fog city detective

Chapter 577
George was resentful of this result. He knew that he had only half a year left in 15 years.According to the rules of the earl's family, as long as the employees who have worked in the earl's manor for 15 years can receive a sum of money from the manor trust fund every week after resignation.Employees under 15 years are only compensated with a one-time 12-week paycheck.

A few days later, George received a mysterious call. Someone offered him a lot of money to hire him to assassinate the earl's eldest son, and a murder plan was devised, as long as George pulled the trigger.George didn't want to pay attention to it, but the other party talked about George's ideal of buying a farm on the phone.The mysterious man finally explained that even if George was arrested, the police would not be able to freeze his overseas funds.

300,000 pounds, with an initial payment of 200,000 and a final payment of 3.7.The money made George's heart skip a beat.The salaries of the Earl's Manor vary greatly. The salaries of the positions that directly serve the owner, such as housekeepers and maids, and the management of security captains, are much higher than those of ordinary servants and gardeners.But relatively speaking, gardeners are paid relatively well. Gardener George's salary exceeds the UK median because of his long working years, with an annual income of 300,000 pounds. Although [-] pounds is not an astronomical figure for George, it is still a huge sum of money.

When George got the first payment, he also got a small compound crossbow for assassination.After two days of private training, George received a notification from a mysterious person on the third day that the weather is suitable for hands-on practice today.So George carried out his evil plan this morning.If there is no murder plan given by the mysterious man, George will be at a loss even if he gets the crossbow.With a plan, George only needs to follow the steps step by step, and it is not that difficult for George to pull the trigger.

The plan was actually good, but there were some accidental variables.It started raining in Brighton at [-]am that day.And it didn't start to rain at Earl's Manor until around five o'clock in the afternoon.

……

From the detective's point of view, the case can be closed, the murderer has confessed, the evidence has been obtained, and the motive has been obtained.The next step is to study the connection between the murderer and the employer. I believe it is not a question that can be concluded quickly. I hope there will be a technical breakthrough in the crossbow.

But after Liang Xi and Romeo listened to George's statement, they were not in the mood of joy at all.Seeing that George was already prepared, Romeo threw out his hole card and asked, "A very important question. Is your target the earl, or the earl's eldest son?"

At this time, Liang Xi, who was in the observation room, called Ai Wen who was in the hotel and asked him to investigate something.

George replied: "Of course the eldest son, we don't like him."

Liang Xi called Romeo, talked for a while, and Romeo hung up the phone: "But what I know is the opposite. The earl is not clear about the punishment. A maid broke the vase, the earl dismissed her, and a maid also broke the vase. But the earl comforted her, told her not to worry or be nervous, and gave her a holiday. The difference is that the former has the courage to admit her mistakes, while the latter is sad and afraid. In the earl’s view, the former did something wrong and did not repent, and she must be made to pay the price. The latter has already been punished by her own mistakes, and there is no need to hold her accountable. This matter was a big event in the castle, and it was not talked about until the steward issued a ban. It is said that women Showing weakness can easily arouse the earl's empathy. Showing firmness in front of the earl can easily be misunderstood by the earl as being arrogant."

Romeo said: "The eldest son is on the contrary. He is not right about things. Whether he is strong or weak, he must be punished accordingly. Even if a maid is pregnant, she is still fined and confiscated as a quarterly bonus. They told the eldest son that punishing pregnant women would entail the risk of discrimination against pregnant women. In the end, the eldest son insisted on the punishment and went to court and was fined [-] pounds.”

Romeo said, thinking about other things in his heart. These two things are relatively public interesting stories about the castle, but why would people like Liang Xi care about such interesting things?The only answer is that Liang Xi is collecting detailed information on the earl or the earl's eldest son with a purpose.For a person who is too lazy to read the material, this matter must be important enough to make Liang Xi so interested.

Romeo said: "The outside world is full of criticisms of the eldest son, saying that he is rich and unkind, but the employees of the castle are very supportive of the eldest son's decision. Therefore, they have a clear standard of punishment and reward in their hearts." If you do a good job, you must be rewarded, even if the eldest son sees it. If you don't like it, the reward will still be given to you.The eldest son's butler also resolutely implemented the eldest son's standards, which led to disputes between the eldest son's butler and the earl's butler on some matters. After all, some employees were responsible for the two affairs.

Romeo answered Liang Xi's call again, hung up the phone after a while and said, "The reason for firing you is indeed because you misplaced tools and caused a maid to be injured. It was also the hospital where the eldest son sent her to. But it was not the eldest son's butler, but the earl's butler who asked you to resign." , the reason is that this maid has a very good relationship with the earl, like a half-daughter. And you are just a gardener." The last sentence was full of sarcasm.

The gardener George was furious when he heard this: "Old stuff..."

