fog city detective

Chapter 9 Breakfast
After Liang Xi finished speaking, the car stumbled a few times, and after slowly sliding forward for more than ten meters, it stopped on the side of the road.

The woman sulked: "Are you playing tricks with me?"

Liang Xi hurriedly raised his hand: "No, absolutely not. The oil gauge is here." Luke!
The woman stretched her head, the lights in the car were dim, and the dashboard could not be seen clearly.Liang Xi stretched out his mobile phone to prepare for lighting. The woman grabbed Liang Xi's wrist, stared at Liang Xi, and asked, "What do you want to do?"

"Take the phone to illuminate." Liang Xi felt the power and dared not move: "Let you see clearly."

Woman: "No." She had long felt that Liang Xi was wrong. If she saw that she was not an ordinary person, Liang Xi would be too calm.If he thinks he is an ordinary person, then Liang Xi should not have an attitude of answering questions.The woman let go of Liang Xi's wrist, lifted the central control drawer of the car, reached in and took out a driver's license.

Taking a look with the help of the interior lights: "John?"

Liang Xi said, "It's me."

Woman: "The photo is wrong."

Liang Xi: "I mean: it's my grandfather."

What else did the woman ask, a black seven-seat van stopped side by side.The woman threw John's driver's license onto the passenger seat of the car, held a gun in her left hand, pressed the wound with her right forearm, and opened the door with her right hand.While doing these actions, the woman watched Liang Xi vigilantly and pushed the door with her body to get out of the car.

The back door of the van opened, and the woman was about to get into the car when Liang Xi rolled down the window and shouted, "Hey."

The woman turned back: "What?"

Liang Xi: "Can I have some gasoline?"

The woman turned her head and got into the car, closed the door, and the car sped away.

Liang Xi got out of the car, looked at the taillights of the van with his hands on his hips, and said angrily, "Damn Mi." Without the woman's 60 kilograms, he maintained a constant speed of 80 kilometers, and it was entirely possible to finish the last four kilometers.Don't you have to cheer in London?No, no, anyway, the trailer bill is given to John, and he can take the 24-hour subway home.

Liang Xi has already decided that this woman is not a bad person, but she may be a good person who has turned bad.The tone and attitude of the woman's questioning, the movement of holding the gun, her calm emotions, her vigilance, and the fact that she would rather shout at Liang Xi than point the gun at Liang Xi all explain all this.This also saved her own life, otherwise Liang Xi would hit the brakes at the right moment, and she would directly penetrate the front windshield and be crushed by.

Liang Xi is not sure whether the woman is MI5 or MI6.

Now Liang Xi can only wait for the trailer in the dark, and return to London with the trailer.But good people have good rewards. When Liang Xi was about to call for rescue, a passing driver helped Liang Xi. He pumped gasoline from his own fuel tank to give the Beetle.Liang Xi handed over 10 pounds very hypocritically, and the driver accepted it boldly and shook hands with Liang Xi to say goodbye without being polite at all.

Liang Xi first drove to the street lamp in the suburbs, and wiped off the woman's blood on the back seat with drinking water and a rag in the trunk.Finally drove the car to John's house near four in the morning.Liang Xi was still a little smug in his heart. He calculated the limit of gasoline and parked the car in the garage almost when the gasoline ran out.Thinking of John looking at the fuel gauge in a daze after starting the car, I would wake up laughing from a dream tonight.Calculations I have to pay the price.

There is a compartment in the garage, which is Liang Xi's residence in middle school.Mary was very dissatisfied with John's decision to let Liang Xi live in the garage. She thought Liang Xi could live with them, Liang Xi agreed with this, and John was noncommittal.After living together for half a month, Liang Xi moved into the garage silently because Mary was too enthusiastic.Come to knock on the door if you have nothing to do, deliver snacks, tea, and chat with Liang Xi.He also corrected some bad habits such as lying on the bed when Liang Xi came back, throwing things around, and messing up the table.

Although the garage compartment is simple, it is the first private space that Liang Xi has.Here he can put up star posters at will, play pop music, and do homework upside down.With a twitch of the brain, you can even dance a crab dance on the spot.

After Liang Xi went to college, the bed, tables, chairs and few furniture were covered with dust-proof cloth.Liang Xi pulled the dustproof cloth off the bed, only halfway, because he only slept on half of the bed.I didn't wash up either, so I took off my pants and socks and threw them at the end of the bed, and I lay down and fell asleep.

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At seven in the morning, the biological clock woke Liang Xi on time.Liang stormed out of the garage and had breakfast with the grass in the front yard. Mary and John, who were breathing in the fresh air, raised their hands to say hello.Liang Xi went to the toilet by the way after washing in the bathroom on the first floor.Back in the front yard, Mary had poured him tea.

Liang Xi put the car key in front of John, sat down by himself, picked up the Ququ cake to enjoy breakfast, and explained the process of handling the case yesterday in detail by the way.

John asked, "What's the basis of your suspicion?"

Liang Xi replied: "Lawyer Cook was invited to Reading from London to witness a sealed will. He was sent by the Earl to Oxford to take a plane to France. Cook is an old man, from what I know about the Earl's children. It seems that the Earl should not have sent Cook like this. I guess it may be that the Earl has no time. Learn from this line, and then synthesize various information, and finally come to a conclusion. "

John nodded: "This case is not difficult for you."

Liang Xi disagreed: "You can't say that. There are several questions that bother me the most in this case: Has the will been destroyed? If the will has not been destroyed, is it in the hands of the housekeeper? In the hands of the children? In the hands of the maid of the year? Once I ask the wrong person, ask the wrong question, I will lose all my chips."

John was noncommittal, and took a paper towel to dry off the tea stained on his beard, and asked, "Who is more important to the Earl's family, Cook or the butler?"

Liang Xi replied: "Of course it is the housekeeper. He knows all the secrets of the family and is responsible for the operation of the entire family."

John said: "Since you speculate that the Earl's euphemism or strong means made Cook get out of the Davis family, is it possible that the Earl will let the housekeeper he doesn't trust stay in the family?"

Liang Xi nodded slowly: "So the housekeeper is one of the Earl's most credible people."

John said: "The two maids entered the Earl's Manor from the age of 20, and they are the people the Earl trusts most. But you must know that the work of a housekeeper cannot be compared with that of a maid. For example, you can ask Dai Dai from the maid's mouth. But you can't get these clues from the butler's mouth. In addition, you have contacted the four children of the earl, and you should be sure that the butler must know about the will. The only thing you have to worry about is that the will is still there. "

John said: "Assuming the will has been burned, the conversation between you and the steward is to ask the right person and ask the wrong question. You should not play the chips, you should first explain Cook's contribution to the Earl's family over the years, side by side. Ask, express that you know what the housekeeper is clear about the will, and hand over the initiative to the housekeeper. Although the result is good, there are some small problems in your handling process, but I am very satisfied with your overall performance. Therefore, I decided to send you Two gifts."

Liang Xi rubbed his hands together: "John, we know each other so well, how dare I ask for your gift. Cash it."

(End of this chapter)