"Find a place to have a drink?", Kevin has an intuition that he may have found something terrible, so his tone has become very relaxed, more like the communication between friends than the trading of red fruits.
His words had a good effect. Niels nodded and agreed. He and Kevin found a bar nearby, asked for a very remote corner, and ordered a bottle of quite good spirits.
Now the Bureau of contraband investigation is facing a very embarrassing situation. At the beginning, this bureau was proposed by Mr. MARGES to be established in order to support the second prohibition order, so as to tear apart the territory of the old party. Part of this has indeed been achieved. The Bureau of contraband investigation has a lot of power and is directly responsible to the State Bureau. It does not go through or accept the management of the city hall.
Some places, such as tenell, have played such a role.
But in the territory of the new party, the Bureau of contraband investigation is a little embarrassed. They don''t need to exercise their own power here. For example, like Elian, most bars have their own business licenses, and the largest wine merchant Du Lin also has a wine license. After having legal documents, their behavior is legal and not targeted by the Bureau of contraband investigation. In such a city, the life of the Bureau of contraband investigation is not easy.
Orlando is obviously the same. Bars in rich areas basically have business licenses. Although most bars in lower urban areas do not have this paper, these people are not so easy to catch unless they are reported by peers. At the same time, there is another problem. Even if there is dirt among peers, they will not report it. They will achieve their goals through official means. This dishonorable means will be despised by everyone and even lead to the reputation crisis of the gang.
Under such circumstances, RAD on the territory of the new party is like a somewhat redundant department with nothing to do all day.
After they sat down, they drank a little wine and felt relaxed. Nells didn''t know how to speak. It was not what he wanted to say, but Kevin took his key. In fact, all works of art entering the governor''s office will be registered and recorded in a book. This book is still in the safe in the warehouse of the governor''s office. After the governor''s death, all the keys were taken back by Vivian. It seems that women with no intention actually have their own style.
The book recorded more than 300 works of art, including who sent them and when, but now the total number of works of art in the governor''s office is less than 285, and more than 20 works of art have completely disappeared.
Niles didn''t have the courage to do such a crazy thing. Although it''s not the old society in the past, the nobles don''t even need any evidence. They can let the police arrest people only on suspicion, but once the matter is exposed, he won''t be better. Hundreds of years in prison is certain, unless he can plug this loophole.
As long as he has money.
The problem is that he has no money, or he only gets a small part of the money.
The idea of stealing the governor''s works of art and taking them out for cash is the idea of Vivian''s two brothers, who will preside over it. Under the pretext of threatening the work of Niles and another person, they will take those works of art that the governor doesn''t like out of the governor''s house on the grounds of "maintenance", and then switch them back.
What is sent back is not a high imitation fake thing, but the original picture frame or base, plus some messy things. After completing the warehousing procedures, it will be sent to the collection room. Over the years, they have stolen a lot of things to sell. For the first time, they may have been threatened, condemned by their conscience and worried. However, under the appeasement of a large amount of income, they gradually get used to the "poison" of the idea that "son stealing Lao Tzu is not a thief", which has become a matter of course.
As soon as the two young owners ran out of money, they would steal a work of art and send it to the Federation for sale. Five percent of the money they got was divided between their two craftsmen, and the rest was divided between Vivian''s two brothers.
The original plan was to steal and destroy the register of all works of art at about the same time, so that even if the governor noticed, nothing would happen. After all, he could not remember all the things in his collection. When they selected works of art, they looked for things that had not appeared in the governor''s house for a long time.
Who could have thought that the governor suddenly fell down and his power was shrinking, especially when the imperial dynasty was overthrown and the new party came to power, and those who used to flatter him were gone. How can the governor take out that book without registering it? They have no reason to ask for this thing. The whole governor''s office is in the charge of the housekeeper. Without reason and excuse, even if they have fooled the governor, they can''t fool the housekeeper.
