The old things I repaired have become fine

Chapter 162 Lao You: Boss, help me!!!

"You want me to check these? Why?"

"Uh...it might be related to a teacher in our school..."

"Do you have his power of attorney?"

"No……"

"Is it related to monsters? In particular, is it related to monsters that need to be killed or sealed?"

“This is indeed relevant, but…”

"But you can't prove it? It doesn't matter, you can come to our department to get a certification to prove that you have the ability to communicate with spirits, and that's it. Don't want to? Then there's nothing we can do..."

Gu Yulin was in a dilemma. Shen Le rarely asked them to do things for him, but this time, he asked them to do a big job, a job far beyond his ability!
If Shen Le wasn't on good terms with them, if Shen Le wasn't someone they needed to cling to, they really didn't want to take on this mission.

"You have to know that people who went there at that time, as long as they didn't die very early, all had a certain level, no upper limit." Gu Yulin said earnestly:
"There's no upper limit! Do you know what that means?"

"I know..." Shen Le looked up at the sky helplessly. Please, I just don't care about certain things, it doesn't mean I don't have common sense.

I still know what kind of great figures emerged from the people who went there from Binhai in that era, and what kind of great figures emerged from their descendants!

"so what?"

"So, if you have a formal letter of authorization that explains the necessity of the investigation, it will be much more convenient." Gu Yulin explained earnestly:
"If not, we can only slowly investigate through private channels. It is hard to say whether we can find it or when we can find it..."

"Oh, it's okay to go slow." Shen Le said calmly. He just wanted to confirm it indirectly. If he could find it, it would be great. If not, he had other channels.

If it really doesn't work, I can wait until the dressing box is completely repaired and then he can just ask directly!

Gu Yulin reluctantly accepted the task. Shen Le thought about it and called Lao You again:
“…It’s like this, can you please help me ask?”

"cannot!!!"

On the phone, Lao You's voice suddenly became sharp. He paused for a moment, as if thinking of the identities of both parties, and then his voice softened, a little humbly, and a little flatteringly explaining:
"Boss, it's not that I don't want to help, I just can't. During that time and in that place, there is absolutely no room for monsters to survive!"

"No?"

Shen Le was stunned. Lao You sighed in distress:
"Boss, do you know how terrifying the power of human thoughts is? During that time, so many people who believed in atheism gathered together. With such pure and mighty beliefs, there was no place for us to survive!"

During that period of time, he flew to the vicinity of that area and circled around it a hundred kilometers away!
All the monsters he knew who could walk, carried their packages and left!

During the time when the flood of humanity swept across everything, these monsters all tried their best to hide in the wild, trembling in fear, not daring to show their heads...

The rat shop owner in Lin'an lived in the sewer during that period. When the Patriotic Health Campaign was carried out to clear silt and ditches, he would hide in the ravines...

Lao You couldn't help, and Shen Le didn't care. If he could find out, that would be great, but if he couldn't, that was fine.

In short, as long as he repairs the dressing box, he will have everything he needs...

Shen Le was patient and took his time to repair it bit by bit.

The lid of the dressing box was missing a piece. He searched for a long time in his collection but couldn't find a suitable one. He could only use his points to find a piece of old wood to repair it:
This dressing box has been dried for many years, so the wood has low moisture content and low surface humidity.

Therefore, the old wood that Shen Le chooses must not only be of the same type of wood, but also have to have been stored for similar years. The storage conditions should also be similar, and the hardness and humidity should be kept as consistent as possible.

Otherwise, the replacement material will have different hardness and humidity from the original object, and will expand and contract over the long years, and will eventually crack.

Shen Le searched for a long time in the storage of the Special Affairs Department and did a lot of experiments before finally finding a piece. This one piece caused him to suffer heavy losses in his wallet:
One thousand points!
It’s about equal to ten thousand oceans!
This is not top-grade rosewood, it's just old beech, just beech!

Gu Yulin's words were very irritating:

"If it weren't for our department, where would you find so many old woods?

If it weren't for our department, who would have asked you to cut it into pieces for the experiment?"

Well... to be honest, doing experiments is not easy.

For example, if their usual supplier dares to call to order goods, "I want a piece of 100 to 120 year old beech wood, in good condition, *** hardness, *** moisture..."

Well, the boss may not necessarily blow his head off, but he will definitely answer with three words:
"You have to pay more!"

Moreover, this extra money is not something that can be solved with just 10,000 yuan...

After getting the wood, Shen Lebi measured the missing part of the lid and made a wooden frame to glue the remaining part of the lid together. Then, he pasted linen cloth on the wooden frame, mounted the cloth, and scraped the plaster. Damn, the difficulty of scraping the plaster was so high:
Shen Le first used a scraper to scrape, and after scraping twice, he changed to a small scraper. After scraping five or six more times, he changed to an eye cream scraper with a head only 0.5 cm wide...

