I am not repairing cultural relics in the Forbidden City

The next day when Tao Xiu parked his electric car at the gate of the mansion, he ran into Xu Congcong from the calligraphy and painting group next door. Xu Congcong was young, but he was a professional in calligraphy and painting restoration. Long, but the technology is the best.

"Tao Xiu!" Xu Congcong stretched out his hand out of the window to greet him when he saw that the car hadn't stopped, and then rushed out of the car to look for him. Tao Xiu greeted him with a smile, and Xu Congcong circled around him After walking around, he said, "Look at you, you are not very old next year, but you look like a veteran cadre!" He leaned over and smelled it, and said disgustedly, "It's a rotten smell!"

Tao Xiu stopped the car, glared at him, and was about to walk away when he suddenly remembered what Chen Yuda told him yesterday, so he turned around and told Xu Congcong about it. After hearing this, Xu Congcong said with a mournful face: "I just finished a painting. I thought I could rest for a few days! Who knows I'm going to work again! It will be at the end of the year, my God, how much do I have to find?" Tao Xiu smiled: "No It’s too troublesome, and there’s plenty of time…” Before he finished speaking, Xu Congcong covered his ears and shouted, “I won’t listen, I won’t listen! Who is like you who works every day! I still want to fall in love!!”

Tao Xiu laughed aloud, ignored him, entered the door and turned right to his work area.

Last summer, it rained for two or three weeks in a row in the city. The cultural relics bureau was leaking like a water curtain hole. People in the government were afraid that the calligraphy and painting cultural relics would be watered down, so they approved a building in the city during the Republic of China. The house was used as their temporary base, and all the cultural relics such as calligraphy, paintings, clocks and watches were moved there. After the rainy season passed, they found that it was quite good there, the air was fresh, the environment was beautiful, and it was very quiet. It is a good place to repair cultural relics, so I simply moved there.

The house is not big, but it is not small either. There are only three scattered areas inside, one is the watch area where Tao Xiu is located, the other is the calligraphy and painting area where Xu Congcong is, and the other is the pottery area, but those areas are all Some veteran craftsmen didn't come out very often, and they weren't very familiar with them. Tao Xiu hadn't met a few times.

After lunch, Tao Xiu went to the ceramics area to tell the story, and when he came back, he thought about going to the warehouse to pick it up first, so he changed his mind and went to the warehouse.

The warehouses in the clock and watch area are relatively remote, and Tao Xiu seldom comes here. Usually, he finds someone to pick out and move out together, but because this time he has to pick out in advance, so he wants to go in advance to have a look and pick out. It's also more convenient to find someone to come and move out together.

But when Tao Xiu got there, he suddenly shuddered involuntarily, feeling an indescribable dark aura along his ankles and sticking to his back. After dispelling this feeling, he calmed down a little.

Because it has not been cleaned for a long time, the door of the warehouse has accumulated a layer of dust. Tao Xiu walked over and opened the door with a key. When he opened the door, it was dark inside, probably because of the lighting. Although it was noon, the warehouse There was almost no sunlight in the room, and it was dark everywhere. Tao Xiu looked inside, and suddenly the feeling of darkness came again. His desk clock, hidden in the darkness, cannot be seen clearly.

Tao Xiu coughed again, reached out and touched the wall for a long time before he found the switch of the light, and turned on the light with a "snap"!The bright lights instantly illuminated the warehouse, and Tao Xiu couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. The slightly larger clocks in the warehouse were covered with transparent covers, and the smaller clocks were placed in the glass cabinet next to it. Tao Xiu Standing in front of the glass cabinet and looking at the watch inside, I suddenly felt something was wrong.

He suddenly turned his head to look at the corner of the warehouse that he had just looked at, and then he was in a cold sweat. There was no clock there, it was empty and there was nothing there!

The white lights shrouded the warehouse, and there was silence in the warehouse. Tao Xiu walked around a little nervously, but there was nothing suspicious. Tao Xiu began to think whether it was his own psychological effect, or it might be a shadow. After all, there were some They are all relatively large clocks, and it is normal to have shadows cast there. He shook his head and began to reflect on whether he was too tired recently.

After choosing for a long time, Tao Xiu picked out a few more representative clocks, took out his mobile phone and wrote them down in the memo. In a few days, someone will come and carry them to the studio together, and then they can start repairing.When he was about to leave, he suddenly heard a very soft ticking sound. He stopped and listened for a while, and he heard the sound of the pointer moving. The sound was very small, ticking, and it seemed very pitiful in such a quiet environment.

Tao Xiu followed the sound for a while, and finally pulled out a small pocket watch from a certain clock cabinet.Someone stuffed it in the crevice of the cabinet under the clock, and Tao Xiu dragged it out for a long time. He probably fell in accidentally when he was moving.Tao Xiu looked subconsciously.

The small pocket watch is only about 5 centimeters in diameter, not very big, and the whole body is pitch black, only a small piece of gold is exposed inside. I don’t know if it’s pure gold, but when I opened it, the parts inside were almost corroded, only a few important parts remained, and only the small pointer was still working firmly. Tao Xiu dialed it with his hands. Dial, suddenly felt quite fun.

Originally, such a small pocket watch should be placed in a glass cabinet, waiting for the next repair, but after Tao Xiu looked at it for a long time, he wrapped the small pocket watch in a handkerchief and put it in his pocket.

As soon as the light in the storeroom was turned off, it fell into darkness again. Tao Xiu felt his whole body was icy cold. He locked the door a few steps and walked outside to bask in the sun. This made him feel better. I don’t know where he came from. The wind blew the Spring Festival couplets pasted on the door of the warehouse last year and now they were about to fall off. On the ground at the door, two pairs of footprints of different sizes could be vaguely stacked together. Another gust of wind blew, and the dust and footprints were blown away gone.