The old things I repaired have become fine

Chapter 465 Qingdeng: What kind of monster is this? Without me, our family will fall apart!

Crackling, crackling, crackling, crackling.

Thin streaks of lightning fell on the peach wood sword, connecting front and back, almost forming a line. Two roads from east to west, three entrances from front to back, the small oil lamp occupied a courtyard alone, aimed at the peach wood sword, and chopped and chopped...

Anyway, there are a lot of peach wood swords at home!
Anyway, the Special Affairs Bureau sent a large batch of peach wood swords, almost begging them to make a new Five Thunder Peach Wood Sword!

Even if there were no five major power plants, he could use the electricity consumed on site to slowly convert it with the electricity at home and slowly make the sword!
The Special Affairs Bureau will take whatever he makes, and at a high price!
snort!
The small oil lamp worked angrily. Less than two hundred steps away from the mansion, in Tianxianglou, everyone, from the proprietress to the waiters to the customers, was trembling:
"What's going on! What's going on..."

Is there a great demon undergoing a tribulation?
Why is the power of the thunder so heavy?
The proprietress could still tolerate the Five Thunder Peach Wood Sword that was sent over before, but the little flower fairies were already feeling very stressed.

Every day when I walked in and out of the store, I always felt a sense of fear when passing by the peach wood sword, as if I would fall to the ground and reveal my true form in the next moment.

This is because the peach wood sword is not in an excited state, and the person who gave the peach wood sword has good intentions towards the proprietress and others.

Even so, after enduring for three days, the lady boss hid the peach wood sword in the storeroom. If you want to hone your skills, go to the storeroom and stay in front of the peach wood sword for a while;

As for those who want to take it easy, stay away from the warehouse and away from the formation that isolates the peach wood sword.

Let’s open for business!
We can’t drive customers away!
Haven’t you noticed that these past few days, apart from the human customers who knew nothing and came to the store to eat as usual, the few monsters who usually come have all stopped coming?

These days, economic pressure is high and business costs are getting higher and higher. Fortunately, the house is still mine, so I don’t have to worry about rising rent.

But... doing business with human customers is not as profitable as doing business with monsters...

If monsters don’t come to eat anymore, the restaurant’s profits will go down!
After hiding the peach wood sword in the warehouse, the customer flow in the store finally recovered a little. The proprietress just breathed a sigh of relief, and here comes another one!

here we go again!!!
The lady boss, the waitress Xiaoyu, a fox spirit, a cat spirit, and a rooster spirit sitting in the mutton noodle restaurant all took out their phones and sent messages to Gu Yulin:
"What's going on? Is someone trying to survive the tribulation? Why are the thunders so continuous?!"

Gu Yulin's phone was buzzing with messages. WeChat, text messages, and phone calls were all activated at the same time, making him flustered:

"No! No! No one has come to me to report! Wait a moment, I'll check..."

The current practice is that when a monster undergoes a tribulation, it is best to report to the Special Affairs Bureau.

On the one hand, the Special Affairs Bureau knew what was going on and could set up cordons and disperse the crowd in time, so that no innocent people would be struck by lightning for no reason.

Not to mention people being struck by lightning, even if a battery-powered vehicle or electric car is struck by lightning, it would be fatal. At worst, if the power supply line in the community fluctuates, the power system will certainly suffer.

On the other hand, with the Special Affairs Bureau setting up a cordon and keeping watch in the surrounding area, the monsters undergoing the tribulation will be safer.

It's not like someone is desperately trying to survive the tribulation, and just when he's done and is feeling weak, someone else comes out over there, killing monsters, stealing monster pills, and claiming to be doing justice for the heavens...

Therefore, when Gu Yulin saw this complaint, his forehead was throbbing. Even though the boss lady and her subordinates had reported the tribulation at the beginning, saying that it was probably in the garden of Shen Le's mansion.

