The old things I repaired have become fine

Chapter 320: Junior brothers and sisters, help me with the work! There will be a feast!
Hair doesn’t speak, clothes don’t speak, and jewelry doesn’t speak.

Obviously, without being sorted and repaired, their spirituality index was still too low. They were separated and placed in several safes, and the distance between them was increased, and they were even quieter.

As for the Buddhist shrine, if it is spiritual enough to have ideas, you can probably refer to Lan Zhuang's statement:

"My insides are hollowed out. Did I cry?"

That would probably make me cry...

If you want to stop it from crying, you have to repair its contents and put them back in the same condition.

However, Shen Le thought about the piles and piles of silks and satins and really didn't want to "bark" again in the short term.

He sighed and called his junior fellow students from next door. The two of them carried a safe deposit box, transported all the hair, clothes, and jewelry to next door, and put them in the ethylene oxide fumigation box for fumigation and sterilization:

"I'm leaving it to you now! Handle it with care and don't damage it! If you damage it, be careful with these hairs, they will entangle you to death in the middle of the night!!!"

"Don't worry, brother!"

Three junior brothers and one junior sister burst into laughter.

Among these junior brothers and sisters, one is doing bronze restoration, one is doing lacquerware restoration, one is doing porcelain restoration, and the other is doing miscellaneous restoration.

For a school like University B, if you want to go directly to a PhD program/study abroad for a PhD at a good university, or want to work at a good research institute/museum, you have to publish high-level papers, and to publish high-level papers, you need a lot of data to support it.

Instead of hiding in the school and competing with the neighboring physics/chemistry/biology/something else college for equipment, working day and night, and guarding it during whichever period of time you get.

It’s better to come to Shen Le!

There are instruments, and there are enough of them. If everyone shares a little bit of them, everyone can do it easily without having to get up early and stay up late to watch the campus at 3 a.m. every day for a month.

Research however you want!

Not to mention, Shen Le also provides food and accommodation!

There are several vacant rooms in the laboratory, and we put a bed in each room, free of charge; we can have three meals at Tianxianglou, just 300 meters away, free of charge!
"Brother, you are so kind to us!"

"As expected of a senior from the same major!"

"Brother, if you have any experiments to do, or if you need us to help you, just tell me!"

"Brother, when I graduate, can I come and work for you?"

Shen Le responded with a smile to his fellow junior brothers and sisters who were chattering non-stop.

It is impossible to work part-time. Even if a junior fellow student has sufficient experience and ability to handle special matters, he is unlikely to accept them:
He wants to ensure the absolute safety of the little ones.

However, it is okay to take better care of the junior brothers and sisters:
"How are you doing lately? Is the food okay?"

“It was delicious!”

“Tianxianglou’s craftsmanship is so great!”

"Can't the boss lady open a store in our school...If she doesn't want to take over the canteen, she can open a store!"

Shen Le smiled back. It was impossible to open a store. The proprietress was a flower demon. She felt most comfortable here. She had taken root here for hundreds of years and would not easily move for the sake of making money.
As for the fact that Tianxianglou’s craftsmanship is too good…

Well, Shen Le had transferred a sum of money to the boss lady before, asking her to add a small amount of spiritual energy materials to each meal when providing meals for the junior brothers and sisters...

Of course, it’s just a trace amount, the kind that can strengthen the body and make people healthier.

He added too much and was afraid that they would eat it and cause some kind of mutation. Wouldn’t that be harming his fellow junior fellow students?
By the way, he asked the Special Affairs Department to send a small portion of the spiritual seafood he got this time to the school.

A small piece a day, added to the canteen's free soup bucket, boiled until soft. The spiritual energy is thin, just to borrow the flavor.

Those juniors who eat in the cafeteria and get free soup from a big bucket every day, drinking one or two bowls a day can boost their spirits and slightly enhance their resistance...

"I'm afraid the boss lady won't open a shop... But if you work in Binhai in the future, it should be easy for you to come and eat once a week, right?"

"Sixty kilometers, brother! Sixty kilometers! It takes two hours to get here by subway!!!"

Shen Le smiled and waved at them. He watched them put everything into the fumigation box, adjust the parameters, turn on the switch, and waved at them:

"Come on, guys! I have some experiments that I really need your help with!"

"No problem! Just speak up, brother!"

Shen Le returned to the studio, moved the repaired shrine aside, covered it with a cover, and tried his best to prevent it from being damaged.

Then, he began to ponder the headless Buddha statue that attracted him in the first place:

"This should be a statue of Guanyin... But what should its head and hands originally look like..."

Looking left and right, up and down, he could not figure it out. Shen Le knew that this was not something that could be decided in a short time:
Even when our senior teachers were repairing the Thousand-armed Guanyin in Dazu Rock Carvings, they also researched and studied all the statues and paintings of the Thousand-armed Guanyin in the country bit by bit. Finally, they chose and determined the most suitable one among countless options, and then repaired it bit by bit.

