Chapter 212 Shen Le, be careful that the wedding dress will dress you up like a bride!
Shen Le watched the whole show with a mysterious smile on his face.

Ah, the love between a boy and a girl is really a joy to behold. Especially when the boy is a serious, elegant, and even a little shy boy;
And the girl is such a lively, healthy and frank girl!
Be happy!

You must be happy!
He silently blessed her in his heart. Although, seeing the bloodstains on the dagger, he had a feeling that this bride might not have a good ending;
However, Shen Le sincerely hoped that they could be happy for at least a while, and at least, the girl would not be let down by the boy…

However, the accident happened too quickly, catching people off guard. And this time, the first one to leave was the girl:

Her father had passed away. He had died in the mountains, in a mudslide, on his way to the village to collect pork.

The direct consequence of losing my father is:
The girl could no longer support the pork stall, nor the family business. She herself was even rudely adopted by her uncle, who planned to send her off to marry during the mourning period…

In desperation, the girl packed her belongings into a small package, picked up a butcher knife, and followed her father’s friends who came to pay their respects, embarking on a journey away from home.

She has martial arts skills and can protect herself. Whether she is performing or escorting a bodyguard, she can make a lot of money!
“Miss Lin!”

When the ship was about to set sail, the young man hurried to the dock with a small bag on his back. He stood on tiptoe, stretched out his arms, and handed the bag to the girl:

“Remember to come back! Remember to come back! – When I pass the exam, my clansmen won’t be able to control my marriage. Then, I will marry you! In a formal ceremony!!!”

The ship had already started to sail slowly. The girl stood at the bow and tried to jump back to the shore several times, but the ship shook her twice and she was too scared to move.
The boy simply ran after the boat, holding his bag high as he ran.

The road on the shore was bumpy and he fell down carelessly. He knelt on the ground with his right hand, but held the bag with his left hand to prevent it from getting muddy.

He struggled to stand up, bent his waist, staggered, and tried to run forward. The ship shook violently, and the girl bent her waist, squatted, and jumped up with all her strength!

Then he was blocked back. The old boatman seemed to move slowly, but he held the pole horizontally, blocking the girl’s jumping path.

Then, the tip of the pole drew an arc, picked up the small bundle, and hung it directly in front of the girl.

The green waters drifted away, carrying the boat far away until it disappeared. Between the green mountains and green waters, only the rough singing of the old boatman echoed endlessly:
“The chives are blooming – fine and fluffy,

If you have a lover in mind, you are not afraid of poverty;

As long as there are two of us, the friendship is good.

Make tea with cold water – it slowly gets thicker…”

The light and shadows gradually faded. Shen Le stood beside the workbench, with the short knife lying quietly in front of him, the blade still shining.

Only the bright red spot on the blade looked a little brighter and no longer looked like coagulated blood.

Perhaps, it also always remembers the initial affection and sweetness of this young boy and girl?
Unfortunately, the repair work on the short sword is very simple and has been basically completed. If you want to see other memories, you can only wait until the other parts are repaired…

Shen Le sighed. Repairing fabrics is so annoying. He is not good at that… He knows almost nothing about it…

He had only tried it during his undergraduate studies, using mop fragments that his teacher had begged from the cleaning lady, and rags that were about to be thrown away after being used up…

In order to repair this wedding dress, to make it shine again, and more importantly, to appease the pain and sorrow condensed on the whistling dagger.

As a cultural relic restorer, Shen Le has an obligation to do so!
He gritted his teeth and looked up a bunch of information, then called the Special Affairs Bureau and asked them for help in coordinating the equipment.

Alas, it’s not that he doesn’t want to buy it, nor is it that he is reluctant to spend the money.

But even if he was willing to pay for these instruments, it would take an unknown amount of time from ordering to delivery, to installation and commissioning, and then to putting them into use…

The Special Affairs Bureau was very helpful. Shen Le called them, and within two days, they had coordinated the laboratory so that Shen Le could go there at any time.

Of course, there are costs:
“Mr. Shen, since you are already in Binhai, can you come to Turtle Point more often? Not too often, once a week will be fine! We will pick you up and drop you off!”

Binhai…Binhai City is quite large. It takes at least two hours to drive from the laboratory to Yangshan Port Area even if the driving is smooth.

Not to mention, the place the Special Affairs Bureau found for the little turtle was a small island 20 kilometers north of Yangshan Port. It was isolated overseas and could hardly be seen on the map without careful observation.

When we got to the beach, we changed from car to speedboat, which took more than an hour each way…

However, Shen Le stood in the laboratory and looked at each instrument one by one.

Tungsten filament scanning electron microscope, X-ray diffractometer, micro-confocal laser Raman spectrometer, pyrolysis instrument, mass spectrometer, fiber analyzer…

Ah, it’s worthy of being a textile-related university. The laboratory has such a complete range of instruments!

With the equipment, some preliminary exploration work can be started. Shen Le took some samples from the edge of the damaged part of the clothes and did various analyses:
Fiber analysis!

