10 Old Hank
Old Hank didn't come back until night, and it looked like he was going to go out again after getting his tools.
Zach could only end the phone call with Alice hastily - because it was the weekend, and Sissi and Chris's date, the high school group definitely had follow-up arrangements, and Zach didn't expect to see Alice and them today. Sure enough, Alice didn't go home for a day, and when the phone call came back, she knew that Zach was back now, so she politely asked Zack, the guardian, to extend the curfew......
"Just be back by 10pm tomorrow night. β
"Tomorrow?!" Alice was super excited, "You don't have to come back tonight?"
"No need. Zach's thought was, "Old Hank seems to have something." Glancing at the living quarters from the office, sure enough, Old Hank came out with a bunch of 'cleaning supplies' without any employees, "He doesn't seem to want Grande involved, you just avoid it." β
"Oh. What about you?"
"Of course I did. Zach pouted, "Alright, I won't delay you guys." β
Hung up the phone.
Zach walked directly out of the office and downstairs, in the backyard, when old Hank started the car, he forced himself into the passenger seat, while fastening his seat belt, "The funeral is over, do you need to listen to the report." β
Old Hank left Zach who came up, but he couldn't catch up, so he started as usual, and the car drove out of Grande and drove on the dirt and gravel road, and he couldn't see the direction he was going in for the time being. Didn't bother Zach either.
didn't get a response from Old Hank, and Zach didn't ask, sitting on the passenger seat with a solemn look - because since Zack and Benjamin took over the identity of Grande's son, Old Hank has hardly gone out to work alone. Zach doesn't know if Old Hank's driving ability is reliable.
Leaving the dirt road, old Hank steered the car - it was south. Zach frowned, "Where are we going?"
What's further south? In Barton's range, there is only Benjamin and Mokawi's ancestral office. Old Hank couldn't have gone there, that ......
"Newton?" Zach looked at Old Hank and continued to ask, "You took Newton's commission?"
Zach has just returned, and he is not ready to go back to Newton.
As Zach said the word 'commission', old Hank squinted at Zack and cursed into the air in non-response, "Those employees are so talkative!" Apparently blaming the employees of the living quarters, leaking his commission.
Zach pursed his lips, too lazy to talk to Old Hank about the staff's problems, "Please tell me, we're not going to Winston's motel right now." β
It's not that Zach has the ability to predict, it's the fact that Winston is the one who turned out to be out of Grande. At the same time, what we know now is when illegal assistance is needed.
"You can get out of the car!" Old Hank's face was not good.
"Hank. Zach was a little serious, "You shouldn't be involved in Newton's affairs." "There's no way Zach can tell Old Hank about Newton for a whileβRefro, the Phantom, the Angels, the police, the city...... So many things, we looked at things for a month, how to say. Zach could only pick and choose, "I've made all the arrangements in Newton. There's Ricky the Phantom on Winston's side, Detectives James and Wes on the police side (Zach is back at Barton, but the two don't), and the city is monitored by Angels and Revrow of the Feast. Things in Newton don't need our Barton influence anymore, Hank, you need to listen to me about this. β
"Then why did you send someone's coat back!" Old Hank glared at Zach and said something inexplicable.
Zach was stunned for a moment, and the corners of his mouth twitched, "Tsk." On my first day in Newton, Winston borrowed my coat?"
"Yes!" Old Hank grimaced, "You promised to send the clothes back, why didn't you send them back?!"
This kind of thing...... Does it matter?
Significant. Old Hank continued when Zach was speechless, "Winston called Grande! Just before you came back today! He asked me, after all these days, why haven't you returned your clothes yet!"
So Winston is not only a monopoly businessman who cares about human life, but also a villain with a clear memory. Zach could only be honest, "I forgot. β
"Forget?" laughed old Hank, "you forgot!!" Apparently the smile was not happy, "then don't be surprised that others would use this excuse to find Grandry!"
Zach was a little gloomy. As in Ritchie's office, when he was recognized by Winston, Zach didn't know why Winston was deliberately 'catching up' with him. Zach now doesn't know what Winston, who found Grande with the boring excuse of 'returning clothes', wants old Hank to do, "What is Winston going to do with Grande?"
Old Hank didn't look at Zach anymore, staring at the road ahead.
Actually, Zach can guess.
Let's go with Zach Guess.
Winston is now carrying a large number of Newton's unnatural deaths, and we all know this. Once, before the Hannah siblings stabbed the case of unnatural death to the Newton police, causing a chain reaction and exposing the matter to the public eye of Newton, we knew that Winston was on his own, dealing with the corpses produced by the death caused by the withdrawal reaction of the little white.
After the police intervened, Winston's own process was interrupted by the police, and the appearance of the body was no longer under Winston's control, and was admitted to the police into the law enforcement process.
Winston also made a new plan, deliberately subverting the market by using too high the price of Xiaobai, and completely letting go of the control of Xiaobai's death and starting to get out. That is, after Zach entered Newton, he asked the substitution Rich to cooperate with Winston's plan.
We can make a time cut-off point, when Zach enters Newton and comes into contact with Winston to go to Ricky the Phantom to make a commission, so Winston has no work to do with the corpse from then on, except for Hannah who was thrown to Richie the Phantom.
Add to that the fact that old Hank is now heading to Newton with the tools to clean up people.
We should be able to draw a rough inference that the commission given to Old Hank at this time may be to dispose of the corpse that Winston 'stockpiled' in Newton before the demarcation point.
The inference needed to be confirmed, and Zach spoke, tactfully, "If Winston wants to ask Grande, his old club, to help him solve something, you should just refuse." Hank. The current Grande is no longer the Grande that Winston knows. "Zach, in his intention to cut off the current Grande and the black tissue of the cleaners that Winston once knew.
