Me! Cleaner!.

Chapter 50: A major case caused by nineteen copper wheels
"The trend has already been established..."

Although it may sound a bit childish, Leon thought about it again and again and felt that this sentence was extremely appropriate to describe the current situation of Charles Department Store.

When Charles Department Store first started causing trouble, maybe someone could have stopped it. After all, if the train hadn't started, all you had to do to stop it was put a small piece of wood on the track.

But now the commotion is so big, more and more people are benefiting, and even more people are eagerly waiting for compensation. It is like the train has already started running. At this time, let alone a piece of wood, even a solid iron wall will be hit through if it dares to block the way!

Amidst the curiosity about old Charles and the casual chat with the coachman, the steam carriage roared along the way and had already arrived near the building of Charles Department Store headquarters.

Looking out through the polished glass, seeing the crazy crowd outside and the big money box that was about to be filled, Lyon couldn't help but be amazed. While marveling at the generosity of old Charles, he took out two silver wheels and handed them to the coachman with heartache.

"give change!"

"..."

The coachman couldn't help but smack his lips speechlessly as he watched Leon calmly reaching out his hand to him after paying.

My goodness, it's twenty-two kilometers from the starting point to here, twenty-two minus five plus two, so you should be charged nineteen copper coins for this trip. I answered all the questions along the way and talked to you at the top of my voice for such a long time, but you are not willing to give me even a copper coin tip?
I'll just detain you to death!
I'm sorry, tipping is a bad habit of rich people. I have been poor for two lifetimes and have not yet completely escaped poverty. I don't deserve such luxurious expenses.

With the coachman's contempt, Leon took the change from a copper wheel, held the folder with dried blood in his arms, and got off the carriage feeling happy but depressed.

What had driven him to steal information from the water company and contact the newspaper to expose the incident was his desire to help those patients who were screaming in the hospital corridor. He felt that only by exposing the incident and making a big deal about it would there be a chance for these people to get adequate compensation for their treatment.

But now, before he could successfully expose the matter, those patients had already started to receive compensation. The burden was lifted, and while Leon breathed a sigh of relief, he also couldn't help feeling a sense of disappointment that his efforts had come to nothing.

Hmm...why not go meet that "Old Charles"!

Thinking of what he heard outside the water company's meeting room, Lyon, who was standing on the street, pondered for a while and then walked towards the Charles Department Store building.

When I heard the argument in the conference room, it seemed that the three noble families headed by Lionheart Ryan wanted to take over Charles Department Store, so they deliberately reduced the number of filtration times and filled the public pool with unpurified sewage.

Although the patients have received compensation, the three bastards have not been punished. I just happen to have the operation records of the water company and several documents of approval from the upper and lower levels.

Although "punishing evil" is not as high a priority as "helping the needy", after all, tons of bad things happen in the kingdom every day, and I can't handle it all, but...

Now that I'm here, I can't waste my twenty copper wheels!
……

"You mean, the most important documents are missing?"

After listening to the report given by the detective agency, the dark-skinned old man frowned, bent his knuckles, which had become thick due to years of hard work, and knocked heavily on the thick ash wood desk in front of him, and said with an unhappy look:

"Don't even mention just bribing some security guards and archivists. The fees I've paid you these days are enough to bribe a county councillor. Are you really working hard for me?"

"Well... Mr. Charles, the situation this time is a little special..."

Seeing their biggest sponsor angry, the detectives couldn't help but change their expressions and quickly explained:

"We really tried our best. We not only bribed two security teams and several followers of the Tower Shield family, but also kidnapped the family members of many employees in the archives of the water company. While your wife held three consecutive meetings to divert everyone's attention, the entire water company was at its most relaxed, and our people had completely taken control of the archives.

But just a few minutes after our people sorted out several documents and followed the archivists into the inner room and began searching for the remaining files, that damn security manager happened to enter the outer room.

I don't know what kind of luck he had. We had nearly thirty files piled up on the table, and he just took the two most important ones. Mr. Charles, we really..."

"Okay, I'm not interested in your stories!"

Glancing at the gloomy look on the detective's face, old Charles, with bloodshot eyes, couldn't help but frown and said unkindly:

"Whatever mistakes you made are your business. What I want is evidence that those three old noble families, especially the Ryan family, deliberately violated the rules! Since the thing is in the hands of the security manager, go get it back for me!"

"This one……"

The detective took out a handkerchief, wiped the hot sweat from his head, bent his waist and lowered his head and said:

"As soon as our people found out something was missing, they followed. But not long after the security manager got the file, it was snatched away by someone who sneaked into the meeting room. He was the policeman who saved your wife.

After taking the things, the policeman led our people to run around in the water company. He probably installed tripwires in some hidden places in advance, causing our people to fall and bleed, and several of them fainted in one breath..."

He paused at this point, asked the person with gauze tied around his head to come over, opened his mouth to show the empty gums between his front teeth, and then continued to explain with a wry smile:
"Mr. Charles, I know this sounds hard to believe, but look at his teeth... Our people really chased him desperately, but they really couldn't catch up with him.

The main reason was that guy's physical fitness was incredibly strong, and he seemed to have undergone some special training. After he played a trick on our people and made sure that no one could catch up and disturb him, he rushed to the sixth floor in less than ten seconds.

Then he kicked the air vent and broke it, and flipped out directly from the sixth floor. It seemed that he ran away on the slide rail that was fastened in advance. Our people chased him all the way, but in the end they didn’t even see what he looked like…”

"Then go find someone who has met him!"

After reaching out to press his buzzing head, Old Charles knocked on the table twice again with a cold face.

"I have raised you for so many years, spending so much money every year, and hiring so many people in total, all for the sake of being useful at a time like this!
No matter if it's money or some other means, no matter who he is, you have to find him for me! Get those documents!"

"Okay Mr. Charles, we are already doing this!"

Seeing that the old man didn't seem to be prepared to continue to pursue his responsibility, the detectives were overjoyed and nodded repeatedly, assuring:

“That man kept his head down and covered his face with the brim of his hat. The only two people who saw his full face were your daughter and that lucky security manager.

And because your wife suddenly fell ill, your daughter was crying a little... excitedly, so we couldn't see clearly and couldn't describe the man's appearance. So we focused our investigation on the security manager, and now we have found some clues!

Mr. Charles, don't worry, as long as the information has not been destroyed, we at Silver Hook guarantee to get it back for you!"

(End of this chapter)