Chapter 221 "Cobra" is born

Wu Xiyue giggled and said a phrase from Shakespeare's play: "Your will is my command." ”

After a pause, Wu Xiyue seemed to look through the work plan and replied: "I will immediately ask the assistant to book a ticket for tomorrow, and I will fly to Paris tomorrow...... Oh, and the jet lag, when I arrived, you should have been there the night after tomorrow. ”

Wu Xiyue is engaged in financial investment, and she brings a financial team, which can be used as bait if necessary, and thrown to the law firm to see if the other party swallows the bait -- but this is all a backup method.

At this time, Argyle, who had flown to Japan, was recalled, and not only that, but the Tornado Security Company also sent two high-level killers as a backup force - so, on this night, the commando team of the later famous "Cobra" quietly completed the combination.

At dawn, the first to arrive was Roger, a former race car driver driving a large truck with nothing but the fat girl and her instruments...... Oh, and the floor-to-floor bags and food crumbs. After Roger jumped out of the car, after An Feng finished talking with the fat girl, he stepped forward and said embarrassedly: "Boss, I am not familiar with the streets of Paris, if you hire me, it will take me three days to familiarize myself with the streets."

An Feng patted the other party's shoulder: "We have enough time." ”

An Feng and Roger met near the Channel Tunnel, after the necessary explanations were completed, An Feng jumped into his Smart car, led the way, and led everyone to an ancient castle on the outskirts of Paris, when Roger drove the car into the ancient castle, he found that the castle was barren, the lawn had been untended for a long time, and there were dead branches and leaves everywhere, he looked around and asked: "Boss, is it safe here?" ”

"Ask yourself about this, I'm going to work soon, I should be late, let's wait for Joseph to talk to you......"

After An Feng finished speaking, he drove away in his Smart.

Half an hour later, Joseph Shiran, who was driving a purple-gray Renault, entered the villa, yawning and saying to everyone: "I just went to sign the contract for the purchase of this castle, and I am so tired...... Of course, it's not that I'm tired of signing this contract to buy a house, I didn't sleep all night last night...... , I didn't get into Carlson's bed last night.

Yes, I caught up with Carlsen at Monte Carlo, and I followed him from Monte Carlo to Paris, but that doesn't mean I got into his bed. Michelle is such a beautiful and lively woman, Carlson can't even look at it, you look at my figure, how can he take a fancy to me? I'm on a mission...... What task, you ask? I can't say. ”

The fat woman patted the keyboard and searched for the network signal, she was eating something, while teasing vaguely in her mouth, and said something serious intermittently in the middle: "Ha, I searched for the transfer procedures of this villa, and sure enough, this villa has just been transferred, but can you tell me, how this villa is transferred in your name." ”

Joseph was a little triumphant: "Hehe, it's just a name. My reputation Carlson has to be affordable. You say, even if this villa is in my name, can I make it my own property? Hehe, it is said that the maintenance cost of this kind of castle is one million euros a year, and the original owner of the villa was driven crazy by the maintenance fee, so he was in a hurry to transfer this castle. Although I nominally own the castle, do you say, can I afford to pay for it? ”

"Don't be crooked, we are talking about going to bed, but you told us that the transfer ......, but this kind of castle is indeed a money-swallowing beast, and any renovation needs to be approved by the cultural relics protection unit, well, the telephone lines here are very old, and the power lines are also aging, and there is a danger of fire at any time. The phone is slow, oh my god, what a spot you've found. ”

Joseph yawned, patted his lips, and said lazily, "Permission is needed for remodeling?" Hehe, we're doing illegal work, who approves it? Besides, this place is just a temporary foothold for us, and the whole team retreats afterwards, who will hold you accountable for violating the law? Who can hold accountable? ”

The fat woman bit her finger and thought about it, and greeted Roger: "Push my wheelchair and walk around, I want to look around."

