Chapter 32: The real heroine, Grandma Xu, the real Mary Sue...

"It is as good as any museum treasure."

Jia Wenyan was really surprised when she heard this description.

She had heard that Dean Zhen's wife, Xu Yonghe, was the daughter of Yong'an Pawnshop. But in her memory, hadn't Yong'an Pawnshop already transferred all its collections to Xian'an Museum?

Could it be that he still had a lot of hidden possessions when he handed them in?

Jia Wenyan was full of curiosity about this, but as an outsider she couldn't ask too many questions.

She was just curious and completed her work while waiting for the opportunity that Grandma Xu mentioned.

A few days later, after she had completed the classic scene of "parting" in the painting of the Goddess of Luo River, she was taken by Grandma Xu to her so-called dowry warehouse on the pretext of relaxing.

It was a house surrounded by high walls.

Whether it was the security guard at the door or the security systems before entering the warehouse, Jia Wenyan was unconsciously curious about this warehouse located on the outskirts of the city.

The most important thing is that ever since the gate was opened, Jia Wenyan could feel the energy of the spirit inside the warehouse becoming clearer and clearer.

"Grandma, what exactly is the dowry you are talking about?"

Jia Wenyan finally couldn't help asking, and Xu Yonghe smiled when there was no one else around:

"Shouldn't you have guessed it? Those are the incarnations of historical relics."

"Incarnation..."

Jia Wenyan's heart tightened, and the next second her eyes met Grandma Xu's completely golden eyes.

Jia Wenyan: "Grandma Xu...you too..."

"Yes, Age of Golden Eyes, you and I are of the same kind."

"Then what is stored in this warehouse..."

"All of them are national treasures that we have accumulated over the years. They have spirits residing inside them."

Jia Wenyan: "But didn't your father and Dean Zhen donate all the national treasures in Yong'an Pawnshop to the newly finalized Xian'an Museum after Dean Zhen inherited it?"

"Yes, that was indeed all the inventory of Yong'an Pawnshop at that time, but the problem is that the Xian'an Museum's final decision was made in the millennium. By that time, not to mention how many years I had been married, my grandson was about to be born. So my dowry would naturally not be included in the property of Yong'an Pawnshop."

"Besides, you have to know that even after the founding of the People's Republic of China, we cultural workers still experienced a long period of turmoil. So just in case, my father asked me to take some cultural relics from the Yong'an Museum with me when I got married."

"So Grandma Xu, you can also communicate with the spirit of the instrument? Then why don't you..."

Xu Yonghe: "You didn't become a cultural relic restorer, did you?"

Jia Wenyan nodded. As the owner of the Golden Eye of Time, she knew too well the advantages of the Golden Eye of Time in the field of cultural relic restoration. But from the information she got, Xu Yong and Grandma Xu did not seem to become cultural relic restorers, but collectors engaged in the treasure appraisal industry.

Jia Wenyan was full of curiosity about this, but Grandma Xu smiled and said:

"That's because the abilities of each pair of Golden Eyes of Ages are different."

"Don't be surprised. The appearance of each pair of Golden Eyes of Time is a choice of the history of this era. I was born in an era when the war had just ended. What was needed at that time was the recovery of lost cultural relics, so my Golden Eyes of Time have the ability to search and identify."

"So, Grandma Xu, how many abilities have you seen so far?"

"Including you, there are currently three known abilities."

"They are my master's protection and my search. As for your ability, I have discussed it with Shi Fengdan at the Xian'an Museum before. We both agree that your golden pupils of time should represent the inheritance of Donghuang's traditional skills."

"That's why you can learn skills in the spirit space of the spirit without being restricted by time rules."

Jia Wenyan: "So that's why you..."

"Hmm... After all, people should always maximize their abilities."

"It's true that I like these traditional cultural relics very much, but it takes too much time to master these skills, so I choose to spend more of my time and energy on finding and collecting those lost cultural relics."

"For example, the painting of the Goddess of Luo River that you are currently repairing was found by me and deliberately buried near the location where your Dean Zhen was going to lay the water pipes."

"So grandma, what you mean is that...the reason why Dean Zhen was able to discover the Luoshen Fu painting back then..."

"I did all this. You have no idea how stupid your dean was back then. He looked good, but every day he was either doing archaeological excavations or restoring cultural relics.

At first, I thought I should just let it go, but you know, there are many elders in their line of work. When they see young singles, they will always unconsciously care about their major life events.

