Detective Files II

Chapter 109 Carpenter
"Carpenter? Aren't you looking for a saw? Why are you looking for a carpenter again?" Niu Fufu looked puzzled. In his opinion, Tian Mi's thinking seemed a little too changeable.

"Yes, of course we must find the saw!"

"Everybody has saws, why do you have to go to the carpenter's house?" Niu Fufu still didn't understand.

"Major Niu, let me ask you, how often do you use saws? What do you usually use them for?"

"It's pretty much used, and what else can that thing be used for, of course it's pulling wood!"

"Then what would you do if someone took your saw and you couldn't find it when you needed it?"

"Then go to someone else's house and ask if someone has taken it away and used it!" Niu Fufu replied indifferently: "We are not like your city where every family builds a big iron gate and shuts themselves off." No one knows anyone inside. In our village, if you want to borrow something from someone’s house, just say hello. If the person is not at home, take it away and use it first, and let me know when you send it back when it’s used up. It will work too!"

Tian Mi was a little surprised by this answer. She didn't expect the local people to have such a weak sense of private ownership of their own things. This was not the same as her original intention of going to the carpenter's house, and it didn't have much impact.

Even so, she still asked uncertainly, "How big is the saw usually used at home?"

Niu Fufu thought for a while, and stretched out his hand to draw a distance less than two feet wide: "Probably, it's about this long, some are bigger, and they usually save the wood from the mountain, and use a saw to saw the wood into a section." a section of stake, and then chop wood."

"Get wood from the mountains?" Although it has nothing to do with the case, Tian Mi couldn't help but want to intervene after hearing Niu Fufu's words: "Is it wood or a tree?"

"Wood, wood!" Niu Fufu said hastily, and by the way, there is no silver 300 taels to explain: "Even if there are trees, they are dead, not alive!"

"Although deforestation is not within the purview of our serious crime team, I hope you can understand," Tian Mi said to Niu Fu earnestly, with a serious look and a somewhat upright posture: "Those who destroy vegetation I don’t want to tell you the truth of the far-reaching impact. Just think about yourself. You live under the mountain, and the trees are cut down and burned by you. If it rains in the future, there will be flash floods, mudslides, or landslides. Then see who it is most damage."

"That's right, that's right, you're right, let's go, I'll take you to the carpenter's house!" Niu Fufu was speechless at what she said, and he probably couldn't be happier in his heart, but he didn't dare to show it. I had no choice but to bite the bullet and agree, without asking any questions, and pretended to be very active and wanted to take Tian Mi and the others to find the carpenter.

After walking with Niu Fufu for 5 minutes, the three of them came to the door of a family. From the printed tiles on the pillars of the gate, it could be seen that this family was considered well-to-do in Yunding Village.

"Is this the carpenter's house?"

"Yes, his craftsmanship is good, so even people from other villages come to him to make furniture and so on!"

Niu Fufu responded, stretched out his hand and pushed open the door of that family, led Tian Mi and Lu Xiangdong through the yard full of various tools, went straight to the door, and entered without knocking.

Tian Mi and Lu Xiangdong were ashamed to be as informal as Niu Fufu, so they just stood at the door and waited.

"Old Yu! Where's Old Yu?" Niu Fufu yelled as soon as he entered the door: "Come out quickly! We have something to do!"

"Here we come!" A chunky man who looked less than 50 years old heard the voice and ran out of the house in a hurry: "Why are you in such a hurry, Brother Niu? You shouted loudly this morning. called!"

"What's the matter?! Serious business!" Niu Fu pouted at him sullenly: "Go, talk outside!"

"Then wait a minute, I'll put on some clothes!" The man named Lao Yu couldn't help muttering as he walked back: "What is this for? It's so mysterious!"

Seeing that he found someone, Niu Fu also exited the house, and smiled at Tian Mi and Lu Xiangdong: "This old man is the carpenter in our village. If anyone's family saws the most, it really belongs to his family!"

While speaking, the carpenter Lao Yu came out of the house wearing an old and dirty military overcoat. He looked up and saw two strange faces, Tian Mi and Lu Xiangdong, and was taken aback for a moment, then turned to ask Niu Fu: What do you mean, Brother Niu? Your relatives? Want to make furniture?"

"What, don't make random guesses, just walk around and talk over there!" Niu Fufu dragged Yu the carpenter into the yard.

Yu Carpenter was baffled by him, but he was quite cooperative and let Niu Fu lead him.

"What's the matter with you today? Why are you dragging me into the courtyard if you have something to say?" Carpenter Yu looked curiously at the two strangers behind him, and muttered to himself.

"It's not because I'm afraid your family will hear it, and some people will go out and talk nonsense!" Niu Fufu seemed to have a problem with the carpenter's wife, and his face was very ugly when he said this.

Hearing what he said, Carpenter Yu scratched the back of his head in embarrassment and grinned dryly.

