The old things I repaired have become fine

Chapter 100: You made puppet technology at the end of the last century in the s?! (Subscribe)

"Found it! Thanks to your information! Thank you!"

The car slowly stopped at the side of the road. Gu Yulin dragged Shen Le and walked over quickly. In the back seat of the opposite car, there was indeed an old lady with silver hair, her face ruddy and her expression relaxed.

While looking at the street scene, she smiled and said to the people around her:
"Oh, thank you for looking for me everywhere... I just want to go home! Look, I'm fine, nothing happened to me at all!"

"Yeah, yeah." The policewoman beside her smiled gently, not impatient at all, and nodded repeatedly. After listening to the old lady's mumbling, she asked softly:
"You said you'd go home and take a look. Have you found the place? Have you seen what you wanted to see?"

"Xiao Guo!"

The driver stopped her quietly. But it was too late. The old lady concentrated on recalling and her face suddenly became blank:

"I saw it... I saw it. Didn't I see it? What did I go there to see? What did I go there to see? Haiping, what did I go there to see? Haiping? Where is Haiping? Who are you?"

She turned her body, looked around, and her face became more and more panicked.

The policewoman tried to comfort her, but it was useless. The old lady looked around for a while, and saw that the people around her were unfamiliar, and the place was also unfamiliar. Suddenly, she pushed the car door hard:

"Let me down! Let me down! - I want to go home!!!"

"Okay, okay, we'll take you home right away... Sit down! Sit down!"

The policewoman rushed over, hugged the old man beside her, and tried to comfort him. However, it was no use. The old man became more and more agitated, and his eyes became more and more cloudy.

Seeing that passers-by all stopped and looked around, the older policeman in the driver's seat had already opened the door and got out of the car. Shen Le suddenly came closer and held the little doll in front of her:

"Old lady," he asked softly:
"Is this what you're looking for?"

"what……"

Miraculously, the old woman calmed down. She stared at the doll in front of her, held it in her hand, and stroked it gently.

She stroked her cheeks, her hair, her skirt, and the bow on her shoes, and stroked them carefully. Suddenly, she turned around and smiled like a little girl:
"Look! I found it! I found it! My brother made it for me! Look, does this doll look like me?"

The old man's eyes sparkled, and his smile was sweet and cheerful. For a moment, she seemed to have returned to her childhood, with her brother and parents still around, and surrounded by people who cherished and loved her...

Shen Le let go of her hand and watched her hold the little doll on her knees, rocking it cherishingly.

All the anxiety and panic disappeared at once. It seemed that only the doll remained in her eyes and heart, looking up at her and smiling sweetly at her:

Shen Le quietly took two steps back and left the police car. When he turned around, Gu Yulin was standing beside him, smiling at him awkwardly:
"that……"

"what?"

"Can you let the doll stay with the old lady for a while longer? I mean, temporarily, temporarily, when the old lady forgets about it, then take it back..."

"No problem!" Shen Leji answered calmly. He stepped back, away from the police car and the old man holding the doll.

The old woman was still holding the doll, with her head down, motionless. From where Shen Le was standing, she could only hear her low singing voice, which continued:
"Knock knock knock, selling sugar porridge... three pounds of walnuts and four pounds of shells... I'll give you the meat and I'll give you the shells..."

Shen Le smiled slightly:

"This doll originally belonged to her, so it doesn't matter even if it's always in her hands. I don't think she took the initiative to give the doll cabinet away, did she?"

Gu Yulin smiled at him awkwardly and said nothing. The old man lived alone at first, but since his Alzheimer's disease became serious, he was taken home by his grandson to be taken care of;

Later, colleagues from the special affairs department went to her old house and discovered the cabinet with strange images. Worried that it might be bad for her health, they took people to move the cabinet away.

Before moving, she consulted her son and daughter, as well as her grandson who lived with her, but...

I didn't ask the old man himself.

Opinions of elderly people with Alzheimer's?
Does that matter?

Sorry, it's not important, not at all. Legally speaking, an elderly person who is often not in a clear mind is a person with limited civil capacity, and many of her affairs must be decided by the guardian.

But it seems that her wishes are indeed important. At least, the old man held the doll for a long time and was reluctant to let it go.

Shen Le felt it was only natural that such a doll, which embodied important memories, should be returned to its original owner.

"Well... this doll is placed with the old man. If you repair the cabinet, will it be possible..."

"Oh, it's okay!"

Shen Le smiled and shook his hand:

"At worst, I can fix other things first! I haven't finished fixing those artifacts yet!"

Gu Yulin visibly breathed a sigh of relief and accompanied Shen Le back to the car. On the passenger seat, the ink line of the small ink fountain was buzzing, and he was very confused:

[Don't you want that doll anymore? ]

"Leave it to accompany the old lady." Shen Le touched it and silently communicated with it in his heart:
"The old lady needs it more, right?"

[Then...what if it can't survive? ]

"It's served cold!"

Shen Le chuckled in his heart. Can't survive?
Then all the hard work and effort he put into repairing the doll cabinet should be thrown into the water! Shen Le calmly returned home, calmly checked the information, and calmly worked. Looking around, the paint peeled off from the old furniture was soaking, and the paint on the doll cabinet had not yet begun to soften;
The body of the doll cabinet has just been glued and installed with woodworking clamps. The structural parts are being corrected. It will take 72 hours before the next step can be taken;
So, let's mess around with those cultural relics?
That Huanghuali handbag?
That rosewood pen holder?
And the piano stand that was smashed by the spirit of Yaoqin...

