Chapter 31 Chapter 31 The Wonderful Museum 4
A living person, rooted in a vase, this scene made the players present shudder.
And thinking about what Luo Qing said about the second exhibition hall being the "Porcelain Hall"...could it be that the entire exhibition hall is filled with such vase beauties?
"Dear tourists, please follow me--" Luo Qing waved, signaling them to follow.
Tu Nan's scalp was tingling at this moment, and he heard Cai Xia curse softly.
"If this happened to a living person, it would be a real sin."
"I feel like I've seen this thing somewhere before. I have some impression of it." Zhao Jiayi began to think.
As soon as she said this, the others couldn't help but look at her, "Is it in other copies? It can't be in reality." Tian Fang said in a low voice.
"This thing is too weird."
"It's not real, nor is it a copy. It should be something I've read in a book or newspaper before."
"It's like a rumor, something written at a storytelling meeting. The author seems to be recalling his childhood when a national touring acrobatic troupe came to the countryside to perform." Zhao Jiayi tried hard to recall.
"He wrote about traveling with his elders across several villages to see acrobatics, including women growing out of vases and orcs. He remembered it vividly, having seen the circus as a child, but when he told others about it as an adult, they wouldn't believe him."
"The show was called 'Vase Girl,' and the author remembers it very clearly. He said he always thought it was real, until he brought it up over a drink. A friend explained that the Vase Girl was a trick, using something like a mirror with a vase placed in front."
Zhao Jiayi spoke very quickly. After listening to Tu Nan, she said, "It's probably fake in reality, but it's not necessarily true here."
At this point, they have officially entered the "Interlace" exhibition hall.
"Just now in the first exhibition hall, I believe everyone saw the exquisite double-sided embroidery. In the porcelain exhibition hall, there are naturally double-sided porcelain."
"Porcelain is produced in various kilns and by various techniques. For example, in blue and white porcelain, there are different techniques such as blue scattering, printing, white piling, hollowing, relief, etc."
"The double-sided porcelain in this exhibition hall is actually a piece with two sides. It has two different patterns on the same shape."
"Please look at the first display case. To better showcase the painting content on the double-sided porcelain, there are panels on the wall where you can see the specific painting in more detail. Of course, if you want to see the details, you must get close to the display case."
"First of all, can you tell what's on the porcelain in the first display case?" Luo Qing asked the question. The players either gathered around the display case or looked directly at the enlarged picture on the display board next to it.
The porcelain has a white background and blue flowers, but the players present did not have any relevant professionals and could not determine its age.
"Is this a, uh, birth chart of a child?" Tu Nan hesitated and spoke.
The pattern on the porcelain is easy to spot: a woman reclining on a classical bed, two wives beside it, and a husband and his parents-in-law waiting outside the door. The reason it's clearly a childbirth scene is that if you follow the direction of the painting, you'll see two babies being brought out of the bedroom.
Hearing the visitor's words, Luo Qing nodded approvingly: "That's right, the first exhibit in this exhibition hall is the scene of a child's birth, which is also the beginning of this series of exhibits."
"Next, let's look at the second piece of porcelain."
Liu Yanran followed with her arms folded. The content painted on this porcelain was obviously unusual. Generally speaking, the patterns on porcelain are often given beautiful meanings. Porcelain with human figures often depicts profound legends and allusions, such as the Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea, Three Visits to the Thatched Cottage, and Farewell in the Bamboo Forest.
The porcelain vase in front of us depicts a family waiting for the birth of a child and the joy of the newborn's birth. It is purely a record, which makes people feel a little weird.
"This is the first time I've seen this kind of story-telling porcelain." Zhao Jiayi said.
"It looks just like what's drawn in a picture book, without any words on it," said Aunt Tian Fang.
Exhibit No. 2 is a blue and white double-handled pot with a small mouth and thin neck, an exquisite top and a flat and round belly at the bottom, which is very beautiful.
This time, players saw a clear "double side" on the porcelain painting.
"Two children were born just now, so they are a boy and a girl, twins. There was no special requirement for twins in ancient times. I remember that in the TV dramas I watched, twins seemed to be unlucky." Cai Xia said.
The picture of the second ear pot exhibit clearly shows two babies being born and growing up, but they are probably only four or five years old, or maybe six or seven years old. Players can't really tell.
