Interstellar: Start as a cleaner

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 rodent hunter is not a novice, how could he make such a mistake.”

“I have also heard rumors that the management of Viscount Houston Winery is in disarray.”

 “Their vineyard is the worst managed.”

 “I suspect something must have happened in the winery.” What Yang Bo didn’t expect was that everyone broke out 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 work. There must be workers who see something and say it privately.

“We’re having a meeting. Because there was a fire in Viscount Houston’s winery, we need to check various places and make sure these places have fire prevention measures in place.” The Sheriff of Dongcheng District Public Security Station held a meeting and discussed the following work.

However, it doesn’t matter if you patrol at night. Those who patrol during the day must check businesses and residential areas to see how fire prevention measures and preparations are being done.

 In fact, the most important thing is to put out the fire first. Two basins of water may be able to solve the problem at the first time. If the fire is allowed to spread, it will be difficult to say.

At first, Yang Bo thought this incident would be like this, but he did not expect that it would get worse later on. It is said that Houston Winery lost 100,000 gold coins, wine that was said to be up to a hundred years old, winemaking 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 felt a lot of pressure, because Viscount Houston's performance proved that he did not believe that the fire was caused by a rat hunter, or he had other ideas. After all, a rat hunter certainly couldn't compensate 100,000 gold coins.

“Handy, did you find anything unusual when you went to the winery to kill 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 could obviously sense that Locke was probably being controlled by others, and he wanted 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 it?”

“Officials have checked the financial situation of all of them and found nothing unusual.”

“We also surveyed the scene and found no valuable clues. The scene was in a mess.” Locke asked again.

“Sir, I can’t be sure without seeing the scene, and 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?

Yang Bo’s character is that if others don’t offend me, I won’t offend others.

"Then you go back and rest now, and I will take you to the scene tomorrow morning." After hearing this, Locke said.

Yang Bo nodded, and Locke opened another letter of explanation.

Yang Bo will hand it over to the dean when he returns to the college, mainly for the sculpture class tomorrow.

 With a letter of explanation, you can ask for leave tomorrow. You must go through this necessary process, otherwise the dean and other instructors will mistakenly think you are 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 is sitting on a horse. It was not stable at the beginning, but Yang Bo quickly controlled the game character and adjusted his posture.

 The main reason is that the horse is being held by Roden, and his 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 that the character was uncomfortable, 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 caused the temperature inside the barrel to rise and explode.” The answer was Locke, who had read the detailed report himself.

"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 inside the wine cellar and saw that there was indeed a lot of wine and water mixture.

 Soon Yang Bo, who had dynamic vision, found 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 that the guy in front of him would find the suspicion so quickly.

 “Sir, please look.”

 “These are the corks from several wine barrels.”

“As far as I know, the cork is knocked in when the wine barrel is opened. Of course, this is not absolute.”

“Logically speaking, the corks will be replaced with new ones, but these corks clearly show signs of secondary use.”

“The other thing is that in the wine cellar, these heavy wooden barrel candles cannot be lit.”

“Even oil lamps are difficult to ignite. The rodent hunters are experienced and should not be able to use oil lamps. So what caused the fire?”

Locke looked at a few corks and replied: "It is said that the barrel was broken."

"Sir, I think this is a lie. This kind of wooden barrel contains so much wine, and it has to be turned over regularly. I don't think the rat hunter will carry a sledgehammer."

"A rat hunter can carry at most a small stick. If this small stick can break these wine barrels, then it means that there is something wrong with the wine barrels themselves." Yang Bo said again.

Locke soon discovered the strangeness of cork. Anything will leave traces after it is used twice.

Whether the cork is knocked into the barrel or pulled out, of course you can use a new cork, but the age of the new cork can be seen.

“But what if they don’t admit it?”

“I think workers are also needed to do these things, so the chief only needs to tell the workers that the steward said they stole it.”

 “I’m afraid this is useless?”

“Then lock the workers so that the stewards are separated from the stewards here, so that the workers can hear the stewards discussing with the stewards, and let the workers bear all this.”

"Of course the officer can still hold these corks. For these workers, they know the flaws of this matter best."

“And it must have been the workers during the actual operation. Now that there is a flaw, and I heard that the housekeeper wants to put the responsibility on himself, some of these workers must be unable to help but say something.”

Yang Bo whispered what he thought of.

No matter what happened to the wine in the winery, the workers must know it, otherwise the housekeeper would not be able to handle so much wine alone.

Even if the workers are not personally involved, they must know more or less about it, but the housekeepers who usually manage these workers must pretend not to know.

The workers must remember what the work they do looks like, such as what a wine barrel looks like.

Locke immediately understood that as to whether the housekeeper and steward next door were really there, some arrangements could be made.

"Handy, you are good." The person controlling Locke did not expect that the breakthrough point would be a small cork. He had used an intelligent program to review the case, but there were no useful 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."

"We found someone to pretend to be a housekeeper next door, and let the workers see that the housekeeper was there. However, the housekeeper knocked him unconscious when the workers saw him. The person pretending to be a housekeeper imitated the housekeeper, and even the housekeeper talked in a low voice, so when I took out the corks and said these corks are evidence."

“These workers were so frightened that they quickly told everything.”

"It turns out that there is a big gap between the wine reserves in the winery and the reserves in the ledger. On the one hand, the stewards and managers secretly committed multiple thefts on a small scale. On the other hand, it was poor management, which led to a reduction in the vineyard output, and the stewards did not dare to be honest."

“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 it 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 is great. If the responsibility does not lie within the Viscount himself, then we in Green City will probably have to bear part of the losses."

"You don't have a place to live yet. I happen to have a vacant house here, so I'll 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 was in the commercial district, the aristocratic district and the administrative district, and the security was very good. These three districts accounted for 3/4 of the entire city, 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 the nobility.

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 level. The basement is entirely made of stone walls. These are the high stone walls 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 makes a country as powerful as the Shuilan Empire unable to find out in this way? Is it really related to soul control?"

"Here are the title deeds of the house and the house deeds. I will take you to the transfer." Locke said with a smile.

 “Thank you sir, but I think I’ll stay outside the city for the time being.”

“Then this house can be rented out for you, and it will also bring in a lot of money every month.”

 “Thank you, sir.”

 “Actually, you should eat more good food, it will be good for you.”

 “I will do what the commander says.”

 “Eat more beef.”

In the evening, Yang Bo just returned to the college with the land deed and other things in his pocket when he 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 and find a part-time job? How is your job?”

 “The work is okay.”

 “How much money do you have?”

 “The salary for part-time work is not high.”

 “Can I do it with you?”

 “Let me ask about this.”

 “If you help me introduce a job, I will treat you to a honey candy cake.”

"Thanks!"

 The next night Yang Bo asked Locke if he still needed anyone.

Locke asked who it was, and Yang Bo said 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.

Today is Friday, so there is no need to learn skills.

 Adam was still a little dizzy following Yang Bo.

 “When did you enter the city guard?” Adam asked in a low voice.

 “I entered it a few days ago.”

 “How did you get into the army?”

 “A letter of introduction from the dean?”

 “You are lying!”

 “Handy!”

 “Brother Los!”

"The patrol time has been changed today?" When passing by the city gate, several familiar soldiers greeted Yang Bo affectionately.

 “I’ll take this little brother of mine to do some errands.”

 “Then let’s 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.

These guards usually look fierce when entering the city, looking at everyone with eager eyes, and some 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 had no weapons, he might have been detained. A charge of 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 because his character cannot roll his eyes because he is not neurally connected.

 (End of this chapter)