Swiss mercenaries and slave light infantry immediately guarded the front and back doors of Heller's house. In addition to his family, there were a total of ten servants and chefs who served him. Arod first distinguished Heller's family. Because he felt that it was impossible for Heller's family to participate in the poisoning, he first interrogated the servants and chefs. Arod asked all these people to be locked and found a separate room. Heller's youngest son provided Arod with a secret room, which Heller had to discuss and use with his business partners.

The secret room is actually in an independent corner of the backyard of the house, filled with various sheepskin scroll documents. The space is only twenty or thirty square meters. There is a one-legged wooden writing table in the middle. There is a small bottle of graphite juice on the table and a white feather inserted in the bottle. It can be seen that the owner of the quill pen is very diligent in using it. Now the user who is strong in the quill pen has passed away.

"Master Earl, let me take the soldiers and beat these guys up hard, they will definitely confess." Julian hated those who tried to poison Arod. His method was a common interrogation method used in the Middle Ages, and a system of torture and interrogation. The so-called interrogation system is that the person being interrogated must prove his innocence under punishment. If he cannot prove his innocence, he is guilty.

"No need to worry about it. Call those people in one by one, ask what they were doing before Heller was killed, and order the monks to record all their words." Arod sat behind the wooden table writing, knocked the wooden table with his fingers, and ordered Julian.

"Yes, Lord Earl." Julian didn't understand what Arod was going to do, but he was used to Arod's fantasy, so he had to shruggle and walk out of the secret room. He separated the servants as Arod asked.

"Mr. Julian, is the Earl going to interrogate the criminal? But we do not use torture tools or torture experts here." Heller's youngest son Maxiu said to Julian curiously. Heller has three daughters and one son, the youngest son is already twenty years old. Under Heller's careful teaching, he is also a famous local businessman. This young man with a little freckle on his face is smart and capable, and he is very pleased by his father, but his most beloved father died under the poison, which made him actively cooperate with Arod in anger.

"No, the Count said that there is no need to torture now. He has his own way to interrogate the prisoners." Julian replied listlessly. Although he was used to Arod's fantasy, would this interrogation without using whips and torture instruments be useful? He was really very suspicious, but Arod was his monarch and his master, and Julian could only implement Arod's orders thoroughly.

"What method?" Maxiu asked, looking at Julian's back.

"Ask a question." Julian twisted a servant and muttered a few words. It was incredible to Maxiu's ears. The criminal could be found by asking questions. Is this a joke about guessing?

I heard that before the Arud's banquet began, there was a poisoning incident. The citizens of the Visma town spontaneously surrounded Heller's house. Although there were fierce soldiers guarding the door, this still could not stop people from looking inward with their necks, and they talked about each other from time to time. There was a saying in secret that the gods of the Lomwa religion did not like the pagan ruler, so they poisoned his supporter Heller. Some even felt very sorry. As a leader of the chamber of commerce, Heller was just a diligent and good man, he died because he was confused and supported the pagan ruler for a moment.

"Master Earl, rumors are more terrible than venom. It is Satan's poisonous tongue, which can disturb people's minds and do terrible things." Monk Elvitt lay on the wooden table of writing and recorded the words he was brought in to ask the servants. Although he did not understand what Arod wanted to do, it seemed that Arod's inquiry contained a little something he was very familiar with, but he had not yet figured out what it was.

"Don't worry about this, when the prisoner is arrested, all rumors will disappear." Arod looked carefully at the confession of each servant. Among the confession, he soon discovered something different, but to be on the safe side, he asked Julian to bring those people in and ask again. The interrogation had lasted for a whole day, and everyone was hungry and thirsty.

"But, Lord Earl, you are almost asking each of them the same questions, asking what work they were doing at that time, who could prove it, and how it helped." Julian was a little impatient. In his opinion, this kind of gentle inquiry had no effect in capturing the real murderer.

"Julian, you just need to do it. I need to ask again to find the real murderer." Arod said to Julian confidently.