"They are going to school now, right? The little boy seems to have asked a teacher to help him, and he is in the study. The little girl is in the bedroom, and there is a bed." Zhao Jiayi touched her chin.
"I understand, so this double-sided porcelain should refer to the two children." Tu Nan clapped his hands.
Everyone could see what Tu Nan said. Liu Yanran also carefully observed the porcelain painting. The content on it was not just the study and bedroom that Zhao Jiayi had just mentioned.
If you observe carefully, you will find that the girl is reading "Three Character Classic", "Hundred Family Names" and "Youxue Qionglin" in big characters. There are also many toys in the bedroom. The little boy's study seems to be where he is reading classics and copying calligraphy.
Liu Yanran's eyes moved slightly. This gap may seem small, but the direction of life is the result of the continuous accumulation of these deviations.
"This exhibition hall would be quite simple if all you did was look at the pictures and read the stories." Tu Nan muttered.
"Heh." Ning Ruyi laughed, as if she was amused by him.
"Just look at the picture and you will know how to stamp it. I just don't know where the interaction is." Sister Cai Xia said.
As they were talking, Luo Qing had already raised his foot and directed them to the next exhibit.
"Exhibit number three is over here. Haha, this time it's a little different."
As soon as Luo Qing said this, the five players immediately looked over. Huh? It's still porcelain, not a vase. They were almost scared.
But this piece of porcelain is a little different. It is not a vase. It is very large and more like a large square flowerpot. It is placed on a table that is neither too high nor too low so that tourists can observe and explore it.
Liu Yanran discovered at the first moment that this time, the girl’s story was in the flowerpot!
The flowerpot is square, and each of its four sides presents a different scene.
On the four sides of the flowerpot, the boy carries his book box and bids farewell to his family; enters the academy and studies with his classmates; makes friends and wanders through the streets; wanders in the mountains and rivers, discusses poetry and paints.
On the four sides of the flowerpot, there is a girl standing at the second door, seeing off her brother; returning to the bedroom, sitting alone and looking out the window; sitting with close friends, exchanging embroidery patterns; living in the house, practicing writing.
"This feels like I'm about 12 or 13, or 14 or 15."
"almost."
The plot of the two-sided picture is easy to interpret. Liu Yanran heard Aunt Tian Fang say: "This little girl is unhappy."
"The two faces are different!"
The man outside was in high spirits and laughed heartily, while the woman inside had a dull and listless look, and no smile could be seen on her face.
"Do you feel that this exhibition hall is a bit hot?" Zhao Jiayi touched the back of her neck. She felt a little sweaty.
It was strange. People always felt cold all over in strange dungeons, but she inexplicably felt a surge of warmth in her body.
"I feel the same way when you mention it. The previous exhibition hall was chilly, but I didn't feel it when I first entered this exhibition hall, and it's a bit hot now." Tu Nan nodded.
"Exhibit No. 4 is in front of us. Everyone, get ready to interact!" Luo Qing said this and everyone turned their heads. It didn't matter whether it was hot or not. The key was the interaction that could earn them a stamp of approval.
Take a deep breath, don't gasp!
Don't be surprised by anything you see!
Liu Yanran said this to herself in her heart.
Exhibit No. 4 is a blue and white plum vase, on the surface of which is a man sitting in the examination room (the imperial examination room) writing furiously.
"Eh? This is just one side." Aunt Tian Fang said.
This plum vase is slender, the figures painted on it are simple, and the mouth of the vase is narrow, so it is impossible to see whether there are any patterns inside the vase.
Moreover, there is no display board with relevant pictures for exhibit number 4!
Suddenly, a hand appeared in the plum vase, with a white wrist and slender hands, and fingers as white as scallions.
The jade hand stretched out from the plum vase has an extremely beautiful shape, which reminds Zhao Jiayi of the "peacock" posture when she was doing shadow puppetry as a child.
Although the scene in front of me is horrifying, it has a unique beauty. Previously, there was a beautiful woman's head growing in the vase, and now it is much easier to accept that there is a hand growing out.
"How, how do we interact?" Tu Nan asked stutteringly.
"To say hello, of course it's a handshake." Luo Qing looked at him with an expression that said, "You are so stupid, you even have to ask this."
