Chapter 106: Intertwined Electric Drills

#The restoration team of Yongan Museum went to repair Mogao Grottoes! #

This is the hottest topic regarding the Yong'an Museum on the Internet in recent times.

At this moment, Donghuang has entered its summer vacation.

During this holiday period, countless out-of-town tourists naturally began to flock to the Yong'an Museum, which opened in the first half of the year, around May Day.

At that time, many netizens asserted that this summer vacation in Xian'an would definitely be a golden season for various catering and street stall businesses.

Many tourists who are unable to book local hotels have even begun to turn their attention to several surrounding cities.

In their eyes, as long as the journey time is within two hours, it is completely considered.

That momentum can be said to be the only time in recent years that a city broke the passenger flow record created by first-tier cities such as Yanjing, Guangyue and others during the Spring Festival.

Many tourists even started to complain online, saying that the Xian'an Municipal Government had foreseen the peak passenger flow at this time as early as a year ago when the Yong'an Amusement Park project was launched.

So why don't they plan accordingly early on?

For example, the surrounding transportation routes and hotel planning. Tourists think these should be "small problems" that can be arranged early and targeted just like during the Spring Festival travel rush.

What's more, in order to maximize the possibility of future expansion of Yong'an Paradise.

The location of Yong'an Paradise can basically be said to be the easternmost side of the entire Xian'an.

In such a remote suburb, it is reasonable to avoid the impact of traffic paralysis as much as possible by restricting the number of vehicles and advising locals to visit during off-peak hours.

However, what they didn't know was that the Xian'an Municipal Government had already reached its limit in this regard.

In terms of public transportation, they not only opened more transportation routes, but also widened the roads around Yongan Amusement Park. They even set up various "bus-style" ticket checkpoints around Yongan Amusement Park.

Visitors only need to check their tickets and board the official bus, and they can enter the park directly without queuing in front of the scenic area.

The official idea is to reduce the impact of private cars on traffic congestion in this way.

However, they never thought that they had underestimated the popularity of Yong'an Amusement Park.

From tourists entering the park on the day to planners and passers-by who come to scout the area and make plans in advance.

Even though a more convenient "bus entry" was set up, it still failed to prevent the tragic traffic jam in the surrounding area.

And the worst thing is that, in addition to the popularity of the Yongan Group itself, there is another very important reason for all this, which is that the Xian'an Municipal Government wants to avoid damage to the cultural and tourism image that it has worked so hard to establish.

During several holidays, the government has "explicitly prohibited" airlines and surrounding hotels and restaurants from "marginal price increases."

They even deliberately reduced the travel prices from Xian'an to other provinces at this time.

Oh, by the way, regarding the hotel issue, the Xian'an City Government has indeed thought about the problem of hotel shortage. But this kind of tourist siphoning during an outbreak is always only temporary.

In this case, it is impossible for normal cultural tourism to allow all kinds of "hotels" or "B&Bs" to open when the future is still unknown.

Although for them this may just be an opportunity to make a lot of money in a short period of time.

However, it is impossible for Yongan Amusement Park to continue to be as popular as it is now and remain a top-tier attraction.

The local industrial and commercial and cultural tourism bureaus are also afraid that if this round of local business review is too lax, then when the popularity of Yong'an Amusement Park declines, it will directly lead to a large number of hotels being forced to close down due to revenue imbalances.

All kinds of measures are used to avoid the deterioration of their cultural and tourism image during the summer vacation.

Many locals who have no intention of doing business have even started traveling to other cities to cope with the overcrowding during the summer.

Among them, Ganquan Province, also in the northwest region, naturally became the target of most Xian'an locals.

Originally, the people of Xian'an thought that Ganquan Province in the northwest wouldn't have an extremely large number of tourists.

Even many of their local people have probably already set off for Xian'an.

The people of Xian'an came here for the comfort of a relaxing trip, but they never thought that as soon as they got off the plane, they saw on Weibo that the first cultural relic restoration team of the Yong'an Museum, led by Jia Wenyan, director of the Yong'an Museum, had landed in the Mogao Grottoes Scenic Area in Ganquan Province.

At first, the people of Xian'an couldn't believe it, saying that it was unlikely that Jia Wenyan would come to Ganquan Province at this time when Yong'an Paradise was the most popular.

However, what people did not expect was that Jia Wenyan not only came this time, but also carried out the restoration work of Mogao Grottoes at her own expense.

Restoring cultural relics for free is definitely a very rare situation in this circle.

After all, for most cultural relics restoration units, they are doing tedious work that is time-consuming, labor-intensive, and brain-burning. In addition, the restoration of Mogao Grottoes happened to be outdoors in the northwest.

Although Ganquan Province is not a southern city, the high temperatures in summer should not be underestimated.

