The interrogation soon began, Gu Junwei sat in the main seat, with a plaque on his head with the words "Mirror Hanging", and he had already changed into an official uniform with a scarlet round neck.

Su Yun sat on the lower right, Lu Chenglin stood beside Gu Junwei, looked at Su Yun cautiously, although he wondered why Gu Junwei still had a woman in 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.

Soon, a guard brought up the people who were being tried today.

Today's interrogation is all survivors of the fire in the Drunken Night Pavilion, namely three cooks and a cook lady who got up in the morning to prepare in the kitchen, two rough kitchen girls, and a guy who was on duty in the lobby of the Drunken Night Pavilion that night.

Because the drunken night pavilion is the largest and most chic hotel in Shangjing, although it is not like some Qinlou Chu pavilions with red candles shining all night long, singing and dancing, but also at any time will leave a guy on duty all night, in case the guests suddenly have any needs, and in case there are guests suddenly coming to the door at night.

Because the Zuixiao Pavilion is only a hotel for travelers to eat and stay, the people who will stay here are generally people who come to Beijing from outside, or wealthy businessmen with rich families, or scholars from well-to-do families who come to Beijing to participate in 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 candidates who stay in the drunken night pavilion are candidates who want to participate in the spring festival.

As soon as the news of the fire in Zuixiao Pavilion that killed dozens of candidates came out, all Confucian students in the world were shocked, and some officials in the DPRK and China even bluntly said when they went to the court that if they did not give an explanation to the relatives and friends of these candidates as soon as possible, they were afraid that people's hearts would be unstable.

One of the most puzzling and complicated things is that among the people who were burned to death, there was a concubine of Wang Huanzhi, the prime minister of the dynasty, who was ranked nineteenth in the family.

Obviously his own family is in Shangjing, how could he go to a hotel to spend the night? And judging from the information found, he is a frequent visitor to the Drunken Night Pavilion, and even has an exclusive private room there, where he will stay for five or six days out of ten days, and often messes around in the room with the little lady who doesn't know which flower building he brought out.

Some people don't like to have fun in the flower building, they think it's dirty, and there are cases where they take people out to the hotel to open a room, if the concubine of the Wang family is in that situation every time, it would be easy to say, but the information that Gu Junwei's people came back from the investigation is that the concubine of the Wang family sometimes sleeps alone in the drunken night pavilion.

In this regard, Prime Minister Wang Cheng's explanation is that Wang Shijiulang has always been wild and often wanders outside and is reluctant to go home, but no matter what, he is also a descendant of the Wang family, and he must not be allowed to die outside for no reason.

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

Su Yun was combing through the information he had received from Gu Junwei in his heart, while listening to Gu Junwei's interrogation.

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

The interrogation is carried out one-on-one, and the guards will take turns to bring people up, and after Gu Junwei finishes asking, one guard will bring people down, and one guard will bring new people up.

The questions asked are similar, such as where were you at the time of this arson? What are you doing? Did you notice anything unusual before the fire? What did you do after you found out about the fire? Were you involved in this arson, etc.

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

And Gu Junwei obviously knows it well, although he has always had a faint smile on his face, one question after another is thrown out like a flying knife, and he doesn't give people time to think at all, and Lu Chenglin on the side is sweating when he listens.

Thinking that General Gu usually interrogates the enemy in the barracks, of course, in the face of the enemy, the means will not be as Sven as today, I heard that in the barracks, against those enemies who are unwilling to tell the truth, it is also possible to directly take a knife and cut off their fingers one by one.

Thinking like this, Lu Chenglin's back was cold, and then he looked at the handsome man with a smile on the corner of his mouth, and suddenly felt that his smile was so infiltrating.

The first to be interrogated were the three cooks.

The three cooks were all middle-aged, and they had to get up early to prepare the breakfast for the innkeepers, and the three of them had been in the kitchen before the fire, and each could prove that the other had not left the kitchen before the fire.

One of the cooks obviously hadn't come out of the fire yet, a tall man, his eyes were red as he spoke, and he said: "The kitchen manager is a very strict person, if you find that someone is lazy and can deduct half a month's salary from that person without blinking, it is because the big guys have developed a habit, and generally will not leave the kitchen easily except for going to the toilet." But the manager is actually not bad, he is a wine jar, and whenever he is free, he pulls us to the tavern to drink, and he picks the door very much on other things, so he is the most generous about drinking, and would rather be chased and beaten by the mother-in-law at home...... But I didn't expect that this person would be gone if he said no...... Speaking of which, although the firewood room that caught fire was next to the kitchen, the first person to find the fire was Ding San, who was on duty in the lobby, and when he came to call us to run, we didn't expect that it was the firewood room that caught fire. ”

Because they were all interrogated separately, they did not know what the other party would be asked of, and it was unlikely that they would confess in advance, and the testimony was very credible.

Next is the kitchen lady Fan Niang, who is in charge of some chores in the kitchen, after she came up, she didn't ask anything, just looked at Gu Junwei stupidly, until the guard reminded her, then rubbed the corner of her clothes, and smiled embarrassedly, "This Lang Jun is born well, and the old slave rarely sees someone who looks so good, just like a god in the sky." ”

Everyone present looked at each other, Gu Junwei was also calm, and still interrogated her with a smile on the corner of his mouth.

Su Yun looked at him slightly, thinking that he couldn't blame the cook, this man was indeed too foul, especially when he was wearing the clothes of a civil official, he was elegant and handsome, revealing a heroic and tough spirit, for the cook who had never seen much of the world, wasn't it just like an immortal?

Fan Niang's statement is also very decent, only said that she was washing vegetables at the time, and suddenly heard someone say that there was a fire, so she hurriedly ran out, the place where she washed vegetables was outside the kitchen, and she should be able to see it from the kitchen.

Gu Junwei immediately whispered to Lu Chenglin to confirm the situation with the three cooks.

Finally, when Gu Junwei asked Fan Niang if there was anything unusual before the fire, Fan Niang thought for a while and said: "It seems that no, the old slave is usually the first to go to the kitchen, because there are a lot of things to prepare, speaking of which, the first thing the old slave did that day was to go to the firewood room and move a bundle of firewood to the kitchen, so as not to find that it was not enough to use when cooking, the firewood room was fine at that time, who would have thought ...... There is another thing, in fact, it can't be said to be a strange thing, there was a table of guests who drank late that day, and there were two big men who were drunk and made a big noise and went crazy, Ding San, who was on duty at night, couldn't deal with it, and ran in a panic to let the old slave go over to help, in fact, that group of people was empty, and they made trouble. After the old slave passed, 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, and he didn't know when the group of people returned to the room, until Ding San suddenly ran and said that there was a fire, let's leave quickly. I heard him say that it was because he stayed up all night and was a little hungry, and he came to the kitchen to find something to eat when he saw a gap in the kitchen, and then he found that the firewood room was on fire. ”

As she spoke, as if she had thought of something terrifying, Fan Niang's eyes moved, and her lips trembled slightly, "And the fire is so evil, and the two straight lines rushed to the main building, and it looks like ...... It's like a passage to hell! ”