Early on the third day after arriving in France, before the sun had fully risen, an inconspicuous off-road vehicle drove into the small town that Weiran had visited before.
In the cab of this off-road vehicle, Wei Ran was in charge of driving, and sitting in the co-pilot was Carlos's lawyer, who had just arrived last night.
But the one who occupied the back seat exclusively was the dog Beria, who was holding a cow bone and chewing it with great joy.
"That's the old guy." Wei Ran pointed to the small shop across the road that had just opened its rolling shutter door.
Looking in the direction of Wei Ran's finger, Carlos noticed the old man standing at the door at a glance.
"They look really alike!" Carlos couldn't help but admired.
"With whom? Mr. Dominic?" While Wei Ran was talking, he had already taken a photo of the old man standing at the door cleaning with a pipe in his mouth with the SLR camera in his hand.
"if not?"
Carlos asked rhetorically, "He looks really similar to Mr. Dominic from more than ten years ago. Of course, Mr. Dominic doesn't have a goatee."
"He must be able to grow a beard..." Wei Ran couldn't help but cursed secretly.
Just at this moment, a small fresh food truck drove over from a distance and honked its horn from a distance.
Upon seeing this, the old man at the door of the shop immediately put down the broom in his hand, turned around, took out a fake leather tool bag from the shop, and tied it around his waist.
"What is he doing?" Carlos couldn't help but ask.
"have no idea"
Wei Ran paused, then pressed the shutter again while continuing, "But yesterday I asked your staff to find his local friends to find a way to come here and ask."
"How to say?"
Carlos stared intently at the old guy outside the car window, quickly pulled down the rolling shutter door, and then got into the cab of the refrigerated truck.
At the same time, Wei Ran also pointed the camera lens at the flat-chested girl driving the car, took the opportunity to take a close-up of the other person's face, and then handed the camera to Carlos who was walking beside him.
He turned the car around and followed him from a distance and explained, "It is said that Mr. Dominique Loew is a retired butcher from the local slaughterhouse."
"Butcher?" Carlos raised his eyebrows.
"That's right"
Wei Ran explained with a smile, "His life was pretty good originally, but about ten years ago, his son and daughter-in-law died in a traffic accident, leaving him only a granddaughter."
Wei Ran pointed forward, "If nothing else goes wrong, the girl who just drove the fresh food truck should be his granddaughter Koko Loew.
After graduating from junior college last year, this girl chose to come back and run the store just now with her grandfather. Every morning, she and her grandfather would go to a nearby slaughterhouse to do odd jobs for half a day, and come back to run them in the afternoon.
of meat shops."
"What else did you find out?" Carlos asked with interest.
"This girl's butchering skills are very good, I saw it with my own eyes."
Wei Ran paused and continued reluctantly, "In addition, she has been applying for the veterinary examination since last year. Although she has not obtained the license yet, she is already very skilled in castrating animals. These are obtained from a farmer.
It came from my son’s mouth.”
"What else?" Carlos continued to ask.
“She and her grandpa’s fees are very cost-effective.”
Wei Ran said as if squeezing out toothpaste, "If the surrounding farmers want to slaughter animals privately, they will come to them. However, in France, it is illegal to slaughter animals privately. It is said that last year, his grandfather almost got six
months in prison and was forced to pay a fine of nearly 10,000 euros."
"return…"
"No more," Wei Ran replied helplessly, "It's good to have so many questions."
"All right"
Lawyer Cross, who was in his sixties, shrugged, but remained quiet for less than half a minute before continuing to ask, "Where are they going?"
"The only local slaughterhouse is behind us.
"Wei Ran gestured his thumb behind him, "I guess they are going to make some extra money, so do we still want to follow them?"
"Follow!"
Carlos said without thinking, "Mr. Dominic asked me to see their real living conditions for him."
"All right"
Wei Ran responded indifferently, drove the car, followed the pitiful small fresh food truck in front of him and left the town, and finally watched it drive into a private farm.
After stepping on the brakes a long way away, Wei Ran opened the door and, using the cover of his backpack, took out the telescope from the metal book and handed it to Carlos.
"You are so well prepared," Carlos couldn't help but said as he took the telescope.
"I am a historian"
Wei Ran responded naturally - even though there seems to be no logical relationship between carrying a telescope and investigating historical mysteries.
Fortunately, Lawyer Carlos didn't seem to know much about the work of historians, so when he saw Wei Ran's tone being so natural, he believed it and raised his telescope to look inside the farm.
Although the telescope in his hand had sufficiently clear and sharp image quality, the cold food truck drove directly into the warehouse, and even the door of the warehouse was tightly closed from the inside.
Almost as soon as Carlos returned the telescope to Weiran with a look of regret, a dilapidated pickup truck also drove out of the farm and parked sideways at the gate of the farm.
"Want to go in and take a look?" Wei Ran asked with a smile.
"I didn't think it would be that easy to get in."
Carlos raised his chin towards the farm gate, "As you just said, it is illegal to slaughter livestock privately."
"It is not illegal to watch private slaughter"
As Wei Ran said that, he had already gotten into the car. After Carlos followed him in and settled down, he immediately stepped on the accelerator and drove to the farm gate.
To Carlos's expectation, almost at the same time that the off-road vehicle drove to the gate of the farm, the tattered pickup truck actually gave way to the road. Even the young man sitting in the cab was far away and said enthusiastically
He waved his hand towards Wei Ran.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Seeing Carlos looking at him blankly, Wei Ran explained with a smile, "I asked your staff to negotiate with this farm. They will hire people today."
The grandfather and grandson helped them castrate a few piglets and lambs they had raised, and also slaughtered some sheep they planned to cull.
Of course, these cost money, including the purchase of the sheep for slaughter, which cost a total of two thousand euros, which must be included in the cost of the investigation."