After the words came out of his mouth, he immediately calmed down and said, "It was he who fired me, but it must be the eldest son who asked him. Anyway, I think so." It means that I don't care who fired me, anyway, I want to kill the eldest son.

Romeo said: "Murder in the first degree, the maximum sentence is life imprisonment. With the wealth of the eldest son..."

"Isn't he not dead?" George was shocked: "Isn't he already out of danger?"

Romeo looked at George for a long time and asked, "How do you know?"

George was, of course, taken aback.

Liang Xi rummaged through George's personal belongings, took out his mobile phone, opened the door to enter the interrogation room, and walked to George, "Hey, I'll show you something." Liang Xi opened his palm, and the screen was facing George.

George didn't react for a while, he successfully unlocked the phone, grabbed the phone and was held down by the guard, and immediately flew into a rage: "I want to sue you."

"I'm not a policeman." Liang Xi flipped through the communication records and shook his head at Romeo.

The two thought of something at the same time, Romeo said: "Take him down."

Liang Luo left the interrogation room, Romeo called Ai Wen: "Are you in the hotel?"

"Yes."

Romeo said: "The first step is to get all the monitoring in the hotel today. The second step is to get the switchboard system. I don't know what the system is. Someone dialed an internal number in the hotel with an internal phone. I need your help. Prove one thing."

In the early years, the hotel had a special operator on the switchboard. After the outside line came in, it was transferred through the switchboard. Guests had to contact the switchboard before dialing the outside line, and they had to pay a deposit in advance to open the outside line.A few years later, the system replaced the manual, and you can directly dial the phone. For example, if you want to contact the guest in room 402, you can dial XXXXX402 for the outside line.If the guest wants to make an outside call, he can press the operation button.In the era of mobile phones, landline phones have been gradually eliminated. Many hotels no longer have landline phones. Most hotels still have landline phones, but their function is not to communicate with the outside world, but to communicate with various departments of the hotel.

Nowadays, it is more difficult for an outside line to make a room phone call, because the hotel needs to protect the privacy of the guests and avoid guests being harassed.Therefore, the outside line can either directly contact the mobile phone of the guest, or can only go to the main station to explain, and the main station will contact the guest through the internal phone, ask and get the consent, and then let the outsider talk to the guest.

Those who knew that the eldest son was out of danger were: the earl, the earl's eldest son's children, the police detective in charge and his team members, three people, and several medical staff.The police detective in charge clearly informed everyone that in order to cooperate with the ongoing search of the hotel, please keep the information that the eldest son out of danger temporarily confidential.Among this group of insiders, there may be someone who leaked information to the outside world in good faith to keep safe, but George definitely does not have this status.Even if the stewards knew this information, they would not tell George.

How did George get this information?Someone contact him.Since the police are monitoring all the rooms, contact can only be made by phone.There is no communication record on the mobile phone, so the only possibility is an internal call.Considering the special nature of the internal calls, it is very likely that the person who contacted George had appeared in the hotel.

According to the on-site analysis and motive analysis, Liang Luo determined that the person George wanted to kill was the earl, not the eldest son.But why did George insist that the man he was going to kill was the eldest son?Assuming that the eldest son died, and George claimed that he killed the eldest son, then George was charged with first-degree murder.Assuming George claims he killed the wrong person, then George is charged with attempted murder and first-degree murder.

In fact, George already knew that his eldest son was out of danger. At this time, George admitted that he shot and killed his eldest son, which was an attempted murder.If George says he killed the wrong person, attempted murder plus intentional injury.

Was it because George wanted to understand these details before killing himself that his target was the eldest son?Or did the phone call cause George to change his mind?Liang and Luo didn't need to communicate, they both chose the second answer.

……

At the same time, Aiwen, who received the order, dispatched six uniformed policemen on the scene and asked them to assist him in collecting evidence.Ai Wen himself was communicating with the service staff at the main station, and when he was inquiring about the internal situation, he saw a man in a sweater and a hood walking towards the back door in the direction of the stairs out of the corner of his eye.Aiwen looked back and found that the man was deliberately avoiding the surveillance to avoid being photographed on the face by the surveillance.

Aiwen followed up with his ID: "Hi! Dude, wait."

The man ran away without looking back, and Ai Wen immediately chased after him.The man escaped from the back door and turned left. Aiwen chased out the back door and planned to turn left. An arm appeared like an iron pillar. Aiwen's chest under the neck hit his arm, and his arm pushed forward with force. Aiwen flew on his back He hit the ground hard.When Ai Wen stood up, the support police officers had already arrived. Looking around, there was no sign of the man.

Aiwen contacted the command center: "The police officer was attacked. The suspect is a Caucasian man. He is 1.8 meters tall, weighs about 75 kilograms, and wears a dark sweater. This person is an important suspect in an important case. All departments are requested to pay attention to assist in the investigation."

