fog city detective

Chapter 596 French trip
Just after sending Riston to the police station, Liang Xi received a call from Hannah, asking Liang Xi to come to Paris.

The morning before yesterday, Hannah was in a car accident on her way to the border between Spain and France.At that time, Hannah's car was in the left lane, and the right lane was a truck pulling three steel coils. A white car followed the truck and turned on the left turn signal to change lanes.Hannah's car slowed down and gave way, never thinking that there was an accident car ahead, the truck braked, the white car did not complete the lane change, and the right front of the car hit the lower left corner of the truck.Because there was an accident car in front and was rear-end rear-ended, the driver of the truck panicked and turned the steering wheel to the left, causing the left front of the truck to hit the left guardrail. Two of the three bundles of [-]-ton steel coils carried by the truck lost control and rolled. down.Because it was an uphill section, a coil of steel rolled towards the car Hannah was riding in not far behind.

The driver of Hannah made a drift to avoid the steel coil. During the process, the steel coil hit the right front of Hannah's car, and the huge impact threw the car out and rolled twice.Fortunately, the car was back on track and still able to drive. Although the driver was injured, he immediately drove the car to avoid another coil of steel rolling from the road above.

Hannah invited Liang Xi, Romeo and Kenxi to Paris, France, and asked them to give themselves a conclusion whether the car accident was man-made or accidental.

Hannah is very energetic in France. Not only are there various monitoring and on-board videos, but also transcripts made by the drivers involved in the incident, the driver's information, and so on.Liang Xi read all the materials on the private plane. The reason why he was so attentive was that both Isa and the eldest son called. They really didn't want it to be a murder, because it meant that the blood moon that had finally stabilized was starting to toss again. .

Liang Xi has a different view on this. He thinks that the blood moon is no longer a problem. Even if it is murder this time, it is a personal grievance between Hannah and Coster.Thinking of this, Liang Xi immediately reminded himself not to be preconceived.Besides Blood Moon, Hannah also does a lot of business. For a person with such a strong desire to attack, the means of doing things must be thunderbolt. It is a strange thing not to offend others.

After getting off the plane, a special car took Liang Xi to a mansion in a wine estate [-] kilometers away. The butler personally received Liang Xi and told Hannah that he was not at the manor. Refers to the work part, food and play, as long as he can do it, he will definitely provide it.

Liang Xi went up to the second floor under the guidance of the housekeeper.Unlike traditional European-style buildings, the first floor of the mansion is very ordinary, mostly with various rooms and kitchens.There is a large living room on the second floor. The huge crystal chandelier makes this living room look extremely luxurious. The maids here are all wearing revealing maid uniforms, and everyone is young and beautiful.

The old man Kensi has arrived. He is sitting on the single sofa, and a maid is adding tea to him. Kenxi is dishonestly eating tofu on the maid's buttocks. .The maid on the side seemed to be familiar with it.

A maid specially provided services for Liang Xi. She asked Liang Xi to sit down, approached and asked Liang Xi what he needed, with a charming look in her eyes.Liang Xi understood that this mansion was not Hannah's residence, but a place where Hannah received guests, and she didn't want to come.Perhaps without her, the host, the guests would have had more fun.

Hehe, you are short-handed, but if you touch the maid's butt, it is equivalent to indebted to her.It's better to spend money.As a result, Liang Xi didn't think highly of Kenxi.Liang Xi asked Romeo, and the maid replied that Romeo arrived this morning.Liang Xi was quite unhappy with this answer. It turned out that in Hannah's view, he was a backup detective.

This old thing won't be in black leather, right?
Under the guidance of the maid, Liang Xi went to the passage on the left of the living room. There are three rooms here. The maid wanted to knock on the door.Although he knew it was fine, Liang Xi still used to look left and right, took out a small steel wire from his wallet and began to flip the lock cylinder.The skill has not been practiced for a long time, and it took Liang Xi 1 minutes to poke it open.Take out your phone with your right hand, turn on the camera, turn the doorknob with your left hand and gently push the door open.

What was embarrassing was that when Liang Xi entered the door, he saw Romeo holding a cup of tea, leaning on the side and looking at him quietly.

"Haha!" What do you say?

Romeo pointed: "There is a monitor on the door."

Liang Xi looked at the surveillance video at the entrance. It turned out that the surveillance was installed above the door.

Romeo walked into the room and said, "This is a silver nest. Although the housekeeper promised to replace my bedding with new ones, I really don't want to lie where the old man used to lie." Why the old man?Because old men hold a large proportion of power and wealth.

