Chapter 526 New clues
Zhang Hui’s eyes almost gleamed when he looked at Zhao Shengli.
Is this Zhao Shengli... the murderer?
It takes no effort at all!
The other brothers following Zhang Hui were also a little excited. The case was solved so quickly?
I can't believe it.
However, there does seem to be something wrong with this Zhao Shengli.
Because there are many stone carvings in the yard, probably dozens, and there are many stone carving gardens on this side, the scale of the century-old stone carvings seems to be relatively large among them.
There are many stone statues that are sold on a large scale. In the past two years or so, the other party has even remembered the height and appearance of the stone statue so clearly. It is strange that there is no problem.
But unfortunately, it backfired.
"Hey," Zhao Shengli rubbed his hands: "I don't have a good memory. This year, I sold a lot of statues, sometimes twenty or thirty, sometimes a dozen, and a statue more than two years ago. , I don’t remember it so clearly.”
“It’s just that the statue in the camping area was a bit special when it was sold to the East China Sea.”
Special?
“How is it special?”
Zhang Hui and others had a feeling of watching Zhao Shengli’s performance.
The statues in the camping area are of course special. There is a saying "mummy" sealed inside. How can it not be special?
They wanted to see what lies Zhao Shengli could tell.
“There was an accident when the statue was being carved, and a whole piece of stone broke into pieces.”
Broken into pieces?
Zhao Shengli explained: "Generally those who do stone carving in our industry will use the whole stone to carve, but there are also some special circumstances where another method is used."
“I was more impressed by the stone statue in the camping area by the East China Sea, because the stone was not carved from a whole stone.”
“One was that the person who bought the stone statue gave me less money at that time, and then carved it. At that time, because the stone collapsed, we had no choice but to use other leftover materials to make a stone statue. "
"What do you mean?"
"Just use two stones that are not of sufficient size. Through bonding, a stone of composite required specifications is made up.”
Adhesion?
"You mean, the stone statue by the East China Sea was glued together when you were carving it?"
Zhao Shengli nodded seriously: "This must be correct, I remember it very clearly."
br>"If you don't believe it, I still have the design draft of the stone statue at that time in my office. Because it needs to be glued, there are some differences in the design."
"Come on, take us to see it. ”
A few minutes later, Zhang Hui saw the carving design draft of the stone statue.
Of course, this so-called design draft is not a drawing made by CAD or the like, but just a few random images.
“Compared with the method of gluing, isn’t it much simpler to carve a whole piece of stone?”
Zhao Shengli nodded: “The effect of carving from a whole piece of stone is also better, but There was nothing we could do at the time.”
“The craftsmanship of our business is one thing, and the other is the price of the stone itself. The bigger the stone, the more expensive it was.”
“The statue back then. It is about three meters high, which is relatively large among stone statues. The cost of a whole stone is nearly 50,000 yuan, but if we use two scraps to make it, the cost will be very small. "
Zhang Hui didn't know much about the stone carving industry and asked several other questions.
In Zhao Shengli’s words, the cost of the stone business is actually transportation.
The stone itself, if it is not a rare stone or jade, is not very valuable.
“For example, our most common marble is not valuable at all in the places where the stone is mined. You can just take it and ask for it.”
“But when the marble is mined, the labor cost in the process, It’s a bit expensive. “Transportation is a big part of it.”
“Because the origin of stones is generally in the mountains, transportation is inconvenient. It takes a lot of effort and cost to transport stones weighing several tons. On the contrary, it is difficult to transport stones on the highway. Long-distance transportation only accounts for a small part of the cost.”
“The rest is our carving, which is actually hard work and hard-earned money.”
Zhang Hui read the drawings several times and knew that bonded stone carvings require higher carving techniques and higher requirements for adhesives.
“Then was that stone sculpture carved by you yourself or by someone else?”
"I carved all the statues in my stone carving garden."
"Then when you carved, was the statue hollow?"
"Hollow ?"
Zhao Shengli frowned slightly: "I don't remember this clearly..."
"Yes, of course when I carved the statue, I only made the appearance, but the docking The smooth surface and the subsequent gluing were not done by me.”
"Huh?"
"Who did it?"
"During that time, the old man at home was ill and hospitalized, so I stayed with him in bed for a month. During that time, I did all the work here. This is a part-time mason."
"Mason?"
"Yes, he works in the mountains during the slack time."
When Zhang Hui left, there were two criminal policemen in the car talking.
“Do you think what Zhao Shengli said is true or false?”
“I don’t think it’s false. What he said makes sense logically, and I noticed Observe that he speaks very naturally and his eyes are not evasive."
"Of course, it is not ruled out that this person has a strong psychological quality, and he is obviously lying, but he naturally does not notice it."
< br>"Brother Hui, what do you think of this Zhao Shengli?"
Zhao Shengli?
Zhang Hui shook his head: "No matter what he said is true or false, if the stone statues flowed out of his stone carving garden, then he will not be able to escape suspicion."
"In addition, Zhao Shengli said The mason just mentioned a general place, but he didn’t know where he was from.”
Someone answered: “But the phone number he provided is true. Let’s check it out. Check.”
Just now Zhao Shengli called their former mason, but couldn’t get through.
According to Zhao Shengli, the mason left two years ago and never came again.
Zhang Hui just learned about the situation in other stone carving gardens, and found that stone carvings do exist in this field.
There are also temporary stonemasons working in other stone carving gardens, and Zhang Hui and others met a few of them.
"Work in two directions."
Zhang Hui thought for a while and straightened out his thoughts. Regardless of whether what Zhao Shengli said was true or false, he would have to pursue new clues when he got them.
If what Zhao Shengli said is true, then the murderer is most likely the mason who worked in his house back then. The case of the mason will be solved if he finds this mason.
If the mason cannot be found or if it is found that Zhao Shengli is lying, then the murderer is likely to be Zhao Shengli.
No matter which one it is, the case will make breakthrough progress, so after Zhang Hui sorted out his ideas, he decided to start from two aspects.
(End of this chapter)