Chapter Seventy-Five: Buying a House

Samantha officially said goodbye to the town where she had lived for many years and moved to Los Angeles with Natasha.

The Los Angeles Police Department welcomes Samantha's arrival, after all, she is a beauty, and she has a relationship with her superiors, so she will not be embarrassed no matter what.

Able to use her status as a woman to maintain the security of Prosperous Town, Samantha also has enough social skills, considering her new life in the future and the need to take care of her 'two' daughters, she decided to focus on her family, and finally chose a civilian position.

She and Natasha first rented a house and slowly got acquainted with their new life in Los Angeles.

On the other hand, Charlie's ambition was rekindled by a new life and new goals, and he took the initiative to ask to go to the heavier murder team to be responsible for the handling of front-line cases.

Bella doesn't have much to say about this, Charlie just wants to be a police officer, she wants to fight criminals, can she still stop her?

A new sheriff will be hired in Fox Township, and Charlie will hand over the work of Fox Township, and he will have to complete a series of tasks such as proposing, getting married, saying goodbye to old friends, and buying a new house in Los Angeles.

Buy a house or get married? In the East it is definitely to buy a house first, in the West ...... In fact, in the West, you have to buy a house! If you don't have a house, the ghost will live with you!

Young people will consider renting, and Charlie and Samantha are relatively old-fashioned figures, who think that it is more comfortable for the family to live in their own house, and besides, it is not that they have no money.

Working in Los Angeles, it is natural to buy a house in Los Angeles, and the LAPD on the police badge is not fake, the two are backed by the police station, and they can contact people from all walks of life in society.

There must be people who cheat the police these days, but if there is no particularly big entanglement of interests, ordinary people will not be full of food and have nothing to do, and come to deceive the police to play.

Charlie and Samantha were indeed newcomers, but with the help of their colleagues, they were able to shortlist a few options to choose from.

Bella has nothing to do here, just waiting for the university to start, and Natasha is doing the transfer business, occasionally she will disappear for a while, but Bella has a tacit understanding to pretend not to see, and even help to cover a few times.

On weekends, the family of four drove out to see the house.

The first choice was a villa in Santa Monica, the former owner of which was an old acquaintance of Bella, and it was Adrian, a doctor of optics who was defeated by her and subsequently shot by his wife.

This villa has a very high-tech architectural style, built no more than five years ago, the optical doctor Adrian is dead, his younger brother put the house up for sale, the price is 3.9 million!

Although Natasha liked the style of the house very much, the family of four still shouted 'can't afford it, can't afford it', and even if they could buy the house, the property tax would bring down their family in the future, and with their income, they couldn't afford to live in such a house.

The family went around Los Angeles in a half-circle, solved the lunch problem at the fast food restaurant at noon, and continued to watch in the afternoon.

In the Hancock Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, they followed the real estate agent here to see the fourth home today.

"Wow! Such a big house? As soon as the car stopped, Natasha, who was the first to get out of the car, couldn't help but let out an exclamation when she looked at the mansion that was more than ten meters high and covered an area of more than 800 square meters.

Bella also took off her sunglasses and rubbed her face to sober herself up, she looked at the mansion carefully, it felt like it was ......

The real estate agent, a middle-aged woman named Marcie, immediately talked about her introduction after seeing a family of four get out of the car.

The house was built in 1922 by the famous Los Angeles surgeon at the time, Charles Murphy. Montgomery built it for his wife Nora, maybe you think the house is a little old, but it's not, you can come in and have a look. ”

The real estate agent pointed to the interior decoration: "Look, it's all Tiffany's lamps, the interior layout and decoration are Victorian style, if you want me to say, this place is really very tasteful, stylish, living here, it is definitely a quality choice for the two detectives." ”

"Detective?" A slightly puzzled voice sounded not far away, it was a middle-aged man with a serious face and deep eyes.

The real estate agent's attitude towards him was not so enthusiastic, but he still introduced the two parties: "Dr. Harmon, this is Charlie who came to see the house. Detective Swan, his fiancΓ©e and two daughters. The detective, this is Dr. Harmon who is about to sell the property, he bought this house half a year ago, and now, now...... For some personal reasons...... To be sold. ”

It can be seen that the doctor named Harmon is quite hesitant to sell the house to the detective, and he forcibly shook hands with Charlie with a smile, and led them around the room as if they were looking around.

There are many furnishings in the interior, as if you are in some ancient European castle.

Gorgeous lamps, exquisite oil paintings, and colorful carpets all add a lot of color to the whole house.

"Is this painting genuine?" Natasha casually asks Bella as she points to a painting in which a graceful woman holds a human head.

Natasha is good at modern scientific knowledge and the use of various high-tech objects, but her knowledge in literature, history, and art is really not high, and these are Bella's strengths.

She looked up: "It's the French symbolist painter Gustav. Moreau's famous painting, a Thracian girl holding the head of Orps. ”

Seeing that the eyes of the real estate agent and Dr. Harmon lit up, she added: "It should be a fake, and I remember that the original is in the collection of the National Morrow Museum in Paris." ”

The eyes of several people are a little dim, and the fake is worthless!

"Doctor, can you ask why this house is so cheap?" Charlie couldn't help but ask.

The price of a house of the same level two streets away is 2 million, and the current house was sold for 400,000 yuan half a year ago, which is only one-fifth of the average transaction price of this type of house, which is ridiculously low, and now Dr. Harmon has sold it again, and he has cut the original selling price by one-third, and now it can be sold for only 260,000 yuan.

To be honest, such a low price, let alone two police detectives, even ordinary people will be suspicious, it is really abnormally low.

Dr. Harmon's wife was a very American housewife, but when several people called her Mrs. Harmon, there was obvious resistance in her expression.

The couple was also a little far away from each other, and even Bella, who had been following the rear of the army and observing the layout of the house like a soy sauce, could see that there was a huge rift between them.

"Detective, I have to say we were scammed by this damn real estate agent before!" Mrs. Harmon said with some indignation.

Her husband tried to stop with his eyes, but quickly turned his head when Samantha looked over.

"There's something odd about this house, there's something wrong with it, one of our previous owners died in the house, and it could be ...... Possible...... There may also be the dead. ”