Shrimpton Leela, the world's number one international hotel chain, is not a luxury hotel. On the contrary, this Rilla Hotel in London is simple compared with the five-star hotel of the same level. This is because of a philosophy followed by its founder: don't give a real thing unless necessary.
Liang Xi also liked Occam's words very much, and this also reflected in his life. Before falling in love, Liang Xi's clothes were simple, convenient, concealing shame, keeping warm and keeping enough for the purpose. It was not until after falling in love that Liang Xi added a gorgeous appearance. Adding appearance and function also brings troubles. For example, Liang Xi¡¯s black windbreaker is very handsome, and he walks with wind, but he must send it to a dry cleaner for dry cleaning. He cannot throw it away after taking it off every day. The long windbreaker also makes driving a little inconvenient.
The interior decoration of the Lila Hotel is simple and clear, the stairs are the stairs, and the handrails do not have any carvings. The floor is a functional floor, non-slip and quick-drying. Even the lighting in the hotel lobby is mainly practical, without large strings of chandeliers for decoration.
It seems simple, but careful study reveals that it is very particular. When you sit anywhere in the lobby and read a book or a newspaper, you don't have to worry about backlighting. There is no need to worry about children running around and causing trouble, because there are no vases that will be broken by them, and no sharp corners that will hurt them.
When Liang Xi entered the hotel, the doorman stopped him, sorry to explain to Liang Xi that the hotel has been rented. There were also several burly men in suits with bare heads and earphones standing at the door. They were wearing sunglasses, with their hands hanging in front of them, motionless, like a statue. Liang Xi explained to the doorman that Mr. Rick asked him to come here. The doorman asked Liang Xi for his name and asked Liang Xi to wait. A few minutes later, the doorman gave Liang Xi an ID card and asked Liang Xi to enter.
Liang Xi sat in the lobby for a while, and Ryan called. He was in the hospital and apologized for not being able to receive Liang Xi in person. Ryan arranged for a woman named Xixi to accompany Liang Xi all the way, and Liang Xi could explain to Xixi any needs.
Xixi is a very typical Italian beauty, with a pair of thick lips that are particularly sensual. The two parties shook hands, and after introducing themselves, Xixi took the materials to the table and explained the current situation. Liang Xi didn't like the information collected by private individuals. The reason was that these materials would focus on explaining and investigating certain things, and detectives could easily be misled.
The hotel has cleared all the guests, and the employees are working normally to cooperate with the investigation.
Forty minutes before the incident, Ryan contacted the hotel's food delivery department and ordered a meal: deep-sea cod, vegetable salad, borscht, steak Wellington, Black Forest cake and a bottle of red wine.
Liang Xi took the menu and asked, "Which foods were toxins detected in?"
"Borscht." Xixi continued to explain, and played the surveillance video.
? According to the monitoring, a waiter walked from the food delivery department to the employee elevator with a cart. He waited at the elevator entrance for the elevator to arrive. The elevator arrived 20 seconds later, and the waiter pushed the cart into the elevator. Elevator monitoring showed that during the period, the waiter stood upright behind the food delivery car and pushed the car out of the elevator on the 21st floor. The monitoring of the corridor on the 21st floor showed that the waiter pushed the food to the front of room 2121, knocked on the door, and then pushed the car in. A minute later, the waiter came out of room 2121, half-bending towards the door, as if to say thank you or other polite words. After the door was closed, the waiter pressed the elevator, took out a few banknotes from his pocket and kissed them, put away the banknotes and entered the elevator to leave.
Liang Xi asked: "Is there any problem?"
Xixi replied: "Because there is no problem, I invite you to investigate."
Liang Xi asked: "What do you mean by showing me the monitoring?" Liang Xi was worried that because of Xixi's subjective suspicion, details were missed.
Xixi replied: "This is all food-related monitoring."
Xixi took Liang Xishi for a walk.
The food delivery department and pastry room are on the third floor of the hotel. The dining room and kitchen are on the second floor. The normal process is: place an order. The kitchen prepares food. Responsible for serving food in the kitchen, such as knives and forks, paper towels, dipping sauces, glasses, etc. All food will be placed on trays and covered. Since Hannah ordered more food, two trays and two covers were used.
Then the waiter puts the tray and the cover into the small transport elevator, and the elevator reaches the food delivery department on the third floor. The food delivery department takes out the food from the inside, puts it on the trolley, checks all the food and ingredients one by one according to the order sign, then puts on the cover, and pushes the cart out of the food delivery department. Walk fifteen meters and reach the staff elevator after passing a corner.
