The old things I repaired have become fine

Chapter 766 Please stop causing trouble, okay? I beg you!
Shen Le certainly couldn't possibly be someone who kills and then doesn't care about the burial—correction, he really wouldn't even bother to submit a report.

He had been operating at full capacity for at least a day and a night and needed rest. After showering, changing clothes, having a hearty meal, and taking a long nap, he sat upright in front of the Special Affairs Bureau personnel, pointing at the screen and beginning his report:
"I was attacked in this location... I had just emerged when I was shot, and then it was 12.7..."

“I killed the mastermind behind the attack from this location… They said my appearance was recorded, and they gave the order to attack after recognizing me…”

"And then I... here... here... here..."

Gu Yulin pressed one hand against his thigh, his thumb digging so hard into the soft flesh next to his knee that he even forgot what pain felt like.

He listened intently for a long while, and finally, just as Shen Le was drinking water, he asked tremblingly:

"So, when you made your move, did you know what these places were for?"

"I know." Shen Le nodded seriously. Gu Yulin had just breathed a sigh of relief when Shen Le added:
"The ley lines are telling me they're uncomfortable; they're stuck here...stuck by external forces, their flow is impeded..."

Gu Yulin: "..."

If I weren't also a member of the Special Affairs Bureau, and if I hadn't heard so much about ley lines from other cultivators, I would have thought you were just talking nonsense...

and also!

We can find a few cultivators to come over and help verify and confirm the ley lines here;
Are we supposed to go to great lengths to send people across the strait to verify the geological features?!

Moreover, according to the locations of the explosions on the satellite map, these places are all extremely important facilities—any outsider who gets close will be killed instantly!
So, say whatever you want.

"Also, in these places, I basically detected the presence of foreigners..." Shen Le pointed earnestly at the screen:

"Here, here, here, and here, there's the aura of overseas cultivators... I didn't destroy these places; the earth's ley lines trembled and cleared them away themselves. Perhaps the Chinese earth's ley lines also dislike them..."

I believe you!
Okay, I really can't help but believe it...

At the side of the conference table, the bureau chief's eyes twitched from giving him meaningful glances. Gu Yulin, trembling, could only steel himself and ask:
"So what are your plans for the future? Is there anything we can help you with?"

"Let's not use it for now..." Shen Le thought for a moment, looking up.
"I've collected all the fragments that needed to be collected. I've scanned them several times to make sure there aren't any other fragments floating around."

Next, I'll be focusing all my energy on restoring this pottery, and I'll probably be staying home most of the time. Hmm, I probably won't need you guys to bring me food..."

Tianxianglou is my private restaurant, and the proprietress will handle the food delivery service!
Gu Yulin breathed a long sigh of relief. Please stay home and don't go out!
We'd be so grateful if you stayed home quietly!

"If you have any needs, please let us know! Whether you need reagents, materials, or want to visit a scholar or professor, just tell us and we can help arrange it!"

Shen Le waved to them and rushed back to his home. The scroll and compass were still working; once they had shared all the information, someone would deliver them to the seaside and hand them over to Yun Kun, who was returning from his mission.

As for Shen Le, he cleaned and washed each of the pottery pieces he had collected, restoring them to their original state.

It was scanned through a scanner, then placed on various instruments to measure all sorts of data.

Weight, density, whether it has internal gaps, how many gaps there are, the content of various elements, ion content...

These pottery pieces, buried in different environments for over a thousand years, include some sleeping among mountains, some in paddy fields, and others buried in silt.

After Shen Le returned, he checked and found that the pottery slab closest to the coast was a sea two hundred years ago, the famous Taijiang Inner Sea, which was naturally formed within Luermen.

This sea area is a lagoon-like lake formed by the combination of offshore sandbars and the coastline, and its length once reached tens of kilometers, serving as a natural breakwater.

With waterways leading to the ocean, you can moor your ship there and it won't be blown away by a typhoon.

It was still there when Zheng Chenggong attacked Taiwan, but it gradually silted up at the end of the 18th century and is no longer there now.

However, the accumulation of silt and sea sand provided it with a completely different burial environment, making its physical characteristics unlike any other pottery block...

Since they are different, the pressure, time, and temperature required when sending them back into the desalination instrument will also be different.

If Shen Le needs someone to help him come up with a plan, he should at least make sure he understands the basic data!

