Madam is leaving today

Chapter 35 The Road to Hell
The interrogation began soon. Gu Junwei was sitting in the main seat, with a plaque with the words "Mirror hanging high" hanging above his head, and he had already changed into an official uniform with a purple round collar.

Su Yun sat on the lower right, and Lu Chenglin stood beside Gu Junwei, looking at Su Yun cautiously, wondering why Gu Junwei brought a woman with him during the trial, and he didn't look like the kind of person who was obsessed with women, but After what happened just now, he didn't dare to say anything more.

Soon, guards brought up the people who were to be interrogated today.

The people who are being interrogated today are all survivors of the Zuixiao Pavilion fire. They are the three cooks and a cook who got up in the kitchen in the morning to make preparations, the two rough girls in the kitchen, and the lobby of Zuixiao Pavilion that night. A clerk on duty.

Because Zuixiao Pavilion is the largest and most unique hotel in Beijing. Although it is not like some Qinlou and Chu Pavilions that are full of red candles all night, singing and dancing, but there will be a staff on duty all night at any time, in case the guests suddenly have something. Demand, also in case there is a sudden visitor at night.

It is also because Zuixiao Pavilion is just a hotel for travelers to eat and stay. People who will stay here are usually people who come to Beijing from outside, or rich businessmen with wealth, or well-off scholars who come to Beijing to take the imperial examination.

Recently, the Spring Festival is about to begin, and candidates from all over the country are rushing to Beijing one after another, so most of the people staying in Zuixiao Pavilion are candidates who want to participate in the Spring Festival.

As soon as the news that dozens of examinees were burned to death in the Zuixiao Pavilion was spread, Confucian scholars all over the world were shocked. Some officials in the court even bluntly said that if they did not give an explanation to the relatives and friends of these examinees as soon as possible, it would be frightening. unstable.

The most puzzling thing and what made things more complicated was that among the people burned to death, there was actually a concubine son of Wang Huanzhi, the prime minister of the current dynasty, who ranked nineteenth in his family.

Obviously his home is in Shangjing, how could he go to the hotel to spend the night?And judging from what was found, he is a frequent visitor to Zuixiao Pavilion, and even has an exclusive private room there, where he will stay five or six days out of ten, and he often has sex with a little girl brought out from which flower building. The lady hangs out in the room.

Some people don't like to have fun in the flower house, they think it's dirty, and there are cases where people are taken out to the hotel to open a room. It would be better to say that the bastard of the Wang family is in that situation every time, but the information returned by Gu Junwei's investigation Yes, that concubine of the Wang family sometimes sleeps alone in Zuixiao Pavilion.

Regarding this, Prime Minister Wang's explanation was that Wang Jiulang had always been a wild man, often wandering outside and unwilling to go home, but no matter what, he was also a descendant of the Wang family, and he must not be allowed to die outside for no reason.

With a few words, the pressure was easily pushed back to the person in charge of the investigation.

While Su Yun sorted out the information he got from Gu Junwei in his mind, he listened to Gu Junwei's interrogation.

These people, although there is no evidence to prove that they are criminals, are also suspects in the arson case of Zuixiao Pavilion, just because everyone's attention was on Xiao Chengjin before, and these people just escaped from a fire , the emotions are inevitably unstable, so their interrogation was postponed to today.

The interrogation was carried out one-on-one, and the guards would take turns to bring people up. After Gu Junwei finished asking, one guard would take the person down, and the other guard would bring the new person up.

The questions asked are similar, such as where were you when the arson happened?what are you doing?Did you notice anything unusual before the fire started?What did you do after discovering the fire?Were you involved in this arson attack, etc.

This kind of interrogation depends not only on the questions asked, but also on the interrogation techniques.

And Gu Junwei obviously knew how to do it. Although there was a faint smile on his face all the time, the questions were thrown out like flying knives, leaving no time for thinking, and Lu Chenglin beside him was sweating profusely.

