Chapter 37: Fooling People and Reuniting with a Broken Mirror

  Just received this gift from Mr. He's hands, and was also told about the origin of the calabash.

  The weight of the mountain is joyful and cannot be self-sufficient. This gourd, although not highly valued in other people's eyes, is estimated to be worth around 1 million yuan, but others may not buy it even if you offer a valuable Qinghua ghost valley down-mountain large jar worth over 200 million yuan, he will absolutely not exchange with you.

  From the moment he got the gourd, he couldn't bear to put it down. Even when he heard the quarrel downstairs, Ren Zhong still came down with the gourd in hand. At first, his mood was also very good when he came down.

  But didn't expect that just a few minutes later, this gourd was smashed!!

  Having thoroughly understood the origin of this calabaza, Ren Liheng and several others including Ren Li Juan were truly frightened. Just as Grandfather's greatest worry was about to be resolved, who would have thought that such a twist would arise?

  At this moment, it's not just Ren Zhongshan, even Ren Liheng's gaze at Zhang Zhonglin makes him want to swallow him whole.

  It's not surprising that Ren Liheng is involved, as this gourd not only affects whether Ren Zhongshan and Fang Chuanjun can make amends, but also involves the relationship between the younger generations of the Ren and Fang families.

  Although Ren's family is very large and has a deep relationship with both officials and merchants.

  It must be said that the Fang family is now absolutely more powerful than the Ren family, even if Fang Chuanjun has retired, his eldest son is now sitting in the high position of Secretary of the Provincial Committee of Yangcheng City, and has also become one of the Standing Committee members of the Provincial Committee, a deputy ministerial-level official.

  In addition to Old Master Fang's many years of connections, that one would also be very desirable. After all, Secretary Fang is only in his early fifties and still in the prime of life.

  If Fang's family really fell out with Ren's family, the consequences would be unthinkable.

  It's obvious that if Fang Chuanjun finds out that the gift he bought with all his savings was smashed to pieces in Ren Zhongshan's hands in less than half a day, he will be furious. This might even affect the attitude of the younger generation of the Fang family. Although they have been trying to make peace between the two families, now that Fang Chuanjun has taken the initiative to apologize, you, Old Man Ren, have made things turn out like this. Isn't this deliberately trying to annoy people?

  At that time, the two families may not necessarily be at odds with each other. After all, there is still a deep foundation between the two families. That Fang Secretary and the founder of Yuanyang Group, Ren Yuan Yang, who is also Ren Liheng's father, almost grew up together bare-bottomed.

  Even if they don't have a direct confrontation, the relationship will inevitably become distant. If the two families start to drift apart from the second and third generations, then everything is really over.

  Soon after thinking through these consequences, Ren Liheng felt that being scolded by Zhang Zhonglin was a light punishment.

  "I... I really didn't mean to."

  Being taken care of by Ren Da Shao with this kind of gaze, Zhang Zhonglin's words also began to carry a hint of sobbing. Although he still doesn't understand many things until now, at least he can understand how the Ren family views this calabaza, which is enough for him to see the severity of the situation.

  "Grandpa, the gourd is already broken, now it's useless to say anything. I think we should just find someone to repair it." However, Ren Dashi didn't have much time to bother with Zhang Zhonglin at this moment, and instead turned his eyes and hastily spoke up.

  This sentence made Ren Zhongshan pause for a moment, "Repair?"

  This is a way.

  "But Ren Zhongshan's anger flared up again after a brief pause, 'Repair? You make it sound easy. Who can repair it to its original perfect condition?'"

  Having played with antiques for half his life, how could Ren Zhongshan not know that broken porcelain can be restored?

  By 2011, ceramic restoration had become highly mature and can be broadly categorized into five main types: cleaning, matching, bonding and reinforcement, supplementation, and colouring. However, some of these categories involve using other ceramics to supplement and restore damaged pieces that are missing a section and cannot be found in their original form.

  The original object of this blue and white calabash is still intact, with no loss at all, so it's relatively easy to repair. It only needs to be glued and reinforced in one step. Of course, while it's easy to glue and reinforce, achieving perfection is not simple, and even if done well, general gluing and reinforcing can easily lead to problems.

  Modern adhesives are simpler to use garlic juice adhesive, better is the use of colorless, transparent and high bonding strength adhesive.

  With Ren's family power, it is absolutely possible to get any kind of adhesive to re-bond such porcelain, but no matter how good the adhesive is, it is impossible to achieve a seamless repair. At most, it can only be scanned with a big eye, and it looks like new, but if you look carefully, you can still see the seams and cracks on it.

  These mountains are certainly heavy.

  This matter is just two old men's stubbornness, both are being unreasonable.

  One of them finally humbled himself, spent his life savings to buy a gift for you, and you broke it in an instant. Even if it's repaired afterwards, there are still cracks on the surface.

  Who knows what others will think? Will you take responsibility for this matter? Anyone can casually fix it, but if you really value the relationship between two people, you shouldn't have broken it like that.

  At least, after thinking about it for a long time, if you spent your entire life's savings to buy it and give it to Fang Chuanjun, only to have him ruin it with one careless move, wouldn't that make you furious? Even if he fixed it afterwards, what's the point?

  This will only make people think that they are being fooled by each other.

  Of course, if someone can really repair it to perfection and find no flaws, that's another story. In fact, at that time, this might not be a bad thing, but rather a good thing.

  The broken mirror is restored to its former state, although it describes the relationship between husband and wife.

  But it can also be applied to other deep relationships. Ren Zhongshan and Fang Chuanjun have known each other for thirty or forty years, they were once close enough to share a pair of pants, but later had a falling out that lasted for thirty or forty years. If they were to reconcile in their old age, it would be like the reunion of two broken mirrors.

  If this calabaza can be restored to its original state, without any cracks or defects, it can be described as a perfect reunion, and will add another layer of meaning to the relationship between the two people.

  But the problem is that if this calabaza is not repaired well and cannot be perfect, it will not be a reunion of broken mirrors, but rather a deception.

  Anyone can fix it casually, what's the point of you doing so? It will only make people think that you don't care about these things at all.

  "This..."

  Ren Liheng opened his mouth, but also speechless. Repairing is not the problem, the problem is that it can't be repaired to its original perfection, so whether or not to repair makes no difference.

  It was also at this time that Ren Liheng was speechless, not knowing what to say. Zhou Minglou, who had been standing behind Zhang Zhonglin all along, finally made a slight movement, and by now he had more or less guessed some of the significance of this gourd to the Ren family.

  Repairing the broken porcelain was not a difficult task for him, especially since the calabaza in front had shattered, but it wasn't particularly severe. The previous crash had only shattered the originally intact blue and white calabaza into three or four pieces.

  Three or four complete gourds, as long as one hand splices them together and casts a [Vajra Seal] on them, in just a few breaths, the gourd will be restored to its original intact state.

  It was just a piece of cake for him, so for a moment he hesitated as to whether he should help this old man or not.