Chapter 659: Trip to France (Part 1)
Just after sending Li Stone to the police station, Liang Xi received a call from Hannah, asking Liang Xi to go to Paris.
The morning before yesterday, Hannah was driving to the border between Spain and France, and a car accident occurred during the process. Hannah's car was in the left lane at that time, and there was a truck pulling three steel coils in the right lane. A white car followed the truck and turned on its left turn signal.
Road. Hannah's car slowed down and gave way. It never thought that there was an accident car ahead. The truck braked. The white car did not complete the lane change. 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-ended, the truck driver was a little panicked.
Turning the steering wheel to the left caused the left front of the truck to hit the left guardrail. Two of the three bundles of 30 tons of steel coils carried by the truck lost control and rolled down. Because it was an uphill road, one of the steel coils rolled not far away.
Hannah's car in the rear.
Hannah's driver made a drift to avoid the steel coil. During the process, the steel coil hit the right front of Hannah's car. The huge impact threw the car and rolled it twice. Fortunately, the car returned to the right direction and could still drive. Although the driver
He was injured but immediately drove his car to avoid another steel coil rolling from the road above.
Hannah invited Liang Xi, Romeo and Kensi to Paris, France, and asked them to come to a conclusion whether the car accident was man-made or an accident.
Hannah is very powerful in France. Not only are there various surveillance and car videos, but there are also transcripts made by many drivers involved, driver information, etc. Liang Xi read all the materials on the private plane. The reason why
Because of this, both Yin Sha and the eldest son called. They really didn't want it to be a murder, because it meant that the blood moon, which had finally stabilized, was starting to struggle again.
Liang Xi had other views on this. He believed that there was no problem with the blood moon. Even if it was a murder this time, it was a personal grudge between Hannah and Coster. Thinking of this, Liang Xi immediately reminded himself not to prejudge. Hannah, in addition to the blood moon,
In addition, he also does a lot of business. For a person with such a strong desire to attack, his methods of doing things must be thunderous. It is a strange thing not to offend others.
After getting off the plane, a special car took Liang Xi to a mansion at a wine estate 40 kilometers away. The housekeeper personally received Liang Xi and told Hannah that she was not at the manor, but Hannah told Liang Xi that he would try his best to satisfy Liang Xi's needs. Not only
It 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 was very ordinary, with mostly various rooms and kitchens. There was a large living room on the second floor, and the huge crystal chandelier made the living room look extremely luxurious.
The maids here all wear relatively revealing maid uniforms, and every one of them is young and beautiful.
The old guy Kensi has arrived. He is sitting on the single sofa. A maid is adding tea to him. Kensi is very dishonestly moving one hand back and forth on the maid's buttocks to eat tofu. The maid does not refuse and chuckles in cooperation.
.The maid on the side seemed not surprised.
A maid specially provided services for Liang Xi. She asked Liang Xi to sit down, and asked Liang Xi what he needed. There was an amorous look in her eyes. Liang Xi understood that this mansion was not Hannah's residence, but a place for Hannah to receive guests.
It was a place where she didn't want to come. Maybe the guests would have more fun without her as the host.
Haha, you have short hands. If you touch the maid's butt, it means you owe her a favor. It's better to spend more money. Because of this, Liang Xi doesn't think highly of Kensi. 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 substitute detective.
Isn't this old guy in Heipi?
Under the guidance of the maid, Liang Xi went to the passage on the left side of the living room. There were three rooms here. The maid wanted to knock on the door. Liang Xi looked at the lock and motioned not to use it, and asked the maid to go about her business. Although he knew that nothing was wrong, Liang Xi still looked around as he was accustomed to.
He took out a small piece of steel wire from his wallet and began to pry open the lock cylinder. He hadn't practiced his skills for a long time, and it took Liang Xi a minute to open it. He took out his cell phone with his right hand, turned on the camera, turned the door handle with his left hand and pushed the door open gently.
What was embarrassing was that Liang Xi walked in and saw Romeo bringing a cup of tea, leaning to the side and waiting quietly to look at him.
"Haha!" What did you say?
Romeo pointed: "There is a surveillance camera on the door."
Liang Xi looked at the surveillance video at the entrance and found that the surveillance camera was installed above the door.
