"This ......," said Marquis Hochersky, looking at Rogge in astonishment, "Sir, do you still doubt me?"

"Don't worry, unless you're going to 'confess' now, you'd better wait for me to finish. Rogge smiled unhurriedly, smoked his pipe and continued to pace, "Among the five people who came into contact with the beetroot soup, His Excellency the Marquis was the one who cooked the dishes with his own hands, and he was also the one with the most motives to poison. ”

He glanced at the Marquis's pale face and the cold sweat that flowed from his forehead, and continued: "However, His Excellency the Marquis has no motive to poison, because if he wants to kill Prince Kevin, there is no need to bother at all. ”

"Imagine that no matter what caused Prince Kevin's death, the Deiz people would blame the Marquis, and he poisoned Kevin on the spot with strong poison, or sent him back to the camp with chronic poison, and even sent someone to hack him and all his followers to death on the spot, and the result was no different. ”

At this point, Rogge paused and stretched out a finger and said: "The most important thing about murder is to be quick and accurate, the unreliability of chronic poison may bring uncertainty about the outcome, this is not the best choice, only when there is a desire to escape responsibility or blame others, the murderer will choose chronic poison." ”

He stopped beside Victoria, looked at the marquis and the maid and smiled, "So, the marquis has no motive to kill Prince Kevin, and Victoria also has no motive to kill, so she is not a murderer." ”

Hearing Rogge's last words, Victoria's breath in her chest finally spit out, she leaned on Valentina's arms excitedly, covered her face and left tears of excitement, and the marquis sitting on the sofa couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, wiping the sweat from her face with a handkerchief.

After a while, the people who came back to their senses suddenly focused their eyes on the face of the head chef Joseph, and the head chef, who felt the staring eyes of everyone, said in surprise: "What are you all looking at me doing, I am not a murderer!"

"But you have enough motives," Rogge said with a cold gaze on his face, "You have a gambling habit, you are very short of money, so it is very easy to buy, you are the head chef of the kitchen, you are very easy to contact the food, this is your convenience, you have suddenly had a large amount of money to gamble recently, this is your suspicion!"

Before Rogge's words fell, Catherine suddenly got up and threw the two bags of coins she brought back from the casino on the ground in front of Joseph, Joseph took a step back in surprise and shouted: "You guys are malicious frames, I haven't touched that bowl of soup at all, before the lid is closed, the old man has been watching from the side, I have no chance to poison at all!"

"No, you have. Rogge smiled confidently and nodded to the butler, who immediately ordered a bowl of steaming vegetable soup.

Rog let Catherine take a sip in front of everyone, and then said to everyone, "Everyone has seen that this bowl of soup is not poisonous, otherwise I would not have let Miss Catherine drink it." ”

He nodded to the butler again, and the butler ordered a set of plates, and Rog stepped forward to lift the lid of the plate, showing the plate and the lid to everyone, and then asked Catherine to put the soup in the plate and close the lid herself.

He asked the butler to place an hourglass on the coffee table, and smoked his pipe unhurriedly, and after about ten minutes, he stepped forward and lifted the lid and took out the bowl of soup, and shouted, "Little villain!"

I saw that the little furball that flew out of the window at some point grabbed a rabbit and flew in, she gave the rabbit to Rogge's hand, and then landed on Rogge's shoulder, Rogge put the bowl on the ground and let the rabbit drink the vegetable soup in the bowl, and a few seconds later, the rabbit suddenly convulsed and fell to the ground and died.

"Did you see that?" Rogge straightened up, spread his hands and looked around at the crowd and smiled, "I didn't touch the bowl of soup, but I poisoned the rabbit with my own hands, which you saw with your own eyes." ”

"How did you do that?" asked the Marquis, looking at him in astonishment.

"The secret is in it," Rogge said, turning to the servant standing aside, picking up the lid from the plate and saying to the crowd, "it's the murderer's tool for poisoning." ”

"How do you poison a plate lid?" asked the Marquise, surprised.

"It's very simple," said Rogge, placing the lid of the plate upside down on the coffee table, pointing to it to the people sitting on the sofa, "Hemocoagulant powder is a very water-soluble poison that blends easily into water, and I have just replaced it with other poisons of similar nature, but the effect is the same." ”

He took out a handkerchief from his body, spread it on the surface of the coffee table, pointed to the powdered part of it, and said: "As long as you apply enough powder to a handkerchief or rag beforehand, and then wipe the inside of the plate lid with it, the powder will remain on the plate lid." ”

"Then," Rogge said, turning the lid of the plate upright, "put it on top of the steaming soup, and the water vapor emitted by the soup will not be emitted because of the sealed plate, and will condense into droplets on the lid of the plate, and over time the droplets will drip into the soup, and it will naturally become a bowl of poisonous soup." ”

He straightened up and did not wait for the crowd to exclaim, turned to the attendant who was carrying the plate, and said, "That attendant has maintained a still posture and has completed the effect of poisoning in ten minutes, while Victoria has walked for ten minutes with the plate, there will definitely be shaking and bumps, and the poisonous droplets are more likely to fall into the bowl, so the effect is better." ”

"Joseph, you don't have to explain it quickly!" said the Marquis, who had recovered from his shock, stood up and pointed at the head chef.

