Chapter 101 Interrogation
"Brother Zhang? Which Brother Zhang?"
"It's Zhang Erdan, who goes to Gu's house with me every day to collect the goods. Miss Gu also knows him."
Hearing this, Gu Feixue was about to take people to the kitchen, but at this time she saw Zhang Erdan coming out of the kitchen with a smug look on his face.
Yesterday, I heard that Gu Feixue from the Gu family fell off a cliff. Not only did Zhang Erdan go to Zong Hao to collect the reward, but Qian Youliang from the Qian family restaurant also gave him some good things and asked him to add some ingredients to the Gu family's milk in the next few days.
With Gu Feixue's death, the Gu family no longer had anyone to fear, so early in the morning Zhang Erdan gave some gifts to several cooks in the kitchen. Not only did everyone turn a blind eye to his behavior of stealing skills from the kitchen, they also complimented him intentionally or unintentionally.
Who would have thought that as soon as he lifted the kitchen door curtain and came out, he would see Gu Feixue falling off the cliff.
“Ghost!”
Zhang Erdan's face turned pale on the spot, thinking that Gu Feixue was a dead evil spirit who came to cause trouble for him.
Gu Feixue's face didn't look very good indeed, but when she saw the other party screaming in fear as soon as they met, she immediately realized that something was wrong.
"I'm a human, not a ghost, but I'm here to catch ghosts."
Gu Feixue said with a slightly cold tone.
Bao Hongcai, who was standing by, obviously noticed that Zhang Erdan's expression was not very natural, especially when Gu Feixue talked about catching ghosts, there was obvious panic in Zhang Erdan's eyes.
"Miss Gu, I don't understand what you are saying."
Although it was unclear why Gu Feixue didn't die after falling off the cliff, Bao Hongcai and Prefect Liang were present, so Zhang Erdan could only calm down and pretend to be ignorant.
Gu Feixue said with a faint smile:
"Where's the wine Wu Zhuang asked you to bring to Renhetang on the fourth day of this month?"
Seeing that Gu Feixue's expression was not bad, Zhang Erdan thought that he had not revealed his true intentions, so he smiled and said:
"Miss Gu, stop joking. I'm so busy at the restaurant every day, how can I have the time to help deliver wine?"
Wu Zhuang didn't expect that Zhang Erdan would lie without blinking in front of everyone.
"Brother Zhang! Have you forgotten? It was you who offered to help me deliver the wine!"
Zhang Erdan pretended to be angry and said:
"Wu Zhuang, if you forgot about something someone entrusted you with, why bother blaming someone else for your mistake?"
Zhang Erdan didn't expect that Gu Feixue would say calmly:
"Who told you that I asked Wu Zhuang to deliver that wine?"
Zhang Erdan was stunned when he heard this. At this time, Wu Zhuang said:
"That day, you saw I was busy and offered to deliver the wine for me. But now you deny it. What was your intention? Did you keep the wine for yourself?"
Gu Feixue explained to everyone at the right time:
"Someone in the Gu family was burned that day, and I was too busy to handle everything, so I asked Brother Wu to deliver the newly brewed white wine to the pharmacy and another jar of wine to the shopkeeper."
When Bao Hongcai heard that he had a share in this, he looked at Wu Zhuang and Zhang Erdan with a bad look.
Not to mention that he was greedy for other people's liquor, he even coveted his wine!
Bao Hongcai couldn't tolerate even a grain of sand in his eyes, and he was determined to catch the liar!
Gu Feixue frowned, but at this moment a man stood out from the side and said:
"Zhang Erdan, you're lying! I clearly saw you leaving the restaurant with the wine that day. You must have taken too much!"
The person who said this was none other than Liu, the manager of Zuixianlou, who fined Wu Zhuang half a day's salary on the fourth day of the New Year.
