Restoring cultural relics: Starting with the crying Tang Dynasty figurines

Shen Yue opened the long, rectangular cloth bag on his shoulder, inside which was a Tang sword. Xiao Meng also pulled out a short iron rod from his backpack.

Su Yuan held the Su Zhi Forged Sword in his right hand and the bronze spiritual eye in his left.

The bronze mirror on her chest began to heat up, and Awu's reflection moved within it, her little hand making a downward gesture!

"Ready?"

Su Yuan asked a question, and Shen Yue nodded. Xiao Meng picked up Su Yuan's toolbox and got ready.

Zhang Weiyi added, "Remember, if things get too difficult, get out. The mezzanine won't move, but you only have one life."

Zhao Cheng patted Su Yuan on the shoulder:

"I'll keep watch outside. After you go in, I'll keep an eye on the entrance."

Su Yuan responded, pointed the bronze spiritual eye at the ground below the shelf, and took a deep breath.

The ground rippled like water, and the bricks became transparent, revealing the hazy space below.

Without hesitation, Su Yuan steeled his resolve and stepped inside.

The world before my eyes changed instantly!

The ground beneath my feet was a soft, grayish-white surface, as if covered with a layer of fine lime, and it made no sound when I stepped on it.

There were no white clouds or sky overhead, only endless gray fog. Fortunately, it didn't affect the vision, but I didn't know how high or how wide the space was.

The air was filled with a faint smell of damp earth after the rain. It wasn't unpleasant to smell, but it did dull one's senses a bit!

Su Yuan glanced back and saw a vertical crack behind him. Through the crack, he could see the warehouse floor and their tense expressions.

Everyone was crowding around, looking inside.

Shen Yue followed closely behind, and Xiao Meng was the last to enter. The three of them stood in the mezzanine, their backs to the exit crack.

Su Yuan held the bronze spirit eye in his hand and looked around.

The sight before him made him gasp in shock!

This hazy space was much larger than he had imagined, and he could vaguely see the outlines of some things in the distance.

Some of them looked like buildings, others like hills, and still others like huge skeletons, all shrouded in mist and not very clear.

About a hundred meters away, there is a low earthen platform with a stone pillar standing on it.

Upon closer inspection, there was something sitting atop the stone pillar!

The light and shadow of Awu in the bronze mirror began to move, pointing to a direction on the left with her little finger.

"Over there," Su Yuan said.

Shen Yue and Xiao Meng looked around warily, following closely behind him. The three of them slowly walked forward along the gray-white ground.

Occasionally, he would step on something, making a sound like calcium milk biscuits being crushed. Su Yuan quickly looked and saw that they were all pieces of bone!

I don't know if it was from an animal or a person, but it was already withered beyond recognition.

After walking for about ten minutes, the fog gradually thinned out.

An open space appeared before them, with many fragments scattered on the ground.

It was filled with pottery shards, porcelain pieces, bone fragments, and rusted metal pieces; the place looked like a giant junkyard!

Su Yuan stopped, squatted down, picked up a shard of pottery, and examined it.

The decoration on the pottery shard is from the Han Dynasty, with flowing cloud-like lines. He then picked up a porcelain shard, a celadon ware from the Song Dynasty, its warm, jade-like glaze still intact.

"These are all... broken things?" Shen Yue frowned as he looked at them.

"These are all artifacts that were broken off after they were intact; they were all abandoned and left unattended."

Su Yuan put the pottery shards back and stood up: "Once they're scattered, they'll become lifeless waste."

Just as he finished speaking, a shard of pottery at his feet suddenly moved, emitting a very faint sound:

"Master Su...is that Master Su?"

Su Yuan took a closer look and found it to be a piece of pottery about the size of a thumb, with the patterns on it so blurred that they were no longer visible.

Do you know me?

Su Yuan squatted down and looked at it; the sound of the pottery shards was intermittent.

"Xiao Jue said you... Master Su, can repair... these things of ours. Mine is broken, abandoned... for a long time. Can you help me...?"

Su Yuan picked up the pottery shard and examined it.

