71. The Mueller Story
Seeing that the other party was also called Mueller, Dong Qiangqiang remembered Hans' words and reached out to loosen his ties. Lei Lanting quickly looked and held his hand down: "What are you going to do?"
"What else can I do? Untie the rope for him. You can't tie him all the time, right? What should I do if someone sues us for illegal detention?"
"You wait first," Lei Lanting pulled Dong Qiangqiang aside and looked back at Mueller, a man in glasses. "If he is really the master, why are he sneaky? Why don't he beg us straight away? Why do you pretend to be a god and scare people? What if he is a fake? Have you ever thought about these?"
"Pretty?" Dong Qiangqiang said suspiciously, "Who will pretend to be him? What are you trying to do?"
"The Germans must have a duplicate name," Lei Lanting curled his lips, "Let's ask again, it's not too late to confirm that there is no problem."
Dong Qiangqiang thought for a while and nodded.
"In this way, I'll be a white face, you'll be blushing." Lei Lanting said again.
"You said you are the owner of this house?" Lei Lanting took out his ID card in his wallet, and said to the photo and Muller himself, "Then why didn't you come out when we came in?"
"I was upstairs at that time," Mueller raised his neck, "I didn't hear it."
"Later, we came in three people, you, the master, didn't hear it?" Lei Lanting slapped the table with a stern expression, "How do you know how to steal our roast duck? In my opinion, you are not a master at all, you are just a thief! You should be sent to the police station."
Dong Qiangqiang laughed in his heart: It seems that he didn't eat the second duck, which was too much of a blow to Lei Lanting.
"This is my own home, what I eat is my own business." Muller's voice was a little hoarse, "and I, I didn't eat your roast duck."
"What about our roast duck?" Dong Qiangqiang asked.
"Take it." Mueller said, looking out the window.
"Where did you throw it away? You threw it outside the window?" Lei Lanting rushed to the window and looked out on the window sill.
Muller was silent.
"What are you looking at? Don't look at it." Dong Qiangqiang was also a little angry, "Even if he really threw it outside the window, he would throw it outside the kitchen window. He couldn't be from this room."
"Yes," Lei Lanting slapped his forehead, turned around and walked out of the house. He had just taken two steps, but suddenly turned back, rolled up his sleeves and walked towards Muller, muttering something in his mouth, it seemed that he was going to hit someone.
Mueller was so scared that his face turned pale, and he looked at him hurriedly and said, "Not outside the window, not outside the window. In the basement! Ducks are in the basement!"
"Damn, you threw such a good duck into the basement? Lei Lanting was furious, "I must hit you today..."
Before he could punch, Dong Qiangqiang grabbed him: "Calm down."
"Don't stop me, I must beat this food-wasting bastard today." Lei Lanting waved his arms and shouted angrily.
Dong Qiangqiang thought to himself: If this Lei Lanting acts, he should be a good actor.
"Why did you throw the duck into the basement?" Tong Lele, who had not spoken, suddenly asked.
Muller sighed and rushed towards Dong Qiangqiang with his chin: "I saw that you didn't steal my red wine, so... I changed my mind temporarily."
"If you don't want others to annoy you, why do you still have to find a cleaner through a labor agency? This house is very clean except for the third floor." Tong Lele looked at Muller's face and asked softly.
"You said it was the agent who introduced you," Mueller turned to look at the three of them, "Do you have any evidence?"
"Look, take a look." Lei Lanting took out a stack of A4 paper from his pocket and unfolded it in front of Mueller's eyes. He also shouted: "This is a labor contract. And I and the agents have come here once this week, and the agents handed them to me by the agents."
Muller stared at the paper for a while, then remained silent for a few seconds, shook his head and said, "I haven't... looked for a labor agent."
"You didn't look for it?" Lei Lanting became more and more confused. "But it was clearly the labor agency who introduced this job to me."
"Maybe my sister Michelle found it."
"Your sister?" the three of them asked in unison.
"Yes. My sister, Michelle Muller." There was no expression on Muller's face, "but she died of a heart attack last week."
Before Lei Lanting could speak, Dong Qiangqiang walked to Muller and neglected the rope on his body.
"Mr. Muller, I'm sorry to tie you up. This is a misunderstanding. Please forgive me. We didn't mean to treat you like this." Dong Qiangqiang said sincerely.
"Hey, why did you untickle it for him?" Seeing Dong Qiangqiang untickle the rope, Lei Lanting reacted.
Muller smiled bitterly and shook his head, waved his hand, Tong Lele handed Muller a glass of water, Muller took a sip, breathed a sigh of relief, his face looked a little rosy.
