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Shen Le smiled sheepishly, a little embarrassed, forcing a grin.
He did not want to raise his professor's blood pressure either—especially since this professor was over fifty, decidedly, well, stout, with a waist-to-hip ratio definitely over 0.9, perhaps even over 1.0—
Which meant that, considering his age, sex, and build, he was highly likely to have high blood pressure and high cholesterol, along with all kinds of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular problems.
If he got so angry that he keeled over with a crack, Shen Le could spam healing spells indefinitely, but whether a healing spell could clear a cerebral infarction... he truly had no confidence in that...
"Hey, Professor Li, calm down, calm down—anyway, this thing isn't suitable for a museum. My goal is to restore it as completely as possible, not to restore it in a way that meets exhibition standards.
"Just help me keep an eye on it. If we add some clay or something and fire it again, can we seal up its cracks?"
Professor Li gradually calmed down and shot Shen Le a fierce glare. Forget it, he thought. Private restoration and professional museum restoration had never been the same field.
Professional restoration for museum display emphasized reversibility and preserving the object's original traces as much as possible.
That was why, on porcelain and pottery in museums, one could clearly see the white patches repaired with plaster, even the cracks between the fragments.
Private restoration, meanwhile, focused on making things look good. Either it had to be seamless, with no damage visible at a glance, looking completely new;
Or it had to make a feature of it, turning the traces of restoration into artistic traces. For example, the staples used in ceramic mending could be shaped into flowers, lotus leaves, carp, and the like;
Or