inquiry

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The four of them went to look at the small room again. The small room was locked from the inside. Yuan Lao stepped on Yuan Sanpang's shoulder and looked through the gap above, but found nothing unusual, not even blood.

Shen Xing took pictures of all the places in the temple, and Elder Yuan also took pictures in the small room when he was inspecting, and the four of them walked out of the temple.

Shen Xing casually hung the camera around Wu Fei's neck, and said to the team leader guarding the gate: "I want to chat with all the main actors who will participate in the performance tonight, can I trouble you to arrange it?"

The team leader responded: "Okay, I'll make arrangements. You can go back to the office with me first."

The office is the yard behind Mayor Jin's office, where Wu Fei and the others saw tourists asking to leave yesterday, but were forced to stay because of geological accidents.

When Wu Fei got there, he didn't expect to see more than 20 people talking around the staff.

Wu Fei leaned over and listened, but these people still asked to leave.

Because of such a murder case, they are trapped here again, so they feel uneasy, even if it is not open to traffic, they still have to go on foot - there is another settlement town about 5 kilometers away from here, which recently relies on the drama town , can do some farmhouse business.

From the perspective of safety, the staff did not recommend them to leave, but they could not persuade them. In the end, the more than 20 tourists decided to leave by themselves. The staff couldn't persuade them, so they had to let them go.

At this time, the team leader came to call them: "Shen Jian, the cast and crew in the temple just now are all here. Come in."

Wu Fei and the others walked into the house, and sure enough, they saw Zhang Zhen, Jin Liyu, Mayor Jin and others were all here, as well as the elder sister who was in charge of selling flowers in the temple.

Shen Xing nodded slightly, and said to the team leader: "Please prepare an empty room for me, and I will call them one by one for questioning. Then gather those who have been questioned in another room and wait until all the people have been questioned Let everyone go when you're done."

The captain kept saying yes, and quickly complied.

The first person to be questioned was the male protagonist Zhang Zhen. He said that because when he and the golden carp were waiting in the temple, the audience could actually see what they were doing outside, so they didn't really rest, but It has been performing, performing scenes of him and the golden carp visiting the temple together.

"Did you notice anything unusual?" Shen Xing asked.

"No." Zhang Zhen said, "It's the same as before. I have performed this play dozens of times in the temple."

"Did you look up at the roof when you were acting?" Wu Fei added.

"Not at all," Zhang Zhen said, "When acting, there is also particularity about where the eyes look. Theater audiences like us are close, so the eyes can't wander around. I usually have to keep looking at the golden carp next to me."

"The golden peony and the golden carp look the same. What's the relationship between them?"

"They are twin sisters." Zhang Zhen said, "But they are not actually one who specializes in playing the golden peony and the other who specializes in playing the golden carp. The deceased is the older sister. She graduated from a famous dance school. She learned acting very quickly, and her movements also include dancing. After graduation, he joined our theater as an actor."

"My younger sister is not a dance or performance-related major. After graduation, she couldn't find a suitable job, so she was introduced by her sister to do some logistics work in the theater. Because of the particularity of this play, she started acting."

"So some plays that require relatively high performance and dance skills, such as the golden carp that danced with me in the pas de deux with me when we first met, and the golden peony that has a lot of one-man shows today, are performed by my sister. My sister only needs to be with her. Show up when they show up at the same time, and do some simple plays.”

"You have been in the theater for several years, did you meet in the theater?"

"Yes, we all met in the theater. I have been in the theater for five years, my sister has been here for three years, and my sister was brought in half a year after my sister entered the theater."

"One last question." Shen Xing tapped lightly on the table, "Will the small room where Golden Peony is located be locked from the inside?"

"No." Zhang Zhen said, "After all, it's acting, and the theater is also afraid of accidents. Unless it is to isolate the audience outside, otherwise the door will not be locked in the room. In this scene, Mayor Jin and the others are standing outside, No audience would come in, she's a professional actress, she wouldn't do that."

The second one to come in was the golden carp, or sister Jin.

But she was extremely nervous, with a trace of panic in her panic. She was still shaking when she came in, and she kept crying. She couldn't even speak, so she couldn't start asking.

There was no other way, Yuan Lao poured her a glass of hot water mixed with the peace talisman he made himself as a charlatan, and told her to go back after drinking it and come back slowly.

The next person who came in was Old Lu. When the accident happened, he and Mayor Jin had been standing outside acting, so they didn't know anything. After the accident, he ran in immediately to make sure that Sister Jin was still alive, but when he found out that she was hopeless, he quickly exited without looking at or touching anything else.

The only thing worth noting is that he is not a member of the troupe, but a local. He joined the troupe a year ago when the troupe was screening and recruiting actors locally. But he is not a member of the Zhu clan either. He married a local wife of the Zhu clan. His wife is Granny Ning, and Ning Fang is his daughter.

