Chapter 528: Speculations about Drinking Tea
Lao Yang’s tea set is indeed quite novel. The teacup and teapot are both carved from the whole stone.
“I’m telling you, my tea table heats the stone slab directly and then transfers it to the teapot, and the water boils.”
“Well,” Lao Bai said to Yang Sen This tea set is quite appreciated.
Maybe it’s because of his age, but Lao Bai is the one who likes to tinker with new things in the office.
Yang Sen used to laugh at Lao Bai for getting older, but this year he also started to do some novel things.
“This stone tea table of yours is really good, I have to get one too.”
Yang Sen waved his hand: “What else are you doing? I don’t want to take this tea table home. Just put it in our office, you can just use it.”
“I want to take it home and prepare one for drinking tea at home. By the way, how much does this tea set cost?”
“My classmate’s village makes this kind of tea set, which is not expensive. The cost is three hundred yuan.”
"Three hundred yuan?"
Liu Guodong was slightly surprised. This stone tea set looks pretty good, but it only costs a few hundred yuan, so it is relatively cheap.
Just for the craftsmanship of making teapots and teacups, Liu Guodong may think that the price is more than that.
“No way, for more than 300 yuan, how can someone make such a delicate teapot? This is made of stone, not clay. Just pinch it. It needs to be carved.”
Obviously Lao Bai doesn’t believe it either.
Lu Chuan had never seen stone teacups, teapots, or other tea sets. He had a jade set at home.
That one is indeed exquisite. It is Comrade Lu’s favorite, and he is reluctant to use it at ordinary times.
But although the material of this stone is not as good as jade, it can't just cost three hundred yuan.
As Lao Bai said, maybe the labor cost is not enough.
“It really only costs 300 yuan. I didn’t believe it when my classmate told me, but in fact this thing is so cheap.”
Yang Sen picked up a teacup and turned it upside down to show everyone.
“You see, the inside of this teacup is very smooth, with no traces of actual chiseling at all.”
“The reason is that these teacups and teapots are not chiseled manually, but through chemical corrosion. Corroded?
Chemical corrosion?
“What is chemical corrosion?”
"I'm not sure. I heard they said it's a fossil agent that can corrode stone, making it softer and easier to carve."
"And this thing?"
"As the old saying goes, every other line is like a mountain. We are not carvers and stone carvers. Who knows how many twists and turns they have there. Let's not talk about that. Let's drink tea first."
Yang Sen Zhang Luo To drink tea, I used to use an enamel vat. This time I got a tea table, and I suddenly felt like I had changed from drinking tea to tasting tea.
"This thing..." Lao Bai smashed the tea in the stone cup and tasted it carefully: "This tea seems to taste much better."
Liu Guodong twitched the corner of his mouth: "Can you please, what I'm drinking today is Xiao Lu's big red robe..."
A few people were chatting and sipping tea, which was quite cool.
"By the way, for the case we found in the Donghai camping area, there don't seem to be particularly serious carving marks on the stone statue, right?"
Old Bai nodded towards Yang Sen who was speaking: "There are just not many traces. I originally thought that the carving technique might be better. It seems that the stone softener you mentioned should also be used."
"Lao Yang, this tea table is everywhere. Okay, it’s just that the heated stone slab doesn’t work. It’s exposed and the temperature is too high. I just waved it over and it felt very hot.”
"You won't stay away from it?"
"..."
Lao Bai thought about it, and it seemed that this was indeed the case.
"Come on, Xiao Lu, what are you doing? Let's drink tea!" But Lu Chuan turned a deaf ear and did not respond to Lao Bai. Instead, he frowned and looked at the heated stone slab on the stone platform.
Slate heating...
A thought suddenly flashed in Lu Chuan's mind.
Corn dehydration, normal drying equipment generally will not cause corn dehydration to reach 10%.
After getting the data on the corn dehydration results, several people have been discussing whether it is possible for the corpse to be dried through the corn dryer tower to form a mummy.
The way the current investigation side thinks about the problem is different from the action team’s goal of advancing the investigation.
The action team's main target was the stone statue.
Because the stone statue is too tall and bulky to be easily manipulated, the murderer hid the body inside the stone statue. In this process, it is easy to find the murderer by tracing the source of the stone statue.
And judging from the current situation, the action team has made some progress.
Through the investigation of the stone sculpture garden, the stonemason who carved this stone statue has been identified.
The other party is the most likely person to tamper with the stone statue.
Zhang Hui has already started investigating in this area.
As long as the other party is found, the case is likely to be solved.
But what Lu Chuan and others have been curious about is how the mummy was formed.
This is why technical criminal police and front-line criminal police think about issues from different angles and ways of thinking.
In fact, the exploration direction of the four people on Lu Chuan's side was not wrong.
Because there are no natural conditions to form mummies around Haizhou City.
It is very important to find the initial place, or location, where the mummy was formed, so that we can deduce the relevant information about the criminal suspect.
At first, because corn kernels were found in the stone statues, Lu Chuan and others’ idea was to find the original location of the mummy by looking for the origin of the corn kernels.
The thing most likely to form mummies is large drying equipment such as corn drying towers.
However, the dehydration ratio of corn kernels is too high, and it is impossible for ordinary drying towers to achieve this level.
Even if it could be done, considering economic reasons, it is not possible.
So, the investigation in this direction has fallen into a bottleneck.
And now, Lu Chuan seems to have discovered a new direction.
Who said that corn must come from the drying tower, and corn must be dried in the drying tower?
Since the stone slab on the tea table can be heated, if the stone statue that seals the corpse itself is heated, will it become another stone slab?
In other words, the stone statue itself is a kind of drying tower?
Lu Chuan looked at the heated stone pot on the stone slab and felt more and more that this was possible!
"Xiao Lu, what's wrong?"
Liu Guodong also saw something was wrong with Lu Chuan.
Given Lu Chuan’s family conditions, it was impossible for him to fall in love with this stone pot, so why were he in a daze?
"Ah, Master, I think of a possibility..."
Then, Lu Chuan explained his guess in detail.
"The stone itself is a good conductor of heat. If the murderer first hid the body in the stone statue and then heated the stone statue, is it possible?"
The other three people looked at each other in confusion. , this possibility...
Although it is not easy to operate, after all, compared with the stone pot for making tea, the stone statue is too big, and it is not convenient to heat it.
However, it is a way.
(End of this chapter)