Chapter 24: Hiding Heart and Guilt and Regret
Runyutang’s Yuzhen Paste continues to rise in price during this Mid-Autumn Festival.
Especially after the Yong'an Museum announced that it was completely out of stock, many buyers turned their attention to the "mass sale version" that Runyutang subsequently launched online.
However, what is unexpected is that the price of the mass-market version is exactly the same as the hardcover version.
[So why, even though the red jade porcelain box is gone, why is it still so expensive? ]
[That's right, the one with the red jade porcelain box is only 250, but this one with ordinary PET packaging is also 250.]
[Um, didn’t the Yong’an Museum above say that this is a limited edition commemorative product of the Yong’an Museum, which is the same concept as the limited edition packaging of the Mibingxuecheng store.]
[That’s right. Besides, the price of 250 is already very normal for a face cream. The limited edition of Yong’an Museum is obviously used for publicity. If you want a different price, at most the price of Yong’an Museum will increase.]
There was an endless stream of discussion among netizens. Although the subsequent mass-market version did not have the blessing of the red jade porcelain box, the subsequent mass-market version still became the most popular gift during the Mid-Autumn Festival in Xian'an City due to the super-effectiveness of the Jade Treasure.
Even the various cooling oils and aloe vera gels that Runyutang had in stock had achieved good sales thanks to the Yuzhen Paste.
Many brands envy Runyutang's good fortune. But the most eye-catching items in the Yong'an Museum are the four exhibits that were not previously open to the public.
They are an ice-patterned celadon vase, of which only fragments were previously exposed, and an all-white porcelain terracotta carriage consisting of three parts: a horse, a passenger carriage and a coachman.
Different from the all-ceramic chariot that Jia Wenyan had previously reproduced, this all-ceramic carriage was based on the No. 2 carriage from the Qin Emperor's Mausoleum, the so-called "air-conditioned" carriage.
Although the current carriage is made of all-ceramic material and no longer has the same shocking impact as it did in the Qin Emperor's Mausoleum.
But the almost pure white porcelain texture gives this carriage a more enhanced impression of being a so-called "luxury car".
Although this carriage made entirely of white porcelain can no longer be called Terracotta Warriors in the traditional sense, for most visitors, as long as the Yong'an Museum does not confuse the concepts, their attention will be more focused on the craftsmanship of the all-porcelain carriage itself.
White is the symbol of purity and flawlessness, so when the all-porcelain carriage without any traces of carving was officially unveiled, many tourists kept taking photos, trying to find any traces of "processing" in it.
This forms a sharp contrast with the ice-patterned celadon porcelain next door.
Compared with the all-porcelain carriage, this set of ice-cracked celadon porcelain can be said to be completely filled with cracks. In addition, there is the naturally cracked fish-scale porcelain vase next door.
People can clearly see that the ice crack porcelain in front of them is not the generally accepted impression that it is a natural crack caused by temperature changes.
Although they are the same style of bottle, the two porcelain bottles give people completely different impressions. But this does not mean that the ice cracks formed by splicing have no meaning of their own.
Because it was redesigned according to the splicing idea.
The joints that should have been considered scars were intentionally combined by Jia Wenyan using the simplicity of porcelain colors to create a sky-blue magnolia flower.
Those cracks are like the veins on the stems and leaves of the flower, making the whole magnolia flower look particularly lively.
Especially the clear spring at the bottom of the porcelain vase and the magnolia flowers.
All netizens who have watched Jia Wenyan’s D-station video know that it is the piece of broken porcelain that Jia Wenyan brought back from the cultural wall of the Line 3 subway station.
She did not hide the fact that the porcelain was once "broken", but used her skills to create another kind of beauty.
Broken, missing, and reassembled.
Damaged cultural relics can never be restored to their original state, but this does not mean the end of their value.
"Mom, was this beautiful porcelain vase really a pile of broken pieces?"
A little girl with a ponytail in the crowd looked up and pointed at the booth attendant who was much taller than her and asked a question.
"Yes, look at the numbered picture above. This porcelain vase was originally a fragment like this, but the curator of this museum made other fragments based on this fragment and assembled them together into the magnolia porcelain vase we see now."
"That's amazing, mom, can the bowl I broke while eating a few days ago also be repaired this way?"
Mom: "Broken bowl?"
"I shouldn't have put the bowl away if I had known! No... Mom, I didn't mean it. I was just playing house with the dolls..."
The little girl was so flustered that her psychological reaction was completely exposed on her face, which made the tourists around her laugh.
