The old things I repaired have become fine

Chapter 341 Alloy Boss: I don’t believe that my ability to control metal is worse than that of humans!!!
Polishing thousands of strands of black hair together, the efficiency is more than ten thousand times higher than Shen Le working alone.

Shen Le estimated that it would take at least 10 to 20 days to polish and level the Buddha statue. If he was unlucky and had to redo the work, it might take another month or two.

As a result, everyone worked together and completed all the work in just one day.

The most important thing is that Shen Le can't reach into many of the twists and turns and corners, and using a wooden stick is also troublesome.

But is this a problem for hair? Not at all! As long as those corners are thicker than a hair, the hair can polish them into place!
As for Shen Le, he only needed to make a cup of tea and sit beside her and give orders:
"Don't try to squeeze it in too hard, and don't use a single strand of hair! It will leave marks on the paint surface! Hey, this is great, use a handful of hair to hold the paint ash and polish it together, the effect is perfect!"

"Wait! Wait! This is a painted area! Don't polish it like this! The principles and techniques for repairing painted areas are different!"

"Slow down, slow down. You, yes, you, come here and check if there is any damage. Unfold! Unfold! Okay, move yourself under the microscope, stop..."

In the whole studio, only his voice could be heard. And the hair followed his instructions, moving forward, backward, grinding hard, loosening...

This includes putting himself under a microscope for Shen Le to observe, and then immersing himself in the silk protein solution.

Then, the talisman representing "treatment" silently rotated, and the silk protein solution seeped into the hair, quietly repairing the parts that were lost due to polishing...

Well, silk and hair are both made of protein anyway.

Although there is a slight difference, theoretically "dead" hair should not be able to be grown back, but magic is not something that works according to reason, right?

In the quiet guidance, the breath of the thousands of black hair gradually calmed down. The sadness and pain that Shen Le felt before seemed to have subsided a little?
Sure enough, you still have to work to realize your own value, and only when your value is realized can you find the direction.

It is not impossible to treat psychological trauma by just praying to Buddha and chanting scriptures, right? The efficiency is always much lower, right?

In just one day, all the polishing work was completed, far exceeding Shen Le's expectations.

As if those black hairs were still a little unsatisfied, they circled and danced around the Buddha statue, as if they wanted to do something more.

Shen Le had no choice but to drag a large water tank over and order them all to lie down in it:
"Okay, girls. You've worked hard. Come over here and take a rest. Fix yourself up! New work will start later, and I'll need your help..."

After much persuasion, coaxing and force, they were all pushed in and enjoyed the silk protein solution bath and self-repair work.

In the corner of the studio, the little oil lamp and the little puppet were talking to each other, chirping:

[Shen Le has never cared about me this much...]

[That’s right, I perform every day, but he doesn’t even bother to help me fix the wood and threads! I even wash my clothes myself!]

[After bringing me back, he didn’t even offer to repaint or remove rust for me… My glass was glued on with glue! He didn’t even offer to glue it again with glass solution!]

Shen Le: “…”

He had no choice but to walk to the corner, pick up the little puppet, hold it in his arms and shake it upside down. He touched its cheek, touched its fingers, and then lifted its skirt to look at its feet:
"Xiao Ling, the wood on your body has all turned into jade. I can't find similar materials at the moment. If you want to repair it, I'll go find some good wood. Why don't you try it?"

[Uh… no need…] The puppet twisted in his arms:

[I hope you can spend more time with me... If you have time, can you make me some jewelry? Like a phoenix crown? ]

This was still a bit difficult, especially since Shen Le had no skill in making jewelry. He could only touch the puppet and vaguely agreed:

"When I have time, I'll learn it. Well, let me fix the Buddha statue first, and then see if I can get some jewelry to fix it, okay?"

Xiao Ling curled up into a small ball, whimpering. Shen Le put it down and went over to pat Qing Deng:

"What about you? Do you want me to get you some steel or even some advanced alloy to eat? If you can't eat it, let Mr. Jin teach you?"

The small oil lamp shook its handle quickly. A ball of silver light rose from the lamp head, floating up and down, and quickly flew around Shen Le:

[No steel! No alloy! Electricity! Electricity! Electricity!!!]

It sparkles all over.

After being baptized by countless electric currents, especially thunder and lightning, its material has changed from rusty steel to a silvery, shiny, and even a little light exotic metal.

