Chapter 499: Mr. Pride and Miss Prejudice
"I don't know, I haven't seen him since just now. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info" Antonio said as he stopped beside Rogge and looked around at the crowd on the street.
Rogge looked down and thought for a moment, then turned and rushed into the house and said to Paul, "Sheriff, please bring a few men with us, that Stu has suddenly disappeared at this time, there is a great suspicion, we must find him." ”
"Do you need me to send someone to search?" Paul asked Rogge while waving to his deputy, Rogge shook his head and said, "No, I probably know where he is, please bring a few soldiers with us." ”
Paul then asked his deputy to lead the team to continue the investigation of the fire scene, and he took five soldiers to leave the city of Khan with Rogge, Antonio, and Catherine, and went straight to the port of Khan to the south, and under the guidance of Antonio, he found the place agreed with Tali last night.
In the distance, Rog saw Tali standing on the seashore, with seven mermaid girls ashore with her, and the person who was talking to her beside Tali was Stu, and not far from him stood the men who had been in the alley in the morning.
Rog and Antonio exchanged glances, strode forward and greeted Tali, Stu looked back and saw them immediately take a step back and hide behind Tali, Tali patted him on the shoulder and walked up to meet the crowd and asked, "What the hell is going on?"
"What's going on?" asked Antonio, looking at the displeased look on Tali's face, confused.
"Who injured the kid?" asked Tali as she turned back to Stu, and Rog and Antonio looked in the direction of her finger and saw that Stu had a black and blue eye that seemed to have been punched.
"No one had ever beaten him, and the last time I saw him in the afternoon was fine. Antonio turned back to Tali in confusion.
"Then why did he come here and wait for me by himself?" Tali looked at them with some annoyance and said, "When I took the girls ashore, I saw him sitting on the ground alone and crying, and I asked for a long time before he said that he had been beaten and ran out of the house. ”
Hearing Tully say this, Rogge glanced at Stu, who was standing cowering not far away, beckoned to him, and said, "Come here, tell me who hit you, and what's going on with the fire in Klose's kitchen?"
"On fire?" Tali looked at Rogge in surprise, Rogge nodded back to her and said, "Yes, when dinner was approaching, a fire broke out in the kitchen of Klose's house, and I noticed the smell of kerosene on the firewood next to the stove, suspecting that someone had set it on fire, and Sheriff Paul was also here, and we had just come from the scene." ”
The sheriff stepped forward and nodded to Tali, who turned around and called Stu to him and asked, "Tell me clearly, what the hell is going on, did the arsonist beat you?"
Stu bowed his head and did not dare to speak, but Tully repeatedly persuaded and comforted him, and Stu cautiously said: "In the evening, I went to the kitchen to find the maid and asked for a kerosene lamp, which I wanted to use when I came out at night." ”
"When the maid gave me the lamp, I found that there was not much oil in it, and I asked the maid to help me add some more, but Miss Catherine was very angry and said that I was insatiable, and I explained a few words, and she suddenly rushed up and punched me, and the kerosene lamp in my hand broke by the stove, and the kerosene in it was ignited by the fire. ”
Before Stu's words fell, Catherine, who was standing behind Rogge, stepped forward angrily and shouted: "You are spewing blood, how can there be such a thing, I have been in the kitchen with Yulia, you have never been here at all, you are slandering!"
Seeing this, Stu hid behind Tali in horror and shouted, "I am not lying, Miss Catherine used to quarrel with me in the morning, and I admit that I was very rude in the morning, because I did not read and did not know how to be polite, and there was something wrong with me, but I have apologized to them!"
Catherine angrily pointed at Stu and shouted, "Don't talk nonsense here, when have you apologized to us, you titch!" she rushed at Stu in anger, only to be pulled back by Rogra.
"Catherine, Stu already knew he was wrong, and he admitted his mistake in front of so many people, you were already wrong to hit someone casually, and you started a fire for it, and now you want to continue to make mistakes in order to cover up your mistakes?" said Tali as she looked at Catherine reproachfully.
"Miss Tully, how can you believe him indiscriminately!" asked Catherine, staring at Tully in surprise.
"Am I indiscriminate?, can't you do such a thing with your character?" said Catherine, and Tali couldn't help but get angry, and asked loudly as she glared at her.
"Don't quarrel," said Rogge, who stepped forward to separate the two of them, "Stu's words are suspicious, I found no broken kerosene lamp fragments by the stove, we can't just listen to him, we'd better take him back to Yulia to confront him." ”
"I'm not lying, Miss Tully save me, I'm telling the truth!" Stu shouted when he heard Rogge say this, and he knelt behind Tully and hugged her legs.
