When I woke up, it was already half past six on Tuesday morning.
After preparing breakfast for himself and Mia, while reading the newspaper, he glanced at the advertising area, and Xia De realized that he had kept Mia cat for more than half a month, and it seemed that he hadn't bathed it.
But before Xia De could do anything, the orange cat, who seemed to be aware of it, rushed to the first floor of the house after eating his own goat milk to make cat food. No matter how Xia De yelled, it would never go upstairs.
And after Xia De took the initiative to go downstairs, the small cat avoided his hand again, and even when Xia De forced it into a corner, the cat stared for the first time, and uttered a "meow" to Xia De, which was similar to a growl. ~" voice.
Light pours from the windows on the first floor into this home that doesn't even have a decorative wall. Xia De, who was squatting in front of Mia, showed a look of astonishment on his face, and then showed a frustrated expression, looking at the cat he had raised for half a month with some shock.
"You actually treat me..."
He opened his mouth to say something, but in the end he just stood up slowly and withdrew his hand that wanted to hug the cat.
Standing there looking down at Mia, his lips trembled, but he still didn't say anything. First she turned her head, and then she turned around, walking towards the stairs with a slight sense of heaviness in her footsteps.
Cat Mia stood in the corner and looked at Xia De's back. The cat's big eyes blinked twice, and then immediately followed. The cat walked with Shad at his feet, looking up with big eyes, trying to read Shad's expression.
"Meow~"
It barked softly.
Xia De stopped and looked at his feet, bent down and hugged the orange cat, and then his expression changed:
"Ha~ let me catch you!"
He showed a happy smile, hugged the orange cat's waist with both hands, and lifted it up. A man who is good at acting, even when acting on cats, can also display excellent acting skills. This is the basic ability for a foreigner to exist in a different world.
"Meow~"
The small orange cat struggled twice but couldn't get out of Xia De's hand, so it stopped sullenly. But fortunately, Xia De did not bathe the domestic pet cat today.
Because he doesn't know how to wash a cat at all.
People in this world believe that "cats" have the ability to bring good luck. This is a cultural and customary view. Therefore, many thaumaturgy related to "luck" can be related to cats.
Xia De's behavior of catching "cat" this morning seems to have brought him good luck. This morning, he didn't wait at home for the lady maid Tifa Servet to come to his door, but instead waited for a brand new client.
The ad in the newspaper last week, after all, worked.
The client who came to the door was a thin middle-aged woman. Judging from her clothes, her financial situation should not be good. When she nervously followed Xia De upstairs, Xia De still guessed in his heart that this client was also here to entrust "husband cheating" or something like that.
But the situation was far more outrageous than he thought.
"Detective Hamilton, here's the thing. My distant relative Mr. Ferras Lemaire... I don't know exactly how far away, I just met him decades ago. Lemay Mr. Er died, and he left me a large estate..."
The middle-aged woman sat on the sofa anxiously, her buttocks just rubbing against the edge of the sofa, as if she was afraid of breaking the sofa. She didn't go to serve the tea prepared by Xia De, and after sitting down, she nervously tugged at the hem of her skirt, and told about her commission,
The middle-aged woman's surname is also Le Maire, but her relationship with the deceased Mr. Feras Le Maire can be traced back to the generation of her great-grandfather.
"The other day his lawyer... is that the word? I remember yes. His lawyer approached me and told me to sign and take away Mr. Le Maire's estate, but I'm afraid it's What a trap. You know, sir, one of those traps where you get someone to sign a document and take everything in one fell swoop."
This is a relatively common trap in this era, but for foreigners, in fact, in this slightly ignorant era, traps such as "Ponzi schemes" are the most cost-effective scams.
Of course, Xia De wouldn't do that. Even if he wants to make money, he has to rely on the knowledge in his head to make money openly. He always thinks that he is probably still a "positive person"...
"In this way, I haven't done anything illegal so far, and I didn't throw the steam bomb."