These basic surveying tasks alone took Shen Le a whole week to complete.

Then, he respectfully entrusted these ceramic blocks to his doctoral fellow at the shipwreck museum, asking him to desalinate them using a supercritical CO2 fluid extraction vessel, and then he plunged into the workbench:
After so many days, the 1:1 scale 3D printed replica based on the shape scan of the ceramic block has already been produced.

Shen Le labeled each of them, holding them in his hands and looking at them from left to right, comparing them side by side:
"Ugh, 3D jigsaw puzzles are so hard, so much harder than 2D puzzles... and the edges aren't even perfectly aligned, making them even harder to match..."

There was no way around it; these pottery pieces had been buried underground for too long and had undergone too much erosion and friction.

Although they were not completely shattered and worn away, it is impossible to expect them to retain the appearance they were when they were first smashed, with even the edges clearly sharp.

Shen Le held it in her hand, looking at it from left to right, up to down. As she looked at it, her thoughts began to wander:

"This piece... looks somewhat like an animal shape... but what animal is it? A pig? A dog? The craftsmanship of ancient ceramic artisans..."

"This piece... its surface should be... ears of grain? This piece is a little different from the one next to it, but what kind of ears of grain is it?"

This isn't just a matter of craftsmanship; it also includes Shen Le's inability to distinguish between different grains. If you put actual ears of millet, sorghum, wheat, beans, and rice in front of him, he'll be able to identify them all without uttering a sound.

Anyway, he doesn't need to identify them. If these things, along with the jars that contain them, are really dug out from a tomb or anywhere else, then cultural relics experts will take charge.

A DNA test would reveal the exact seed, determining whether it was sown and harvested by the local people three, five, or seven thousand years ago. As for the variety of grains depicted on pottery, carved on bone and jade artifacts, or sculpted into ceramic pieces, that would be far too difficult for Shen Le to ascertain.

All Shen Le could confirm were large ears of rice, small ears of rice, large ears of rice, small ears of rice...

"Damn it! Why are these ears of grain crooked?! And the ears of grain in a bunch aren't even the same size! How am I supposed to put them together?!"

Fortunately, some of the ceramic pieces were still somewhat recognizable. Shen Le carefully moved them up and down, finally piecing together the last piece of the puzzle:
"Tsk... This is so complicated... Who made this thing, or rather, who commissioned it? They must be really rich..."

Fortunately, the shapes of these terracotta blocks are still roughly discernible. The roof is the roof, the courtyard wall is the courtyard wall, and the house walls are the house walls; even the angle of the roof and the openwork windows of the walls are different.

Shen Le stumbled and patched things up, finally managing to piece them together roughly:
The scattered 3D-printed ceramic blocks were barely held together with plaster to form a ceramic house—or rather, a ceramic courtyard.

It wasn't large; compared to Huang Yutong's true form, it was nothing. It was approximately 110 centimeters long and 80 centimeters wide, with three courtyards inside and out, and also included a small plot of land.

The front and back courtyards are single-story houses, the middle courtyard has a pavilion, the courtyard is surrounded by corner towers, and there are people standing at the entrance of the house.

Paddy fields, dry fields, wells, and ditches are all clearly visible. An old ox lies beside a paddy field, and a woman is bending over to draw water from a well with a windlass on top.

Someone was washing clothes by the ditch, someone was playing the flute in the pavilion of the mansion, a dog was lying in the yard wagging its tail and sticking out its tongue, and in the pigpen on the edge of the house, two piglets were crowding and fighting for food...

The buildings are of varying heights and arranged in a staggered and orderly manner. Inside the house, people, objects, and furnishings, and on the side, granaries, pigsties, sheep pens, and chicken coops, what one sees is a picture of rural life.

"It feels like this thing only broke into less than a hundred pieces, God is really being kind to me..."

Shen Le sighed silently. This pottery building was so large; if he wanted to make one himself, he'd need more than a hundred parts!

Each piece was made, assembled into smaller sections, and fired in the kiln. After the small houses and courtyard walls were fired, they were glued together and fired a second time...

Taking into account the breakage and loss, it would probably take hundreds or thousands of parts to make a finished product.
Oh right, he roughly figured out what the decorations on the pottery tower were. Above the granary, five ears of grain were arranged in a circle, probably symbolizing the five grains—Shen Le decided not to dwell on which five grains they were;
Look around the house, inside and out, and you'll find horses, cows, sheep, chickens, dogs, and pigs—it's good; the livestock are thriving.

