Shadow Weaver

Chapter 87 Prologue: The Origin of Han Brocade (I)

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[Prologue: Origin of Han Brocade]

You are a cultural relic restorer working in a provincial museum.

Unlike other colleagues in the museum, you, who were born into a "family of cultural relics restoration", have been learning how to restore cultural relics from your grandfather since the age of six. Therefore, you, who just graduated this year, already have more than ten years of experience in cultural relics restoration, becoming the youngest "cultural relics restoration expert" in the museum.

The career of a cultural relic restorer is usually stressful, boring and tedious. Accustomed to the daily life between "home and museum", you may occasionally envy your former classmates.

But this feeling of envy usually only lasts until the moment you step into the cultural relics restoration studio again - having been with the cultural relics for many years, you have already developed a special feeling for them. In your eyes, the cultural relics are all alive and are your silent companions.

You enjoy the time spent with the cultural relics, and you also enjoy the process of each damaged and incomplete cultural relic coming back to life in your hands.

If you could, you would devote the rest of your life to your favorite career...

Of course, if you are lucky enough to come into contact with those legendary cultural relics that can be called "national treasures", you will die without regrets.

[You: (Looking up at the sign on the door of the restoration room) Although, it is not easy to see national treasures... There are only a few items in the entire provincial museum that can be called "national treasures."]
[You: (holding the doorknob tightly, pushing the door open) Instead of wasting time on random thoughts, you might as well think about how to repair that faded silk flower roll from yesterday...]
"Squeak-"

The metal hinges that were dull due to lack of oil were pushed open, making a series of ear-numbing grinding sounds. You frowned as you looked at the little thing with screws, and thought to yourself that you must remember to bring a bottle of lubricant to work tomorrow.

Otherwise, the noise made by the opening and closing of this thing will easily interrupt your thoughts... You who are engaged in cultural relics restoration need to be calm the most.

[You: (Thinking to yourself) However, the atmosphere in the restoration room seems particularly strange today.]
——It’s a bit strangely quiet.

You silently looked around the strangely empty changing area and lounge today - it used to be the busiest place here, with eight out of ten office workers always coming here to chat and slack off whenever they had a chance. Therefore, you could often catch two colleagues slacking off here on weekdays, but today, there was no one else in the lounge except you.

[You: (putting on your work white coat) Are you all so hardworking today? ]
You changed your clothes and decided to go to the repair area and the chemical analysis and testing area to see what was holding back those gods who usually loved to take a break from their busy schedule.

Unexpectedly, before you could even reach the repair area, you ran into a senior colleague who usually took good care of you in the corridor.

The moment the old man with gray hair saw you again, his eyes burst into an amazing light that you couldn't understand. You watched him walk up to you with extraordinary agility, grab your wrist, and pull you towards the restoration area. [Old Man A: (delighted and excited) Come on, come on, come on, there are so many people in our museum, and you are the only one missing - Lao Wang - come on, our little expert is here!]
The old man's voice was rapid and high-pitched, with a slight tremor in his voice.

There were a few moments when you even began to doubt whether the old man's cold legs had suddenly healed without any medical treatment. Otherwise, why would you, a young man who had just graduated, feel that you could not keep up with the walking of this old man who was about to retire?
[Old Man A: Hey, ____, let me tell you, our Provincial Museum received a great treasure today, and now everyone is gathering in the restoration area...even the curator has come over!]
The old man kept babbling incoherently, and you pricked up your ears to carefully extract the key information from his words. Finally, you pieced together the information you wanted before rushing to the repair area.

——The museum recently received a piece of Han Dynasty brocade that was unearthed not long ago. Judging from the characters and patterns woven on it, this is most likely the remaining fragment of the Han brocade armguard with the inscription "Five Stars Rising in the East, Bringing Good Luck to China".

[Old Man A: Of course, I don’t think this is necessarily the remaining piece of brocade—maybe it fell from the lining of some larger armor or something like that… But judging by the pattern, this is indeed from the same batch of brocade as the Han brocade armguard stored in the Xin Province Museum. The words “Five stars rise in the east, benefit China, punish the southern Qiang, and subdue the four barbarians” are very clear.]
[Uncle A: (sighs with emotion) It’s a pity that the words “Shan Yu Jiang, Yu Tian Wu Ji” that should have been woven on the back are missing and can’t be seen clearly.]
[Old Man A: (squinting his eyes and smiling) However, the preservation of this broken piece of brocade is quite good, it is not seriously oxidized, and the color is still bright... They are currently selecting people to do rescue restoration! When you are here, they will officially nominate candidates - Little expert, this is a national treasure-level cultural relic, are you interested in trying it? ]
The old man's eyes are burning, and he looks as if if you dare to agree, he will immediately nominate you to lead the repair work.

Facing the expectant expression of your colleague, your answer is——

[Ah... Let's just forget about it. After all, this is a national treasure. I'm young and inexperienced, so it's safer to leave it to the older teachers in the group. (Choose this option to go straight to ending 1)]

[Of course I am also interested in national treasures! In our line of work, who doesn't dream of restoring a national treasure with their own hands one day? It's just that I'm younger, so I'm afraid such an important task won't fall on a newcomer like me, right? (Select this option to continue the story and jump to Chapter 88)]

〈Ending 1: It’s over before anything has happened.〉

〈Because you flinched at the critical moment, you completely missed the opportunity to get close to the Han Brocade. Your colleague who received the task locked himself in the restoration area for three days and three nights, but there was still no progress in the restoration of the Han Brocade.

Later, this piece of Han brocade could not withstand natural oxidation and broke into pieces in the restoration area. You felt regretful for this for the rest of your life and never came into contact with any national treasure-level cultural relics again. From then on, your life was dull and you worked diligently in the museum until you were 65 years old.

〈Ending: Nothing Happens〉

〈Achievement: Bah! Coward〉

〈Title Obtained: Courageous as a Needlepoint〉

[The ending where even the main plot was not developed, please ask the restorer to start over. 】

Is it true that someone would die in the prologue?

Is it really true? !
Novel cannot play BGM, it is recommended to add some BGM and sound effects yourself, it's so funny