Plus, your Dean Zhen was really good-looking back then. He was 1.8 meters tall and a college student from Beijing. He fascinated the girls in the surrounding schools and units. So later I simply came up with a dirty trick. I used the Luoshen Fu Tu, a cultural relic that perfectly matched his preferences, to force him to come to my house every day. "

Jia Wenyan’s OS: Why do I always feel that this plot is very familiar?

"Okay, I won't talk about this anymore. The main reason I brought you here today is to show you the national treasures that your grandmother Xu has collected over the years."

"When the time comes, you can pick a few people here who you like and bring them to the museum. That will be my initial investment in the Yong'an Museum."

After Xu Yonghe finished speaking, he used his pupil scan to open the last security door in front of him.

Jia Wenyan, who was standing by, quickly poked her head out from behind Grandma Xu like Granny Liu entering the Grand View Garden. But at this moment, she had no time to think about anything else, because her sight had begun to fall into a kaleidoscope-like fainting in the dazzling furnishings in the warehouse.

"The bamboo slips of "The Memorial to the Emperor on Leaving the Capital""

"Wang Xizhi's "Lanting Preface"?"

"A complete set of Western Zhou bronze chimes?"

"The Nine Cauldrons of China?"

And this...could it be...

Xu Yonghe: "Yeah, that's what you have in mind."

"The Imperial Seal?"

"Grandma...you don't know how to..."

"They are all authentic, just like you copied a lot of top-notch artifacts in the few months after awakening. If I have lived with these eyes for so many years and still haven't made any big ones, wouldn't it be a bit disappointing?"

"No... Grandma... Do you know that you have these cultural relics?"

"I know, but don't worry, many of the cultural relics I have preserved here have records of Yong'an's inheritance for many years. This is a family heirloom, not a tomb robbery."

"Besides, our Yong'an family has a very good pedigree. Although our ancestors who were involved in cultural relics did not join the army or politics, when the Red Army was in northern Shaanxi, our ancestors made a lot of financial and manpower contributions.

Food, cloth, funds, I still have a large stack of IOUs left by the military leaders at that time who saw that my grandfather donated so much.

Otherwise, how do you think it would have been possible for us, a family of scholars, to preserve so many houses and cultural relics during those years of opposing "capitalism".

Jia Wenyan: "So what happened later, grandma? Since the higher-ups knew you had so many national treasures, didn't they ask you to buy them or borrow your cultural relics for exhibition?"

"Yes, I borrowed it. Your Dean Zhen and I borrowed and gave away a lot of things."

"From the entire inventory of Yong'an Pawnshop at that time. Later, when I was young, I frequently went abroad to retrieve those looted cultural relics. The things your grandmother handed in could open four or five museums. Naturally, no one would dare to take my dowry if this file was put on display."

"Oh, by the way, you remember the twelve animal heads after the Old Summer Palace was rebuilt. I brought five of them back from abroad one by one."

"Let me tell you this, in our line of work, your Dean Zhen's reputation can at most make his old colleagues give him some respect, but my reputation can make you walk sideways in this circle."

"If you had told your grandmother about your attempt to reproduce the phoenix crown a few days ago, would you have needed to exchange it for the all-porcelain terracotta warriors?"

When Jia Wenyan thought of this, she couldn't help but imagine the scene described by Xu Yonghe.

It's really cool to say it or not. However, this is not the end, because Jia Wenyan is still imagining all kinds of things.

Xu Yonghe, who had known the situation for a long time, seemed to increase the stakes once again. He took out an account book that looked like a small Xinhua Dictionary from the safe and said:

"Look at this. It records the cultural relics donated by Yong'an Pawnshop, as well as the receipts for cultural relics I bought from abroad in recent years. If you want, I can even let you experience what it's like to be a landlady in the museum circle."

"Landlady... and museum?"

Jia Wenyan felt that she suddenly understood how Dean Zhen, the director of a state-owned museum, dared to spend a huge amount of money to buy a museum as big as Xingqiao in one go.

It turns out that there is such a thing in it, and...

"Grandma, can I ask you something?"

Xu Yonghe: "What's the matter?"

"You said that your Golden Eyes of Time have the ability to detect things. Does that mean you can easily find jade buried in rocks like in those novels?"

Xu Yonghe: "Why, do you see any jade jewelry that you like?"

"Well, when I was a kid, I broke one of my grandma's imperial green bracelets. I thought about saving up money to buy one, but imperial green is so rare that even if I saved up the money, it would be hard to find a bracelet of the same style as my grandma's."

"So if possible, I would like you to help me find a piece of imperial green material, not too big to make a bracelet."

"Oh, I do have some imperial green material, but I need you to do me a favor."

Jia Wenyan: "What help?"

Xu Yonghe: "Help me build a British Museum."