The old things I repaired have become fine

Chapter 95: Will using modern chemical products hinder the formation of monsters? (Subscribe)

After controlling the variables, Shen Le began to boil the glue. Take a small porcelain bowl, put the fish bladder glue in, add a little water, and spread it evenly. Boil a pot of water and let it cool down a little.

Use a colander to cook spicy hot pot to cover the porcelain bowl, put it into the boiling water pot, let the fish bladder glue be heated through the water, stir it quickly, and let it dissolve in the water...

Yes, fish bladder glue needs to be cooked before use. And the cooking temperature of this crappy thing should be controlled at about 90 degrees. If it is too low, it will not boil, and if it is too high, it will affect the viscosity.

When I was in the laboratory, everyone from the instructor to the students used a constant temperature water bath to cook!
Should I order a water bath?
The water bath pot might need to be ordered, but not now. Shen Le patiently stared at the water in the boiling pot, watching it bubble up little by little.

As the saying goes, "The crab eyes have passed and the fish eyes are born, and the sound of the wind is about to be like the sound of pine wind." When the instructor asked them to boil woodworking glue, he quoted this poem:

"Crab eyes" refers to the small bubbles that appear when water first boils. They are as small as crab eyes and rise densely.

"Fish eyes" refers to the fact that as the water continues to heat up, the bubbles become larger and larger, becoming as big as fish eyes.

Around 90 degrees is the crab eye. Maintain the crab eye state. When the bubbles become bigger, turn down the heat a little bit. When the bubbles are almost gone, turn up the heat a little bit.

Thanks to modern technology, gas stoves are much more convenient than wood stoves. When the older generation of carpenters used wood stoves, they had no idea what to do!

The bubbles in the boiling water pot remained perfectly still, and Shen Le watched the fish bladder glue in the bowl slowly dissolve. Then, with a thin rattan stick, he quickly stirred, stirred, and stirred hard!
It was only the beginning of September, the heat had not yet subsided, and the weather was hot. However, in Shen Le's studio, the air conditioner was running at full power, the temperature was constant at 22 degrees, and the humidity was around 60%.

"In winter, make it thin; in summer, make it thick; in spring and autumn, make it just right."

In winter, the weather is cool and the glue is easy to solidify, so the glue used should be thinner;
In the hot summer, the heat accumulated by fish bladder glue is not easy to dissipate between the mortise and tenon joints, so a thicker one should be used at this time.

In spring and autumn, the glue used is neither too thin nor too thick, just right.
This temperature and humidity are the standard for spring and autumn. So Shen Le decisively chose the fish bladder gel concentration for spring and autumn.

Stir until the fish bladder glue is completely dissolved, lift the thin rattan stick up just enough to pull out a long thin thread!

When the thin line reached the end, it suddenly broke. The upper part retracted and vibrated a few times, and the raised part took on the shape of a fishhook;
The lower part fell into the glue, which rippled gently, spreading outward in circles, and soon returned to calm. Very good, the fish hook is fishing in the water, this is the standard of fish bladder glue that is neither too thin nor too thick, and the concentration is just right, perfect!
Take out the boiled fish maw glue and let it cool down a bit. While it is still not cool enough, Shen Le quickly starts to glue the wooden sticks.

Take a piece of wood and apply modern woodworking glue on both sides. First stick it to the top of a wooden stick, then stick the other side of the wood piece to another wooden stick, clamp it with a woodworking clamp, and press it tightly.

Then, use a thin cane with a flattened tip and dip it in slightly cooled fish bladder glue, and do the same with the other two sticks and a piece of wood...

Yes, fish bladder glue is so troublesome. You can't use a brush or a writing brush, you have to use a cane as thick as a ballpoint pen, soak the tip of the cane in hot water, and use a hammer to make it into the shape of a brush head.

This kind of rattan is delicate, hard enough, smooth enough, and does not shed hair. It is perfect for applying fish bladder glue.

