"If it's any consolation—" Zach started, "this is just the first step of being a teenager and it's only going to last a few years."
Falcon glanced at Zach, "Fiona asked you to come." This calmness is probably just a dead volcano. You can see the cool, stiff gray shell, but you also know that underneath, it is still tumbling. Magma doesn't need to be vigorous or explosive. You know it's so hot that it rolls over.
Zach took out the envelope from before and said, "The final payment." That was his answer, and then he just held it in his hand without taking it back into his pocket.
Falcon's eyes twitched, and he walked directly to the wine cabinet instead of going to his desk, "I think you have guessed what happened."
Zach noticed that Falcon didn't have a cup ready for him, "The police knew that Heather went to see your kids and summoned them, right?"
Falcon came back from the walk with a glass of wine in hand and sat down directly on the sofa without any intention of letting Zach sit down.
It was quiet for a while, and Zach turned his gaze away from Falcon, "When I agreed to come over today to collect the balance, it was because I thought our commission was over." Listen to Zach, " I ensured that Heather's case would not make any progress last night and cut off the North District Police Department's clues." Zach shook the envelope in his hand, "But now it seems that my commission is not over yet. This final payment, Should I return it to you?"
Can you follow up? James said that the West District Police Department had a premonition that this case was involved and took the initiative to shelve the case. The only clue was the receipt that Heather found in the company safe in the North District. Despite Coulson's deliberate delay, James confirmed that Heather's hidden 'identity' could be determined as long as the other party spoke. Then the motive and suspect of the murder emerged - clues leading to the truth.
And Zach just cut off this clue.
It should have ended like this, but now it seems that it doesn't. The Western District Police Department does not seem to have shelved the case as James said. On the contrary, the Western District Police Department seems to have found more targeted clues than the 'leakage of new Kozier women's clothing'.
"Take it." Falcon stared at his cup without looking at Zach, "Your commission has ended."
"Is that so?" Zach raised his eyebrows, "So I don't need to care about what just happened..."
"Why do you care?!" Falcon suddenly glared at Zach, "What did you do with this **** commission?! Ah?! Do you still need to say such **** words in front of me?! Take your a** money! Get out!"
"Then, thank you." Zach gave Falcon a chance to talk, but since the other party wanted to put aside all the whitewash involved and show his true nature, what else could Zach say. He put the envelope back into his pocket, nodded one last time, walked towards the door and pushed it open. Considering that Falcon probably didn't want anyone to disturb him, he closed the door thoughtfully.
By now, there is probably a question - what is the significance of Zach appearing here. Does Fiona like having family scandals exposed? Hey, you paid a special trip to invite Zach to watch the fun
it's out of the question. The first time Charlotte saw Zach's questioning here, it was already a clue.
At the end of the corridor, Zach was about to enter the front hall of Falcon Manor, when a hundred dollar bill blocked Zach's path.
Zach looked around. The servants didn't know where they were. Only Charlotte in front of him was holding the banknote and staring at him.
"Am I going to take this thing?" Zach pouted.
Charlotte's eyes twitched, and she crumpled the banknotes in her hand. She found a pocket on Zach's body, stuffed it in, and stared up at Zach, "Now! Tell me the truth!" It was actually a commanding tone. .
None of these West Side kids can be saved.
Zach frowned and took out the banknote, "Is this some bad joke from Jie Di?" Who is the first person to entrust this hundred yuan, Jie Di!
"Do I look like I'm kidding!" Charlotte stared at Zach, "Tell me the truth!"
It's best not to make this 100-yuan joke a habit for these kids. Zach pursed his lips and thought it would be best to kill this tendency completely now.
He glanced at Charlotte, flattened the hundred-dollar bill without saying a word, and waved it in front of Charlotte. Then he took out the envelope from before and weighed it in front of Charlotte. In comparison, compared with the thin hundred, the envelope is simply a heavy mountain, "Tell me, Miss Charlotte Falcon, should I tell you the truth?"
Uh, isn't that a little cruel? He is just a child who simply believes in the dream of one hundred dollars...
Charlotte's originally firm eyes began to widen, and her mouth slowly opened. She seemed to be stunned as she looked at the things that Zach kept weighing and shaking in front of her. Then, more firmly and with anger, "Who gave it to you!! Is it my father?! What did you do for him?! Did you kill Heather?!"