The castle is cluttered, and there is a sense of abandonment and desolation everywhere. Discarded books were everywhere, and there was a thick layer of dust everywhere.

The fat woman sat in a wheelchair and was pushed around the upstairs and downstairs by Roger, her little squirrel-like flesh finger pointing to the top floor platform of the castle and instructing, "I need a satellite transponder, just put it there." I also need a mile of cable, my room is on the first floor, and the cable pulls into my room on the first floor......

Pack up the broken books and see if there are any rare editions...... Forget it, these books have been stored for a long time, and they are not rare editions but also have some value. Well, let's buy some old books and throw them on the ground to create a messy and wasted feeling, and the castle has put away all these books for me to pick and choose. Well, clean up a room for me on the first floor and ...... right away."

The wheelchair was pushed to the castle manor, through the dead branches and leaves everywhere, looking at the old and dilapidated iron fence gate, the fat woman pointed to the gate and said: "This door needs to be replaced, replaced with an electronic switch door, I will issue each of you a radio frequency identification card, and you must carry a radio frequency card when you enter and exit...... In addition, don't sweep the wild grass in the yard, it will leave a dilapidated appearance, and it will not be noticeable......"

Well, the castle is now all up to a few young men. Roger ran out, and according to the list provided by the fat woman, he spent a day running around and buying all kinds of new electronic devices - anyway, these things were paid for by An Feng, so everyone only chose the expensive ones, not the right ones.

And the rest of the people, mainly Joseph, the fat woman gasped for breath after walking a few steps, so she mainly moved her mouth, and Joseph was in charge of doing it. The fat woman didn't care if Joseph didn't fall asleep, and instructed her to clean up the castle in her name. In the evening, the courtyard of the castle had been assembled with modern equipment, and Roger also specially bought a meal of old books, packed up the original books, and found an empty room to stack them, while the newly bought old books were deliberately messy and thrown on the ground, causing a feeling of being abandoned for a long time.

When the night came, Joseph finally couldn't cover it anymore, she threw down the vacuum cleaner and ran out the door, shouting as she ran: "No matter what, I want to go back to my apartment, you can toss yourself, I have a task now, I want to be a cover ......"

Roger, who was left, and the fat woman looked at each other, paused for a while, and the fat woman sighed: "Call outsiders to come, call more cleaners." There is no way, we can't clean up this castle alone...... By the way, don't let Carlsen know about this. ”

The castle has nine floors and more than 100 rooms, including more than 10 large rooms. The rest of the rooms are either locked or piled with clutter. At present, there are not many people living in this castle, and there is no need to clean up all the castles. So, the fat girl quietly found more than 40 cleaning maids, and asked them to clean up a few rooms on the second and third floors, and on the first floor for the fat girl to clean up a large bedroom of more than 100 square meters.

The fat girl also carefully cleaned up a room on the top floor for An Feng, what she meant: This is the highest location. Chief, of course, you have to live in the highest place, and look far away.

Tidying up their nests, the fat girl and Roger were very excited, although they didn't do much work, but they supervised the whole process one day and one night, and they barely closed their eyes. Drop-off cleaning maid at dawn...... Of course, a high night shift was paid. Finally persevered until Joseph appeared, and the fat woman hurriedly shouted: "I'll leave it all to you." ”

The fat girl's bedroom was on the first floor, and she quickly got into the bedroom, and immediately, the bedroom sounded like thunder. Roger was a little slower, and had just shown off a few words about his night shift results, when the doorbell rang non-stop outside the gate of the castle compound.

"Who, early in the morning?" Roger was furious with his pajamas, and he hated this kind of annoying ghost who disturbed people's sleep.

Roger rubbed his sleepy eyes and led Joseph to the fat girl's bedroom, where the fat girl fell asleep, even though the doorbell outside the door rang happily, she ignored it.

