Chapter 39: Kotone and Sakura Kotone
Zhen Shuwang looked up at the treetops held high by scaffolding.
The pink and white cherry blossoms on the branches are clearly like rigid porcelain, but for some reason, after seeing the petals of various shapes, Zhen Shuwang felt a kind of lively and graceful swaying of the petals.
Zhen Shuwang: "Why did you suddenly want to make a complete cherry blossom tree?"
"Because of your design."
Jia Wenyan, who was on the scaffolding, responded while assembling the "flower branches".
"The drawing you gave me was indeed a bonsai-sized design, but I can see that when you imagined the cherry tree, you had a full cherry tree in mind."
"If I'm not mistaken, you probably cut out a lot of details when you were drawing the picture."
Zhen Shuwang: "Yes, when I first thought of cherry blossoms, I did refer to the design of cherry blossom trees, but then I thought that it would be difficult to show the atmosphere of cherry blossom trees after shrinking it to the size of a potted plant, so I changed it to a potted bonsai."
Zhen Shuwang was somewhat surprised that the other party could actually detect the traces of modifications he had made to the design, but compared to this, he was more worried about whether Jia Wenyan's construction of such a big thing would affect her construction schedule.
However, before he could open his mouth, he saw a cherry blossom bonsai enclosed in a glass display case in the corner of the workshop.
Zhen Shuwang looked closely at the ceramic cherry blossom bonsai in the glass counter. Although it was different from his design, he could tell that it should be a state gift that Jia Wenyan had fine-tuned based on his design.
Jia Wenyan perfectly combined the glaze craftsmanship of Ru porcelain on this potted plant. The white and pink gradient cherry blossom glaze makes the whole ceramic potted plant look particularly delicate and lovely.
However, perhaps it was because there was a huge ceramic cherry tree standing next to him at this moment, even though he could only see the crown of the tree at this moment, it was still difficult for him to give this cherry blossom bonsai the same evaluation as the other previous state gift works.
At that moment, his eyes kept wandering between the cherry trees and the potted plants. At the same time, Jia Wenyan, who was working at a high altitude, also asked curiously:
"What special meaning do cherry blossoms have for you?"
She remembered that after Zhen Shuwang mentioned the cherry blossom design to her, he kept asking her repeatedly whether it was possible to use ceramics to reproduce such detailed styles of roots, stems and leaves.
This was a reaction he did not have when faced with dozens of other design drafts.
As Jia Wenyan spoke, she waved the ceramic flower branch in her hand towards Zhen Shuwang who was lying on the ground.
Zhen Shuwang: "No... I just watched a lot of Japanese anime when I was a kid, so I have a deeper impression of cherry blossoms."
"I think so. After all, it's not spring here. But in our school, cherry blossoms do symbolize a lot of romantic memories of youth."
Zhen Shuwang: "With your ex-boyfriend?"
"No, I was pursuing a double degree and I didn't have time to think about those things during those three years at school. If I had to say something, when I was a freshman, a senior from the medical department wanted to confess his love to me, but he just gave up after squatting at the door of the equipment room for three days."
"Give up? Why?"
"I heard that after seeing my class schedule, she realized that there was no possibility for us to be in a relationship. Anyway, by the time I knew about this, my roommate couldn't stand it anymore and secretly picked up the bouquet that was thrown into the trash can."
"It's really pitiful for a medical student to fall in love with a double degree."
"It's not so bad if it's tragic. I heard that the senior student saw through the world after this battle and worked hard to get the first place in the grade and was admitted to the Magic City."
"But I was actually quite thankful at the time, after all, if he really confessed to me in person, I would be quite embarrassed."
Zhen Shuwang: "So you are against romantic relationships?"
"I wouldn't say I reject it. I think I just don't have any idea about love. I don't have any fantasies or resistance. Wait, how did we end up talking about this? You didn't come to me to gossip about my relationship, did you?"
"Oh, I got off track by mistake. I came to you mainly to ask you how long you studied piano."
"About fifty... months, what? Is there something wrong with the recording?"
"Well, I found three musicians, including a professor at a music school, but I still think the effect of your playing on the phone that day was better."
"Um... this... must be your illusion."
Jia Wenyan felt something was wrong when she heard this. Her piano skill was Xuanyin, which was the result of the teaching of the Jiaowei piano spirit in the spirit space. Therefore, she had never played in front of others until now.
She had no idea how good her piano skills were. In addition, she was not familiar with the music score and was playing over the phone. Jia Wenyan had never thought about what chain reaction such a performance would cause.
