Chapter 0228 - Playing Puzzle-2

Eryi carefully looked at his hand, and about a third of it had been completed, and he had pieced together a "small-mouthed high-necked urn" at the base.

Obviously, in order to take care of him, Senior Sister Li Li put him in charge of the relatively simple initial procedures in the restoration work, that is, piecing together relatively well-preserved utensils.

The so-called "intact" is, of course, relative, that is, the fragments are large in size, and the fragments found are basically complete.

During archaeological excavations, fragments of vessels found at the same site are usually preserved in batches.

Not only the fragments of utensils whose shape can be clearly distinguished, but also the irregularly shaped gravel, hard particles in the soil, and gravel.

All of them will be dug up in the ground and stored in safe deposit boxes, transported back to the restoration room to be washed and screened like gold panning, and then sorted according to different standards, because you would never think that a restored vessel will end up missing that piece!

Those irregular hard particles are likely to be a piece of debris inside the vessel, without which it may not be visible from the outside, but the inside of the vessel wall will form a cavity, resulting in increased difficulty in repair, but also causing problems such as fragile structure and not conducive to preservation.

Therefore, when repairing pottery, it is common to first restore large pieces, then look for small pieces according to the foundation, and finally fill in the small gaps.

Er Yi glanced at a large pile of similar fragments, and found that most of the fragments of this small-mouthed high-necked man had actually been selected from the pile of fragments by the senior sisters and placed together, and he only needed to put them together in the order marked by the senior sisters step by step, like playing a puzzle.

These pottery, which had been buried in the ground for thousands of years, were extremely fragile, and in order to prevent them from becoming more broken due to his own mistakes, he first moved his hands, and then activated [Skill-Hand Kung Fu], [Spell-Instant Skill], [Skill-Dexterity], and began to pick up the resin glue and stick the pieces to the base.

Compared with Senior Sister Li Li, who can only rely on her eyesight and patience to select the correct fragments from the pile of debris over and over again, it is much easier for Er Yi to engage in restoration work!

The dexterity of the fingers to the extreme, so that the movements of the second one look not only flexible, gentle, but also very fast!

Originally, even the expert-level cultural relics restoration workers like Senior Sister Li Li had to hold their breath and concentrate carefully to do the work, but in the hands of Eryi, it was like flowing water!

Pinch the glue injection pen in one hand, smear a line of resin glue on the fragments, and then put it on the broken stubble, and you don't even need to align or correct it.

The fragments on the workbench in front of him were not all from this "small-mouthed high-necked urn", and many were fragments from other similar products.

It's just that it is not possible to determine which piece it is for the time being, so it will be placed together so that it is convenient to compare when splicing.

But the second one didn't even look at it, so he picked up a piece from a pile of debris and stuck it up, and it happened to be that piece!

As a result, Senior Sister Li Li carefully cleaned the soil on a few pieces of debris.

As soon as she exhaled, ready to relax her highly concentrated spirit, when she subconsciously looked up at Eryi, she almost didn't scream out in fright!

If she hadn't covered her mouth in time, she would probably have heard the other people shuddering and dropping the cultural relics in their hands on the ground after they were frightened.

With so much effort in cleaning these fragments, Er Yi actually finished the "small-mouth high-necked urn"!

It's no secret that it takes a lot of time to restore a piece of artefacts!

Sometimes months don't always lead to a complete one, because a lot of time is spent looking for pieces.

Even if the pieces were roughly selected by them, there was a good chance that they belonged to the turtleneck, but it would take days just to glue the pieces on, right?

They all stick one piece and then put it where to stand, and only dare to stick the second piece on it when it is completely firm, otherwise it will be easy to deform.

But here in Eryi, this problem does not exist at all.

Because after gluing all the pieces together, he relied on the weight of the vessel itself to form the "arch bridge principle" to press the gaps between the pieces.

But the question is, how did he do it?

Not daring to disturb the attentive Eryi, Senior Sister Li Li carefully hid aside to observe.

After finding that he had finished putting together the existing pieces, he shook his head in dissatisfaction, because the parts that were put together were relatively large pieces, which caused this "small-mouthed high-necked urn" to look like a hollow leaky pot full of holes.

Getting up and taking a tray padded with soft flannel, the second one began to search among the fragments of the utensils that were densely packed on the workbench in rows, and could not be sure that they belonged to the one, and from time to time he picked up a piece of it and placed it on the tray.

After a slow circle, he seemed to have found all the pieces, and then sat back down at the workbench, and continued to glue the pieces he had brought up.

What's amazing is that the pieces he took really belonged to this "small-mouthed high-necked urn"!

How is this possible? Do you know how long it usually takes them to find a piece of pottery?

It may take only a few hours to restore a piece of pottery to 80% integrity, but it can take days to repair it from 80% to 90%.

It can take weeks to go from 90% to 99%, and the last 1% can take months, and the slower it gets, and the last piece will never be made up!

In addition, for repairs like this kind of fragment completion, they usually use the elimination method.

That is, one of the vessels really could not find the fragments, so it was put aside for the time being, and the other utensils in the same batch were repaired first, until there were fewer and fewer fragments left, and the answer became clearer and clearer.

But two is not!

According to Senior Sister Li Li's observation, this guy had to put together all the fragments of a vessel at once, even the small gaps and small gaps on it...... You can't afford to hurt someone with obsessive-compulsive disorder!

In fact, the "small-mouthed high-necked urn" in Eryi's hand has been 98% completed, leaving only some small notches on the vessel that have not yet been found.

This forced Er Yi to get up again, ran to the pile of hard particles that could not be confirmed, and picked out some small fragments after pulling for a while, pushing the integrity to about 99%, only missing two or three rice grains on the urn.

This almost drove Eryi crazy, because he really couldn't find the remaining two or three fragments, and it was very likely that they had been lost during the excavation.