It’s just a handshake, and interaction can get you a stamp. The players who went through the first exhibition hall did not hesitate. Ning Ruyi took a big step forward and directly grabbed the first seat.
He extended his right hand, lightly touched the palm of the other hand with his knuckles, and smiled very gentlemanly: "Hello, Miss."
However, he didn't expect that after he touched the hand that stretched out from the plum vase, it immediately flicked him with the back of its hand, as if to drive Ning Ruyi away.
Ning Ruyi was stunned. What did this mean? Dissatisfied?
"What's going on?" Liu Yanran asked Luo Qing in a low voice, looking unhappy.
Luo Qing happened to be watching and translated it directly: "She asked if you dislike her. If that's the case, there's no need to force it. She dislikes you too."
Ning Ruyi was stunned, and so were the players. Why was this considered disgusting? Furthermore, how was this dialogue translated? Sign language wasn't supposed to work like that, was it?
The explanation can actually allow you to communicate with the hand in this plum vase?!
"I don't dislike this lady." Ning Ruyi explained.
"Then why you shook hands from so far away, as if you were afraid of touching something dirty. Move away." Luo Qing raised his chin, "Didn't you see that he was angry or unhappy?"
At this moment, the hand in the plum vase had retracted, and Ning Ruyi had no choice but to withdraw her hand.
"I meant to be a gentleman."
He was certain that this hand was probably the hand of the woman they had seen on different porcelain paintings along the way.
Judging from the painting style on the porcelain, it should be a lady from ancient times, so she deliberately touched her hand lightly to avoid causing any surprise to the other party.
Unexpectedly, she was unhappy about it!
The other players looked at each other and wondered what to do. Should they go online now?
The sharp-eyed Zhao Jiayi saw two fingers sticking out of the mouth of the plum vase, as if observing secretly.
She thought about it, walked forward, stretched out her fingers, and moved them to touch those two fingers.
As soon as the fingertips touched it, the hand in the plum vase seemed to be frightened, first retracting, and then the whole hand popped out again.
Zhao Jiayi's five fingers interlocked with the five fingers of this hand and began to move above the plum vase. Now even Liu Yanran could see that the hand was in a good mood, even a little excited.
Good friends, holding hands, looking at this scene, these words appeared in her mind.
After a few seconds, Mei Pingshou took the initiative to let go of Zhao Jiayi's hand.
Zhao Jiayi was stunned. Is this the end? No stamp? She looked at Luo Qing for help. Luo Qing thought she wanted to translate, so she said, "Now that we're done shaking hands, you can come back."
"Ah, no..." Zhao Jiayi was about to ask if there was no stamp, but Cai Xia made a shushing gesture to her.
She immediately realized that if she revealed the stamp before shaking hands, it would seem utilitarian, and that hand might be unhappy.
"Nothing?" Luo Qing asked.
"I didn't shake hands enough. This lady's hands are ice-cold, and it's very comfortable to hold." Zhao Jiayi immediately changed the words that were on the tip of her tongue.
Next, Aunt Tian Fang and Sister Cai Xia also went to shake hands, but they also did not get a stamp.
Tu Nan hesitated for a while. Although there was no stamp, others had interacted with him. If he didn't interact, he might be at a disadvantage. With this mentality, he walked forward.
Tu Nan was very smart. He made a point of observing the ways in which several other players approached him to shake hands.
He walked forward and interlocked his fingers with Mei Pingshou, but as soon as he inserted his right hand into the gap between the fingers, he was knocked out by this hand just like Ning Ruyi.
Tu Nan turned around immediately, his face full of confusion and grievance. What was going on? Why didn't it work for him?
"You come back too." Luo Qing looked at him speechlessly.
"You're not gay, so interlocking your fingers right off the bat is too abrupt. She'll probably call you a pervert."
Tu Nan pointed his finger at himself, "Me? Huh? No?"
He pointed at Ning Ruyi, then at himself.
A too gentlemanly handshake is not acceptable, and his shaking hands like other female players with interlocking fingers is not acceptable either. He is too picky!
No, this is completely targeted! And Luo Qing's explanation didn't give any hints at all!
"Now that everyone has finished interacting, let's move on to the next exhibit." Luo Qing said.
