The old things I repaired have become fine

Chapter 478 Are all these dowries fake things to fool people?
With sufficient materials to practice and instruments to guide him, Shen Le finally found the way to use spiritual energy to repair decayed spiritual materials.

——The stronger and harder the essence is, the more spiritual materials of the original body will be left after decay, and the easier it is to repair;
The weaker the nature of the spiritual material, the softer it is, and the closer it is to biological texture, the more difficult it is to grasp the boundary of filling it with spiritual energy.

So Shen Le turned around and started to follow the list, starting with metals, especially large pieces of metal, and tried one by one:

After making a box, he was already able to put metal spiritual materials, such as broken sword tips, broken door knocker fragments, twisted iron nails...

Things like that, repair them halfway, and stop at the last moment before the spiritual material explodes;
After building the second box, he could also make spiritual materials made of brick and stone, such as tiles, stone foundations, and the foundation of a teleportation array or similar formations.

After making the third box, all kinds of wooden spiritual materials, whether window frames, chair armrests, or broken pillars, can basically be handled.

When Yun Kun was respectfully taken away by the Special Affairs Bureau to carry out the next round of tasks, Shen Le finally reached out to the most difficult box:
"Are these... grasses? Spiritual herbs? Medicinal herbs? Or elixirs?"

A big box inside a small box, and a small box inside an even smaller box. Shen Le searched through the boxes, carefully took out a flat square box, and placed it on the table:

The things in the box are still of some significance only in the eyes of cultural relics workers.

If it were anyone else, including the garbage collector, there would be a bunch of unknown objects in here.

After a long period of decay, the original color can no longer be recognized, and the pile is limp and the shape cannot be seen. As for the material...

Shen Le touched it carefully with his mental power, breaking it down bit by bit along its texture, and picked up one:
"Grass! (a plant)"

It is crisscrossed and woven together, with several layers of weaving up and down, and many similar items are stuffed in between.

When the people from the Special Affairs Bureau were packing the raw materials, they probably also considered preserving them as much as possible in their original state, and even brought over the layer of stone slab underneath.

Shen Le could roughly guess based on the marks on the stone slab:
“…Is this a futon?”

The trace left by this object is roughly circular, woven from straw, with some remaining patterns visible. The diameter is about 50 centimeters, which is enough for a person to sit cross-legged...

If it's not rotten yet.

As it is now, with a sign in front that says "Kowtow a thousand times to serve me", Duan Yu would not know where to kowtow when he comes.

“It’s better to repair the cushion than the spiritual grass. If it breaks, it’s fine. You won’t feel too bad about it.

Those withered and rotten spiritual herbs could have been used to make pills if they were repaired, but they turned to ashes at the last moment. What a pity!"

Spiritual herbs need time to grow!

These days, the number of hundred-year-old spiritual herbs in the hands of the Special Affairs Bureau has been decreasing!
As for the three hundred, five hundred, or even older spiritual herbs, they were either hidden away as treasures, or one could only find good ones by trying their luck in newly discovered secret realms...

Shen Le used his mental power to break up the pile of rotten grass, pulled out a strand, and moved it into the glove box. Following the original steps, he took photos, recorded, measured, and turned on the instrument.

Enter Reiki!

The spiritual grass became strong, became flexible, became green, and then... turned into ashes...

"Ah, it turns out that I still don't know how to use this new thing very well... It's okay, a futon has at least hundreds or thousands of grasses, so I'll practice slowly!"

Shen Le was not discouraged and continued to work hard. One, two, three, after destroying hundreds of rotten grasses, he successfully mastered the rhythm of inputting spiritual energy and the node of braking;
Then, two roots were repaired at a time, three roots were repaired at a time, five roots were repaired at a time, and ten roots were repaired at a time.

When everything was done, Shen Le looked at the grass stems in front of him, which had been reduced by half, and said silently:
"This isn't enough to make a futon!"

Strictly speaking, it can be done, and it can make a very good futon.

The grass stems that Shen Le pulled back from their decayed state were mostly emerald green, with a small portion brown and yellow. It looked like they had been dyed to weave patterns.

The green grass stems give off a cool breath, and just standing next to them makes people feel refreshed and their minds active;

The brown and yellow grass stems give people a sense of peace, as if they are directly connected to the earth. No matter how great the interference is, the meditation of the person sitting on it will not be interrupted.

However, the original diameter of the cushion may be 50 cm, but after removing half of the grass stems, the remaining part may be at most 35 cm.

It is impossible to meditate. Even if you just sit there, it feels a bit empty, as if there is a piece missing here or there is hanging in the air.

"Forget it, I don't want this thing anymore. Whoever wants it can take it." Shen Le thought about it, took out his phone, took a picture, and sent it to Dr. Qin:

"Do you want these spiritual herbs? Take them back to make a nest? I'm too lazy to make one..."