This time, he arranged for his wife and daughter to play roles in the sub-line, because the roles in the sub-line are simple, and in his opinion, it is not acting to find someone to play. Can have more income.

However, his wife and daughter were not very willing to act, so they had conflicts with him, but in the end they couldn't hold him back and could only follow his arrangement.

Mayor Jin came after him, and Mayor Jin has been acting outside at night. He has never entered the temple, so he doesn't know what's going on inside. But he is the deputy head of the troupe in charge of performances, and he is very clear about the situation of the troupe's actors, and he has explained their origins clearly, which is consistent with what the previous few people said.

"You are the deputy head, so you have the final say on everything here?" Wu Fei asked.

"No," Mayor Jin shook his head, "I'm only in charge of performances, that is, managing the actors to perform well. I don't take care of other logistics, gardening, etc. The troupe is in charge of the logistics with the deputy head of logistics, and he doesn't act. The head of the troupe is not permanently stationed in the town, and we are responsible for matters related to the troupe and actors. There is also an operations supervisor sent by investors to be responsible for the daily operations and operations of the town."

Next, the flower seller and several staff members who were guarding outside came in one by one to accept the questioning. What they said was similar to what Zhang Zhen said, and they could basically confirm each other.

After Lao Lu left before, Wu Fei asked the team leader to invite the priest over. At this time the priest had arrived, so Wu Fei called her in first.

Shen Xing sat drinking water to rest, calmly looked at Wu Fei and asked.

Wu Fei cut to the chase and said, "Are you really the priest of the Zhu family? Let me introduce yourself."

The "priest" had never seen this battle, and he heard that someone died just now, so he seemed very nervous at this moment.

She murmured, "I, my name is Liu Cuihao. I'm not a real priest, I, I'm acting as a priest."

According to Liu Cuihao's narration, she is not really a priest of the Zhu clan, or even a member of the Zhu clan. Her situation is similar to that of Lao Lu. When the troupe came to recruit local actors, she was recruited because of her good appearance and good acting talent.

She was married from a nearby village. Her husband was a local, but not from the Zhu tribe, and died of illness a few years ago. She also has two children who work outside the home, and acting in small towns is also to earn some money to supplement their children.

Wu Fei asked her: "Then who is the real priest of the Zhu clan?"

Liu Cuihao shook her head: "I don't know, our family is not from the Zhu clan, so we don't know anything about their clan."

Wu Fei asked her again what happened to the black door at her residence, and Liu Cuihao said that she didn't live there, it was just a place for acting, and the scenery of the place was arranged by the crew, she didn't understand.

After Liu Cuihao left, the deputy head of logistics and the director of operations also took time to chat with them.

The deputy head of the logistics team told Wu Fei that Fuhuadao and the scene layout were all based on the needs of the plot. For example, the black door of the priest was there to create a strange and mysterious feeling for tourists, so the door was painted black, and There is no other mystery.

The director of operations said that she didn't know who the priest was, and she hadn't paid attention to it.

This small town was originally a small village called Zhushan Village. When the land was acquired for development, it was a respected elder in the village who was the head of the village who came to negotiate with them on behalf of the local people. But not long after negotiating with them, the old man passed away, and his nephew succeeded the village head. Nor was she sure they were priests.

They also asked a few local Zhu people who were the priests, but they all said that there are no priests now, and everyone listens to the village chief. However, the current village chief went to the city half a month ago and has not returned yet.

Moreover, everyone is living in a small town now. Except when representing everyone to fight for rights and interests with the town staff, the village chief can't play much role most of the time.

After the operation manager left, Yuan Sanpang couldn't help but asked Wu Fei: "Wu Fei, how did you know that the priest in that play wasn't a real priest?"

Wu Feidao: "When I followed Lao Lu and the others to find the priest this morning, I found many old houses where local people lived. Although those houses have been repaired later, they are still obviously different from the newly built buildings behind the town. It can be seen that the house was not well built and the maintenance was average, which shows that the local people were not rich before, and they were even poor, and they were unable to take good care of their residences.”

"However, the temple is well preserved, and there are no traces of recent repairs or renovations, indicating that it was originally well maintained. After the theater moved in, in order to maintain its old feeling, it was not moved."

"Even if I don't live well, I still have to give priority to maintaining the temple, so I guess the locals, at least the local Zhu people must believe in their gods very much. But when the priests came out tonight, I heard from the surrounding Zhu people But they couldn't see the worship, they watched the priest perform like they were watching a theater, and I guessed that the priest was not real."

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Yesterday's update didn't seem to scare anyone but me... After writing it, I woke up from a nightmare at night, so I got up and wrote another chapter... Thanks at 2022-11-15 20:47:34~2022-11- During the 1605:21:20 period, the little angel who voted for the overlord or the irrigation nutrient solution for me~

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