Old Hank didn't look at Zach at all, his wrinkled skin twitched twice, "I ask you, you've been in Newton for so long, have you ever inspected Newton's funeral industry." Listening to the tone, the unexpected calm, seemed to have accepted the fact that Zach could not be shaken off for the time being.
Zach had a premonition that this was going against his own ends, and blamed himself, "No. β
"Hmph, you don't have to pretend to blame yourself. Although old Hank calmed down, his words and expressions did not change, "Then tell me, when Winston asked me what Grande's son was doing in Newton, could I say that you, the owner of Grande, were doing business for the funeral business." β
"No, you can't. "Zach didn't pretend to blame himself, and that's his own fault. There's been so much going on lately about the vampire Zachary Toredo, causing Zach to become more and more casual in asserting his human identity as Zachary Grande. That's Zach's own omission.
"Hmph. Old Hank continued to open with a tone particle, "Then do you remember when you met Newton and Winston, and how did you explain your appearance in an illegal commission firm?"
Zach replied, "I didn't explain. Because he didn't know what Winston wanted to do at the time, Zach naturally didn't have any positive attitudes. Remember, Zach was all about signaling to Winston to 'stop bothering me'.
"Hmph, you remember you didn't explain. Old Hank looked straight ahead, "The man went and inquired for himself, do you have any opinions?" β
What can Zach say? Tsk, is this something that Zach can say!
According to the situation of Winston and Zach catching up at that time, we can roughly guess that Winston misunderstood the reason why Zach was here, and he thought that it had something to do with Grande's employees who injured Barton's reporter and appeared on the social news.
Zach had no intention of communicating with Winston, and the Grande that Winston knew was completely different from Zach's Grande, so he let this misunderstanding occur and was too lazy to explain.
What old Hank means now is that Zack's mistake is not only to ignore the maintenance of the human identity of Zachary Grande, the funeral owner, but also to ignore the life of Grande's son!
Winston is your father, the old part of old Grande, and when they clearly express their concern, can't you tell them a little more about Grande's situation, so that people can be reassured?
Zach didn't, so going back to old Hank, it became clear that Winston was trying to find out how Grande was doing.
Oh, we can fill the next conclusion with Zach's mockery. After a few years, Winston wants to understand the Grande he once worked again, and he definitely does not rely on the so-called social news that can be seen by all passers-by who are filtered by Barton and Newton once.
Don't think Winston doesn't have a channel to get the news, how did he get Xiaobai, 0711, and Valmina from Patton...... In the same way, you can get news about Grande's real influence at Barton.
We watched Grande all the way through, and if we were to describe what Grande meant in Barton to someone who didn't know the story, what would we say?
Well...... We'd say, Grande?!Dead Birthday!Don't mess with anyone at Patton!Unless you want to be targeted by all the people on the road of Barton's black, white, yellow, and green!
For our own reference, we should have the bottom of what Winston would find out about Grande.
Zach shook his head, sticking to his original conclusion, "Still, the current Grande is different from the Grande he knows. Whatever he expects Grande to do for him, we can all say no. β
Old Hank glanced at Zach, "Why did you always think it was Winston asking Grande for help?" β
"Isn't it a commission. Zach used the judgment of the living area employee...... Tsk, now that I think about it, Zach feels a little silly...... Why do you trust the employees in the living area so much!" Zach tilted his head and pursed his lips, "It's not like Winston entrusted Grande, right?" Shaking his head again, "You just don't want the current employees to have the slightest possibility of connection with the original Grande employees, and deliberately deceive them with the appearance of entrustment." β
We have already discussed it during the day, and now that the commission taken over by the elder Hank in Grande is impossible to bring the employees of Grande who are in the public eye, don't forget. So what is the best way to completely cut the former employees and the current employees?
Old Hank didn't look at Zach anymore and continued driving.
Going back to the original question, the commission can be thrown away, and Zach asked, "So what the hell are you doing over there now?" β
Old Hank's driving skills are not bad, quite stable. Zach asked again, as if he hadn't heard it, and continued to steadily control the direction of the car.
Zach quieted down.
One thing needs to be made clear first - Hank Sr. is already ahead of Zach and doesn't want the current Grande to be in touch with Winston. In this case, what is the significance of this trip? Just to perfect the appearance of 'commission' in the eyes of the employees in the living area?
Having lived with old Hank for so many years, Zach knows better than anyone else the old man's stubbornness. So, keep asking, it shouldn't have any effect anymore. Zach was ready to wait for his destination, with a look.
It's not a long drive. Grande is only a dozen minutes away from the city's borders. The scenery along the way, Zach is also very familiar - he used to send Benjamin to transform, and he often walked this road.
Soon, the familiar night scene was left behind the car, leaving Barton's range and entering Newton's borders.
The changes in the city, let's change the mood as well.
This is not the return to Newton that Zach expected.
It was also revealed just now that Zach returned to Barton, but the two Barton detectives were still in Newton. The Newton University incident needed the help of manpower. James and Wes have found a way to stay in Newton.
Zach expected that when Winston's plan came to an end, Newton's novice market would fall into chaos, and the unnatural deaths caused by simple withdrawal reactions would be replaced by the snatching behavior of novice users deliberately led by Winston's plan.
At that time, it was Zach who was Torredo as the Devil's Feast, on the one hand, to stabilize Revro's power in Newton, on the other hand, to cooperate with two Patton detectives at the Newton Police Station to socialize the cases of unnatural deaths, and on the other hand, to provide a start for his descendant, Kent, and Kent's chosen descendants, in Newton