The old things I repaired have become fine

Chapter 476 Yun Kun’s gift: Shen Le, you broke it!

"How could you do this?"

"How can you be so unreasonable?"

"I got lost because something went wrong while I was experimenting with magic. How could you come to my house and mess it up?"

Shen Le walked around the studio with his hands behind his back, lecturing non-stop. In front of him, Yun Kun, Hua Juan, and Luo Pan, the three little guys stood together, all bowing their heads in confession...

Wrong, there were three little guys standing in a row, all of Yun Kun's sails were rolled up, the cables were coiled, and there was no one on the deck;

The scroll rolled up from beginning to end, and even swung the silk rope by itself, binding itself tightly, as if to say, "I am just an ordinary ancient painting."

The compass stood there quietly, the needle didn't even move, pretending to be just an ordinary compass...

In short, just don't talk, don't move, don't cast any light or shadow, don't make any trouble, and bow your head to be criticized. Shen Le criticized for a long time, sighed, and slowed down his voice:

"I know you're worried about me. I went to help the institute, and suddenly I disappeared, and you were very worried."

He walked slowly along the edge of the table, from east to west, from west to east, touching the tip of the mast of Yunkun, the axis of the sky and earth of the scroll, and the edge of the compass:

“But you have to believe that these research institutes and institutions have no ill will towards me. If I go missing, they will be more anxious than I am and will try their best to find me.

——You guys went to the institute to make trouble, which not only caused trouble for them, but also tied up their manpower and prevented them from looking for me wholeheartedly. Don't do this next time, understand?"

Yun Kun shook the sail, and the scroll projected a shadow. It was a stick figure bowing, and the compass needle swung, but no one knew what it was saying.

The three little guys admitted their mistakes one after another:
【knew……】

[I won’t do that anymore…]

【I was wrong……】

"What should I do if I'm wrong?"

[You should apologize! ]

The little guys answered in a mixed tone. Shen Le's expression lightened up a little, and he touched them one by one:
"Okay, you are a good kid if you can correct your mistakes. I'll take you to apologize. Don't do this again in the future, okay?"

He took the little ones and flew to the research institute in the southwest to apologize to the frightened researchers.

Fortunately, although Yun Kun was angry, he was still restrained in his actions: the water bombs and water cannons were not directed at anyone, and not even a piece of glass was broken. He was just threatening from beginning to end.

The biggest loss caused by this uproar was that the toilet was clogged, and the researchers had to hold their noses and run outside the institute's walls to defecate in the wild...

"Sorry, sorry, it's my fault. I didn't teach the little ones well." Shen Le shook hands and apologized to them one by one.

In the pond at the entrance of the courtyard, Yun Kun turned into a three-meter-long wooden boat. Two rows of paper figures stood on the deck, holding loudspeakers and apologizing honestly:

"I'm sorry... I shouldn't have lost my temper and caused trouble..."

This farce ended with Shen Le and the institute apologizing to each other. Shen Le returned to the mansion and continued to work:
"Alas... it's so difficult to repair this clay sculpture..."

He had basically repaired the wedding procession. Whether it was the little demons, the little ghosts, or the spirit-like beings, even their mounts, Shen Le had repaired them all.

However, the boxes they were carrying stumped Shen Le:

"How do you fix these things? - No, what did they originally look like?"

Shen Le had never seen anything like this!

For example, in a dowry box containing silk, the lid of the box was half open, which obviously showed the dowry to the people along the way and the bride's in-laws.
As for the transportation of the dowry through the mountains and forests, apart from the trees and the little monsters in the mountains, who could see it? There is no need to investigate this question...

In short, the part of the dowry in the box that was dragged out from the box mouth and displayed outside was soft and thin, showing the texture and luster of silk;
The further in, the closer to the bottom of the box, the heavier and rougher it became. Near the bottom of the box, the roll of silk was completely made of mud, with only a rough silk pattern painted on it.

The other dowry boxes were not much better. The wooden poles and bamboo poles used to carry the dowry were closer to the bearers and more like wood, while the parts closer to the box were more like clay.
Those gold and silver jewelry sparkled with tiny sparkles, but the bottom was closer to stone;
Even the beautiful sedan chair and bed, although made entirely of wood, had a very strange texture...

"What is it made of?"

“What did it look like when it was first made?”

“How did it become like this?”

Shen Le circled around the dowries, taking photos, scanning, and CT scans, scanning each item one by one using an instrument specially developed by the Special Affairs Bureau to measure special spiritual power fluctuations.