Shen Le turned them out, took photos and recorded videos one by one, and measured them one by one, even the fragments.

After he had been busy for a whole day and finished all the preliminary work, Gu Yulin, with an embarrassed look on his face, held the doll and brought it to him:

"Um... I'll leave this doll to you..."

"what's wrong?"

Shen Le was stunned. We had agreed before that the doll would accompany the old lady for a while longer. I always thought it would take ten or eight years.

What, send it back in one day?
Gu Yulin's face was full of indescribable expression. After hesitating for a long time, he sighed:

"The old lady's health is not good again. Not only is her mental state not good, her physical condition has also deteriorated. She was sent directly to the hospital at noon today...

It’s fine now, but we used an instrument to measure it and found that the doll’s energy index is much higher, which would be very harmful to ordinary people, so…”

So I had to send it back...

Seeing his listless look, Shen Le didn't know what to say, so he could only take the doll back. He brought it back to the studio and looked at it carefully with his spiritual eyes:
The thin smell of a foreign object or a monster on the little guy seemed to be a little stronger?
Not only was it a little thicker, but the aura was flowing slightly, and it actually had a little more vitality. Was it because he had been with the master and felt the master's thoughts?

Or has he stayed in my house for too long and absorbed the rich atmosphere here?
Shen Le didn't know the answer and had no way to verify it.

But anyway, the little doll is back, which means that the work he put into repairing the doll cabinet will not be thrown into the water!
Shen Le braced himself and began to prepare to repair the doll in his hand. He first stood the doll up and took photos from multiple angles and various details.

After recording all the information, I took the doll in my hand and looked at it from left to right. The doll's facial makeup was basically intact, unlike Xiaoling's original extensive wear and tear.

Most of the beads on the princess dress have fallen off, it would be great if they could be repaired.

Be careful to take off the princess dress, puppet... Ouch!

How come the puppet's two legs fell off!

Not only did his legs fall off, but his arms also drooped and his head swayed backwards.

Shen Le shook the puppet slightly, and the puppet's head fell down again, as if it had fallen off completely.

It didn't fall to the bottom, but it was still dangling with a long thread behind it. In Shen Le's mind, three words in bold, capital letters suddenly popped up:
Flying head barbarian.

Don't scare me like this!
Now you can drag it out and swing it around, but wait a minute, you will be flying everywhere with a section of cervical vertebrae dragging behind your head!

Shen Le held the puppet's torso with his left hand spread out, picked up the fallen leg with his right hand, and observed it carefully. As he observed it, his mind buzzed:
I go!

I go!

Boss, kneel down!
#My mother asked me why I was kneeling down to dismantle the doll.jpg#
If he wasn't sitting in front of the operating table, Shen Le would have really knelt down. What did he see? What kind of doll was this in his hand? !

Ball-jointed figures!

It’s actually a ball-jointed doll!
Hey, boss, why is this wooden doll you made a ball-jointed doll?!

Ball joint dolls, also known as bjd dolls, are not unfamiliar to Shen Le. His junior sister bought a few during her graduate studies, and he also took lessons when repairing Xiao Ling.

That's a valuable thing. The cheapest mass-produced one costs several hundred yuan. If it's a little more exquisite, the clothes are a little more beautiful, and there's a story behind it, it can cost tens of thousands of yuan.

My junior sister once said with envy and jealousy that a certain company released a BJD doll worth tens of thousands of yuan, and it was a limited edition, so it was not available and she had to go to Xiaori to queue up to buy it...

There was a long queue overnight!

However, based on the few words he had heard from his junior sister, it seemed that BJD dolls were only mass-produced at the end of the last century?
The wooden doll in his hand was made, according to his memory, in the middle of the last century, after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War and before the liberation...

The maker is not an eighth-level carpenter, nor is he the owner of a small inkstone, that kind of super boss.

In the memories that Shen Le saw, he was just a young man who was admitted to the National Binhai Advanced Mechanical School - which should be a technical school or vocational school!

How did you come up with the idea of making a ball-jointed puppet? !
Shen Le stared at the little doll in his hand for a long time before he caught his breath.

As soon as he took a breath, a terrible thought flashed through his mind like lightning:
Wait, not all the dolls are ball-jointed dolls, and I need to fix them one by one? That would be a lot of work!

Shen Le jumped up quickly and rushed to the corner of the room, to the trays on the wooden shelf. He picked up the dolls one by one and looked at them. Fortunately, the other dolls were not so cruel and violent:
They are all ordinary mechanical joint puppets, with a groove, a tenon, and a rod to connect them.

Therefore, these dolls can basically only sit, lie down, or lean. If they want to stand, they must be supported by a frame.

Only this little girl, only this little girl doll, is the most special. She can raise her hands, hold her arms high, stand straight, bend her knees and do dance moves...

It can be posed in a variety of flexible postures, with rich and varied gestures.

So, was it really done deliberately to imitate my sister?

So, do we need to allow each of its joints to move flexibly so that this doll representing the sister can perform various actions?

...No, wait, how was this thing made? Was there really such technology in the 40s?!

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