The old things I repaired have become fine

Chapter 313 Shen Le: Insufficient manpower, too long a construction period, who should I find to help? (Seeking the last monthly ticket)

"Three months?"

Shen Le laughed. He raised one eyebrow slightly, looked at the alloy boss, and made an expression of "giving you a look to let you understand".

The Alloy Boss was stunned for a moment, took a half step back, looked at the Buddha statue carefully, then turned his head to look at the scroll spread out in the cabinet next to him, and thought about how much time they had wasted repairing the scroll.

The scroll was already shouting:
[Three months? Three months is not enough! Look how many months it took me to fix it! Look at me!]

"Uh……"

"Yes, yes, I remember now... I'm sorry, it's my fault. I didn't take good care of you before, and you suffered too much..."

The Alloy Boss sighed, went over to coax Hua Juan, comfort him, and say nice things. After a long struggle, he squatted next to the Buddha statue and looked at it for a long time, and gave a new estimate:
"Is a year enough?"

"One year may not be enough." Shen Le sighed. He turned on his computer, logged into CNKI, and downloaded a paper for the Alloy Boss to read:
"You see, after the Sichuan earthquake in 08, we conducted a survey of the cultural relics in that area and determined that the Dazu Rock Carvings of the Thousand-Armed Guanyin statue needed emergency restoration.

——Then, the preliminary exploration took place from 08 to 09, and various restoration tests took place from 09 to 13. We conducted three rounds of tests just on how to stick the gold foil on it.

By the time the restoration was completed, it was already June 2015, so it took seven years in total!"

By the way, the big shot who decided to list the restoration of the Dazu Rock Carvings as the No. 1 national stone cultural relics protection project was the director of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage at the time, and later the director of the Palace Museum in "I Repair Cultural Relics in the Forbidden City".

Many of Shen Le's teachers and senior students in the school participated in the project. After returning, they were very envious:

"That project is so lucrative! Really so lucrative! It has supported several master's theses! Really, if you can participate in such a big project, you don't have to worry about your thesis!"

Unfortunately, those who published master's theses on this project were all from local universities like Southwest University and Chongqing University. Oh, and China University of Science and Technology also published one, which was about the softening and re-sticking repair of gold foil.

No one in their school uses this to write papers. The main reason is that both teachers and students are eager to publish in journals with high impact factors. If they can publish in foreign core journals, they will publish abroad. If they can publish with an impact factor of 10, they will not publish with an impact factor of or more.

"Uh……"

Alloy Master quickly read the content of the paper and sighed. He originally thought that it would only take a few months to complete the repair. He could live here for a while and watch Shen Le repair it:

Apart from anything else, applying gold foil is such a healing thing!
But if it takes a year, he might not be able to stay...

First, the exploration work in the secret realm had just begun, and there were still many places that needed his help—mainly physical exploration;

Secondly, the Materials Institute would come to collect the goods every few days and send him various alloys to satisfy his appetite.

Although the trucks delivering metal ingots did not enter the old street, when the trucks rumbled over, the ground was shaking a little, which made the alloy boss feel a little guilty...

He opened his mouth to say goodbye, but was reluctant to do so. He leaned over to read the abstract again, and his eyes lit up:
"This project is not that big! Look, the Dazu Thousand-armed Guanyin statue niche is 7.7 meters high and 12.5 meters wide. The entire niche is filled with thousands of hands and eyes...

The workload of a Buddha statue like you is only one percent of his!"

"...Thank you. Actually, the workload is not less at all." Shen Le reluctantly pulled out another piece of information and showed it to the Alloy Boss:

"Moreover, the construction of this statue was done by the Chinese Academy of Cultural Heritage, which collaborated with dozens of scientific research institutes and hundreds of experts.

Including our school, the neighboring Q University, Dunhuang Research Institute, Dazu Rock Carving Research Institute, University of Science and Technology of China, China University of Geology, Southwest University, Chongqing University, etc. There are even more students who help with the work..."

They have hundreds of people working on it, and I am the only one doing it. Even if the workload is only 1%, the number of people working here is less than 1% of theirs!
Alloy Boss was suddenly discouraged. After thinking for a while, he tentatively proposed:

"...Or, why don't you find some people to help you? For example, the students in the studio next door?"

Shen Le's heart was moved. Finding some work for his juniors, giving them topics to publish papers on, and giving the teacher a reason to guide him, this is a win-win situation!
However, thinking about the low singing in the Buddha statue and the sad elegy that has not stopped until now, he still sighed:
"Let's talk about it later... If we move this Buddha statue to the next door, it will drive some of our junior brothers and sisters crazy..."

For a weaker spirit like the portrait, he would accompany Teacher Zhang every time he came over, and he could also ensure that nothing would go wrong. A group of junior brothers and sisters living with the Buddha statue day and night?

What if one day, a junior fellow student wakes up in the middle of the night and yells “Where is my head——” and then has this nightmare for ten consecutive days...

