The old things I repaired have become fine

Chapter 6 Will this puppet come back to life after it’s repaired?
"So... is this your memory..."

Shen Le sighed softly and stroked the puppet's cheek. It has been more than 30 years since the 1980s. In the past 30 years, has your master, that boy, ever looked for you again?
Have you played with me yet?

Or, has he forgotten about you since you were locked in the box?

The man who roared "Just throw you away" and threw you out of the room and directly into the river, is he the boy who cried out "Xiao Lin is my friend" more than 30 years ago and refused to let go even when his fingers were bleeding?

Anyway, the past is gone, and there is no point in pursuing it. Shen Le sighed again and again, found a washbasin, put the puppet's clothes in it to soak, and then rubbed a rag to wash the puppet from top to bottom, inside and out. He hung it on the shelf here, picked up his phone there, and started shopping on Taobao:
"Cedar...cedar...cedar..."

Thanks to the almighty Taobao, fir logs can be easily purchased online. If you need wood blocks, you can get wood blocks, if you need wood strips, you can get wood boards. Four 2 cm x 2 cm, 30 cm long wood strips are only yuan including postage. The sizes are varied and can be customized. Large quantities are preferred.

Shen Le estimated that the wood needed to repair the puppet would cost no more than 50 yuan.

——Of course, it’s fortunate that this puppet is made of fir, which is cheap. If it were huanghuali, red sandalwood, wenge… the price of the wood is one thing, and you may not be able to buy the real thing if you just shop online.

Fortunately, Shen Le didn't have to worry about buying mahogany for the time being. He quickly placed a bunch of orders, including wood blocks, paint, silk thread, nylon thread, and various woodworking tools. While waiting for the courier to arrive, he had a good sleep and started cleaning the puppet:

The first step is to clean the surface with clean water and a rag. Remove the dust and old dirt from the puppet;

The second step is to use sandpaper to polish off the old paint on the surface of the puppet...

"This job is so tiring..."

Shen Le held the puppet's head in one hand and the sandpaper in the other, gnashing his teeth and grinding it continuously with a "squeak, squeak, squeak" sound. He grinded it a few times, let go, shook his wrist, grinded it a few more times, let go, and continued to shake his wrist...

"My grinder... No, I have to order another grinder... If I keep going like this, I'm going to get tendonitis..."

Grinding is not a job for humans! Fortunately, this puppet is basically smooth and can be finished with a grinder. If it were those delicate and complex carvings, they would have to be polished by hand, and that would be unbearable...

Even so, he was still patient and worked hard. The sooner the repair was done, the sooner the copper sheet could be charged; the sooner the copper sheet could be charged, the sooner the new abilities of the copper sheet could be explored.

Even if he took a step back, he felt quite sympathetic and curious about this puppet that could cry out for help and provide him with memories. If it was repaired sooner, maybe this puppet would come back to life and help him out.
He put down the sandpaper and picked up the chisel. He could wait for the sander to arrive for grinding, but he had to remove the rotten parts manually...

Shen Le lifted the bed sheet and looked at the table that served as a workbench. He stood up and looked around, gasping for air. Rosewood, huanghuali, rosewood, red sandalwood, yellow sandalwood, wenge…

"My great-uncle, or rather his great-uncle's ancestors, were really rich... The furniture in this room is all made of mahogany... I feel a little hesitant to use it as a workbench and fix a carpenter's clamp on it..."

In the bedroom, opposite the step-out bed, there is a dressing table made of rosewood. Next to the wall, there is a half table made of rosewood. Outside the bedroom, there is a round table made of rosewood inlaid with marble, surrounded by four round stools under the window. To the right of the round table, against the wall, there is a piano table made of rosewood...

Any of them, screwing the woodworking clamp on to leave a deep mark and using it to fix the object to be repaired is such a waste of resources!
He simply pushed the door open and went out, searching room by room. The third entrance was on the east and west sides, upstairs and downstairs, and the side rooms on both sides; the second entrance was the main hall, the side rooms, and the first entrance was the sedan chair hall; after searching the west road, he went to the east road, the study, the waterside pavilion next to the lotus pond, and the third entrance was the Wangxian Tower...

After searching everywhere, I found that all the furniture was either Ming or Qing dynasty style, made of this or that kind of mahogany, decorated with either lacquer or mother-of-pearl, or carved with cloud patterns, scroll grass patterns, pomegranates, bats, peaches, etc. If you sell it in the market, even if you don't go to auction houses like Sotheby's or Christie's, you can easily sell it for tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of yuan.

Shen Le went all the way to a row of small bungalows behind Wangxian Building, which might be a servant's room, before he found a large square table. The tabletop was flat and the four legs were straight. There were no carvings or decorations. Even the material of the table was just some hard miscellaneous wood - Shen Le couldn't recognize it at the moment, it might be walnut, jujube, elm or something like that.

The tabletop is 1 meter by 2 meter in size, 70 centimeters thick, and about centimeters high. Every detail is perfect for his workbench.

The only problem is——

"Do you want me to carry it myself?"

From the west road to the east road! Passing through the courtyard gate, walking along the alley, crossing the threshold, going up and down, twisting and turning, the distance is conservatively estimated to be 100 meters.

It's hard to lift such a big square table with both hands, and the center of gravity is unstable when carrying it on the shoulder. It's easy for two people to move it, but it's hard for one person to move it!!!

However, Shen Le was unfamiliar with his hometown, and he really didn't want to open the door and go out to call someone to help him move the table. In the end, he found a rope, tied the square table up two horizontally and two vertically, and carried it on his back, moving it to the only room with air conditioning. Then, he fixed the woodworking clamp on the square table, fixed the puppet head in the woodworking clamp, picked up the chisel, and cut the rotten part on it:

Brush, brush, brush. The 6mm wide flat chisel went deep into the head of the puppet, chipping along the edge of the crack. With each chipping, tiny, black debris left the wood. After chipping a dozen times, there was a "crack" sound, as if it hit something semi-hard.

Shen Le wrinkled his nose, loosened the puppet's head, turned it upside down and patted it, then reached in with a brush and brushed it carefully. As he moved, a small pile of things came out from the deep crack:

Sawdust, sawdust, and more sawdust. Sawdust, shrunken insect eggs, cut in half...

Dead cockroaches?!
"I go!"

Shen Le shook the puppet head in his hand twice, and then twice more, as if he had been burned. After making sure there was no living thing inside, and even the cockroach corpse had been dried up after years, he cleaned the table and put down the puppet head:
"Poor thing... How long have you been forgotten... You must have had a hard time these years..."

Chisel, iron chisel, steel needle. They were used one by one to clean the cracks in the puppet's head and the holes for threading silk. Putting down the steel needle, Shen Le rubbed his palms, a little excited:

"Wait, I'll fix your head right now!"

When the brain is repaired, or when the whole body is repaired, what kind of surprise will this puppet give him?

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