In the darkness in front of Zhao Xiaojian's eyes, he felt that his butt was so painful. The faint pain forced him to slowly open his eyes, making his tired pupils begin to receive light from the outside world.

"Huh? Where is this? Why did I run to the suburbs?"

Zhao Xiaojian saw a tall and thick weeping willow standing quietly on the bank of the river. The willow tree was bent and stretched upward with its branches and leaves. The rough bark actually cracked several gaps, and a few large black ants were still busy shuttled in the middle. Zhao Xiaojian immediately patted his butt and was about to stand up, but suddenly he found that his clothes had been replaced for some reason.

"Huh? Damn, where is the Adidas I just bought? Damn, who stole my shoes!"

He turned up again and looked at the clothes he was wearing now, a green silk robe with several purple patterns embroidered on it, a light yellow satin vest, a brocade ribbon tied around his waist, and a red agate bead the size of a grape. Zhao Xiaojian really didn't understand what was going on.

"Did it be that crew that came out to film? No, I've been staying in the warehouse?" He analyzed himself and suddenly thought: "By the way, what about that picture of "Along the River During the Qingming Festival"? It wouldn't be taken out by me too, right? Then let Uncle Six know that he had to kill me. If he lost it, he would have to stay in prison for the rest of his life!"

He tried hard to recall what happened before going to bed, trying to figure out what was going on. He quickly untied his shirt and touched his chest, as if he was looking for something.

"It's broken, where is the horse? Where is my horse?" He began to scream anxiously. However, he was shocked by the neigh behind him with "Oh rooster~".

"Damn, what?" He immediately turned around and looked at it, but saw a tall red-maned horse more than ten steps away from him. The horse was stretching its neck to eat the tender grass that had just grown in the river.

Zhao Xiaojian slowly walked towards the horse, thinking in his heart: "This crew is too irresponsible, right? Even the horses are thrown in the wild. What if they run away?"

Zhao Xiaojian had not rode a horse a few times, but when he was in his second year of high school, he followed his father to his hometown in Jilin and rode a horse on the grassland there. This time, he suddenly saw such a group of tall horses, which was fresh. He tried to slowly approach the horse and reached out to touch its soft mane. Unexpectedly, the horse responded to him immediately. It gently moved its head to him and stretched its head for him to touch it.

This action surprised Zhao Xiaojian and thought to himself: "This horse seems to know me. I have never raised a horse? I only have a 'pony' made of copper. My grandfather left me with a piece of wear, which was hung around my neck. Now I disappeared again, and a real horse came!" Zhao Xiaojian didn't know what was going on when he wanted to break his head, so he had to lead the horse to walk somewhere else to see if there was anything else to breathe.

The horse was nostalgic for the tender grass by the river and was unwilling to leave. Zhao Xiaojian had no choice but to persuade: "Let's go, buddy, stop eating anymore. We have to find the crew first and figure out where this is. Let's eat it tomorrow!" He pulled the horse over with force.

Zhao Xiaojian walked west along the river bank, but felt that the scenery of this place was pretty good. The wheat seedlings in the fields in the distance were green, and the tall weeping willows on the river bank were like long-haired beauty dancing in the warm wind. Several poplar trees also emitted goose yellow buds, which was a spring scenery.

This made Zhao Xiaojian suddenly remember the picture "Along the River During the Qingming Festival". He couldn't help but shivered and stared blankly into the distance...

Zhao Xiaojian is a college student in the Department of Archaeology. His grandfather is a professor in the Chinese Department of Peking University. He once worked as a researcher in the Calligraphy and Painting Department of the Palace Museum. His grandfather has identified many famous calligraphy and paintings throughout his life, but what makes the old man most proud is that he is fortunate to participate in the identification of the national treasure-level cultural relic "Along the River During the Qingming Festival".

