Chapter 32
“Success! We’ve truly restored the lost ancient technique!”
Several people shouted out excitedly In the museum.
The director was also present, and looking at the pile of severely oxidized, scattered cultural relics that looked like scrap metal, a relieved smile appeared on his face.
Now, these items could all be restored!
“Jiayan, how did that young lady find this production technique?” Professor Li, who led the restoration team, sighed.
“We spent several months and were always just a bit short. Her bringing over the method was seriously a great help.”
Xu Jiayan thought for a moment. “Some time ago, a friend of mine asked her to repair something, which was a hair ornament made using this lost ancient technique. She said she would study it and confirm that she could repair it before responding. Yesterday when I accompanied my friend there, she had already found the method.”
Hearing this, Professor Li became even more excited.
“Sure enough, experts are found among the common people! Such a good prospect, give me her contact information. I’ll ask if she’s willing to come work at our museum.”
He had heard that she was only in her early twenties. Having such ability at such a young age was truly rare.
Professor Li had been doing cultural relic restoration for decades, and several treasures of the museum had been restored by his hands. He was a meticulous old man who rarely became this excited.
“I asked yesterday, and she probably doesn’t have that intention.” Xu Jiayan paused. “She is Shen You.”
“The girl who donated the porcelain?!” Professor Li reacted immediately.
Shen You’s name wasn’t unfamiliar in the museum. Everyone had been talking about her recently.
“Since you’re familiar with her, then ask her if she’d be willing to come to the museum to exchange ideas with our team when she has time. It doesn’t matter if she doesn’t want to work here.” Professor Li said again.
“Old Li, you just want to know if she knows other lost techniques. Such obvious motives.” The director exposed him mercilessly.
“Last time when she came, you were inside restoring cultural relics and didn’t see her.”
Professor Li now felt regretful. “I would be very happy to pass on my many years of experience. Our field has few good prospects. Do you think it’s easy to encounter one?”
“Alright, Professor Li, I’ll go ask her.” Xu Jiayan smiled. “If she agrees, I’ll send her WeChat to you later.”
Only then did Professor Li nod with satisfaction then turn to walk toward his workstation.
Xu Jiayan sent a message to Shen You afterwards, however he wasn’t in a hurry to see her reply, as he knew that she usually responded to messages in the afternoon.
Since her shop would take restoration work, she probably wouldn’t refuse. What’s more Professor Li was a big shot in the professional field.
Xu Jiayan wasn’t wrong. When Shen You saw the message, she agreed immediately, thinking that there might be times when she would need to ask for advice in the future.
As there was nothing else to do today, Shen You kept the shop open and then began working on repairing Gu Shaoyu’s hairpin.
For such a valuable item, she would definitely try several times first before starting officially.
As if she messed up the first order, it would be difficult to get work in the future.
Slow progress wasn’t a problem. She only wanted to do the job well.
During this time, two casual customers came to the shop, and one of them insisted on buying the painting on the wall for two thousand yuan.
With an attitude as if he was taking a loss, after being refused, he was still saying as he left that it wasn’t a famous artist’s work, and finding a fine arts student online to paint would only cost two or three hundred.
Shen You saw that the time was about right, so she closed the modern world shop door and opened the [Great Qi] shop.
For several hours in a row, no one came, so she started preparing to close up, and had just walked to the courtyard when—
A crisp wind chime sound rang in her ears.
When she looked up again, someone was standing before her.
Looking at his modern black suit with an extremely relaxed feel, Shen You was stunned for two seconds.
Wasn’t this the [Great Qi] portal?
“How did you get in?” Shen You asked puzzledly.
“Just like this.” Wen Zhi walked forward two steps casually, with an unrestrained smile on his face.
“So the fixed entrance of this shop in Great Qi is actually in the capital. I never discovered it before.”
“That means you can’t enter through random entrances, but you can through fixed ones.” Shen You thought about it.
Sure enough, random entrances could only be entered by specific destined people.
“Do you sell food here?” Wen Zhi asked.
“I can sell it, but don’t you have food to eat in Great Qi?”
He was really living too miserably.