The edges of the pottery shard were quite neat, as if it had been cut by something, and there was a faint spiritual fluctuation at the cut surface.

"What object are you on?"

Su Yuan asked, and the pottery shard seemed to be trying hard to remember: "I am... a... pottery pot from the Han Dynasty, I was broken..."

Su Yuan frowned.

If only this one fragment remains, and the other parts of the pot are nowhere to be found, it's probably impossible to repair.

"What about your other fragments?"

"have no idea…"

With a pitiful, tearful voice, the image of Awu in the bronze mirror flickered. She pointed her little finger at the pottery shard, then at the front, and finally spread her hands out.

Su Yuan understood; she was saying that the other parts of the pottery shard were at the front!

"I'll take you away first, and we'll fix you after we find the rest of your body, okay?"

The pottery shard's voice cried with joy: "That's wonderful, thank you Master Su..."

Su Yuan first put the pottery shards into the toolbox and continued walking forward. After walking a few steps, something appeared on the ground in front of him.

It's a skeleton!

However, it's not a human skull; it's much smaller than a human's, resembling a monkey's, but the shape of its skull doesn't quite resemble a monkey's.

The skeleton's cervical vertebrae were broken in two, its head was tilted to one side, and its jawbone was lying beside it. When it saw him approaching, it actually greeted him:

Hello...

Su Yuan's hair stood on end involuntarily; he was a little intimidated by this kind of bone structure!

I quickly walked around it a couple of steps, but unexpectedly, something suddenly grabbed my ankle.

He shuddered as if electrocuted and looked down to see a hand bone from the skeleton gripping his ankle…

"Let go."

Su Yuan's voice changed as he hurriedly called out.

Looking at Shen Yue and Xiao Meng again, I noticed that they were no longer as nervous as when they first came in, and were now actually watching the show with smiles on their faces!

The skull and the jawbone beside it clattered twice on the ground: "Don't loosen it, fix... fix me."

Su Yuan felt bitter inside.

He squatted down and straightened the skull, then picked up the mandible that had fallen to the side, and tremblingly compared it to the skull.

"Your cervical spine is broken, and your jaw has fallen off. Are there any other problems?"

Although Su Yuan's heart was pounding, he still had to ask the questions he needed to ask, and the skeleton's hand bones loosened their grip on his feet.

He pointed to his ribs; it turned out that his third rib on the left side had a crack.

Su Yuan took the toolbox from Xiao Meng, took out fish glue, glued it to the cervical spine first, waited a few minutes to let it settle, and then glued the lower jawbone back in place.

Finally, a paste was made from porcelain powder and filled into the cracks in the ribs, then smoothed out.

It took less than twenty minutes in total. After it was done, the skeleton moved its neck and made two cracking sounds!

He opened and closed his jaw a few times, then chuckled a few times.

"Okay... Thank you, Master Su! Bye-bye..."

After saying that, the skeleton got up from the ground, bowed to Su Yuan, and ran into the mist with its two thin bones, disappearing from sight.

Su Yuan wiped the sweat from his brow with his sleeve and exhaled. Shen Yue, watching from the side, shook his head in disbelief.

"Master Su, how can you manage this in that mezzanine?"

Su Yuan put the fish glue and tools back into the toolbox, gave a wry smile, and said, "They told me to fix it, so I'll fix it."

Xiao Meng chuckled quietly, took the toolbox, and said nothing.

The three continued walking forward.

The fog gradually thinned, and after walking for less than twenty minutes, the fog suddenly dissipated, revealing an open space.

In the center of the open space stood a short object, an incomplete terracotta figurine, with only the upper body remaining, broken off from the chest up, the break uneven!

The terracotta figurine's face was badly worn, and its features were long since blurred, but Su Yuan still recognized its style at a glance.

This is a Tang Dynasty pottery figurine, from the same period and of the same type as Awu's pottery figurine.

At this moment, the bronze mirror on Su Yuan's chest suddenly became hot, and the heat penetrated through the soft cloth bag, making Su Yuan's skin sting!