Inside the mansion, the master and mistress sat side by side, while children played in the courtyard and male and female servants worked tirelessly...

"Okay, the next task is, how to completely fix this thing..."

Shen Le silently sensed the ceramic building that was basically assembled in front of him, constructing a plan in his mind, rejecting one plan, constructing another plan, and rejecting another plan.

Upon closer inspection, he could sense the hidden power within the pottery building: profound, quiet, inclusive, yet vibrant and full of hope.

This little guy must be a very strong child, a very powerful child. However, its spirituality hasn't yet formed a complete consciousness, so Shen Le can't ask it:
Hey, what kind of transformation do I need to make you wake up?
There was no other way; it was going to be bumpy, but they could try to fix it anyway. Shen Le took matters into his own hands and carefully scanned the plaster model of the ceramic building once it was assembled.
This scan was unprecedentedly difficult. The three-courtyard mansion was winding and intricate; to scan every corner clearly, the entire plasterwork structure would have to be disassembled.

However, simply taking it apart or sawing it open while trying to keep it as intact as possible is an extremely difficult task...

Each component was disassembled, carefully scanned, and then a 3D model was created on the computer.

Then, the existing ceramic blocks are "cut out" from this 3D model, and the remaining missing parts are divided into dozens of parts, each of which is modeled separately.

Once everything was done, these newly drawn parts were molded, 3D printed, and shaped into grooves. The two grooves were then joined together, and enough fine clay was filled in, naturally creating a ceramic vessel blank!

"Very good, let's begin the actual manufacturing!"

Shen Le was eager to get started. He quickly placed an order for the finest kaolin clay, using modern technology to repeatedly wash and refine it to extract the purest raw material. Piece by piece, he pressed it into the grooves to create the vessel blanks, which were then sent to the kiln for firing.

Even now, with so many kilns of Xing kiln white porcelain already fired, thin as paper and clear as a mirror, pottery is no challenge for him at all; he can master it with ease.

As one kiln is fired, the pottery blocks sent to the shipwreck museum have already been desalted and returned safely.

Shen Le first used magic to fill the inside of these newly returned pottery pieces, curing their osteoporosis. Then he boiled a pot of fish maw glue and carefully glued the pottery pieces together.

He dared not use irreversible glue, nor even the chemical glue commonly used in the restoration of cultural relics, for fear of damaging the spiritual connection of this pottery house. He only used fish glue to grind it little by little.

Apply a little, quickly assemble them, clamp them in place, and scrape off any excess fish glue that has overflowed from the seams to make the seams look as close as possible to being invisible to the naked eye.

After assembling the entire piece, close your eyes, concentrate, and gently touch the walls of the pottery house with your hands, trying to perceive its essence:

It's not fixed yet!
This is not fixed at all!
The entire pottery house is divided into new and old parts. The new parts are completely devoid of spirituality, while the old parts are full of spiritual energy, but it cannot flow through them...

Where is the problem?
Shen Le sighed, disassembled the pottery house, reassembled it, and re-glued it back together, but failed.

After thinking about it, does it have to be made entirely by hand? Alright, I don't have anything else to do right now, so I'll take care of you!
He rolled up his sleeves and honestly started from sifting the clay, working step by step to fire the parts and reassemble them.

The one I made myself was a little better, it had a tiny bit of a spiritual quality, but it was still no use, it still couldn't awaken the pottery house...

The materials weren't good enough?
Am I supposed to use water and soil imbued with spirituality to make pottery?
Last time, when we repaired the porcelain pagoda, it didn't turn out like this!

Shen Le swallowed his anger and traveled to the secret realm, traversing the entire island, to find the finest clay, and then fetched a full bucket of spring water rich in spiritual energy.

The pottery parts fired this time were indeed full of life; they could glow on their own when placed there.

Shen Le breathed a sigh of relief, clasped his hands together, and bowed to them:
"Please, please fix it this time! Please, please! Don't mess it up anymore, okay? I'm begging you!"

If that still doesn't work, he'll have to go to the secret realm to kill fish and get a batch of spirit fish to extract their swim bladder glue!

(End of this chapter)