Cook is in his sixties and has white hair. His temporary office is in a side hall on the first floor of his main residence. Seven lawyers are sitting at a table working with computers on the table and a large amount of paper materials in front of them.

Cook was much more polite than his assistant. After shaking hands with Liang Xi, he cordially asked about John's health.

Cook asked Liang Xi to enter the inner room. As he walked, he told Liang Xi that the lawyers outside were taking inventory of the manor property, preparing documents for heirs to the title, and applying for seats in the Senate. British families use the primogeniture system to inherit titles and fiefs. This situation continued until the last century.

In the 1920s, the new law retained the system of primogeniture, but allowed fiefs to be distributed by wills as limited inheritance property. In the absence of will distribution, the eldest son would inherit. As for private property, such as money, stocks, etc., they were not subject to the inheritance system of titles.

Influence.

Cook asked Liang Xi to take a seat: "Jack has explained the situation to you. Time is limited. I must come up with the will before eight o'clock tomorrow night. If you need any help, just ask."

Liang Xi asked: "Theoretically, everything in the manor, including the children's residence, is also an inheritance?"

Cook nodded: "Yes."

Liang Xidao: "I need to investigate the case as your assistant, and I can enter and exit various places freely."

Cook said: "This is necessary. Your duty is to evaluate and record the assets in the manor. With this identity, you can enter and exit all places. But I believe you know how to be polite and know that some places should seek permission from others before entering."

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Liang Xi asked: "What if I'm not polite? You know, sometimes you can't be polite."

Cook looked at Liang Xi and said, "As long as we find the will, everything will be easy to talk about."

Liang Xi nodded and knew what he knew. Cook was calm on the surface, but almost collapsed inside, so he used himself as a life-saving straw. Liang Xi said: "Can you introduce the situation of the four heirs?" To find a will, you must first identify the suspicion of theft.

people.

Earl Davis and his family did not directly participate in the business. Davis handed over his assets to trust fund companies for supervision, and they invested and managed them. There are many investment projects and businesses all over the world. As Davis's children, each

A monthly trust fund of £20,000 can be obtained.

Dai Dai is 50 years old and is an assistant program director at Reading TV Station.

Dai Er is 48 years old, a retired military officer who has served for 12 years, and now works as a ground engineer at an airport in London.

Dai San is 45 years old and is a pastor who works at a church in Reading Town. His daily work is mostly related to charity.

Dai is 44 years old and is an associate professor at the University of Reading. She is a research academic professor who mainly studies and improves the history of the Renaissance era.

The four people all had beautiful backgrounds, and it was not clear from their resumes that any of them might have committed the crime. Liang Xi directly passed over the four suspected staff members of the main residence because they had no interest in stealing the will.

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The butler in his fifties led Liang Xi to the second floor and to the count's master bedroom. The master bedroom was large and had its own separate living room. Strictly speaking, it was not beautiful. Liang Xi really couldn't appreciate the half-length portrait hanging on the wall.

The carvings on the stairs and the marble-colored walls could not bring beauty. Liang Xi also knew his taste and actually praised it in front of the housekeeper.

The butler helped open all the doors and went to stand at the door of the master bedroom. As a butler, he treated the descendants of the earl politely and respectfully, but he was not loyal to any children. He was loyal to the earl and the manor. If the new earl was willing, he would

You can stay and continue to manage the manor and be loyal to the new earl. If the new earl is not satisfied, he will not pay much attention to it.

The big bed in the bedroom finally brought a bit of modernity. On the wall next to it was an oil painting of the count's wife when she was young. Liang Xi carefully took down the oil painting and placed it against the wall. He looked at the built-in safe hidden behind the painting.

cabinet.

Liang Xi took one look at the safe and was speechless. This is the simplest six-digit password safe. Liang Xi thought for himself, as a person who doesn't know the password, how can he open this safe? Liang Xi looked at Cook on his phone.

The assistant sent him the count's family information, and casually entered the count's wife's birthday: 590402. The safe just popped open.

These rich people are really bad. With so much money, building such a simple safe is simply encouraging others to commit crimes.

The safe is divided into two floors. The upper floor is larger and the lower floor is smaller. There are many grids on the lower floor, which contain various jewelry. Liang Xi picked up a gem necklace and squinted at the light for a while. This necklace

It was worth more than half a million pounds. Liang Xi turned to face the bedroom door and looked into the hall. There was no one in the main bedroom.

After all, gemstone necklaces are calculated in pieces, and there is a risk in taking them. The diamonds in the grid on one side are measured in diamonds. Basically, no one will notice if you take one away. Liang Xi picked up a diamond and squinted at the light.

Look, it is definitely a diamond without a laser number. Such a big one costs tens of thousands of pounds.

Liang Xi put the diamond back and pushed back the lower drawer of the safe. Most of the documents on the upper floor were documents, including entrustment contracts. According to Cook, when the new will was sealed, Cook, the housekeeper and a maid were present.

.They were all witnesses to the legality of the new will and signed the seal.

Liang Xi called Cook: "Lawyer Cook, is the old will still there?"

Cook replied: "Yes."

Liang Xi asked: "Is the will also sealed?"

Cook replied: "Yes."

Liang Xidao: "I need to add another identity: the successor's emotional evaluator."

Cook was startled: "This is the first time I heard about this profession."

Liang Xidao: "There is always a first time. My job is to talk to the prospective heirs alone to assess their acceptance of the inheritance distribution. If someone cannot accept the result that he has not received any money, he will be angry to death on the spot.

What should I do? In line with the attitude of being responsible to the client, Cook Law Firm specially provides the service of emotional assessment of the heir."

Cook held his cell phone and thought for a long time: "As long as it helps find the will, of course."

Liang Xi said: "Lawyer Cook, you'd better be mentally prepared for the worst."

Cook's heart palpitated and he asked, "What do you mean?"

Liang Xi explained: "If the thief is the beneficiary in the will, then he will definitely choose to put the will back in the safe. Now there is no will in the safe, which means that the thief is in a disadvantageous position in the new will. Assume that it is not found.

In the new will, the four children share the assets equally. This shows that the thief’s income in the will was lower than the average.”

Liang Xidao: "If I were a thief, I would destroy the will."

Cook: "Oh, buy it."

Liang Xidao: "But this is just the worst possibility."

Cook sighed: "I understand, please try your best."

Liang Xi: "No problem."

Don't give people too much expectations, because you don't know how much hope the other party will have. Give a bad possibility and a good result, and people will thank you. Give a good possibility and a bad result, and people will resent you. This

It's the experience John gained from 30 years of detective work.
Chapter completed!