In the corner of the ash layer, where it connects with the original part of the box lid, scrape it slowly and in a curved manner.

The smaller the scraper, the smaller the corners it can reach. The problem is that the smaller the scraper, the easier it is to leave angular marks on the ash layer...

Shen Le had only scraped half of the connecting part when a thin layer of sweat appeared on his forehead. He began to feel upset and his breathing became uneven.

He had to force himself into a state of exercise, improving his concentration and the control of his hands before he could successfully scrape it. He wiped off the dust on the edges, let it dry, and then polished it...

"How do I polish the corners here? Fall!"

Shen Le threw the sandpaper in anger. This paint layer has three layers: coarse, medium, and fine! He had to apply it three times, scrape it three times, and sand it at least three times!
A layer of 60-mesh coarse ash, a layer of 160-mesh fine ash, and a layer of 200-mesh slurry ash, stacked layer by layer, commonly known as "pagoda ash".

After this stuff is completely dry, if you don't observe the cross-section under a microscope, you have no idea which layer is which and how thick each layer is.

Also, during the sanding process, avoid sanding the surrounding existing paint, and sand slightly lower than the original paint surface.

Only in this way can we ensure that the newly repaired paint layer is at the same level as the original paint layer.

This is less than 0.1mm thick, and it needs to be polished flat and evenly, how can this be controlled!!!
Shen Le had practiced on the wooden board seventy or eighty times and felt that he had mastered it so well that he could grind it evenly with his eyes closed.

However, when I really started to repair it, I encountered these curved and bumpy lines, which was really overwhelming and the flames on my forehead could fly three feet high.

[Brother, please help me... Do you have any tips...]

He had no choice but to ask for the secrets in private chat. The senior brother asked about his current progress, took a look at his work progress, and was shocked:
"Have you tried to repair it yourself?"

"Yeah, what else?"

"Rich people...have money and can do whatever they want..."

On the other end of WeChat, the senior brother was silent for a full ten minutes. Then, like a storm, he sent a 60-second voice message, and then another 60-second voice message:

"You can actually do it now! Our senior students a few years ago, who were admitted to the Forbidden City, spent half a year just practicing painting!

Paint the board day by day, and when the paint is almost dry, you can apply the second coat. After applying 100 coats of paint, the master craftsman will see that you have enough skills, patience and tenacity, and then he will let you practice the next step!
The next step is to practice the "handwork", which is to carve various patterns on the painted board with a carving knife. If you didn't paint well before, and there are bumps and lumps, you can cry!"

After I finished, I felt comfortable with the criticism and gave a suggestion that was not really a suggestion:

“We are also constantly researching and improving the polishing method, but there is no particularly effective method yet.

If that doesn't work, why don't you try using a very thin wooden stick or needle, wrap it with sandpaper, and slowly grind it?"

This suggestion was almost as good as nothing. Shen Le hung his head, hissing and sucking in cold air, while replacing the grinding head with a long needle, wrapping the long needle with sandpaper, and carefully approaching the paint layer.

Touch it, pull it back, touch it again, pull it back again...

"How long will this go on?"

【Do you need help? 】

Xiao Ling suddenly popped her head out from the side. Shen Le sighed and shook his head, pushing her aside:
"No, this job is very important and you have never practiced it. I'll do it myself, little by little, slowly..."

[You want to stick sandpaper on the flat surface and polish it? I can do that. Leave it to me! ]

Xiao Ling jumped over confidently. She stretched out a silk thread, wrapped a little sandpaper around it, and dropped it on the paint layer. Shen Le quickly blocked it:
"Wait! - If you want to try your hand, try it somewhere else, not on something you are repairing!!!"

He coaxed Xiao Ling for five minutes, promising her two sets of customized baby clothes, three sets of customized jewelry, and letting her dressing box change her makeup ten times. Finally, he tricked Xiao Ling away happily.

Shen Le went over to watch her try it out, and at first glance, he noticed something different:
Xiaoling’s movements are so flexible!
He wrapped sandpaper around a long needle and pressed it down, sanding only 1 square millimeter at a time;
Xiao Ling can manipulate thirty or forty silk threads at the same time, and her work efficiency is thirty or forty times higher than his, and she can take care of every corner.

Not to mention, these silk threads were as flexible as her fingers, and her control was much better than his grinding with a grinder.

He was like a dragonfly skimming the water, grinding once, retreating, grinding once, retreating; Xiaoling's grinding was rustling, rustling, rustling... continuously!
"Xiao Ling, you've been a great help!"

He picked up the puppet and lifted it up high. Before he put it down, his cell phone started ringing. Lao You screamed:
"Boss, help!!!"

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