"Tony, I read in this memoir that my boss Tanda said that when he was a child, he drank Chinese tea. But in the past few years, all we drank in London were Indian tea. There was no way to buy Chinese tea!" Heidi turned over the page.
I asked Tangning curiously while reading the "Memoirs of Stendhal" that Tang Ning bought from Garris Bookstore.
Tang Ning closed the book "Flowers Through the Looking Glass" and replied slowly: "This is complicated to say. Initially, when Mr. Stendhal was a child, the tea that the British drank was indeed imported from China, but because the Chinese themselves
The country was prosperous, and everything was abundant. They would not buy anything from these British merchants, leaving Britain with only a trade deficit with China. In order to get rid of this embarrassing situation, the British began to steal tea seeds and tea-making technology from China.
, and then took it to their colony in India for cultivation, so now everyone in Britain drinks Indian black tea!”
Then he added: "Although this description is very accurate, this so-called "Memoirs of Stendhal" is not necessarily written by Mr. Stendhal, so you should not take everything in it seriously!"
"Ah?! You're not sure if it was written by Mr. Stendhal, so why did you buy it back?" Heidi asked in confusion.
Of course, Tangning couldn't say that because when she was looking through it, she found a lot of very impressive scene descriptions, so she planned to buy it back and refer to it together with the ukiyo-e she got from Warner Bros., so she said perfunctorily: "I'm not sure what I said.
It was written by Mr. Stendhal, but it is also possible that if it is true, wouldn't it be worth collecting?" Then he added: "It's not expensive anyway."
"That's right. But Tony, I don't think China has everything. There were many things we couldn't buy when we went there last time!" Heidi asked again.
Tang Ning explained: "There is no country in the world that has everything. It's just that the Qing government is unwilling to do business with foreigners, lest its citizens discover that there is another world and another way of living, which will not be conducive to them."
reigns!"
The two were chatting when suddenly the butler Robert came in to report: "Master, Mr. Hager is here!"
Tangning frowned when she heard the name "Hager": "Why is he here?"
Rob naturally knew that his master had a bad relationship with Mr. Hager recently, so he explained: "I don't know, but he looks very anxious!"
"What urgent matter does he have for me? Okay, I'll go take a look!" Tang Ning stood up and said.
But when Tangning walked to the living room, the maid at the door said to him: "Master, Mr. Hager just said that he was in a hurry and left!"
"Why did you come to me if you were in an emergency? And no matter how urgent it is, it only takes two minutes, right? This person is really inexplicable!" Tang Ning said displeased.
Although Tangning was unhappy, she didn't take it seriously. Unexpectedly, two days later, Sheriff Klein suddenly came to his door and asked, "Tony, did Mr. Hager come to see you two days ago?"
Tangning nodded and replied, "Yes."
"Then what did he tell you?" Sheriff Klein asked.
"You didn't tell me anything, because I didn't see him at all!" Tangning replied.
"What?! You didn't even see him, so why did you say he came to see you?" Sheriff Klein asked in confusion.
"This is what happened." Tangning then explained the situation at that time.
"Oh, that's it. Then call the housekeeper and the maid. I have something to ask them!"
Tangning agreed without hesitation: "No problem, but can I ask, did something happen to Mr. Hager?"
"Mr. Hager is missing, and according to the clues currently available, his last stop was your home!" Sheriff Klein explained.
"Haggar is missing?!" Tangning couldn't help but exclaimed.
Sheriff Klein replied: "Well, we have been looking for a day, but we can't find it. And there is no record of him leaving New Orleans at the station or the dock."
"This is really weird!" Tang Ning murmured to herself.
At this time, the housekeeper and the maid came over. Sheriff Klein went over to inquire, but he didn't get any new clues, so he said goodbye and left.
After Chief Klein left, Heidi came over and asked, "Tony, do you think Mr. Hager was killed?"
Tangning thought for a moment and then replied: "I can't rule out this possibility. After all, he has been missing for several days, but I still pray for him. After all, although I hate this person a bit, I don't want anything to happen to him!"
Unexpectedly, a few days later, the newspaper published the news that Mr. Hager was murdered. The body was found in a home in the French Quarter. The reporter was a neighbor of the home who knocked on the door because he smelled a bad smell.
As a result, they couldn't open the door. They originally thought that this family had been murdered. They hadn't seen the couple for several days, so they reported the crime. But they didn't expect that the dead body was Mr. Hager, and the head of the household and his wife were not there.
"But according to our investigation, Mr. and Mrs. Wilson had already left New Orleans before Mr. Hager's death, so this matter should not have anything to do with them!" Chief Klein said with a frown.
"But if it has nothing to do with them, then why did Hager's body appear in their house?" Tangning asked.
Sheriff Klein waved his hands and said, "I want to know too!"
"Can we now determine the exact time of Hager's death?" Tangning asked again.
Sheriff Klein shook his head and replied: "Because it was discovered too late and the body was too decomposed, there is no way to accurately judge. We can only make judgments based on the clues provided by Rob and the others."
After Chief Klein left, the butler Rob suddenly came over and said to Tangning anxiously, "Master, I want to ask you something!"
"What do you mean?" Tang Ning replied casually.
Robert hesitated for a moment, and then said as if he had made up his mind: "Master, I want to resign!"
"Resign, resign?" Tangning couldn't believe her ears for a moment.
Rob explained: "That's right, I am resigning. Master, I am getting older now. Sometimes I forget things and my physical strength is no longer good. So I thought it would be better to go home and retire, so as not to delay your affairs, Master."
Son!"
Tangning agreed with Robert's explanation, because Robert was indeed quite old, over fifty, and he had been a housekeeper for the family since his father's generation, so he was considered a veteran of two dynasties.
, so it’s understandable that I want to retire now, so I nodded and agreed: "Okay, then you can go back to your hometown and take care of yourself. I will ask Heidi to give you two more years of salary later. If you need money or help in the future,