Chapter 248: A Fulfilling Day

Ka ka ka ka.

Jiang Yuan held a brick in one hand, scratched it twice on the brick-cutting tool, then changed sides, picked up the tool, and with two strokes, cut off two-tenths of the brick at the scratch.

The seven-tenths brick cut out was placed on the wall covered with cement, fitting perfectly, without the slightest error.

Jiang Yuan proudly turned the tool, which instead scared his two dogs away by two steps.

"Cowardly dogs. Come here!" Uncle Qiang was squatting on the side helping to mix cement. He was the dog trainer in the family. Seeing the two dogs running away without looking back, he immediately started scolding.

The two dogs lowered their heads and came back step by step.

"A brick-cutting tool, what are you afraid of!" Uncle Qiang grabbed the necks of the two dogs with one hand and waved the tool in front of them with the other.

The two dogs buried their heads, not daring to look.

"In a while, I'll give these two goods some intensive training." Uncle Qiang felt he had lost face and explained forwardly.

Jiang Yuan laughed and said: "It's best if they can guard the house. If they can't, just buy new dogs to do it, and treat these two as pure pet dogs."

"No, they just haven't been trained well yet." Uncle Qiang said, pointing to the tool in Jiang Yuan's hand, and said: "This thing is indeed scary. Back in the day, there were many people all over the country who used it to rob and kill."

Jiang Yuan also knew the story Uncle Qiang told later.

The so-called brick-cutting tool is a small tool with a flat head on one side and a wedge shape on the other. The metal block at the head is usually only the size of a fist, and the wedge-shaped side can be used to chisel things, while the flat side can be used as a hammer or mallet.

The brick-cutting tool as a whole is not very large, with a fist-sized metal block at the front and a wooden handle less than the length of a forearm at the back. It is easy to carry and has strong concealment, so it's just a tool when caught. Therefore, in the mid-90s, robbery cases involving brick-cutting tools appeared in many places.

The method of robbery was also very bold and wild. The criminals often targeted someone on the street, felt the other party had money, and would quietly follow behind. When walking behind them, the brick-cutting tool would be exposed from the sleeve, and one hand would swing it around to smash the target's back of the head.

The volume of the brick-cutting tool is not large, but its attack power is really not low. If you take a tour of the museum, you will find that it is basically the same form as the "Dinggua" copper hammer or the six-petal copper hammer of the Tang and Song dynasties.

Because ordinary people don't wear equipment like eight-petal six-ribbed copper helmets when traveling daily, as long as they get hit once on the head, they basically lose their combat effectiveness, and there are often cases of serious injury and death, which makes people panic.

Jiang Yuan couldn't help but shake the brick-cutting tool in his hand, thinking to himself, now that there is video surveillance, otherwise, this thing is still very powerful.

Approaching from behind, single attack, ending contact quickly, and the weapon is easy to hide. If unlucky, the victim doesn't even know what the killer looks like. Because of this, this type of crime has a dedicated term, called the "Brick-Cutting Tool Gang," or "Brick-Cutting Tool Group."

Of course, using the brick-cutting tool to lay bricks is still easy to use. Jiang Yuan repaired two bricks with it and changed to a trowel to apply cement.

Uncle Qiang looked at a flower bed rising from the ground on the balcony, feeling a bit strange, but also praised: "You lay bricks better than the old hands in our village. If you were still in the village, every family building a house would have to invite you to be the master mason."

Jiang Yuan had also stayed in the village and laughed: "To be a master mason, you have to provide cigarettes, and I don't smoke, so it's a waste."

"A carton of cigarettes every three days, even if you don't smoke, you can just take it. Master masons are expensive now, and you can bring a small mason yourself, and the small mason's salary is 150 a day. It's a pity you are from Jiang Village, this bricklaying skill can't be used, it's a bit of a waste." Uncle Qiang's tone was truly regretful.

Jiang Yuan laughed and said: "Then since there is time today, let's lay more."

