The old things I repaired have become fine

Chapter 177 A new problem in repairing: how to repair an old object with evil spirits? (Taiping Heavenly Kingdom leader plus 10)

Light and gorgeous light and shadow flow across the entire dressing table.

The addition of the porcelain mirror box is indeed useful, completing the whole dressing table.

Although it is just a small mirror box, it carries all of Axin's memories from the time he went north until his sacrifice.

Although it has not been repaired yet, and although this memory cannot be presented yet, it can't wait to show its brilliance:

I'm here!

I am back!

I'm finally back. How are you all?

The entire dressing box was sparkling inside and out, and the light was almost visible to the naked eye.

Shen Le smiled, reached out and touched the dressing box, carefully stroking the parts that were basically intact, interacting with it with the heat from his palm:

"Don't worry, don't worry... I will fix you as soon as possible, every part of you...

You have a lot to say, I'm listening, and once I fix you, you can say as much as you want and however you want!"

His face was slightly hot. Shen Le reached for his phone with a dark face, turned on the front camera, and saw that his hair was long and white again, with two lines of snot hanging down...

"It's almost done!!!" Shen Le knocked on the outer wall of the dressing box:

"Stop making a fuss. The repair speed will remain the same whether you make a fuss or not. It won't be faster! I've done the work for you, so why are you still making trouble for me?"

The luster on the dressing box quieted down. Shen Le sighed and took out a few cosmetic boxes, stuffed them back near the doll cabinet, and let them continue to do what they were supposed to do.

She took out a pen and paper and started to sketch out the lacquer carvings on the dressing box, studying them layer by layer.

What does the pattern carved on the bottom layer of black paint look like?
Which part is filled with gold powder, and what color of gold powder is used?

Layer upon layer of carved brocade, filled with lacquer, painted with colored lacquer, and inlaid with gold, what are the patterns of each layer?
Shen Le guessed and drew, flipping through books, materials, and videos. As he flipped through the pages, he couldn't help but touch the dressing box again:

"If only you could tell me directly..."

As he thought about it, the heat in his body surged and seeped into the dressing box unconsciously. Shen Le suddenly said "Huh" and concentrated on feeling:

After returning from this outing, especially after absorbing the yellow aura in the tiger's lair, the heat flow in my body seemed to have changed.

Penetration has become easier and more precise. The surface of the dressing box, with layers of decorative paint applied on it, seems to have a lot more perception.

What does the bottom layer look like, what does it look like a little bit higher up, what does it look like a little bit higher up, and what does the top layer look like…

No need for X-rays or cross-sectional diagrams, the heat flow will naturally reveal this information...

It was as if the paint and gold powder all lit up in the heat, rushing to announce their existence to him...

"It seems that the paint and wood have no reaction, only the pigment and gold powder react." Shen Le tried to sense it seven or eight times, but regretfully, he sighed greedily.

Perhaps it has something to do with the breath he absorbed, those yellow breaths that come from the earth, which only resonate with the products of the earth.

Whether it's paint, tung oil, or wood, they all come from trees. The heat penetrates into them, but they ignore it!

"That's great, it's like a human X-ray machine or a human CT scan. If we can find spiritual veins of other attributes and absorb spiritual energy, maybe we can be successful in everything we do?"

Shen Le comforted himself and worked hard to draw. After completing the drawings one by one, he placed them on the dressing box to compare them and sighed:
"Ugh……"

Being able to roughly "see" the painting process of a dressing box does not mean that it can be repaired perfectly.

He still doesn't know how to use gilding, gold blurring, gold sprinkling, and other techniques. He still needs to practice.

At most, my internal strength has been improved, my endurance has been stronger, my cutting has been more precise, and I can persist longer every time I work!

Shen Le sighed and continued to practice. Paint, paint, paint;
On top of the shade-dried, sufficiently thick layer of paint, trace the artwork;

According to the drawings, I carved out the brocade ground piece by piece...

"Oh my god! This knife is carved crooked!"

"I used too much force on this cut and a piece of paint broke off!"

"This cut is too shallow... It should have penetrated the black lacquer layer and revealed the brown lacquer layer underneath..."

"This cut is too deep! The entire brown paint layer has been carved through!"

"It's so hard... Why is lacquer carving so difficult? Carving on the lacquer layer and carving on wood, the knife handling feels completely different!"

“No wonder the senior brothers who joined the Palace Museum’s lacquerware group had to practice painting for half a year first…

When practicing lacquer carving, if you ruin someone else's lacquered board, even the gods would be angry!"

Shen Le was sweating profusely as he carved with his knife. Feeling annoyed, he could not help but practice with other things:

For example, the newly-acquired porcelain mirror box was mostly intact, but the hardware was obviously corroded and the entire box could not be opened;

There should be a glass lens in the box, but I wonder if it is broken. There should also be a photo, but I wonder if it has become dim, blurry, or disappeared after nearly a hundred years...