He thought about it in his heart, and then softly comforted the nervous woman, he saw that the other party had never been to this kind of place:
"So, what do you want to entrust me with?"
"Investigate the lawyer who wants me to sign. I don't understand this, I don't understand it at all, so I need someone reliable to investigate the whole thing. The firm's detectives are definitely not liars."
This is the innocent thought of the low-level citizens, but they can't imagine that the guy who works as a detective in the Saint Teresa Square may not be a liar, but he may be a foreign spy or a visitor from another world.
"Investigating counsel...have any information on him?"
Xia De thought for a while and asked.
"Yes, I have his address, sir, I just need you to confirm whether he is a so-called lawyer. Oh, God, this word is really a mouthful."
The middle-aged woman with a low level of education said embarrassedly, Xia De shook his head and said it was nothing.
If it's just to confirm whether the other party is a lawyer, it's fairly simple. The rough way is to come directly to the door to confirm whether it is a ring warlock. If yes, ask the client to ignore it immediately. If not, take out a pistol and threaten the other party to tell the truth.
He can also do it in a non-brutal way, come to chat with the other party, or conduct a one-day follow-up.
"Let me inquire a little bit, what is the amount of the inheritance you mentioned?"
Shade asked again, but Mrs. Lemaire was unsuspecting:
"About fifty pounds or so."
"That's a lot."
This is not an exaggerated metaphor. For the people at the bottom, 50 pounds is a big number enough to change the fate of a family.
"So what did Mr. Ferras Le Maire do originally, and do you know how he died?"
"Yes, the lawyer told me."
Mrs. Lemaire recalled, but she was not clear about some details:
"When I was in my twenties, I heard that he went out to sea with the fleet to explore the new northern route to the New World. Later, I gradually lost contact with him. I just heard that he joined a very remarkable fleet... ...The lawyer said that he died in a shipwreck, and people later found the suicide note he left with friends in the harbor. He seemed to have expected that people who went to sea would have problems sooner or later. Among his estates, the cash was five Thirteen pounds, besides some personal effects, a diary, a collection of books, and some strange little keepsakes... Oh, it's probably the poor man's life's savings."
Although she was not familiar with her distant relative Ferras Lemaire, Mrs. Lemaire wiped her reddish eyes with a handkerchief.
Let Mrs. Lemaire calm down first, Xia De considered the details of this commission, and finally decided to continue the commission.
After all, no matter what, investigating whether a stranger is a lawyer is just a day's work.
As for the commission fee, because Mrs. Lemaire is a middle-aged woman whose husband ran away and raised the children alone, Xia De did not charge too high a price.
When the two finally signed the entrustment agreement, they agreed that if the lawyer was not a lawyer, then Mrs. Le Maire, who could not get the inheritance, would pay Shad 5 shillings for the investigation.
If the other party is a lawyer, then Xia De will follow Mrs. Le Maire to sign and receive a suitcase of inheritance. After Mrs. Lemaire received the inheritance, Xia De received a huge reward of up to 5 pounds.
Both parties were satisfied with this pricing method, and when the client was about to leave, Xia De asked the client specifically which newspaper he knew the address from. The advertisement was placed last week, and Madame Lemaire must have been attracted by a commission from some newspaper.
"Steambird Daily, I fear I'm being scammed, and dare not go to the detectives in those small newspaper advertisements and commission ... My neighbor, a kind young man who studies art at the University of Tobesk, read the advertisement for me , I can't read much..."
Mrs. Lemaire said embarrassingly, Xia De sent the client downstairs, feeling that she owed Miss Louisa even more.
"The big deal is to cooperate with her in researching [The Little Match Girl], and now I have no other ability to repay her."
He thought as he watched his client merge into the bustling crowds of the Place Saint Teresa.
Compared with when he first came to this world, Xia De at this time has already escaped the poverty line. Continue to accept such relatively low-paying commissions, not because he is obsessed with the identity of a detective, but because he has more ideas.