I swept here and there, but still couldn't get the point:
“When you read stories like those from a Chinese Studio, monsters get married, marry off their daughters, and hold banquets. Sometimes humans accidentally walk in and see that they use gold and silver utensils.

But when it was bright the next morning, I found that these things were basically made of broken tiles and yellow mud. So, are the clay sculptures I saw the same? "

But there is no reason!

That little girl, the descendant of the god in the temple, if she were to get married, she should marry into an ordinary family!
These furniture, these silks, these gold and silver jewelry will all be used by her in her long life!

There is no reason for it to be made of mud. At night, it looks magnificent due to magic from monsters, but during the day, it is all mud and broken tiles - can the bride still be a human being in her husband's family?
Shen Le tried all his means of investigation, but still could not figure it out, let alone where to start repairing it.

Only the copper seal can be repaired. However, I don’t know if the junior brothers and sisters are just slacking off or if their skills are really not good enough. Anyway, they haven’t replied to him yet:

What were the words on the copper seal? What did they mean? After the copper seal was repaired, what would the broken characters look like? They have not yet restored it...

Without restoration, it cannot be repaired, or even if it is repaired, it cannot be used. Shen Le sat slumped in the corner of the studio, his brows knitted together. Seeing that he was depressed, the little guys kept silent and did not dare to disturb him;

Only Yun Kun was on vacation, with nothing to do. He had recovered from the frustration of being forced to apologize, and seeing that Shen Le had nothing to do, he went up to him and chattered:

【I brought you a gift! 】

【I brought you a lot of gifts! 】

[You are not at home! I can’t give you any gifts! ]

【I brought it back specially! 】

With a loud bang, the studio floor was filled with glittering lights, and gold, silver, and jewelry were spread all over the floor...

Wrong, it was a large area of unidentified objects covered in black, brown, gray, sand and mud, covering the entire ground.

The veins on Shen Le's forehead were twitching:

"Wait a moment! Don't be so anxious to take it out! Wait for me to get the safe deposit box! Just throw it in the safe deposit box, and then I will close the lid and fill it with nitrogen immediately!"

If I throw them on the ground like this, people who know me will think I have collected a bunch of sea-salvaged cultural relics, while people who don’t know me will think I’m a garbage collector!
Even a rag collector wouldn’t mess up his studio like this!
[Ah... OK, OK.] Yun Kun replied dejectedly.

With a rustle, he collected all the things back. His half-meter-long body lay across the table. No one knew where those things were hidden.

Shen Le smiled. He stretched out his hands, hugged the small wooden boat, and said softly:
"Thank you, Yun Kun! I like it very much! These underwater artifacts are very important! However, precisely because they are important, they must be carefully preserved. Yun Kun, please wait for me for a moment!"

【Uh-huh!!!】

Yun Kun shook the sail, lowered the hard sail, raised it up again, raised it up again, and lowered it again, looking very energetic.

While it was enjoying itself, Shen Le quickly pushed a bunch of safe deposit boxes over and asked Yun Kun to put things into the safe deposit boxes one by one.

Close the box, fill it with nitrogen, then open your spiritual eyes and scan it carefully:
The spirituality is very weak and has a tendency to dissipate. Well, it is initially suspected that these spiritualities were contaminated in Yun Kun's cabin, and are not inherent in them.

That being the case...

Take photos, take photos. First of all, of course, try to take photos, scan and record. Anyway, the restoration of the clay sculpture has been stuck, so why not do something else to change your mind:
After all the records were made, they began to carefully investigate what the treasures Yun Kun brought back were. These piles of unidentified objects were stacked together in a strange way, covered with soil and soaked with mud.

The mud, sand and gravel, bound together by snails, shells, seaweed and the like growing on them, firmly covered the cultural relics and bent them into strange shapes.

At a glance, it is impossible to tell whether these things are bowls or plates, swords or steering wheels. The outer shell must be removed...

If a cultural relic restorer were to do the job, he would of course use a scalpel, a small wooden knife, a small bamboo stick, and a small brush to clean it bit by bit. But Shen Le has his own way:
"Cleaning technique! Cleaning technique! Cleaning technique!"

Shen Le kept casting spells through the transparent glass wall of the box. The cleaning spell swept over a layer, and mud, sand and gravel flew up and piled up in the corner of the box;

Rolling over the second layer, the sticky bodies of seaweed and algae were gently brushed away from the salvaged artifacts;

As the third cleansing spell was about to be used, Shen Le's face finally became serious. He lunged forward and pressed his entire face against the wall of the glass box.

