Chapter 704 House?
“Viscount Houston is the Speaker of the House of Commons of the Province of Jialan, so this loss is nothing.”
“I think this matter is very suspicious. The rat exterminator is not a novice, how could it be possible? Make this mistake.”
“I have also heard rumors that the management of Viscount Houston Winery is the worst.”
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"I suspect something must have happened in the winery." What Yang Bo didn't expect was that everyone was telling the news.
But looking back, I realize that we are all locals, so don’t we all know who they are and what they look like?
Besides, the Viscount also wants to hire people to do the work. There must be workers who see something and say it in private.
"We have a meeting. Because the winery of Lord Viscount Houston caught fire, we will check various places next and make these places take fire prevention measures." The Sheriff of Dongcheng District Public Security Station held a meeting and discussed the following work. .
However, patrolling at night does not matter. Those patrolling during the day must inspect businesses and residential areas to see how the fire prevention measures and preparations are being done.
In fact, the most important thing is to put out the fire first. Maybe two basins of water can solve the problem at the first time. If the fire is allowed to spread, it will be difficult to say.
Originally Yang Bo thought that this matter would be like this, but he did not expect that it would become more and more serious later. It is said that the Houston Winery lost one hundred thousand gold coins. It is said that the wine was up to a hundred years old, as well as the wine-making equipment and these wooden barrels.
It is said that these wooden barrels are the most valuable. The wine brewed from these wooden barrels has a unique flavor. Some barrels are said to be used for five or six hundred years.
Viscount Houston sent someone to deliver the message, and the truth must be found.
The entire Green City officials are feeling a lot of pressure, because Viscount Houston's performance proves that he does not believe that the fire was caused by the rodent hunter, or he has other ideas. After all, a rodent hunter certainly cannot compensate. 100,000 gold coins.
"Handy, did you find anything unusual when you went to the winery to exterminate rats a few days before the fire?" Locke asked as soon as Yang Bo arrived at the police station in the evening.
“The steward of the winery wanted me to go to the wine cellar to eliminate rats, but I didn’t have any experience in rodent control, so I refused.” Yang Bo answered honestly.
"Is this the abnormality you are talking about?" Locke asked with some confusion.
Yang Bo can obviously sense that Locke is probably controlled by others, and he wants to use this matter to make Locke's status higher.
"Sir, don't you find it strange? If you were a housekeeper, would you find someone who has no experience in exterminating rats? Anyway, I feel very strange." Yang Bo asked.
"This is a strange place, so if there is a problem, where do you think we should check?"
"The official has checked the financial situation of all of them and found nothing unusual."
"We also surveyed the scene and did not find any valuable clues. The scene was in a mess." Locke asked again.
"Sir, I can't be sure without seeing the scene. Besides, I have no experience in this kind of work." In fact, Yang Bo himself did not intend to take care of this matter, but who made the housekeeper of Houston Winery want to Take the blame yourself.
Yang Bo’s character is that if others don’t offend me, I won’t offend others.
"Then you go back and rest now. I will take you to the scene tomorrow morning." After hearing this, Locke said.
Yang Bo nodded, and Locke opened another letter of explanation.
When Yang Bo returned to the college, he handed it over to the dean, mainly for the sculpture class tomorrow.
After you have a letter of explanation, you can ask for leave tomorrow. This process must be followed, otherwise the dean and other instructors will mistakenly think it is rude.
Yang Bo came to the police station early the next morning, and Locke took Yang Bo and Roden toward the Houston Winery.
Yang Bo's character was sitting on a horse, which was not stable at first. However, Yang Bo quickly controlled the game character and adjusted his posture.
The main reason is that the horse is held by Roden, and my character does not control the horse.
"Haha, brother, it seems that you are very talented in riding." Roden laughed and said as he quickly arrived at the place on horseback.
Yang Bo didn't speak. Anyway, he probably felt uncomfortable for the character, but he just couldn't feel it.
The winery has now been taken over by people from the public security station. The appearance of the winery has not changed much, except that it looks smoky in some places.
The wine cellar is in the basement. The wine cellar is entirely made of stone and is now in a mess.
Yang Bo didn’t feel anything either, so he couldn’t smell the scene.
Yang Bo checked the information last night and found several breakthroughs.
“Why are all the wine barrels here cracked?”