"I'm too lazy to make it up! I'm not a turtledove!" Dr. Qin's reply came quickly:
"I'm not the kind of bird that can just hold a few branches in its mouth and lay eggs by swinging them horizontally or vertically! I'm the Qinggeng Bird! An ancient spiritual bird! All the bird nests I use are high-end custom-made!"

Uh... okay. I am of noble birth, and I don't look down on the ordinary spiritual herbs produced in these secret realms, and I just picked them up to make a cushion.

Shen Le shrugged his shoulders and was still thinking about what to do with these things when he heard a regular "knock knock knock" sound on the window glass.

"Lao You? When did you come?"

"Boss, I want this spiritual herb! I want it!"

The peregrine falcon was so anxious that it didn't have time to transform into a human form. It just stuck to the window frame and pecked at the glass with its beak:

"I weave my own futon! I weave my own bird's nest! I make sure not a single blade of grass is wasted! - This kind of spiritual grass is very beneficial to my practice!"

It can activate your thinking and calm your mind. It is a magical tool for spiritual practice!

Weave a bird's nest, squat inside it, meditate with peace of mind, and the speed of breathing in the spiritual energy of heaven and earth can be several times faster!
The only downside is that it is best to place it on the ground, rather than on a tree branch like peregrine falcons are used to... But what's the danger in making a nest in the boss's house?
No cat will pounce on him, no yellow fox will grab him, and no snake will bite him!
On the ground, on the ground!
"Oh, you want it."

Shen Le went to open the door and stretched out his fingers. A small whirlwind gathered all the spiritual herbs and neatly put them into a pile. He pointed openly:
"Leave me two as samples, and you can take the rest. By the way, since you are here, I have something to ask of you..."

"Boss, you give me your orders! I will serve you till my death!"

Well... it's not that serious. Shen Le pointed to a big box:

"These are all the spiritual gold I have repaired. You can give them to Lao Jin and see if he likes them. If he wants to keep them, then keep them.

Whatever he doesn't like, he will give it to the Special Affairs Bureau. They can use it for research or to make spiritual tools. It's up to them."

Lao You said goodbye diligently. It was too much effort for him to turn into his original form and fly over with the heavy box in his claws.

So, Lao You decisively rented a car and drove forward. It seemed that he planned to drive all the way to the Alloy Boss without stopping...

"Good, done." Shen Le clapped his hands, feeling that his thoughts were clear:

Alloy Boss tried his best to help him, and he tried his best to give back, so everyone has a bright future.

This kind of spiritual gold, even if it is the spiritual gold that has decayed after losing its spiritual energy and then been repaired, should be worth eating for the metal master, right?

I just don't know how much his strength can increase...

It doesn't matter. Alloy Boss doesn't rely on strength to survive now anyway. No matter how strong he is, he can't be stronger than Dongfeng.

Shen Le satisfied his sense of morality and continued to repair the various garbage sent by the Special Affairs Bureau. Spiritual herbs, spiritual flowers, spiritual pills (?), spiritual medicines...

There were also some tattered silk curtains and tattered things that looked like robes, which he repaired piece by piece, from a state resembling mud to a state that was basically presentable to people.

After everything was done, Shen Le looked at his clay sculptures. He did not rush to repair them, but instead dealt with the broken ones he had repaired.

There are magical flowers, magical herbs, magical medicines and magical pills. Please ask the proprietress to come over first and choose first. You can take whatever you like.

If the boss lady doesn’t like the things, she will call the Special Affairs Bureau and have them take them all away and treat them as garbage.

Well, as for these spiritual materials, what can they be used for after they are taken away, and how much are they worth - anyway, the Special Affairs Bureau brought the spiritual materials here and gave them to him along with the instruments, and they didn't ask him for money, right?

If you want to give, give. If you want to deposit money into his account, just deposit it into his account. Don’t bargain with him and waste his time!
The Special Affairs Bureau personnel dragged the things away with a wry smile. Shen Le was ready to get started. He exported all the data in the instrument and began to organize and analyze it.

It is rare to have so much first-hand material and so much on-site data, he also wants to write a paper!
Alas, it's a pity that he, a master's student majoring in cultural relics restoration, has gone further and further astray after graduation.

Up to now, I have written a paper, but I have not been able to publish it in any professional journal. I can only post it on the forum of the Special Affairs Bureau. I don’t know if the Special Affairs Bureau has any relevant professional journals. If I publish a paper on it, how many citation points I will get, and whether I can use it to evaluate my professional title...

Forget it. Professional title evaluation and the like have nothing to do with him now anyway. If he really wants something like a professional title, he can just ask the Special Affairs Bureau. There is no need to go through other troubles.

