I am not repairing cultural relics in the Forbidden City

As Zhong Ling could not be found for the time being, Tao Xiu and his master had no choice but to go to the Appraisal Bureau first. There were not many people in the office just now, and it seemed very deserted. Chen Yuda took them straight to the appraisal room and told the staff After a while, just leave them there and go to work first.

"Can't you wait here for a while!" Zhong Qi cursed unhappily at Chen Yuda's back.

"Uncle Chen has to work." Tao Xiu comforted.

"Cut!" Zhong Qi snorted, and pointed to the door where Chen Yuda disappeared, "He is always the most important person."

Tao Xiu didn't expect such a serious comment from Zhong Qi suddenly, and didn't know how to answer it for a while, so he took out the box containing the broken pocket watch and dragged Zhong Qi inside.

The staff who debugged the machine were very serious. After asking a few words, they took the box, opened it, and said "ah" in surprise. "What's wrong?" Tao Xiu asked quickly.The staff also felt a little rude: "It's nothing, I just haven't seen such broken cultural relics..."

Chen Yuda just told the staff that they belonged to the Bureau of Cultural Relics, and the staff naturally regarded the things they brought as cultural relics, and Tao Xiu didn't explain. After all, the other party would pay more attention to this. Sure enough, the staff saw The pocket watch was so broken and became more careful, while telling them: "You guys take a good look at it, this is just like this... It's too broken..." While carefully putting those parts on the flannel.

"Are you restoring cultural relics?" The staff seemed to have a lot of questions.

Even though Tao Xiu was very nervous, he was not at the point of being speechless, so he hurriedly hummed a few times to answer.

"I didn't say that." The staff member carefully used tweezers to separate these things and put them in the instrument, "Can such broken things be repaired?"

"Yes." Tao Xiu replied after a moment of silence.

"Tsk tsk." The staff looked carefully through the microscope, "It looks like a good thing."

Tao Xiu didn't reply.

The appraiser looked at it for a while and said strangely: "Has this been appraised before?"

"Ah..." Tao Xiu glanced at Zhong Qi, Zhong Qi smiled and said, "It seems to be brought over once."

"Then do you still need to turn on the machine?" The staff wondered, "We have copies of all the identifications here, let me show you?"

Tao Xiu thought for a while and said, "Why don't you bother to open it, can you find the copy too?"

"Okay." The staff shrugged, "Trouble is not trouble."

After speaking, the staff moved those parts to another instrument, closed the door of the instrument, and pressed the switch. "It's going to be identified here first, and it will probably take a while. Come with me first, and I'll find the copy for you."

Tao Xiu and Zhong Qi had no choice but to follow.

Most of the work of the Appraisal Bureau is carried out together with the Bureau of Cultural Relics, so the things brought over for appraisal are basically classified and recorded, so it is not difficult to find them. Found the copy, pulled it out and gave it to them.

Zhong Qi got the copy and looked at it, the expression on his face changed, Tao Xiu leaned over to look, but after looking for a long time, he didn't see any tricks, Zhong Qi pointed to one of the lines and said: "Did you see, Tang and Song Dynasty .”

"Hmm... what's going on at this time?" Tao Xiu was also confused.

Zhong Qi wanted to hit him angrily: "How did I tell you before, the earliest pocket watch in China was passed from abroad during the Ming and Qing Dynasties!"

"Ah!" Tao Xiu also noticed, this pocket watch is from the Tang and Song Dynasties, so who made it?Why didn't it develop in the middle hundreds of years until the introduction of foreign pocket watches during the Ming and Qing Dynasties?

Zhong Qi frowned, as if thinking about something.

"If the dynasty is determined, then the materials of the components should be determined?" Tao Xiu murmured.

Zhong Qi shook his head, handed over the copy, and said helplessly: "Look here, the pocket watch was still intact when it was delivered last time, have you seen this? There is no special material at all. The Tang Dynasty is vast and abundant. It will be harder."

The basic material for making clocks and watches is metal. The earliest pocket watches appeared in Germany in the [-]th century. Since they were used as a symbol of wealth at the beginning, they were all made of precious metals. Later, the inlay technology was used to add pearls, agate, etc., and Are these things lacking for the prosperous Tang Dynasty?What's more, these materials have been tried.

Is it going to be deadlocked again?

Tao Xiu couldn't help worrying, could it be that he really couldn't save Qintang?

Suddenly, the staff member came in from the door with a printed document and said, "This one has also been appraised. I took a look. This is a pocket watch, right?"

"Yes." Zhong Qi agreed.

The staff member shrugged, and instead of handing over the report, he frowned and said, "Then the parts you brought should be mixed with other things. You'd better check them before bringing them over."

"What?" Tao Xiu raised his head abruptly.

The staff was taken aback, but still said responsibly: "The test result said it contained porcelain. Isn't that unreliable? How could there be porcelain in the pocket watch?"

Tao Xiu and Zhong Qi looked at each other, Tao Xiu stood up, took over the report from the worker Yan, and looked at it carefully, it really said it contained 3.2% porcelain.

"Can you take us there?" Tao Xiu asked.

"Hurry up and take them back to have a look." The staff led them to the identification room, took the things out of the instrument, and said helplessly, "It's probably because there are too many broken pieces, and something got in." He took I picked it inside with tweezers, but after searching for a long time, I couldn't find anything, so I had to say: "Take it back first."

"That document?" Tao Xiu asked.

"Take the information with you." The staff raised the copy that was handed to them just now, "This identification is also inaccurate, so I won't keep a copy."

"Okay!" Tao Xiu thanked and left with Master.

"I'll say it, I'll say it!" Zhong Qi was muttering all the way, "Although it sounds unbelievable to use porcelain to make parts, but it was not impossible when porcelain was developed at that time!"

"But even if you know it's porcelain, how can you make the corresponding parts, those parts are very small, cut them?" Tao Xiu asked doubtfully.

Zhong Qi shook his head: "The best way is to make them the same."

"Make porcelain yourself?" Tao Xiu asked in shock.

Zhong Qi nodded: "This is the most reliable method. We don't have any more time. The best way is for the two of us to work together to draw the parts we need, and then ask the master to help make it." He hesitated after finishing speaking After a while, "But where is the teacher from?"

Tao Xiu was stunned for a moment, then suddenly laughed: "Maybe we can find it!"