That day, Liu Maochun felt something was wrong. Wu Zhuang, who was never lazy, had a lot of tea left uncleaned in the area he was responsible for. He called Wu Zhuang over, beat him up, and deducted half a day's salary from him.
However, when I walked to the backyard, I heard that the shopkeeper had placed the freshly brewed tea on the stone table in the backyard, and someone had stolen it and drank it.
Zhang Erdan had always been in charge of that area. He felt something was wrong, so he went to check the tea that Wu Zhuang had swept out. The tea inside was indeed the shopkeeper's tea.
Wu Zhuang is usually an honest person. Even if he might be lazy, he would not take the shopkeeper's tea and pour it on the ground, especially on the area he is responsible for.
Liu Maochun figured out the key immediately. He went to find Zhang Erdan, but happened to see Zhang Erdan leaving through the back door with two jars of wine.
Later, the entire restaurant was busy receiving Lord Qin from Jiangzhou, so he forgot about the matter. Anyway, Wu Zhuang had been fined.
"Miss Gu, I saw Zhang Erdan leave through the back door with the wine that day. He was lying."
Wu Zhuang didn't expect that the person who testified for him was Manager Liu, who had fined him half a day's salary.
Zhang Erdan was horrified when he heard this:
"impossible!"
Was he seen?!
Unexpectedly, Liu Maochun continued:
"Don't try to quibble. There's an old woman selling eggs at the entrance of the restaurant alley every day. If she saw you go out, just ask her and you'll know."
Zhang Erdan could never have imagined that he had no grudge against Liu Maochun, so why did the other party want to deal with him at this juncture!
However, the truth had been revealed at this time, and he was anxious and planned to run away.
Who knew that Gu Feixue's movements were even faster. She put her fingers in her mouth and blew a whistle, and the officers and soldiers who had been waiting outside the back door for a long time rushed into the backyard of the restaurant.
After the officers and soldiers came in, Governor Liang said with a dark face:
"Arrest Zhang Erdan, who knew the truth but refused to report it and dared to lie to me, and bring him to the yamen. I will personally interrogate him!"
When Zhang Erdan was caught, he hadn't reacted yet, but Bao Hongcai said in a surprised tone:
"Why is that?"
Bao Hongcai believed that even if Zhang Erdan had privately seized the wine, there was no need for the government to make such a big fuss.
Although he also doesn't like this kind of betrayal, there shouldn't be so many officers and soldiers coming forward, right?
Gu Feixue explained:
"Shopkeeper Bao, you may not know that on the day Zhang Erdan delivered the wine, I was chased by a masked man in black. After I managed to escape, the group from yesterday sent another nameless man in black with profound internal skills to chase me to the edge of a cliff. All the people from Renhetang were tied up in the utility room."
Wow, Gu Feixue deliberately looked at Zhang Erdan and said:
"After Zhang Erdan delivered the wine, someone appeared who wanted to kill me. Isn't this all too coincidental?"
Zhang Erdan heard this and immediately struggled:
"Impossible! They didn't even intend to kill you that day. You're lying! My Lord, she's lying!"
Zhang Erdan thought his argument was reasonable, but he didn't know that when everyone heard his words, their eyes were instantly filled with shock.
Zhang Erdan actually knew the person behind the murder!
Gu Feixue's eyes gradually darkened.
She was indeed trying to cheat with what she said just now, but she didn't expect that she could really cheat anything.
After all, she couldn't confirm whether Zhang Erdan knew the intentions of the person who was plotting to murder her.
"Who are they? How do you know they didn't want to kill me from the beginning?"
Gu Feixue stared at Zhang Erdan's expression, not missing any micro-expression.
Zhang Erdan was dumbfounded on the spot, but he heard Gu Feixue pressing on step by step:
"If you don't tell the truth, you are the mastermind behind all this. According to the law, anyone who kills someone must be executed!"
Zhang Erdan was so frightened that he peed his pants and immediately fell to his knees and said:
"I said, I said, all this is that..."
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