Rebirth 81: Being forced into marriage by my sister’s best friend at the beginning

The work of restoring calligraphy and paintings is not unfamiliar to Lin Ran.

But the repair suggestions Wu Qingniu gave him were unheard of.

I saw him put the calligraphy and painting in his hand, then spread it flat and placed it on the coffee table. He used the ashtray as a paperweight and pressed down its four corners.

Then, he dipped the brush in water and brushed it back and forth against the repaired paper. He didn't stop until the entire calligraphy and painting was soaked with the special material.

Then I took a dim flashlight and looked at the calligraphy and painting.

It is taboo to use light to restore calligraphy and painting, because we don’t know how the paint reacts to light, which is very likely to cause the paint to change color.

He looked at Wu Qingniu's movements with some curiosity.

I have never seen this kind of method of restoring calligraphy and painting, it doesn't follow the rules and routines at all.

But Lin Ran chose to believe Wu Qingniu, so he didn't speak and just watched silently.

Wu Qingniu also devoted himself to the restoration of calligraphy and paintings without saying a word.

Finally, he seemed to have discovered the problem. He took the flashlight away and leaned almost entirely on the edge of the calligraphy and painting to check.

I pinched it gently with my hand, put it next to my nose and smelled it.

"It will take a few days to prepare the materials. Just leave the calligraphy and painting open on the table."

Lin Ran nodded, but still asked curiously: "Master Wu, what are you going to do?"

"Preparing paper pulp." Wu Qingniu replied. The previous repair could only restore the shape, but to make the entire painting intact, the paper patching part needed to be adjusted again.

The so-called restoration originally refers to the restoration of paper.

"Then it's Master Wu. If you need any materials, just tell me." Lin Ran said.

He knew that the replacement paper used by Wu Qingniu was actually very expensive.

The painting was sold for 10 yuan, but it was used to buy replacement paper, which was all used up in an instant.

Wu Qingniu smiled: "It doesn't matter, I use some ordinary bamboo rice paper, which is not expensive."

"Can bamboo rice paper achieve this effect?" Lin Ran looked at the corner of the painting on the table.

He originally thought that the entire painting was soaked with water, but he found that Wu Qingniu did not know how to deal with it, and no water stains could be seen on the surface of the entire painting.

When he was about to touch it, he was stopped by Wu Qingniu.

"Don't touch the calligraphy and painting now, it will destroy him."

"Didn't Master Wu apply a layer of water just now? Why can't you see any traces of soaking on the calligraphy and painting?"

"That is definitely not ordinary water." Wu Qingniu said with a smile, "If "Picture of Picking Wei" had been soaked in water, wouldn't it be completely destroyed? That is a transparent material specially prepared by me, just to distinguish subtle differences."

The calligraphy and painting had been dealt with, and everything had been explained, Wu Qingniu was ready to leave.

Leaving Lin Ran alone in the room, he finally got some clues.

Among calligraphy and painting restoration work, the most taboo thing is to mix a variety of materials. The final repaired product will look like a patch and cannot be seen at all.

In contrast, after the emergence of AI, the machine repair technology used is much better than manual repair.

Because the machine will analyze the composition of the paper and finally tell the chemical element list, it can prepare the corresponding pulp.

Unfortunately, before this technology came out, too many calligraphy and paintings had been repaired poorly and were unsightly.

Can you find out the formula of paper pulp through this method?

Lin Ran also wanted to see how far Wu Qingniu could restore the calligraphy and painting?

If it succeeds, it will be incredible and has reached the level of a humanoid computer.

But this was also his main purpose of collecting and paying Wu Qingniu.

"Interesting." Lin Ran said with a smile, "With such technology, why do you still need to resell cultural relics to make a profit?"

There is a huge need for restoration, both for museums and individual collectors.

Especially ancient books. Books left over from ancient times are often in a state of incomplete condition, which greatly affects their collection value, and their content is incomplete.

The restoration of cultural relics can not only restore their appearance, but also make up for some of the lost content through the direction of fonts and paintings.

An excellent cultural relic restorer is very popular in the job market.

"If there are no problems in other museums, then there is no problem here."

There was not much time left, so Lin Ran decided to deal with all the things he could.

The first is the cooperation with the Municipal Museum.

When Chen Qi heard that he wanted to donate money to the museum, he shook his head.

"Impossible, it's not that I don't want to help you, but donating money to the Municipal Museum has neither a publicity effect nor a direct return. It is impossible for our Apocalypse Fund to do this kind of operation."

Lin Ran then realized that Chen Qi was originally the boss of an investment company. He only asked Chen Qi to engage in business cooperation. The other party directly estimated that there was no value in cooperation and chose to give up.

It's okay to let Chen Qi buy things for Lin Ran. After all, he helped him a lot.

But if you want to make a donation, you have to go through the public account, and everyone at home is still watching him, so naturally it is impossible to join such a garbage industry.

In the hearts of Hong Kong City citizens, the collapse of the Municipal Museum has only happened in the past two years. It is strange that Chen Qi would invest in such a sunset industry.

"You can't think like that." Lin Ran said, "Although the Municipal Museum is not famous now, I have a way to make it popular again."

Chen Qi thought for a while and asked, "Teacher, are you sure?"

"Of course." Lin Ran laughed and said, "Why do people go to museums?"

"Going to see cultural relics? Study history?" Chen Qi didn't understand why Lin Ran asked this question.

As far as he understood, most local people lacked understanding of the nature of the museum. They would go to the museum. Except for some historical researchers and antique lovers, young people regarded it as a dating place and foreign tourists as a tourist attraction.

For the rest of the people, the nature of going to museums is very low, and it is good to go once a year.

From a business perspective, there is no problem with Chen Qi's understanding.

But besides that, he also ignored one thing.

That's marketing.

The fact that "The Treasure Winner" has become popular on TV shows that even though most viewers don't understand the rules, they still enjoy the show.

The main gap between museums and ordinary people is that museums display items with a strong sense of history, usually with educational significance.

However, for most people, being a teacher is an annoying thing, and even if they don't say it out loud, they don't like it in their hearts.

It's okay in today's era, but in later generations, it has become a parent-child paradise. Except for some museums with special significance, the rest of the museums are the same as what Chen Qi said. .

Lin Ran didn't want the museum to deteriorate, but on the verge of crisis, he had to do something special.

He decided to launch a massive marketing campaign.

"You should take this plan back home and read it first. I won't be able to tell you for a while."