Joseph went over and slapped the computer keyboard next to the fat woman's bed, and the computer screen gradually lit up, and the camera at the door clearly transmitted the scene outside the door to the screen. I saw four people standing outside the door, a man and a woman, who seemed to be office clerks, and they were followed by two uniformed policemen, but the uniforms of these two policemen were a bit strange, not like criminal police, nor like judicial police uniforms.

Joseph went over and pushed the fat woman, who turned over with her eyes closed, and shouted: "Don't make noise, I was last night, it was really one night, and don't wake me up if the landslide cracks, unless it's the end of the world." ”

After a pause, the fat girl turned over with her eyes closed and shouted, "Who is the name of the castle registered?" Who copes with it themselves. ”

Joseph sighed, she thought for a moment, went over to pick up the purchase documents of the castle, and then walked as slowly as she could along the path of the forest with bleak grass and dead leaves—at this time, the people who rang the bell at the gate had been tossing at the gate for half an hour, and they finally saw the people in the castle appear

Standing inside the door, across the iron door, Joseph smiled apologetically: "I'm sorry, my friend and I were cleaning up the house, and we didn't hear any movement at the door, who are you looking for?" Is there something wrong? ”

The middle-aged woman outside the door took out a document from her briefcase and showed it to Joseph through the iron fence: "We have been informed that the castle has been transferred yesterday. We are a heritage reserve, may I ask, are you the new owner of the castle, Ms. Joseph? ”

Joseph nodded, "I am." ”

The middle-aged woman immediately stuffed the document in her hand through the crack in the door: "Please sign this document - for the purpose of cultural relics protection, we will inspect the castle, and at the same time remind you that any alteration of the castle must not destroy the original architectural style and the main body of the building...... Please open the door, I've brought two police officers and we're going to take pictures of the current state of the castle. ”

Joseph sighed and lazily opened the gate of the castle courtyard.

The castle courtyard covers an area of about 100 acres, of which the castle building itself covers about 60 acres, and the rest is the garden and the attached artisan's house.

It is an 18th-century building made of massive basalt and granite, and the binder is Roman cement.

The fort is not a defensive structure and has no military value.

The eighteenth century was the end of the Age of Discovery, just at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, after the owner of the estate built this villa, the original courtyard of this villa was very extensive, but the subsequent French Revolution, and several restorations of the Bourbon dynasty, caused turmoil throughout France. When France entered the republican era, the old aristocracy and tycoon gradually declined, and the owners of the castle had to sell their ancestral property to survive. As a result, around the courtyard of the castle, the woodland, lakes and lawns that originally belonged to the castle complex were gradually divided and sold, and finally only the main building of the castle remained, and the annex barn, stables, gardeners' houses and other ancillary buildings, as well as about ten acres of castle garden, were still retained in the courtyard.

The man who sold the villa was the last owner of the estate, and his grandfather had the title of baron, but in his generation, only the title of accountant remained. His meager salary was not enough to maintain the huge maintenance costs of the castle, which was only a place of pleasure built by the owner of the manor at the time, and its architectural style may have been a little trendy at the time, such as a bit of mechanical style in the embryonic period of the Industrial Revolution, but it was not very significant, and it did not smell as heavy metal as the Centre Pompidou, after all, it was a place to enjoy, so it was very comfortable and ...... Warm feeling.

Of course, focusing on everything means not being obvious. The castle was so eclectic that it was mediocre in every way, without its own character. The castle has nine floors and is not typical of the Baroque (Louis XIV), Rococo (Louis XV) and neoclassical (Louis XVI), nor is it an imperial style. It is a four-like one, with baroque columns but too sparse, imperial sculptures but not elaborate, and rococo staircases but wrought iron shapes. There are industrial machinery style constant temperature pipes, but they are all half-concealed and not obvious......

More than 200 years have passed, and the building itself is so old and uncharacteristic that even if tickets are sold for visitors as required by the Cultural Relics Bureau, not many people are willing to spend this money, and sometimes even for weeks they cannot attract a single guest.