Pigment analysis!

Rubber analysis!

Pollutant analysis!
Mold analysis…

Fiber analysis requires the use of a scanning electron microscope, and the sample must first be sprayed with gold using an ion sputtering instrument;

Pigment analysis requires the use of an energy spectrometer that comes with a scanning electron microscope, a Raman spectrometer, and X-ray diffraction;

To analyze the composition of the pigment, or the gold thread, or the glue that sticks to the skirt, you need to use a pyrolysis instrument and a mass spectrometer;

To analyze the pollutants on the clothes, wash them off carefully, evaporate them to dryness using a rotary evaporator, re-dissolve them in acetone, filter them, and then test them using a chromatograph.
Mold analysis is even more troublesome, requiring sampling, separation, cultivation, and identification… “I’m a cultural relic restoration major! I’m not a biology major, nor am I a medicine major! Why do I have to learn how to grow mold!”

Shen Le looked up to the sky and sighed.

But there is no other way. To do research, you have to do it step by step. Not only do you have to do experiments, but you also have to record the results of each experiment, take countless photos, and then record and analyze the photos:

“Observing under a microscope, we can see that the warp and weft of the wedding dress are made of mulberry silk, and the structure is five-piece, two-fly warp satin…

The warp density is 105 strands/cm, the weft density is 23 strands/cm, the warp fineness is 0.089 mm, and the weft fineness is 0.233 mm…

S twist direction, belongs to weak twist…”

Shen Le painstakingly recorded everything. In a one square centimeter area, he counted 105 warp threads and 23 fabric structures, and the measurement accuracy had to be accurate to microns. It was incredible!

His eyes are swollen, okay?

However, these contents are all important information about cultural relics. Only by analyzing the structure of cultural relics can we select new fabrics with similar craftsmanship as repair materials.

Even if we take a step back, without these materials and pictures, what would you use to write your paper?

Only after all the analysis, investigation and research work is completed can the technical route for repair be determined, a super long technical route.

Simply put, it has to go through fumigation and disinfection → recording and photography → sampling and analysis → spot test → dust removal → backing material dyeing → moisture regain and shaping → shaping and drying in the shade → needle and thread repair.

It is not over after the repair is completed. It also needs to be packaged and protected, the data needs to be organized, and archives need to be created.

The first step is fumigation. Shen Le called Dr. Qin again and asked to borrow his ethylene oxide sterilization equipment.

To his surprise, Dr. Qin laughed out loud after hearing Shen Le’s request:

“You want to repair that wedding dress? Haha, haha, hahahahaha…”

“what happened?”

Shen Le froze. Is it funny that I repaired the wedding dress?
It’s not like I want to embroider a wedding dress!

In the Institute of Archaeology, many of the teachers who teach fabric restoration are men, which is not so funny!
Or do you think I’m clumsy and the results will definitely be terrible if I try to repair it with needle and thread?

“Are you okay? Nothing.” When he was about to fall out of favor with the laughter and was about to withdraw his request, Dr. Qin finally stopped laughing.

He took a breath, suppressed his laughter, and told gossip intermittently:

“It’s like this. I’ve seen that wedding dress before. I wanted to keep it, but it flew up and pounced on me, almost wrapping me up…”

Wedding dress!
A complete wedding dress!
It’s mandatory!
“Luckily I dodged quickly… Speaking of which, Mr. Shen, you must be careful when you repair it, or it will dress you up like a bride!”

Shen Le turned his head silently. Thank you for your concern. Up to now, the wedding dress is still very quiet and has no intention of floating up.

That dagger has frightened me several times, although now it turns out that it was because of my excessive desire to express myself…

He sent the whole set of clothes to the pet hospital, and also brought a few pearls as a gift for Dr. Qin. Dr. Qin simply gave him a phoenix crown in return:
“I bought this from the boss lady. It was originally a set with the wedding dress and I bought it as a gift. Unfortunately, I didn’t give it away… Since you bought the wedding dress, I’ll give it to you!”

The shape of the phoenix crown is not very special. The colors of the crown base, flowers and leaves are dull, and the material is at most gold-plated.

The pearls inlaid on it are not good stuff either. They are small, not round, and generally yellowish in color. You can tell at a glance that they are all folk products, and they are not very good folk products…

So, you bought it to give it to Miss Yaoyao?

Give that Yaoqin Fairy a phoenix crown that is not too old, of poor quality, and carries resentment?
No wonder you can’t catch her…

Shen Le held back his complaints, thanked her and accepted the Phoenix Coronet. Well, there was another thing that needed to be repaired, and I didn’t know if these pearls could be saved…

Can the gathered water vapor from the pearls given by the old turtle restore their original whiteness?

Shen Le didn’t know the answer. He only knew that he needed to practice again:

Tsk, the curtains, drapes, pillowcases, quilt covers, bed sheets, mosquito nets, all these things in the old house, which are dull, faded, and covered with dust from being stored for a long time, please take them all down and let me repair them!

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