Liang Luo was heading to the hotel, and a police officer was in charge of driving.The car was a police car, and a notification came from the command center on the radio, calling all units to pay attention to a white man with a height of 1.8 meters and a weight of about 75 kilograms, wearing a dark sweater.This person has just attacked a police officer at a hotel.

Liang Xi said: "There are a lot of police officers in the hotel, and he escaped after attacking the police officers, which means that he must not be wearing a dark sweater."

Romeo asked: "Do you want to add an Asian disguise? Can you pay attention to the point, there is a suspect in the hotel."

Liang Xi said, "Even we didn't know what he was suspected of."

The urban area of ​​Brighton is not big, and it takes only half an hour to drive from the city to the end. After 3 minutes, Liang Xi and the others arrived near the hotel.Liang Xi greeted: "Stop."

Liang Xi got out of the car and looked at the man who was paying for cigarettes in the convenience store.The man was wearing a white casual outfit with a fanny pack. Judging from his overall attire, he was a tourist visiting Brighton who came out to hang out at night when he was bored.

Liang Xi walked over, and when he approached, the man turned his head and saw Liang Xi half a meter away for the first time, he was startled immediately: "Fake."

Liang Xi smiled, and this effect was what he wanted: "Hey, Ristone, do you also come to Brighton whenever you have time?"

Ristone responded with a heck of a smile, and raised his hand to greet Romeo: "Officer Romeo, long time no see."

"haven't seen you for a long time."

Riesdall: "You guys are busy, I still have something to do, I'll treat you to dinner later."

"Don't worry." Liang Xi stretched out his hand to grab Riston's coat, and kneaded Riston's clothes with his palms back and forth: "This dress is so handsome, let me guess, it must have a lot of mystery." Turn it over, Nima, Either a reversible sweater or a casual outfit.

Ristone patted his clothes and shook off Liang Xi's hand, dissatisfied: "Why do you touch me? Although I am excellent, I don't like men touching me."

Romeo observed from the side. Ristone was 1.8 meters tall and weighed 78 kilograms, which was not much different from the broadcast suspect's data.

Unlike Romeo who observed quietly, Liang Xi started directly.Liang Xi reached out for Ristone's pocket: "A friend comes from afar, and he can't be allowed to carry the luggage alone. Let me carry it for you."

"No, you go away." Ristone pushed Liang Xi away, and asked cautiously, "What are you going to do?"

"Long time no see, I'm glad to see you." Liang Xi continued to talk nonsense, he didn't believe that Ristone would be nearby by such a coincidence.

Romeo leaned close to Liang Xi's ear and whispered: "It's not him, maybe it's an accomplice." Ristone's hair was soft and casual without any chemicals such as pomade. It can be seen that the last time he washed his hair did not exceed 12 months. Hour.The suspect was wearing a sweater and a hood, and was running fast. Under such circumstances, no matter how much he combed his hair, he couldn't arrange it so naturally in a few minutes.

"What accomplice?" Ristone asked.

Liang Xi said: "No, I'm just very sad. You kept saying that you would go to London to have tea with me, but I waited and waited and never found you in London, but I ran into you in Brighton many times. Fate, really It’s wonderful. Although you are so unkind to me, I still wait in London, I’m in trouble, you shine on the mountains..." Liang Xi started talking nonsense, and Romeo pretended not to listen to it and looked around to see if there was any People noticed the situation here, everything seems to be normal.

Although he has a good reputation in the circle, Liang Xi must be more shameless than Romeo. He suddenly turned his head and pointed, and shouted: "It's you."

Across the road is a small garden where a dozen people listen to street performers singing.With Liang Xi's voice and pointing at more than a dozen people, a man in a white sweater pushed away the two girls beside him and ran away.

"Damn!" Liang Xi was pleasantly surprised, turned to look at Romeo, scratched his head: "Damn." He seemed unable to run, and looked at the driver of the special car. Although the driver was a uniformed policeman, he was five meters away and didn't know What happened.

Liang Xi was quick-witted, grabbed Riston's shoulder, and pointed to the direction in which the man fled: "Be brave when you see justice, hurry up."

Ristone was angry and funny, and the two weak chickens tricked the big fish out, only to find that they couldn't catch the fish.Riston put a cigarette in his mouth: "As a tourist, you should keep yourself safe. How about one? Let's make a contribution to reduce the world's population together?"

　Take a day off.

　　Lie: Celebrate Double 11.

　　Truth: I was rear-ended a few days ago, and one part was expensive. The insurance company of the other party suggested repairing it, and the 4S shop suggested replacing it.I will see you tomorrow, and we will go to the store to communicate together. The 4S store is in the suburbs, not far away there is a small river that is very suitable for micro-lures, and I plan to wash the line.By the way, I went to a friend in a nearby town to have dinner, so that I could justifiably ask my friend to send me home, so that I could save dinner money and taxi money.It was too witty.

　　I wish you all good health and good luck.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)