Shen Le even suspected that if he found some kind of magic method to refine swords one day, he could even take the handle of the small oil lamp apart and refine it into a sword pill?
"Okay, okay, you can use as much electricity as you want at home. When you're done with work and have time, I'll take you to use electricity. I'll use all kinds of electricity!"

Although he didn't know the difference between "different kinds of electricity"...

Could it be that the taste of hydropower is softer than that of nuclear power?

In fact, maybe, what the little ones want is not the materials, but his occasional care and concern?

He patted this one, looked at that one, and chatted with that one for a few words. He even did not skip the always taciturn Luo Pan who was hiding in the corner.

After the rain and dew were evenly spread all around, he returned to the workbench, turned on his phone, and sent a message to Lao You:
"Old You, go check and see when the new gold foil will arrive."

The specifications of modern gold foil are divided into two types: 98% and 74%. The former is also known as Ku Jin, and the latter is also known as Da Chi Jin.

Kujin is of the best quality and its color lasts for a long time, so it is suitable for exterior paintings. Dahongjin is of lower quality and is easy to change color.

The gold foil that Shen Le peeled off from the Buddha statue had some colors that remained unchanged, some that were dull, and some that were even green.

After material testing, it was found that the green gold foil did not contain much gold, but also contained some silver and a small amount of copper. Over time, the copper oxidized, and then, well...

Regardless of whether it turns green or not, these old gold leaves are not enough. To complete the restoration, a batch of new gold leaves must be purchased.

When we restored the Dazu Rock Carvings of the Thousand-Armed Guanyin, the gold foil was specially customized.

Not only is it customized, it has also passed the inspection of the National Gold and Silver Products Quality Inspection Center, with a gold content of 98% and a specification of 93.3mmx93.3mm.

Shen Le didn't have such a good channel. He didn't want to use machine-made gold foil, fearing that things pressed by machines would be soulless and affect the spiritual growth of the Buddha statue.

There is no other way, I can only spend a lot of money to find a private company that inherits the intangible cultural heritage and customize the gold foil:
To make a piece of gold foil, the gold must first be beaten into a thin sheet, then wrapped in black gold paper, and then beaten with an eight-pound gold-beating hammer as hard as possible.

The whole production process involves mixing, making strips, beating leaves, twisting seeds, dropping seeds, dipping twisted seeds, opening seeds, assembling seeds, heating them, beating them into thin sheets, and then issuing them to cut foils. There are 12 processes in total.

The "Heavenly Creations" records: "Every seven cents of gold is used to make a thousand square inch gold pieces, which are then glued together to cover the surface of an object, and can cover a three-foot long and wide area."

500 pieces of gold foil stacked together would only be as thick as a strand of hair. One ounce of gold can be hammered into gold foil that is one-ten-thousandth of a millimeter thick and has an area of 16 square meters.

In order to ensure that what he got was handmade gold foil, not machine-made gold foil, Shen Le had to trouble Lao You to personally check it out...

"Boss, how can it be that fast?"

On the other side of the phone, Lao You replied in frustration:

“The delivery date you set before was 10 days later! 10 days later!

Two workers can only hammer one package of black gold paper and forge 1984 sheets of gold foil every day, and it's not our turn yet! You said there's enough time and there's no need to rush us, so why are you asking today?"

"Uh... there are some small changes. Anyway, the completion time here has been advanced..." Shen Le showed an embarrassed smile: "Can you be a little earlier? Cut in line or something, at least bring some goods over?"

"Let me think of a solution... Boss, next time we need something, can we tell you earlier?"

Every process is very troublesome!

The beaten gold foil is so soft that it can be broken by a breath and is as soft as silk. When it is taken out of the black gold paper, it is ready for delivery. It is impossible to hold it with your hands and it will break if you touch it.

It takes an experienced worker to use goose feathers and blow air to blow away the gold foil in order to move it!

Shen Le also knew this, so he didn't want to urge him too much. The problem was, without the gold foil, he couldn't start the next step.

The old gold foil that has been peeled off and the new gold foil that has been purchased cannot be simply pasted on each other. They need to be coordinated and fully colored to minimize the visual mottled effect.

It is useless to apply gold glue paint in advance. To apply gold foil, you have to apply it when the gold glue paint is almost dry so that it can be applied steadily...

"Oh, trouble..."

"What trouble?"

Alloy Boss suddenly poked his head out:

"Shen Le, do you need gold foil? Do you need my help?"