So, is there something weird going on with Shen Le again?
He picked up the phone and wanted to call Shen Le, but after thinking about it, he changed direction. It is better to ask a professional electrician about electricity:

"Hello, is this Xiangyang? I'm Gu Yulin. I want to ask you a question. Is there any fluctuation in the electricity consumption in Shen Le's mansion?"

"Yes! There are fluctuations! There are huge fluctuations! The load is full all of a sudden!" Xiangyang was also very busy. He tilted his head, clamped the phone between his ear and shoulder, and waved his hands non-stop:
"It used to happen a lot, but it's been better recently... It happened again today! I'm checking to see if there's something wrong..."

Maybe it wasn't a problem, it was just that their little oil lamp was playing around with something new. Gu Yulin breathed a sigh of relief and sent a message to the little oil lamp:

"Mr. Qingdeng, if we need to use a lot of electricity, can we give a heads-up and go to a more secluded place? The monsters around here will be scared to death..."

Thank God, thank the earth, and thank the Special Affairs Bureau for providing identities and mobile phone numbers for the little ones in Shen Le's family.

Otherwise, if I have something to call Shen Le and then wait for Shen Le to transfer, and he is too absorbed in handicrafts to spare time, then it will be a big deal...

【That won’t work.】

Sure enough, Xiao Youdeng's reply came quickly. Even if it was a rejection, it was still a reply, and it also meant that they could communicate:
[I have to look after the house! This house depends on me to protect it! There are so many monsters, I can't leave this house for a moment! ]

That’s right, that’s right, without you, this family will break up, right?

Obviously, your family already has two Five Thunder Peach Wood Swords to protect the house... One is hung high in the main hall, and the other is hung at the highest point of the house...

Any monster that has a little bit of knowledge would run away thousands of miles away if it approached the edge of the house. Who would dare to come in?
A Lu, the big camphor tree, is regarded as one of the members of this house, and his cultivation is high enough. He wants to use the breath of thunder to temper himself, so he can stay there.

Otherwise, it would have pulled up the tree roots and run away overnight!
Haven’t you noticed that recently, even the waiters from Tianxianglou no longer come to your house to deliver meals. Is it the boss lady who comes in person? !
Gu Yulin tried hard not to roll his eyes. He continued to ask cautiously:
"So what are you busy with now, mobilizing thunder and lightning? Is there any possibility that we can think of a way to allow you to complete your work smoothly without affecting the outside world?"

For example, erect a circle of barbed wire and then a circle of lightning rods on the wall of the mansion, and artificially make a Faraday cage or something?

If you have any problems, just handle them yourselves and don’t interfere with the outside world.

[Oh, I'm making a Five Thunder Peach Wood Sword. Although the current at home is low, it won't be a big problem if I take my time -]

Five Thunder Peach Wood Sword!!!
Gu Yulin was almost moved to tears. God had opened his eyes, Xiao Youdeng was actually willing to make the Five Thunder Peach Wood Sword!!!

Even if it is a monkey version, it is enough for him to use. He doesn’t need to deal with any super monster!
"That's very simple. You can just keep an eye on the house and come back anytime if something happens. You can come back, right?" He advised earnestly:
"Then, I will take you to a place a little further away, and apply for a separate substation, or at least a switch cabinet, so that you can eat a lot of electricity while rubbing your peach wood sword.

After you're done, if you want to sell it, you can sell it directly to the Special Affairs Bureau. We will keep the purchase price the same and save your family some electricity bills. Isn't that good?"

To be honest, the electricity bill is not too expensive... Shen Le went to five power plants and let the small oil lamp consume so much electricity. If it is distributed to the one hundred peach wood swords, the electricity bill of each peach wood sword will not exceed one hundred thousand.

The monkey version of the Five Thunder Peach Wood Sword made by Xiao Youdeng is even cheaper. If the electricity bill of a peach wood sword is less than 20,000, even he can make the decision on behalf of the Special Affairs Bureau!

I would be thankful if people are willing to sell the small oil lamp!
[Is that so... I'll go ask Shen Le...]

