so old-fashioned? Talk to your own people and be more casual."

...Why are you on your own.

Speaking of which, the old man took out his mobile phone: "This is the smart phone you bought for me last time. I saw the photo they sent in the group. This young man took it for you, right?"

Tao Le blushed all of a sudden: "That time we met by chance..."

"Yeah, later your dad said in the group that the Internet is all nonsense," the old man said with an expression of "I understand", "Don't grandpa know? Your dad doesn't even know how to play with that camera, and he can take pictures of your mom." It’s so good-looking—it’s ill-intentioned to see it!”

"Grandpa!" Tao Le was so anxious that he almost stomped his feet.

Why are you still comparing her with Qin Yi, and Lao Tao and his wife?
Can this be the same?

But Qin Yi didn't explain anything from the beginning to the end.

In the eyes of Jiang Zhaohe, this move can be regarded as a statement.

As soon as the young man came in, Jiang Zhaohe could tell that the aura between him and Tao Le was unusual.

Jiang Zhaohe smiled: "Okay, come again next time, Grandpa will show you a hand."

After he finished speaking, he also said a "whisper" to Tao Le in a volume that everyone could hear: "Your father's vision is not good, grandpa looks at this young man, it's not bad!"

It's over, I can't explain clearly.

Tao Le persistently and bluntly turned the topic back to cultural relics, and Jiang Zhaohe said: "Go to the museum and take a good look at the box. If you can draw it with your eyes closed, you can come to me and start."

If you really want to reproduce a cultural relic, the most important thing is to be familiar with it enough. It is meaningful to do it until you know it well.

Tao Le ran away this time, under the loving gaze of the old man, she was almost on the verge of spontaneous combustion.

But Qin Yi didn't have any special reaction.

After coming out, Tao Le's face almost turned red: "My grandpa is like this. He has nothing else to do after retirement. Apart from making wooden utensils, he just thinks about pulling the red thread. Don't mind..."

Qin Yi smiled: "It's okay, your family relationship is really good."

"What's the relationship?" Tao Le puffed up her cheeks, "My father is Grandpa's apprentice. At that time, Grandpa thought he was concentrating on his work every day. As a result, my father secretly fell in love with my mother without telling him. I'm still angry with him..."

Of course, Weng and his son-in-law are not really at odds, it can be regarded as a special way of emotional communication between their master and apprentice.

So the more old Tao disliked Qin Yi, the more the old man liked Qin Yi, and he wanted to let him taste the taste of his own jade cabbage being beaten by a "pig".

Qin Yi just smiled this time, and didn't speak any more.

Tao Le felt that her face was so hot that she could make pancakes, and it would only be more embarrassing if this topic continued, so she took out the GoPro to record again: "We are going to the museum next, and the protagonist of our story—— The rhinoceros lacquer round lid box, let's have a 'close contact', if you are interested, you can also go to the local museum to see if there are any rhinoceros lacquer cultural relics on display."