Vol 4 Chapter 4: Ledger

If it was n’t for Grande to come as a guest, this group of people would probably have been ‘guesting’ here in Portage. But even if there was a guest, only Zac went back alone.
"Mr. Grand! I'm so glad you would like to see me!"
The guests are familiar. Moreover, the other party's excited expression is not like who died at home. Therefore, it is not a matter of funeral industry.
"You look familiar, have we met?"
"Have seen! Mrs. Quinn had just seen at the funeral! Did you forget? I am Amanda (Mrs. Quinn's cousin) cousin!"
"You don't need it, Zac is enough." Corrected the title earlier, so as not to be uncomfortable, "Is there something?" Amanda's cousin, Zac thought for a moment, as if there was indeed this man-
Mrs. Quinn was ‘dead’, and Amanda, who was under the care of Mrs. Quinn, was unemployed. Amanda had certainly come to the funeral the other day, but Zac did n’t make much contact. Naturally because of Louise's relationship, but there are still ceremonial communication, vaguely, Amanda still in pain seems to introduce his cousin.
"Ah!" This cousin probably thought that Zac remembered his name, and he didn't introduce himself, a simple guy, "That's it, I, originally, came to pick Amanda's family back to their hometown, they are here anyway There ’s nothing left to do. Our family has a small business in the middle, huh, huh, it ’s been pretty good lately. In the past, their family saved some money with Mrs. Quinn on the side of Patton, which helped us a lot. , Now their family, uh, you know, so we want to help him ... "
Zac has long been distracted. But it must be, a face is listening carefully.
"... Aren't Amanda collating the Indo-An cultural collection donated by Mrs. Quinn to Smith these days? She found this account book, and it is not an important thing. It is the record of Mrs. Quinn's acquisition of some collections in recent years ... … "
Zac is thinking about other things, things.
In the past half month, two things belonged to the Patton people, and one of them was the death of Mrs. Quinn. The other is that the well-known self-exploitation case has been solved by non-stop exposure in the news. Don't talk about these two. One more thing, it should have been an important change of Barton as a city, but it became gossip due to a boring reason-
Mayor Anthony funded Smith to build the Barton Museum on the site of the Herman factory. The project was handed over to the ex-wife Ethela, who is often present at the event with the mayor, and her current husband after a less public tender. The official answer written in the news is that Ethella's husband has experience in planning and building cultural projects in Newton. Gossip, yes, the mayor compensates him for taking up his wife every day, or creating more opportunities to take up his wife ...
"... Well, I just want to help. I can understand such things as books, so I just want to help Amanda sort out a collection catalog, better than a woman who knows nothing about it. Send Smith the same thing. The expenditures in this account are very clear, such as totem sculptures in tribes, traditional clothes, even if Mrs. Quinn did not know what the thing she bought at the time, it will be made up after the identification. How convenient it is to sort it out, right, I am kind ... "
Adding a touch of flavor to this gossip is that the mayor's secretary resigned. Does anybody remember the secretary who once accompanied Anthony to work in the middle of the night and urged the mayor to eat a healthy diet?
No one cared about the important project to make Barton more complete as a city, and it all became a picture of a beautiful secretary crying in a coffee shop in the warm afternoon in the gossip version.
"... Then I found that for a long time, every time, months, and years, there was a" maintenance "expenditure in the accounts. Sometimes the amount was awkward, amazing, and sometimes it was ordinary. This is strange. , I asked Amanda if she had any impressions about Mrs. Quinn ’s 'maintenance', but she said no, and then asked me not to manage these accounts, ha ha ... "
Zac is already thinking about more things. You said, will the headline in the newspaper a few days later be that a secretary is pregnant? Sorry, Zac has chased Mo with soap opera for several days. Idle. Don't ask why you are free.
"... Then, I checked. The last" maintenance "expenditure was the day before Mrs. Quinn died, and the amount was ..." There are many zero figures.
Zac lost his mind and looked at the smiling guy on the opposite side.
"I went to the bank to inquire about it. On the day, a guest cashed a check of the same amount ~" Laughing.
Zac looked at the smiling guy across from him. The focus was a little weird. "Can the customer's business in the bank be heard?"