The little oil lamp went away in a tangled and twisted way. Not long after, it typed out a triumphant expression:
[Shen Le said no problem! You can come pick me up now! ]

Gu Yulin thanked God silently, hurried to the door, took the small oil lamp and ran to the suburbs. At the same time, he had to send a message to the boss lady, a group of monsters and practitioners in the area:

"It's all right, it's all right. The thunder tribulation has been dealt with. Everyone, it's best not to get close to the suburban substation within 500 meters. Everything else is fine!"

The group was filled with gratitude and praise. Fortunately, Mr. Gu helped coordinate, otherwise, they would have to find a way to move!

Housing prices are so expensive now! Especially for monsters, it is so difficult to find a suitable house for them to live in without being suspected, tested or even reported to the police by people around them!

Here in Zhuxi Town, spiritual energy is gradually gathering, and there is a trend of it becoming more and more abundant... If it weren't for the sudden rumbling of thunder and the machine guns driving them away, they would not have refused to leave!

Shen Le was unaware of these undercurrents, and even if he knew, he wouldn't care. He was single-mindedly busy repairing this pile of clay sculptures:

The main body of the clay sculpture has been repaired and the base has been applied, and all that remains is to paint it. Even so, the workload is still considerable:
Shen Le basically scanned all the clay sculptures with instruments, and took samples from the painted areas one by one, sending them for inspection one by one, to study what kind of pigments they were made of.

According to past restoration experience, different regions and different eras may use different minerals for the same color:

For example, for red, cinnabar was used in some places, and ochre was used in other places; for blue, natural ultramarine was used in the Song Dynasty, and Sumaliqing appeared in the Ming Dynasty;
Even if they are from the same era and the same region, two different clay sculptures will use different pigments. Shen Le suspected that they were probably poor and couldn't afford expensive ones...

The same problem also appeared in this batch of clay sculptures. The figurines carrying dowry, dowry servants and drummers were probably relatively poor, and the pigments used were relatively cheap;

When it comes to the figurines of the bride on horseback, expensive pigments such as cinnabar and lapis lazuli appeared, and even gold powder appeared;
As for the maid riding in the sedan chair and the nobleman leading the wedding procession, their gold hairpins, gold earrings, gold belts, and gold sword hilts were all made of large pieces of gold foil!
"Ah, this is really troublesome to repair..."

Shen Le tried to stretch his arms and legs, twist his neck, and move his waist. Simple fading can be handed over to the Luoqun girls, who can mix various pigments and repaint it;
However, he is the only one who can handle the peeling, cracking, and chalking of the paint:

Shen Le flipped open the laptop screen and pulled out the research report he had prepared in advance. He clicked on each figurine and each table one by one:

(1) Colored Sculpture A: Shipping No. 035.

Painted standing figure carrying a dressing box (front), with layers of pigment for the scarf and clothing, and the red pigment is ochre;
The black pigment on the head is carbon black;
The red pigment on the face is cinnabar;
Brown pigment is a mixture of ochre and myrrh, red lead, and titanium dioxide;

The white pigment is titanium dioxide...

Behind each pigment, there is the sampling time, sampling location, sampling number, Raman spectrum, wave number of characteristic peak and comparison chart, which can be seen by just clicking on it.

As you can imagine, in order to restore these figurines for him, his fellow apprentices spent countless hours in the laboratory and conducted countless experiments:

Just comparing the characteristic peaks and finding the required data from a large pile of information makes people want to die!
You know, these pigments are not all pure. On the contrary, they have a lot of impurities, so they need to be sampled and their characteristic peaks need to be interpreted. Those strange data, are they impurities mixed in, which can be ignored, or are they part of the answer they need to find? All of these require hard work to analyze...

When repairing Buddhist niches and statues, Shen Le did most of these experiments himself and gained some experience.

Now, even if he gave it to his junior brothers and sisters to do, he could sense it and roughly know that there would be no problem:

"Alright! Just mix the paint according to this data and apply it!"

