The old things I repaired have become fine

Chapter 185: Shen Le, come to us! I'll take you to hold a giant panda cub! (Red Comet Mas's 3 Rewards Extra )

Seeing you off thousands of miles away, there will be a farewell in the end.

The two families paid homage to Axin's grave, then traveled thousands of miles south to pay homage to the graves of Axin's mother, Professor Lin's adoptive mother, and Ms. Peilan. Finally, it was time to say goodbye.

And Shen Le was also ready to face his storm:
"The experts are coming. Are you ready to be criticized?"

"…Um, can you not hit me in the face?"

Professor Lin laughed.

Shen Le was prepared to face the storm. However, when the day of the appreciation meeting came, he was still so shocked that he couldn't even raise his head:
"The craftsmanship of gluing this bronze mirror is too crude. Both the front and back sides can be felt to be uneven. How can this pass the inspection?"

This... Teacher, is it possible that your fingers are too sensitive...

I touched it at least three times in a row, but I couldn't find where the unevenness was... I even pushed it with a ruler, but I couldn't see any gaps...

But Shen Le did not dare to refute a word. The old man who criticized him was the oldest bronze mirror restoration expert in Qinchuan Museum, and he was of the same generation as Professor Lin.

This man has restored many cultural relics, including the Warring States Period bronze mirror with inlaid beads and six mountain patterns, the Tang Dynasty gold and silver flat mirror with four phoenixes holding ribbons, and the "Nanhai I" bronze mirror.

The textbook Shen Le used in class only had the title of editor-in-chief, and the people who wrote it were all his students...

"Are you not convinced?"

Shen Le tried to shake his head. The old man smiled and turned to look at Professor Lin:
"Lao Lin, do you have a flatness measuring instrument? Can you call it?"

"Uh, teacher, I'm really not dissatisfied." Shen Le quickly surrendered:
"I just don't know how to ensure the smoothness... I have tried my best..."

He felt very aggrieved:
"I customized an absolutely horizontal operating platform and placed the pieces on it one by one. I also polished them by hand because I was afraid that the machine would not polish them finely enough and they would not be smooth..."

"Oh, then you definitely can't grind it smooth." The old man laughed:
"Human fingers are semicircular, and if you press them with sandpaper, they won't be smoothed out. You should use a flat small square wooden block, 2.5 cm long and 1 cm wide, wrap it with sandpaper and polish it repeatedly.

I remember there was a conference paper on this in the 09 Cultural Relics Restoration Seminar. Did you look it up in the literature? "

Shen Le: Sweating profusely...

After the bronze mirror was passed, another big shot from the Porcelain Capital Museum began to criticize his skills in restoring porcelain.

What? When the carcass was being repaired, the workmanship was too rough, the polishing was not smooth enough, and it was a bit bumpy...

When the color is added, the color is not adjusted correctly. When the color is added under slightly darker light, there will be color difference when viewed from the side;
The thickness of the sprayed glaze is uneven, and if the porcelain is slightly turned, the light passing through will actually create a small rainbow...

"I have nothing to teach you." Finally, the boss concluded:

"Practice, practice hard, practice to death. Think while practicing every time. The more you practice and think, the more beautiful the things you make will become. There is no other reason, it's just practice that makes you beautiful."

Shen Le listened to the instruction. He was nervous and faced several rounds of storms. Finally, it was the turn of the teacher of Gongbo Lacquer Art Group:

"It's okay for the mother-of-pearl and the precious stones, but if they are willing to use the same materials, they can't be too bad." The old man held up a magnifying glass, looked up and down, and commented reluctantly:

"The gilding skills are not good! There are only patterns but no artistic conception. It's the difference between a master's painting and an embroiderer's embroidery!"

Shen Le was speechless. This big man was responsible for the restoration of the black lacquer and gold-painted throne, the lacquered and gold-painted long table with Kuilong patterns, and many other important cultural relics in the Forbidden City.

All the lacquerware sets in the museum today are from his disciples.

Shen Le had the good fortune to attend a lecture given by his disciple at school—yes, it was just the disciple’s lecture, and everyone had to scramble for a spot.

For an old man like this, if he says you can do it, he may just be giving face to your mentor and praising you casually. If he says you can't do it, then it is definitely true that you can't do it.

The problem is, teacher, I can understand if you talk about some hard indicators, such as the old man who just evaluated the bronze mirror, whether it is flat or not, using a measuring instrument;

How do we evaluate artistic conception?

If I could understand the artistic conception, I would be a master!

He looked at Professor Lin for help. Professor Lin had been listening with a smile, and did not take any offense at all to the fierce, harsh, or tricky comments from his old friends.

Seeing Shen Le looking over for help, she smiled and patted the armrest of the sofa:

"Okay, stop scaring the kids. - How's your craft? Overall, is it okay?"