The other party was stunned for a moment, probably did not expect that Zack would care about this kind of thing, "Uh, anyway, I heard, you don't care about this. The person who exchanged checks is ..." Watching Zack's movement, he suspended himself As I said, there are still some smiles on my face, "What are you doing?"
"Don't care about me, you continue." Zac picked up the receiver and started dialing.
The smile from the person opposite has disappeared, tone ... Everyone feels from the content, "The person who exchanges checks is your brother! Mr. Grand! Do you have anything to explain!"
The phone was on, Zach squinted and stared at his opponent, "Benjamin?"
"Yeah." Alpha was probably sleeping, a lazy response.
"Did you cash the cheque given by Mrs. Quinn that day?" Zack asked.
"Yep."
"Uh, why? Are you short of money?"
"No shortage."
"Why?"
"Isn't she going to die the next day, what if I can't do it later?" Alpha seemed to say a very reasonable reason.
"Uh, you have a bit of common sense, of course, it can be exchanged." Zack was helpless. "Isn't Poach alive yet."
"I'm not too lazy to find him." It is a very reasonable reason.
"Hey." I can't go back, that beautiful once. Zac had no patience to speak to Benjamin, "Do you know that your cheque exchange was discovered, and people are sitting across from me to say this." Zac took the time to look at the guy on the other side while impatient , "It's okay, you continue."
Continue to fart, the opposite face has seemed to be constipated.
Zac's phone call continued.
Benjamin over the receiver, "Who, do we know?"
"No, Amand's cousin, who met at the funeral, I didn't even remember his name." Zac was honest.
"Then what are you bothering about, people are there anyway, just deal with it, so that I won't bother."
"Treat? Do you have suggestions?"
"killed."
"Uh, take Benjamin seriously."
"How do I know, whatever you want."
"Uh, forget it."
"Um. It's alright, I'm hanging up."
Hang it.
Zac put down the phone and looked back at the person opposite, "So, what do you want me to do?" A very sincere question.
"I, I want to ..."
Zac waited a while, impatiently, and waved his hand, "Amanda knows you are here?"
"I don't know." Confused and nervously stared at Zac, "What do you want to do to me ?!"
"This question should be answered by me." Zach shook his head, reached for the phone again, and continued to ask questions when dialing. "Is the account book now in the hands of the police?"
"No! I'm hiding !!" I don't know if this guy is cheering himself up or something, his voice and momentum are inexplicably elevated.
The phone was on, "Pochi? Go and ask if there is a ledger that records all the transactions of the Quinn family in the dark."
Boqi seems to be drunk, "Why?"
"I have a person here, saying that I found this book. The last expense is the compensation paid by Mrs. Quinn to Benjamin. Oh, yes, it is used to record the account book that Mrs. Quinn usually bought the collection." The guy who looked across the face who had been constipated for a week, looked to confirm that he was right.
"Oh, no need to ask, there is such a book, I have seen it."
"have you seen?"
"Of course, we paid Mu En before ..." The voice was a little lower, apparently so as not to provoke someone's bad memories over the phone, good husband ~ "The expenses of Mu En and Andrew were all on the top before, en, name , It seems to be 'maintenance'. Of course not only this, there are many other transactions on it, and the affairs entrusting you to Grande should also be on it. Wait, who said you found this thing? "
"Amanda's cousin."
"Who?"
"Uh, it doesn't matter. The person is here with me." Zach had to stretch out his hand so that someone wouldn't run away. "He knows that the last expense was given by Mrs. Quinn to the 'Zu Men' Office. '
"What? How did he know?"
"Huh. Benjamin went to cash the cheque that day." Zac disliked the other party's disturbances and pulled a pen to make a reservation.
"what----"
This extremely penetrating howling can probably reach the Pooch's house without a phone.
"! Who is howling ?!" Poki over the receiver.
"Uh, did you listen, that man, Amanda's cousin, he is here with me."
"Handle it, keep it!" No one has patience because of the penetrating noise.
"How to deal with it. Amanda's cousin, killed?" Zac just expressed his tangle with helplessness, oh, the wailing disappeared, and the windfall. Zac raised an eyebrow and glanced at the guy who was trembling all over the table with a pen, giving a thankful look, "Thank you, speak well, don't call it."
"Cousin, cousin, are you familiar? Gee! I just can't get used to your hypocrisy!"