[In fact, you don’t have to let them work at all!] Lan Zhuang watched all the complicated sampling, experiments, summarization, and feedback work, and now whispered:
[Give me all these pigments. I can tell what they are made of just by looking at them! Give me the pigment powders and I can even apply them for you! ]

That's true. Mixing makeup and preparing pigments are the inherent strengths of Lanzhuang.

Among all the little ones, she was the only one who could hang out with Pinocchio, Red Wedding Dress, and Luo Skirt, and dress them up.

Although the faceless red wedding dress and faceless Luo skirt look a bit strange with makeup, Lan Zhuang has recently been able to use rouge and powder to draw their facial features so that they can participate in live broadcasts!
With the beauty filter on, it’s impossible to tell whether the facial features are real or fake!

"I know. I know Lan Zhuang is very capable in this area." Shen Le could only smile and comfort her:
“But my junior colleagues also need a chance to practice. Only after they have practiced and produced results can they publish papers, and I can give them subsidies in a legitimate way.

So, Lan Zhuang, you take a little more effort to read their papers. If you find any mistakes, please tell me immediately and I will beat them back, okay?"

[I actually have to learn how to read a paper... I'm just a dressing box...]

Lan Zhuang muttered quietly and immersed herself in her studies. Shen Le shrugged beside her:

What's wrong with reading the thesis in the dressing box?
Look at Yun Kun next door, how many classes has it taken and how much has it learned?

If there was no need to obtain a degree, he would have written several papers, let alone read them, and might even have published them in top journals!

After all, Yun Kun is special. He can go to places that others cannot go to, and he can do research that others cannot do. So, he can obviously publish papers that others cannot publish...

There was an inexplicable wave in the air. Soon, a woman in a silk dress came over, sat down in front of the computer, her sleeves fluttering, and started typing on the keyboard for Lan Zhuang.

The screen switched, the mouse moved, the cursor moved around, and soon, Lan Zhuang raised her voice:
[Shen Le! Come and take a look. What does this Raman spectrum mean? ]

"Ah... You don't have to worry about this. It's too difficult for you to learn it from scratch. If you really want to know, let Teacher Lu give you a private lesson later--"

Shen Le shamelessly put the blame on the tutor, not caring whether the tutor could teach such a professional course:

"In short, just look at the conclusion and compare it with what you observed. If there's anything wrong, tell me."

It is still very convenient to just look at the conclusion. The research process of the paper can generally only be understood by professionals, and they are likely to be professionals in a specific field;

However, the results of the paper are required to be universal.

This kind of interdisciplinary paper, not to mention Shen Le, can be understood, even some dead liberal arts students who have never studied advanced mathematics for a minute and have never touched an instrument can bite the bullet and understand it...

So Shen Le handed the checking work to Lan Zhuang with great confidence and rolled up his sleeves to get to work.

He picked up the spray bottle and sprayed it on the cracked, peeling, and powdered paint. After spraying, he made sure that all the paint was wet, then closed his eyes and felt the power of the earth:

"Give it to me—Ning!"

Let the powdered minerals stick tightly to the clay sculpture, solidify with the body and become compact. If one time is not enough, spray water and do it again;
If one more time is not enough, spray water again and do it again.

When I was repairing the clay sculpture before, I had already gained enough proficiency. Now, for a thin layer of paint, as long as I control it a little, these things can be obedient:
"Well, it's done." Shen Le looked around his work and was quite satisfied. The paint was solid and smooth, and there was no trace of the previous mess;

If it wasn't a little wet, people would probably believe it was the original version. However, the wetness problem is easier to solve:
“Pump the water!”

The water-repellent talisman is so useful!
By throwing a talisman on it, as long as the control is sufficient, it is entirely possible to extract the moisture in the paint to the most suitable level.

It is neither too wet nor too wet as if it has just been applied, making it particularly susceptible to dust;

It's not too dry, it will crack directly and turn into fine powder, and fall down when the wind blows...

