On Sunday, Grande's construction workers also followed the rest day rules left by the Holy Lord and had a holiday.
The owner of Grande also chose to come back on this day. It had nothing to do with the Holy Lord's faith, but the busy time of the mill had passed. Zach was also coming back to greet those who were about to return from Newton Comic Con. Benjamin was coming back. .
Zach came back with a follower, stepped into the main entrance of Grande, and walked past the completely changed reception room... Oh, it's a new showroom.
"This staircase." Brian was carrying a childish backpack and curiously looked at the stairs that went up directly against the wall after entering the door. They were against the south wall and led directly to the new office on the second floor. "Connected where?"
"Office." Zach twitched his lips and looked around. The progress of the construction was in line with the notice he had received. The new layout had been completed and the skeleton of the New Grande had been laid. Next, filling was needed.
When Zach walked into the new reception room, which was the location of the old office, as usual, he remembered that there was no way past here. What was once the old office has been completely transformed into a new reception room and an elevator separated by a circuitous corridor.
Zach pressed his hand on the place that used to be the side door of his office, and curled his lips inexplicably. The wall in front of her now has completely separated Grande's living area and work area. Although she knows that there is a stairwell behind this wall, she can't get past it. The only place where she can enter the L-shaped short side from indoors is New offices on the second floor.
"Is this an elevator?" Brian walked around the reception room without any decoration or furniture. He had found the corridor and stood in front of a wooden gate and shouted.
"That's right." Zach also came over, and with the idea of giving it a try, he opened the wooden fence and stood in a small space that was as closed as the elevator.
There is a slight difference between lifts and elevators. Grande's new gadget does not have any complicated functions. It is similar to the exclusive elevator in James' attic. It simply stops at two points and takes people up and down. The order of taking people can only be first up and then down. Few and no mistakes must be made to complete the round. Because if it were up there, people below would have to wait...
When Austin explained the so-called sex. It turns out that it’s not just that the reception room and the office where things are discussed are divided into two floors, it also has this meaning.
The elevator trembled, and the clicking sounds of the pulling of the steel cables and mechanical rotation could be heard clearly, making people doubt the safety of this thing. Soon, the elevator stopped, Zach pushed open the wooden fence, walked through a circuitous corridor again, and finally stood in front of the door of the new office.
The door opened.
"I heard someone coming up." Louise smiled and winked at Zach.
"The sound is indeed a bit loud." Zach curled his lips and walked into the office. An unexpected sense of familiarity.
"The elevator was just installed yesterday." Louise smiled, "Austin said it still needs to be adjusted." But she passed Zach, walked to the elevator and stood outside the door to look in, "He said not to use it yet. Yes, I heard this, it feels so different from the one at James’s house, we are all worried that this thing will fall halfway up, so we don’t dare to use it.”
Zach looked no different from his old office furnishings. It was just a display that was all turned around, loudly responding to Louise’s words. "Then we are so lucky to have come up safely."
"Well, I'm quite lucky." Louise came back with raised eyebrows, smiled and opened her hand to indicate the new office, "How about it? I know you will come back today. We worked all day yesterday."
Not sure if it was intentional or something, Louise ignored Brian who was curious and looking around.
Zach smiled and moved around a bit, taking in the subtle illusion of direction.
In the original office, the window that was always closed was on the north side. When you open the curtains, you can see someone coming on the gravel road outside Grande. Now we are on the south side, because the north side is the corridor and elevator. When we open the curtains, we can only see the Grand backyard. There is no one at this time, and the hammock is swinging empty.
All the items in this office are changed as the window is flipped from north to south, including desks, bookcases, clocks, workbenches... What remains unchanged are the doors that open on both sides of the east-west direction.
Zach opened the door on the east side, which was still the door leading to the outside of the office. At this time, it was connected to the stairs of the new showroom. Zach stood out, leaned against the guardrail of the stairs, looked down, and felt the open space. Space, nodded.
Then there was the door on the west side. After Zach pushed it open, he looked down and saw Alice walking to the backyard from the stairwell below. Moving forward, he turned a corner and saw old Hank walking from one room to another holding a cardboard box.
