"It's fixed."
"It really is fixed."
"You know, with his method, the restored bamboo slips really can be preserved for many years..."
"They just don't look like bamboo slips..."
"Who cares whether they look like the bamboo slips displayed in museums? Tell me, are they restored completely? Can they be preserved for a long time?"
"Exactly. I'm tempted too. Could we ask Shen Le to help restore some... We've got a huge batch of bamboo slips over there. It's not like every single one needs to be displayed anyway..."
The moment Shen Le unveiled his brand-new "spell-based" method of restoring bamboo slips, it caused a sensation throughout the entire restoration field. From Jing Province, the Xiang River region, central Sichuan, Shanghai...
Even professors from neighboring Tsinghua University—anyone qualified to hear of the matter found an excuse to make a trip to the Capital City, visit Professor Hu, and take the opportunity to look at the bamboo slips Shen Le had just restored:
Never mind whether it conformed to standard artifact restoration methods. Just say whether bamboo slips restored this way were sturdy, reliable, and capable of lasting for a long time!
What?
Writing papers?
It wasn't as though every bamboo slip needed to be photographed for a paper!
Besides, if photographs were really needed, everyone had already taken plenty. Whether ordinary photographs or infrared camera images, enough records had been preserved. There was no shortage of photos.
The key contradiction now was between the limited number of restoration workers and the unlimited number of bamboo slips and other artifacts in need of restoration...
Moreover, using the restoration methods currently available in the cultural relics field, even after applying every method—preservation, dehydration, reshaping, decolorization—the waterlogged bamboo slips they managed to save remained extraordinarily fragile—
Basically, they went from being tofu that