After painting, two one-and-a-half-foot-long wooden sticks were placed side by side in front of Shen Le. Shen Le narrowed his eyes slightly, and swept from left to right, and from top to bottom:

It was obvious that the strange smell on the two wooden sticks, which were glued together with modern wood glue, was blocked by the wood chips and glue in between, floating thinly on its own, with almost no extension;
As for the wooden stick glued with fish bladder glue, the strange smell quickly spread to the wood chips without any hindrance.

Shen Le reached out his hand and stroked the wooden stick that was glued together with fish bladder glue. He quickly spread the scent evenly, and the entire stick, including the wood pieces in the middle, had the same scent as one.
As for the wooden stick glued with modern woodworking glue, Shen Le "rubbed" it vigorously several times before the smell passed through. Lifting it up and looking carefully, the glue below the cross section has not even been stained by the smell!

The answer is obvious.

If this kind of breath is the key to making ordinary objects transcend and giving old objects spirituality, then modern woodworking glue that blocks the flow of breath cannot be used without a doubt!
Not only can wood glue not be used, but the water-based wood paint that costs a few dollars a can online is probably also not usable.

Only traditional lacquer and traditional wood wax, which have been used by carpenters for generations, can better guide and carry these extraordinary forces...

But speaking of which, when he was repairing puppets and ink fountains before, he used woodworking glue to glue them together for convenience. Why didn’t anything go wrong?

Maybe it’s Pinocchio and the little inkstone. Their powers are already very strong, so they can push the aura over by themselves?
It could also be that during the process of cultivation, he kept moving them manually, holding them in his hands all the time, unconsciously guiding the flow of their energy?
In short, since we have discovered that modern wood glue and wood paint are not easy to use, don't use them in the future. Follow the principles of cultural relic restoration, restore the old as it was, try to be reversible, and honestly use traditional products!

Shen Le sighed deeply. He picked up the thin cane and began to apply it to the tenons and mortise holes of the miniature armchair, applying and sticking at the same time:

fast!
Be fast!

Before the fish bladder glue dries up and needs to be re-cooked, quickly re-glue what needs to be glued!

He concentrated his attention and exerted his fastest hand speed in his life. Dipping, lifting, wiping, inserting the tenon, fixing;
Dip again, pick up again, and apply again...

His hands flew, unconsciously, once again stimulating the heat flow in his body. The heat flow in the hand Taiyin lung meridian and hand Taiyang large intestine meridian surged, making his hands extremely sensitive and accurate, and his speed was more than twice as fast:
When he came to his senses again, a miniature armchair was placed upright in front of him.

Shen Le raised his hand and gently stroked the armchair. For some reason, the heat from his fingertips flowed through every corner of the armchair and then flowed back to his fingertips. In just one cycle, the world in front of him suddenly changed!

He was no longer in a carefully decorated studio, but a slightly dark wooden house with wooden floors and walls.

He was wearing a Dacron shirt, uncomfortable, non-breathable cloth trousers with cuffs and trouser legs that were washed white, and a pair of heavy, smelly rubber-soled shoes.

There was a bookcase and a huge canvas tool bag at hand. On the bookcase and the canvas tool bag, the three characters "Chen Haixing" were written in traditional Chinese characters.

This is... the Republic of China?
Or when the country was just founded?
Shen Le calmed down and sorted out the memories of this body. His name was Chen Haixing, he was seventeen years old, and had just been admitted to the National Binhai Advanced Mechanical School.

My father is a manager in a company, and I have an older brother. As for my parents, relatives, and family background… “Brother! Brother!”

A little girl ran over shouting happily, interrupting his thoughts.

She looked only three or four years old, with cute short hair, a blue blouse, and a black skirt, which was the most popular student outfit at the time.

Of course, it was a school uniform for girls aged 13 or 14, or 17 or 18. For such a small girl to wear this, it was obvious that her family doted on her very much.

As light as a butterfly, as soft and fragrant as a flower, she ran over and threw herself into his arms. Shen Le naturally bent down and picked up the girl:
"Yingying, are you good today?"