"It turns out that the master bedroom has been remodeled and turned into the entertainment room as you said." Louise explained with a smile, "Well, it's a bit like Grande's current living room. Old Hank made a new sofa, the original wardrobe, Beds and stuff like that were all cleared out.”
"Where are the other rooms?" Zach asked.
"Old Hank, Alice, Matthew, me, Danny, plus an empty room, which will continue to be used as a guest room." Don't ask why there is no Zach's room, he has a basement, and Louise's room.
Zach seemed to have thought of something, "By the way, let him stay in the guest room." Zach pointed at Brian who was still looking around curiously.
"Oh." Louise lowered her head slightly, raised her eyebrows, and asked casually, "Are you going to stay for a long time?"
Time to remind Zach.
Zach frowned and looked at Brian, who suddenly became nervous and stopped looking around. He was silent for a while, shook his head, and looked away, "It depends on luck."
What Zack is really saying is that it depends on when Ryan comes out so he can fix Ian's failed enchantment eye, and then the guy can go. However, asking one personality when another personality that will share his body with him will come out seems to be a difficult question. At least Zach can't ask, so it can only be luck.
However, during such a long time in the mill, Ryan never came out once. Zach attributed it to bad luck.
Louise nodded, glanced at Brian, pursed her lips, and pointed to a room on the side of the corridor, "Over there, go put down your things. Don't walk around if you have nothing to do, and don't touch Grande either." Things. Furniture and the like, old Hank will scold. The bathroom and bathroom are at the end of the corridor. Knock on the door before entering. Girls and old people live here. Be careful. Well, then remember. This is not your home, Shou. Behave yourselves."
It sounded as if she was just a woman who had once been a guest of Grande, imparting experience.
Zach raised his eyebrows, feeling Louise's strange tone, and remained silent for the time being.
Brian nodded and stared childishly, just like a child listening to an adult explain things. He didn't seem to feel anything strange.
Louise looked at Brian again and frowned. It must be uncomfortable to express rejection without being noticed by the other party. "Go ahead." Louise turned away. Zach had no intention of helping him and was a little unhappy. "Don't go to the office if you have nothing to do." Come, this is where Grande works and handles business, don’t disturb him... "
Said at the same time. Louise took Zach's arm and walked back to the office. But I didn't expect it. Louise was interrupted.
"I can help too!" Brian said excitedly, "I helped at the mill! Work at the funeral home, right! I can do it! I'm doing a pretty good job! When I came today, Maddie Sen even gave me a bonus! This is my first time making money! Look, look!" Brian took off his backpack, took out a check, and thrust it in front of Louise's face. The amount is not small.
Of course it can't be too small. It was given by Madison, who had asked Zach when he was going to tell Brian the truth about his mother. It couldn't be too small.
Louise closed her open mouth mid-sentence, glared at Zach, and no longer cared about excitedly showing off her first check. Dragging Zach, who was raising his eyebrows, into the office and closing the door.
"You brought him back!" Louise was questioning regardless of the content.
"Yeah." Zach was really curious about what Louise was thinking, "What's wrong?"
"He is Emilia's patient!" Please recall Louise's emotions after receiving two sudden phone calls five days ago during Grande's breakfast time in the morning, "Maybe you have some responsibility, but you Why did you bring him to Grande now? Did Amelia completely push him to you? Who is irresponsible!"
Zach blinked, and finally, he seemed to have figured out where Louise's inexplicable temper came from one point and five days ago. Raising his eyebrows, Zach laughed, "Hehehe..." The man's self-esteem was satisfied in a strange way.
"What are you laughing at!" Louise pursed her lips, watching Zach walk to the bookcase, opening a stack of books in a familiar but slightly confusing position, taking out a wine bottle and a wine glass, smiling as he went up, He leaned against the desk and said, "There's nothing funny about this."
"Okay, I'm not laughing." Zach swung his wine glass and stopped laughing, but still had a smile on his face. "You put it like this, I suspect that this is what Amelia planned to do to bring Brian down. Push it to me."