The trouble in this case is that there is no monitoring in the kitchen, and there is no monitoring in the food delivery department. It is not known which link has been passive. According to the employees' instructions, a foreman and a novice waiter are in charge of catering together, which seems to be able to supervise each other. When the food was in the delivery department, there were three employees in the delivery department, which seemed to be able to supervise each other.
The kitchen staff showed Liang Xi their workflow out of thin air.
&To the guest room, the ambulance arrived at the hotel 30 minutes later. "
Liang Xi asked, "When will Jack and Jeff leave?"
Xi Xi replied: "Hannah was taken to the hospital, they followed to the hospital, and they left the hospital to go home after learning that Hannah was out of danger."
There are doubts about the details of the poisoning. Liang Xi did not know the dose of tetrodotoxin in the borscht. Oral administration of 0.5 mg of river poison is fatal, and there is basically no possibility of rescue. River poison is a thousand times more toxic than cyanide, but the incubation period of river poison is longer, as short as 10 minutes before symptoms appear, and as long as 3 hours before symptoms appear.
The murderer must bring enough food, how much did Hannah eat? Among the food Hannah ordered, the borscht was quite different and unsuitable, which meant that Hannah liked borscht.
Liang Xi asked how much he had eaten, and Xixi could only answer about a quarter or a few spoonfuls. Because shortly after the incident, all the ingredients were sent to the inspection department for testing.
Cixi relayed what Ryan explained about last night: Hannah had a bad face after seeing Jack and Jeff, and the three of them were sitting on the sofa talking, the atmosphere was cold and embarrassing. Hannah didn't give Jack and his son face, and asked Ryan to help him order food, and didn't mention the father and son's dinner, and the two didn't dare to say anything. The three of them talked mainly about Jessica, and Hannah asked about Jessica's ability, personality, etc., and also asked about some sensitive topics. For example, Jack, do you support Jessica becoming the president? Jeff, what do you think?
Hannah decided to let Jessica inherit the Mercury Group, so these two people should speak out to avoid any troubles in the future.
At 6:50, Hannah was in a better mood and asked them to order by themselves. She also wanted to learn more about the high-level and strategic developments of the Mercury Group. Jack and his son each ordered a steak set meal. Ryan didn't order his own food, and spent most of the time standing behind and to the left of Hannah, always on call.
At 7:10, Hannah's food arrived, the waiter pushed the dining cart in front of Hannah, removed the cover, and introduced the food as usual. Hannah nodded and waved him away. Ryan sent the waiter to the door, tipped him and closed the door. Then Hannah ate deep-sea fish with dipping sauce, and drank soup to talk to Jack and his son. At 7:30, Hannah began to experience symptoms of discomfort, which were very violent when they started. Ryan called emergency immediately after checking. At 7:35, the medical staff arrived at room 2121 and preliminarily judged the poisoning. At 7:40, the ambulance took Hannah away, and at 7:45, the ambulance arrived at the hospital.
Ryan went to the hospital to stay rational. After hearing that Hannah might be poisoned, he immediately contacted the bodyguards to seal off room 2121, and asked the professionals in the bodyguards to send all the food and tableware in the dining car for inspection. After the physical evidence was sent to the inspection agency, the doctor had rescued Hannah for the river poison, and Hannah's indicators gradually stabilized. With this information, the inspection agency conducted targeted testing results: only borscht and a spoon were detected to contain river poison.
Xixi contacted Ryan about Liang Xi's problem. Ryan contacted the inspection department, then asked Hannah, and told Liang Xi: Hannah drank three or four mouthfuls of borscht as an appetizer, and then ate lighter steamed deep-sea fish. I ate half of the steak wellington and half of the black forest cake. When he finished eating, Ryan pushed the cart to the door instead of outside, hoping to take the cart with him when the waiter delivered to Jack and Jeff.
What puzzled Liang Xi was, why borscht? Just because it is a soup, is it easy to melt?
While Liang Xi was thinking, Xixi reminded one thing: Lila Hotel has a tradition of hiring ex-convicts. Liang Xi remembered that the Lila Hotel has a rule that they will provide a certain percentage of jobs for the disabled and non-violent ex-convicts. That said, there are likely to be sophisticated criminals in the kitchen, delivery staff, and servers. This kind of regulation is not unique to the Leela Hotel. Brands such as Wal-Mart have set up special positions.
Liang Xi entered Hannah's bedroom, bathroom, and then turned to the secondary bedroom, but found nothing more. Liang Xi believed that the person who dared to directly throw river poison either had a deep hatred with Hannah, was a professional team, or was a person with a criminal record. In other words, the chef who made the borscht and the head chef who claimed to have tasted the borscht were also suspect. And waiters, delivery people, each of them has a chance of being poisoned.