The old things I repaired have become fine

Chapter 254 Shen Le: I have a room full of spirits, and my mentor is urging me to find a girlfriend? (Seeking guaranteed monthly tickets)

"...So, you're doing calligraphy and painting restoration again?"

Sure enough, the tutor came rushing over. As soon as he entered the room, his face was as gloomy as thunder, and his questions were very impolite.

Seeing the silk painting that Shen Le had put in the safe deposit box, and some basic materials prepared for the restoration of calligraphy and painting, he frowned even more tightly:

“You have to know that the restoration of ancient buildings is already a big subject, and the restoration of wood is another subject that is related to it but also very different.

Every profession is actually worth your lifelong study. If you want to restore wood, I won't say anything if you can get the approval of Teacher Lin. But, calligraphy and painting?"

He shook his head in disapproval. Shen Le stood by with his head bowed and his hands clasped, not daring to say a word.

In fact, many of the calligraphy and painting restorations are not done by people who are engaged in archaeology or cultural relics restoration.

Because it requires strong art knowledge, many people working in this field in major museums come from major art academies...

Is it too late for him to study art again?
Is it really too late?

With his level, he probably wouldn't even be able to pass the art exam, let alone get into an art school...

"Hey, Lao Han, don't be so strict with your students." Another school teacher walked around the studio, turned around and patted Teacher Shen Le on the shoulder:

"It's normal for young people to try everything. It's fatal if they don't learn anything new and have no curiosity. By the way, can we really use these instruments at will?"

His eyes sparkled with excitement. A laboratory, a laboratory with complete equipment, a laboratory with complete equipment that no one would fight over and that could be used freely—

Even if it is a top university in the country, you can't get it just by wanting it!

In fact, they often have to borrow many instruments from the Physics, Chemistry, and Life Sciences departments next door. Sometimes, they also have to borrow supercomputers from the Department of Information and Engineering and find people to help design algorithms...

It’s great to have a laboratory with such complete and advanced instruments!

Shen Le breathed a sigh of relief and nodded vigorously. In fact, he just made a list of the instruments in the laboratory and sent it to his tutor, asking him to help find someone to guide him.

As expected, once the order was sent, it quickly attracted people:
The instructor came over personally, and with him was a master in calligraphy and painting restoration...

"No problem, feel free to use it. Just don't snatch the equipment from me. By the way, it's best to bring your own experimental materials and chemicals." Shen Le patted his chest:

"I only have this one thing to repair anyway. It won't take up much of my time. Is that okay?"

The teacher of calligraphy and painting laughed. On the contrary, Shen Le's personal tutor frowned and walked around the laboratory again and again:
"How much do these instruments cost? Fifty million? One hundred million? Xiao Shen, where did you get this money? Did you do anything you shouldn't have done?"

"No, no!" Shen Le felt warm in his heart. Ah, this is his personal mentor. Others only care about whether the equipment can be used, but his personal mentor cares about whether he has made any mistakes:
"Teacher, don't worry! All this money came from legitimate sources, and there was absolutely no crooked way!
Am I not a non-staff expert in the Special Affairs Bureau? It’s easy to make money as a non-staff expert. This money was earned by completing a few tasks…”

He took out his phone, opened the Special Affairs Bureau app, and showed his teacher his points. The teacher frowned and looked at it carefully for a long time. Finally, he felt relieved, but other concerns arose:
"Then did you do anything particularly dangerous? Xiao Shen, although the instructor doesn't understand these mysterious things, he still knows the basic principles. There is no easy money in this world.

Xiao Shen, you are young and talented, so we are not in a hurry to make money. Try not to take risks!"

Shen Le lowered his head slightly, his heart softened and warmed. The mentor had said this to them more than once, and to his fellow apprentices—

Before, they were mostly warned not to go down the wrong path, not to commit embezzlement or similar illegal acts, and if possible, to focus their energy on academics.

This time, the instructor was actually concerned about his safety.

"Teacher, don't worry, I'm fine, I'm really fine." Shen Le assured the teacher with unprecedented seriousness:

"I am not short of money or connections now. Since I passed the exam to become a non-staff expert, I have no shortage of things to repair. This time, there is really a mission that I must take on, to contribute to the country—"

He leaned closer to his mentor, winked, and flipped through a piece of news about "navigation prohibited in certain waters" and showed it to him:
"That's all I can say... There's no way I can fix this painting. My colleagues asked me to do it. I owe them a favor..."

The instructor slapped him hard on the forehead before handing the phone back. He looked around and sighed:
"It's good that you know what's going on. You've graduated for so many years now. Normally, I don't need to nag you anymore..."

Although he said "no", the instructor still gave him a lot of instructions on everything, from laboratory safety to paper publication, from personal development direction to emotional issues.

"You are indeed not short of money now, but you should be careful when dating. If you don't know how to judge people, losing money is a small matter, but hurting your body and heart is a big matter...

At your age, you can actually start looking, and it’s even a little late to start now…”

"tutor!!!"