Shen Le wrote the paper not for a lowly title, but because he really wanted to sort out his thoughts and, by the way, summarize some experience to share with the Special Affairs Bureau:

After all, faced with more and more special situations and the increasing damage to the barrier between heaven and earth, the Special Affairs Bureau's demand for resources is almost unlimited!
Crackling, crackling. Shen Le quickly tapped the keyboard, immersed in the joy of sharing knowledge.

All kinds of successful experiences and failed regrets were turned into text and charts in the paper. By the time the paper was completed, he had gained sufficient experience in repairing broken spiritual tools:

"Here we are! It's finally your turn!"

Shen Le strode to the dowry. He picked out a jewelry box, bent down, and carefully put it into the glove box. He closed the box, turned on the instrument, connected the test line, and set the reminder:

Get started!
This jewelry box is just the right size. It doesn't need to be made bigger or smaller. It can be put into the box in its original shape.

The things in the jewelry box were faintly visible, sheendling the radiance of gold, silver, pearls, corals, and beautiful jade. They were the kind that would not suddenly crumble into ashes even if they were damaged.

From easy to difficult, it's just right to practice with it!

Shen Le took a deep breath and began to circulate the golden beads in his dantian to guide the heat flow.

The heat flowed onto the outer wall of the clay sculpture and slowly seeped in. One could clearly feel the fibers in the clay sculpture absorbing the spiritual power, starting to grow and lock the clay sculpture tightly.

After a round of growth, it then penetrated into the interior. The gold and silver jewels lit up little by little, and Shen Le stared at the glass, speechless for a moment:
Why, why did he feel that these gold, silver and jewelry, after absorbing enough spiritual energy, no longer looked like the real thing?

The phoenix crown on the top is definitely not one of them! The frame of the phoenix crown is made of bamboo!
The flowers on the phoenix corona should have been made of gold and silver foil, but the more you look at it, the more they look like paper!
The kingfisher feathers on the phoenix crown are indeed bird feathers, but they are just bird feathers and definitely not as brightly colored as those of kingfishers.

The pearls on the phoenix crown are indeed pearls, large and round, and emitting a beautiful rainbow-colored luster.

Only this pearl looked like the real thing. It greedily absorbed the spiritual power input by Shen Le, and gradually changed from a dull, yellow, and dull fish-eye appearance to a real jewel.

"This phoenix crown is too deceptive!" After the spiritual power was input to the critical point and all the jewels were restored to their original form, Shen Le carefully took out the jewelry box and took out the items one by one:

"Phoenix crown, made of paper!"

"A collar made of mud!"

"Bracelet, made of bamboo!"

"Rings, made of paper and woven with flowers and plants!"

"Bu Yao is just a flower branch with some bird feathers attached to it and a string of beads hanging from it..."

Are these things meant to be worn by living people?
impossible!

If you put this on a statue of a deity, it won’t pass the test, and you will be thrown out by the temple priest and the devout believers! These things are only suitable for ghosts!

But...the little girl who was taken care of so well by the demons in the temple back then should have been able to get married alive, right?
Should she be with that little boy, loving each other and living happily ever after?
How did these bamboo phoenix crowns and paper collars get mixed into the dowry? Are they really useful?
Shen Le picked up these things and put them down, put them down and picked them up again. He had taken photos, scanned images, and done CT scans, but he still couldn't get the point.

All the test results point to one thing: this is a batch of demon-like imitation jewelry. The only difference is that the CT seems to have produced some artifacts, but they are not obvious;

The instrument sent by the Special Affairs Bureau was specially used to test spiritual energy. It could scan out a relatively strong spiritual energy reaction on it. It was completely different from the phoenix crown that Shen Le had made with a piece of bamboo...

The clay and paper jewels were put back into the jewelry box one by one, quietly, without any change at all.

Shen Le tried to use his mental power to communicate with them, but he didn't get any feedback:

Perhaps, only after all the dowries are repaired can they give him some feedback, or transmit their memories to him?

That’s one hundred and eight of them!
Not to mention the 108 clay figures, even more than that have been repaired. Shen Le calmed down and worked hard:
Jewelry, dressing boxes, cosmetics, mirror boxes. All kinds of furniture, from the largest sedan chairs and beds to the smallest screens and spit boxes, to the descendants' barrels and coffins...

The dressing box is made of clay, and even if enough spiritual energy is injected into the cosmetics, it still looks like a lump of mud or a box of dust.

After absorbing enough spiritual power, the mirror in the mirror box finally became independent from the clay box. Thank God it was finally a bronze mirror.

As for the bronze mirror being too dull and heavily oxidized and in need of repair, that is another matter. Shen Le is an expert in this area and is not afraid at all!

However, those furnitures made Shen Le feel very embarrassed. Why did they need to be reworked?
Why do I need to do the same job twice?
All the furniture looked like clay sculptures, or at least had a thick layer of mud on them. However, after Shen Le gave them enough spiritual energy, they returned to their original appearance one by one:

All wood!

