Wenmo Villa

"Yes, five. Except for Mr. Wen who just passed away..." The butler glanced at the thoughtful cook and whispered, "The cook's son also disappeared suddenly last week, and he hasn't been found yet. Probably Most likely..."

The butler sighed and didn't continue.

Officer Li glanced at the cook, and then continued to ask, "How many of you are the only ones living in such a big manor? The botanical garden, training base, and farmland are all managed by you?"

"No, we are the only ones who live here, and there are usually seven or eight people who come here to help. They can be regarded as the staff of our manor. They are all odd jobs, and they will change from time to time. But they don't Living here, I only come here to work from [-]:[-] am to [-]:[-] pm every day, and I basically do some work such as taking care of the flowers and plants in the botanical garden or going to the field to feed the chickens."

"Did they all leave after get off work yesterday?"

"It's all gone, I'm sure."

Officer Li glanced down at his watch, "It's [-]:[-] noon, have they been here today?"

"No, I'm also surprised that I haven't had time to inform them after the accident. Of course, they can't come in. But they will at least call me at the gate to ask what's going on? But, until now I I haven't seen anyone at the door."

"Have these people had any personal grievances with Mr. Wen?"

"Probably not... They basically never see Mr. Wen. The work is usually arranged by me and Mr. Yao, and we have no communication other than work. There should be no possibility of personal grievances."

Officer Li nodded, "The murderer is temporarily locked among the ten people present, and the crisis has not been resolved. I hope everyone can actively cooperate with me in the investigation. Next, everyone will formally introduce themselves, and then explain the time since last night. Now, what are you doing?"

The housekeeper went to the warehouse to move chairs, except for Yao Sheng who was still unconscious in his room, everyone else found a place to sit in the lobby on the first floor to be questioned.

Officer Li sat by the window and spoke first, "Let's start with me." Then, he took out his police officer's card again and showed, "My name is Li Shude, I am 43 years old, and I am a member of the Criminal Police Detachment of Jinchuan City." The police, on the grounds of visiting the botanical garden, came here to investigate an old case many years ago. I arrived at the manor at 04:30 yesterday afternoon, and stayed there all the time except for having dinner with you from 07:30 to [-]:[-] In the room. I got up and washed at around [-] this morning, had breakfast in the restaurant at [-], went to visit the botanical garden at [-], and stayed with everyone after the incident.”

"Next, start with you." After finishing speaking, he pointed to the young couple.

The two looked at each other, and the boy said first, "My name is Xing Haosen, I am 24 years old, and I am a graduate student of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. We are a couple. We met when we were traveling. We came here to visit the botanical garden. See if there are any flowers that I couldn't take pictures before. We arrived at around five o'clock yesterday afternoon, and we stayed in the room except for the meal time, and it's the same today, there are no separate activities."

"Are the two from the same school?" Officer Li asked.

"No." The girl said, "I'm from China Language University."

Officer Li took a pen to record, and motioned for her to continue.

"My name is Lin Wan'er, I'm 23 years old, and my timeline is the same as his. The two of us have been staying together."

"Then I'll do it next." Fang Yu took the initiative, "My name is Fang Yu, I'm 31 years old, I'm friends with Chen Yao, and I'm also his personal doctor, responsible for his recovery."

Private Doctors?He didn't say it... Could it be that the "obvious relationship" refers to this?

"We arrived at the manor at around 35:[-] pm yesterday. Because the car broke down and there was a storm, we just came here for a night. We stayed in the room except for dinner and didn't walk around at will. Just like everyone else this morning, we just ate After breakfast, we repaired the car in the parking lot, and met with everyone until nine o'clock, and the rest will be the same."

After Fang Yu finished speaking, seeing Chen Yao in a daze, he touched him and reminded, "Why are you standing there? It's your turn."

"Chen Yao, 29 years old." He didn't worry about the private doctor for too long, because he suddenly remembered something strange, "I thought of something strange. I got up to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night last night. I was in a daze, didn't realize where I was, and was about to go out, but when I twisted the door, I found that it couldn't be opened. I didn't think about it at the time, but after I realized that there was a toilet in the room, I went to the room. Now that I think about it, The room may have been locked."

"Hey!" Lin Wan'er said, "I remembered it when you said that. It seemed that the door of our room couldn't be opened in the middle of the night last night!"

"What time?" Officer Li asked.

"I don't remember, I'm so awake, I'm still confused, I don't remember the time." Chen Yao said.

"A bit more... I can't remember clearly." Lin Wan'er said.

"It's past one o'clock in the morning." Officer Li looked at Lin Wan'er, "What are you going to do when you go out at this time? Don't tell me that you are also going to the toilet."

"Hmm... It's a personal matter that has nothing to do with this case." Lin Wan'er said vaguely.

Chen Yao and Fang Yu looked at each other, and they both saw suspicion in each other's eyes.

"You'd better tell the truth." Officer Li gave her a deep look, "Go ahead, butler."

"My name is Wang Yigang, I am 51 years old, and I am the housekeeper of this manor. Yesterday, I was dealing with various trivial matters of the manor as usual. At 04:30 in the afternoon, I received the first guest, that is, Officer Li. Let me know After checking the situation, I will take you to the room. After I settled down, I went back to the lobby on the first floor. At about five o’clock, the second batch of guests arrived, and I took them to the room again. After I settled them down, it was about [-]:[-] At this time, I saw that it was getting late, and the weather was not very good. I felt that it might rain. I thought that there would be no more guests, so I was going to go out and lock the door. After finishing the work, I went back to the villa. I saw the chef I was preparing dinner, so I went back to my room and waited for the meal. Around [-]:[-], I heard a strange noise, so I went out to look for the source of the sound, but I couldn't find it in the house. I thought the sound was familiar again, like There was the sound of the car horn, so I was going to go to the courtyard to have a look, but when I opened the gate of the villa, I met Mr. Fang and Mr. Chen standing at the door..."

"Didn't you lock the door? How did they get in?" Officer Li asked aloud.

The housekeeper explained, "It's true that I planned to lock the door, but Mr. Chen and Mr. Fang said that the door was open when they came in. I thought about it carefully, and it may be that I forgot to lock it. I am getting old. Sometimes when you’re doing it, you forget what you were going to do.”

Officer Li looked at Fang Yu.

Fang Yu said, "I saw the big iron gate outside was open before I drove in. As for why the gate was open, we don't know."

Officer Li looked away, wrote something down in the notebook, and then continued to ask the butler, "How long has the butler been working here?"

"It's been more than half a year. I came to Wenmo Manor at the end of March this year."

Only half a year?Chen Yao couldn't help wondering, did the butler come so shortly?

"Only half a year?" Officer Li asked, "Did something happen to the previous housekeeper? Why did you change the housekeeper?"

"I don't know about that. Mr. Yao didn't say anything. I just came to apply when I saw they were recruiting housekeepers."

After Officer Li recorded it, he let the others continue to speak.

Chen Yao interrupted, "Wait a minute, I have a question for the butler."

The butler looked at him.

"When I was repairing the car, Mr. Yao said that you used to be an auto repair worker. You checked our car for a while and found out the problem. It seems that you should have done a good job in this area. How could you think of giving up the original car? work, come to this place to be a housekeeper?"

The housekeeper paused, then said in a deep voice, "Housework."

Chen Yao nodded and did not continue to ask questions.

"Then next," the housekeeper pointed to the middle-aged woman surnamed Yuan, "you come."