Thinking about General Gu's interrogation of the enemy in the barracks, of course, the methods used to face the enemy will definitely not be as gentle as today. I heard that in the barracks, facing the enemies who don't want to tell the truth, they directly use knives It is also possible to cut off their fingers one by one.

Thinking of this, Lu Chenglin felt his back go cold, and then looked at the handsome man beside him with a smile on his mouth, and suddenly felt that his smile penetrated no matter how you looked at it.

The first to be interrogated were the three chefs.

The three cooks are all middle-aged. Because they had to prepare breakfast for the hotel guests, they got up very early to make preparations. Before the fire broke out, the three of them had been in the kitchen all the time, and each could prove that the other did not leave before the fire broke out. Step past the kitchen.

One of the chefs obviously hasn't come out of the fire yet, a tall man with red eyes, said: "The manager of the kitchen is a very strict person, if he finds someone lazy and smart He deducted half a month's salary from that person without blinking, so the big guy has formed a habit. Generally, he will not leave the kitchen easily except to go to the toilet. But the manager is actually not bad, he is a wine jar, and he will go to the kitchen whenever he is free. He dragged us to the tavern to drink, he was very stingy in other things, drinking was the most generous thing, I would rather be chased and beaten by the wife at home... But I didn't expect that this person would be gone if he said nothing... Speaking of it , Although the firewood room was next to the kitchen, it was Ding Er who was on duty in the lobby who first discovered the fire. When he came to tell us to run, we didn’t expect that the firewood room was on fire.”

Because they were interrogated separately, they didn't know what each other would be asked, so it was impossible to make a good statement in advance, and the credibility of the testimony was very high.

Next was Fan Niang, the cook who was in charge of some chores in the kitchen. When she came up, she didn't ask any questions, and she just stared at Gu Junwei. It wasn't until the guard reminded her that she rubbed the corner of her clothes and smiled embarrassedly. , "This gentleman is really good-looking, this old slave rarely sees such a good-looking gentleman, just like a god in the sky."

Everyone at the scene was watching their hearts, and Gu Junwei was also calm, still interrogating her with a smile on his lips.

Su Yun turned his head slightly to look at him, thinking that he couldn't blame the cook, this man really looked too foul, especially at this time when he was wearing the clothes of a civil servant, he was elegant and handsome but also exuded a heroic and tough look , for a cook who has never seen the world, isn't she just like a fairy?
Fan Niang's statement was also very standard, she only said that she was washing vegetables at that time, and suddenly heard someone say that there was a fire, so she ran out in a hurry. The place where she washed vegetables was outside the kitchen, and it should be can see.

Gu Junwei immediately ordered Lu Chenglin in a low voice to confirm the situation with the three cooks.

Finally, when Gu Junwei asked Fan Niang if there was anything unusual before the fire started, Fan Niang thought for a while and said, "I don't think so. The old slave is usually the first to arrive in the kitchen because there are a lot of things to prepare. Speaking of which, the old slave made it that day." The first thing I did was to move a bundle of firewood to the kitchen, lest I find it was not enough when I used it for cooking. At that time, the firewood room was still in good condition. Who would have thought... There is one more thing, I can’t actually say It's a strange thing. That day there was a table of guests who had been drinking until very late. Two big men were drunk and quarreled and went crazy. Ding Er, who was on duty at night, couldn't handle it. That group of people just had nothing to show for it, so just let them make trouble. After the old slave passed by, he saw that there was no place to get his hands on, so he came back, and then he didn't go to the lobby again, and he didn't know who the group of people were. When did we go back to the room, until Ding Er suddenly ran to say that there was a fire, let us leave quickly. He said that he was a little hungry because he stayed up all night, and he came to the kitchen to find something to eat, so he found out The woodshed is on fire."

As she spoke, as if thinking of something terrifying, Fan Niang's eyes moved and her lips trembled slightly, "And the fire was so evil, the two straight lines ran towards the main building, it looked like... like a The road to hell!"

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