"Good boy! I made several knots today!" The little girl's delicate smile collapsed instantly. She raised her hands and showed Shen Le the red marks on her fingertips:
"I've been working so hard! My hands hurt! - Brother, can you buy me a doll?"

"What doll?"

Shen Le lifted his sister up and let her sit in his arms, and asked with a smile as they walked. Yingying gestured with her hands, chirping, and said to him:

"Yes, a doll this tall and this big! It's wearing very beautiful adult clothes! There is also a small table, a small chair, and a small bed. It's so beautiful when placed in the small room!

Today I went to Ding Xiaoxia's house to play. Her father bought her one, but she refused to let me play with it! Brother, you buy me one too, but I won't let her play with it either!"

Shen Le, or rather, the young man possessed by Shen Le, smiled and replied:

"Okay! I'll take you to the street and go shopping in the mall! Buy whatever you like!"

"Okay! Let's go to Sincere Company! Sincere Company!"

Yingying shouted happily. Shen Le frowned slightly:
Sincere Company?

This is one of the famous department stores in old Binhai. It is extremely fashionable and is known as the first of the "Four Major Companies" in the country.

All the goods sold there are imported foreign goods. Each item is extremely expensive, costing tens or hundreds of silver dollars...

The young man's family background was still unclear to him as he still hadn't sorted out his memory.

However, looking at the bleached clothes on his body, he knew that they were definitely not of particularly good quality. At least, they were not the kind that one could casually walk into the Big Four companies and buy things from.

However, the young man he possessed laughed, gently shook the little sister, and agreed:

"Let's all go. Let's go to Sincere Company and Wing On Company. Let's all go, one by one...Mom! I'm taking Yingying out to play!"

"Come back soon! Don't buy her anything!" The mother's reply came from the room. The young man possessed by Shen Le responded nonchalantly:

"Don't worry, mom! I just got a scholarship and I have money! Now that the Japanese have been driven away, life is better now. It's okay!"

He carried the little girl down the stairs and walked out of the Shikumen courtyard. If he had gone there alone, he would have walked there, but now he was holding his sister - come on, let's go in the rickshaw!

The driver rushed along, letting bicycles, old cars, and clanking trams pass. The road ahead became wider and more prosperous, and finally, he turned into the most prosperous commercial street:

On the right side of the road, there are buildings standing, with a combination of Chinese and Western architectural styles, intricate and exquisite building structures, and flashing neon lights, making the entire mall look magnificent.
On the left, rows of Chinese-style buildings are lined up, and tourists are flocking in. The fragrance is everywhere, and from time to time, there are songs, string music, and pipa sounds coming out from the buildings.

Shen Le held the little girl in his arms and ran straight to the largest, most luxurious and brightest house.

The ground floor is filled with all kinds of daily necessities. Even with Shen Le's experience in modern times, he can still admire "it turns out that such exquisite products can be made at this time";
On the second floor, there are clothing and silk counters, with large pieces of silk and brocade shining brightly, complementing the imported goods;

The third floor houses jewellery, watches and antiques, and the fourth floor houses large furniture, carpets and suitcases, which are still as good as ever even today.

Unfortunately, Yingying had seen a lot of dolls, with red hair, blonde hair, black hair, white puffy skirts, red princess skirts, blue fishtail skirts, and so on.
Each doll is placed in a separate room with its own matching furniture.

From wardrobes and dressing tables to teapots and cups on the table, and even a white cat as long as a finger, they are all different and in various shapes and sizes.

But the cheapest one also costs...

"Twenty-five dollars? Can you make it cheaper?"

　Note:

　　The four major department stores, "Sincerely", "Wing On", "Sun Sun" and "Da Sun" that appeared in Shanghai in the 1920s and 1930s, were famous for the size of their stores and their wide business influence. They were collectively referred to as the "Four Major Department Stores in China" by people of the time.

　　In order to control the flow of people to the mall, the management of Daxin Company had to resort to selling "tickets" to reduce the flow of people coming to the mall to visit the elevators...

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