"Be good. Don't make trouble."
"When it's bright around you, don't move around. When it's dark, you can move a little, but don't damage the things around you."
"A long time has passed. Your colors, glazes, these textiles and steel, have all faded and corroded somewhat... These experts are here to help you. You need to get along with them properly, all right?"
Shen Le gripped the tiger tally tightly in both hands and walked slowly through the ranks of armored soldiers. Now and then, he murmured instructions; now and then, he stopped and tilted his head, as though listening.
Only after quite a while did he finally let out a breath and wave his hand.
"Everyone, please take your positions. Don't run around, and don't touch these cultural relics... We'll return together to a laboratory equipped to store and restore artifacts, then take them out one by one. Is that all right?"
The cultural relic experts let out quiet cheers.
This batch of precious artifacts had finally been moved from deep within Zhongnan Mountain to the nearest laboratory at Chang'an Provincial Museum. The experts from different regions had argued fiercely over this, nearly coming to blows.
Shen Le opened the doors of the Ancient Residence. The smaller artifacts were packed one by one into Storage Boxes by the experts, then carried by hand, shouldered, or pushed out along temporarily laid tracks. As for that precious grand carriage...
"To be fair, I'm really not used to having Tang Sancai warhorses pull cultural relics, with pottery figurines supporting the carriage as they escort it outside... Watching this is making my heart pound..."
"Who isn't?"
Their hearts pounded, but they could only force themselves to watch. It wasn't that the experts hadn't wanted to build a temperature- and humidity-controlled archaeological module directly