Shen Le carefully stroked the shell of the porcelain box. Half-closing his eyes, he let the heat flow to his fingertips and then seep down bit by bit:
He could only mobilize a very tiny amount, not even a little more. This box that had gone through time gave him an extremely fragile feeling. If he used a little more force, it would fall apart.

Moreover, with this little bit of power, he didn't even dare to probe directly in, but instead slowly rotated along the box from the outermost edge.

He stroked the hardware on the edge of the box and the tiny nails that fastened the hardware to the porcelain box.

From nails to hinges, everything was rusted, penetrating deep into the pores of the porcelain;

The edge of the porcelain box was stuck by something, tightly closed, and could not be opened or pried open...

The heat seeped in quietly, and the distribution, depth and adhesion of the rust were clearly visible in Shen Le's heart.

He took a deep breath and began to repair it carefully:
It is impossible to remove rust by immersing it in water directly. There may be photos in the porcelain box. If it is soaked in rust removal liquid, the photos will definitely get wet, rotten and destroyed.

Shen Le carefully placed a small circle of waterproof resin around the porcelain hole, then used a dropper to suck up the rust removal liquid, carefully dropped a drop on it, and then covered it with a piece of absorbent cotton;

As for the hinge blades, just use a piece of absorbent cotton to absorb the rust removal liquid, cover the hinge, then prop up the porcelain box so that the hinge is at the bottom.

Wait a few hours, remove the cotton pad, carefully wipe off the rust, and then wipe the hinge with a cotton pad soaked in clean water...

"Ah, it's good to have a sense of it... How much of the rust has been removed? How much is left? I can feel it clearly by using my internal energy..."

Shen Le breathed a sigh of relief. After removing some of the rust, he could carefully remove the hinges and pull out the nails;
Use a fine needle to pick along the gap of the porcelain box little by little to remove the adhered stains, and be careful not to let the needle tip hurt the porcelain surface;

The stains fell on the white paper on the tray, in tiny pieces, not even enough to fill a palm. With such a small amount of work, Shen Le spent two full days to finish it in addition to carving lacquer...

With a "crack", the porcelain box finally opened. The mirror inside was still relatively intact. Although it was broken into several pieces, it could still be put together.

The photo in the center has miraculously remained intact, with the mother, the young couple, and three children, six smiling faces, bright and brilliant.

Shen Le stared at the smile in a trance for a moment. He reached out and gently touched the photo, and the edge of the photo suddenly turned black, curled up, and collapsed under his fingertips!

!!!

Shen Le was startled and stopped. He looked carefully. On the porcelain box, on the lens, on the photo, in addition to the inherent smell of the dressing box, there was also a layer of dark, bloody, and tyrannical smell:

That is the power characteristic of the mountain lion, or perhaps it is the evil spirit of the mountain lion.

The power of the porcelain box intertwined and solidified each other, miraculously protecting the photo and allowing it to maintain its original appearance over the decades...

But now, it had been taken away from the tiger's lair and had lost its original support. After his investigation, the evil spirit on it had already dissipated.

As the evil spirit dissipated, the old photo began to dim and fade visibly. In fact, the evil spirit and the heat flow from his palm counteracted each other, and the photo immediately began to turn black, crisp, and disintegrate!
“It’s a headache…”

Shen Le was in a dilemma. He had practiced in the field of old photos, calligraphy and paintings during his undergraduate studies and knew roughly how to restore them.

However, for this fragile old photo that is entangled with evil spirits, the evil spirits and spiritual energy cancel each other out, and I don’t know how to repair it...

What's worse is that if you repair it, it may be broken within a day; if you don't repair it, it may also be broken in half a month or a month...

Fight!

Shen Le gritted his teeth. He first took pictures carefully, shooting from all directions and angles, trying to leave as complete an image as possible;

Then pick up the hinge removed from the porcelain box and mobilize a very thin stream of heat to penetrate into it.

Heat flowed everywhere, and there was a crackling sound under the fingertips, which was actually colliding with the demonic energy, causing a series of tiny explosions!
"That does not work……"

Shen Le sighed and stopped moving. The hinges were made of metal and could withstand the explosions, but the surface also dimmed slightly;

If it were an old, fragile photo, it would probably be reduced to ashes the moment the spiritual energy exploded!
Purify it directly?

Shen Le roughly heard that the Special Affairs Bureau's purification method is to purify everything without any distinction.

Not to mention that without the protection of these auras, the old photos will be damaged all of a sudden. Purifying the unique aura of the dressing box will be equivalent to losing its spirituality, which is absolutely not allowed!

"What should I do..."

He sat with his eyes closed, thinking. Perhaps because his state was too close to meditation, the copper sheet suddenly moved and emitted a yellow mist...

"Hey! I don't want to practice my skills right now!"

Shen Le wailed. The yellow energy surged and ignored him. Shen Le suddenly had an idea:
and many more!

I use this yellow mist to replace my spiritual energy to drive away the evil spirit. Can I do it?

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