The old things I repaired have become fine

Chapter 138 Shen Le: What? I became a ghost?! (Subscribe)

Shen Le put the three round boxes back to Zhuxi Town and entered the repair mode again - this was of course impossible.

In fact, the first thing Shen Le did was to move the three round boxes up and down, inside and out, and turn them over and over, taking photos from all directions and angles.

After taking photos and recording videos, find three sample boxes and carefully scrape out the remaining contents in the round boxes, placing a sample box in front of the contents of each round box.

Label it, put it away separately, and prepare to send it to an experiment to see what is inside. If possible, make another copy after repairing it to fill the box?

After all these tasks are completed, it is time to soak, clean and prepare for repair.

The bottom of these three pieces of porcelain all have the year number "Made in the Guangxu Period". They are not very old, and the surface of the porcelain looks good, not too fragile.

Shen Le spent a huge sum of 185 yuan to buy an ultrasonic cleaner - used to clean glasses in eyewear stores - and after briefly cleaning the three round boxes, he threw all the boxes in.

Take them out, let them dry naturally, hold them in your hands and look at them from top to bottom:

The big round box is mainly damaged. The lid has been knocked off by about one-fifth, exposing the body. The box body has a small amount of damage on the rim and is worn.

The main defects of the medium-round box are that the lid has a fine crack and the body of the box has a long crack that goes all the way from the rim to the foot.
The small round box is mainly damaged. The lid has worn patterns on the surface. The glaze on the box body is slightly chipped and the patterns are damaged...

"For these boxes, the key points of restoration are the patterns, colors and glaze." Shen Le sighed deeply.

It is not difficult to repair the defective part, it is nothing more than a matter of countering the problem and taking the right remedy;

For the missing parts, use silicone molds, fill them with plaster, and draw color patterns on the plaster.
For the cracked part, just like the last time I repaired the porcelain bowl, I poured lacquer putty into it, smoothed it, and it was almost glued. Next, I repaired the surface, painted it, and sprayed glaze, which were all jobs I had done before;

However, the difficulty of this job - or rather, half of the difficulty of porcelain restoration - lies in the color matching and pattern!
"Can I do it well?"

Shen Le asked himself silently. After asking once, he laughed softly again:
So what if I do well?

So what if I can’t do it well!

Anyway, the current method of repairing porcelain is reversible. If it is done well, everyone is happy. If it is not done well, the worst that can happen is that the paint is washed off, the porcelain is dismantled and redone!
There is no KPI anyway, right?

There are no paper indicators anyway, right?
Anyway, he worked slowly and did poorly, and there was no supervisor to point fingers at him, saying, "How can you write a paper if you can't even do this?"
There was no old master who frowned, locked the cabinet silently, and told him to practice with cheap dishes and bowls, and not to touch old things until he had mastered it...

Shen Le rolled up his sleeves and began to repair it diligently - no, he put the medium-sized round box in his pocket and went around several porcelain shops in the town.

However, Zhuxi Town is small and not a tourist attraction. Shen Le went to all the porcelain shops but could not find any porcelain of the same color as the round box.

I had no choice but to take out my phone and book a ticket to Jingdezhen. But before I clicked “Pay”, I quickly exited and clicked Laoyou on WeChat:

"exist?"

"Yes! Boss, please give me your orders!"

Lao You's answer came quickly. Shen Le thought for a moment and asked cautiously:
"You said you flew fast?"

"That's right, boss! I can fly from here to the Hetian jade production area in one day!"

This speed is almost as fast as an airplane, or in other words, it is only twice as slow as an airplane. It's so nice to be a monster, it's so nice to be a bird monster, I want to fly too -

I don’t want to travel far, so I take the subway from Zhuxi Town to Binhai City for two hours, and then depart from the airport/train station.

He calmly took out the medium-sized round box and pushed it in front of Lao You:

"Can I ask you a favor?"

"Boss, just tell me what you want! For the agency fee of a few beds, I will work for free, no money required!"

The favor Shen Le asked him to do was not difficult. Just this round box, take it to Jingdezhen and buy a few of the same color. The shape is not limited, boxes, plates, bowls, vases, any kind will do.

You don't need a lot, five or six, seven or eight is fine, the expenses will be reimbursed.

"Leave it to me! I can definitely get it done in one day! I can go back and forth to Jingdezhen in two hours!"

Lao You ran out. Shen Le suddenly remembered to tell him that he would reimburse the travel expenses, at least the hotel expenses, and took two quick steps, but he was gone.

He raised his head and looked around, and a brown-black bird stabbed towards the west like a sharp sword, and flew out of sight in an instant.

This is really fast... Actually, it's not that urgent. It will take several days to make the mold, fix the tire with plaster, and polish the plaster...

Before Shen Le finished his work, Lao You had already gone around Jingdezhen and returned quickly. He put down a big box, looking very proud, and took things out of it one by one:

"I found a local friend! He recognized the box at a glance and even told me the year of Guangxu's firing, who fired it, and which kiln it was fired in!
I asked for porcelain of a similar color, and he gave me so many..."

Two porcelain bowls, two porcelain plates with a diameter of one foot, a stack of dishes, a jade huchun vase, a plum vase, and a garlic vase.

In addition, he took out a large box of porcelain pieces and threw them in front of Shen Le with great momentum:
"He also gave me these! He said they were fired in the same batch as this box, but they were not fired properly and were smashed! If you want to practice restoration, these porcelain pieces are the best to practice with, and you won't feel bad about it!"

