The old things I repaired have become fine

Chapter 214: Dressing box, when did you and the red wedding dress become best friends?
[Not really, there really is no ghost on the red wedding dress. ]

A clear and beautiful voice echoed in Shen Le's heart. Lan Zhuang comforted the red wedding dress and used a colorful halo to dress it up, while explaining to Shen Le:

[It's just too obsessed and a little anxious... It's okay, I've already calmed it down, it won't make trouble again... It just hopes you can fix it quickly...]

Shen Le breathed a sigh of relief. It was good that there were no ghosts. He was very experienced in dealing with the spirits of the weapons that were awakened little by little from their ignorant state. The copper piece could also control them.

But if a ghost really came, he could only call the Special Affairs Bureau for help... No, that would be too embarrassing, so should he call the little oil lamp?

【There is no ghost.】

Another deep voice interrupted. In another corner of the studio, a compass hummed:
【I promise. 】

Shen Le quickly glanced to the side. This compass had been silent since it came into his hands, almost never speaking, and had never even announced its name.

However, its ability to perceive yin energy and the underworld should be the strongest?

After all, it was the spirit that relied on its own strength to find the gray-black curtain and guide everyone...

It said there were no ghosts, so there were definitely no ghosts. Shen Le felt more at ease, nodded to the compass, said thank you, and turned to the dressing box:

"Lan Zhuang, please explain this to Hong Jiayi. I will definitely fix her, but this matter cannot be rushed, we need to take our time...

While I am repairing her, I have to ensure that the repair process does not cause any harm to her, and that she can last longer after the repair is completed. Please be patient, okay?"

Well, although he could talk to Hong Jiayi directly, he couldn't guarantee that Hong Jiayi could understand much. After all, she was a spirit of the weapon whose spirituality had not yet been condensed.

However, the communication between Lan Zhuang and Hong Jiayi is obviously smooth. If she is the mediator, can the accuracy of the communication be fully guaranteed?
The colorful light on the dressing box flickered for a moment, as if a promise. Then, the colorful light surrounding the red wedding dress began to fluctuate in waves, constantly changing colors:

The entire rainbow seemed to be draped over the red wedding dress, flowing and changing all the time from the veil to the red embroidered shoes.

In Shen Le's view, it seemed like the spirit of a dressing box was sitting intimately beside Hong Huanyi, hugging her and whispering comforting words.

The flowing colorful light was first mainly rouge and pink, illuminating the sweet love memories of the owner of the dressing box.

However, the effect was not very good. A resistive force came from the wedding dress, almost trying to push away the colorful light.

However, the colorful light soon changed color, gradually becoming deeper, higher, wider, and more distant.

Finally, it solidified into that calm and resolute color that particularly attracted Shen Le, and the red wedding dress gradually calmed down...

[It agreed. You can repair it slowly.] Finally, Lan Zhuang sent the latest communication results:
[But, we have to keep repairing it. We can’t just leave it alone or throw it in the warehouse. If we do that, it will…]

Force me to wear women's clothes?

Just make a big fuss?
Well, as long as they don't smash my studio, my equipment, or the little ones around me, I can still tolerate it if it's just a little noise...

"Tell her that I will definitely try my best to fix her until she is fully recovered." Shen Le asked Lan Zhuang to relay the message:

"If there's a day when I don't do it, it's probably because I'm looking up information, or practicing with other materials to repair it, or doing basic exercises.

Ask her to wait a moment and not to be anxious. After all, she doesn’t want me to sew her into a mess, right? I’ve never embroidered before!”

Hong Jiayi was silent. After a while, Lan Zhuang repeated the story again, her tone brisk and full of smiles:
[She told you not to worry. Embroidery is difficult, and she can't do it well!]

Is it because your master is not good at embroidering?

Shen Le's thoughts wandered for a moment. That tall and fit girl, the girl who chopped meat with a loud bang, the girl who cut the meat and bones in half with one knife, embroidery?

Tsk, the picture is so beautiful that I can’t even imagine it... What kind of love does she have that could allow her to muster up the patience and effort to embroider?
Shen Le really wanted to know, but unfortunately, in order to see the next episode, he had to work hard to repair it bit by bit.

Seeing Lan Zhuang finishing the red wedding dress, pieces of clothing flew up one by one and ran into the closet. Shen Le quickly jumped up to stop them:
"Wait! I'll do it! I'll do it!"

Just kidding, he put each piece of clothing into the tray by hand, making sure they were spread as flat as possible and trying not to have any part overlapped.

I'm talking about you! That robe!

I have spread you out with great difficulty, please don't fold the front of your clothes without my permission!