He used his eyes and mental power to fully explore the pile of things in the box, exploring the junction between the shells and the artifacts:
"Hmm... it seems like it has seeped in a little... No matter what, I'll cut off what needs to be cut first, and I'll slowly clean up the ones that have seeped into the artifacts later - cleaning technique!"

The spell revolved silently, sticking to the outer wall of the artifact, quietly removing and decomposing those things that were once adhered and now completely cemented and solidified.

With a click, a small shell quietly loosened and rolled to the ground. Shen Le nodded with satisfaction:
"Great job! Keep going!"

Snap, snap, snap, snap. Shells and snails fell to the ground one after another, and the treasures that Yun Kun had fished out of the sea gradually revealed their original forms.

For ordinary cultural relic restorers, half of their time is spent cleaning up the fragments of these salvaged cultural relics. It would take at least three to five days to clean up this pile of stuff.
But Shen Le used magic to reveal their original appearance in less than half an hour. Then, it was Shen Le's turn to be embarrassed:

"It looks very strange... What on earth is this thing..."

Shen Le frowned in confusion. The material looked like porcelain, but it didn't look like a plate or a bowl, so he couldn't tell what it was.
What's worse is that this porcelain, or this batch of porcelain, was broken when the ship was damaged and the cargo fell into the sea, and then it was piled up randomly.

Porcelain pieces of various shapes and sizes were stacked into strange shapes. Although Shen Le had worked in cultural relic restoration, he was not in the porcelain field and had not received the devilish training of porcelain restoration:
Follow the instructor to an excavated porcelain kiln, then drag out broken porcelain that can fill at least one room, sort them into categories, and lay them out.

Then, according to the material, shape, curvature, pattern and size of the broken porcelain, we find the objects that match them and piece together some complete porcelain from these broken porcelains:

Generally speaking, at a kiln site, tens of thousands of restorable specimens can be unearthed from the huge pile of broken porcelain.

Then, the report will only show a few thousand pieces, the master's and doctoral dissertations will show about 500 pieces, and the excavation report of the porcelain kiln will show about 100 pieces...

Such a huge workload is usually completed by a supervisor with one or two doctoral students, two or three, or three or four master's students in half a year or a year.

After this kind of crazy puzzle training, professionals can basically get a rough idea of what this pile of sea-fished porcelain is just by taking a glance.

However, different trades are like different mountains. Shen Le had never practiced before, so he really couldn't tell. He sighed as he tore apart the broken porcelain, piece by piece, and took them out one by one:
I can’t handle it myself, but I can throw it to the next door and let my juniors try to work on it.

If the result is not too precious and not up to the level of a cultural relic, it would be nice to give each of them one as a souvenir...

"Uh-huh?"

As the porcelain pieces were opened one by one, Shen Le used the cleaning technique and pointed his finger inside the safe, but suddenly paused.

This porcelain box...porcelain bottle...I don't know what's inside this porcelain thing, but there is actually a secret inside?
What's in here?

Shen Le was not in a hurry to open the safe and take out the contents. Instead, he meditated quietly, adjusted his mentality, and allowed his mental strength to regain its gentleness and sharpness.

Then, he extended his mental power to the contents of the porcelain fragment:
"strangeness……"

The contents gave him a magical feeling. It felt like soil, wood, and stone.

There is some spirituality, but not much, it feels like it has decayed, but a little essence still remains;
It used to be very beautiful and attractive, but after a long time and years of being immersed in the seabed, all that was left was a mass of mud...

Shen Le was very familiar with this situation. Whether he was visiting a museum or following his teacher to repair antiques, he had seen things like this:
The silk that had once been so glorious had become a tattered mass, stuck together and impossible to untie, let alone restore to its original shape and color;
Those jewels and utensils, dull and black in color, were crushed and smashed, lying in the mud for many years. When they were unearthed, they were just a pile of mud.
In addition, there are the golden rice, the agarwood and sandalwood with deep fragrance, and the various medicinal materials...

Dull, rotten, and gray, when they are taken out, it is completely unrecognizable what they are. Only through various elemental analysis and spectral analysis can we get a rough idea of their original prototypes.

However, the contents in front of him were a little different. Shen Le instinctively felt that it was somewhat similar to the clay sculpture and the dressing boxes in the clay sculpture:
But where are the similarities?

How can we take advantage of this similarity?
Shen Le thought intently for a long time, then suddenly stood up and patted the small wooden boat:
"Yun Kun!"

【Why! 】

Yun Kun responded with great energy. Shen Le liked it!