Fortunately, in this first round of interaction, no player got a stamp, otherwise Tu Nan would really feel wronged.
He looked at Ning Ruyi and patted his tall brother, trying to get closer to him. After all, they were in the same boat. However, Ning Ruyi ignored him completely, with a thoughtful and unfathomable expression, which made Tu Nan depressed.
I have already looked at four or five exhibits. How can I get the "stamp" in this exhibition hall?
Considering that in the previous exhibition hall, Cai Xia was the only player who successfully walked out after leaving the guide "Luo Qing" and choosing to move freely, at this moment, although several players were anxious, they still followed Luo Qing obediently, while at the same time not forgetting to observe their surroundings.
The next exhibits are still porcelain, all kinds of porcelain.
They can also "interact". There are vases, plum bottles, and ear pots. Most of them are various kinds of bottles with left or right hands extending from them.
Some bottles are perched high on a stand, with an outstretched hand holding a brush, splashing ink on a scroll.
There are also two vases, one large and one small, placed next to each other, one for the left hand and the other for the right hand, but judging by their different skin colors, they don't seem to come from the same owner.
The two hands on the left and right are facing the fixed embroidery frame, one is threading the needle and embroidering seriously, while the other is pointing and making comments.
Look at another vase that is half the height of a person. There is a beauty's head on the mouth of the vase. The vase on her head is fixed on a square wooden board with a pulley underneath. I don't know how it is operated, but it just gallops back and forth in the exhibition hall.
The word "horrifying" is not enough to describe the scene before her. Liu Yanran couldn't help rubbing her eyes.
Sometimes, people really will constantly doubt their mental state in weird copies.
"Hey hey hey - this speed -" Tu Nan couldn't help but shout.
As I watched, a wooden pulley cart “driven” by a girl with a vase-like head sped past me, and even drifted on the spot!
"Is this speed okay? The vase won't break, will it?" Cai Xia said.
Although they didn't know whether there was only a head, a hand, or something else inside the broken vase, at least for now, they didn't want to see that scene.
"No problem, don't worry. Yu Niang and the others are experienced people and they are very stable." Luo Qing said.
She glanced at her watch. "It's eleven-fifteen. It's free time in the exhibition hall."
Luo Qing's words made the players a little confused. "Didn't you say before that the exhibits can be moved whenever you want and you can slack off at any time?" Zhao Jiayi said.
"Yes, but there is no conflict." Luo Qing looked at her strangely.
"Where you work, don't you have a unified 45-minute to an hour break? Slacking off is slacking off, and taking a group break is taking a break. How can you confuse the two?"
Luo Qing's explanation silenced the players again. Zhao Jiayi smiled awkwardly, "I see."
"The labor laws here must be strictly enforced."
Hearing this, Luo Qing nodded immediately. "Of course, it's a must. The benefits of working with museum exhibits are quite high. However, there is one thing: exhibits can't have a standard two-day weekend off. In addition to the fixed closing day of Monday, all employees have to rotate their shifts to other days. And when exhibits are loaned out for business trips, the museum's shift schedule is very troublesome."
“However, generally speaking, the exhibits in a hall are basically on the same shifts and holidays.”
Fortunately, Liu Yanran had her back to the players at this moment, otherwise these players would easily notice the look of astonishment on her face.
So that’s it, so that’s it!
No wonder every time a copy of the Wonderful Museum is opened, it is easy for players to encounter different content and mechanisms.
If you catch up with the same exhibition hall, then the exhibits in that exhibition hall are working. If the next wave of players comes in and encounters a different dungeon mechanism and exhibition hall, naturally the previous group is on vacation, and colleagues from other exhibition halls will take over.
This was originally discussed by players in the forum, who simply thought that the "Wonderful Museum" dungeon was deliberately torturing and disgusting.
The truth is so simple and reasonable.
Several players were stunned for a long time. The labor law in this weird world was implemented so thoroughly, was there any way to reason with it?
"Because it's free time now, everyone can interact if they're interested."
The exhibits were all resting and moving around at the moment, so there was no time for explanation. Luo Qing simply let the tourists go freely. After all, it seemed that they liked to wander around on their own in the previous exhibition hall.
After she finished speaking, the players did not rush to disperse. Ning Ruyi walked away, and the remaining four were not in a hurry.
