The old things I repaired have become fine

Chapter 325: Boss, I am a peregrine falcon, don’t treat me like an owl!

Cave 321, Mogao Grottoes, Dunhuang, Eleven-faced Six-armed Guanyin, early Tang Dynasty.

"No flash! No flash!"

The management staff kept an eye on Lao You. Even though the staff of the Special Affairs Bureau followed him and tried to smile and say nice things, his attitude did not soften at all:

"These murals are very fragile! Not to mention the strong light, if there are more people coming in to visit, the carbon dioxide and water vapor they exhale will damage the murals!"

Nonsense!

No flash is allowed. How were the photos in the thesis and the pictures in the album of "Complete Collection of Chinese Art" taken?

And those picture albums you sell at the entrance of the scenic spot, how were the pictures in them taken?

Professionals can allow them to take the photos, but why should I, who is representing the professionals, be discriminated against?

Even so, he couldn't just chase the managers away, or turn into a peregrine falcon and come in to take pictures in the middle of the night.

He took several photos under the murderous gaze of the management staff, but the result was still blurry. He had no choice but to call Shen Le and got the following instructions:
"Then don't take pictures. It's a mural anyway. Well, buy me a related album. It would be better if it has high-definition electronic photos."

"Oh, by the way, the Dunhuang Research Institute has counted that among the 492 caves in Mogao Grottoes, there are more than 40 paintings of the Thousand-armed and Thousand-eyed Guanyin painted in successive dynasties. Ask them if they have an atlas.

Regardless of whether there are any, please ask them to take you to take a few more representative photos!"

Lao You faithfully executed. It was impossible for him to take more than 40 photos in one go. He could handle it, but the Dunhuang staff could not keep up.

It is open to the public during the day, but no one is allowed to take photos at night without flash, so wouldn’t his trip be in vain?

Lao You hurriedly took pictures of the two most representative ones, the Early Tang Dynasty Guanyin in Cave 321 and the Thousand-Armed Guanyin from the Yuan Dynasty in Cave 3.

Then, he bought several huge, thick, and expensive atlases, as well as a large box of CDs. He walked to a place where people were not around, spread his wings, and soared into the sky:

The next target is the Xixia Thousand-Armed and Thousand-Eyed Guanyin in the third cave of Yulin Grottoes!

"Hello? Where are you? I'm here!"

"What? You're already here? At the entrance of Yulin Grottoes?! Weren't you still in Dunhuang half an hour ago?!"

The staff of the Special Affairs Bureau who received the call was furious. The straight-line distance from Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes to Guazhou Yulin Grottoes is 100 kilometers, and the driving distance is 153 kilometers...

He planned to wait in Guazhou until the other party arrived in Guazhou from Mogao Grottoes, and then drive there together. How come the other party had already arrived in Yulin Grottoes before he set off?
"Did you fly over there?"

"That's for sure..."

Lao You said innocently. The staff jumped up and rushed out the door. When they got to the car, they received a text message from a colleague in Dunhuang:

"I just found out that this Mr. You is a peregrine falcon that turned into a demon..."

Why didn't you tell me such an important thing earlier!!!

Gansu ends in Ningxia, Ningxia ends in Shaanxi, and Shaanxi ends in Shanxi. Shaanxi and Shanxi provinces have many temples, many historical sites, many cultural relics, and especially many Buddha statues. These Buddha statues are particularly large in scale, and it takes a long time to scan one:
For example, in the Great Compassion Hall of Chongshan Temple in Taiyuan, Shanxi Province, there is a clay statue of the Thousand-Armed Guanyin Bodhisattva on a Sumeru pedestal. The statue is 8.5 meters tall with 44 arms spread out.

It took Lao You a whole day just to scan this one Buddha statue. He scanned it from the ground, flew in the air, and even flew to the highest point and scanned right next to the Buddha statue.

Poor him, a peregrine falcon, he has to flap his wings to fly in the air, he can't just hang in the air by somersaulting. Even so, he has to keep the scanner lens stable, it's so hard for him!
What's more troublesome is that Shanxi has recently entered the peak tourist season, and every temple is crowded with people. The more exquisite the sculptures, the greater the flow of people.

Many temples are said to have exceeded the maximum number of visitors they can receive and have to implement flow control measures.

In this way, after the crowds poured in, they would still gather at a particularly wonderful hall or a particularly wonderful statue, forming a partial stack here...

Lao You had no choice but to change his day shift to the night shift. After the temple was closed in the dead of night and all tourists had left, he would go in to scan with the coordination of the Special Affairs Bureau.

Poor thing, he is a peregrine falcon!

Peregrine falcon!
Not an owl!
It must be very uncomfortable for him to work day and night reversed every day!
This high-intensity work seemed to have finally come to an end. Lao You flew all the way through Shanxi, checking in all the way, and when he arrived in Pingyao, his eyes lit up and he quickly sent a message to Shen Le:
"Boss! This Thousand-Armed Guanyin looks similar to the one you are going to repair!"

Shen Le's spirits lifted. He was worried about not being able to find a reference object. If he had a Buddha statue that looked similar to him to copy, he wouldn't have to worry about many things!
"Send it over here, send it over here!"

He urged quickly. Before he could call to ask, Lao You had already sent him a photo, so beautiful that his eyes lit up:
This colorful sculpture of Thousand-Armed Guanyin is magnificent and, more importantly, gentle and vivid.

She wears a crown with a niche-shaped forehead, a red mark in the middle of her forehead, a jeweled necklace on her chest, a belt hanging down her body, and a red skirt around her lower body.
Each of the 26 arms and wrists has a bracelet, and they make different gestures and hold various magical instruments.

The characters have plump and delicate faces, lively and natural postures, graceful gestures, dignified and reserved expressions, and elegant and reserved charm.

The waist is slender, the arms are white and plump, and the fingers are slender and soft. Shen Le stared at it for a long time and sighed:
"Ugh……"

Even if he practices for another ten years, he still won't be able to catch up with this level of sculpture!
"Come on, work hard, and I'll give you a bonus later." He made a huge thumbs-up gesture and continued to work with his head down.

The alloy boss was spinning around:
"Hey, are you really not going to go over and take a look? This Buddha statue looks very similar to yours, you can just copy it!"

“I really can’t…”

Shen Le stopped working with a headache, enlarged the picture, and counted for him:
“Look, this colorful sculpture of the Thousand-Armed Guanyin has only 26 arms;
The Buddha statue I am repairing now has more than 32 arms, conservatively estimated, and perhaps as many as 48 - and that doesn't even include the ones that form the backlight..."

"Isn't it just a few more arms?"

"One more arm will make a huge difference! If you insert one more arm, the difficulty will be one point higher. If you insert ten more arms, the difficulty will increase exponentially, boss!"

This Thousand-armed Guanyin statue located in the west wing of the main hall of Shuanglin Temple in Pingyao County has a similar aesthetic style, so he can use it as a reference, but it can only be used as a reference...

The Alloy Boss sighed in frustration. This repair work is too difficult. This job is simply not for humans!

Alas, why isn’t Shen Lexiu’s Buddha statue a golden Buddha?
　Dad should be able to be discharged from the hospital in a few more days...

　　The cat is so tired, the cat wants to be held...

　　
　
(End of this chapter)