The old things I repaired have become fine

Chapter 322: Alloy Boss, what are you going to do with my gold? !

Can you still repair the Buddha statue?

Even if the Buddha statue is repaired - no, it's impossible, the Buddha statue is in my studio, and you guys definitely don't have the ability to steal the statue and repair it!
Shen Le was full of suspicion and followed his fellow apprentices inside. After turning a corner and then another, he entered two doors in a row. Two fellow apprentices stood in front of the floor-length curtains, one on the left and one on the right. When they saw him coming, they shouted at the same time:
"Dang-dang-dang--"

One stretched out his left hand, the other stretched out his right hand, grabbed the curtain, and flew backwards. The curtain was pulled open, and a Buddha statue appeared in front of him, and then another, and another, and another -

Five identical Buddha statues, neatly arranged in front of you!
Shen Le: “…”

Why don't you each get a hook and pull the curtain open to the left or right?

Why doesn't one person just get a long pole and pull open the curtain like a stage curtain, or in other words, do it like the little monkey pushing open the water curtain in the Water Curtain Cave in "Havoc in Heaven"?

Why not just add the music of "Theme Song of Xiaodaohui"!

The five Buddha statues look identical at first glance, but are quite different upon closer inspection.

One of them has the highest degree of restoration. It can be said that it is a complete replica of the original, except that the mottled areas are not covered with gold foil, but made of similar colors;

The one on the left is golden all over. At first glance, it seems to be covered with gold foil. Upon closer inspection, the entire statue is covered with gold foil.
The one on the right is covered with gold foil and is probably painted with all kinds of colors.

Bright red nails, black eyeballs on the palms, dark blue ribbons and magical tools, basically, everything that should be there is there, only the head and arms are still missing, which looks particularly terrifying.

"What are you..."

Shen Le covered his forehead and groaned, and probably understood what these junior brothers and sisters were doing. Sure enough, the two junior brothers who were responsible for opening the curtain, one on each side, held their heads high and said:

"We think that presenting this Buddha statue in 3D printing can help the restoration work!"

"We checked the information! The senior teachers who restored the Dazu Rock Carvings of the Thousand-Armed Guanyin also provided scientific and technological support for the restoration practice through 3D printing!"

“So we printed it out!”

“And we made a lot of effects!”

"It's very convenient to make effects! Just select on the scanned image!"

“We printed three of them, in all different styles!”

"I also printed two more to try to attach arms and a head!"

"You're going to give us the job anyway, so why don't we do some preliminary research first!"

"The brothers have already started to connect its head!"

“You have to reimburse the cost of 3D printing!”

Shen Le: “…”

No, let me say, let me say, you two don’t seem to be from the same class, or even in the same direction, and of course, you are certainly not twin brothers.

Why do you need to cosplay as Fred and George from Harry Potter here?
Fortunately, there are only two people. If we can get four more, would you like to cosplay as the Six Immortals of Taogu?

He forced a smile and looked around.

The one on the far left has the gold foil completely torn off, and the whole thing appears gray, or in other words, it looks like the original stone texture before the gold foil and paint were applied.
On the far right, two junior sisters were surrounding the Buddha statue, discussing:
"I think this Bodhisattva should be wearing a Dharma crown!" "If it is a Dharma crown, the height is not enough and it cannot fill the niche! There should be a few small Buddha statues on top of the Dharma crown!"

"There's no need for a small Buddha statue! Three layers of high bun will do!"

"I think……"

"I think……"

As they argued and gestured, they kept clicking on the virtual images on the computer screen and pasting them onto the 3D scan of the Buddha statue.

Shen Le feels that if other companies’ 3D scanning data were not so limited, they would dare to make a bunch of 3D printed Buddha heads and hands and directly install them on the Buddha statues!

"Well... I just mean... Have you finished all the previous experiments? Have you finished writing the papers? Have you started the next paper? Have you started the preliminary research?"

With a loud noise, the fellow students scattered like birds and beasts.

"Don't blame them." The doctoral student stood by and watched for a long time before he came over with a smile to help:
"Your meal was so delicious that they always wanted to make more. In fact, I wanted to do it too. By the way, do you really not need us to do preliminary research for you in restoring this Buddha statue?"

"In fact, I really need..."

Shen Le's face instantly turned bitter. He sighed heavily, waved his arm horizontally, and pointed at the row of five Buddha statues:
"I really don't know anything about Buddha statues. Isn't it necessary to collect all the data on the Thousand-armed Guanyin statues in our country and then compare them?"

"...Actually, there should be some that have been collected...but we just can't get them..."

The brothers looked at each other in bewilderment. After a moment, the doctoral brother slammed the table hard:
"Leave it to me! I'll ask my teacher how to get the relevant information! I don't believe that my teacher and his friends didn't collect it when I was practicing Thousand-Handed Guanyin!"

He turned and walked away. Shen Le quickly called him:

"Wait! If there are no detailed scanning records, a list will be fine! If I can get the province, city, or temple, I can scan it myself!"

"Don't worry! I'll try my best to get it for you!!!"

The doctoral senior brother made the call in a heroic and confident manner.

Shen Le directed several fellow students to transport the fumigated and sterilized fabrics, hair and jewelry back to the studio and put them in safe deposit boxes.

He calmed down and continued to study the Buddha statue:
Holding X-ray diffractometers, X-ray fluorescence instruments, and so on, they took turns shining them on the Buddha statues.

The sandstone part has been photographed, as well as the pigmented part and the part that may have been painted, all of which need to be studied and recorded;
Based on the atomic and molecular composition of each part, we can work backwards to figure out what colors these paintings were and what pigments were used.

Then, carefully peel off a little bit of the gold foil, scan it first, then take a sample...

"You're so tired of peeling off the gold foil!" The Alloy Boss turned around and around, almost grinding a hole in the ground:
"With a magnifying glass in one hand and tweezers in the other, it takes you half a day to peel off one sheet - you're not tired, but I'm tired for you! Come on, get out of the way, I'll do the work for you!"

"never!!!"

Shen Le yelled, opened his arms, and stood between the Alloy Boss and his precious Buddha statue:

"Where are you going to put all this gold foil? Are you going to swallow it?!"

"Ah..." The Alloy Boss was slightly embarrassed when he heard what he was thinking, and he forced a laugh. Shen Le stared at him intently:
"Absolutely impossible! These gold foils must be pasted back one by one!!!"

(End of this chapter)