"I don't agree!" Tully did not hesitate to protect Stu and said: "If you want to arrest someone, you must first find evidence, Catherine's recklessness is obvious to all, I don't doubt it at all when she beat Stu, didn't she blindly lead people to rush into Shirley's house before? and Murphy's death was also caused by her disobedience to advice!"
Tully's words were like a sharp sword that instantly cut through the long-scarred scar in Catherine's heart, and she trembled and glared at Tully and shouted, "What are you talking about, where am I messing around about Murphy!?"
"If it weren't for the fact that you didn't listen to Rogge's advice and had to force him to fight the vampire in the streets on a full moon night, Rogge and Murphy wouldn't have quarreled, and how could Elizabeth find a chance to force Rogge to show up?" said Tali eloquently.
"That incident has nothing to do with Catherine at all, and Murphy himself can only be blamed for being confused!" Rogge retorted with a frown when he heard her say this.
"It's all you bastard who sows discord!" Catherine angrily pulled out a silver gun from her waist and aimed it at Stu, who was standing beside him, Rogge hurriedly reached out and pushed her arm upward, only to hear a gunshot, bullets flew past Stu, Stu collapsed at Tali's feet with a scream of fright, hugging Tully's leg and screaming for help.
"Don't mess around, calm down!" Rog snatched the silver gun from Catherine's hand, and turned to walk into the distance with Catherine in her arms.
At the same time, Antonio stepped forward and pulled Tali aside and said, "You have gone too far, how can Catherine be blamed for Murphy's death?
"Don't you want to say that Stu lit the fire?" "Tully became more and more annoyed when she saw that he was also helping Catherine speak, "Did you come here with the sheriff to get that poor boy back and charge him with arson?"
"He suddenly disappeared from his home after the fire and ran here, so naturally he is suspicious, of course I want to take him back and ask about it. ”
Antonio said and glanced back at a few of Stu's friends not far away, and said, "And those people, I saw Stu and them sneaking around in the alley this morning, I don't know what they were talking about, these people describe them as obscene, and it's not a good thing for Stu to mingle with them." ”
"What the hell are you trying to say?" Tali asked, looking at Antonio angrily, "Are you trying to tell me that Stu and his friends are criminals, scoundrels, and scoundrels?"
"That's not what I meant," Antonio quickly explained, seeing her face getting more and more ugly, "I mean, we should end our original plan tonight, bring Stu and those people back first, and let the sheriff clarify the matter, and then talk about it." ”
"You are obviously prejudiced against this child!" Tali glared at Antonio coldly and said, "He may not be so noble in your eyes, but he is not necessarily a bad person, but some people are now well-dressed and proud, but they forget that they were also in rags!"
When she said this last sentence, she glanced contemptuously at Catherine not far away, and when the girl heard her words, she could not help but think of what she had been like when she first met her, and her heart suddenly felt ashamed and indignant, thanks to Rogge's stoppage, she did not rush up again to theorize.
"You misunderstood," Antonio saw that she was getting angrier and angrier, so he simply pulled her away and said, "I'll tell you the truth, Rogge and I are worried about the safety of you and the mermaid girls, and you also know that many people in Deiz hate mermaids, in case these people tell someone with ulterior motives about you......"
Before he could finish his sentence, Tali interrupted him in annoyance and said, "I don't need you to worry about this, my people and I know what to do, but you, don't listen to that arrogant arrogance anymore!"
"High-minded, arrogant, biased......" Antonio's ears echoed with Tully's accusations, feeling her reproachful eyes, and for a moment he suddenly felt as if he didn't know her, her misunderstanding like an invisible knife, slashing at his caring heart.
He was silent for a moment, smiled bitterly and nodded: "Okay, I didn't expect you to see me like this, maybe you really don't need me to worry about you, I'm sorry, it's me who has a lot of trouble." ”
After saying that, he turned around and left silently, and the sheriff Paul also turned around and followed, and Rog saw this and motioned Catherine to follow Antonio, and walked up to Tali and looked at Stu with a threatening voice: "That kid had better not lie, if I find out that he is lying, I am not as good at talking as Antonio." ”
After saying that, he turned and strode towards Catherine, and Tali stared at his back and replied angrily: "I hope you are still the same black and white Rogge, and don't wronged good people for the sake of favoring anyone." ”
Rog paused in his footsteps, but didn't say anything, and continued to walk forward and take Catherine's hand in the direction of Khan Fort City, Tali sighed in annoyance, turned to face the roaring sea, and still felt sorry for Stu.
At this time, Stu, who was standing behind her, suddenly spoke, "Miss Tully, I ......"
(Little hairball: The ball is sent to the first watch, and there is another watch in the afternoon, please look forward to it!)