"Okay, my master." The servants who worked in the house were brought in for a check. Their hearts were panic, hunger and tormented them, and fear penetrated every inch of their hearts. Arude's repeated and boring interrogation made them go crazy, but for the sake of his own life, he had to answer Arude's questions honestly.

"So, the delivery of wine should be your duty, but you don't remember who sent the glass to me at that time. It's completely unreasonable." Aruod looked at the servant with red hair in front of him and said sternly to him.

"Yes, yes, I, I don't remember." The red-haired servant kept wiping his forehead with his sleeves, sweat flowing along his cheeks. He knelt on the ground and rubbed his thighs with his right hand. Aruod could see his inner tension even when he observed his words and expressions.

"But the first time you said that you were asked a servant named Toby to help you deliver wine. This is the first record." Arod pulled out a piece of parchment paper on Monk Elvit's hand and threw it hard on the red-haired servant's face and said to him.

"Well, I, I." The red-haired servant was shocked. He was illiterate and could not understand what was written on the parchment. However, Arod's reminder made him remember that he had said this for the first time, which made him unable to justify himself.

"However, the confession of Little Toby said that you were the one who delivered the wine, that is, there was a person between you and Little Toby lying. Is it you who poisoned him? In order to cover up his crime, he deliberately shirked it to him." Arod held the parchment paper and shook in front of the red-haired servant, and the confessions of the two parchments were contradictory, and there must be one true and one false in between.

"No, no, the kind and noble Count, I didn't poison, how dare I do such a thing?" The red-haired servant was shocked, and his psychological defense completely collapsed under Arod's confession. He grabbed Arod's legs in tears and said loudly to Arod.

"Oh? That's little Toby, why did you ask him to deliver a wine glass and then try to cover it up for him." Aruod looked at the red-haired servant in front of him and continued to force him to defend himself. Under Arruod's continued to ask, the red-haired servant finally told the truth. It turned out that he was good at gambling and owed a lot of money to little Toby, but he was unable to repay it. According to the custom of the Slavs, if he could not repay it, his wife would be taken away by the creditor. At this time, Toby said that he could exempt his debts. As long as he let him in for a long experience at the banquet, there should be no problem, so he agreed.

"Little Toby is just a horse boy who manages the stables. He has no right to get close to the banquet, so I thought he really just wanted to have a long experience. I don't know anything about the rest." The red-haired servant trembled all over when he thought of the punishment of the nobles to deal with the criminals. His body trembled like a sieve, and his face turned pale as if he was a dead person.

"It seems that I have found a suspect." Arod straightened up, and all the suspicions were concentrated on the horse boy named Toby. He immediately asked Julian to raise Toby in.

"Sir, he is little Toby, he is the one who comes to deliver your wine on my behalf." When little Toby was brought in, the red-haired servant shouted loudly and pointed at little Toby and said, but little Toby was very calm, as if he was criticized.

"This is a shameless slander of the Earl. I did not ask to enter the banquet hall at all, so how could I do something about poisoning, let alone I have evidence to prove my innocence." Little Toby knelt on the ground and moved forward a few times. He bent down as if he wanted to stand up, but when everyone was careless, he suddenly pulled out a narrow and slender dagger from his sleeve, and the dagger emitted a blue light.

"Damn guy." But little Toby's action failed. Julian had been on guard at Arod's hint. When little Toby moved, he stepped forward and grabbed his arm. This thin young horse boy was no match for Julian who had received military training since childhood. He heard a crackling sound of little Toby screaming, and his arm was broken by Julian.

"Bah, pagans, the wrath of the gods will come on your head." Little Toby gasped, his left arm twisted strangely to one side, and his whole body was trampled by Julian, but he kept cursing.

"Who ordered you? The poison and this dagger are not something that people like you can possess." Aruod picked up the dagger on the ground. The dagger was well-made and it was actually made of a fine iron. If Aruod didn't expect it, it should be a sharp dagger made of meteorite.

"Hmph." Little Toby turned his head, as if he was disdainful of Aruod's words. Julian hated him for poisoning and stepped hard on his feet. Little Toby let out a muffled groan in pain.
Chapter completed!