In 1951, the Northeast Cultural Relics Bureau sent a telegram to the National Museum, saying that when sorting out a batch of ancient relics, a landscape scroll marked "Along the River During the Qingming Festival" was found. Because this famous painting has various imitations since ancient times, it is difficult to distinguish whether the cultural relics found are genuine. I asked the National Museum for help.

After hearing the news, Mr. Zheng Zhenduo, who was the director of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, transferred the scroll to Beijing and invited six experts from the cultural relics appraisal industry to jointly identify them, including Zhao Xiaojian's grandfather. Finally, the appraisal team came to a consensus conclusion that this cultural relics were the original work of "Along the River During the Qingming Festival" by Zhang Zeduan, a painter in the Northern Song Dynasty.

In 1953, "Along the River During the Qingming Festival" was officially handed over to the Palace Museum by the Liaoning Museum, ending the life of this famous painting being a bumpy and displaced person.

For more than ten years after that, Zhao Xiaojian's grandfather had been obsessed with the study of this painting and wrote a lot of research texts, but he still could not completely solve some of the mysteries in this painting.

At the beginning of this long scroll of landscape, there is a village outside Bianliang City. A large family returned from visiting the grave. Several servants were shouting in front of them, asking the villagers to make way. However, suddenly two tall horses appeared in the middle of the road. One of them appeared in the picture intact, while the other horse only showed its head without seeing its body...

This puzzled countless scholars who studied this painting at that time. Some people said that there was damage in this place in the painting. I don’t know who lost the horse on the painting. However, there was no trace of supplementary information on the mounted scroll here, and no damage was mentioned in the promotion of collectors in history.

Some people also say that Zhang Zeduan did not finish painting this place, leaving a little regret, but this painting was presented to Song Huizong for viewing. If it were not finished, wouldn’t it be a crime to deceive the emperor?

There were many different arguments about the incompleteness of the painting, and in the end the academic community tended to destroy it. However, Zhao Xiaojian's grandfather made a conclusion easily. In 1955, he personally went to the warehouse of the Northeast Cultural Relics Bureau to investigate, hoping to find clues left by the painting when it was discovered. Although after a month of inquiry and visits, and a careful inspection of the same batch of identified cultural relics at that time, he did not find a satisfactory answer.

However, a staff member responsible for sorting out ancient paintings at that time took out something for Zhao Xiaojian's grandfather. This thing was found in a box of another scroll piled with "Along the River During the Qingming Festival". At that time, he thought it was a wearable item and had no value, so he threw it into a box on the test bench.

Xiao Jian's grandfather found this piece of clothing and saw it, it was a small bronze ware, the size of a fingertip, and the content of the carving was an exquisite horse. This made Xiao Jian's grandfather even more puzzled, so he asked the museum staff and expressed his willingness to collect this small object. Since this accessories had no cultural relics value, the museum agreed to his request.

Zhao Xiaojian heard the old man recite this painting since he was a child, and he listened to him telling the stories in the painting from time to time. The old man's study was also full of photocopying and enlarged versions of the painting. At this moment, Zhao Xiaojian seemed to realize that he had walked into the scroll. He began to pinch his face to see if he was feeling or whether he was dreaming, but the pain told him that everything was happening in reality. He really regretted not having sneaked into the warehouse to open the scroll. Now, he was wandering in this painting. At this moment, he still believed that he was dreaming and pinched himself in the dream.

Zhao Xiaojian tried hard to recall what happened yesterday...

As a graduate of archaeology, it was a great luck to be able to participate in the internship in the Painting and Calligraphy Department of the Palace Museum. Zhao Xiaojian's grandfather passed away two years ago. During his lifetime, he always asked his grandson to apply for the archaeology department, which made his family very puzzled. However, no one dared to disobey the old man's wishes, so Zhao Xiaojian had to apply for the most unpopular major at Peking University. Before leaving, the old man did not give much explanation, and only asked his grandson to take a good look at the books he had written, and left the little bronze horse to his grandson.