"…You can do it?"

Shen Le stared at him with a look of disbelief. The Alloy Boss chuckled and took out a small yellow croaker:

"Would you like me to give it a try? If I can do it, I'll get one ounce of gold foil and you'll give me an extra ounce of gold?"

That's no problem! One ounce of gold can cover 16 square meters, so it's no problem to gild the entire Buddha statue.

Shen Le could afford to give him an extra ounce of gold. Even if the price of gold has risen to 700 yuan per gram, one ounce of gold is only 35000 yuan?
This is not even enough to pay one month’s interest on his deposit in the Special Affairs Bureau!

Oh, there is no interest on the points earned by the Special Affairs Bureau, so that’s fine…

"try it yourself?"

Shen Le showed a curious look. The Alloy Boss didn't say much, but stretched out his two big palms and rubbed the small yellow croaker.

He rolled 50 grams of gold into an extremely long gold thread, and then pulled it into twenty or thirty small gold segments.

Then, he kneaded the small pieces of gold into golden balls and patted them into golden cakes, like kneading dough.
"Open it for me—"

Under the watchful eyes of the crowd, the tiny golden cake, no bigger than a palm, began to expand outwards. Pull it open, pull it open, pull it open, pull it open...

"Good job!"

"Work harder!"

"Make it smoother!"

Shen Le kept encouraging him. 50 grams of gold is used to make 16 square meters, and 25 gold segments are pulled out. Each gold segment is 2 grams of gold, so theoretically 0.64 square meters of gold foil should be pulled out.

However, the alloy boss clenched his fists, puffed up his cheeks, and his eyes bulged like a frog. Veins popped out on his forehead, and the gold sheet in front of him stretched to about 20*20 centimeters, and it didn't move...

"Uh... maybe it needs to be a little thinner?"

Shen Le didn't even need to make any additional requests. He just had to push the cleaned gold foil in the ziplock bag forward, and the Alloy Boss's face turned from red to blue, and from blue to purple.

He stretched out his hand and made a few strokes, and the gold flakes naturally split into four pieces. With a wave of his hand, a piece of gold floated up, fell, and moved in front of him.

The Alloy Boss raised his fist. The fist as big as a sand bowl changed color and shape in the air, and directly turned into a square iron hammer, smashing down -

"Wait! My workbench can't withstand your smashing like this!!!"

After a lot of confusion, they finally found an anvil, put the gold pieces on it, and beat them hard:

"boom!"

"boom!"

"Bang bang bang!"

"Hey, the hammer is broken..."

"Oops, the hammer went crooked..."

"Tsk, why is it that after hammering for so long, some gold foils are still thicker and some are still thinner? If you pick up a piece of gold foil, the thickness can vary several times?"

Shen Le didn't even need to check the quality of his work. Just by looking at the area, he knew it was definitely not good enough.

The poor alloy boss tried his best, hammering and banging, and with his ability to control gold, he only increased the area of the gold sheet by about five times, or 0.2 square meters.

It is still very far from the standard gold foil area of 0.64 square meters...

"So you've never had gold leaf before?"

Shen Le looked at him curiously. He wanted to eat gold, but he didn't have enough on hand. If he broke the gold into gold foil and ate it slowly, wouldn't it last for a long time?
Why does Alloy Boss look like he has no experience at all?
"Who eats that kind of stuff?"

The Alloy Boss's face flushed red, and he was both angry and embarrassed:

"After struggling for so long, I still didn't get enough for one bite. I felt like I had eaten it, but in the end it all stuck to my teeth and I couldn't get it down without rinsing my mouth!
There's still sand and dust inside, and there's more glue than gold. Instead of scraping off the gold foil, I might as well just eat the gold!"

So you've eaten it, right?
Also, what we mean is, if eating gold foil is so troublesome, why did you want to eat the gold foil on the Buddha statue at that time?

"Forget it, let's wait for the delivery. It'll only take ten days anyway." Shen Le sighed helplessly. The Alloy Boss raised his eyebrows, very dissatisfied:

"No! Just wait! I have to beat out the gold foil! I just can't believe that my ability to control metal is not as good as humans'!"

bang bang-

bang bang-

bang bang bang-

One day, two days, three to five days. The alloy boss squatted in his yard, never leaving, hammering the lump of gold repeatedly:
The honor of their clan is at stake!

The gold foil produced must be better than that made by humans!

(End of this chapter)