Romeo goes to the window to look outside: "The whole place makes me feel very uncomfortable."

Liang Xi smiled: "I didn't expect you to have a cleanliness."

"No, no, I don't think it's funny or open to entertain something very private. Thinking of women or men as commodities for the powerful to enjoy makes me think of slavery, except that Slave society used the whip, modern society uses money."

Hearing the emotion in Romeo's words, Liang Xi inquired and learned that Hannah called Romeo himself last night.But Romeo refused on the spot, he was not interested in going to France to handle the case.Early this morning, the boss came to the door and stopped Romeo who was going to go fishing on vacation. After doing an hour of ideological work, Romeo could only agree to take a trip because of his feelings.

In such a comparison, Liang Xi felt that it was reasonable for people to not notify him until noon. A phone call made him come over by himself. Seeing Mr. Luo, you can't invite him even if you have money.Capable people want to flatter power, and only those who are indispensable are qualified to trample power under their feet.

"Go for a walk." Romeo put down the teacup: "It feels like the tea in the cup is filled with the smell of bad breath and old phlegm."

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The back garden is a forest path, rocking chairs with flowers, and grass hammocks. It seems that every few tens of meters you can find a place suitable for men and women to talk.Before dinner, after the housekeeper explained, Liang Xi understood what preconceptions are.The mansion is not a silver nest, but the place where the Hannah family holds the Koff family meeting, the annual gathering.The purpose of setting up a secret place is to allow others to communicate better in private.The large living room on the second floor is the conference room, the rooms on the third and second floors are where the elders of the family live, and the first floor is the residence of the second elders, who can only live in a hotel 20 kilometers away.

The problem is with the handmaidens, Hannah does have a safe place for the rich to indulge.When the butler received Hannah's order and learned that the distinguished guests were all men, he dispatched five young and beautiful maids from there to work in the mansion.The butler's idea is very simple, you can do whatever you like, and you can complete your reception work dutifully if you don't like the maid.

Detectives are not always right, especially when subjective emotions are the subject.In fact, once ordinary people are swayed by subjective emotions, their judgments are basically not in line with interests.Such as the girl who wanted to marry a ruffian, the criminal who stabbed someone to death for a word, and so on.

Liang Xidao: "Subjective emotion is the embodiment of human instinct, and it is a real thinking that should be respected."

Romeo despised: "A person who thinks about things objectively encourages people to draw conclusions subjectively, don't you find it ironic?"

"Haha." Liang Xi laughed: "As a foreman, I would encourage everyone to become migrant workers, but not to be foreman. Closer to home, what do you think of the case?"

Romeo shook his head: "I didn't watch it, I don't want to watch it. I want to do what I am interested in, and I don't want to do what I am forced to do."

This is subjective emotion, I am not happy, so I quit.There's nothing wrong with that. The respect Liang Xi said refers to this kind of subjective emotion.If everyone is rational, then the company will be full of villains.The leader asked everyone to work overtime voluntarily. Although the employees were unwilling, no one dared to say no, because no one wanted to be the first bird.

For example, the post-00s are different now. They don’t work overtime, do as much as they pay, and don’t look at your boss’s face. I come to work not to make your boss happy, but to make myself happy.To change the workplace atmosphere, it depends on the post-00s.Ten years later, either they will be smoothed out and become social animals like their predecessors.Either the workplace atmosphere is new.What will happen in the end has an important indicator parameter: the birth rate.In the case of a family without children, it's over if you walk around the rivers and lakes.On the contrary, for the sake of the children and the family, all the humiliation and grievances have to be endured.

With a knife on the head of the word forbearance, rationality is sometimes forced out!

Liang Xi felt that he did not come to France to handle cases, but to do ideological work.After walking around with Romeo for a few times, Liang Xi went straight to the housekeeper and asked for a change of residence, even a hotel.After the housekeeper inquired and learned the reason, he immediately apologized to Luo Liang, explained the purpose of the mansion, and also explained that only the VIPs of the above specifications would be arranged here.

As a result, Romeo, who was in a good mood, went to work, and Liang Xi was already familiar with the information, so he drank afternoon tea leisurely.On the other hand, on Kensi's side, after this old guy led a maid into his room, he still hasn't come out for two hours.Liang Xi didn't say hello to Kensi, and he seemed to understand why even if people in the detective circle agree that Kenxi is a detective, they still want to show that he is a garbage detective.On the one hand, it shows that people in the circle affirm Kensey's ability, and on the other hand, it shows everyone's contempt for Kensey's character.