All wooden furniture!
Although they are not rosewood, golden nanmu, boxwood, or various other precious woods, they are still wood after all!
Moreover, if Shen Le was not mistaken, these were mostly dark wood, petrified jade that had been buried underground for a long time.

Even if a long time has passed, their conduction and absorption of spiritual energy will only become stronger, not weaker!
The question is, the one who is marrying the girl, what is the purpose of using these woods to make furniture?
What are you drawing? What are you drawing?
These pieces of furniture need to be carved, painted, lacquered, and inlaid with mother-of-pearl...

The main idea is "What other girls have, my girl should have too", right?
Now, after so much time, the wood has been salvaged, but the decorations on the wood are all ruined. He has to repair them one by one!

Repair them one by one!
Shen Le rolled up his sleeves and worked diligently. His mansion was full of furniture, but unfortunately he had hardly repaired it. Everything was kept in its original state, and was naturally maintained by the spiritual power of the mansion.

I have been lazy until now, and now I have started to fix other people’s dowries…

Shen Le sighed as he worked. To be honest, the Qiangong bed was pretty cool, and the Wangong sedan chair was so cool that he couldn't open his eyes:

The entire sedan was painted in red and gold. On top of the bright red paint, gold foil was used to create images of upturned corners and flying eaves, auspicious dragons and phoenixes, a hundred years of harmony, and Guanyin delivering a child.

Round carving, openwork carving, relief carving and other crafts are a collective display of wood carving techniques. Every wood carving is worth studying and savoring carefully.
Every part that needed to be decorated was carefully pasted with gold foil, and more than one layer was pasted;
More than 200 figures, countless flowers, birds, fish and insects, and countless cloud patterns, swastika patterns, and various decorative patterns...

Various figures and statues of gods are stacked up layer by layer, extending from the pagoda-shaped roof of the sedan chair to the guardrails at the bottom of the sedan chair. Every direction and every detail represents good wishes for the newlyweds.

...Except for the interior space of the sedan chair itself, it is not very friendly to the bride.

Shen Le estimated that if it were him, he would have to cross his legs, bend his waist, and curl up into a ball to barely squeeze it in?
However, after seeing the traditional sedan chairs used by generals and daimyo in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Japan, I suddenly felt that the Wangong sedan chair was still very humane...

Shen Le climbed up and down. He scanned the sedan chair seven or eight times just to dismantle it into hundreds of carved wooden boards connected with mortise and tenon structures, and then built a computer model and simulated it over and over again.

Ancient gadgets don’t have fool-proof interfaces, so you can’t use force to create miracles. You can only take them apart little by little along the connection points, otherwise they will definitely break.

My God, how was this thing installed?

The bride goes in first, and then the workers continue to inlay the carved wooden boards upwards, locking the bride inside?
Shen Leguang imagined the bride huddled in the middle of the sedan chair, listening to someone hammering the mortise and tenon structure with a wooden hammer, trying to hammer the carved wooden board into the tenon, and he felt sick all over.

This is only slightly worse than the torture of sitting inside a big bell and listening to someone ringing the bell outside!
But he couldn't bear to dismantle it. The Wangong sedan chair was a rare item in the country and was in a museum. He could not even touch it, and even if he wanted to see it, he had to look at it from a distance through the railings.

And now, a complete Wangong sedan chair finally fell into his hands!

This must be taken apart, scanned carefully, repaired carefully, and examined thoroughly inside and out!

Shen Le was busy running around, disassembling parts one by one, scanning them one by one, and then cleaning and decorating them one by one.

It took five days to repaint the Wangong sedan chair: it had to be painted red, polished, and then gold foil had to be affixed.

Even so, there are still Luoqun who work diligently and try their best to help. If it were him, he would still not be able to finish the work even if he spent twice as much time:

It is worthy of being called a “Wangong” sedan chair!
It is worthy of the ten thousand working hours - these are the ten thousand working hours of a skilled craftsman, not the ten thousand hours of a novice worker who dilly-dallys - to make a good sedan chair!
After the sedan chair was finished, Shen Le lay down on the bed and had a good sleep before getting up. Finally, he could start repairing the most difficult and most delicate part of the cosmetic boxes:

Those textiles!
Clothes for all seasons, leather, fur, padded, single, silk, satin, gauze, brocade, all kinds of curtains, all kinds of fabrics...

Most of it looked like mud, and all of it sank into the mud box;
The surface looked like silk, shining brightly, as if it could be picked up with one hand, but when I reached out my hand, I couldn't, it was completely stuck to the clay sculpture...

"These things won't cause me any trouble again, right?"

"Will you suddenly find out after you've fixed it that these things are made of paper, straw, or even stranger materials?"

(End of this chapter)