Her mother also rushed to check her daughter's hand as soon as she realized what might have happened.
"Didn't I buy you a set of play-house toys? Why are you still... Forget it, tell mom if you have any scratches on your hands."
The mother reacted quickly and anxiously checked her daughter's palm and arm. Fortunately, the girl was not injured by breaking the bowl.
But the mother's sudden change of anxiety obviously frightened the little girl. She thought her mother was going to teach her a lesson and couldn't help crying.
But at this moment the mother obviously had no time to comfort the girl, because she knew that if her daughter really had a wound and it was not treated properly, there might be a risk of infection or even tetanus.
…
The mother's anxious voice was unconsciously amplified by the museum's built-in echo effect. Many people turned their eyes to the mother following the sound.
Scolding a child in public is extremely impolite behavior in public.
Therefore, at that moment, many tourists almost habitually assumed that what would follow would most likely be a symphony of mothers scolding and children crying.
However, what was surprising was that the young mother in front of him was not as desperate as everyone imagined.
After she came to her senses, she quickly apologized to the people around her, stopped the girl from crying, and carried her daughter away from the center of the exhibition area.
The staff responsible for maintaining order on the side did not expect that the mother would be able to handle her own problem in the first place.
Her way of handling the situation without affecting others touched the staff nearby who were accustomed to the chaos in various scenic spots.
There is no worker in the service industry who would not feel comforted by seeing a sensible parent.
The "Buddha's light" that seemed to grant amnesty to the world instantly made the workers feel a sense of relief as if they had survived a calamity.
The same is true for Jia Wenyan. As the director of the museum, she is really worried that there will be unexpected troubles on the first day of the museum's opening.
So when the mother, under the gaze of everyone, reacted immediately and took the initiative to stop her daughter from crying and took the child away from the scene, she really felt a sense of relief. And...
"You seem to be very moved by this scene?"
"Nothing, just some memories from my childhood."
Zhen Shuwang: "Were you also scared and cried because of breaking a rice bowl when you were a child?"
On the skywalk on the second floor, Zhen Shuwang, who also witnessed everything from a high place, looked at Jia Wenyan's expression as if she was lost in memories and asked curiously.
Upon hearing this, Jia Wenyan glanced at him and then unconsciously said with a heavy sense of regret:
"I have never broken a bowl, because my family used all kinds of very sturdy enamel or metal basins when I was a child, but I did break something when I was a child, and I still regret it to this day."
Zhen Shuwang: "What?"
"My grandmother's dowry."
"It was a very beautiful jade bracelet. I loved it the moment I saw it when I was a child. That was the first time I felt that jade was more beautiful than crystal and diamond."
"I secretly tried on my grandma's jade bracelet while my parents were out. I wore the bracelet and ran to my grandma to ask her if it looked good, but I obviously forgot that my wrist was not thick enough to hold the bracelet.
Even though my grandma told me to be careful, I still let the gun fly out due to inertia while showing off.
Zhen Shuwang: "The bracelet broke directly?"
"Yeah. I was so scared that I broke the jade bracelet passed down from her great-grandmother into two pieces in front of my grandma."
"I was so scared that I couldn't even cry. But what I didn't expect was that my grandma just put the bracelet away. Then she patted my back to remind me to come back to my senses and comforted me."
"She even told me that she sold the real bracelet when she bought a wedding house for my father, and that the one I broke was a fake one she bought to make up the number because she was afraid my father would feel burdened if he found out."
"You know what my grandma told me at the time, she said that the bracelet was made of beer sticks from Harbin Beer, so it was so pure green. But I knew very well that it was definitely not the touch of a beer bottle."
"How could the sound of a wine bottle and a jade bracelet breaking be the same? But I was really scared at the time, and the atmosphere in my hometown at that time was really very biased towards boys over girls."
"The reason why I became an only child was largely because my father was selected as an advanced cadre in the factory at that time."
"Although my parents never mentioned this to me, I have seen too many girls being cautious when living at home since I was a child."
"I have even heard neighbors gossiping about my father because he has no son."
"So even though I had some guesses in my mind, I kept telling myself that it was just a worthless glass bracelet."
Zhen Shuwang: "So you studied cultural relic restoration later?"
"That's not the case, because soon after that my grandmother found a craftsman who made a decorative repair on the jade bracelet with gold."
"I chose this minor because I was really interested in this field. But if possible, I also hope to find a piece of jade that can match the bracelet to make a jade bracelet for my grandmother to atone for her sins."
Zhen Shuwang: "So, how valuable is the jade bracelet you broke?"
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