Reality does not need to be processed, it has its own natural dramatic irony.
Zach just walked out of the office where his father accused him of doing nothing, and now he is being questioned by his daughter about doing everything, and the mother who really did everything, haha, did not appear in this conversation at all.
Isn't this the reason why Fiona asked Zach to appear here? Zach interpreted his meaning perfectly - as the 'joint' trustee of a couple, the man has obviously been completely disappointed with Grande. Zach The only solution is to make the woman more satisfied.
But Charlotte wants the truth? Even now that she was mentally prepared to tell the story of murder, Zach still didn't feel that the truth was something this girl could bear.
Zach raised his eyes slightly - a line of red curved on the ceiling to outline a butterfly, its wings trembling slightly.
"How about a hand?" Zach said to the butterfly on the ceiling.
"What did you say?!" Charlotte was angry that Zach would turn his eyes away, and raised her hand forcefully to try to grab Zach's collar.
Zach couldn't let Charlotte touch him, so he took a step back and said, "Charlotte." He simply used his name to remind the other party of his identity and upbringing, "I have already said goodbye to the owner of this family." The eyebrows deliberately tilted, "You and Laura have never followed the basic etiquette, so." He turned sideways, indicating that he was ready to leave, "See you again when you have a chance, Miss Falcon."
"Wait!" Charlotte was still determined to stop Zach.
Zach had nothing to hold back, there were no servants around, remember. Turning back with red eyes, "Think carefully before you touch me, Charlotte."
The hand that was about to touch Zach's clothes stopped in the air and retracted stiffly.
Remember that lift accident in Grande? Did Charlotte really think she could hold on to someone who resisted falling on the elevator
The redness faded and Zach shook his head. Fiona's purpose of letting Zach appear here has been completed. Zach has cooperated endlessly and become the scapegoat for once as he said on the previous phone. Hehe, it's time to find something to gain from this mess.
Zach went downstairs not very fast, "Charlotte, I know Laura and the others are going to Yuri's party tomorrow, so I guess." He looked back at Charlotte, "Only you, you, Zhidi, These people will go to Parker Elementary School to help.”
Charlotte didn't speak, but looked at Zach gloomily.
Zach also felt no need to be more obvious, "You know where to find me."
Charlotte was stunned for a moment, then immediately pursed her lips, turned around and left.
After leaving the manor, Zach waited in the car for a while until the slowly floating butterfly consciously landed on the passenger seat. The simple lines were re-outlined and became a simple Eve, sticking to the seat like a stick figure.
Zach started the car and started by saying, "Let's start from the beginning."
"I'm not your subordinate." Jian Bihua said.
"Then do you want to help your little friend?" Zach shrugged.
"Oh! Are you helping Charlotte by showing off your illegal income? It's an eye-opener."
"Huh, do you think I should tell her the truth?" Zach asked with a smile.
"Speaking of the truth, what is the truth?" The stick figure tilted toward Zach, uh... outline? "It's better not that Toledo has stooped to the point of killing people for money."
Ridicule is necessary. Maybe everyone has not forgotten that Eve broke Zach's heart, so, "For money, haha. How is the progress of Rimmer taking over Smith?"
One end of the stick figure raised up and pierced the back of Zach's hand.
Zack curled his lips and glanced at his side in a slow reaction, "It hurts. Really? Your naivety also opened my eyes?"
The light red lines inserted on the back of Zach's hand are getting thicker, and the simple drawings are also filling up. "You're driving too fast. Have you forgotten that my clone has a distance limit? Tsk, I'm just lending you some blood. Call me What."
Zach looked at the car watch. The speed in the manor area was not even 20. He curled his lips and glanced at Eve, who was at least a little more three-dimensional. "You're getting weaker, Eve."
"What can I say, school is exhausting." Eve replied with a joke, and gave Zach a look of disdain on her face that had just gained the ability to express herself, "And you are the same as before, you haven't made any progress at all."
"What can I say? Sheep blood is not easy to digest." Zach replied with a joke, "Don't interrupt and tell me what I asked. Otherwise I may completely go off topic and ask you something you probably don't want to answer."
"Oh? Huh, I want to hear it. Why don't I want to answer?" Eve asked herself.
