fog city detective

Chapter 54 Birthday

This is Mary's first birthday after John left Mary. Early in the morning, the flower shop delivered the holiday flowers that John had ordered every ten years before his death. The festivals included Valentine's Day, birthdays, wedding anniversaries, etc.

Although the greeting card on the flowers made Mary sad, it seemed to tell Mary that John had never left her, and that this gift brought her a sense of happiness beyond the comprehension of reason.

Liang Xi went to Mary's house early in the morning to prepare breakfast. In fact, it was breakfast, because Mary couldn't eat the food Liang Xi tossed.Liang Si served tea and sat in the front yard with Mary in memory of John.Mary began to talk about Liang Xi's many times, or the first time she heard about her and John's past.There are tears in the smile, and the memories are full of happiness.

A van parked in front of Mary's house, and someone from the pet store had brought Poppy's birthday present: ginrado.Mary fell in love with Jin Rado when she saw it. The trained Jin Rado was very smart and knew that this old grandmother was her new owner, and was very friendly to Mary.The staff of the pet store explained and explained some things, mainly Jin Rado's regular medical examination time.

At Mary's insistence, the kennel was placed in the living room. When the staff was busy installing the kennel, Mary couldn't wait to lead Jinrado to the street.Liang Xi asked about the price, and the staff told Liang Xi that the dog was sent to London by a special plane from the Northern Ireland Dog Training School, and they did not know how much it cost.All they know is that the price of the kennel is three thousand pounds.

In addition to the dog and the kennel, they also brought a small refrigerator dedicated to preserving the food of Jin Rado, who ate more pounds in one meal than Liang Xi had in three days.Forget it, Jin Rado still has accident insurance and medical insurance.Liang Xi didn't want to listen to the fact that people are inferior to dogs, and let the staff busy themselves and focus on making birthday cakes.

Under the guidance of Mary, Liang Xiting would toss the West Point.It is a pity that Liang Xi lacks the delicateness and patience that a pastry chef must have. The appearance of the products he makes looks rough, and whether the taste is good or bad depends on luck in many cases.For example, in today's three-layer birthday cake, it is obvious with the naked eye that the layers are uneven and the thickness is different. Liang Xi felt that the cream could not be seen.However, the cream seemed to be overdone, so he could only pour it out and beat it again. Liang Xi really didn't want to stand in front of the egg beater and wait boredly.

So the cream had to be beaten again.

After tossing the birthday cake, it was already lunchtime when Mary brought Jin Rado home.This was because she was worried about Liang Xi's skill in frying steaks, and Mary came back. She and Jin Rado had fun this morning.

After chatting over lunch, Mary told Liang Xi: "The community wants to set up baking courses, and the tuition fees will be deducted as donations to help those in need. Do you think I can go?"

Liang Xi replied: "It depends on the time of the course."

Mary said: "From 200:[-] to [-]:[-] on Friday night, it's next to the community supermarket [-] meters away. A few days ago, people from the community came to me and told me about it. I was worried that I was not capable enough. Did not agree."

Liang Xi said: "You must be capable. Baking classes should be very popular. For many people, not only can they learn things, but also a leisure and social opportunity. I think there should be many people who sign up. I support you."

Mary said, "Then I will agree."

Liang Xi nodded.

Mary chatted, "I'm going to change a cell phone, the old cell phone always eats."

"Oh?" Liang Xi reached out and took Mary's mobile phone and pointed it at Mary. Mary grinned and unlocked it successfully. Liang Xi smiled and said, "We are still so tacit."

Liang Xi checked the mobile phone and found no program running in the background: "If you don't like it, change it. I will save the phone number of the pet store first, and then export it to the outside of the card. The next time I change my phone, I can import the address book from the card back to the phone. Inside."

Liang Xi opened the address book, which contained Mary's acquaintances and friends, as well as business-related people, such as banks and insurance companies.While operating, Liang Xi casually asked, "Who is this Manda?" Mary is not very good at using smartphones.Even when John was alive, Liang Xi often helped Mary operate the phone, install and uninstall software, register accounts, etc.Because Mary was always inaccurate about the English letters and numbers on the keypad, Liang Xi even recorded the address book one by one.

Mary paused and asked, "What Manda?"

Liang Xi didn't seem to care, and changed the subject and asked, "This phone has been used for two years, will it be used now?"

Mary was a little annoyed: "There are too many functions, too complicated. I don't use this function, and there are always people who enthusiastically teach me how to use this function. I still like the original flip machine."

Liang Xi took a picture of Mary's mobile phone screen with his mobile phone, and returned the phone to Mary: "OK, the address book is saved, I will pay attention to the mobile phone brand online these days."

It is difficult for Mary to record the address book herself, and she does not know who the person named Manda is. Combined with Mary's Caton situation, Liang Xi believes that Mary's mobile phone is likely to be monitored.This monitoring is not an official means of monitoring. The official can obtain user information directly through the service provider without leaving the Manda address book.

When an unfamiliar phone number appears in the address book and the phone freezes, it may be because the phone is being monitored.Not just wiretap phone calls, but get all text messages and social software communications.In addition, the monitor can use your mobile phone number to make calls, and the cost of the call is borne by you.

Mary did not report hearing the sound of electric current and the mobile phone stuck, indicating that the level of the monitor is relatively high.Why would anyone monitor an old lady?Liang Xi believed that it should have something to do with John's death.But Liang Xi didn't know about cell phone communication, computer hacking and other related knowledge. He couldn't determine the real situation, and he couldn't know who was monitoring Mary's cell phone.

Looking for Liu Zhen's help?Liu Zhen has technicians, but they are general technicians at work, not Liu Zhen's own dedicated technicians.As a police officer, Liu Zhen has basic curiosity, while Liang Xi does not want too many people to know about this.There is only one way to find Helen.Helen is a policewoman Liang Xi met during the hostage incident at Maria Hospital, and she is secretly investigating John's death.Helen is also Liang Xi's only trusted ally in the investigation of John's death.

However, Helen is a Crisis Incident Response Team agent with limited authority and resources.Asking Helen to find a way to track down Manda's call may cause trouble for Helen.It's not that Helen looks down on Helen, Helen doesn't seem to have too many clever ideas and tricks.Doing bad things definitely requires going the wrong way, and magnanimous theft is robbery.

I can only think of a way, but I hate that the resources that I can use are too few.

(End of this chapter)