Save Myself from Desperation by Cara Agnes

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Ashley nodded. “Yep.”

Joseph couldn’t help but be wary and feared Paul would issue a job invitation to Ashley.

Paul invited Ashley to work at the National Museum last time, so he might come for the same purpose

this time.

Ashley replied in the affirmative, which made Paul visibly excited.

“I came to watch the auction today. I stayed here for a while after the auction. As I intended to leave, I

heard about your porcelain repair techniques, which greatly benefited me.

“We have a lot of broken ancient porcelain in the National Museum. Cultural relic restorers are trying

their best to repair it, but it is still difficult to restore it. Could you please show me the repair techniques

you just mentioned?”

Ashley was willing to do it, smiled lightly, and said, “Okay.”

Joseph looked at Noah on the side and suggested. “Well, I’ll repair the porcelain you just mentioned.

Where is it?”

“It’s in the backyard. This way, please.” Noah hurriedly led the way.

They followed Noah and walked into a clean and quaintly decorated warehouse in the backyard.

There were several cultural relic appraisers and several cultural relic maintenance and restoration

personnel in the warehouse, who were all staff specially hired by StarGavel Auctions.

“Make way, please,” Noah shouted loudly.

They all felt surprised when they noticed Ashley, Joseph, and Paul behind Noah.

They were all experts in this field.

Noah put on gloves made of special materials and then picked up the porcelain on the table. “Here it is,

Ms. Ramos. A crack stuck after being broken, which is very conspicuous.”

Joseph stretched out his head and looked over. He found the crack

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indeed conspicuous, and it was easy to tell it had fallen before.

Paul was very familiar with this situation.

More than three hundred thousand porcelain sets were preserved in the National Museum. After

thousands of years, some were still intact, but some had been damaged by war. The staff needed to

repair the broken porcelain to display and protect the value of cultural relics.

Ashley put on her gloves and took the porcelain from Noah’s hand.

She looked at it carefully for a while and said, “Take the pieces apart and glue them again with a

mixture of egg white:”

Hearing this, Noah immediately had someone to make preparations.

Ashley glued the pieces together with the concocted mixture, then carefully sanded the cracks with a

brush and applied a coat of lead.

Paul watched Ashley’s repair process intently.

After applying the lead, Ashley checked it several times under different lights and then applied some

rust on it.

Finally, she applied a layer of wax to the crack.

“Well, the cracks are perfectly covered that way.” Ashley put the porcelain under the light.

Paul immediately looked over eagerly, showing great surprise in his eyes. “What an amazing skill it is,

Ms. Ramos! It can restore the original appearance of porcelain as much as possible.”

Joseph widened his mouth in shock. He didn’t expect the porcelain to be restored so perfectly.

In an instant, the value of the cultural relic was reflected.

He felt honored to be part of Ashley’s family.

Faced with Paul’s admiration, Ashley smiled modestly and then looked at Noah aside. “If you will

auction the porcelain, tell the buyer in advance that it has been broken before.”

Noah nodded repeatedly. “We’ll make it. Honesty is the best policy. The StarGavel Auctions adheres to

professional ethics”

Paul stared at the porcelain several times. He felt so excited that he even

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walked back and forth in the room. Suddenly, he stopped before Ashley and asked, “Do you really not

consider working at the National Museum with the top appreciation and restoration, Ms. Ramos?”

Ashley blinked and replied, “Sorry, I hadn’t planned it right now.”

Paul felt sorry but still insisted, “In addition to porcelain restoration, will you restore ancient paintings,

Ms. Ramos?”

Ashley nodded. “Yes.”

“Great!” Paul’s face flushed with excitement, and he added, “Hanson Murray from Yaloria will visit our

country next week. He likes the landscape oil painting very much. We will display an ancient landscape

oil painting at the state banquet. However, the painting got damaged during the war, and it is difficult for

us to repair it. Many restorers couldn’t make it. May I invite you to participate in the restoration of the

painting, Ms. Ramos?”

Hearing Paul’s words, Joseph was dumbfounded.

He didn’t expect Hanson from Yaloria to visit here.

Paul’s words echoed in his ears.

He knew the painting would be difficult to restore.

The restoration of this ancient painting was difficult, and so was the state dinner. If anything went

wrong, Ashley couldn’t afford the consequences.

Moreover, the state dinner would be held next week, leaving almost no time for Ashley.

Ashley pondered for a moment and then asked, “Did many restorers fail?”

“Yeah,” Paul looked gloomy and hesitated for a while before saying, “I have heard about you and

Charlie. Charlie is also a top cultural relic restorer and has been invited to participate in the restoration

of this ancient painting. But he didn’t know how to restore it yet.”

Joseph sneered and had already guessed Charlie’s predicament.

“Are you willing to participate in the restoration of this ancient painting, Ms. Ramos?” Paul looked

directly at Ashley and looked forward to her reply.

Joseph looked at Ashley nervously. It was none of his business, but he still felt nervous about Ashley.

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Noah aside, and the other appraisers all looked at Ashley.

If Ashley could fulfill Paul’s request, she would get a valuable national.

honor.

It was an unprecedented honor for her.

Everyone present held their breath in unison, not daring to make a sound.

In silence, Ashley calmly took off the gloves on her hands. She showed a charming smile and replied,

“I’m willing to participate in the restoration of this ancient painting, Mr. Walker.”

She preferred to take on challenges.

Hearing her reply, Joseph almost fainted from fright. He didn’t understand why Ashley agreed to such a

difficult request.

But he thought Ashley’s reply was in accordance with expectations for not

reason.

Ashley agreed with it, which made Paul overjoyful. He couldn’t suppress his pleasure, walked aside,

and called the one in charge of the ancient. painting restoration team.

“Hello, this is Paul. I have invited a professional to participate in the restoration of the ancient painting.

It’s Rita, whom you have been asking me about the other day. There are a lot of restorers who want to

meet Rita in person. I’ll take her there tomorrow morning.”

After hanging up the phone, Paul walked up to Ashley and said, “Ms. Ramos, I’ll take you to check the

ancient painting tomorrow morning Many restorers who participated in the restoration want to meet

Rita.

Ashley nodded. “Okay.”

Joseph immediately raised his hand and asked, “Can I go with you, Ashley?”

Paul smiled heartily and said, “Sure!”

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The next morning, restorations got there early.

They gathered in a spacious and bright room, with several tables put together in the middle, on which a

damaged ancient painting was.

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discreetly placed.

More than a dozen top cultural relic restorers stayed in the room, and they glanced in the direction of

the door from time to time.

“When will Rita come? Mr. Walker said she would come this morning, right?”

“Yep, it’s this morning. I can finally meet Rita in person.”

“Rita is said to be a young girl. She can identify the authenticity of cultural relics and repair them at

such a young age. How awesome she is!”

Charlie, who sat next to them, felt extremely nervous as he heard others’ discussion.

He went to StarGavel Auctions several times to meet Rita but was rejected.

He didn’t expect Rita to be invited to participate in the restoration.

He could finally meet Rita in

person.