"If you really want to lay more bricks, lay a sturdy, big one downstairs." Jiangfuzhen came over with a colander.

"Lay a big one... what is it for?"

"Just make a wall for medals and certificates. In the future, when you make meritorious service and receive awards, I will hang them on the certificate wall for you. It's the same meaning as the white wall in our living room when you were studying before. The entrance is still too small, and the 'Home of Second-Class Merit' plaque you got was also put up there."

"What wall?"

"Any wall will do. Just for people to see." Jiangfuzhen became more proud the more he thought about it, happily saying: "Just lay it on the open space in front of our unit entrance, everyone in the community can see it."

"People will talk, right?" Jiang Yuan said.

Jiangfuzhen snorted coldly: "What will they say about me?"

"Showing off?"

"It's not for showing off, who posts on Moments? They are allowed to show off on Moments, but I'm not allowed to show off on the certificate wall I laid in my own home? The ancestors also allowed descendants to hang plaques in the ancestral hall. We are bringing honor to our ancestors, what are we afraid of."

"Afraid of people... being jealous?"

"Our family got so much demolition compensation, aren't others jealous?" Jiangfuzhen chuckled: "Those who like to be jealous, they have to hold it in for me."

Jiang Yuan felt it was quite reasonable, but also felt it wasn't very reasonable, thought about it and said: "Then lay one at home. Laying it outside, exposed to wind and rain... However, there are walls at home, and it's not needed..."

"You can lay a cover, like a pavilion. Get some eaves or something."

"What if it's windy?"

"Add another layer of windows?"

"Then isn't it a room?" Jiang Yuan thought to himself, I don't know how to build a house, I just learned how to lay bricks.

Jiangfuzhen patted his head: "Forget it, I'll find a room on the first floor of the community and specifically set it up."

Uncle Qiang reminded on the side: "You hang all the certificates and plaques over there, there will be nothing to hang at home. If someone comes again, how will you show them?"

Jiangfuzhen was suddenly speechless, and his heart rarely fell into anxiety and hesitation.

Jiang Yuan reminded: "The meat is cooked, right?"

"Oh, I'll go stir it." Jiangfuzhen hurried to get busy again.

Jiang Yuan then felt at ease laying the flower bed.

The feeling of being at home is much more relaxed than being on a business trip outside.

He also did engineering outside, mainly pumping water from mine shafts, digging and filling mine shaft trash, and finally digging the collapsed mine shaft entrance.

The pressure of this mode was relatively high, especially when you always want to get something from inside, the mood is different.

Going home is so relaxed, just lay the flower bed. Jiang Yuan can even not plant winter melons and just put the flower bed there. If he is really bored, he can put a table in it, specifically for writing official documents. After writing, burn them for the ancestors. Those of the older generation who like to study can read more official documents in the underworld, and then take the imperial examination to become a better underworld civil servant, and then promote the descendants, which is also very reasonable.

When tired of laying bricks, Jiang Yuan would swipe his phone.

In the dozen or so groups he joined this time, everyone was actively chatting about the Zifeng Mountain case.

Among them, groups without Liu Jinghui were chatting about Liu Jinghui and the case together.

Groups with Liu Jinghui were mainly chatting about the case.

Jiang Yuan opened a group at random and saw someone sharing experience:

Daily Withering: 【I once went to a police call and encountered someone who fell into a latrine. That latrine was quite deep, up to an adult's chest. Standing straight, just the head was exposed, but they couldn't climb out themselves. At that time, the scene...】

One Battle to Fame: 【Did they die?】

Daily Withering: 【The person didn't die, but they must have died socially. That person was a child who studied and got out of the village. During the New Year, they brought their child back to the village to visit relatives, and it ended up like this. When we pulled them out, their belt was still Gucci.】

Trace Examiner Li Rui: 【Is it "The feces water is cold when returning home in brocade clothes"?】

Jiang Yuan still had some impression of the trace examiner Li Rui at the end. When at Zifeng Mountain, this person was a chat enthusiast. The group he was in now might have been pulled in by Li Rui.