But Zhen Shuwang had obviously already recognized this fact, and she had previously promised to cooperate with the other party.
so……
"Forget it. Go to my room and bring my Jiaoweiqin with me. I'll go to the studio with you to record after I finish packing this batch of new cherry blossom branches."
"But I've said it beforehand that I don't like performing in front of people, so if there are any promotional activities in the future that ask me to play the piano, I will really refuse."
Jia Wenyan quickly gave this precaution. She didn't mind helping, but there was really no way to explain why a layman who had never studied music in real life could suddenly display piano skills far beyond those of ordinary pianists.
Zhen Shuwang, who was standing by, agreed without hesitation. Soon, his guess was proven to be correct. The combination of Jia Wenyan and her Jiaowei Guqin did indeed shock him beyond his expectations.
Without the interference of telephone communication, Jia Wenyan's piano skills in the spirit space were perfectly displayed.
At that moment in the recording studio, Zhen Shuwang, who had expected this, was extremely satisfied with it. Little did he know that the staff and musicians in charge of the tapes on the other side could not believe it and began to repeatedly test their ears.
Is this Director Jia really a cultural relic restorer rather than a professional musician?
The sound engineer and the middle-aged woman next to him looked at each other in disbelief.
"Professor Lu, Director Jia's level..."
"At her age, she is definitely a rare talent. I suddenly understand why Director Liu of the National Museum of China passed the Jiaoweiqin to her."
Lu Xinmei looked at the girl in the recording studio and uttered this comment.
As a professor of Donghuang classical music who was recently awarded the title, Lu Xinmei does not dare to say that she is a top musician who will amaze everyone.
But she also felt that she was one of the best in the field of ancient music of her generation. Over the years, she had indeed witnessed many geniuses in this industry that valued talent, which ordinary people could never achieve through hard work alone.
However, a situation like Jia Wenyan's was really beyond her understanding.
She also wanted to attribute Jia Wenyan's performance to her talent, but the problem was that as a Xian'an native, she knew very well that with the depth of Jia Wenyan's research in various traditional crafts, it was impossible for her to spend much time practicing the piano.
But the reality was that she could not find any problems at all in Jia Wenyan's performance.
She couldn't believe that she was beaten by a "kid" who was more than 20 years younger than her in playing the same piece of music.
"So this is why she was able to restore the poem 'Tanshi Meng' from the fragments of ancient books?"
Lu Xinmei thought so in her heart. At first, she also thought that what Zhen Shuwang said about Jia Wenyan repairing the piano score was the result of her piecing together the information on the music fragments bit by bit.
But now it seems that rather than simply restoring it, she would rather believe that Jia Wenyan added her own feelings and understanding to the incompleteness of this song.
This was her only possible explanation for Jia Wenyan's performance on this piece of music.
In order to verify this, she had thought about asking Jia Wenyan to play other songs for comparison, but Jia Wenyan, who did not want to be exposed, did not give this possibility any chance.
Almost as soon as she confirmed the end of the recording, she immediately escaped on the pretext that she had "important work" to complete.
She didn't want to cause any unexpected troubles because of this recording. But she obviously underestimated the attention her superiors paid to her.
As early as when she became famous for her live broadcast videos of replicating cultural relics, Xian'an City Culture and Tourism Bureau had paid considerable attention to her, and this time's bidding for the national gift made her an absolute "hot commodity" in the eyes of the Culture and Tourism Bureau.
The proposal for a national gift is not a bid that can be done just because you want to.
At this important moment in the Olympic year, almost every provincial unit has attached great importance to such projects.
As a representative cultural industry unit in northern Shaanxi, Xian'an City Culture and Tourism will naturally not lag behind.
Normally, being able to submit one item is already a very proud achievement, but although Jia Wenyan only took porcelain as the theme this time, she directly customized exclusive cultural theme porcelain according to the participating countries.
Such a lineup is too conspicuous in the series of unified and standardized state gift lists.
Therefore, ever since Jia Wenyan started submitting porcelain works in batches, Xian'an City Culture and Tourism began to prepare corresponding introductions and promotional slogans for each national gift porcelain.
They even set up a special docking project team for this purpose. Therefore, when Jia Wenyan was inspired by the "cherry blossom bonsai" and began to hire people to build scaffolding, the Cultural and Tourism Bureau immediately got the news.
The previous all-ceramic chariot and terracotta warriors were already stunning enough, and they could not imagine what an unforgettable sight it would be when the all-ceramic cherry tree that was rumored to be nearly five meters high was completed.
To this end, many people from the Cultural and Tourism Bureau project team began to compete for the quota for each transfer mission out of curiosity. Jia Wenyan's cherry tree was also gradually completed in the process.
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