Chapter 2551: Rustling Down (46)

After dinner, Jason and Tim were kicked out of the house by Shiler. They shouted and yelled in the house for a long time, insisting that they were good at cleaning, but for the sake of his own hearing health, Shiler still drove them all away.

Aisha was left behind because the moose meat in the refrigerator needed to be dealt with. He went to the backyard to organize the parts of the barbecue grill, assembled the already simple grill, and let Aisha roast the meat in the backyard herself.

Shiler was tidying up things in the front hall. He had indeed not done this kind of work much, but he had plenty of references. When Merkel dealt with chaos, he tended to collect all the things that were not in their original positions and put them aside first, clean the floors, walls, and a series of other immovable things, and then slowly select the things collected earlier. If they weren't broken, he would put them back in their original places; if they were broken, he would send them for repair or simply throw them away.

Shiler also tried this method. He collected all the ornaments and sculptures that had fallen to the floor, piled them in the dining room, and took out a broom and a small vacuum cleaner to clean the living room floor.

Fortunately, the power burst of Raven in the house was not very strong, roughly equivalent to setting off a firecracker in the living room. It was just that some things were knocked to the floor, and there were some black ash and explosion marks on the floor, as well as scratches from things falling down.

Shiler swept away the fragments of the broken things and cleaned the dust with a vacuum cleaner, but there were still some strange marks left on the floor. It looked like a mop had to be used.

Merkel basically didn't use a mop because the building materials of the manor were too primitive, and many places couldn't withstand moisture. Also, because he was diligent in cleaning, he basically wouldn't leave any stains that required cleaning fluid to be cleaned, so a mop naturally couldn't come in handy.

A mop was also a novel thing for Shiler. Except for when he needed to borrow the cleaner's box to hold human fragments and needed a mop to disguise it, Shiler had never used it to clean.

But the house still provided various types of mops. In addition to the traditional cloth strip style, there were sponge mops, mops made of materials like layered silk screens, and hard rubber mops at the bottom.

Shiler looked at the various tools hanging in the utility room and decided to take out his phone to check. At this time, Aisha's voice came from outside, and Shiler had to put down his phone and walk over.

Aisha held up a roasted moose hoof and asked Shiler if he wanted to eat it. Shiler shook his head. Seeing Shiler in the utility room, Aisha put the moose hoof on the plate next to it and ran over quickly.

"What are you doing?" When Aisha wasn't in a hurry, she spoke human language quite well. Ignoring the situation of her eyes and teeth, she could almost be called a cute little human girl.

"I'm going to mop the floor." Shiler said, "I plan to check the usage of these mops. I'm not sure if ordinary mops are useful for the marks left by magic."

Aisha looked back at the living room and said, "There are no traces of magic there. It looks like some ordinary scratches. But are you going to check online? Why don't you call Alfred and ask?"

Shiler was stunned. He hadn't considered this aspect before. Mainly, Alfred didn't look like someone who cleaned the house in an ordinary way. He was like the kind of magical old butler who looked like he could make the whole manor look brand new with a single breath.

If it weren't for this, it would be hard to explain how he managed to clean such a large manor all by himself.

Shiler hesitated for a moment, feeling that there was no need to disturb Alfred for such a small matter. In case Alfred really said he could clean it up with a breath, then he couldn't let the old butler run here.

Just as Shiler was about to continue typing in the search bar of his phone, the phone suddenly rang. Shiler saw that it was the number of Wayne Manor.

"Hello, hello, yes, Alfred, they have had dinner at my place, Aisha might stay here for the night... is that so?"

"Actually, it's nothing big, my living room... have you already heard them talk about it?"

Shiler walked out of the utility room with the phone, came to the living room, looked down at the marks under his feet, and said, "No, the reflection is fine, the marks are black and flush with the surface. It doesn't look like the floor was damaged. I used a vacuum cleaner, but this thing can't be cleaned."

"Yes, it's strip-shaped, the wooden leg part of the sofa also has some, and then there are some fan-shaped brown marks. Maybe I can take a picture for you..."

Shiler kept the call going, took a few photos with his phone, and sent them to Alfred. Alfred soon began to give a speech on the receiver, from the composition of stains and dust to organic chemistry, then to the engineering of the invention and design of cleaning tools, and child psychology on how to comfort and educate children who caused trouble...

Actually, this last part was what Shiler needed more. He had wanted to review it before, because most of the depression and irritability of the wealthy clients he would face next came from children.

After talking for a full ten minutes, Shiler hung up the phone. He had completely figured out the theoretical part of removing stains, and the next step was practice.

According to Alfred, stains can be roughly divided into two categories: one that hasn't damaged the surface, and the other that has damaged the surface.

