The old things I repaired have become fine

Chapter 7 Open the door! Check the water meter, no, find the child!
Shen Le picked up the puppet's head and looked it over carefully. The crack on the back of the puppet's head was about the length of a finger, and the widest part was more than one centimeter wide. As for the depth, he found that it was more than three centimeters during the cleaning process - that is, it was almost half the depth of the puppet's head.

"Well... this crack isn't that big... we just need to prevent it from getting bigger and bigger and finally splitting in two..."

Shen Le muttered to himself as he drew a butterfly-shaped pattern on the back of the puppet's head, or in other words, two trapezoids with their tops facing each other. Then, he fixed the back of the puppet's head, took a woodworking chisel in one hand and a hammer in the other, and knocked it in with a "bang bang bang" sound:

"One, two, three, four, five. Perfect. Let's try again in another place. One, two, three, four, five!"

First, chisel out a few small holes inside the trapezoid, and then cut straight into it along the edge of the trapezoid, one by one:
In less than ten minutes, a hole three centimeters long, one centimeter wide, 0.7 centimeters at the narrowest point, and two centimeters deep appeared on the back of the puppet's head. Shen Le raised his right fist, waved it to cheer himself up, and picked up a piece of miscellaneous wood found in the kitchen and started cutting:
"Swish, swish, swish... swish, swish... I saw, I saw, I saw, I saw, I saw, I plan, I plan... Beautiful! It's done!"

A wooden block that was exactly the same size and shape as the hole, with one side flat and the other side having an arc-shaped protrusion, fell into Shen Le's palm and was gently tossed up by him.

"Dovetail tenon! This thing is big at both ends and small in the middle. It can hold the crack together and prevent it from getting bigger!"

Shen Le compared the newly finished dovetail joint to the back of the puppet's head, applied woodworking glue to the joint, and then grabbed a rubber hammer and pounded the dovetail joint in. The hole was not deep, so it was quickly hammered in and fit perfectly. Shen Le touched the raised back of the puppet's head and sighed:
"Well, the next step is to cut the extra part into an arc shape to fit the line of the head... But there's no rush, there's still things to do..."

He found a tube of wood glue and quickly squeezed it into the crack. It stuck to the sky, the ground, and the air in between. Wood glue stuck to everything and was particularly useful for all kinds of cracks in wooden products, especially small cracks.

After the cracks were filled, I selected wood powder of similar color and poured it into the cracks. For ordinary miscellaneous wood, wood powder is not particularly useful, but for repairing redwood, I first applied wood glue, then poured redwood powder, and finally polished it smooth. It is almost invisible to the naked eye, and people would think it is a complete board!

"Hey, I made it especially for you! When you survive, you must repay me!"

Shen Le touched the puppet head with cracks filled in, and quickly changed to quick-drying wood glue to completely solidify the cracks filled with wood powder. After solidification, he used a spatula to flatten the solidified wood powder, and then sighed:
"what……"

Next comes the grinding hell... grinding, color correction, wood grain painting, painting, polishing, each of which is a time-consuming and laborious job...

Forget it, let’s wait until the grinder he ordered arrives…

Shen Le shrugged his shoulders, flicked his wrist and walked out, intending to go out to find food. Before he even reached the door, his phone rang, and a WeChat message from the young policeman from yesterday, Mr. Shi Guangbing, popped up:
"Are you there? Can you open the door? A few kids are missing. They said they ran to the old street!"

What?
Ran to the old street?
Could it have run into my house? In my house, there seems to be no open door, and there is no dog hole, so a child should not be able to run in?
As Shen Le thought about it, he quickly walked to open the door. When the door opened, the young policeman Shi Guangbing was exhausted, his eyes were bloodshot, and he was holding a tablet in his hand, standing side by side with a 30-year-old auxiliary policeman holding a long pole. Seeing him come to open the door, he breathed a sigh of relief:

"The surveillance camera saw these three children running to the old street, but we haven't found them yet. We have searched other places in the old street, and only your place is left. From last night to this morning, have you seen these children or heard any unusual noises?"

"No, not really..."

Shen Le's face also became serious. He had been playing with the puppet last night and this morning, and indeed did not hear any strange noises.

However, this house has two sides, three entrances each, and the area is large enough. Although it is not as big as Rongguo Mansion, Aunt Xue's family lives in Lixiang Courtyard, Jia Zheng can not see his sister-in-law for a year or two, but it is not possible to hear any movement. Not to mention, there are rockery, ponds, and wells on the left side of this house. If you fall down, it will be a big accident!
"But I'm not sure if a child would crawl in from somewhere. How about this, two officers, come in with me to look for someone?"

He let the two policemen in, locked the door, and walked in with them. As soon as they entered the yard, Shi Guangbing took a quick look and subconsciously widened his eyes slightly:
"Well—you live alone?"

This is too trenchant!
He still lives with his parents. Most of his classmates in the police academy have not yet started to buy their own houses! This one, such a big house?
"Yes, I live alone." Shen Le's smile almost turned into a wry smile. He took out a huge bunch of keys from his backpack and accompanied them to open the doors one by one, the main hall, the side rooms, and looked at them one by one:

"I just inherited the money, and I just graduated and had no place to live, so I moved here."

As a local police officer, he must be aware of the situation in his jurisdiction. However, looking at the map, the blueprint, and the satellite map is not the same as actually stepping into the house. Shi Guangbing followed Shen Le to one room after another, and was surprised at first, then wanted to sigh, and soon, he became worried:

"You live in such a big house by yourself? No tenants? No one to look after the house?"

It's easy to be robbed!

"Look at this furniture...who can I rent it to?"

"Ah... that's right." Shi Guangbing scratched his head. He was just a policeman, a local policeman, not a criminal policeman or an economic policeman. He had not seen many expensive furniture. He could only tell that these furniture "looked like redwood" and "looked very expensive." After exploring the third room, he finally couldn't help but remind them:

"You should find someone to look after the house. No, it's too big for one person to look after it. Or if that doesn't work, install more surveillance cameras and alarms. If you have any questions, call us - my phone number is my WeChat ID, remember?"

"remember!"

"If you have any questions, be sure to call me! - If you don't know how to install surveillance cameras or how to connect to the Internet, you can ask me later and I'll recommend something to you. Be sure to pay attention to safety! I don't want to come to your house one day and hear you report a crime, or hear someone else report a crime here!"

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