Carlos twitched the corner of his mouth and said calmly, "You...you are really dedicated to your duties."
"For a commission of US$2.7 million," Wei Ran said truthfully.
"You will not lose your commission," Carlos promised, dumbfounded.
“I have never doubted Mr. Dominic’s credibility or your professionalism”
Wei Ran complimented sincerely and stepped on the brakes at the entrance of the warehouse. After the pickup truck behind him caught up, he immediately took out a baseball cap and a mask and put them on. As for Carlos, he forgot about it.
Neither my grandfather nor my grandchildren have seen him.
Under the leadership of the young man who followed, Lawyer Wei Ran and Carlos quietly walked into Nuoda's warehouse along the side door.
Before they could see the grandfather and grandson, they heard the sharp and piercing sounds of pigs and sheep. Following the ear-piercing sound, Wei Ran could not help but grin. Not far away, a man named
Dominique Loew's old man was skillfully pressing a piglet to the ground and completing the castration operation in three strokes.
Next to him, the girl named Kou Kou had already lifted an adult sheep head down with the help of the electric swing arm at the rear of the refrigerated truck.
With a soft and inaudible sound of "Zi La La", the sheep immediately straightened its limbs and stopped moving.
The girl threw the electric shock device into the carriage with a "clang" sound. The girl rubbed the knife in her hand with the sharpener and cut open the sheepskin with an expressionless face. After three strokes, she cut off a piece of skin and the sheep's head.
Throw it aside, and then it begins, which is completely pleasing to the eye.
The work of cleaning internal organs and cutting up corpses.
In just a few minutes, with a clattering sound, the cleaned mutton was hung on the hook and pushed into the interior of the cold food truck along the slide rail.
At the same time, the old man on the other side of the truck had skillfully prepared the medicine and started injecting the piglets that had just been cut.
As Wei Ran and Carlos watched, in less than an hour, a total of 8 sheep were skinned, gutted and sent to the cold food truck. At the same time, the old man had also castrated 9 baby piglets and 5 baby piglets.
The lambs were given some injections that might be vaccines.
"How do you feel?" Wei Ran asked in a low voice to lawyer Carlos beside him.
"Very skilled." Carlos, the lawyer who had been filming secretly with his cell phone just now, sighed, "I can see that this job is also very hard."
"Do you want to talk to them?" Wei Ran asked in a low voice.
"Let's talk in their store later," Carlos said, turning around and leaving the noisy warehouse, calling Wei Ran to drive away from the farm first.
Almost as soon as they left, the refrigerated truck also drove out of the warehouse and stopped at the door of the room. Under the command of the farmer's family, seven of the newly slaughtered sheep were sent into a large freezer in the basement.
I only took the remaining end and some water and left the farm and drove towards the town.
Almost as soon as the cold food truck stopped again at the entrance of the store, Wei Ran, who had changed into a coat, also led his dog Beria, and walked over with Carlos one behind the other.
"Young man, I remember you and your pet."
Dominic Loew, who had just gotten off the bus, recognized Wei Ran, who had taken off his mask and hat. Of course, to be more precise, he actually recognized Beria, who was shaking his head and tail.
"Hello, Mr. Dominic."
Wei Ran smiled and said hello, and took the initiative to introduce, "This is lawyer Carlos. He wants to talk to you."
"Lawyer? What are you talking about?" Dominique Love's expression changed instantly.
"Don't get me wrong." Wei Ran waved his hand, "He is a lawyer from the United States, no matter what happens in France."
"A lawyer coming to the United States?"
Dominic Love looked at Wei Ran suspiciously, then at Carlos, and finally asked, "What's going on?"
"Do you speak German or English?" Wei Ran asked with a smile, "Mr. Carlos does not speak French." "I speak German."
Before he finished speaking, the girl named Kou Kou had already walked over from the direction of the front of the car. After taking off her gloves and mask, she took the initiative to reach out to Carlos and asked in less than proficient German, "I am Kou Kou, how are you?"
What do you want from my grandfather?"
After looking at this young girl who looked very similar to Long Ma, Wei Ran wisely chose to shut up and pulled Gouzi back, giving Carlos room to talk.
After Carlos shook hands with the girl, he introduced himself very formally, and then said, "Miss Kouco, please tell Mr. Dominique Loew that I have a legacy here that he may need to inherit.
.So if it is convenient, we need a quiet environment to have a good talk."
"heritage?"
There was a trace of confusion on Kou Kou's face, but soon she translated the core content to her grandfather.
"I was raised by nuns in the church. How can I inherit any inheritance?"
After listening to Kou Kou's translation, the old man opened the door of the cold food truck without caring, "I still have to do business. If you want to defraud some money, you'd better..."
"Ms. Nadia Hill is your mother, right?"
Before Wei Ran finished speaking, the old man who was about to carry the sheep into the store looked back at Wei Ran in surprise, "How do you know?"
Just know who your mother is...
Wei Ran suddenly felt confident. He reached into his pocket and took out the one thousand euros he had prepared and handed it to Kou Kou. He deliberately said in German, "One thousand euros, buy an hour of conversation time, as long as you can convince your grandfather."
I'm willing to spend an hour listening to it
Listen to what Mr. Carlos is going to say, this money is yours."
"make a deal!"
Kou Kou had already taken the money from Wei Ran before she finished speaking. Then, under the dull gaze of the old man beside her, she stuffed the money into her pocket as usual, "Grandpa, I think we can just do it."
Rest for an hour."
"Let's talk"
Wei Ran patted Carlos gently on the shoulder, pulled the dog, who was trying hard to jump into the cold food truck for a bite of meat, and turned around and got into the off-road vehicle parked on the roadside.