Shen Le is neither an expert in religious archaeology nor an expert in the restoration of Buddha statues and paintings. Even so, he has only seen dozens of Buddha statues - and he saw them by chance when he participated in the restoration of ancient temples.

If he wants to repair the Buddha's head and hands, he may have to consult professors from his own school, or even experts from other schools...

"No, I have another idea." Shen Le clenched his fists:

"I'll first fix what can be fixed and fix what can be fixed. Maybe this Buddha statue can transmit some of its memories to me?"

Whether it’s transmitting memories, telling me what it originally looked like, asking me to carve the Buddha’s head and hands, helping to glue it on;

Or call it, locate it, tell me where the rest of it is, so I can go and get it;

These are all feasible paths to repair!
Moreover, this Buddha statue has so many parts that need to be restored, which will allow me to add a lot of spirituality to it!

Shen Le rubbed his hands and started to repair it - no, he set up a high-precision scanner and began to scan it carefully.

This type of scanning is different from the scanners they use to scan buildings. It is smaller in size, scans more slowly, and uses different scanning software.

Of course, the results achieved are very different:

For example, it can even scan and archive every piece of gold foil on the Buddha statue, and even the number of millimeters it is curled up!

Shen Le circled around the Buddha statue.

When the Dazu Rock Carvings Thousand-Armed Guanyin statue was being restored, Shen Le’s senior teachers and expert team made detailed records of the statue:

A total of 1032 questionnaires were filled in, containing approximately 35000 data points, 297 hand-drawn disease maps, and 335 disease vector maps.

More than 1300 photos of the current situation were taken, including more than 40 high-definition photos obtained through close-range photogrammetry.

The Buddha statue that Shen Le was facing was only one meter high and less than 60 centimeters wide, less than one percent of the size of the Thousand-Armed Guanyin.

However, this does not mean that the information Shen Le needs to record is only one percent of that of the senior experts:
"So what kind of stone is this..."

Shen Le was confused. As a restorer of ancient buildings, he had a rough idea of the types of stones, but he certainly couldn't tell the difference as well as a geology teacher.

In fact, he was not even as good as his tutor. His tutor could tell the general idea just by looking and touching it, but he could only rely on instruments...

Shen Le muttered as he began to look for information and flip through it. When the scanning work was completed, he exported the scanned file and immediately transmitted it to his fellow students next door:

"Help me count how many hands there are! - When we're done, I'll treat you to a feast! It'll be better than the food the boss lady usually delivers!"

Although the Thousand-Armed Guanyin is called the "Thousand-Armed", generally speaking, no one is honest enough to really sculpt a thousand hands - the materials do not support it, and if you really make so many hands, the aesthetics will also be very problematic.

Generally speaking, if there are more than ten hands, it can be called "Thousand-handed Guanyin";
The most common Thousand-Armed Guanyins are made with thirty-two or forty-eight arms, to represent the thirty-two transformations and forty-eight great vows of Guanyin; the other hands are represented in the form of backlighting.

Based on the density of the Buddha's arms, Shen Le estimated that when it was complete, it had about 32 arms, all of which were backlit.

However, after the damage, even the existing ones with backlight are hard to count...

With the temptation of a big meal in front of them, all the juniors, as long as they could put down their work temporarily, plunged into counting. Each person had a computer, a pen, counted one, and recorded:
“1……2……3……32……47……59只手臂！”

“I have 57 here!”

"Nonsense! I counted 61 of them!"

"You must have counted wrong!"

"You counted wrong!"

The six students looked at each other in bewilderment. After a pause, the oldest doctoral student, Shen Le's senior, and the laboratory leader specially sent by the school coughed and clapped his hands:

"Stop arguing. Let's print out the pictures, one for each person, and put a number on each arm! Let's do it again!"

The result of doing it again was that the number of arms was unified from four answers to two. The two brothers checked head to head, and after they finished, they looked at each other in surprise:

"This still doesn't work! I feel like there's still a difference between the number of arms you counted and the number I counted!"

The only way to relieve their worries is to read papers. A group of students logged into CNKI and searched for papers.

Finally, I learned the research method of the Thousand-armed Guanyin of Dazu Rock Carvings and drew a grid on the picture, dividing the whole picture into 16 parts:
“Count each square one by one! Color them one by one! I don’t believe it!!!”

After much scribing, everyone finally reached a consensus that the entire Buddha statue, not counting those that were chopped off at the roots, should have 63 arms, including the stumps.

The reason for the huge gap is that in the arm bush, in the gaps hidden by the magic weapon, two more were found...

(End of this chapter)