He was working in the front, and the ladies in skirts were busy following behind.

Various pigments are readily available, and although things like ancient mineral pigments are hard to find, they can be bought at a high price;
Shen Le only needed to decide which paint to use on which part of the body, while the ladies in Luoqun picked up the palette, carefully added water, and carefully mixed the colors.

Then, thousands of strands of black hair wrapped around the brush, and they painted on the figurines stroke by stroke. Shen Le even heard them talking in a low voice:
[I have learned sword dancing and have the greatest strength. I will draw the headscarf and clothes! ]

【I'll draw the hair! 】

[Sister, you are good at painting ladies, so you can paint the eyebrows and eyes of these figurines...]

Take it easy!

What you need to do now is to add color, add color, add color to them as they were originally!

If you see that the eyebrows are not drawn well, just add a few strokes; if you see that the shape of the lips is not good, change it!
We need to restore the old to its original state, not build a new one!
Shen Le had to go back and forth, observing, guiding, and correcting. Fortunately, the Luoquns were very obedient. After correcting them once, they began to cooperate with Lanzhuang to add color to the terracotta figures according to their original appearance.

After Shen Le repaired the paint, he came back to drain the water from the paint on the skirts and concentrated his mind to sense it:
"Very well done! Especially the eyes, which are very vivid! After the colors are applied, the whole figurine has become more spiritual!"

If the previous jump from the mansion to the southwest cave absorbed a huge amount of spiritual power and earth energy, which might not take three months to recover, then after this round of repairs, it is estimated that it will only take one month.

Of course, if that happens, Shen Le will be the one who has a headache:

He had to think of a way to communicate with the figurines and stop them from running around. At the very least, they should not run to strange places without any warning.
Of course, it is even more unacceptable to lift him up and take him to a strange place without even saying hello!

Shen Le checked his body, put his phone in one pocket first, and the charger in another pocket.

While working, he muttered to the figurines:

"You guys, be good...you guys, stay at home and don't move around. If you really want to go out, tell me and I'll take you out...

If you run too wild and I can't control you, I will have to return you all to the Special Affairs Bureau... When the time comes, you will all be packed up and locked up in the warehouse. You won't be happy, right?"

[Shen Le! He blinked! ]

Behind him, Luoqun screamed softly. Shen Le turned his head and saw a willow green Luoqun. Just as he was drawing the eyes for the figurine, the figurine's eyes blinked.

Not only did she blink, she also raised one hand, as if to adjust the scarf on her head; she raised her left hand and stepped forward with her right foot, as if she was about to step forward...

"No! Stop!!!"

Shen Le shouted. The figurine froze for a moment, and then began to change shape:
The cheeks were sunken, the lips were protruding, and a pair of small round ears appeared on the side of the head. The whole face was covered with fine and dense yellow hair, and a tail was dragged behind the collar:
"what is this?"

Shen Le frowned. He walked around the figurine once, then again, standing on tiptoe, lowering his head, and squatting to observe it carefully.

Comparing the features one by one, and combining them with the shape of the animal bones inside the clay sculpture in the CT image, we can judge:

"So this is a weasel monster? This monster carrying the sedan chair was once a weasel?"

No, the weasel is not important. Even if the wedding procession includes the five fairies Hu, Huang, Bai, Liu and Hui, Shen Le will not blink an eye.

Can you still beat me?
You can't even get past the little oil lamp. No, without the little oil lamp's help, you can't even withstand the Five Thunder Peach Wood Sword that guards the house!
But now, the problem is that the shape and color of the clay figurine have changed, and there is a rustling sound on the face, and it looks like mud is falling off...

Did I cultivate loneliness before?

Is it that I have been repairing the clay sculpture until now, but the original shape has only just been revealed, so I have to repair it all over again?
Click!

Lightning flashed across the sky. Shen Le instantly broke out in a cold sweat:
"Qingdeng! Stop it!!!"

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