Romeo walked towards the room and said: "This is a silver nest. Although the housekeeper promised to replace my bedding and everything with new ones, I really don't want to lie where the old man lay." Why the old man? Because the old man has control.
A large proportion of power and wealth.
Romeo walked to the window and looked outside: "The whole place makes me feel very uncomfortable."
Liang Xixiao: "I didn't expect you to have mysophobia."
"No, no, I don't think it's funny or open to entertain very private things. The thought of treating women or men as commodities for the enjoyment of powerful people reminds me of slavery. The difference is
Slave society used whips, modern society uses money."
Hearing the emotion in Romeo's words, Liang Xi inquired and learned that Hannah had personally called Romeo last night. Romeo refused on the spot. He was not interested in going to France to get married. Early this morning, his boss came to the door and stopped him who was about to go fishing on vacation.
Romeo, after an hour of ideological work, Romeo could only agree to make a trip out of love.
After such a comparison, Liang Xi felt that it was reasonable for him to notify him at noon. He came all the way with just one phone call. Look at Mr. Luo, you can’t even hire him if you have money. Those who are capable have to be powerful.
Shit, only those who are indispensable are qualified to trample power under their feet.
"Go out for a walk." Romeo put down the tea cup: "I feel that 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 path through the forest, rocking chairs among flowers, and hammocks on the grass. It seems that every few dozen meters you can find a place suitable for men and women to talk. Before dinner, after the butler explained it, Liang Xi understood what preconceptions meant. A mansion is not a silver den.
It is the place where the Hannah family holds the Cove family meeting, the annual gathering. The secret place is set up to allow others to communicate better privately. The large living room on the second floor is the conference room, and the rooms on the third and second floors are where the family elders live.
, the first floor is the residence of the second elders, and the younger generation can only live in a hotel 20 kilometers away.
The problem lies with the maids. Hannah does have a safe place for the rich and powerful to enjoy and indulge. When the housekeeper received Hannah's order and learned that the VIPs 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 still complete your reception work diligently even if you don't like the maid.
Detectives are not always right, especially when subjective emotions are the main subject. In fact, once ordinary people are swayed by subjective emotions, their judgments are basically not in line with their interests. For example, a girl who wants to marry a ruffian alive or dead, just to kill someone with one sentence
Stabbed criminals, etc.
Liang Xidao: "Subjective emotions are a manifestation of human instinct and are a real way of thinking that should be respected."
Romeo scorns: "Don't you find it ironic that a man who thinks about things objectively encourages people to draw subjective conclusions?"
"Haha." Liang Xixiao: "As a foreman, I will encourage everyone to become migrant workers, but I will not encourage everyone to become foremen. Let's get back to the topic, what do you think of eucalyptus?"
Romeo shook his head: "I haven't seen it, I don't want to see it. I want to do things that interest me, and don't want to do things that I am forced to do."
This is subjective emotion. I am unhappy, so I quit. There is nothing wrong. The respect Liang Xi mentioned refers to this kind of subjective emotion. If everyone is a rationalist, then the company will be full of villains. The leader will let everyone
Although employees are not willing to work overtime voluntarily, no one dares to say no because no one wants to stand out.
For example, the current post-00s generation is different. They don’t work overtime and do as much work as they are paid. They 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 generation.
Ten years from now, either they will be smoothed out and become social animals like their predecessors, or the workplace atmosphere will be completely new. There is an important indicator parameter for what will happen: the birth rate. In the case of a family without children, it will be fun to travel around the world.
On the contrary, for the sake of the children and the family, one has to endure huge insults and grievances.
The word "forbearance" has a knife in the head, and rationality is sometimes forced out!
Liang Xi felt that he did not come to France to do business, but to do ideological work. After a few rounds with Romeo, Liang Xi directly approached the housekeeper and asked to change his residence, even staying in a hotel. After the housekeeper asked and learned the reason, he immediately apologized to Luo Liang.
, explained the purpose of the mansion, and also explained that only distinguished guests would be accommodated here.
Romeo, who was now in a relaxed mood, went to work. Liang Xi was already familiar with the information and drank afternoon tea leisurely. On Kensi's side, the old man had not come out for two hours after leading a maid into his room.
