The old things I repaired have become fine

Chapter 461 Yun Kun: Shen Le, you won’t be able to get married if you continue like this!
Shen Le's wish to transform into Nuwa ultimately failed. Well, I don't know if it was because of his wrong race, wrong gender, or maybe both.

All in all, he still has to be honest and start from the beginning:
Mix mud, mix mud. Take a large piece of mud, add a bunch of dry grass, and try to mix it evenly. Put it into the oven and slowly bake it until the whole piece of mud is dry and cracked.

Then, grab the spray bottle and slowly spray water onto the mud, and use a syringe to inject water droplets into the cracks to soak the mud and the grass stems inside.

Finally, close your eyes, use your mental power to feel the dry grass inside, and cast a healing spell -

"Too long."

"Too long."

"Well, it's still too long this time..."

After several consecutive failures, Shen Le also lost his temper. I still don't believe I can't handle you!

I still don’t believe that I can’t develop this kind of control!

He simply grabbed a bunch of dry grass, threw it into the oven to dry, weighed it, divided it into small portions, and packed them into boxes separately.

Take a small box, wet it with a spray bottle, place it in front of you separately, and cover it with the lid:

"Growth Technique—"

When casting spells under visual conditions, the control ability is indeed greatly improved.

A spell was cast, and soon, the yellow, brittle, powdery grass stems began to show a little bit of soft green...

"long!"

"long!"

"long!"

Shen Le tried to cheer the grass stems up in his heart. The thin grass stems really lived up to his expectations, turning greener and fuller little by little.

Shen Le stared intently for a minute, and saw the grass stems stretching longer and longer...

Jointing, continue to grow, jointing again, pulling out side branches, and continue to grow...

Blooming...

"Uh, it seems the energy supply is a bit over capacity? Get a new one and try again..."

Make a new bunch, and then another. Then divide the new grass stems into two, and then into four... until they are pulled out one by one, and cast the growth spell on each one.

It's true that single-root control is very effective:
When Shen Le was repairing silk fabrics before, he cast growth spells on each strand of silk fabric, making them grow and stick together automatically. He was very familiar with this power!
From one to two, from two to four, then to ten, and then to a bunch.

Shen Le practiced magic until he was exhausted. When he finally gained some proficiency and could control the regrowth of dry grass stems through the mud, the test reports of his fellow apprentices came out:
"Brother, we have measured the fiber composition of the mud you gave us! These muds are made of jute, ramie, straw, cotton, and animal hair..."

The junior students were working hard on the experiment. Shen Le just said, "Test the composition of the clay sculpture." If they wanted to get the project funds, they had to do a lot of things:
First, weigh 5g of sample mud into a weighing bottle, put it into an oven, and bake it at 105 degrees Celsius until the mass no longer decreases to obtain a dry sample.

Then, take it out and let it cool, and gently crush the sample with a pestle. The force should be moderate so as not to destroy the particles of soil and sand in the sample.

God knows there is only this sentence in the paper. When doing the experiment, how many times we have to try to get this "moderate" result.

Dear senior who wrote the paper, could you please write it in more details next time?

For example, how many Pascals is the pressure?
Obviously not. The junior brother in charge of this task could only try again and again with the pestle.

The finely ground soil was used to pick out the fibers with tweezers and transferred to a microscope for observation. The remaining soil was used to measure the soil composition. This even caused a quarrel between the two groups of students:
"You worked so roughly! There's still so much fiber left in it!"

"I didn't do this! Look, it's written in the paper that 'only straw fibers can be picked out, while tiny cotton and linen fibers are difficult to pick out'. Is this my fault?!"

"But you didn't pick out all the straw! We're doing research on soil composition, but we keep doing it wrong. Look, the characteristic peaks are full of interference terms!"

"Is this what I want? I can't pick out the fibers, I can't produce results, it's very difficult for me!

——Or, let’s switch jobs. You pick the fibers and I analyze the clay composition! If you can do it, go ahead!”

"I'm on, I'm on!"

Shen Le didn't care how chaotic they were. This was the norm in the laboratory, and the seniors who led the team and the teachers who managed the laboratory would take care of it.

He is the boss. He only issues tasks, provides samples, and pays money.

What? The noise and hostility in the lab are too intense, which may lead to bad consequences?

With the Five Thunder Peach Wood Sword calming the situation, any demons and monsters that wanted to take advantage of people's negative emotions and sneak in to cause trouble would not have any chance.

After a day of quarreling, go to the boss lady's house for a meal and the delicious food will soothe your worries.

If that's still not enough, Xiao Ling can go to the lab and perform a puppet show for them after get off work, to ensure that it doesn't get to the point of "thanking roommates for not killing me"...