“That’s because the burning temperature causes the temperature inside the barrel to rise and explode.” The answer was Locke, who had seen it himself Detailed reporting.
"The quality of these drinks cannot be clearly seen now because water was poured when putting out the fire." Locke said again.
Yang Bo looked at the wine cellar and saw that there was indeed a lot of wine and water mixture.
Soon Yang Bo, who had dynamic vision, discovered what he was looking for.
"Sir, I think I have found the suspicion." Yang Bo waded directly into the water to find a few things.
Locke was a little surprised. He didn't expect the guy in front of him to find the doubt so quickly.
"Sir, please take a look."
"These are the corks of several wine barrels."
"As far as I know, the corks are knocked in when the wine barrels are opened. Of course This is not absolute.”
“Logically, new corks will be replaced, but these corks clearly show signs of secondary use.”
“The other thing is in the wine cellar. , these heavy wooden barrel candles cannot be lit.”
"Even oil lamps are not easy to ignite. The rodent hunters are experienced and should not be able to use oil lamps. So what caused the fire?"
Locke looked at several corks and replied: "It is said that The barrel was broken."
"Sir, I think this is a lie. This kind of barrel contains so much wine, and it has to be turned over regularly. I don't think the rat hunter will bring a big one. Hammer."
"The rat hunter carries at most a small stick. If this small stick can break these wine barrels, then there is something wrong with the wine barrels themselves," Yang Bo said again.
Locke soon discovered the strangeness of the cork. Anything will leave traces after it is used twice.
Regardless of whether the cork is knocked into the barrel or pulled out, of course you can also use a new cork, but the age of the new cork can be seen.
“But what if they don’t admit it?”
“I think we need workers to do these things, so the chief only needs to tell the workers that the housekeeper said they stole it. "
"I'm afraid this is useless?"
"Then lock the workers away from the housekeepers and the stewards here, let the workers hear the housekeepers discussing with the stewards, and let the workers bear all this. ”
"Of course, the commander can still hold these corks. For these workers, they know the flaws in this matter best."
"And it must be the workers who did the specific operation. Now there are flaws, and Hearing that the housekeeper wanted to put the responsibility on himself, some of these workers would definitely be tempted to say something."
Yang Bo whispered what he thought of.
No matter what happened to the wine in the winery, the workers must know, otherwise the housekeeper would definitely not be able to handle so much wine alone.
Even if the workers did not personally participate, they must know more or less, but the housekeepers who usually manage these workers must pretend not to know.
The workers must remember what their work looks like, such as what a wine barrel looks like.
Locke understood immediately. As for whether the housekeeper and steward next door were really there, he could make some arrangements.
"Handy, you are good." The person who controlled Locke did not expect that the breakthrough point was a small cork. He had used an intelligent program to review the case, but it was of no use. clues.
"Thank you for the compliment, sir."
Then Yang Bo had a day off for half the afternoon. "Haha, Handy, we followed your method this afternoon, and those workers were scared to death."
“I found someone to pretend to be a housekeeper next door, and let the workers see in person that the housekeeper was there, but the housekeeper knocked him unconscious after the workers saw him, and the pretended person imitated the housekeeper, and the housekeeper We talked in a low voice, so when I took out the corks, I said these corks were evidence."
"The workers were so frightened that they quickly told me everything."
"It turned out to be the winery. There is a big gap between the wine reserves inside and the reserves in the ledger. On the one hand, the butler and the manager secretly committed multiple thefts on a small scale. On the other hand, it was due to poor management, which led to a reduction in the yield of the vineyard, and the steward did not dare to tell the truth. "
“In addition, the steward and steward were greedy for cheap and bought some cheap wooden barrels. The flavor of the wine brewed from these barrels did not meet the requirements at all.”
"The Viscount's servant has a problem of his own and has little to do with our Green City. What reward do you want this time?" In the evening, Locke called Yang Bo to the office alone and asked.
"This is all the result of the superior. If the superior does not take his subordinates down, they will not be able to discover this." Yang Bo answered modestly.
“The credit for this time is great. If the responsibility is not within the Viscount himself, then we in Green City may have to bear part of the losses.”
“You don’t have a place to live yet, right? , I happen to have a vacant house here, and I will give it to you." Locke said again.
