fog city detective

Chapter 10
John laughed and took out a bunch of keys: "The first gift is the detective agency. If you want to be a detective, you can keep it. If you don't want to be a detective, you can also sell the detective agency."

Liang Xi was startled: "John, your health is not bad enough to retire."

John didn't answer Liang Xi's question, he pushed the key in front of Liang Xi, and said, "The detective agency is yours now, I have contacted the lawyer, and he will complete the formalities for you. After the formalities are completed, the lawyer will give You have a cheque for £[-] for the daily expenses of the detective agency. It depends on your ability to make money."

Liang Xi heard a small question: "Why did the lawyer give me five thousand pounds?"

John replied, "Because the lawyer owes me five thousand pounds, and in that name, let him repay the money by the way."

Liang Xi nodded, so it was.Believe in your thighs.

John pushed the table car key to Liang Xi: "As a detective, you definitely need a means of transportation. That car is also yours."

John thought Liang Xi would be very happy, but Liang Xi silently drank a cup of tea before accepting the key, the expression on his face was unpredictable.This is cocooning.It was originally a prank to play with John, but I didn't expect that the final clown would be himself.The old thing doesn't think that he can count on him, so he turns around and pits himself, right?

Mary did not participate in the conversation between the two men. She heard that it was time to bake the cake, so she went to the kitchen to work.John saw Mary enter the living room and go to the kitchen, but he hesitated.Liang Xi noticed something unusual and asked, "Do you want a divorce?"

The brain hole of the detective is like this, not only strange, but also jumping.But John didn't refute. After thinking for a while, he said, "If you can have a meal with Mary once a month, I think she will be very happy."

Liang Xi said: "30 times a month. But your name is John Char, not John Bill Gates."

John laughed: "Haha!"

This is side-by-side. John has been in frequent contact with an old friend named Matthew recently, and they all eat out, sometimes for a whole day.Coupled with factors such as sending the detective agency and the car to Liang Xi, Liang Xi speculated that John had a recent change.In his mind, Liang Xi listed John's possible changes, terminal illness?Impossible, because Mary was a retired doctor. Without Mary's persecution, John would not have gone for a physical examination. John was definitely the last person who knew about a terminal illness.In addition to terminal illness, the next worst may be marriage.

John did not deny Liang Xi's proposed marriage, which made Liang Xi quite worried.He knew Mary's love for John.For example, Mary would rather John live like a vegetative person, busy serving and taking care of John every day, rather than wanting John to die first.The marriage was a bigger blow to Mary than John's death.

However, John was a thief, and he did not admit the marriage change, which made Liang Xi unable to express his thoughts on the matter.Mary brought out the cupcakes, and the two men started chatting about the case again.Mary is sitting in a rocking chair, knitting a sweater, listening to the two men chatting, and this is her happiest time now.

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Liang Xi bought half a barrel of gasoline from a neighbor, said goodbye to Mary, and drove to his residence.Liang Xi lived in an apartment on Rump Road, not far from the university and the detective agency.

Rump Road, also known as Apartment Road, is a well-known apartment-type residential community in London.The main population of renting is white-collar workers and students.Liang Xi's residence is located in 19, Building 2102. The room is not large, with a total area of ​​more than 50 square meters.One kitchen, one bathroom, one living room, one room.The things at home are very simple, second-hand computers, beds, tables, chairs, wardrobes.There are no coffee tables or sofas in the living room, and stacks of plastic stools are placed in the corners for possible visitors.

Liang Xi's clothes are not many, summer T-shirts, jeans, sports shoes.Winter sweatshirts, jackets, thermal underwear, jeans and sneakers.In spring and autumn, dress according to the temperature of the day.The most expensive are the suits made by the Italian hand-tailored shop that Mary bought for Liang Xi after she went to university, and a pair of leather shoes worth up to [-] pounds.This suit was worn only once when I accompanied John on a case in Belgium.

