The Knot of Time

Demining Guide · The emotional progress is slow and restrained, and the physical description is subtle · A large number of professional technical terms and repair processes · Heavy group scenes and many story lines for supporting characters · The ending is open-ended and not "completed" in the traditional sense. · The narrative rhythm is slow and focused on daily life and accumulation. · No strong dramatic conflicts or villain confrontations "Human Scale" When Qin Zeming met "Walking Powder Keg" Shen Song at a travel agency, he had accurately planned the fifteen-day Qinggan Loop itinerary, but he never thought that he would be sharing a car with this illustrator whose sleeves were stained with paint and who looked like he owed him three million. For a person with advanced obsessive-compulsive disorder, his luggage must be perfectly parallel to the edge of the carriage; for a person with a violent outburst, the sketchpad is a weapon he can pick up at any time. The three thousand kilometers from the city to the Gobi should have been a disaster. Until they mistakenly entered Yanxia Village, which was not found on the map. In the abandoned ancestral hall, a wooden screen from the Guangxu period was shattering in the silence. The lotus pattern is blurred, the wind patterns are breathing weakly, and the craftsman's unfinished obsession is hidden deep in the carving. The moment Qin Zeming put on his white gloves, Shen Songshi opened the dusty painting box. ——So, the 28-year-old conservator of ancient buildings and the 26-year-old painter were forced to become temporary partners. Qin Zeming measured the millimeter-level error of the cracks and captured the color frequency of the wood's heartbeat while chanting. One uses the logic of mortise and tenon to fight against time, and the other uses the temperature of a paintbrush to talk to the undead. They rescued endangered murals in cave dwellings on the cliffs where heavy rains were approaching, listened to the groaning of bricks and stones under the slanted old houses on red soil slopes, and encountered the crafts, songs and memories that were about to pass away with the last old man in more nameless villages. The road stretches endlessly under the wheels, and the backseat is filled with measuring instruments and paint tubes. From conflict to understanding, from mutual quarrel to tacit understanding, two people who were originally completely different from each other, in the process of repairing other people's memories, also clumsily pieced together the old wounds and longings hidden in their hearts. The wind and sand in the Gobi will bury the path, but some things, once seen, can no longer be turned away. They repair old objects that are about to disappear, repair broken inheritances, and repair their own broken pasts. And what's more difficult than repairing is—— How to find a way to go on for what you believe in in a deserted world. "Look, the wood is still alive. " "I heard it. " Intention:,