Kensi doesn't care what people think of him at all, he doesn't care if others don't greet him, he plays his own game.He didn't take the initiative to find someone to talk to.At seven o'clock in the evening, after the butler informed the dinner, Kensy dawdled out of his room.Liang Xi in the living room caught the hateful expression of the girl who came out first. The girl saw Liang Xi looking at her, and regained her sweetness, and smiled sweetly at Liang Xi.

The three detectives went downstairs to the restaurant in the back garden. This is a semi-outdoor restaurant with tables, chairs, tablecloths, copper candles, red wine and fruits.The Western-style table is long, and Hannah sits in the middle of one side, with no chairs beside her, so the three detectives can only sit opposite Hannah.

Seeing the three of them, Hannah stood up and ushered them in, "Three, I have something urgent to do, so I've been negligent. Please sit down."

After the three of them were seated, Hannah didn't immediately ask about the case, and let the food be served first.The maids helped divide the dishes and pour the wine. After a lot of tossing, everyone had food and drinks on their plates and glasses.After the butler cleared the scene, he also returned to the mansion, leaving the entire backyard to four people.

Hannah asked: "What do the detectives think about this case?" She scanned the three without naming a spokesperson.

Kensi will definitely not be the first to speak. After Romeo looked left and right at Liang Xi and Kenxi's lack of willingness to speak, he said, "If it was an accident, it would be too coincidental. If it was murder, it would be too delicate. Even a master like Detective Kenxi would want to For layout, the success rate is not high.”

Kensi asked, "Should I thank you for the compliment?"

"You're welcome," Romeo replied.

There are four most famous detectives in the early years, namely John, Kensey, Corant and Mordo.Ke Lante has retired to the countryside, let alone inviting him, even contacting him is difficult.Modo and John have passed away, only Kensing, an old man, is still wandering in the rivers and lakes.The middle-aged Romeo is well-known in the criminal investigation circle, and the young Liang Xi is well-known in the London judiciary, but the two of them are not well-known in the European detective circle.Although they don't know what circle it is, they must be better than themselves if they know Kensi's qualifications and so on.

Romeo didn't give this senior face, to be honest.Liang Xi has a different view on this: "I would have thought the same way a month ago. But now my thinking is much more conservative. I think that if Detective Kenxi is willing to make arrangements, he is capable of creating an accident. murder."

Liang Xi praised Kenxi's ability, not what he did. This compliment made Kenxi unable to refute, and he could only humbly say: "Thank you, you think highly of me, I don't have such ability."

Liang Xi smiled and said, "You are too modest, you just defeated me a month ago."

Hannah looked at Kensi, and this matter, Kenxi couldn't understand the question at all: "Did we meet a month ago?"

"There is no need to meet." Liang Xi said: "As a senior, please be straightforward. I admit that I lost, and I confirm that it is you."

Kensi smiled and said, "I'm sorry, I don't understand what you're talking about. Hehe." I don't admit it.You can't be sure if you don't admit it, but you can be sure if you admit it.

Hannah said: "Romeo, please continue."

Romeo said: "This road section has only two lanes. According to the traffic law, the normal driving lane for trucks is the right lane. The first car, the broken down car, is in the right lane. According to preliminary identification, the reason for the broken down car is the left lane. The front tire blew out. The puncture time was about 40 seconds before the incident. The driver first got out of the car to check, and without warning signs, the truck and Hannah’s car arrived. I’m not sure about this car.”

Liang Xi added: "I think so too. If the driver is telling the truth, he was going up a gentle slope at that time, and his speed was not fast. The flaw was that after the tire burst, the driver should have pulled the car into the emergency lane on the right, but the driver did not do so. But I thought of an explanation. The speed of the car was not fast at the time. The driver was a driver with three years of driving experience. He had never experienced a flat tire. , Behavior can be explained.”

Romeo said: "According to the identification of the agency, the cause of the tire blowout is that this car is a second-hand car with a history of six years. The most important thing is that the tires are also six years old, and it has already run 12 kilometers. It is only a matter of time before the tire blows out. Speculation At that time, the tire was crushed by something like a pebble, which catalyzed the blowout. No trace of the explosion was found on the wheel hub. If it was intentional, it could only be that the driver crushed a sharp object placed on the driveway in advance and got out of the car After that, dig out the sharp object and take it away. In addition, the sharp object may fly away with the blown tire. Since it was only a traffic accident, the police did not conduct a large-scale search in the vicinity, so it is impossible to confirm whether the blown tire was intentional."

(End of this chapter)