She smiled and looked at them one by one. Facing her gaze, the old men and old ladies spoke one after another, somewhat reluctantly:

"Just barely." "It's just so-so."

"It's OK to just help out."

"At least he's not an amateur, so he won't act on his own and break things..."

Shen Le was sweating profusely after hearing this. Professor Lin seemed very satisfied. She asked everyone one by one and finally revealed the purpose of her invitation:

"Then do you think that little guy can be rated as a non-staff expert? That kind of non-staff expert?"

The living room suddenly became quiet. The old experts exchanged glances and pondered quietly. After a long while, the old man who repaired bronze artifacts was the first to speak:

"That kind of - non-staff expert? Ah Lin, why do you let this kid go down this path? If his skills are not good enough, he can hone them slowly. Going down this path is very dangerous!"

"I didn't let him go." Professor Lin smiled bitterly and shook his head.

In addition to the non-staff experts in the Special Affairs Bureau, there are also non-staff experts who rely purely on professional skills. External experts can also enter the museum and come into contact with cultural relics.

However, this kind of normal expert has extremely high requirements for skills and professional standards. At the very least, he must reach the level of a restoration master in his prime.

Shen Le's current level is far from enough, and he needs at least another ten years of training. However, he can't take the risk of touching dirty things just for the title of an expert!
"It's his own ability. In fact, he registered with the Special Affairs Bureau first. They confirmed his level in that area and wanted to give him the title of non-staff expert.

How about it, do you think it's okay?"

The worries of the old professors were gradually eased. To be honest, their field does need non-staff experts:
They are the people who deal directly with old objects. After doing a lot of archaeology and cultural relics restoration, everyone will encounter something that is not quite right.

From time to time, you, your colleagues, your students, or at least your colleagues in the industry, will be contaminated by something dirty, unlucky, injured, or seriously ill...

It’s a good thing to have an outside expert to help them defend against these risks!

It’s a great thing to have a reliable non-staff expert!

You have to know that most of the people sent by the Special Affairs Bureau to help have no knowledge of archaeology and no knowledge of cultural relics at all.

It is already the best if they can learn “don’t touch things that you are not allowed to touch” and “don’t walk where you are not allowed to walk”!

The problem is that many archaeological sites and cultural relics require them to be seen and identified before experts can get their hands on them. It's really bloody and tearful...

"If it's a non-staff expert, it's not bad." The atmosphere at the scene suddenly became lively. The old professor who had previously criticized Shen Le for his rough skills in repairing the bronze mirror smiled and stretched out his hand to Shen Le:
"Xiao Shen, come to our Qinchuan to play when you have time? Here, we have endless construction sites to develop and endless cultural relics to repair.

Just come and I will teach you as much as you want. No, I will let my last disciple teach you. He is now in his prime and will be able to produce results.

Ah... In the 800-li Qinchuan Plain, it is said that wherever you dig with a shovel, you will find ancient tombs. Wherever you build a subway line, you will find seventy or eighty ancient tombs. And in any university, you can find several celebrity tombs.

Real estate developers line up in front of the Cultural Heritage Bureau every day, asking experts to come and see their construction sites first and to assess the personalities of the ancient tombs excavated on their sites.

If you are lucky and the ancient tomb is not valuable, you can quickly backfill it and continue the work;

If they are really unlucky, they can ask the experts to quickly carry out rescue excavations and move the items away so that they can continue to work... What? Conceal the news of the excavation of the ancient tomb?
Don't joke, how is it possible that no ancient tombs were unearthed in a project of such a scale?
Shen Le was tempted. Before he could seriously consider whether to go or not, a professor from the Shudu Museum waved his hand like he was shooing away a fly:
"Go away! How much can you produce? Your province only has this little funding. If you spread it out to excavate ancient monuments, there will be too many people and too little resources!"

The speed of this paragraph was fast and urgent, like a violent storm. After she finished, she turned to Shen Le again, her voice extremely gentle, her eyes extremely eager:
"Xiao Shen, why don't you come to our place? It's easier to get results here! We have many cultural relics here, but we are short of manpower!
——And it’s close to Jincheng. You can go there anytime on weekends. If you come, I can take you to see giant pandas and hold giant panda cubs!"

Giant panda cub?
Shen Le was deeply shocked.

The big bronze mask, the big bronze standing man, and the bronze sacred tree all flew out of his mind, and only two words echoed in his mind:

Pandas…cubs…pandas…cubs…cubs cubs cubs…

Live!

You can hug!
You can touch it!
"It's as if no one can take him to see giant pandas." The old professor beside Teacher Lin, who was teaching him lacquer and gilding, snorted and laughed:
"It takes one hour by bus to get to the center of Jincheng, one hour by train, and half an hour by bus. Half of your weekend is spent on the road.

Xiao Shen, if you ask me, you should come to our place - in Beijing, it's easy to achieve success in anything you do! "

Shen Le: “…”

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