George was furious at this result. He knew that he only had half a year left before his 15th year. According to the rules of the Earl's family, as long as employees who have worked at the Earl's manor for 15 years can receive a sum of money from the manor's trust fund every week after resignation.

Money. Employees with less than 15 years of experience are only compensated with a one-time salary of 12 weeks.

A few days later, George received a mysterious phone call. Someone offered him a large sum of money to hire him to assassinate the Earl's eldest son. He also designed a murder plan. George would only need to pull the trigger. George didn't want to ignore it, but the other party mentioned George on the phone.

He wanted to buy a farm. The mysterious man finally explained that even if George was arrested, the police would not be able to freeze his overseas funds.

Three hundred thousand pounds, a down payment of one hundred thousand, and a balance payment of two hundred thousand. This amount of money made George's heart beat. The salary level of the Earl's manor varied greatly. There were positions such as housekeepers and maids that directly served the owner, as well as management positions such as security captains.

The salary of senior servants is much higher than that of ordinary servants and gardeners. But relatively speaking, the salary of gardeners is still relatively high. Because of his long working years, gardener George’s salary exceeds the British median, with an annual income of 37,000 pounds and 300,000 pounds.

Although the British pound is not an astronomical sum for George, it is still a huge sum of money.

When George got the down payment, he also got a small compound crossbow used for assassination. After two days of private training, George received a notice from a mysterious man on the third day that the weather was suitable for action today. So George implemented his criminal plan this morning.

.Assuming that there is no murder plan given by the mysterious man, George will be at a loss even if he gets the crossbow. With the plan, George only needs to follow the steps, 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 to rain at Brighton at 9 a.m. that day. It didn't start to rain at Earl Manor until about 5 p.m.

…

From a police detective's point of view, this case is ready to be solved. The murderer confessed, the evidence is there, and the motive is there. The next step is to study the connection between the murderer and his employer. I believe it is not a question that can be concluded quickly. I hope

There is a technological breakthrough in the crossbow.

But after listening to George's statement, Liang Xi and Romeo were not in a happy mood at all. Seeing that George was already prepared, Romeo threw out his trump 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 a matter.

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

Liang Xi called Romeo and after talking for a while, Romeo hung up the phone: "But what I know is completely the opposite. The earl is a man of unknown good and punishment. A maid broke a vase, and the earl fired her. A maid also broke the vase.

She took the vase, but the earl comforted her, telling her not to worry or be nervous, and giving her a day off. The difference was that the former had the courage to admit her mistakes, while the latter was sad and scared. In the earl's view, the former had done something wrong and was unrepentant, and she must pay the price.

The latter has already been punished for her mistakes, and there is no need to hold her responsible. This matter was a big deal in the castle. Later, after the butler issued a gag order, everyone stopped talking about it. It is said that women in front of the count

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: "On the contrary, the eldest son treats things differently than people. No matter whether he is strong or weak, if he does something wrong, he must be punished accordingly. Even if a maid was pregnant, she was still fined and her quarterly bonus was confiscated. This incident further triggered

The Ministry of Labor visited the house, and they told the eldest son that punishing pregnant women would lead to discrimination against pregnant women. In the end, the eldest son insisted on the punishment, and went to court and was fined 20,000 pounds."

Romeo said, thinking about other things. These two things are relatively public interesting things about the castle, but how can people like Liang Xi care about such interesting things? The only answer is that Liang Xi is collecting them with purpose and purpose.

Detailed information about the earl or the earl's eldest son. For a person who is too lazy to read the information, this matter must be important enough for Liang Xi to be so concerned about it.

Romeo said: "The outside world is full of criticism of the eldest son, saying that he is rich and unkind, but the employees of the castle very much support the eldest son's decision. Therefore, they have a clear standard of punishment in their hearts." If you do something well, there will definitely be a reward, even if the eldest son sees it.

If you don't like it, you will still be rewarded. The eldest son's butler also resolutely implements the eldest son's standards, which leads to disputes between the eldest son's butler and the earl's butler on certain matters. After all, some employees are responsible for the affairs of both families.