Zhao Xiaojian has been very depressed in college in recent years because there are very few girls in this major and want to pick up girls but lack resources. Even girls in other majors will lose interest in him when they hear that he is from the Department of Archaeology. In their eyes, a man who only knows how to deal with oracle bone inscriptions and bronze ware all day long can understand romance and passion, but isn’t it just wood?

However, Zhao Xiaojian was fortunate to enter the highest level of cultural relics unit in the country for internship, which made many people around him envious and jealous. One of his grandfather's students was a researcher at the Institute of Calligraphy and Painting, which is what he often called "Uncle Six".

Uncle Six arranged Xiao Jian in the calligraphy and painting department, and helped the old man fulfill his wish. However, the work in the museum was the most boring. Zhao Xiaojian himself was not very interested in cultural relics. In addition, even mosquitoes in the office were public, so how could this be endured by people of this age? There was a colleague who came in with him in the department, a graduate of the ancient painting major of the Central Academy of Fine Arts. Their main task was to clean the warehouse and watch the internal surveillance video.

The security level of the warehouse of the Palace Museum is the same as that of the People's Bank of China's underground vault, the confidential archives room in Zhongnanhai and other confidential institutions. It is impossible to steal cultural relics from the warehouse. In addition to security inspection devices, cultural relics detection systems and electromagnetic scanning systems are available at the entrances and exits. Specific electromagnetic tags are placed on all kinds of cultural relics. Once they leave a certain range, an alarm will be issued immediately. All security doors will be closed automatically, and no one can fly. Therefore, most cases of cultural relics theft occur during the cultural relics exhibition, because the security level at that time was much lower than that in the warehouse.

Just last night, Zhao Xiaojian was still wearing isolation suits, sterile gloves, turned on the ultraviolet lamp inside the warehouse, sorted out the relevant cultural relics as usual, and recorded the temperature and humidity in the warehouse. The brightness of the ultraviolet lamp is much lower than that of the incandescent lamp, and the dim light is conducive to the preservation of cultural relics.

He walked to the cabinet numbered 001 again. He knew that there were several treasures from the Palace Museum, and any of them were "national treasures"-level cultural relics. In addition to the "Along the River During the Qingming Festival", Zhan Ziqian's "On Spring Outing", Wang Xianzhi's "Mid-Autumn Tie", Wang Xun's "Boyuan Tie" and Lu Ji's "Pingfu Tie" are all in this cabinet.

Zhao Xiaojian wanted to see the national treasures several times, but he didn't dare to open them at will. He didn't know where he got the courage and courage that night, so he quietly opened the heavy cabinet door. He knew that the classmate who was on duty with him must be still sleeping, and few people went to see the surveillance video inside the warehouse without the loss of cultural relics. He had no intention of stealing cultural relics, but just wanted to see the "Along the River During the Qingming Festival" that his grandfather devoted his life to.

On the shelf on the second floor of the cabinet is an antique wooden box about 40 cm long and 10 cm wide. The label on the box shows: "Three editions of Shiqu Baoji in "Along the River During the Qingming Festival". Zhao Xiaojian gently picked up the wooden box and walked carefully to the side of the platform. The heavy yellow rosewood made him feel the heaviness of history.

Zhao Xiaojian's heart was pounding, as if he was about to jump out of his throat. He was afraid that he would accidentally damage the cultural relics and become a sinner for the ages. He was even more afraid that if someone came in at this time, then the mildest would face investigation by the relevant departments, and the severest would be imprisoned.

However, he could not resist the scroll attracting him, so he involuntarily opened the wooden box gently. There was a gray-brown silk tube in the wooden box, and a ribbon was tied tightly at the opening of the silk tube. Zhao Xiaojian gently untied the ribbon, reached his hand into the silk tube, and slowly took out the scroll inside. The scroll was made of a yellow-brown silk cloth as the base, and the paper surface of the painting was mounted on the silk cloth.

Zhao Xiaojian carefully opened the scroll, and the blank space at the head of the scroll was more than half a meter long. Then the first collection seal appeared, and the content of the picture began to appear.
Chapter completed!