The old things I repaired have become fine

Chapter 332 Alloy Boss: Shen Le, do you want me to introduce Lady Shiji to you?
With tears in his eyes, Shen Le followed the young man and bowed to the statue of Thousand-Armed Guanyin with his hands clasped together.

This statue in the palace's Buddhist hall is less divine and more human than the nearly ten-foot-tall Buddha statue in the temple.

The Buddha statues in the temples have plump faces and blessed bodies. The whole statue is elegant and full of a strong divine aura.
This Buddha statue, which is worshipped by the people in the temple, represents the compassionate and gentle Mother of the Nation who has become a god and Buddha and looks down on the world.

The Buddha statue in the palace's Buddhist hall has a graceful face, a slender waist, and a lively and natural expression and posture. It looks more like a loving mother gazing at her child.

Shen Le didn't even have the mood to observe the statue carefully and memorize its every smile and every detail.

He just lowered his head, clasped his hands in front of his chest, and recalled silently:
"Grandpa...are you okay in heaven...Buddha, if you can see, if you can hear, please bless him...bless him..."

Lights and shadows flew before my eyes. The young prince led the army, built cities, went out to the frontier, and settled herdsmen, sweeping the grasslands and guarding the border for the country. He grew from a young man in his twenties to a strong man in his thirties, approaching forty.

However, every time he returned home, he would go to the Buddhist temple to burn incense and worship before the statue of Guanyin.

Kneeling on the cushion for a while, the scent of sandalwood in the Buddhist hall permeates my body, and looking up at my mother's kind and gentle face, my heart gradually calms down:
It was as if I was still the child at the feet of my mother, the one who was loved and cared for...

In the Buddhist temple, incense is always burning. When he was around, no matter how busy he was, he would go to the temple to burn incense; when he was away, his queen and concubines would also faithfully perform their duties to maintain the temple.

However, no man can be perfect forever, and no flower can be red forever. After he passed away at the age of 41, his sons began a long-term attack and fight:

They reported to the court, spoke ill of each other, and induced each other's officials to make mistakes. In the end, his eldest son was stripped of his title and imprisoned, and his second son succeeded him.

The eldest son and his family were imprisoned in the cemetery of the previous king in the name of guarding the tomb, and they were imprisoned for ten years.

The lights were dim and the stove was cold. No food was provided. Only the Buddha statue that was moved out for worship was watching them quietly...

In the end, even the gold foil on the Buddha statue was stripped off piece by piece and secretly used to bribe the guards and get a bite of food to fill their stomachs.

By the time the eldest son and his family were rescued and settled, the gold foil on the beautiful Thousand-armed Guanyin had been stripped away, leaving the stone completely exposed...

The light and shadow flowed, and they returned to the studio. Shen Le opened his eyes and stared at the Buddha statue in front of him, unable to come back to his senses for a long time:

Actually, have you ever had such an experience?

From being carved by skilled craftsmen, covered with gold foil, and worshipped by a powerful prince, one of the nine border kings, to being left alone in a deserted room, to having all the gold foil stripped off, and then to being re-gilded and worshipped earnestly.

It only takes 30 to 40 years for the economy to go up and down. If a person lives a little longer, even if he doesn’t live to be 70, he can still see its ups and downs…

This is the experience he had while wandering in the palace. It is not so strange that he later had his head and hands cut off and fell into the water palace.

Of course, if you want to understand its later experiences, you need to go a step further and perfect its restoration.

Shen Le held his breath and peeled off the tissue paper on the Buddha statue bit by bit, revealing the stone underneath.

The problem of salt precipitation has been solved a lot by soaking cotton paper with pure water and sticking it on the Buddha statue to soak it little by little. Measuring the conductivity with an instrument can reveal obvious changes.

However, the problem of powdering is more difficult to solve...

Shen Le has worked hard to look up information, and his fellow junior students have also conducted experiments with similar sandstones. The conclusion is that ZB-WB-S material, which is a cellulose ester polymer, is most effective in reinforcing sandstone.

As for what kind of polymer this thing is, Shen Le doesn't need to know exactly. The paper even lists the manufacturer, Lanzhou Zhiben Chemical Technology Co., Ltd.

It would not be difficult to ask Lao You to go and buy a few liters. The question now is, if this kind of artificial material is used to repair spiritual things, will it damage their spirituality?

Shen Le had no answer at all. He could only call Lao You and ask him to find a solution:
"Go to a few more temples, or the wild, and find some Buddha statues or other things that are a bit spiritual, but there aren't many of them. They can be moved. They're made of sandstone. Can you get me some?"

"I'll try to repair it and see if this material is good or not! - By the way, if possible, try to choose one in Shanxi. The sandstone there should be similar in composition?"

Lao You: “…”

Boss, is there a possibility that I am a peregrine falcon, not a golden eagle?
I'm not that kind of large bird monster, whose wingspan is over two meters before becoming a monster and can easily catch a lamb weighing dozens of kilograms. After becoming a monster, my wingspan easily reaches five or six meters, so it can catch hundreds of kilograms without any problem.

And it was transported from Shanxi to Binhai!
It's thousands of kilometers away, and it takes two hours for a passenger plane to arrive. You want me to fly all the way here holding a Buddha statue weighing hundreds of kilograms...

"Boss, you can't use me like a Y-20!!!"

"It's okay. Just take your time and bring it here. There's no rush." Shen Le thought about the weight of the sandstone Buddha statue and didn't think it was suitable for the Peregrine Falcon to transport it by air.
"Just pack it up and find a car to transport it here. I'm not in a hurry. Well, the material should be delivered sooner. I'm waiting to use it!"