Louise rolled her eyes, not admitting what she wanted. Uh, what woman wants recognition when questioning, uh.
"Okay, okay, let's be serious." Zach patted Louise's arm comfortingly and left it there shamelessly, "When we were at the mill, Brian had a treatment appointment, and he should have gone I went to see Emilia for counseling, but I didn’t go there.”
Zack was explaining. I still remember that when Brian left with Zach, he said that he had regular trips to Amelia's place, so he brought his medical records with him.
"When the appointment was confirmed, Amelia knew he was with me and skipped the treatment. As you should know, she is also quite busy. In addition to dealing with her own work, she also has to squeeze in time to prepare with Mrs. Quinn. Projects at the shelter.”
"That's not a reason." Louise squeezed Zach's hand and moved her arm away, leaving it in the air. "She is a doctor and he is a patient. The shelter project should be done in her spare time. How can you take up her work time!"
Zach could only retract his hand helplessly, "Okay, how about I remind her that she is responsible for her patients and reschedule the appointment?"
Louise didn't seem satisfied, "Then what? After Brian's treatment is over, where will he go back?"
This is the real problem. Louise mentioned that Amelia's responsibility to the patients was just her own petty concern. The real change for Grande was that Brian came to live in Grande.
"Here." Zach curled his lips helplessly, "Until I fix the mistakes that Ian made, I can't let Brian like this go back to his own home." Zach regarded what he said to Madison as repeated.
Louise opened her mouth. After all, everyone's hearts are soft. Louise closed her mouth again and shook her head, but immediately she pinched Zach's extended paw and dropped it in the air, "You should slowly adapt to the new environment! I'm going to organize the new exhibition hall and Decoration plan for the living room! Austin and the others gave us one day to consider!”
Zach raised his eyebrows, looked at Louise who had turned to open the door, and made a last-ditch effort, "Don't you want to report to me a summary of your work over the past few days, such as the funeral of Mr. and Mrs. Bishop?"
"I thought you had learned to read work reports at Madison's place!" Louise really didn't look back and closed the door with her backhand, "It's on your desk!" She knew Zach could hear it.
Zach looked at the door that was closed again, curled his lips, took a sip of wine, and turned to look at his desk. Sure enough, there was a pile of documents piled next to the phone that had been rearranged.
Our vampire sighed, sat on his comfortable office chair again after five days, pulled the file, and opened it.
The details of Old Bishop’s funeral, such as Julie, who was responsible for Bishop’s contact with the Grande Funeral Home family, and the condolences received at the secret funeral... Louise actually gave immediate feedback to Zach, and the entire funeral was made by Zach. Arranged by remote control.
So what Zach is looking at now is actually a very official record document, after removing all traces of being a foreigner like him, the last remaining document is simply a funeral home record document. After checking that there are no problems, it will be stored in the basement. If anyone is interested in this funeral in the future, all they have to do is produce a search warrant, and Grande's owner, Zach, will be able to show his duty as a good citizen and cooperate in handing it over.
Zach, who returned to Grande, seemed to immediately fall into the rhythm of his usual life in Grande, with leisure and plenty of time to be bored.
After reading the report, Zach swung his wine glass, twitched the corners of his lips, and picked up the newspaper that Louise had probably forgotten here.
Oh, the newspapers these days must be something that people related to Grande or foreigners care about, because they want to pay attention to the news about Bishop Manor!
Fortunately, everything is developing smoothly and smoothly as Zach arranged. On the page Louise opened, there were reports about Bishop—divorce, inheritance, and in a small corner, Bishop sued the security company.
Zach glanced at it and lost interest. He no longer paid attention to Bishop since yesterday.
Zach flipped through the newspaper and began to look for other things. The keywords were southeast, bodies in the sea, police confidentiality agreements...any of them.
By the way, isn't the Comic Con group coming back? Benjamin is coming back, so Zach goes back to Grande and waits. But don't forget, James is coming back too.
Zach thought it would be better to get some tips from James before he returned to the extremely busy police station in the North District at this time.
There is no other meaning. Zach just wants to make it clear early, "James, this matter has nothing to do with me." (..)