If the school doesn't tear him into pieces alive, the teacher in charge will also bite a piece of flesh off him!
While lamenting his future workload, he placed orders for a bunch of reference books according to the list in the paper.

For example, the most important one is "Preliminary Study on the Rescue Protection Project of the Thousand-armed Guanyin Statue in Dazu Rock Carvings", which is huge, thick, and expensive. There are two volumes, 640 yuan.

If only he were still in school, this book would be in the school library!
Can I find a senior or junior brother to help me borrow it and scan it...

Not only is it available in the school library, but also in the Binhai City Library. But Shen Le thought about it and decided to ask his fellow apprentice to scan it, rather than drive 60 kilometers to Binhai to borrow it and scan it. He would rather spend money to buy it...

Anyway, any problem that can be solved with money is not a problem!
Oh, and there are also "Outline of the Dazu Rock Carvings Protection Project" and "Report on the Protection and Restoration Project of the Dazu Rock Carvings Thousand-armed Guanyin Statue"...

After placing the order, he carefully moved the Buddha statue out and placed it in a cabinet with constant temperature and humidity according to the method of protecting Buddha statues that he had learned before. Then, he took a look at the red sandalwood Buddha shrine outside, with a painful look on his face, and began to repair the shrine:
"You better give it your all... Don't go to such lengths that you find out that you and the statue are not a match made in heaven, and that your spirits cannot be connected at all... Then my cultivation would be in vain..."

The first thing to do, of course, is to take photos and write them down. Shen Le is very rich, so he was very extravagant:
Take photos, scan! Set up a high-precision scanner!
Anyway, that scanner [only] costs 800,000 yuan, and when he came back from the Maelstrom last time, the Special Affairs Bureau had already equipped him with all the equipment he wanted according to the list!

He didn't spend any of his money!

Of course, scanning is scanning, but forms still need to be filled out and records still need to be made. The Alloy Boss was surprised to find that Shen Le was even holding a drawing board, with a painful look on his face, sketching quickly:
"Why are you painting? Don't we have photos already?"

[That’s it! That’s it!]

Lan Zhuang's light flickered nearby, casting its shadows on the white wall, outlining the silk Buddhist painting on the front of the shrine without any error.

The puppet was running around, jumping from the table to the floor, and then from the floor to the top of the cabinet, next to Lan Zhuang:
[Sister, you are so awesome! ]

[If you have paint, you can just draw it! 】

[Do you want me to help you mix the paint? ]

[Can I help you lay out the paper? ]

Shen Le: “…”

Xiaoling, wait a minute!

You are the first child in the family!
When did you start calling Lan Zhuang "sister"?

Is it because Lan Zhuang is older, more mature, gentle and reliable?
"...Lan Zhuang, it's okay if you want to draw. I'll let Xiao Ling help you. You can draw as many pictures as you want." He smiled and rubbed Xiao Ling's head, picked it up, and wiped the dust off its feet.

Touring day after day, from Zhuxi Town to Binhai City, Xiaoling's movements became more and more agile, and even her woodiness slowly changed.

Its body is just fir, and it is not a particularly good quality one. When Shen Le repaired it, he used the wood to fill its body, which was also a medium material;

However, after more than a year of touring, as its spirituality increased and perhaps as its merits accumulated, its wood became denser and harder, and every piece of wood took on a luster similar to jade.

Shen Le once asked it if it should change to some better wood, such as Huanghuali or even red sandalwood, now that it has money. The little wooden puppet shook its head desperately:

[No! No! ]

[It’s good like this now! ]

【I will get better! 】

[Change the wood, I have to start all over again! Besides, after changing everything, am I still myself? ]

Ah this...

The last question is indeed a famous philosophical question, the puppet version of the so-called "Ship of Theseus".

Since Pinocchio didn't want to change, Shen Le just let it go.

He put Xiao Ling on another table, spread out drawing paper for it, opened the paint box, watched the little guy happily running around on the table, flattened the rice paper, poured water to mix the paint, and then turned to face the alloy boss:

"There's no other way. I still have to paint. Painting it once is different—"

A good memory is not as good as a good pen. By drawing it yourself, even if it is just a draft in the form of a sketch, you can have a general understanding of the entire cultural relic.

Just like his mentor, the old man obviously has a high-precision scanner, but he still likes to carry a notebook and draw sketches wherever he goes, even high-precision tracing drawings.

The most terrifying thing is that you have to write a bunch of formulas next to the graph and calculate them on the spot...

He drew quickly, frowning as he did so:
"I'm not saying anything, but the style of this shrine and the Buddha statue don't seem to be from the same series... Just look at the painting on the front, why does it look a bit like the style of the snowy plateau?"

After drawing the sketch, he took the shrine to the X-ray machine and took a film. When the image appeared on the screen, Shen Le screamed:
"Help!"

　Thanks to @天天天情 for the 830 starting coins

　　The last four hours!
　　Please give me a monthly ticket, meow!
　　In addition, let’s ask for the guaranteed monthly ticket for next month!

　　The cat will see it early tomorrow morning!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)