The vast majority of stains are the first type, such as dust, mud stains, spilled vegetable soup, etc. These only require cleaning the stains themselves.

Solid stains can be cleaned with a vacuum cleaner, and soups and liquids can be wiped clean with an ordinary mop. If the stain contains oily components, then add some detergent. Everything is very simple.

The more troublesome one is the latter. Alfred told Shiler a story about the Robins playing with fire in the house and burning the floor of the covered bridge near the garden completely black.

The floor itself wasn't burned away, but the surface had been completely burned. In this case, you have to vacuum first, then wipe the stains, then prepare the cleaning fluid, scrub hard with a hard mop, and then re-wax and polish the floor. Shiler's head ached just listening to it.

He carefully checked the floor. Those black and brown marks didn't damage the surface. A simple wipe should be enough. The more troublesome part was that the floor was scratched when the wood carvings and ornaments fell.

Alfred said that he could also invite a professional team to polish it, but Shiler felt that there were only two or three such marks in total, so there was no need to invite someone specifically to come over. He decided to do it himself.

Aisha said she wanted to help, and Shiler didn't refuse. The process of sweeping and vacuuming had already been completed. Shiler carried the mop to the backyard, where there was a sink for washing the mop.

Aisha put on gloves and followed behind him. Shiler finished washing the mop. Aisha's height was just right, so she didn't need to bend over or lift the mop head high to wring it dry.

After thinking for a while, Aisha said, "I think the first pass should leave more water, so it won't be too strenuous to wipe, and it will be convenient for the cleaning fluid to foam. The second pass should be drier, so it won't leave water stains."

"You can also clean?" Shiler asked curiously.

"I haven't done it myself, but I saw the auntie in the kindergarten doing it this way." Aisha said while wringing the mop, "They drove us out to play. The teacher wouldn't let me near the slide, and I didn't like sliding with them, so I lay on the window and watched them work."

When Aisha said this, Shiler also remembered that the figure of the auntie mopping the corridor would always sway back and forth two or three times until he grew up. Actually, he didn't know why she had to come so many times. Now that he thought about it, it might be because a corridor had to be wet-mopped once and dry-mopped once.

According to what Aisha said, Shiler wiped the marks once with a relatively damp mop. Some marks were wiped off directly, but some were still quite stubborn, so Shiler went to the utility room to find cleaning fluid.

Because this kind of house generally has a professional butler, the cleaning fluid is not a mass-market brand that you can just pour on, but needs to be prepared. Fortunately, there is no need to follow any laboratory regulations here. Just get a bucket, get some water, and pour it in according to the ratio.

Shiler glanced at the ratio Alfred sent him via text message, chose one that was more suitable for the floor at home, let Aisha fetch a bucket of water, ignored the tooth marks on the edge of the bucket, and began to pour cleaning fluid into it.

After preparing the cleaning fluid and wiping it once, the vast majority of the stains were removed, but there were still some scratches underneath. Shiler guessed that some power might be sharp, because the radial shape of these scratches could be clearly seen.

If there were so many places to polish, it would be more troublesome. Shiler checked and found that there were no very deep scratches overall. He wiped it a few more times, and then after dry-mopping it once, he found that the floor in other places was as clean as new, so it was still not worth inviting someone over.

Waxing and polishing is a more troublesome job. Shiler sat on the sofa and studied the guide sent by Alfred with Aisha for a long time, regaining the feeling of entering academia and looking at other people's experimental analysis reports.

Aisha has an amazing talent in practical work. She basically completely inherited her father's hands-on ability. The filling powder and polishing paste were all prepared by her, while Shiler was responsible for skillfully using child psychology to encourage her.

The remaining steps were relatively simple: use pigments to color the powder, fill it into the deeper scratches, blow it dry with a hot air blower, then apply polishing wax, and then scrub it hard with an electric rotary polisher and mop.

This job took about an hour, and the final result was very satisfactory. Even if you looked closely, you couldn't see the disaster the floor had suffered.

Then it was time to move the ornaments that had been moved away back in categories. Shiler remembered where each thing was placed, so he put them back in their original places.

The statue that gave the postman a hit had long been cleaned and was now put back on the table. When the lights were turned on again, the whole living room was as bright as new.

But soon Shiler found some white cotton wool next to the bookshelf again. Only then did he remember that the back of the bat doll had also been cut.

He turned the bat doll that had been hugged up from the single sofa next to him and found that the cut on the back was quite long and was still leaking cotton.

Very good, it seems that the course he is going to study next is tailoring. It wouldn't be that he just happened to have an acquaintance who is proficient in sewing, right?

Bang bang bang!

The door was knocked. ===== CHAPTER 2552 =====