"Sir, he's talking utter nonsense!" cried Joseph, whose face turned pale and hysterical.

"Chef," said Rogge, smiling as he walked as he walked, "remember when I met you in the kitchen, and I asked you if the Eros had a habit of wiping the lid of a plate before serving? ”

"Because, in any castle of the three principalities, the dinner plate is wiped and dried immediately after the meal, and there is no rule of wiping it separately before serving, and you deliberately wiped the lid of the plate again when the marquis finished making the beetroot soup, this abnormal behavior The marquis thinks that he is serious and responsible, but in fact it is not like that. ”

"Ah, I remember!" exclaimed the Marquis, "I see, that's how he poisoned me in front of me!"

"It's all your speculation, and it can't be used as evidence!" Joseph retorted, pointing at Rogge.

"You're right, the biggest difficulty in this case is that we don't have any evidence. Rogge shrugged his shoulders and smiled slightly, lowered his head and took a puff of his pipe, raised his eyebrows, and said, "However, I have always believed that if people don't know, unless they do it, as long as someone has done something, there will always be clues." ”

He lightly snapped his fingers, and the little furball that landed on his shoulder fluttered its little wings and fell to the ground, turning into the appearance of a little Lori in the red light, only to see Lilith chanting a spell, and suddenly there was a chef's uniform in her hand, Rogge took the chef's uniform she handed over and said, "This is what I asked the little villain to steal from the chef's dressing room." ”

He tore open the pocket on the belly of the cook's suit with both hands in his pipe, and then spread it on the coffee table, and said, "You may take a closer look, there is a lot of gray powder on the edge of this pocket, which is congagulated herb powder, and if the gentlemen from Deiz are interested, they can collect it and bring it back to experiment on animals, and you will know if what I say is true." ”

He straightened up, looked back at the pale Joseph, and said, "Although the head chef has disposed of the handkerchief he used to wipe the lid of the plate, the dry powder will inevitably scatter on the handkerchief, so there is still a little powder left in the pocket where he hid the handkerchief, and he did not realize this and did not wash his chef's clothes." ”

Listening to the chatter of everyone around the sofa, Rogge leisurely walked up to Joseph with a cigar in his mouth, picked up two bags of coins from the ground and walked up to him and said, "In addition, the two bags of money you lost in the casino last night, I found the smell of multiple herbs from the coins and bags. ”

He pressed his face closer to Joseph, and when he saw that his sweaty face was trembling all over, he couldn't help but smile slyly and said, "Please tell me why your money and money bag as a chef are filled with the smell of herbs, Monica told me by identifying the smell that these herbs are quite rare, and only pharmacists will master their use." ”

Looking at the money bag in Rogge's hand and the confident smile on his face, Joseph's psychological defense completely collapsed, he collapsed to the ground and held his head and said: "It's me, I did it, I have lost a lot of money in gambling recently, and I owe a lot of debts to the casino, and the people in the casino threaten me, I really can't help it!"

"Tell me who told you to do this. Rogge asked, crouching down in front of him and staring at him.

"I don't know his name, he wears a mask and a cloak over his head every time he meets me, and he asks me to be in a hut where no one is around," Joseph said in a trembling voice, "He told me that if I did it, he would give me a large sum of money, and no one would know that I did it, and I was hot-headed, so I ......"

"Did he bring anything special?" Rogge asked after a moment's pause.

"No, every time he came, he only brought something for me, nothing else. Joseph shook his head repeatedly.

"I must remind you, Mr. Joseph, that if you cannot offer me anything to guide you as an employer, I will have no choice but to bring back the gentlemen whom you have handed over to Deiz, and let the king cut off your head, and let you bear all the charges. Rogge threatened in a deep voice.

"Not really, I know everything!" cried Joseph.

Rogge sighed softly when he heard this, and suddenly got up and walked towards several Deiz officers, and suddenly heard Joseph behind him shout: "By the way, I remember, I seem to have seen a tattoo on his body!"

Hearing this, Rogge suddenly turned around and squatted down in front of him, staring at him and asking, "What kind of tattoo?"

"Just as he was giving me the money, the candle light in the room was shining right at his right hand, and I saw a black dragon-like pattern on the outside of his right wrist, but it was only a flash and I couldn't see it, but I believe I was not mistaken!" Joseph cried out as if grasping at a life-saving straw.

Hearing his words, Rogge slowly stood up, took out a note from his body, looked down at the handwriting on it, nodded meaningfully and said, "As expected, it seems that it's time to settle old scores!"