That''s why I left a handle.
Once the matter is revealed, nothing can happen to the two children of the governor. They just take out their things and sell them, and the two craftsmen will be unlucky, because their behavior is legally defined as "theft". The value of those works of art is amazing. Once they stand in court, it means that they will never leave prison in their life.
Originally, nells and another craftsman were careful. With the deterioration of the governor''s body and the severe decline of energy and memory in recent years, they gradually relaxed their vigilance. In the past, those invisible money can finally be used, and naturally began to pay attention to style. After staying in a place like the governor''s house for a long time, they have higher aesthetics and taste. The turf of one dollar per square meter is very in line with Niles''s aesthetics. He can afford such expenses, so he used it.
It was the turf that exposed his feet.
Kevin''s words pierced his psychological defense. He was not sure whether Kevin would really do that. He asked someone to accuse him of stealing things from the governor''s house, but once he did that, the housekeeper of the governor''s house would start checking all the works of art, and something really big would happen at that time.
Even after drinking a glass and a half of liquor, Niles was a little drunk. He held his head in pain and shook his body, "I don''t know what to say..."
Kevin patted him gently on the back. "Just like chatting, tell me what happened. You know, I''m the best lawyer in the Empire. With my help, even if you kill someone, I can convince the judge that it''s the man who deserves to die, not you."
Kevin''s words seemed to be the light that tore the night at dawn. He raised his head and looked at Kevin with praying eyes. "What you said is true?" Kevin nodded and seriously confirmed his doubts. He began to slowly say what happened. Both sides are dead. It''s better to choose a slower way to die, "You know, the characteristic of our work is to keep those works of art in their original appearance, so we often send some works of art that cannot be handled in the governor''s office to a more professional place for maintenance..."
At more than one o''clock in the evening, three empty wine bottles had been placed on the table. Nells had fallen asleep and slept on his vomit. Kevin put down his pen and breathed a sigh of relief. He was sure to win the case.
Two thieves and two inside thieves may be a joke in an ordinary family, but it is definitely a scandal in the house of an important political figure in the imperial dynasty, such as the governor. Scandals always have more and greater lethality than jokes.
Kevin glanced at nells sleeping in vomit. He raised his hand, snapped his fingers and took out twenty yuan to the waiter who came to inquire, "give him a bath, wash his clothes off and tell him to find a gentleman named Kevin tomorrow morning."
The waiter looked at nells, who lay in vomit and rolled. After weighing the pros and cons, he reached out and took down twenty dollars between Kevin''s fingers. "I see, sir."
"Good!" Kevin patted the waiter on the shoulder. "Smart people never earn as much as honest people!"
At more than nine o''clock the next morning, Niels rang the doorbell of the governor''s house. The housekeeper looked at Niels strangely. After the governor returned to God, all the non direct confidants in the governor''s house were dismissed by Vivian, including Mr. Niels. However, he asked politely, "what can I do for you?"
Nells hung his head slightly and said, "I want to see Mr. Kevin!"
He swore that he would never drink again, at least not alcohol. He didn''t know what he said last night. He vaguely remembered that he seemed to say what he couldn''t say, and scolded the two young masters.
God, this is not what he really wants to do. It''s all because the guy named Kevin drank so much that he said something he shouldn''t say. He can''t remember a lot.
When he woke up in the guest room on the second floor of the bar in the morning, he knew that he was going to be finished. Now the only hope was on Mr. Kevin. He came to Kevin according to the waiter''s message to see if there was any way to turn around. He didn''t want to be completely innocent, but wanted to spend less years in prison.
Not long after asking Kevin''s opinion, the housekeeper opened the door, let nells in, and pointed out the room number where Kevin now lives. Nells soon saw Kevin. Kevin was sitting in a chair by the window, writing something.
"Did you sleep well last night?", he looked at Niles with a smile, and the sun fell on him, making him look like he was shining.
"Not at all!"