He showed the utmost patience and meticulousness, placing the clothes one by one and putting them into the safe deposit box. During the process of settling them, he carefully checked them again:
Ah, this wedding dress could not have been embroidered by the girl herself. Even an embroidery idiot like Shen Le could tell that the various parts of this wedding dress could not have been made by the same person:
The outer robe and horse-faced skirt are exquisitely embroidered, with vivid floral and bird patterns;

The shawl-like shawl has such an exquisite and complex pattern, and the colors on the peony petals are layered, from light to dark, without a single stitch out of place;
The shirt and brocade pants were a bit perfunctory, with some of the embroidery being very delicate, and some of the embroidery being a bit crooked and uneven; as for the veil, well, even he could see that there were countless inexplicable needle holes on it. Probably because the embroidery was really bad, it was taken apart and embroidered, embroidered and taken apart, taken apart and embroidered again, embroidered and taken apart again...

Shen Le seemed to be across time and space, and saw the distressed girl sitting beside the embroidery frame, frowning and embroidering one stitch at a time. Sometimes she would throw away the needle and thread and start to lose her temper:

"I don't want to embroider anymore! It's not like I don't have money, can't I just buy it?!"

"Oh, girl, it's not a good idea to buy a wedding dress." Someone next to her advised her carefully:

"Whose girl doesn't embroider her own wedding dress? Come on, let's finish embroidering this flower..."

"At least you have to embroider your own underwear! - Girl, it's okay for the outer robe, but you don't want others to touch the clothes inside!"

"At least embroider a veil! If you don't even embroider a veil yourself, and you tell others about it, you'll be laughed at for at least twenty years by the whole neighborhood!"

Shen Le silently guessed what happened at that time and couldn't help laughing softly. Oh, girl, how great it would be if you were born in this era!
In this era, no one will force you to embroider a wedding dress, and no one will force you to do something you don’t want to do. You can fully display your talents!
In this era, girls even buy or rent their own wedding dresses, no, wedding veils, toast dresses, and wedding dresses.

Who has the time to embroider stitch by stitch? If you have the time to embroider a wedding dress, you might as well go to work and make some money!

He put all the clothes away, leaving only the horse-faced skirt outside. With a magnifying glass in one hand and tweezers in the other, he began to clean:
First, pick up the stains that have formed into pieces, remove them, and put them aside. Then use the museum vacuum cleaner to vacuum the area for the second time. After vacuuming the dust, use a soft brush and a cotton swab to clean the area for the third time...

This horse-faced skirt was once extremely gorgeous. It was embroidered with hundreds of butterflies and flowers. At the hem of the skirt, on the palm-wide skirt, complex patterns were embroidered with gold threads and rice beads.

It’s a pity that the owner didn’t know what had happened, and her skirt was covered in dirt, as if it had been dragged in mud.

Most of the gold threads had fallen off, leaving only a small portion of the rice beads, tremblingly attached to the hem of the skirt, as if they would leave at any time.

Shen Le sighed and took pictures, pictures, and pictures, capturing every detail of the pattern.

The gold thread was too thin and was likely to break. He had to think of how to repair it...

Damn it, I have to borrow some equipment to test the composition of these gold threads before I can find the same ones!

Shen Le sighed and picked up the broken and falling gold thread, put it under the digital microscope, and adjusted the magnification to 100 times. After a careful observation, he became more and more confused:

This gold thread is not pulled directly from gold, nor is it the gold thread produced by beating the gold into gold foil and then cutting the gold foil.

The exposed core wire can be seen between adjacent gold foil strips, and the cross-section can also be clearly seen by observing the cross section.

Therefore, the exact name of these gold threads should be "twisted gold threads", which are made by cutting gold foil into extremely thin strips and twisting them on the core composed of silk threads...

The gold foil strip is 0.45 mm wide and about 5 microns thick. The gold foil layer is wound on the wire core in an S direction with a twisting angle of about 30 degrees.

Above the thread core, inside the gold foil layer, there is an 8.6-micron glue layer. I don’t know what kind of glue it is, but it sticks the gold foil to the silk thread.

Dear ancients, how much free time do you have to use this method to make gold thread?
Can't we just use gold wire drawing? Why do we have to use this method which is dozens of times more complicated and difficult?

Speaking of ancient gold threads with specific ingredients, is there a channel to customize them? The Palace Museum must have it, but where else can I find it?

Where can I purchase the goods, or ask them to customize them according to my specific requirements?
Shen Le was overwhelmed.

However, all he could do was to collect these gold threads and go to Binhai again to study the composition of the gold threads and the composition of the gum.

Well, after testing, the gold foil contains 97.66% gold, 1.35% silver, and 0.97% copper. The internal core is two strands of mulberry silk twisted in the Z direction.

As for where I can customize this kind of twisted gold thread...

"Me? I don't have any here." Doctor Qin shook his head calmly:

"I don't need these things... Or maybe I can ask Miss Yaoyao for you? Maybe her zither cover or zither cover has some embroidered with gold thread. Can I take some off and give them to you?"

Shen Le shuddered and quickly declined. He asked the proprietress again. She tilted her head and thought about it, then suddenly laughed:

"Who would do such a troublesome thing? However, I can introduce you to a silkworm demon. If you give her a piece of gold, she can help you spit out golden thread."

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