The old things I repaired have become fine

Chapter 92 Doll Cabinet, be quiet! Dolls, what are you doing! (Subscribe)

Under Gu Yulin's guarantee and at the urging of the two staff members who delivered the cabinet, the work of retrieving the doll cabinet and transporting it back for repair went very quickly.

I completed the formalities that day and returned home that day. The next morning, the van carrying the furniture stopped at the gate of the mansion:

"Handle it with care! Handle it with care! Lift it carefully and steady it - especially this doll house. It's best not to dump the dolls inside out of the room, otherwise something you don't want to see will happen!"

Two staff members, one on the left and one on the right, carried the doll house and carefully passed one threshold after another. As they walked, they tried to control the muscles on their faces:

Such a big house!
Such a big house!
A person, alone, lives in such a big house!
Inhumane!!!
Ah, the owner of this kind of house is fully qualified to stay at home and treat handicrafts as a hobby...

After carrying the doll house and three pieces of furniture to be repaired, Shen Le walked lightly, walked back and forth, and looked carefully:

Those three antique Ming and Qing furniture must be repaired, but there is no need to rush.

With the reward for defeating the wolf demon, he has no shortage of money for the time being. Even if the small oil lamp uses up enough electricity every month, it will be enough for it to eat for a hundred months.

This kind of work that is purely for making money should be put on the back list. Anyway, even if he repairs it, the best result is to sell it, and he can't use his repair skills to show off:
You see, my level is already so high, please give me the status of an external expert!

As for the doll cabinet, it would be best to repair it as soon as possible for the old lady's health. However, there are a lot of parts of the doll cabinet that need to be repaired...

Shen Le walked around the doll cabinet, turned around several times, stood on the ladder to look at the top of the cabinet, and then lay down to look at the bottom of the cabinet. The more he looked, the more he frowned, and the more he looked, the more he felt that the workload this time was huge:
The entire doll cabinet has been painted over for years, the wood is uneven, fine cracks can be seen from time to time, and even the paint has bubbles;

The cabinet itself is also a bit deformed, the cabinet door cannot be closed tightly, and even when pushed, the cabinet will shake slightly. It is obvious that the four legs are not very stable.

These are not too troublesome. According to Shen Le's experience, it only takes time and effort to process them intact. The remaining work is troublesome:
Outside the display cabinet, the winding staircase was visibly loose.

The railings on the stairs, the fixed frame, the elevator car, and the device that pulls the elevator car, each of them has some problems, big or small.

The clock seemed to have stopped again. The elevator went up and down, and the entire pulley system, wire rope, and elevator car creaked and groaned. It was obvious that it needed a complete overhaul and careful adjustment.

The situation was even worse in the display cabinets, where there were small rooms and groups of dolls. The rooms were covered with dust and tangled with cobwebs, and the clothes on the dolls were more or less damaged.

There are also small furniture, small appliances, and small ornaments next to the dolls. Over the years, they have developed varying degrees of stains, deformation, and damage. It seems that each one needs to be taken out and repaired.

"This is to test my micro-carving skills..."

Shen Le put on a mask of pain. During his graduate studies, he was engaged in the restoration of ancient buildings, either beams or pillars, walls or brackets.

Occasionally carving a ox leg, a bracket, or a window frame is already considered a small item and there is no need to be too detailed.

But, the thing I want to repair now...

The tallest doll is only 30 cm tall, and the smallest is only 15 cm tall. From head to toe, from hair to the lace on the shoes, everything is exquisitely crafted, even the buttons have carvings;
There was a row of picture frames hanging in the living room, square, round, rectangular, large and small, the largest of which was only two finger joints long. The figures on them were clearly visible, but if you looked closely, they were a little blurry and faded;
The pots, pans, and utensils in the kitchen are even more amazing. Each one is only slightly bigger than a coin. The pot lid is a pot lid, and the spatula is a spatula.

Even the blue and white porcelain teapot and the teacups surrounding it could be seen clearly. Five intact teacups, one broken teacup, and the lid of the teapot was broken in two...

"How can I fix this!!!"

Shen Le wailed.

But it had to be repaired. Shen Le opened his spiritual eyes to see, in his own home, the distance was closer, and he could see more clearly than in the warehouse:

Every dirty, incomplete, damaged place, the lively and flowing breath above it all seemed stagnant and tangled. Just like a sick person, with blocked meridians and blocked blood circulation, there must be something wrong!

Got to fix it!
It has to be repaired carefully!
Only by repairing every damaged part, reassembling it, and then mixing the breath, can it play its role!
Only in this way can this strange doll house truly "come alive"!
He took out his phone and started taking pictures. After taking two pictures, he suddenly felt something was wrong:

"No, wait, what are you doing, dolls?!"