Liang Xi did not say hello to Kensi. He seemed to understand why people in the detective circle wanted to show that he was a rubbish detective even if they agreed that Kensi was a detective. On the one hand, it showed that people in the circle affirmed Kensi's ability;
This shows everyone's disdain for Kensi's character.
Kensi didn't care what everyone thought of him. He didn't care if others didn't say hello to him. He just played with himself. He didn't take the initiative to talk to anyone. At seven o'clock in the evening, after the housekeeper informed him about dinner, Kensi slowly left his room.
came out. Liang Xi, who was in the living room, caught the hateful expression of the girl who came out first. When the girl saw Liang Xi looking at her, she regained her sweetness and greeted Liang Xi with a sweet smile.
The three detectives went downstairs to the back garden restaurant. It was a semi-open-air restaurant with tables, chairs, tablecloths, copper candles, red wine and fruits. The Western table was long, and Hannah sat in the middle on one side. There were no chairs around her.
The detective could only sit across from Hannah.
Seeing the three of them, Hannah stood up and took the seats and said: "You three, because I am in a hurry and have been neglectful, please sit down."
After the three of them were seated, Hannah did not immediately ask Eucalyptus and asked someone to serve the food first. The maids helped divide the dishes and pour the wine. After a lot of fuss, everyone had food and drinks on their plates and cups. After the butler cleared the place, he
He also returned to the mansion, leaving the entire backyard to the four of them.
Hannah asked: "What do the detectives think of this case?" She glanced at the three people and did not designate a spokesperson.
Kensi would definitely not be the first to speak. After Romeo looked around and saw that Liang Xi and Kensi were not willing to speak, he said: "If it's an accident, it's too coincidental. If it's murder, it's too sophisticated. Even if a master like Detective Kensi wants to
The success rate of layout is not high.”
Kensi asked, "Should I thank you for the compliment?"
"You're welcome," Romeo replied.
There were four most famous detectives in the early years, namely John, Kensi, Kelante and Modo. Kelante has retired to his hometown, and it is difficult to even contact him, let alone inviting him. Modo and John have passed away.
Only Kensing, an old guy, is still struggling in the world. The middle-aged Romeo is very famous in the criminal investigation world, and the young Liang Xi is very famous in the London judicial department, but the two of them are not well-known in the European detective circles.
Although they didn't know what the industry was like, they knew that Kensi's qualifications and other qualifications were definitely better than theirs.
Romeo did not give this senior face, and to tell the truth. Liang Xi had a different view on this: "If it was a month ago, I would have thought so. But now my thoughts are much more conservative. I think if Detective Kensi is willing
If it's planned well, it's capable of causing an accidental murder."
Liang Xi praised Kenxi's ability, not what Kenxi had done. This compliment made Kensi unable to refute, and he could only say modestly: "Thank you, you think highly of me. I don't have such ability."
Liang Xi smiled and said: "You are too humble, you just defeated me a month ago."
Hannah looked at Kensi and asked, "Did we meet a month ago?"
"There is no need to meet." Liang Xi said: "As a senior, please be more straightforward. I admit that I lost, and I confirm that it was you."
Kensi smiled and said: "Sorry, I don't understand what you are talking about. Haha." I won'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 section of road has only two lanes. According to the traffic law, the normal driving lane for trucks is the right lane. The first car was a broken down car. It was in the right lane. According to preliminary identification, the reason why the car broke down was because of the left lane.
The front tire punctured. The puncture happened about 40 seconds before the incident. The driver first got out of the car to check, and without setting up a warning sign, 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 and was not going very fast at that time. The flaw is that after the tire burst, the driver should have pulled over to the emergency lane on the right, but the driver did not do so.
But I thought of an explanation. The car was not going very fast at the time, and the driver was a driver with three years of driving experience. He had never experienced a flat tire. After an abnormality occurred in the car, it was normal for him to get out of the car and check as the first reaction. His testimony
, the behavior can be explained."
Romeo said: "According to the agency's identification, the cause of the tire puncture is that this car is a six-year-old second-hand car. The most important thing is that the tires are also six years old and have run 120,000 kilometers. It is only a matter of time before the tire bursts. It is speculated that
At that time, the tire ran over objects such as pebbles, which catalyzed the puncture. No trace of the explosion was found on the wheel hub. If it was intentional, it could only be that the driver ran over a sharp object placed on the driveway in advance and got out of the car.
Chapter completed!