At this moment, he suddenly noticed something flickering under his feet, so he squatted down and took a look, and saw a 10-cent coin on the ground.
His face suddenly turned red with anger, he grabbed the coins and stuffed them into his trouser pocket, and then quickly continued chasing towards the fork in the road.
Unexpectedly, as soon as he stepped forward, Victor's figure emerged from the invisible state.
He pressed the brim of his hat, stared in the direction the little beggar was running, and turned back to the main road.
Victor didn't care who sent the other party, but since he was following him, he must have bad intentions. Victor would not reveal his residence easily.
When he walked outside the back door of the mansion, Victor did not go straight into the back garden. Instead, he opened the stone slab under the dark corner, put on a coarse linen blouse that had been hidden inside, and then opened the iron door and entered.
He first fed a bundle of hay to the black horse in the stable, then saw that the light in Will's room was still on, and then entered the house.
He knocked on the door of Will's room and called him out, and the two chatted in the study again.
"You need to pay more attention recently. If there is a sneaky person outside the house, remember to notify me in time."
Victor first reminded Will, but Will had already put on his pajamas and was obviously going to rest soon.
He yawned and asked Victor puzzledly why.
Victor told Will that he was being followed, making the other person completely sleepless.
Seeing his eyes flickering, Victor asked him again: "You seem to have other opinions on this matter?"
Will came back to his senses and immediately denied: "That's not true. In fact, I was thinking that the other party might be coming for me."
"Coming for you?" Victor showed a confused expression.
Will explained that he has been busy outside recently. He has to pay attention to the production of the brewery and communicate with the Huimin Chamber of Commerce. This process may attract the attention of some people.
This makes some sense. After all, if a "businessman" suddenly appears and seeks a way to enter the local upper class circle, it will inevitably attract attention.
But Victor did not think that he was implicated by Will, because he was a little beggar. Who would hire a beggar to follow someone?
"All in all, we'd better be careful."
"That's it, Mr. Victor." Will suddenly changed his voice and mentioned something else, "Since you are free tonight and I don't have any rest, let's talk about another special business."
Special business?
Victor frowned.
"Wait a minute, our brewery has just started, can you still be free to do other things?"
"No, just chatting and making plans for the future." Will picked up the water glass, which was warm water that he had heated himself.
"Okay... I'm listening." Victor spread his hands and looked at the pendulum standing next to the bookshelf.
Will smiled and said: "What do you think of the steel business in Saiguo?"
…
On the other side of Baker Street, at the Smart Eye Detective Agency, after returning home, de Gaulle also heated a pot of water for himself to make tea.
At this time, there was a knock on his door, and someone inserted a piece of paper through the horizontal hole under the door.
De Gaulle put down the kettle and opened the door, but did not pick up the piece of paper and stopped the child who was knocking on the door behind him.
"Come back here, I have something to ask you."
Looking at the banknotes flipping in De Gaulle's hand, the child swallowed his saliva and rushed into De Gaulle's room.
"Have you investigated it?" De Gaulle threw the page on the table and asked first.
The child hesitated and finally shook his head.
This kid is not alone. He has a small group that often collects intelligence for De Gaulle in the market. They had helped De Gaulle in the previous Roof case.
However, de Gaulle was very poor at the time and owed a lot of commissions to this group of children's detectives, so when they were working on the case of the Berkeley family, these children rejected his commission.
Now that De Gaulle had paid off his debt, he could once again send them to search for the man who escaped from the restaurant.
From the child's account, de Gaulle learned that one of his companions had seen a man nearby who looked very similar to what de Gaulle described.
It's just that he failed to keep up with the other party and let him slip away.
"This is the 10 French cents that my friend picked up." The child opened his hand, and there was a delicate coin inside. On the side facing up was the image of the first president of the country printed on it.
De Gaulle frowned.
"Throwing a coin on purpose means that the other party knows that they are being followed. This is a mockery of the little devils..." De Gaulle murmured softly, "But this also proves that you are following the right person and you have seen the color of that person's hair.
?"
"It was too dark, I didn't pay attention..." the child answered truthfully.
De Gaulle sighed, put the banknotes into the other person's hands, then patted his head and let him go.
After the door was closed, de Gaulle lit a cigarette and started smoking.
"He didn't kill the child. That guy is quite graceful..."
…
In Xianxiang Mansion, Welty's topic left Victor unable to answer.
Victor knew very little about the steel business in Saiguo, and it could almost be said that he never cared about it.
Will has a lot to say about this. He is still very motivated to make money and improve his social status.
"A large amount of steel in Saiguo is actually purchased from the Western Continent. The local production is far from enough. I have done an in-depth investigation on this."
After Will finished speaking, he took out a notebook from his coat and introduced it to Victor.
"Currently, Saigon has invested a lot of supplies and materials in the construction of the eastern part, among which steel is a scarce resource, including railways and bridge corridors."
"Especially for railways, in the past, wood was mostly used with a small amount of iron. However, the load-bearing capacity of wooden tracks was insufficient and they were easily cracked, causing the iron sheets to warp and cause accidents. Driven by the country's eastward policy, large areas were re-paved.
Rails are necessary."
Victor raised his hand to interrupt him: "I'm afraid we don't have the capital to engage in such heavy industry."
"No, you misunderstood. I just said that most of Saiguo's steel is actually purchased directly from the Western Continent, and the local production is far from enough." Will replied confidently, "This is mainly based on trade.
industry.”
Judging from a simple world map, the land area of the East Indian Continent is much larger than that of the entire Western Continent. Even though the central and eastern parts of Sai Country are underdeveloped, most of them have maintained their original landforms, and the natural resources contained therein are far greater.
Far more than the Greybean Empire.
Victor didn't know much about the steelmaking industry, but he knew that the country had this kind of technology, but there weren't many steelmaking plants.
"Compared to expanding the scale of steelmaking, Secred chose foreign trade...why?" Victor asked casually.
Will quickly replied: "It should be a cost issue. I am still analyzing the business opportunities here, so Mr. Victor, joining the Huimin Chamber of Commerce will be very useful for us to obtain intelligence information."