“…” Wen Zhi was stunned by her words. Did he look like he was living that poorly?
“Ancient food, you know, isn’t articularly tasty.”
“But you can go to the modern world.” As Shen You spoke, she led him toward the small kitchen in the house. Suddenly, she realized,
“I understand now. You have business to handle here, so you can’t go back yet.”
Wen Zhi didn’t deny it, then saw Shen You pointing at the instant noodle pot on the counter that had just been turned off and was still steaming.
“Will snail rice noodles work? Ten taels per bowl.”
She had just told herself she would close the shop first and come back to add a fried egg when he entered the shop.
Wen Zhi’s beautiful eyes looked with shock at the food in the pot that was floating with a layer of red oil, had several dumplings added, and emitted a strange stench.
“This has gone bad and you can still eat it? Your shop should have made quite a bit of money. Is this necessary?”
The food here looked even more questionable than the ones in Great Qi.
“Snail rice noodles aren’t stinky! This is just the flavor.”
Seeing his disgusted and disbelieving face, Shen You took out a package of unopened snail rice noodles from the cabinet to show that it hadn’t gone bad.
“Is there nothing else edible in your shop?” Wen Zhi smiled reluctantly.
Shen You opened another cabinet and took out buckwheat noodles bought on sale.
“There’s also this. Considering we know each other, it’s also ten taels of silver.”
“What a remarkable discount indeed.”
The corners of Wen Zhi’s lips tugged, finally understanding how she had obtained porcelain that was worth thousands of gold even in Great Qi.
“This thing is probably not more expensive than the tofu pudding you bought last time.”
“That is certainly not the case.” Shen You said matter-of-factly. Two bowls of tofu pudding cost 24 yuan, while a package of buckwheat noodles cost 9.9 yuan.
“This is in Great Qi, so modern things are naturally expensive. If you didn’t bring modern silver, you can also exchange with Great Qi items.”
“Twenty taels, and I’ll cook it myself.”
Looking at her strange-smelling snail rice noodles, Wen Zhi’s instinct told him it would be safer if he did it himself.
Naturally, Shen You wouldn’t refuse such a good deal of earning money without having to work.
“The seasonings are all here. Help yourself.” She pointed toward the upper wooden shelf.
Wen Zhi rolled his sleeves up and, using the available materials in the kitchen, made even the clear soup noodles fragrant within a few minutes.
Afterward, he directly placed two gold ingots on the table. “Paying each time is too troublesome. If this isn’t enough, just tell me.”
Shen You nodded. One hundred taels of gold was 1.5 million in the modern world. Using the kitchen a few times wasn’t a big deal.
“This shop also undertakes takeout delivery services.”
Wen Zhi looked at her with an expression of “why didn’t you say so earlier”, while Shen You blinked her eyes. He hadn’t asked either.
“However, you’d better tell me in advance when you’re coming, or the shop might not be open. Normally it operates every three days.”
Wen Zhi thought about it and asked her if she could also send messages out, and received a positive answer.
Surprised, he immediately connected to WiFi and sent a message then told her that someone would deliver food tomorrow at noon.
He hadn’t known about such a shop previously. But now that he had found it, he didn’t want to be casual about the important matter of food.
After this special customer left the shop, Shen You also closed the door of the shop.
The next afternoon, when she opened the door, she saw restaurant staff who had driven over to make the delivery.
Upon checking, it was from an expensive high-end restaurant.
She looked at the exquisite food on the table and was stunned.
Good heavens, this was maintaining quality of life even while on business trips in ancient times, what’s more she got to eat well along with him.
This money was easy to earn. She only needed to receive the takeout, however there wasn’t any business value because he wasn’t from the Great Qi side.
“Isn’t this food much more normal than your snail rice noodles?” Wen Zhi asked seriously.
He really couldn’t understand why her cabinet was full of snail rice noodles in different packages.
Shen You said firmly, “Although these dishes are delicious, snail rice noodles are also delicious, and they are normal food!”
When Wen Zhi left, he said he would have business for the next two days. Shen You nodded, closed the shop door, then continued repairing antiques.
She had always been uninterested in customers’ affairs and only cared about making money.