"Since it's the agent your sister is looking for, you can also tell us well. What's the point of scaring us like this?" Lei Lanting said angrily, "What if I have a heart disease that scares you?"
"I don't know she's looking for a cleaner, I think..." Muller stopped talking, "You are here to steal money."
"It's also? Stealing money?" Lei Lanting glanced at Tong Lele and Dong Qiangqiang.
Dong Qiangqiang's heart skipped a beat, and he suddenly remembered what Hans said to him: Are you going to Mr. Muller's treasure building?
"This villa is my family's ancestral home. It has been rumored in the village that my father hid a lot of money in this building."
"Then why didn't he leave the money directly to you and your sister?" Tong Lele asked boldly.
"My parents divorced when I was very young. I was awarded to my mother, and Michelle, my sister, was awarded to my father. But after the divorce, he rarely came to see me and my mother. Until he passed away, we had no deep feelings." Mueller's voice was low and slow, with some accents, and the three of them didn't understand it very well.
"A few years later, my mother also passed away. Before her death, she suddenly told me that my father left his ancestral home for me and Michelle before his death. I went to Michelle to ask for a will, but she refused." Muller smiled bitterly, "Later someone told me that in addition to the house, there might be a large amount of money hidden somewhere in the building. Michelle and I said: If there is really money hidden in the building, we should share it equally. But she said that this house has nothing to do with me."
"Aren't you a country ruled by law? Can you sue? Are you a typical child fighting for the property of your parents?" Lei Lanting sat on the chair and said disapprovingly. Tong Lele glared at him and signaled him not to talk nonsense.
"I sued her in court, but she presented a will, and in this will, it did not mention that the house belonged to us. So I lost the first instance of the court. Later, I appealed and asked for the second instance, but my lawyer suggested that I negotiate and resolve the issue with Michelle. If the negotiation fails, I will likely lose. I think it would be fine if the house belongs to her, but the money is half of mine, so I must find the money."
"So you are here to find the money your father left you?" Dong Qiangqiang asked tentatively.
Mueller nodded, looking a little sad: "I have been here a few times, but I didn't find anything. Later, Michelle applied for a ban order with the court to prohibit me from entering the villa again." He looked at the floor with his eyes straight: "I didn't expect that before the lawsuit was finished, she suddenly had a heart attack..."
"Sincere and be sad and follow the changes." Dong Qiangqiang and Tong Lele said in a low voice in unison.
"Then did you find the money later?" Lei Lanting asked in a low voice.
Mueller shook his head: "I have searched all the first to third floors, and also the basement and garage. There are only some toys and photos of our childhood that my father collected, some records, and nothing else..." He sighed, and covered his face with his hands.
"Then," Lei Lanting glanced at Dong Qiangqiang and Tong Lele, paused, and suddenly asked, "What if... can we find money for you?"
"You?" Muller's body shook, he lowered his hand, and looked at the three people in front of him with suspicion, "How do you find it?"
"Looking for things is not just a fool, there is a way." Lei Lanting stood up from the chair and gestured, saying, "In our east, there is also a secret to finding things."
Mueller's eyes lit up: "What are you doing? Tell me quickly."
When Lei Lanting saw that he heard this, he quickly kept it in a silence: "I just told you, can you understand the essence of it? Do you understand Eastern culture?"
Muller was middle-aged and his mind was a little dull and he didn't understand Lei Lanting's hint: "Then, what should I do?"
Lei Lanting smiled mysteriously: "It's easy to deal with, let's help you find it. If you find the money, you are half of it and we are half of it. How about it?"
"This..." Muller didn't expect that Lei Lanting would speak loudly and couldn't speak.
Seeing him silent, Lei Lanting advised calmly: "If you found it before, you would have to share half of your sister. Although the money is yours, have you not found it yet? Have you been searching for it for a long time? Instead of doing that, it is better for us to find it for you. Everyone will be happy if you can't find you, and there will be no loss. What do you think?"
Mueller's brows frowned and stared out the window without saying a word, as if it was difficult to accept Lei Lanting's suggestion.
"You don't have to make things difficult, I just make a suggestion." Lei Lanting slapped his chin, "We don't have to stay with you. When we finish cleaning the third floor tomorrow morning, we will go back to hand in the work. It's still late, so you can go to bed early."
Three mermaids walked towards the door of the house, Lei Lanting walked at the end, he stretched and said with infinite regret: "What a pity my duck, hey..."
Chapter completed!