Romeo answered Liang Xi's call again, then hung up the phone and said: "The reason for firing you is indeed because you misplaced tools and injured a maid. It was also the hospital where the eldest son sent her. 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 count, like half a daughter. And you are just a gardener." The last sentence was full of ridicule.

Gardener George was furious when he heard this: "Old guy..."

After the words came out, he immediately calmed down and said: "He was the one who fired me, but it must have been the request made by the eldest son to him. Anyway, that's what I thought." It meant that I didn't care who fired me, I wanted to kill the eldest son anyway.

Romeo said: "First-degree murder carries a maximum penalty of life imprisonment. With the eldest son's financial resources..."

"Isn't he dead?" George said in shock: "Isn't he out of danger?"

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

Of course George was stunned.

Liang Xi rummaged through George's personal belongings, took out his mobile phone, opened the door and entered the interrogation room, and walked towards George: "Hey, I want to show you something." Liang Xi opened his palm and faced George with the screen.

George didn't react for a while, but he successfully unlocked his phone and grabbed it when the guards held him down. He immediately became furious and said, "I'm going to sue you."

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

They both thought of something at the same time. Romeo said: "Take him down."

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

"yes."

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

I want to prove something."

In the early years, hotels had dedicated switchboard personnel. When outside calls came in, they were transferred through the switchboard. Guests had to contact the switchboard before they could call outside lines, and they needed to pay a deposit in advance to open the outside line. After a few years, the system replaced manual labor.

You can make a direct call. For example, if you want to contact the guest in room 402, you can dial XXXXX402 from the outside. If the guest wants to make an outside call, he can follow the operation buttons. In the era of mobile phones, after landlines have been slowly phased out, many hotels no longer have fixed phones.

Telephones, most hotels still have fixed telephones, but their role is not to communicate with the outside world, but to communicate with various hotel departments.

Nowadays, it is difficult for outside lines to make calls to guest rooms, because the hotel wants to protect the privacy of guests and prevent guests from being harassed. Therefore, outside lines must either contact the guest’s mobile phone directly, or they can only go to the front desk to explain, and the front desk will contact the guest through the internal phone.

, only after asking and getting permission will outsiders be allowed to talk to the guests.

The people who knew that the eldest son was out of danger include: the count, the child of the count's eldest son, the detective in charge and three members of his team, and several medical staff. The detective in charge clearly informed everyone that in order to cooperate with an ongoing search in the hotel, because

Please keep the information that the eldest son is out of danger secret for the time being. Among this group of insiders, there may be someone who leaks the information to the outside world in good faith to protect his safety, but George definitely does not have this status. Even if the housekeepers learn this information, they will not tell it

George.

How did George get this information? Someone contacted him. Since the police officers monitored all rooms, they could only make contact through the phone. There was no communication record on the mobile phone, so the only possibility was the internal phone call. Considering the special nature of the internal phone call,

The person who contacted George was most likely present at 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 person he wanted to kill was the eldest son? Assuming that the eldest son died and George claimed that he killed the eldest son, then George's crime was one

First-degree murder. Assuming that George claims he killed the wrong person, 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 his eldest son, which was an attempted murder. If George claimed that he killed the wrong person, it would be an attempted murder plus intentional injury.

Did George want to understand these details before he bit his eldest son to death? Or did the phone call cause George to change his mind? Liang and Luo didn't need to communicate, so they both chose the second answer.

…

At the same time, Ivan received the order and dispatched six uniformed police officers at the scene to help him collect evidence. When Ivan himself was communicating with the front desk staff and asking about the internal situation, he saw a man wearing a sweatshirt and a hood from the corner of his eye.

Walking toward the back door in the direction of the stairs. Ivan looked back and saw that the man was deliberately avoiding the surveillance camera to avoid having his face photographed by the surveillance camera.

Alvin followed up with his ID: "Hi! Guy, wait a minute."

The man ran away without looking back, and Alvin immediately gave chase. The man escaped from the back door and turned left. Alvin chased him out the back door and was planning to turn left. An arm appeared like an iron pillar, and Alvin's chest under his neck hit him.