In short, multiple insurances ensure that Shen Le can conduct experiments with peace of mind and nothing bad will happen next door.

Shen Le just sat in his room, calmly waiting for the result:

"Samples 001 and 008 have cotton fibers added... Sample 004 has a distinct layering, with straw and jute added to the inner coarse mud layer and fine ramie added to the outer fine mud layer..."

Shen Le checked the list of samples he had left behind and began to look up what parts these samples belonged to.

Very good, 001 is a clay sculpture of a finger, which is a relatively delicate part.

Cotton fibers are finer and when mixed into the mixed clay, they can increase adhesion and make the clay fine, smooth and easy to shape into delicate shapes.

No. 004 belongs to the body part, with the inner coarse mud layer added with straw and jute, which is rougher and has greater friction;

The outer fine mud layer is mixed with ramie fibers, the finest type of hemp fibers, to create a smoother surface...

Each conclusion has a detailed experimental process, from drying mud, to screening out fibers, to degumming and fiber extraction, to microscopic observation, and then to various pictures under the microscope:

In short, the main point is a clear process, clear steps, and reliable conclusions. Shen Le flipped through it and confirmed that it could really be used, so he started practicing.

Very good, he only needs four kinds of fibers: straw, jute, ramie, and cotton, plus animal hair. By the way, what kind of animal hair?
When I called, my junior brother complained:

"Brother, we can do experiments on these plant fibers and give you the results right away. But animal hair is not the same! We sent it out for DNA testing, but we haven't received a response yet!"

Shen Le shrugged and turned around to work. Fortunately, the four fibers were not mixed together. At most, two fibers were mixed. He could practice one by one:
"Cotton fiber! - Very good, pass!"

"Ramie! -- pass!"

"Straw and jute... eh, it's a bit difficult to control the strength. I'll practice a few more times..."

After many attempts, he finally classified the fibers and mastered the technique. Next, he began to try out the colored sculptures that Lao You had brought over one by one:

"Growth! - Great, it's done!"

"Regrowth! - Great, this piece is done too!"

"Grow! Grow! Grow!"

Rough and tough straw fibers, jute fibers, fine ramie fibers, and extremely fine cotton fibers absorb water in the soil, recover, grow, and hold the mud ball together firmly.

Provide them with support, flexibility, and bonding strength. Feeling them grow little by little and finally stop, Shen Lesong breathed a sigh of relief:

Thankfully, by adding back the fibers, the strength of these clay sculptures can be restored a lot!

He calmly turned around and went back to work, studying how to fill the gaps in the clay sculpture. After trying, simulating, and struggling for a few days, he looked back:

???

Why do I feel like something is wrong?

After digging up the soil, I was speechless. It could be a problem of temperature, humidity, or even cracks in the soil...

In short, those moistened and growing plant fibers, they...

It's moldy and starting to rot...

"So why don't the fibers used to make clay sculptures rot?"

Shen Le was confused. After studying it over and over for a long time, he finally came to a possible conclusion:

"Before... it was all kneaded into the mud, completely sealed, with no air. Without air, there is no basis for bacteria to grow, so probably, it won't rot, right?"

But now, after years of weathering, the clay sculpture has tiny cracks everywhere. Shen Le couldn't fix these cracks for the time being, so he had to find another way:
"So, if I drain the moisture from these fibers, that's it?"

"Cum! Cum! I'll cum!"

It can control water, attract water to wrap itself, and push the water around it to form a huge hole, which can naturally draw out the water from the plant fibers.

Of course, this requires practice, lots of practice, and extremely precise control.

Shen Le plunged into practice again:

Spray, pump water, measure moisture content;

Spray again, pump water again, and measure the moisture content again;
Practice with fibers one by one, practice with fibers in clumps, mix clumps of fibers with mud, and then practice with mud...

During the practice, the identification result of the animal hair came out. It turned out to be rat hair. Shen Le sighed at the result:

"It's okay with cat hair, I also have a way to add fox hair, but how do you want me to add mouse hair? Forget it, let it be!"

He practiced hard, day and night, not noticing how much time had passed. When Yun Kun came back from his trip to the sea, he sneaked from the harbor to the pond at home, and then flew back to see him, and was completely surprised:
[Shen Le! How did you become like this!!!] "Ah...?"

Shen Le looked up blankly. What had I become?

These days, I have been working in the laboratory, eating three meals on time, sleeping on time, and sleeping in no particular place. What else can I become?
[Look at you! Look at you!] Yun Kun was so anxious that he turned into a small boat ten centimeters long, flying around him with a whoosh, and then flying past him with a whoosh.