"It's not hypocrisy, it's responsible." Everyone wouldn't think that for two consecutive days, Pooch invited Zac to be a guest because the two became friends, "Do you think I'm going to make more things before I leave? Kill someone right It ’s very simple for me, and then? I ’m gone. Will you deal with the rest?

"Then do it clean! Don't leave any clues! Is it hard for you!"
"It's not difficult, but is it meaningful? How many people in Patton know how easy it is to kill people without leaving traces in this city. Are you ready to be entangled by James without me, better, entangled by the magic feast "" It doesn't need to understand Zac's words much, just to know what this means-the victims and murderers in this city are divided into humans and aliens, a type of combination, simple, such as victims and murderers are humans, events Normal development is enough. Cross combination, such as the more typical aliens killed humans? It ’s not easy anymore.
"Huh." Pooch seemed to be persuaded by Zach. "So what do you want to do?"
"Suggestion?" Zack asked the same question as Benjamin.
"Erase his memory and let him get out of Patton and never come back!"
"What about Amanda. Just listening to this guy, I don't think Amanda knows anything, but doubts must have arisen."
"It just happened. The woman stayed at home long enough. She knew that there were things she couldn't ask herself! She wasn't stupid!"
"You said so." Zac turned his head for a moment, "I did it, you will bear the trouble in the future."
"Nonsense! Come here as soon as you're done!"
Zac also dropped the phone and looked back at the guy opposite. The constipation was gone, but the real weakness appeared and blood was lost.
"Ahhhhhhhh!" Zac pulled out the pen set on the table with a weak moan of sound. It's a pity, good pen, the pen tip is bent.
Zac put on a thimble, not gently pulling the other's hands. There is no need for Zac to do anything, Sam is operating. Zac looked at the other person sincerely, "Hey, before I start, maybe you still tell me your purpose, there will be no chance in the future."
"Money, money ..." It wasn't that this guy didn't want to escape. The powerlessness brought by the blood loss limited his survival consciousness.
"How much?" Zac was purely curious, and at the same time, he turned his head and an individual appeared at the door of the office, the new employee Dell.
Zac raised an eyebrow and didn't let Dell leave. He continued to sincerely ask the guy who had healed the hole, "How much is it?"
"(There are also a lot of zero numbers in a string)" The other party apparently also found that the pain in his hand was gone and the wound was gone. Instinctively wanted to draw back his hand to observe, but it was a little tight by Zack's grip.
"Not too much." Zac gave a comment, and after looking at Dell who didn't consciously want to leave, the words were still to Amanda's cousin, "You obviously didn't find out what happened, you are still here, Trying to threaten me, why? "Dell saw the red once and appeared.
"I, I don't need to know." The pupil under the charming pupil replied, "I only need to know that Mrs. Quinn's death is related to you. If you don't give me money, I will give the account book to the police, no matter what you do What deal, I do n’t think you will want the police to know. "
"The logic is right." Zach agreed, and no longer cares about Dell. "It's a bit reckless to act. You're not a Patton. You don't understand it. Where do you come from? Me? "" Me, am I dead? "Yes, I actually avoided the question under the pupil of Enchantment. It is estimated that this question cannot be answered. How do people explain that their courage is not reckless?
"Where did you hide the ledger?" The question should be asked, of course.
"Below the Mermaid Fountain in the vestibule of Quinn Manor."
Zac nodded and finished. Not to mention, it is just some commands that human beings can't resist.
Zac released the cousin and watched as he left.
It's time to ask Dell who has been next to it. You do n’t need to open up—
"We heard the screams." Uh, reasonable, "Hanke is not here, no one wants to come and see, I'll just ..."
"What about Old Hank?"
"Go to the cemetery."
"Oh." Zac didn't care anymore.
"Who is he? You just told him to make him forget everything after starting to find the ledger and then go back to the middle?" Dale looked at Zac's face with a smile. The smile was not the point, the point was that it faded The red again gathered in the eyes.
Dell's mouth closed for questions, because he realized how stupid he was. Does it make sense to get an answer? What will happen to Zach when he repeats the words in red? Would you like to experience for yourself what was not used on yourself that morning?
When Dell's mouth opened, "I'm going."
"Where are you going?"
"Isn't that account book hidden in Quinn Manor, are you going to get that thing right? I'll get it. You and my secret."
Oh, that's good ~