Yang Bo could clearly feel that Locke had regained his thoughts.
"Then thank you, sir. Where is Brother Roden?"
"Don't worry about this." Locke said meaningfully.
"Sir, I know what to do."
"Okay." When Locke heard Yang Bo say this, he naturally understood what the other party meant.
“Politics!”
"I didn't expect that I would benefit from it." Yang Bo muttered to himself while patrolling.
After playing the game the next day, and after completing the work with Bob, Yang Bo stayed in the city.
Locke took Yang Bo to a house. This house is in the business district. The business district, the aristocratic district and the administrative district have good security. These three districts occupy 3 of the entire city. /4 of the area, but only 1/5 of the city’s permanent population.
The remaining 4/5 are all crowded into civilian areas of 1/4 of the city.
These civilians serve business and nobles.
It is a two-and-a-half-story building with a land area of only 120 square meters, with a half-story attic on top and a basement.
The floor of the basement is 50 centimeters higher than the street floor. The basement is entirely made of stone walls. This is the high stone wall seen next to the street.
"This house is relatively small and there is no way to park a carriage or anything like that." Locke also said.
"Thank you very much, sir. This is something I have never dreamed of." Yang Bo was already very satisfied. Such a house would cost at least a hundred gold coins.
"Locke seems to be a native controlled by the Shuilan Empire, but it is difficult for people of this level of civilization to understand these things." Yang Bo muttered in his heart.
"What kind of thing is it that a country as powerful as the Shuilan Empire cannot find out in this way? Is it really related to soul control?"
"This is a house. I'll take you through the land deed and the house deed," Locke said with a smile.
"Thank you sir, but I think I'd better live outside the city for the time being."
"Then this house can be rented out for you, and it will also be a good amount of income every month."< br>
“Thank you, sir.”
"Actually, you should eat more good food, it will be good for you."
"I will do what the commander said."
"Eat more beef."
In the evening, Yang Bo just returned to the college with the land deed and other things in his pocket, and saw Adam waiting.
“Are you doing something else secretly?” Adam sent a message when he saw Yang Bo.
"I found another part-time job in the city!"
"Ah, how come you are so lucky to find a part-time job again? How is the job?"
"The job is okay."
“How much money do you have?”
“The salary for part-time jobs is not high.”
"Can I do it with you?"
"Let me ask about this."
"If you help me introduce the job, I will treat you to a honey candy cake."
“Thank you!!”
The next night Yang Bo asked Locke if he needed anyone else.
Locke asked who it was, and Yang Bo said that he was hunting rabbits with him.
Locke asked Yang Bo to bring the person and go through the formalities then, but it would be best to ask the college to issue a letter of introduction.
"Handy, I didn't expect you to have the ability to handle cases." When Yang Bo saw the dean, the dean smiled and praised him.
“That’s all the result of the officer.” Yang Bo said quickly.
"This Adam's performance is a bit average, but there is nothing wrong with him." The dean began to write a letter of introduction.
It's Friday, so no need to learn skills.
Adam was still a little dizzy as he followed Yang Bo.
“When did you join the city guard?” Adam asked in a low voice.
“I joined the army a few days ago.”
“How did you find a way to join the army?”
"A letter of introduction from the dean?"
"You are lying!"
"Handy!"
"Brother Ross!"
"The patrol time has been changed today?" When passing by the city gate, several familiar soldiers greeted Yang Bo affectionately.
"I'll take my little brother to do something."
"Then go in." Adam followed behind with a confused look on his face, watching Yang Bo chatting and laughing with the guards guarding the city gate.
When they enter the city, these guards usually look fierce and look at everyone with eager eyes. Some of them are even taken aside for rough searches.
Of course Adam didn’t know that his brother was severely beaten by the group of people in front of him, and then was sent to the border for robbing soldiers and using force to confront soldiers. If it weren’t for the fact that Adam’s brother didn’t have any weapons. He might be charged with rebellion.
“I didn’t expect you to be so capable. Not long after you entered the game, you actually became a city guard?” After entering the city gate, Adam sent a message to Yang Bo.
"Low-key, low-key!" Yang Bowu quickly said a few words, and Adam rolled his eyes at Yang Bo.
Yang Bo is still very envious. His character cannot roll his eyes because he is not neurally connected.
(End of this chapter)