On the arm, the arm was pushed forward with force, and Alvin flew up and hit the ground hard. By the time Alvin stood up, the backup police officers had already arrived. Looking around, there was no sign of the man.

Ivan contacted the command center: "The police officer was attacked. The suspect is Caucasian, 1.82 meters tall, weighing about 75 kilograms, and wearing a dark sweatshirt. This person is an important suspect in an important case. Please pay attention to all departments to cooperate in the investigation."

Liang Luo was heading to the hotel, driven by a police officer. The car was a police car, and a notice from the command center came over the radio, asking all units to pay attention to a white man who was 1.82 meters tall, weighed about 75 kilograms, and was wearing a dark sweatshirt. This person

I just attacked a police officer in a hotel.

Liang Xi said: "There are many police officers in the hotel. They attacked the police officers and escaped, which means that he must not be wearing a dark sweatshirt now."

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

Liang Xidao: "We don't even know what suspicions he has."

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

Liang Xi got out of the car and looked at the man who was paying the bill and buying cigarettes in the convenience store. The man was wearing a white casual suit and carrying a waist bag. Judging from his overall appearance, he was a tourist visiting Brighton and was bored at night.

Come out and hang out.

Liang Xi walked over. When he got closer, the man turned around and saw Liang Xi half a meter away at first sight. He was immediately startled: "Fake."

Liang Xi smiled and wanted this effect: "Hey, Li Stone, you also come to Brighton whenever you are free?"

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

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

Liss Channel: "You are busy, I have something to do, I will treat you to dinner later."

"There's no rush." ​​Liang Xi stretched out his hand to grab Li Stone's coat, and kneaded Li Stone's clothes back and forth with his palms: "This dress is so handsome, let me take a guess, it must have a lot of mystery." Turn over, Nima,

Either a reversible sweatshirt, or a casual wear.

Riston patted his clothes and shook off Liang Xi's hand, and said dissatisfied: "Why are you touching me? Although I am very good, I don't like men touching me."

Romeo observed on the side that Ristone was 1.84 meters tall and weighed 78 kilograms, which was not much different from the broadcast suspect's data.

Unlike Romeo who was observing quietly, Liang Xi took action directly. Liang Xi reached for Wriston's pocket bag and said, "A friend is coming from afar. We can't let him carry his luggage alone. Let me carry it for you."

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

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

Romeo leaned into Liang Xi's ear and whispered: "It's not him, it's probably an accomplice." Ristone's hair was smooth and casual without adding any chemicals such as hair wax. From this, it can be seen that the last time he washed his hair was not more than 12 months ago.

hours. The suspect was wearing a sweatshirt and hood, and was running quickly. Under such circumstances, no matter how much he combed his hair, he could not get it so natural in a few minutes.

"What accomplice?" Wriston asked.

Liang Xi said: "No, I'm just very sad. You have always said that you would go to London to have tea with me, but I waited and waited and never saw you in London. Instead, I ran into you in Brighton many times. What a fate.

It's wonderful. Even though you are so indifferent to me, I am still waiting for you in London. I am falling into the water, and you are shining on the mountain..." Liang Xi started to ramble, and Romeo pretended not to listen and looked around to see if there was anything.

No one noticed what was going on here, everything seemed normal.

Although he has a good reputation in the industry, Liang Xibi was definitely more shameless than Romeo. He suddenly turned his head and pointed, shouting: "It's you."

Across the road was a small garden, where a dozen or so people were listening to street performers singing. As soon as Liang heard his voice and pointed his finger at a dozen or so people, a man in a white sweatshirt pushed away the two girls beside him and ran away.

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

What happened.

Liang Xi suddenly realized something in his haste. He grabbed Wriston's shoulder and pointed in the direction of the man's escape: "Be brave and hurry up."

Ristone was angry and funny. The two weak chickens deceived the big fish, but found that they could not catch the fish. Riston put a cigarette in his mouth: "As tourists, you should behave yourself. Want one? Let's work together for it."
Chapter completed!