After Liang Xi came home, he first boiled water, took his underwear and T-shirt to take a bath.After taking a shower, the water was turned on, I rushed a cup of tea, sat in front of the computer and started writing my resume, preparing to apply for a job.It's impossible for a detective to be a detective, no joke, being a detective will really starve to death on the street.The only survivors in the detective industry are private investigators, whose day job is to do background checks on targets, affair investigations, etc. at the request of their employers.Strictly speaking, private detectives no longer belong to the category of traditional detectives.

As the home of Sherlock Holmes in the novel, London has a surprising number of detective fans.In order to realize their detective dreams, many young people will open their own detective offices.Normal cases are investigated by the police. Only when the victim or the victim's family is dissatisfied with the police's investigation results will they seek the help of detectives.There are also powerful people like Earl Davis, who only seek the help of detectives if they do not want to alert the police and the media.

There were not many bad guys, and the police stole the biggest piece of the cake again, leaving a little crumb to satisfy the huge crowd of detectives. 10 years ago, with the popularization of surveillance in urban areas, the improvement of the technical force of the police, and the improvement of the national legal awareness, the detective has become a very unpopular profession.In addition, this generation of young people rarely likes slow-paced detective novels like Sherlock Holmes. Not only can there be no traditional detective agency in the streets and alleys of London, but even detectives often become a profession of ridicule and teasing on TV talk shows.

The best choice is to be a police detective. The police detective is selected from the police, so you must be a police officer first.

There are three categories of police in the UK.The first type of regular police, the second type of community police, both need physical training and testing. Liang Xi has a congenital slight flat foot, which does not affect his life, but his foot endurance is poor, so he is not suitable for endurance sports such as long-distance running and mountaineering.Can't pass the fitness test by training.

The third category is volunteer police, which refers to police officers who have full-time jobs and use their spare time to perform police duties.Volunteer police do not have high physical requirements, and there is a monthly subsidy.But the problem is that you first need to have a full-time job. Detectives are not full-time jobs. They are classified as self-employed or as business partners.

Graduation is equivalent to unemployment, the future is foggy, and you can't see where you are going?

Regardless of 21, Liang Xi went online to enter the talent market and began to send resumes.It doesn't look at the major or the position, only the salary.Whether it is an enterprise or a public office, if you see a position with a monthly salary of more than [-] pounds, you will submit your resume.Cast the net widely and catch more fish. Presumably there will always be a few stupid personnel or bosses who will take a fancy to me.

After spending half an hour delivering the resume, Liang Xi picked up the book and read it, completely relaxed after the college entrance examination and waiting for the score.Now that what people can do has been done, the next step is to see the will of God.

However, Liang Xi's reincarnation did not have any luck skills, and Tianyi felt that most of the bosses still had IQ.In the next week, Liang Xi didn't even receive half of the application calls, and he even wondered if he had filled in the wrong number.This is not a joke, he has passed the probability calculation.The reason why telex scams are so rampant is not because of how clever the scammers are, but because of the large population base, and there are always a few scammers in the percentage ratio.Based on this logical inference, at least one of my [-] resumes should have found the right object.

After receiving a call from the lawyer, Liang Xi and the lawyer met in the coffee shop downstairs of the detective agency. The formalities were quickly completed. The Rose Detective Agency and five thousand pounds were officially handed over to Liang Xi by John.After a week of waiting for the results of the application, and after rubbing food at John's house many times during this period, Liang Xi thought that he could not hang himself from a tree.So I decided to re-issue my resume in the detective agency and wait for the recruitment results again.

During the meeting with the lawyer, Liang Xi asked and learned that the five thousand pounds was not money owed by the lawyer at all, but John's own money.However, John told his lawyer that he handed over five thousand pounds to Liang Xi in the name of arrears.Liang Xi was quite puzzled by this. On the one hand, when he was eating dinner this week, Liang Xi did not find any signs of marriage between John and Mary.On the one hand, even if the marriage changes, the relationship between Liang Xi and John and Mary will not change, so why give himself five thousand pounds?
Called to ask, John replied: "If you don't need it, you can give it back to me."

Liang Xishuang hung up the phone and finally deducted some money. Do you want to take it back?no way!

(End of this chapter)