The old things I repaired have become fine

Chapter 224: Embroidery needle survives thunder tribulation? Are you forcing me to be an embroidery master? (Ten thousand rewards plus 2)

Shen Le held the two new trophies and happily set off on the road back home. When he got home, he put his things away and immediately began to sigh:
One is that it has been buried in the soil for an unknown period of time. The wood has absorbed too much water and is saturated with water. This may be because it was buried by the sea, and the wood also contains a lot of salt, sulfur, and iron ions;

The iron had been buried in the soil for a long time and had rusted badly. He estimated that it would break if he touched it, not to mention removing the rust.
If he hadn't acted decisively, cut two pieces of wood to fix it, and bought a long box to fix it when he got to Binhai, it would probably be broken by now...

Another one, it was soaked in the sea for two or three hundred years? It's hard to say what the inside has become like after being rusted. The shells on the outside need to be removed. If you're not careful, you can break the things inside.

"Old You..."

After thinking it over, he decided to call Lao You:

"Please buy me some sea-salvaged porcelain. Not expensive ones, not good-looking ones, but preferably ones in horrible condition, with all kinds of shells stuck on them - oh, and some sea-salvaged metal items, too. I want them to practice with!"

"Boss, are you kidding?" Lao You was shocked:
"Why would you want to buy something like sea-salvaged porcelain? Go find that old sea turtle and he'll give you as much as you want and whatever quality you want!"

Shen Le: “…”

Why didn't I think of this?
Why didn’t you remember it?
Oh, it’s not that I didn’t think about it, but I instinctively abhor the idea of troubling others!

"Don't use favors to get things done with money." He gave instructions in a straightforward manner:
"Go buy it!"

Old You spread his wings and flew away. Shen Le unpacked the two newly received collections and put them in separate safekeeping boxes, quickly adjusting the conditions inside the boxes so that the outside air would not cause further corrosion to the collections.

While they were working, over there, the girl in red wedding dress had already opened the door of the box by herself, her veil fluttering as she flew out to watch the fun:

[Have you found a new gadget? Are you not going to fix us? ]

"Be good and go back." Shen Ledong didn't dare to move - the veil was hanging above his head. If he turned his head slightly, his sweaty and greasy hair would dirty the red veil:

"These two things are part of you, they are your partners, can't you see that?"

can not tell.

At least the red veil can’t be seen.

It flew up and down, covering the safe, rolling around, and then raised a corner, trying to get into the gap in the safe to feel around.

After Shen Le took care of the unidentified object, he turned around and saw it. He quickly changed into a pair of gloves and grabbed it:
"Be good, stop making trouble and go back! You really want me to lock the box!!!"

The red veil was reluctantly pushed back into the safe by him, still dancing and struggling. Shen Le sighed, turned around and took out the short knife, carefully placing it on top of the stick-shaped object that looked like a waist knife:

"Come, feel it. Can you recognize it? Can you sense the same kind of aura?"

The short knife vibrated very lightly twice. In a moment, Shen Le heard its sound:

[It's... my companion. He's back. He's very weak and sleeping...]

Very good, the phoenix crown, the shawl, the inner shirt and outer robe, the red skirt and brocade pants, all have quieted down. It seems that in terms of spirituality and authority, this short knife seems to be the leader?
Shen Le took the dagger back with satisfaction. Then, he began to repair it patiently and meticulously:

First, I took out the Phoenix Coronet and carefully placed a spirit gathering array around it with the newly acquired pearls. I adjusted it left and right, fiddled with it back and forth, and observed the gathering and flow of spiritual energy. While adjusting it, I asked:
"How about this Seven Star Formation?"

[It feels good...]

"Can you make the pearls brighter? Not so old and yellow?"

[Maybe not... it's so easy...]

"How about changing it to the Bagua formation?"

[This is good! This is good! This is very comfortable! ]

"Don't just worry about the body, how about the pearl?"

[I don't even have enough to eat, so who cares about pearls! - If you want me to become brighter, give me these pearls!]

Well, that’s definitely not possible. One of the principles of cultural relic restoration is to keep it as original as possible.

If you are dissatisfied with the original pearls getting darker, you can replace them with new ones. So why don’t I just make a new one?

It is better to make a new one, complete, beautiful and flawless, than to look at the old and damaged original one!

However, that would lose the original intention of restoring cultural relics...

"Then... what about this Moonlight Gathering Spirit Array?"

[Ah...comfortable...so moist...]

The pearls on the top of the Phoenix Coronet glowed quietly. Shen Le breathed a sigh of relief:
Well, it is indeed the moonlight and water spirit that are relatively friendly. Very good, it can help Pearl recover quickly, so that his spirit gathering array will not be wasted!
He adjusted the pearls in his hand thirty or forty times, and finally, finally, he came up with a version that he felt was okay, and the phoenix crown also felt okay.

Just as I finished this, I heard a shout from the clothing locker:
【I want one too! I want one too! 】

【I want pearls too! 】

[There are many pearls missing from my skirt! I also want these pearls to fix the pearls on my skirt! ]

Shen Le: “…”Can I beat you up?