Love what it brought back!
Shen Le carefully kept the gift it brought back and repaired it as soon as possible!
awesome!
"Yun Kun, where did you bring these things back from? Why did you bring them back?"

[Brought back from the South China Sea!] Yun Kun answered loudly. As for where in the South China Sea, it couldn't say clearly, and even if it did, Shen Le wouldn't understand.
Fortunately, the compass and the scroll came to the rescue in time. The compass needle turned quickly and the scroll spread out with a bang, projecting large areas of light and shadow.

Shen Le stood up and looked over carefully:
"...Can you zoom out the map? Zoom out a little more? This is all ocean. I can't tell where we are!"

The scroll changed the map in response. The blue area gradually shrank, and in a moment, a small island appeared next to it;

After a while, a slightly larger island appeared in the distance, and then another larger island, and then the edge of the continent...

"My goodness, the place where you fished this thing out has already gone outside the nine-dash line!"

[So what? I've been to this place before. This is all Ming's vassal state - it's our territory!]

Yun Kun answered proudly and as a matter of course. Shen Le turned his head silently, not knowing what to say for a moment:
Arguing about the issue of national borders with a Ming warship, a wooden ship spirit that has been silent for hundreds of years and has just become spiritual enough this year to begin to receive modern education?
This is too thankless. Forget it. When it goes out to perform tasks, there will always be professionals leading the team, and the professionals will dock with it in the navigation area;
As for salvaging something from the seabed... As long as it doesn't violate local laws, can't you salvage anything from a shipwreck on the seabed?

As long as you have the ability, you can salvage a shipwreck in the Mariana Trench!
"So... why did you pick up this batch? Is there anything about it that particularly attracts you?"

Shen Le wanted to ask the person involved to verify his ideas.

Sure enough, Yun Kun was tickled, and he became very arrogant. He quickly extended a sail rope and slapped the glass wall of the safe deposit box, making a "slap" sound:
[It's very interesting! There are so many shipwrecks on the seabed, but this one is different! Very different! ]

"What's different?"

[Feeling, feeling...] Yun Kun struggled to organize his words. However, his education level, especially his liberal arts education level, was not very good, so he couldn't find a topic to describe his feelings:

[It feels a bit like me! ]

A bit like?
You are alive, is it alive too?
Does this ship have the potential to become a spirit weapon?

If there is, then we must fish it out of the sea! Repair it, repair it, and if it can be turned into a spirit, then the country will have another wooden submarine!

Shen Le was greatly encouraged. But Yun Kun didn't mean that:
[This batch of stuff I fished out feels a bit like me... Not that strong, it's already very weak, almost gone, but, still a bit like me...]

So, it once had spiritual energy, once had a little bit of spirituality that was about to sprout, or once was an artifact spirit?
Because it was broken, because it was buried deep under the sea, and because no one was refining and maintaining it, so its spirituality silently dissipated and disappeared?
Shen Le patted Yun Kun and returned to the safe. He moved the broken porcelain pieces out of the safe one by one, intending to send them to the next door for his junior brothers and sisters to play with.

Then, he set up cameras inside and outside the box, reached into the box, and hovered his palm over the strange object, touching it lightly, and began to practice Qigong:
"Gather the surrounding spiritual energy... circulate the spiritual energy in the body... input spiritual energy and see if it changes..."

At first, there was no change. The thing that looked like stone, wood, and soil seemed to have been rotten to the extreme, and was completely unable to accept the spiritual energy, allowing it to dissipate;
However, when the power input by Shen Le reached a certain level, and when the concentration and pressure of the spiritual energy in the box reached a certain level, suddenly, the whole thing moved slightly:
Its edge, where it vaguely touched Shen Le's palm, began to change. The material began to become firm and smooth, and the reflected light began to become brighter;
Then, it began to show lines, dark brown and light brown, natural lines of varying thickness;
Then, Shen Le felt that he seemed to smell a hint of fragrance at the tip of his nose, a very light, yet mellow and ethereal fragrance...

There is a play!

Shen Le was delighted and tried harder to input strength. Under his palm, the strange thing was shaking. Suddenly, dust flew up from the safe deposit box and flew towards the center, towards its body:
This is, what was originally rotten and scattered, is now absorbed and reunited?
Very good, very good, it is recovering faster and faster, and the spiritual light is getting brighter and brighter... I want to see what you were originally... Oh!

The rapidly flowing spiritual energy suddenly paused. Then, the thing that was about to recover completely disintegrated and turned into ashes:

"No way? Why did it suddenly break down? Too much spiritual energy input, can't it bear it?"

[Shen Le! How did you break it? ]

(End of this chapter)