Shen Le rubbed his eyes, and rubbed his eyes again.

He remembered clearly that on the first shelf, which was the first shelf on the left side of the doll cabinet, there were two dolls, one male and one female. The male was wearing a flannel pajamas, leaning on the sofa, with his head turned towards the bed. The female was lying on her side on the bed, her pure white silk pajamas fluttering gently, as if she had just woken up, and she raised her head to look at the male.

The whole atmosphere is lazy and warm, and it is clearly a very comfortable home scene.

But now, what did he see? !

The man was still wearing the same flannel pajamas, but he had fallen off the sofa and onto the floor. He was lying flat on his back with his arms and legs spread out, his head tilted abnormally to one side, and bright red water was spreading from under him.

The woman was lying on her back, with her upper body hanging upside down under the bed. Even more terrifying was the red liquid dripping from her neck, flowing under the bed, and forming a small pool.

What are you doing?
Did I see it wrong, or did I remember it wrong?

Shen Le quickly cut out the photo he had just taken. Fortunately, he had records and photos. Preserving image records is the first step in all cultural relic restoration work:
Only by keeping complete records can we best preserve its original appearance. When we start to repair it, we will have a good idea of what to do and will not make it look out of place. What was originally a bull's head will become a sheep's head after repair...

Comparing the postures of the host and hostess, he found that they were exactly as he remembered them.

So, what are these two dolls doing?
Is this the abnormality the staff mentioned? !

Even if he had a lot of questions, Shen Le couldn't possibly take out the dolls inside and shake them alive one by one to ask questions. Moreover, even if he asked, the dolls might not be able to answer...

Shen Le had no choice but to do what a cultural relic worker should do and continue taking pictures. The front, the side, the back, the top, the cabinet legs;
The handle of the glass door, the handle of the two wooden doors below, the pattern of the metal decorations on the four corners of the cabinet...

After finishing all the photos, I opened the glass cabinet door and started taking photos grid by grid and room by room.

After the photo shoot, I reached in with a ruler and measured the table, sofa, bed, fireplace, and the position of each piece of furniture one by one, and recorded them one by one;

Then put the phone on the selfie stick, reach in and take a picture from the top.
Next, he spread out the draft paper and began to draw, marking the positions of all the furniture, decorations, and human figures in the room.

When I drew two dolls, I stopped drawing for a moment, gritted my teeth, and drew another one. The first one was a warm version, and the second one was a death version...

"Just look for trouble! Look for trouble! - Where did this red water come from? Blood?! If you dare to die, I will shake you back to life and let you wash your own clothes and floors!!!"

While working hard, he took out the furniture one by one, placed them on the prepared tray, and arranged them according to the positions drawn and recorded in advance.

When he got the two dolls, he paused and wiped them on the partition of the doll cabinet:
"Huh? No?!"

My hands were clean, nothing on them. No red color, no water stains, no smell of blood or other gases...

Well, at least I don't have to wash it...

Shen Le sighed. Looking back, all the dolls in the eight grids, as well as on the stairs outside, had changed their appearance:
The old lady, leaning in her rocking chair, slumped face down on the ground, motionless;
The man standing on the stairs outside, pretending to knock on the door, fell down the stairs to the ground without knowing when, his body was in pieces;
The worst thing was the dancing little girl, who ran from the children's room to the kitchen, with her head on the floor, her hands and feet in the pot, and her body on the chopping board...

What on earth are you doing?

Shen Le sighed deeply. He picked up the furniture and dolls one by one, put a tray in each room, and arranged them carefully;
Then, I looked left and right and started scratching my head:
I can't let it go.

I can't let it go at all.

His studio is already full and there is no space left for him to work!
The three east wing rooms were originally the master's study and studio, filled with all kinds of furniture, leaving him with very little room to maneuver, with only a large table serving as a workbench;
I need to install a powerful industrial vacuum cleaner to suck away the dust that occurs during work. But looking at the two or three hundred year old house and the window frames with broken ice and plum blossom patterns, I just can't bring myself to do it...

The floor is made of wood, the doors and windows are made of wood, and no matter how you sweep or close the doors and windows, there is no way to provide completely clean and dust-free conditions;
If you want to do your work well, you must first sharpen your tools. His workshop in the east wing was no longer able to meet his needs:
We have to change places!
We have to change places!
As for how to change the place...

Shen Le walked around the mansion three times, east and west, with three entrances, including the servants' quarters. Then he took out his cell phone and called Gu Yulin confidently.

It would be stupid not to use your connections!
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