Can?

Unfortunately, no. It's just a skirt, it's not painful.
If the blow was too severe, it would tear and shred on the spot, and he would have to repair it from the beginning. Why would he do that?
"Don't worry, don't worry. I'll take my time and fix it bit by bit." Shen Le comforted softly and dragged out the previously customized cleaning tank.

He generously poured a large bottle of 1% silk fibroin solution into it, until the liquid was enough to submerge the horse-faced skirt, then he spread it out flat and dipped it in.

Soak for 40 minutes, take out, and then immerse in 0.005% glutaraldehyde solution for 60 minutes.

Thanks to previous experiments, using silk fibroin solution to reinforce old silk fabrics only requires normal temperature and pressure, so he doesn't have to worry about temperature and pressure issues...

After 60 minutes, take them out and dry them in the shade, then take out the other pieces of clothes and do the same with them one by one.

After the reinforcement, the color of the clothes hardly changed, but it felt much smoother. Shen Le was very satisfied, flattened the horse-faced skirt, and began to mend the embroidery:
Above the workbench, a huge piece of sulfuric acid paper was placed in a square frame and laid flat.

The white light from above fell vertically, projecting the patterns on the sulfuric acid paper onto the horse-faced skirt stroke by stroke, making it colorful and brilliant.

The mental force spread out, gently stroking the hem of the skirt, even able to sense every pinhole on it.

The laptop was turned over in front of her. Xiao Ling leaned over the edge of the screen and carefully moved the mouse, clicking on the annotations on every detail:
Here is a straight needle... needle gauge...

This curve is a needle wrap...

Here, the unfolded petals should be like needles, layer by layer, from deep red to the lightest pink, slowly stacked in...

here it is……

In fact, it is not difficult, he said to himself, not difficult at all. Each pinhole is a guide from the predecessors. As long as you walk on that path, you will be able to reproduce the splendor on the skirt!

The person who embroidered this skirt before was just an ordinary person. She had no spiritual practice, no spiritual guidance, and she was not even a special master embroiderer.

The young girl in my memory was already very impressive enough to find a master embroiderer at the county or provincial level.

Those brocades and brocade satins that were specially supplied to the capital and the imperial palace, those top embroiderers, those teachers in the Imperial Palace Museum, who restored and repaired them bit by bit——

He doesn't need to go that far, right?
Shen Le concentrated slightly. On the shelf on the right, a row of silk threads automatically flew up and approached the original embroidery on the skirt railing.

Shen Le’s own eyesight actually doesn’t allow him to pick out the most suitable color from a row of 32 shades of red silk threads, but he doesn’t need to choose. He can always find the most suitable one by comparing them one by one.

Then, the silk thread slightly spreads out, and one strand is pulled out from it, and then another strand is pulled out, twisted into a thread, and flies into the needle hole. After a few stitches, change the silk thread, and then a few more stitches, change the silk thread again...

Oh, it seems that his embroidery skills are much more mature now!

The silver needles flew, the silk threads moved. Every time she embroidered, Shen Le felt that her mental power became a little more delicate and a little more sensitive.

At the beginning, a talisman can only last for ten minutes, and you have to rest after the talisman is burned out;

After embroidering a flower, the talisman's support time has been extended to 20 minutes, and you can embroider two talismans in a row before taking a break;

After finishing embroidering half of the skirt, Shen Le was able to temporarily stop relying on the help of the talisman and use her mental power to guide the needle and thread, sewing on the horse-faced skirt.

Well, the most important thing is that as his embroidery progressed, his proficiency in drawing talismans also improved rapidly.

When drawing, the mental force naturally pulls the internal force, and the pen moves like a dragon. The output here is stronger, it can be slightly weakened here, the breath here should be sharp, and the breath here should be deep...

Those things where the mind, eyes and hands were originally out of sync and in a mess, have gradually become completely handy, without having to deliberately think about controlling them.

Beautiful patterns unfold on the horse-faced skirt, with lively butterflies, vivid flowers, and continuous patterns embroidered with gold threads and rice beads.

Shen Le was so engrossed in his embroidery that he was completely unaware of the passage of time. It was only when the proprietress sent another peony flower demon to him to survive the thunder tribulation that he suddenly realized:

"Ah! It's almost finished..."

Only the last corner is left, and the unfinished gap is only half the size of a palm.

Shen Le moved the model of the mansion to his side, watching the lightning strike one after another, and his mental power naturally unfolded:

You don't have to lie down next to the model or tilt your head to look carefully. Just by exerting your mental power, you can see the peonies in the model waving their branches desperately and with flowers emerging one by one?

It’s so comfortable…

He tightly grasped the metal chopsticks that had been used several times to guide the heavenly thunder, held his breath, and counted slowly.

Seeing that the last thunderbolt was about to strike, and there was only one flower left on the peony, he took a long breath and thrust the metal chopsticks down with all his strength:
what!
My silver needle!

My embroidery needle!
Do you also have to go through the thunder tribulation?

Are you forcing me to become an embroidery expert?!
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