Okay, "For example, in the nursing home now, the veterans said it was medicine, and Sissy said you gave it to her to focus, 'smoke'?" Zach saw Eve's frown. , added, "I smoked one, in case you're curious."
Eve turned her whole face to Zach, as if she was carefully looking at Zach's whole body, "You smoked one?! Uh, how did you feel? And where did you get it from? Lydia promised me! That thing will never leak out!”
Uh, damn, I'm off topic.
Zach frowned, "Which question should I answer?"
"Uh, forget it." Eve's complete body was ready in the passenger seat, and the blood line inserted on the back of Zach's hand was retracted, "Humph, you don't look much different, there is no need to discuss this matter with you."
He took the initiative to return to the topic again, which was good, "What do you want to know? What happened to us at the police station?"
"Well, let's start from the beginning." Zach didn't want to ask any more questions. It sounded like the 'smoke' thing was a problem that Eve had to deal with. "First of all, why is Zeddy with you."
Zach had already heard from Charlotte's words that the police were looking for them because of Heather, and it should have nothing to do with Judy.
"Why, are you really unhappy that Jidi gave Charlotte an idea of 'one hundred dollars in exchange for the truth'? Hmph, that's childish."
"Answer my question, Eve." Zach shook his head helplessly.
"He followed himself, relying on his experience in dealing with the police." Eve pursed her lips, "On the way to the police station, he kept 'comforting' Charlotte, saying that the police would not do anything to us. Because of the privilege of people from the West End, no matter who dies, the answer is “I don’t know.”
"Is this comfort?" Zach raised his eyebrows, forget it, "You seem to be very sure that someone is dead?"
"I confirm because I have heard the police who picked us up say that they don't know, but Jidi is sure from his 'experience' that someone must be dead, otherwise they wouldn't bother us."
"Zhi Di knows it well. Then, I don't think that Zhi Di, who was just accompanying him, will be questioned by the police. He shouldn't know some of the things that will happen next. But, just now, I didn't feel that Charlotte was saying Some of the words he said meant to avoid him."
"There is no need to avoid it. When Mr. Falcon went to the police station and broke into the interrogation room where Charlotte was being interrogated, everyone could hear Charlotte's voice." Eve glanced at Zach, "Xia Lott was arguing with the police, 'Why do you keep asking my father if he knows this woman?!'" Eve didn't know what her state of mind was, so she imitated Charlotte's tone, which was very bad, and the same as in class. Being called Teacher ****, "Is something wrong?" was terrible. Eve continued, "Then, you can imagine that after Charlotte saw her father appear, she snatched the document from the policeman's hand and went directly to the law. Mr. Erken unfolded it and said something like, 'He's here, why don't you just ask him!'"
Zach raised his eyebrows, "What then?"
"Mr. Falcon told the police that there would be a price to pay for summoning his children without going through a guardian. Then he grabbed Charlotte and continued to break into other interrogation rooms to find Sherlock."
"And you."
"According to the experience taught by Zeddy, I don't know the whole process." Eve snorted, "But I doubt it makes any sense, because Sherlock was crying in another interrogation room, and the police showed him Heather's death. The scene. The first thing he said after seeing Mr. Falcon was, 'That pretty aunt who said she knew you is dead.' So, it was just a simple connection, and everyone knew what happened."
Zach had no intention of lamenting such a 'disaster', but frowned - Falcon said that the commission was over and there was nothing more to do with Zach. Does this seem to be okay? It's a miracle Falcon wasn't detained directly in the police station.
"The details you didn't ask about, Mr. Falcon was found by Charlotte's driver." Eve said to herself, "What makes me curious is why she went to see Mr. Falcon when he had nothing to do at home. Mrs Falcon (Fiona) is obviously more suitable to go to the police and deal with this situation.”
Zach glanced at Eve, who seemed to be seriously curious, and his brows relaxed, "What are you doing in your body?"
"Listening to Mrs. Falcon recalling the father of Barton's first mayor, he sounded like a very boring old man. History homework project, remember, Mrs. Falcon looked very involved. She really cared about her children's studies. Keep telling me to help Charlotte more..." Eve shook her head, "Well, do you want to tell me what's going on?"
"It's almost the limit of your clone's distance. Maybe there will be a chance next time, haha, maybe it will be tomorrow..." (.)