The hot and dry weather is still unbearable even in the cave which is shielded from the sunlight to a certain extent.

Tourists really cannot imagine how the people at the Yong'an Museum could work for such long hours in such hot weather.

The weather forecast called for a high temperature of 35 degrees, and the actual surface temperature might even be higher, but this still did not stop the progress of the restoration team of the Yong'an Museum.

For this reason, almost everyone initially thought that the Yong'an Museum adopted a rotation system.

But after a few days, when the work progress of the Yong'an Museum began to take shape.

Not only did they upload the results of their recent work on the official blog, they even planned to conduct a full-day live broadcast based on the existing work.

And it was from this moment that people finally realized how terrifying the people in this project team were.

They really persisted in their restoration work under high temperatures.

Except for the hot period from 11:00 am to 2:00 pm which is used for lunch break.

The staff of the Yong'an Museum restoration team are working almost day and night.

This is not only because of their enthusiasm for restoring cultural relics for the first time, but there is a very important reason.

It is only at night that they can complete their work in a relatively suitable temperature without being noticed by passers-by and tourists.

Although Jia Wenyan is leading a whole team of sculpture students, for the students, only a small number of them who face very fierce competition can finally participate in the restoration of the Mogao Grottoes murals.

Although Jia Wenyan did not make these things clear, it could be seen from the fact that the other party did not go to the caves to be repaired as the scenic spot staff introduced, but instead took them directly to this cave that was almost completely destroyed.

The biggest possibility here is that Jia Wenyan wants to use this opportunity to test their strength in person.

How much they can accomplish and how much they can accomplish within how much time will most likely become their future assessment criteria.

Student A: [Why doesn't Director Jia go to rest yet? ]

Student B: [Shut up and get back to work. What if Director Jia hears what we are saying so late at night?]

Student C: [If you have time to complain, you might as well get to work. Director Jia has almost carved out a wall.]

Student A: [That’s not what I meant. I just thought Director Jia’s speed was really frustrating. If she could rest early, we could secretly stay up late to finish the work.]

Student D: [I agree with this. Although Director Jia’s skills are recognized, when the staff and tourists from the scenic area come tomorrow morning and compare the progress of both sides, they may think we are just sitting there doing nothing.]

The students in the restoration group were also helpless. Logically speaking, boys would definitely have an advantage in crafts that require strength, such as hammering and carving.

But now they must ensure that the sculpture is as similar to the museum design as possible. They dare not act recklessly even if they have the power. As for Jia Wenyan, although her power is not as good as other boys in the team.

But the greatest progress in human development is the upgrading of tools. When others were still using hammers and chisels, Jia Wenyan directly used an electric drill in front of everyone's stunned expressions.

The violent noise made everyone at the scene doubt their lives.

Student J: [What a fierce method! Director Jia is really trying to catch up with the progress.]

Student I: [But isn’t it a bit too radical to use an electric drill to carve murals? ]

Student E: [I think Director Jia has a reason for working so hard. Didn’t she say that she wanted to do a live broadcast to promote the cave after achieving certain results in restoration? ]

Student F: [This is the most difficult, brother. If it is pure fine work like ceramics, we can still attribute it to Director Jia's ingenuity and high skills, but our murals involve too much physical work. At this time, we can't keep up with Director Jia's progress, so it's easy to fail. ]

Student B: [So everyone should hurry up and get to work. I just asked the runner to buy tents and sleeping bags. Does anyone want to add to the order?]

Student A: [Take one with me. I feel like I’m really going to have to fight for my life.]

Student C: [I agree. I feel like I didn’t even get through this during the college entrance exam.]

No one wants to be eliminated here, but little does anyone know that Jia Wenyan never thought of eliminating anyone here from the beginning to the end.

The restoration of the murals is a very huge project. If possible, she even hopes that the manpower around her can be doubled.

Of course, she also admitted that the reason why she chose this cave, which had been largely destroyed decades ago, was that she wanted to see what the students' level was.

But the most important thing is that we hope that the students can use this cave, which was built almost from scratch, to accumulate experience little by little and then transition to the restoration work of other caves.

However, the students who had completely misunderstood the concept tried their best to finish the work once they entered the caves of Mogao Grottoes.

So much so that Jia Wenyan, as a teacher, had to fight with them.

And because of this, when others saw that Jia Wenyan was still working hard, they, as students, dared not slack off.

They were so eager to save face that in the end, when the students, who had just started their summer vacation, watched the live broadcast on time at the request of their teachers.

Student netizen: [So cultural relic restorers can’t sleep? ]

[In this day and age, has someone finally managed to evolve sleep? ]

[Qiudou Sack, what kind of electric drill did I see? ]