You can also repair the stone slabs, column bases, and small stone statues on the railings in your home and feel the restoration effect!

"That... SB material?"

"No... ZB-WB-S materials... Never mind, I'll send it to you via WeChat, and I'll also send you the paper and address..." Poor old You spread his wings and tried to fly. While flying, he muttered:

"It's really troublesome for people who do research... There are so many English abbreviations, and if you're not careful, they'll all be piled together... You can't tell which is which, and you can't memorize them at all..."

Shen Le had no idea what to do with the abbreviations. In fact, he hated these messy abbreviations. He felt that every time he looked up information, he would waste a lot of time.
But if we don't use abbreviations, look at the names of the materials -

Methyltrimethoxysilane, methyltriethoxysilane, tetramethoxysilane, tetraethoxysilane, polymethacrylate, high modulus potassium silicate solution, magnesium fluorosilicate...

It feels like a waste of everyone's time, especially the communication time at the work site.

Moreover, these materials used to repair stone sculptures don’t seem to be much better than ZB-WB-S, and may also damage its spiritual flow?
There is no other way but to try it first.

Before the materials arrived, Shen Le used the cleaning technique to clean the Buddha statue thoroughly, removing all the oil stains, incense ash, and unstable repair materials from the Buddha statue:

In order to properly attach the gold foil on it, the predecessors first applied a large amount of plaster on the Buddha statue as a base layer, then applied lacquer on the base layer, and then attached gold foil on the lacquer.

After years of being soaked in water, covered with moss, and various other things, the plaster on the Buddha statue has deteriorated greatly, causing great damage to the statue itself.

Shen Le had to use the cleaning technique to carefully clean up all the foreign dirt, revealing the complete body of the stone statue:

"Be gentle!"

"Be gentle!"

"More gently!"

"Alas, if I use a little more force, the sandstone powder will fall off..."

The Alloy Boss followed him around in circles. After practicing hard for so many days, his mastery of the Cleaning Technique could only be used for cleaning, not for cleaning artifacts;
As for what Shen Le hoped for, being able to control stones or something...

"That's really not possible! I can dig mines and dig up rocks because I'm tough and strong enough!

But I can only control metal ores. For stones like this, I can’t control them to grow well! At most—”

He stretched out his palm and squeezed it hard. In his palm, a small stone that he had picked up from somewhere turned into stone powder and fell down.

Shen Le sighed helplessly.

It seems that the role of the alloy master can only be reflected in processing sandstone into stone powder...

The thing is, I can buy things like sandstone powder, so you don’t have to act like a macho man and squeeze it hard!
"...How about I introduce you to Lady Shiji?"

"What?!"

Shen Le's voice cracked. "Empress Shiji? What Empress Shiji?"
Wasn’t that person beaten to death by Nezha, no, by Nezha’s master Taiyi Zhenren?
Is she still alive?

So is Taiyi Zhenren also an immortal who once appeared? !
"Oh no, not the one in the Investiture of the Gods." The Alloy Boss shook his hand at the right time:

"She is a demon made of blue stone in the mountains. Everyone jokingly calls her Lady Stone Rock, and then it became a nickname in the circle... I don't know her, but I have heard of her. If you need her, I can ask someone to introduce her to you?"

"Then let's wait a little longer..."

Shen Le wiped the non-existent beads of sweat from his forehead. He was scared to death, really scared to death. Even if monsters had appeared in his world, it was still hard for him to accept the people in the Investiture of the Gods standing out alive!

"Let me try a few rounds of experiments first. What if I can figure it out?"

The alloy boss was fine with it. Shen Le waited patiently for a day, and when the materials he needed were in place, he started working seriously:
The stone slabs in the mansion, especially the stone slabs at the entrance of the east road of the mansion, were cracked by the alloy boss. Use 10% ZB-WB-S solution, add stone powder mortar, to fill the cracks in the stone slabs;
The stone foundation of the mansion pillars, if the surface is weathered, powdered, or scratched, use 10% ZB-WB-S solution and stone powder mortar to repair the damaged stone.

The stone foundation at the bottom of the mansion has a hollow surface, so it is poured with 5% ZB-WB-S solution and stone powder mortar;

There are parts that are about to fall apart, so we simply cut them off, and then use 10% ZB-WB-S solution and stone powder mortar to reposition and glue them...

"Please help me... Please help me breathe freely! Please help me breathe freely! I really don't want to ask Lady Shiji to come over..."

　In the third month of the 31st year of the reign of King Gong of Jin, his son King Je-hwi succeeded him. … Je-hwi resented his father and also resented that Je-hwi would not resolve the grievances. He instigated his brother, King Gyeongseong Je-hyun, and others to complain about Je-hwi’s faults in the court, and also induced officials in the palace to investigate and accuse him of crimes, which lasted for years. In the 12th year, the emperor stripped Je-hwi of his title, and made him and his son Mi-gyu commoners, ordering them to guard the garden of King Gong, and established Je-hwi as King of Jin.

　　After Ji Xu was enthroned, he became more violent and tyrannical. He even poisoned and murdered his stepmother, Xie, and forced Gong Wang's maid Jixiang to marry him. He imprisoned Ji Xu and his son, and did not give them any vegetables. Many of Gong Wang's former attendants and palace ladies were killed, and no one dared to speak out. An old woman in Gong Wang's palace went to Cheng Zu to report it. Cheng Zu summoned Zuo Wei, the former attendant of Jin Prefecture, from prison to interrogate him. He found out all the evidence Ji Xu had framed Ji Xu. Li ordered Wei to summon Ji Xu and his son. Ji Xu had been imprisoned in an empty room for ten years.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)