Chapter 316 Interrogation (Part 1)

A new day begins. The people in Kiev don't know what the nobles in the city experienced the night before. For them, every day is the same, except that they are busy for their livelihood, and they are busy for their livelihood.

But this night is destined to go down in history, because after this night, Kiev and Ukraine will change owners.

The first person to be beaten by the reformist iron fist was Count Shuvalov. On the second day of his house arrest, Count Rostovtsev took Grand Duke Nicholas to interrogate him.

"Count, now I am asking you some questions on behalf of His Majesty. You must answer these questions truthfully. If you have any lies, once you are found out, you will be punished severely! Do you understand?"

Shuvalov just wanted to say haha, he wasn't scared too much, what should be said and what should not be said in such an occasion, didn't he have a clue in his heart? To play this kind of trick with him is to treat him like a child!

He replied lazily and nonchalantly: "Understood! You can ask! Anyway, I have a clear conscience!"

Count Rostovtsev didn't care whether his attitude was good or not, but asked calmly, "What's your relationship with Mrs. Petrovna?"

This question did not surprise Shuvalov at all. He knew that this question must be the focus, but he had nothing to fear. His people knew what to say and what not to say, so he didn't believe it. Count Rostovtsev could get his men to pry their mouths open in one night.

So he replied confidently: "It doesn't matter, I just met a few times at the salon and ball, talked twice, and danced a few times!"

Count Rostovtsev continued to ask: "That's all?"

Count Shuvalov snorted coldly, and said proudly, "Of course!"

Count Rostovtsev laughed, which puzzled Shuvalov. He didn't understand what was so funny about it.

"I'm afraid not at all?" Count Rostovtsev replied calmly. "According to the testimony of the witnesses, you have a close and ambiguous relationship with this Madame Petrovna. Why? Don't you want to tell the truth?"

"Nonsense!" Count Shuvalov retorted angrily, "It's all nonsense! If you want to frame me with these unfounded things, please show me the evidence!"

Count Rostovtsev smiled and said, "Is there any evidence? There is a lot! There are eyewitness testimonies, and they all insist that you have an ambiguous relationship with Mrs. Petrovna!"

Shuvalov was completely unmoved,

He said coldly: "Whose testimony? I'm afraid it's all speculation!"

"Spoofs and shadows?" Rostovtsev smiled slightly, patted a dozen documents beside him and said, "There are quite a lot of rumors about you, four counts, seven viscounts, twelve barons, and other counts. Unclear ladies and ladies all told me in unison that you have an affair with Mrs. Petrovna, are they all lying? Or is it that your popularity in Kiev, Count Shuvalov, is so bad that it has reached the point of being annoying? to the extent?"

Shuvalov is still very calm, because he knows that those nobles who don't like him, and the timid nobles will definitely not be able to stand the interrogation of Count Rostovtsev, and will definitely explain these things.

However, he felt that these things were not fatal, because he could completely cover them up with jokes and misunderstandings. It could even be said that these people had a grudge against him and deliberately made trouble. Anyway, it is impossible for these things to defeat him!

He snorted coldly and said: "As the person in charge of the third department, I am mainly responsible for maintaining the stability of the empire. I will inevitably offend many people. It is so strange to be attacked by these despicable people!"

Count Rostovtsev smiled again and said, "Really? But why do I think these testimonies are particularly credible? And I think His Majesty will also value these testimonies!"

"Hmph! Whatever you say, I'm innocent anyway!"

"That's really invisible," Count Rostovtsev said still with a smile, "According to my investigation, you are a serious suspect! For example, explain to me why the day before Fioning escaped from prison, you A secret meeting with Madame Petrovna? ​​Can you tell me what you talked to her about?"

Shuvalov was startled suddenly, except for a layer of cold sweat on his back, because only he and a few confidants should know about his secret meeting with Petrovna, how did Count Rostovtsev find out! Could it be?

However, he quickly calmed down and said calmly: "I don't remember seeing that woman before the incident. It's still because someone framed and falsely accused me!"

Count Rostovtsev said with a smile: "Then explain why Petrovna's maid, servant and housekeeper told the imperial envoy that you secretly met with that woman that day?!"

Count Rostovtsev deliberately used that woman to refer to Petrovna, which was obviously a sarcasm for Shuvalov. And Shuvalov can't care about this now, because he has heard bad news that people around Petrovna have fallen into the hands of Count Rostovtsev. The question is, how is this possible? ?

You must know that after Petrovna fled, Shuvalov did some remedial work in order to completely eliminate the relationship. He immediately sent someone to arrest Petrovna's servants, but what he didn't expect was that These people have been empty. Apparently Petrovna had long been on guard against his move and had evacuated the servants around her in advance.

Later, Shuvalov spent a lot of time searching for these people, but there was no progress. Like Petrovna, these people were either alive or dead, as if they had disappeared out of thin air.

He asked suspiciously: "How did you find these people? The third part specially searched for these people before, but they ran away long ago!"

Count Rostovtsev still replied with a smile: "Just last night, these people chose to surrender, and then truthfully confessed all the information related to Petrovna, including the fact that you secretly communicated with this person before the incident happened. Regarding the fact that the woman met, according to their account, you had a secret meeting with that woman for nearly two hours, now, Your Excellency, please tell me what you talked about with that woman!"

Shuvalov was not so calm for the first time, because Count Rostovtsev's words gave him a big shock, Petrovna's people actually chose to surrender, and sooner or later they were in Rostovtsev The earl surrendered himself on the day he arrived in Kiev. If there is no conspiracy, it would be called a ghost!