Attending ex-girlfriend's wedding, arresting the groom's officer on the spot

Chapter 526 New Clues
Zhang Hui's eyes almost gleamed when he looked at Zhao Shengli.

This Zhao Shengli...could he be the murderer?
It takes no effort to get it!

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 a lot of stone carvings in the yard, maybe 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 statues so clearly. It is strange that there are no problems.

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. , How can I remember it so clearly?"

"It's just that it was sold to the East China Sea that year, and the statue in the camping area is a bit special."

special?

"What's so special?"

Zhang Hui and others seemed to be watching Zhao Shengli's performance.

The statue in the camping area is of course special. There is a sentence sealed inside, "Mummy", 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?
Zhao Shengli explained: "In our industry, stone carvers generally use whole stones to carve, but there are also some special circumstances where we use another method."

"The stone statue in the camping area on the east coast left a deep impression on me because the stone was not carved from a single piece of stone."

"One is that the people who bought the stone statues gave less money at that time, and when we were carving, the stone collapsed, so we had no choice but to use other leftover materials to make a stone statue."

"What do you mean?"

"It's just using two stones that are not of sufficient specifications and gluing them together to make a stone with the required specifications."

Glue?

"You mean, the stone statue by the East China Sea was glued together when you were carving it?"

Zhao Shengli nodded seriously: "This is definitely correct, I remember it very clearly."

"If you don't believe it, I still have the design draft of that stone statue in my office. Because it needs to be glued, there are some differences in the design."

"Go, take us to see."

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 easier to carve the whole stone?"

Zhao Shengli nodded humbly: "The effect of carving from a whole stone is better, but there was nothing we could do at the time."

"The craftsmanship of our industry is one thing, and the other is the price of the stone itself. The bigger the stone, the more expensive it is."

"The statue back then was about three meters high, which was relatively large among stone statues. The cost of a whole stone was nearly 5 yuan, but if we used two leftover materials to glue it together, the cost would be Very few.”

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 mining marble, the labor costs in the process are a bit expensive." "Transportation is a big part of it."

"Because the origin of stone is usually in the mountains, transportation is inconvenient. It takes a lot of effort and cost to transport stone weighing several tons. On the contrary, long-distance transportation on the road only takes up a lot of time." It’s a fraction of the cost.”

"The rest is the carving here. In fact, it is 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, the statues in my stone carving garden were all carved by me."

"Then when you carved it, was the statue hollow?"

"Hollow?"

Zhao Shengli frowned slightly: "I don't remember this clearly..."

"By the way, of course when I carved that statue, I only did the exterior carving, but the smoothing of the joint surfaces and the subsequent gluing were not done by me."

"Ok?"

"Who did it?"

"During that time, the old man at home was ill and hospitalized, so I stayed with him for a month. During that time, all my work was done by the masons who worked part-time here."

"mason?"

"Yes, he is a farmer in the mountains. He comes out to work during the slack time."

When Zhang Hui left, there were two criminal policemen in the car talking.

"Do you think this Zhao Shengli is telling the truth or is it false?"

"I don't think it's fake. What he said makes sense logically, and I noticed that he spoke naturally and didn't dodge his eyes."

"Of course, it does not rule out that this person has a strong psychological quality. He is obviously lying, but naturally he will not be noticed when he tells it."

"Brother Hui, what do you think of this Zhao Shengli?"

Zhao Shengli?
Zhang Hui shook his head: "Whether 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, the mason Zhao Shengli mentioned only mentioned a general place, but he didn't know where he came from specifically."

Someone answered: "But the phone number he provided is true. Let's check it along the phone number."

Zhao Shengli just 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.

Moreover, there are also temporary stonemasons working in other stone carving gardens, and Zhang Hui and others also encountered a few.

"Start 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 if 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)