Chapter 254 Want to go home
It wasn't until Xu Youyou left the grocery store and got into the car that she had time to carefully examine the red lacquer tray in her hand.
The craft of making lacquer plates is complicated. Red lacquer is applied layer by layer on the base, with the number of layers ranging from eighty to ninety, and as many as one or two hundred. Once a certain thickness is reached, the drawing is drawn and the patterns are carved.
Xu Youyou put on professional gloves and cleaned the dirt on the paint tray bit by bit, revealing its original appearance.
"What is carved is grapes." Xu Youyou said.
She didn't see any obvious inscriptions on it, nor did she know which dynasty it was from.
"I haven't seen a girl as gentle as you for a long time."
The old voice that suddenly appeared in her ears scared Xu Youyou so much that she almost dropped the things in her hands.
She looked around in panic, only attracting Lu Jingyao's curious gaze.
"What's wrong?" Lu Jingyao asked softly.
Xu Youyou shook her head and opened and closed her mouth. Just as she was about to hear a strange sound, she suddenly shuddered and remembered that she had once received a reward for a task, which was to hear a special sound from time to time.
She lowered her head and looked at the paint tray in her hand. Could it be that...
"This little girl seems to be from China. She can finally go home."
Xu Youyou's heart trembled when she heard the words. She guessed right. The one who spoke was really the lacquer tray in her hand.
After returning to her residence, she immediately locked herself in the room, lowered her head and said to the lacquer tray: "Hello, let me introduce myself. My name is Xu Youyou, nice to meet you."
After about half a minute, Qi Pan said in a daze: "Is this little girl talking to me? Can she hear me? Forget it, no matter whether she can hear me or not, I have to be polite."
Then, Xu Youyou heard the old voice saying, "Hello, my name is Xiaohong. This is the name my first master gave me. Nice to meet you, little girl."
Xu Youyou asked softly: "Xiaohong, who was your first master?"
The lacquer tray let out a long "ah", and when it was done being surprised, it couldn't help but ask, "Little girl, can you really hear me?"
Xu Youyou nodded.
Qi Pan said: "No wonder I like you so much, it turns out you are also a powerful person."
Xu Youyou couldn't help but ask, "If someone can hear special sounds, does that mean he is a powerful person? How many powerful people have you met?"
Qi Pan said, "I have lived for nearly 800 years. Apart from you, there is only one person who has lived here. That person is different from you. The aura he exudes is too mixed, not as clean and comfortable as yours."
When Xu Youyou heard this, she didn't think much about it. She just thought that the person Qi Pan saw was a few hundred years ago.
Qi Pan thought of Xu Youyou's initial question and said, "My first master was the founding Khan of the Yuan Dynasty."
"Khan of the Yuan Dynasty? Which one? Could it be Genghis Khan?" Xu Youyou asked.
Qi Pan said: "No, it's Kublai Khan."
Xu Youyou paused after hearing this, and then recalled that according to historians, it seemed that Kublai Khan was the founding emperor of the Yuan Dynasty.
"I didn't like the name he gave me before, but after so many years, I've gotten used to it." When Qi Pan said this, his tone was full of nostalgia for his master.
Xu Youyou sighed softly. She had originally planned to sell the treasure after getting it, but now that the other party was conscious, she couldn't act on her own.
"Do you want to go back to China with me?" Xu Youyou asked.
Qi Pan immediately said: "Yes, I want to go home!"
Xu Youyou asked again: "Any other requests? I'll try my best to satisfy you."
Qi Pan: "You are a very nice person."
Xu Youyou said: "Since I can hear your voice, I should respect you."
After thinking for a moment, Qi Pan said, "I want to go to the museum!"
Xu Youyou paused: "You even know about the museum?"
The lacquer plate said, "When I was at that Frenchman's house, they said that the foreign artworks in their house should be in a museum to be admired by people, and should not be kept with a broken plate like me."
Xu Youyou couldn't help but get a little angry when she heard this, and said, "Your first master was Kublai Khan, and the Yuan Dynasty's cavalry once flattened Europe. If we really talk about nobility, you are the most noble!"
Qi Pan kept saying, "Yes, yes, yes, I thought so too, but they always say things like the Eight-Nation Alliance... the burning of the Old Summer Palace... to irritate me..."
Xu Youyou didn't expect that the antiques also came up with a chain of contempt. She couldn't help but sigh in her heart that it is true that a weak country has no diplomacy.
The lacquer tray continued, "They always think it's a special thing to be placed in a museum. I want to see how difficult it is."
Xu Youyou said: "It may be difficult for others, but it should be easy for you."
Qi Pan immediately became proud and said, "I think so too! I think I am better than them all! After all, I defeated them all!"
Xu Youyou recalled what the old Finnish man said, that the French owner of the plate fell into decline after he got it.
"Were you the one who forced that Frenchman to flee his home?" Xu Youyou asked.
Qi Pan's tone was not guilty at all, he just said: "I didn't want to have him as my master in the first place, and he doesn't know how to treat me well, he deserves it! Besides, he got me by dishonorable means!"
Xu Youyou was skeptical about the last sentence of the lacquer plate. After all, to some extent, the process by which the Finnish old man obtained it was a bit like robbery.
Qi Pan said, "Don't worry, we are from the same hometown, I won't harm you."
Xu Youyou didn't believe this completely, and said again and again: "I will stay in Europe for a while. When I return to China, the first thing I will do is to donate you to a museum. We can discuss which museum you want to go to."
Qi Pan didn't realize that Xu Youyou was a little afraid of him. Hearing this, he became happy again: "Can I choose by myself? If I really have to choose, then I will definitely choose the best! The biggest! I want the most people to see me and praise me!"
Xu Youyou also noticed that, although this plate was said to be nearly eight hundred years old, its personality was still quite like that of a child.
"Okay, either is fine." Xu Youyou said. Qi Pan suddenly said, "Little girl, you are such a nice person, can you do me another favor?"
Xu Youyou didn't agree immediately, but asked first: "What help? Tell me first."
She also needs to weigh whether she can help.
Qi Pan said, "I have an old friend. He fell into the hands of that French guy just like me. However, he was traded to the Germans by that French guy. I still have no news about him. Can you take me to find him? I think he must want to go home just like me."
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