Daily Withering: 【Not kidding, the water in the feces pool is really super corrosive and bad for the skin. Not recommended to soak in it. It's very dangerous in hot weather, there are many toxic substances, and it's very uncomfortable in cold weather, easy to get frostbite.】

Trace Examiner Li Rui: 【Understanding hot weather, cold weather should be the most comfortable scene, right?】

Daily Withering: 【Please elaborate in detail on how the latrine is comfortable in cold weather!】

Jiang Yuan was just having fun when he saw another familiar person pop up:

Wu Wu Fa Yi Wang Lan: 【Say a true story, I encountered someone who fell into a latrine in winter. The night temperature at that time was slightly below zero, so there were signs of slight freezing. As a result, after falling in, the ice shards scratched the skin, causing large-scale ulceration, and the loss of body temperature in winter was also very fast, so I could encounter it...】

Daily Withering: 【So speaking, just being a "withered flower and defeated willow" is already considered very lucky.】

Trace Examiner Li Rui: 【Three people's amount, definitely can't drown.】

Wu Wu Fa Yi Wang Lan: 【Thanks to Jiang Yuan, this case, if it weren't for Jiang Yuan, the "defeated willow" would have stayed in the hole for at least another week.】

Daily Withering: 【Shocked. gif, another week, I'm afraid they wouldn't even be able to pee.】

Trace Examiner Li Rui: 【I have seen the fingerprints Jiang Yuan made, they are really strong, I haven't seen the others.】

Wu Wu Fa Yi Wang Lan: 【The on-site investigation he did was as detailed as if it had been licked by a dog.】

Daily Withering: 【Detailed... dog?】

Jiang Yuan saw this and felt a little unable to watch.

To say that Wu Wu Fa Yi Wang Lan is also a very serious person when meeting usually, the wording now is too careless.

Of course, the most careless one is this "Daily Withering." Jiang Yuan clicked on his avatar and didn't recognize who it was.

Jiang Yuan swiped to other groups and swiped back to the outer page, and saw that this "Qinghe Skill Sharing Group" had actually @ him.

Daily Withering: 【@Water Worker, is it Jiang Yuan? I have a fingerprint here, can you take a look and see if it can be made?】

Trace Examiner Li Rui: 【I can also do fingerprints...】

Daily Withering: 【Then you do it and see. If you do it, I'll help you ask for credit.】

Jiang Yuan shook his head, but his body still honestly stood up, took his upper body to the bathroom to wash his hands, returned to the room, and opened the computer.

Jiang Yuan copied the fingerprint, enlarged it on the screen, and studied it carefully.

It was indeed a very difficult incomplete fingerprint.

Jiang Yuan watched for a while and tried to make two markings, both ending in failure.

In this way, two hours had already passed.

Jiang Yuan was not in a hurry, tried a few more times, and before dinner time, he matched it.

Compared to that kind of simple full fingerprint, the time he spent was very long, but for an incomplete fingerprint, as long as it can be matched, it is quite meaningful.

Such things naturally cannot wait. Jiang Yuan took out his phone and opened the "Qinghe Skill Sharing Group" again.

Water Worker: 【@Daily Withering, I am Jiang Yuan, the fingerprint is matched, how should I send it to you?】

Daily Withering, who was still blowing water in the group just now, suddenly disappeared.

After a good while, he saw Daily Withering ask: 【Not kidding? This is a murder case!】

As soon as this was said, the group suddenly became quiet.

Jiang Yuan raised his eyebrows, but typed without hesitation: 【It is indeed matched, the suspect is a repeat offender, how should I send the information to you?】

Daily Withering: 【Wait a moment, I have applied to add you as a friend, and I have knelt down. You can send it after you pass.】 ===== CHAPTER 249 =====