"Come on, don't talk nonsense, let's talk about serious things. I'm here today to borrow a saw from you!" Niu Fufu knew that Tian Mi didn't want to make things uproarious, so he just vaguely talked about the carpenter. No one else in Niu Po ​​knew Tian Mi and the others' identities, so he wasn't worried about getting suspicious of the carpenter.

"It's such a stupid thing after working for a long time! Saw? Which one? I'll get it for you!" Carpenter Yu walked towards the warehouse near the courtyard wall as he spoke.

Niu Fu turned his head uncertainly, and silently asked Tian Mi for advice.

Of course Tian Mi couldn't tell why, so she could only whisper, "Let's take a look first."

"Old Yu, take them out and let us see which one to use, shall we?" Niu Fu followed suit and told the carpenter Yu.

Carpenter Yu looked at Tian Mi and Lu Xiangdong suspiciously again, he didn't seem to think that these two people seemed to be able to use a saw, and he couldn't save Niu Fu's face, so he opened the warehouse door and said to them: "It's all in there, you pick it yourself!"

Tian Mi followed Niu Fufu into the warehouse, where there were many tools used by carpenters piled up in a mess, among which there were no less than ten different saws, some looked relatively new, and some were rusted in the corner Stained and stained, it looks like it hasn't been cared for by anyone for many years.

"Is your saw here?" Niu Fu asked the carpenter.

Carpenter Yu grunted and nodded. Judging from his expression, he still hadn't figured out what the three of them wanted to do.

Tian Mi was wearing gloves, so she wasn't worried about fingerprints, so she knelt down and checked the saws on the ground one by one.

First of all, she excluded the ones with too large serrations and the overall volume. The ones with too large serrations did not conform to the shape of the bone stump analyzed by Wang Chun, and the ones with too large overall volume, as you know, were too conspicuous to hold and did not meet the classification requirements. Corpse for this purpose.

Picking and picking, Tian Mi finally chose four saws from these big and small saws. The shape and size of these four saws best matched the information conveyed by Mo Dou.

"Then, Lao Yu, let us borrow these four saws first! I'll send them back to you when they're used up! Don't you have no work recently?" Village Chief Niu saw that Tian Mi had chosen, and asked the carpenter for her. Open your mouth.

"Okay, I don't have much use for you recently, use them if you need them." Carpenter Yu doesn't mind borrowing tools for others, but he still doesn't know what the other party wants to do: "Take these Saw, what are you going to do?"

"What else can I do!" Niu Fufu is a cunning man. Seeing that the carpenter was very curious, he kept asking questions, so he simply started arguing with him: "Isn't there a few college students living in our house! Those young people usually live in the city. I have never seen anything before, and I am curious about everything when I come here, and I don’t know what to do today!"

"These kids are really capable of messing around! A while ago, I followed Lao Jiu to engage in some ghostly things, and went up the mountain to hunt birds. What's the matter these days?" Carpenter Yu was surprised by the village. The young man who came running didn't seem to like it very much, and he didn't forget to tell Niu Fufu: "Then you can help me take care of my things!"

"Isn't it just a few saws? It's not gold or sugar. No one steals it. I can't eat it!" Niu Fu impatiently waved his hand at him: "Got it! Got it!"

"It's not that! The key is my own style. I don't want to change it even if I give it a gold one!" Carpenter Yu doesn't like to listen to the words of Village Chief Niu: "I used to have a folding saw, which is easy to use. It’s on! It turned out that some little bastard took it away and used it a while ago. When I wanted to use it, I found that the serrations were broken a lot! Tell me, is it annoying or not?”

"Where is that broken folding saw now?"

Lu Xiangdong opened his mouth coldly, which startled Carpenter Yu. He sized up the tall man who had been standing silently behind Tian Mi, and asked suspiciously, "Why are you asking this?"

"Anyway, it's broken and it won't work anymore. Why don't you just lend it to us? It's less distressing, isn't it?" Tian Mi didn't want to think too much about the carpenter, so she quickly put on a smile and said sweetly.

Carpenter Yu thought about it, and felt that what Tian Mi said was reasonable, so he turned around and went into the warehouse, searched here and there, and finally found the folding saw.

When he brought the saw about forty centimeters long in front of Tian Mi and the others, Tian Mi's eyes lit up.

"Can this be folded?" Tian Mi took the saw and asked the carpenter.

Carpenter Yu felt that the girl's question was a bit silly: "If it can't be folded, can it be called a folding saw?!"

Tian Mi didn't bother to explain to him that she just asked if it was allowed to fold up the saw. With the help of Niu Fufu, she folded up the saw and held it in her hand to see that it was only about twenty centimeters long.

"Okay, it's all right, we'll go back!" Niu Fu saw that Tian Mi didn't have any other demands, so he greeted Carpenter Yu and planned to leave.

"Hey, hey?" Carpenter Yu hurriedly stopped him: "Then you all took that folding saw, don't you need to use the four before? Don't you need to keep one or two? Still have to use it!"

"Come and get it from my house when you need it!" Niu Fufu was perfunctory, and left Carpenter Yu's house with Tian Mi and Lu Xiangdong.

(End of this chapter)