As a result, the castle has become a complete bottomless pit of swallowing money, and it is necessary to constantly invest money to maintain the appearance of the castle. And refurbishment requires a huge amount of money, which is not something that a small accountant can afford.

More than ten years ago, the owner of the castle, the accountant, looked around for someone willing to accept the castle, and the price of the castle fell again and again, and finally, as long as someone was willing to give a villa money, plus repay the maintenance fees owed by the castle, the accountant was willing to sell the castle.

However, there are too many maintenance fees owed by the castle, and the interest pressure brought by this maintenance fee is increasing, and new maintenance fees are still being born every year, so even the Cultural Relics Bureau refuses to recognize the bankruptcy of the owner of the castle and take over the castle. This makes people willing to take over the castle...... Basically, you can't find it.

It also happened that An Feng needed a secluded place with enough space for activities to accommodate the group of troublemakers under him. He was pressed for time, so he didn't search carefully for comparisons. The size and location of the castle suited his requirements perfectly, and the asking price was ...... The last thing An Feng lacks now is money, so he readily agreed to the conditions of the owner of the castle, and after helping the owner of the castle pay off his debts, he gave the owner of the castle a sum of money sufficient to buy a suburban villa, on the condition that the owner of the castle must move out on the same day.

This condition was happily agreed to by the owner of the castle. The castle had had enough for the accountant, and he didn't bring any luggage, just carrying his toothpaste, toothbrush and other toiletries, and happily left the castle with his wife and children...... It is said that the owner of the castle had already bought a new house near Paris that day.

Of course, after getting rid of heavy debt, he should have lived a middle-class life with the salary of an accountant.

So, he can pay for the new house in installments, and the same goes for the new car. When the bank learned that the guy had paid off his debts at once, and that there was still enough money in his account to buy a luxury villa, this guy immediately turned into a potential customer with credit, and his loan requirements were naturally greenlit...... This guy deposited the money given by An Feng in the bank, took out a loan to buy a house, bought a new car, and bought enough new clothes and new jewelry for his family. The old stuff in the villa, he has completely forgotten.

In the same way, the cultural relics protection unit was also very shocked to learn that someone had paid off the arrears of maintenance costs, and several cultural relics protection officials came to the door today, on the one hand, to investigate the construction situation, because they knew that the new buyer was a young man, in their opinion, young people, it is inevitable that they like fashion, like high-tech cool products, if these young people want to modify the ancient castle according to their own personality, then the original style of the ancient building will be destroyed, this is the cultural relics protection department can not tolerate.

On the other hand, the maintenance of ancient buildings is carried out by professional construction teams, which need to obtain qualification certificates from the Cultural Relics Bureau, and the Cultural Relics Bureau is inevitably inextricably linked with these antique building teams......

Walking through the messy and deserted courtyard and the equally desolate castle hall, the officials of the Bureau of Cultural Relics turned left and right to reach the rooftop, where the satellite signal equipment installed by Joseph and others, as well as the crude laying of cables, were strongly condemned by the officials of the cultural relics conservation department......

However, Joseph refused to dismantle the equipment, and the two sides argued for a long time. Eventually, the conservation officials compromised - because the bureau had no authority to prevent others from modernizing; In addition, the satellite receiver is erected on the roof balcony of the building, which does not damage the exterior of the building and can be removed at any time.

After some arguments, the two sides reached a compromise with each other.

"Transmission cables need to be concealed, I don't approve of you throwing cables on the floor so casually, but I also don't approve of breaking the baseboard of the building when laying cables. If you can't find a better way, I have a few construction teams dedicated to the maintenance of ancient buildings, and you can choose from them, or you can organize a bidding meeting......" The middle-aged woman finally said the hidden purpose of her trip.

Let someone else lay the cable, is it possible to lay bugs and various hidden monitoring equipment by the way

Joseph hesitated, thinking about how to refuse—she even doubted the identity of the other party.

Who sent them?