Shen Le's head was smoking. How long have I just graduated? How can I be in such a hurry to find a girlfriend?

Besides, in my current situation, with a house full of spirits, how can I find a girlfriend?

Are you looking for a banshee or a female ghost?
So far, I have never seen a female practitioner who is of marriageable age, unmarried, and can get married...

The instructor laughed heartily, finally feeling relaxed physically and mentally, and said goodbye and left. He came here just to confirm the laboratory that Shen Le mentioned, so that he could go back and communicate with the school:
How many students and young teachers in this department and college who cannot get a laboratory and are in urgent need of doing experiments can be sent here to work? How should we arrange their time?
Some of the resources Shen Le needs to be exchanged with other departments. How should they be arranged?

Should we just arrange someone to help Shen Le manage the laboratory?

Another master of calligraphy and painting restoration began to teach Shen Le the basics of restoration:

"It's so blurry... well, it's not too blurry. Among all the calligraphy and paintings I've seen, it's not the worst condition. How do you want to confirm its original state? Scan it, and then use an algorithm to restore it?"

The big boss carefully read Shen Le's experimental results. Shen Le looked at him eagerly:
"Teacher Zhang, I do think so. However, finding someone to calculate the experimental results of Raman spectroscopy and find someone to restore it with an algorithm requires connections... and connections depend on the school..."

So who was it that just said “There’s no shortage of money or connections”?

Oh, your network is the school, right?
"It's not difficult to calculate the Raman spectrum. As long as you have money, you can definitely find someone to calculate it. I'll ask for a price for you, and you just need to pay later."

Teacher Zhang first gave Shen Le a reassurance, then began to frown again:
"As for restoring it using algorithms based on the existing scans..."

"How about it?"

Shen Le looked at him nervously. Teacher Zhang shook his head slightly:

"The current algorithms used to restore ancient paintings can only be used as a reference..."

Although there are already many researchers working in this area, the research approaches are also multi-directional and multi-angle, and are progressing in parallel.

Some are based on the decomposition of the line structure of the painting, some are based on progressive multi-level features, some are based on multispectral technology, and some are based on hyperspectral image classification and linear regression...

But it is obvious that none of the algorithms can achieve satisfactory restoration results. The best results are not as good as the experienced work of the master.

He downloaded a few papers and sent them to Shen Le. Shen Le just glanced at them and shook his head and sighed:

"Teacher Zhang, I have seen these papers. I just want to ask if there are any newer and better results that have not been written into papers yet that can be used..."

"No, forget it. You can't do it." Teacher Zhang denied it straightforwardly. Seeing Shen Le's dejected look, for the sake of the laboratory and the experimental funds, he softened his voice and comforted him:

"However, if it's just for reference, it's still okay. As long as you're willing to pay, I can contact each team and ask them to produce a restoration map based on the scan results."

"Money will definitely not be a problem!" Shen Le's eyes lit up.

Let him look up information, find ancient paintings, study brushwork, and study figures, flowers and birds, and landscapes one by one to form experience and determine what this ancient painting should look like.

This might kill him!
A restoration picture would be best!

If he could have several restoration drawings, he would ask Teacher Zhang to make a summary drawing based on the restoration drawings. Then when he repaired the work, he could redraw it according to the restoration drawings!

"As for taking the ancient painting apart, scanning the back of the painting paper, and then scanning the mounting substrate, forget about this idea," Teacher Zhang said bluntly.
“Before unpacking, you have to rinse with boiling water to dissolve the glue used to mount the painting, so that you can untie the painting from the mounting paper.

I ask you, how can you ensure that the paint that has penetrated the substrate remains in place after being poured with boiling water several times? "

So this is why Shen Le must ask for help. Washing ancient paintings with water, pouring boiling water on ancient paintings, just thinking about this kind of thing, he trembled in his heart:

This is an ancient painting!

Let alone ancient paintings, even if you take a random piece of traditional Chinese painting made of rice paper and wash it with water, how can you guarantee that the painting will not be ruined?
He definitely wouldn't dare to do it without a teacher watching over him and guiding him!

"Look at you, you're so useless." Teacher Zhang first looked down on Shen Le, then gave an order:

"Why don't you practice with some paintings first? Once you get used to it and it becomes muscle memory, your hands won't shake as well. By the way, are you ready for the paintings I asked you to prepare?"

"Ready!"

Shen Le happily dragged out two large boxes, and then turned around and saw two more large boxes. Since he was preparing to repair it, he asked Lao You to collect a batch of calligraphy and paintings to practice with:

There are practice works by primary school students in Chinese painting classes, those from the 1970s, 1980s and the end of the last century, unsold wall scrolls in galleries, and pieces held by second-hand dealers as waste paper.

By the way, Lao You also found the monsters he knew and collected a batch of folk paintings from them. The paintings were from 100 to 300 years old, of very average quality, and at very good prices...

"One pearl for three paintings! Pearls rich in water spirit! Only fifty in exchange, no more waiting!"

Teacher Zhang almost fainted.

"Are you trying to tire me to death?!"

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