Riding the wind of rebirth

Chapter 1880 Curiosity

Chapter 1880 Curiosity

Suihuaxuan is an old mansion. In order to solve the problem of its slightly small indoor area, Zhou Zhi demolished the magnificent mahogany nave church-style building and stairs in the room during the renovation, moved the stairs outside the building, and installed an elevator.

Only a passage leading to the underground library was left in the room. After the glass curtain wall was opened, the room immediately became much more spacious and brighter.

However, if you want to go upstairs, you have to take the elevator, or you have to leave the mansion first and go upstairs via the newly designed stairs on the exterior wall of the mansion.

With Feng Xueshan's management, some small changes have been made in many places in Suihuaxuan, such as the red nanhong and Hetian jade carvings in the small glass cabinets on both sides of the elevator, and the "niches" formed by the ancient mahogany shelves and half-sided vases from the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China on several walls.

Several half-bottles were spoils of war seized from Lu Lirong. Although they were exquisitely made, they were actually of low value. Feng Xueshan used them as soft furnishings mainly because she liked the beautiful pastels on them.

Coming out of the elevator on the second floor, there is a small concave space on the wall between each room. Each space is designed in an abstract way based on the shape of the stained glass windows in Suzhou garden architecture, including bottle-shaped, lantern-shaped, half-moon-shaped, etc. A piece of porcelain is placed in each space, with lights arranged and tempered glass added on the outside, which serves as both a display and corridor lighting.

The porcelain here is much more valuable, and each piece is a masterpiece from the three dynasties of the Qing Dynasty.

Room 202 is located in the middle of a pair of Qing Dynasty Qianlong pink-glazed green-ground floral and plant vases with dragon and phoenix handles. The pair of vases were bought from Old John's second-hand porcelain shop in the United States. At that time, holes were punched through the bottoms of both vases and they became lamp bases, which made Zhou Zhi exclaim that it was a pity.

After returning to China, Zhou Zhi asked Jingdezhen's masters to burn some porcelain pieces imitating the bottom inscription based on the remaining bottom inscription on the bottom of the bottle and the writing style of the Qianlong famille rose official kiln, combined with the bottom body and glaze. Then he drilled out the corresponding parts from the porcelain pieces, precisely aligned them with the damaged bottom of the two bottles, and carried out filling and repair.

At this point, we have to be thankful that the wares from the official kilns of the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty were made with such precision and neatness that even the size and writing standards of the inscriptions on different porcelains were highly consistent, making them not particularly difficult to imitate.

Although the bottom of the bottle was not visible when it was on display, Zhou Zhi still spent a lot of money to repair the bottle, and the effect was very satisfactory. An outsider could hardly tell that the two bottom patterns were added later.

However, this was just an attempt to imitate and repair the porcelain. Although the hole in the porcelain was repaired and even seamless, the huge hole in the value of the porcelain itself caused by the hole can never be repaired.

Looking at the two bottles, Zhou Zhi became a little angry and knocked on the door a little louder.

"What are you doing?" Feng Xueshan gave Zhou Zhi a reproachful look and gently rang the doorbell of the room.

It was so embarrassing. Zhou Zhi had almost never been here since the guest rooms on the second floor were renovated, and he didn't even know there was a doorbell installed there.

"Who is it..." The door opened a crack, and a girl wearing thick pajamas with cartoon cat patterns appeared behind the door with sleepy eyes: "Hey, Sister Xueshan, is there anything I can do for you?"

However, when she saw Zhou Zhi behind Feng Xueshan, the girl's eyes suddenly turned into shock, disbelief, and panic. Her already big eyes suddenly opened even wider, and then she suddenly screamed "Ah" and slammed the door shut.

"Oh my go!" Zhou Zhi turned around and started running downstairs.

"Elbow, what are you doing?!" Feng Xueshan took out the room card, but saw Zhou Zhi had already run to the exit on the second floor.

"I'm afraid she'll run away, so I'll go downstairs and stop her!"

When Zhou Zhi ran to the lawn downstairs, the girl had indeed climbed out from the second-floor window and was standing there with her eyes closed, as if she was gathering up the courage to jump down.

"Don't mess around—" Zhou Zhi was startled and ran towards the window where the girl was. I don't know if this shout made the girl determined, the girl really jumped down from the windowsill.

"Damn!" Zhou Zhi had no thoughts at all. He rushed forward and landed just under the falling girl. He hugged her and turned over, using her as a solid cushion.

The girl opened her eyes and found herself on top of the person she was most afraid of seeing. She was so scared that she tried to stand up and leave, but her courage was gone and she couldn't get up. When Zhou Zhi opened his eyes and stared at her fiercely, the corners of her mouth began to twitch and tears quickly gathered in her eyes...

"Don't cry!" Zhou Zhi shouted.

But it was too late. The girl burst into tears with a "wow".

Feng Xueshan stuck her head out of the window on the second floor. She was terrified when she saw the situation downstairs. She also heard the girl crying and thought something had happened to Zhou Zhi. She shouted, "Elbow--"

There was already a tone of crying in his voice.

Zhou Zhi lay on the grass, unable to see what was happening above because of the girl. He just raised his hands and waved a few times to indicate that he was fine.

Although it is an old mansion, the height from the second floor to the first floor of Suihuaxuan is quite high. Even though there is a beautiful relief platform under the window of the second-floor dormitory that separates the first and second floors, the distance from the platform to the ground is still five meters.

Fortunately, the ground was covered with soft grass, and everyone was wearing thicker clothes in late autumn. In addition, Zhou Zhi acted as a cushion and provided a lot of cushioning, so in the end, no one was seriously hurt.

However, there were abrasions and bruises on Zhou Zhi's palms and both knees.

"Ouch, it hurts, it hurts..." Feng Xueshan was rubbing iodine on Zhou Zhi's knee. Zhou Zhi didn't expect that the wound disinfectant at this time was not the iodine tincture commonly used in later generations. He was not mentally prepared and howled in pain.

The girl knew she had done something wrong, but she did not run away. She followed Feng Xueshan silently, watching Feng Xueshan help Zhou Zhi to sit in the sunny greenhouse, and seeing Feng Xueshan busy examining and applying medicine to Zhou Zhi, she shrank into a chair beside her, pulled her legs up onto the chair, hugged herself into a ball with her hands, buried her face behind her knees, leaving only a pair of eyes peeking out.

Zhou Zhi screamed, and the girl was so scared that her body trembled again, and tears suddenly came out again.

"There's no need to jump out of the window!" Feng Xueshan seemed to be touched by something and was very angry. She scolded the girl, "This is the stupidest thing to do. You will regret your impulsiveness soon! It's a blessing that nothing serious happened!"

"I, I..." The girl's eyes were filled with tears: "I don't know why... I'm sorry..."

Feng Xueshan sighed and poked a good place on the outside of Zhou Zhi's wound with an iodine cotton swab, meaning, I've already sung the red face, isn't it your turn?

Zhou Zhi looked at the girl opposite him. Her feet were still bare, and her hair was messy because of the farce just now. With her pure and innocent eyes and tearful expression, she really looked a bit pitiful.

After moving his hands and feet for a while, he found that nothing was wrong and coughed softly: "Um, Mai Xiaomiao, right..."

"You, how did you find me..." The girl raised her head. Zhou Zhi actually looked at her in fear...

Damn it, why did I see the desire for knowledge? !

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