"Since they are resting, it would be bad to disturb them." Aunt Tian Fang said.
"What Auntie said makes sense, but since it's a free activity explained to us, it should be a chance to get a stamp."
"But I don't have any clue or inspiration as to how to stamp it." Tu Nan smiled bitterly.
"We only have forty-five minutes left." Cai Xia reminded that twelve o'clock is the lunch time mentioned by the tour guide, and they should try their best to get the stamp and not hesitate. The experience in the previous exhibition hall fully proved that "hesitation will lead to failure."
As soon as these words were spoken, everyone felt the urgency and immediately began to act.
Tian Fang looked at the vases of various colors all over the place. She thought about it and realized that the last plum vase she saw had only pictures of boys taking exams on it. According to the order, there should also be pictures of girls.
So she tried to find a vase that would not be moved around too much, and said, "Excuse me, let me take a look," while looking at the patterns on the vases everywhere.
Soon, Tian Fang was found.
She felt that according to the order of the pictures on the bottle, the boy entered the examination room, and the girl was of the same age, and could get married in ancient times.
Tian Fang looked at the two vases, one big and one small, and stretched out two different hands to embroider flowers on the embroidery frame. She recognized the flowers, they were peonies.
The embroidery frame was red, and the peony embroidery was even more beautiful. Tian Fang half-knelt down to look at the pattern on the vase. She saw two women, no, to be more precise, a woman and a girl.
The older one should be the mother, and the younger one is one of the protagonists in the picture. The mother is guiding the girl to embroider a wedding dress.
The two vases represent two different perspectives: one depicts a girl embroidering her wedding gown, the other depicts a boy passing the imperial examination and visiting a renowned teacher.
"Next, it should be getting married." Tian Fang thought, and she went to find the next vase.
She searched and searched, but none of the vases she held out looked right. Finally, Tian Fang fixed her eyes on the vase with a beauty's head on it that had pulleys running around.
It happened that the beauty's head paused at one place, and Tian Fang hurried over and squatted down to look at the pattern on the vase.
It was a bridal sedan, a familiar one, the one she had seen before and ridden in with her own hands an hour ago!
Tian Fang was stunned for a moment, then she stood up and looked into the beautiful woman's eyes.
What a beautiful and pretty face this is. It is only the size of a palm, but probably not even as big as her hand. Her face is even more tender than when she was a child, with big eyes and a small mouth. She thinks it is prettier than the stars out there.
"Little sister, it's you." Tian Fang murmured.
"You are so beautiful. I wish I had a daughter as beautiful as you."
When she was in the sedan chair, she did not see the face of the woman in the wedding dress clearly. After seeing the sedan chair on the vase, she realized that it must be a person.
"Forget it. I'm not well off, and my child will suffer if he lives with me. I'd better be a daughter of a good family." She murmured again.
The vase girl looked at Tian Fang at this moment and smiled strangely again.
She asked Tian Fang, "If I were your daughter, would you ask me to marry you?"
Tian Fang exclaimed, "Whether to marry or not, I, I don't have the final say."
"Who has the final say?" the vase girl asked again, her eyes aggressive.
"You have the final say."
With a "pop", the stamp book in Tian Fang's pocket seemed to be pulled out and flew to the ground. Liu Yanran watched as the vase girl jumped off the pulley board with her head and the vase!
She was dumbfounded. Wait, is it going to break?
"Click——" A stamp in the shape of a miniature vase girl was stamped on the notebook.
The vase girl got on the pulley again and slid away in a flash. I don’t know if she didn’t want to continue the conversation or it was time to go to work.
Aunt Tian Fang picked up her stamp book blankly and couldn't help scratching her head again. This little girl has a weird temper.
Because the vase girl was laughing earlier, the other players were watching Tian Fang interacting with her, and they saw the entire scene.
Ning Ruyi had no expression on her face and continued to look for the exhibits she had selected.
After an exhibit has been stamped once, can it be stamped a second time? Zhao Jiayi is now eager to try.
Tu Nan on the other side seemed to be thinking, is this round of exhibition hall going to say good things about the exhibits that they like to hear?
Liu Yanran's eyes flickered. As for the conditions for achieving the "stamp", she guessed that the stamp represented the "recognition" of the exhibits.
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