After leaving the Metropolitan Association for Helping Domestic Servants, Valeera returned to her residence in the Bridge District by horse-drawn carriage.

She still has a lot of work to do.

The higher priority left is to go to the docklands to see what is going on with the "Workers' Union Party".

Although she has seen a little bit of bits and pieces of news in the newspaper, as if they are doing well, seeing is always believing.

She has seen a lot of fake news in the newspapers.

For example, the reconciliation between Roger and Wadden, which she led at the beginning; For example, the cause of Mrs. Sharon's death.

The newspaper reports on these two events are really fake news.

Dressed up in a trench coat, Valeera simply put on makeup, lowered some of her appearance, and then went out again.

Of course, she hadn't forgotten to feed Harpy until then.

There are two ways to get from the bridge area to the dock area, but both are not very convenient.

Either rely on walking, take a long detour through the East End; Either you have to take a ferry sampan across the Tasok River.

In terms of time, the time required for the two is actually about the same.

Valera chose the waterway.

As she had experienced, Valilla didn't take long to find a temporary stop for a sampan under the side of the Beckland Bridge.

By the time Valera arrived, there were already three or five guests, as well as a staff member on duty.

Obviously, if nothing else, the rotation here is definitely the members of the "Workers' Union Party".

Seeing Valera approaching, the middle-aged man on duty asked casually, his tone seemed to be a little impatient.

"Where?"

This is not like the tone of the guests, which makes Valeera, who has been flattering and flattering for a long time, feel a little unhappy.

But she didn't show it, just replied:

"Docklands."

"Oh," the man nodded, "fourpence." ”

This sentence made Valeera angry even more than before!

When Eugene was the boss of the so-called "riverbank ferry company", the fee for a sampan ride was only 1 pence;

After she forcibly merged the "Riverbend Ferry Company" and the "Dock Workers' Association" to form the "Workers' Union Party", the fee was also set at 1pence.

Now it's quadrupled!

Valera suppressed her anger in her heart and quietly handed over the money.

It wasn't long before a sampan, under the command of the man, stopped at this docking point, which was not considered a dock.

After waiting for the ship to travel a certain distance, Valilla took the opportunity to pay the ship fare, and naturally found out the current charging standard-

According to the algorithm for boarding at Riverbend Avenue, it is 2 pence on the opposite bank, 3 pence downstream, 5 pence on the upper bridge area, and 9 pence on the Jowood area.

It's 2p lower than when she first rode it!

Obviously, this is because the "Labor League" has increased the handling fee, and the boatman has to reduce part of the fee himself in order to avoid the loss of a large number of customers.

Valeera was furious.

Not long after she left, the "Workers' Union Party" went stray and deviated from her original direction!

It's just that she's not sure how much it has deviated, and whether there are any problems with the main leaders of Makarov, Marke, Burton and Hazy?

Valera made up her mind to find out.

If it were possible, she would have corrected this tendency to deterioration!

Half an hour later, Valera disembarked at the docks and walked two blocks from Tonghe Road to the "Workers' Union Tavern".

This is where the embryonic "Workers' Union Party" was founded.

Valera believes she can get the inside scoop here.

After a short time, Valera found that the workers here seemed to have become more alert, and had a natural defensiveness against the new faces, and did not hesitate to say anything about the "Workers' Union Party".

She only heard that the biggest leader of the "Workers' Union Party" was the "Chief" Marc Jensen; In addition, there are two "ministers", namely Makarov Gomez and Haz Wood.

Except for Burton Brooke, who is not rumored, the leadership team is basically the person he has set.

But why is there such a big deviation?!

Valera thought about it, walked out of the tavern, found a no-man's corner, activated the ability of "stealing appearances", and temporarily changed back to Lexa's identity.

She lowered the beret on her head, the collar of her trench coat cocked, and returned to the tavern.

It wasn't dark yet, and there weren't too many customers in the tavern, so Valilla waited a while before finding a gap and approaching the bartender behind the bar alone.

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"What do you want ...... guest?"

The bartender, who was greeting him with skillful words, saw Valeera's action of straightening the "cap", and suddenly recognized that this was the long-missing bounty hunter Lexa!

"Oh my God, cover it." The bartender lowered his voice and exclaimed, "It's not the same as before, you shouldn't have come back." ”

Valera lowered her beret back and lowered her voice, "I'm just coming back to see what happened." ”

The bartender looked left and right, brought Valiera a glass of Southwell beer, and then picked up the wooden cup and wiped it sideways, and then said with a smile:

"Originally, the 'Workers' Union Party' was developing quite smoothly, and all the workers were much better."

"But it didn't take long for the good days to go, and Marc became the 'chief minister' for some reason, and the original 'chief minister' Makarov became the 'minister' who didn't care about anything."

"Moreover, the 'ministers' have also changed from three to two, and one has been replaced by Hazy."

Valeera's heart sank when she heard this, and she asked:

"What about Burton? Burton Brooke, where did he go? ”

Hearing this, the bartender paused as he wiped the wooden glass.

After a moment he said:

"I don't know, he hasn't been seen for at least two months, and I even suspect that he has been killed."

"If you look at the changes in the 'Labor League' party, you can see that since Marker became the 'chief minister', the original rules that made the workers better have basically been swallowed back."

"The current situation is slightly better than the earliest time."

At this, the bartender looked up again, looked at Valeera, and said in a pleading tone:

"That's all I know, I'll tell you all."

The bartender didn't say it explicitly, but Valera certainly knew what he meant.

She pushed the glass of Southwell beer forward, bowed slightly to the bartender, and said:

"Thank you."

"Don't worry, no matter what you do in the future, I promise that you will not be implicated."

With that, Valera turned around and left the bar again.

……

At night, in the house at 6 Daffodil Street.

Crane, who returned to his room, took out his notebook from the drawer of his desk, and in the blue light of the whale oil lamp, he wrote:

"On June 20th, we deciphered the first page, written by a member of a family called 'Antigonus.'"