"…Who is this friend of yours…"

Shen Leqiang held back his brow. This box was made during the reign of Emperor Guangxu, more than a hundred years ago. How could he take out porcelain pieces from the same batch?
"Are you sure these are the same batch of porcelain pieces? Can he guarantee that?" "Of course!!!" Old You seemed to have been greatly wronged and opened his eyes wide. The raptor's round pupils expanded to the limit, with a bit of horror in them:
"He himself is the ancient porcelain demon! There is not a single porcelain kiln in Jingdezhen that was not built under his supervision, and there is not a single piece of porcelain that was not fired under his supervision!

In the past, if you wanted to make good porcelain, you had to offer him the broken pieces from the same furnace. If you didn’t offer them, he wouldn’t bless you! If he didn’t bless you, the porcelain would crack and explode in every furnace, and no good color would be produced! "

Ancient porcelain turned into a demon... Shen Le thought about it. Jingdezhen first became the capital of porcelain during the Northern Song Dynasty. Calculated, the porcelain demon probably had nearly a thousand years of cultivation.

A mere piece of porcelain made during the Guangxu period is probably just a junior in its eyes, and it can recognize it at a glance.

Well, the porcelain demon should be happy to be able to repair a junior, otherwise, wouldn’t he be so generous as to give away a bunch of porcelain pieces?
"Then please thank him for me." Shen Le took the porcelain pieces with a smile and sorted them into categories.

The cracks on the porcelain box run through the entire lid and body of the box. He also paints the dragon scales and phoenix feathers, the five-colored feathers of the mandarin ducks, and the light pink gradient of the lotus flowers one stroke at a time.

Fortunately, these porcelain bowls, plates, dishes and tiles can be found in basically the same color, allowing him to mix the colors little by little and try little by little!
Shen Le rubbed his hands and started to work. He picked out the tiles of the same color, red with red, green with green, pink with pink, put them one by one, and put labels on them;
Then, with a look of heartache, he picked up the electric grinder, took a deep breath, took another deep breath, gritted his teeth——

grind!
Grind off one layer!
Grind off a part of the glaze of the same color until it reaches the body, then fill it with plaster, apply color and glaze.

If the applied glaze looks exactly the same as the original glaze, the color adjustment is successful;
If the glaze you apply is a different color, then grind off the previous plaster and start over!
Repeated attempts, repeated polishing, will always lead to success!
The masters who do porcelain restoration in the museum don’t have as good conditions as I do, and they can try as many things as they want!
Shen Le entered a state of seclusion again. Even when Xiao Modou finished making four trial wooden beds and Lao You's fine wooden bed, he just sent a message and asked Lao You to come and pick it up.

Each time you mix colors, record the amount of nitro varnish used to the milliliter; record the amount of thinner to the milliliter; record the amount of mineral pigment used to the milliliter; record the amount of mineral pigment used to the milliliter.

Before long, the experimental records on the computer pulled out an extremely long XLS spreadsheet. Every time I opened it, I had to search for a while to make sure that today's plan had not been used before.

This went on for countless times, and finally one day, Shen Le put down the porcelain piece in his hand and let out a long sigh:

"finished!"

It was done, finally done. Through constant trial and error, he finally came up with a formula that was exactly the same as the glaze on the box, at least it was difficult for him to distinguish it with his naked eyes.

The plaster has already been filled and polished, and now that the color has been adjusted, we can start the color touch-up work on the box to be repaired!

It was extremely difficult for Shen Le to paint in such a small space to the same level as his senior masters.

He chose the thinnest liner pen and carefully outlined each stroke, tracing each one one by one. After drawing a few strokes, he took a deep breath, then drew a few more strokes, and took another deep breath.

Even though he knew that he was wearing a mask and that the breath from his mouth and nose would not blow the pen tip, Shen Le still held his breath before he dared to write:

He was breathing while writing, for fear that his hands would shake and the painting would be crooked...

It was such a difficult journey, but it took Shen Le half a month to complete an area of just a dozen square centimeters.

When the day came that he finished, he didn't want to explore the stories behind the little guys, nor did he want to find out where the other parts of the dressing box were. He just fell on the bed and fell asleep:
sleep!

If I don’t get enough sleep this time, no one can expect me to take the next step!
No one, please come to me for any small wooden comb, any small porcelain box, or any dressing box!
He slept very soundly and deeply. After sleeping for an unknown period of time, Shen Le suddenly felt an itch in his head, as if someone was doing somersaults, handstands, and upside down on his head.

"Xiao Ling, stop teasing me..."

Shen Le mumbled in a daze.

He stretched out his hand to grab a handful, but nothing. He grabbed a second handful, but nothing. He grabbed a third handful, but his fingertips suddenly hurt, as if they were poked by something...

The pain finally woke him up and he sat up. Looking down, he saw the small wooden comb that he had just repaired a few days ago, shining brightly in his hand and struggling constantly.

Shen Le didn't understand what was going on and tried to let go of his hand, but the small wooden comb suddenly jumped up and hung on his forehead.

Then, she combed his hair, which was not even two inches long, from the beginning to the end, and then from the end to the beginning...

"Is this really alive? Can it comb my hair?"

It’s not completely useless... At the very least, you can comb your hair a hundred times a day to ensure you stay healthy.

Shen Le walked out while complaining, intending to brush his teeth and wash his face to start his day's work. Just after he took two steps, a rustling laugh sounded:
[Shen Le turned into a ghost! ]

【Turned into a ghost! 】

[It’s getting so ugly hahahaha! ]

The little wooden puppet was swinging on top of the cabinet, the little inkstone was waving its lead weight, and the carpentry tools were clinking, making a chorus of sounds.

The most exciting thing was the small oil lamp. The electric lights in the house crackled and flickered like a discotheque...

Shen Le: ???
What the hell?

No, what do you mean I turned into a ghost? !

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