After flying several times, he still couldn't handle him at all, so he fell on the table and yelled:
【Lan makeup! Lan makeup! 】

【Here I come! What's up? 】

Lan Zhuang flashed a colorful light in the corner of the studio. Yun Kun immediately flew up again and circled around her angrily:
[Show him! Show him what he looks like!]

[He’s okay like this…] Lan Zhuang poked her head out to take a look, then finally flew in front of Shen Le, popped out the mirror with a “pop” and stuck it in front of his face.

Shen Le glanced at it weakly:
"I'm fine...Lan Zhuang, Yun Kun, you see I'm really fine, except that my hair has grown a little longer..."

In fact, with Shen Le's current skill level and the golden round bead in his dantian (Shen Le has always suspected that it is a golden elixir), it is difficult for him to gain or lose weight.

As for your hair, please, your hairstyle won’t be ruined if you don’t cut it for a month.

Yun Kun was so anxious that he jumped around and swung out a thin cable and tapped it on the mirror:
[Look here! Look here! Look here again! Your skin is so dry! The expert who followed me to the sea, who was blown by the sea breeze for a month, is not as dry as yours!

——You won’t be able to get married if you’re like this! 】

Shen Le took a closer look and found that it was indeed a bit dry, but not to the point of being horribly dry - in other words, it could be saved by working hard to replenish water and applying a few facial masks.

This is not the point, the point is:
"Wait, what do you mean by unmarriageable? I'm a man, okay!!!"

[That means you can’t get a wife!] Yun Kun jumped a little higher:
[How old are you? How old do you say you are? You don’t even have a girlfriend yet!

——There are so many beautiful women around you, the boss lady, the girls in the boss lady’s shop, the junior sister next door, why can’t you get a wife? ! 】

"Don't worry about this, kid!" Shen Le was furious. He grabbed Yun Kun, looked around, strode out of the studio, and put it into the pond:

"Are you tired after running around? If you are tired, take a good rest. If you are not tired, come to class and make up for the missed lessons! Children should not care about adult matters!"

[I am not young anymore! I have been created for six hundred years! I am older than you!] Yun Kun screamed:
[I brought you a gift this time! Do you want it? -- If you don't want it, help me run an errand and take all the gifts I gave to everyone! ]

Alas, it is so difficult to educate children nowadays. Shen Le sighed, took a bunch of gifts from Yun Kun, and distributed them one by one:
I got a piece of agarwood for Pinocchio and soaked it in the mud on the seabed for who knows how long. Miraculously, it has turned into a bit of jade.

According to Yun Kun, the idea is to allow the puppet to be used to make its own body, replacing the wood that is not of good quality;

A lot of strange minerals were brought to Xiao Modou, one after another. If Shen Le's common sense was correct, they might be manganese nodules or something like that.

Little Modou was looking at these minerals with a worried look:
[Do you want me to refine this manganese ore into my body? However, I am not good at refining or reforging steel! ]

Shen Le had no choice but to try hard to appease him and promised to find a place to melt these manganese nodules and make manganese steel to use for him.

As for the quantity of these manganese nodules, and whether they are enough to open a separate furnace, we will talk about this later...

The other little ones also received a variety of underwater specialties. The most common ones were porcelain, including bowls, plates, and bottles;
There were also some gold and silver items, such as the doll cabinet received a gold box, which was full of various gold earrings, silver pendants, etc.;

The most amazing thing is that the scroll was received in a beautiful wooden box. It was heavy and dark inside. Shen Le opened it layer by layer, and a strange fragrance filled his nose:

"This is ink! Top-grade pine soot ink!" Before Shen Le could recognize it, the tutor, Mr. Lu Zicheng, who was opening the presents with him, exclaimed:
"This kind of quality is worthy of being a tribute! But... but..."

It’s a pity that no matter how tightly the box was packed, it couldn’t withstand the long time and the water pressure at the bottom of the sea.

When he got it, the ink block had already absorbed enough water. Shen Le touched it carefully with his hand and immediately moved away:

There was a layer of dark black ink on the fingertips, stained with a strange fragrance, and a fingerprint on the ink block. Obviously, if it weren't for the box, the ink would have melted...

[Can this... be dried...?]

The whole painting is not good. Such a good piece of ink, even if it does not need ink to paint itself, it is a pleasure to hold it in your hand.

But who told him what to do with the ink that has absorbed water?

"Let me do it." At the critical moment, Shen Le calmed down. He stretched out his hand, five fingers hovering above the ink block, and closed his eyes slightly:
The spiritual power was deep and dense, penetrating into every corner of the ink block. Then, he used his water control ability that he had practiced for so long and had gained some experience with, and activated the talisman:

"rise--"

A light and thin mist slowly rose from the ink block and lingered between his fingers.

The piece of famous ink that had been softened gradually became firmer and revealed a deep and intense luster.