First of all, it will be a long time before leaving the civilized world to go to St. Byrence Comprehensive College in the extreme north. But before that, he needs to hang out in Delarion, so maintaining a necessary decent status is very important.
Moreover, detectives can also make a lot of money, but this requires the accumulation of countless small commissions, so it is very stupid to look down on low-paying commissions.
Not to mention, the way ring warlocks learn, it is doomed that academic ring warlocks who teach by correspondence need to have identities that can deal with crises in their respective areas of action.
Therefore, even though it is not like when I first came to this world, I am eager to make money, but it is still necessary to accept commissions.
Needless to say, Xia De is actually very interested in this type of small commission, and the outsider intends to see more of this strange world through such a method.
The client came in the morning, and Xia De planned to use a full daytime follow-up to confirm whether the lawyer was a fake. Tracking the lawyer will start tomorrow during the day, so he spent this somewhat peaceful Tuesday on other things.
At about ten o'clock in the morning, Xia De took Mia out to the "Good Peter's Pet Store" located in Purple Iris Lane, where Xia De met Miss Bayas for the first time, and took Mia away. The place.
The shop owner with a rosy nose was impressed by the young orange cat. Seeing Xia De come to the door with the cat in his arms, he almost announced that he would not accept any business today.
But fortunately, Xia De does not want to re-foster Mia here:
"I want to know how to bathe a pet."
He stated his purpose, but the shop owner blocked the door, and had no intention of letting one person and one cat in.
"Just wash it directly, what else can you do, as long as you don't use as much force as washing clothes."
In this noisy era, complex and diverse pet service projects have not yet developed.
"Then you can give it..."
"When the cat is in the shop, it's usually my wife and Miss Cindy who bathe it."
The middle-aged shopkeeper said, shaking his head quickly, as if he was afraid that he would leave the cat behind.
The cat held by Xia De still remembers this place, but it doesn't seem to have a good impression of it, and now it is huddled in Xia De's arms and refuses to move.
"So are those two ladies in the store now?"
Xia De asked again, and the man replied without thinking:
"No, for the last half month, no, not for the last year, they... eloped. But in fact, it is not necessary to bathe pet cats so often. Cats are different from people. Sir, you wash the cat yourself That's fine, it's very simple, it doesn't matter if you wash it every three months or even four months, cats are actually not delicate."
Xia De suspected that the other party just wanted him to leave quickly, but he also knew that Mia had left a "deep" impression on the middle-aged shopkeeper, so he left after expressing his regret for the other party's wife eloping with the female shop assistant. here.
When he spoke, the face of the middle-aged shopkeeper was very exciting, and it even made Xia De look forward to the scene when he visited here next time.
As for washing the cat, it still needs to be carefully considered.
After leaving Purple Iris Lane, it was almost lunch time. Xia De found a restaurant nearby, spent 1 shilling and 10 pence, and had a decent lunch with his cat~www.mtlnovel.com~ After leaving the restaurant, it was still misty today Even the hot summer sun couldn't penetrate the fog layer, so he took Mia and strolled towards the direction of the Prophet Association.
It was a very dull afternoon. After the heavy rain last night, the accumulated water on the ground evaporated so quickly that it was impossible to tell that it had rained more than ten hours ago.
Foreigners wearing long-sleeved coats are not very suitable for the city's climate. Fortunately, the Prophet Association on Silver Cross Avenue is still cool.
He didn't come here for the Rhodes card, but to find Miss Anat, and wanted to tell her about his recent contact with Miss Bayas.
According to the contact information left by the brown-haired female fortune-teller last time, she first stated in the lobby on the first floor that she wanted to come for fortune-telling, and then announced Miss Anat's name. But very unfortunately, Miss Anat is not in the society now.
The association's ring warlocks have relatively loose management, and they don't need to be on duty every day like church ring warlocks. Although Xia De knew Miss Anat's residence, it was obviously very unlikely that she would be at home during the day.
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