[Wow, Shen Le you are awesome!] In the room, a group of little guys, led by Yun Kun, looked at him with admiration:

[I want one too! I want one too! The gifts I received have also been soaked! I want to deal with them too! ]

"Look, this is all the result of practice." Shen Le was very satisfied with the praise and patted Yun Kun:

"It takes a lot of effort to get to this point!"

[So your face and your fingers were accidentally drained during practice? ]

Shen Le: “…”

Why are you still thinking about this!

[No matter what, no matter what! You have to take care of yourself! At least make a facial mask! If you continue like this, you really won’t be able to get married! ]

The little ones followed suit and started to make a noise. Shen Le had to tear open a facial mask and put it on his face to calm them down.

I went back to the lab and sat at the bench, worrying:
The fibers were drained out, but draining out both the fibers and the mud at the same time was still a little bit of a challenge.

Also, mixing coarse mud and fine mud, this is a crap thing, he has been practicing for a long time, but he still can't do it...

"Oh, brother! You don't have to do these things!" Among this group of brothers, one is engaged in clay sculpture, and the other is engaged in porcelain restoration.

Mixing mud and the like are their professional skills, and they are particularly attentive at this moment:
"As long as you tell us how much coarse or fine clay you need, we will make it for you!"

“Can the composition and proportion of the mud be guaranteed to be the same?”

"Of course they are the same!" The fellow student who was doing clay sculpture patted his chest:

"Please take a look at our paper... Oh, the paper hasn't been written yet, please take a look at our experimental records first. We have done soil-sand ratio analysis, particle size analysis, and cementation analysis, and we have also made infrared diffraction patterns..."

Coarse mud layer, fine mud layer, proportion of soil, proportion of sand.

Quartz, calcite, kaolin, plagioclase, feldspar, gypsum, and so on.

The instrument can see everything clearly. Just break it into the required particle size according to the particle size analysis, mix it according to the proportion, mix it with a blender, add water, add fiber and knead it...

I wouldn’t dare say that the kneaded mud ball is very similar to the sample handed over by Shen Le, but I can say that they are exactly the same!
"We are responsible for kneading the mud, and you just need to be responsible for repairing it! If necessary, we can even make the structure you want, and you can just stick it on!"

"That's not necessary..." Shen Le thought. He could still mold the mud into the required shape, otherwise he would not have been able to repair the Buddha statue in the shrine last time.

However, the presence of his fellow apprentices really saved him a lot of trouble:

Shen Le can finally start the restoration. First of all, of course, dust removal is a very important step in repairing clay sculptures:
You need to use an ear cleaning ball, which is a large rubber ball with a long, thin mouth, to blow clean the cracked back of the paint layer and the dust in the cracks of the mud layer from top to bottom.

Then, use a very fine soft brush to remove the dust on the surface of the colored sculpture.

This is a very important step in the restoration of colored sculptures. No dust should be left between the paint layer and the mud layer, otherwise it will affect the bonding effect between the paint layer and the mud layer.

Moreover, residual dust will also pollute the surface of the colored sculptures and reduce their artistic value.

Shen Le didn't have to go through all that trouble. He just had to stand in front of the clay sculpture, observe carefully, and quietly evaluate:

"Cleaning technique! Cleaning technique! Cleaning technique!!!"

After the cleaning process is completed, the reinforcing agent should be filled in, but now you only need to spray water in.

Use a spray bottle to spray water to moisten the cracks, then use a small stainless steel repair knife to fill a small amount of coarse mud and fine mud around the cracks in order to make corrections.

Finally, Shen Le stood in front of the clay sculpture, enveloped it with his mental power, and cast a spell:
"Growth Technique!"

"Pumping technique!"

"Very good, well done!"

Growth techniques stimulate the growth of fibers, which climb around and tighten the mud mass;

The water extraction technique is to extract the water from the fibers, the mud lumps, the coarse mud and the fine mud;

After finishing the work, I looked at it carefully and found that the gap was full. Even if I used my mental power to scan it, I couldn't find even a tiny gap.

Next, Shen Le removed the cracked and loose soil around the bottom layer and reinforced it with fiber. After it dried slightly, he filled the surrounding area with coarse mud of various compositions layer by layer.

Fill a layer, pump out a layer of water, fill another layer, pump out another layer of water...

The paper said that "apply small amounts and multiple times to prevent the mud layer from shrinking and affecting the adhesion." Shen Le almost achieved this by applying one layer per millimeter.

After everything is done, smooth it with fine mud and sigh:
"This is still too difficult. To be honest, I don't even expect to transform into Nuwa. I just want to be able to control the soil... Can the copper piece cast a spell?"

As his mind moved, a strange force suddenly surged up and enveloped his entire body.

(End of this chapter)