Female Novel
Chapter 816 Check The Surveillance Footage
Chapter 816 Check the Surveillance Footage
She didn't even touch the soup since it was placed there. As everybody knew she was in charge of
Queeny's and Bella's meals, normally, no one else would put a hand to the ingredients she reserved for
them.
Then how did this happen?
Gina was thrown into a tizzy.
Queeny, however, was not agitated or anything. She took a close look at the soup, then summoned
Donald here to confirm that the meat he delivered was indeed the good ones.
After that, she turned around to face the group of servants.
"Other than Gina, who else has worked in the kitchen recently?"
The servants looked at each other at a loss.
Right afterward, three maids stepped forward.
Queeny looked at them and asked, "Are you all cooks?"
The three shook their heads. Due to fear or perhaps shyness, they all kept their heads low.
In a timid voice, one of them answered, "No, Miss Horton. We're Gina's help. We only wash vegetables
and run some errands."
Queeny arched her eyebrow.
"Then have you ever touched the ingredients Gina prepared?"
"No."
The three denied in unison while shaking their heads.
Queeny did not speak.
Just then, the younger one among the three maids said, "Honestly, no one else can touch the
ingredients that Gina has kept, because she always locks away the ones that are precious. We don't
have the key, so we can't even lay a finger in those ingredients."
As soon as she said that, Gina also explained, "That's true, Miss Horton. Since there are so many
servants in the castle, I'm afraid that some of them might 'help themselves' to the food here and
disgrace everyone working here. Thus, I always lock the precious ingredients in the cabinet, and only I
have the key."
Raising a brow, Queeny reached out and said, "Show me the key."
Gina quickly took out an iron-grey key and handed it over to her with both hands.
Queeny took the key and scrutinized it only to find that it was just an ordinary key. In this case, the lock
must be a mere ordinary one.
Even so, it had been confirmed that without the key, no one could access the soup.
After all, who would take such high risks to smash the lock just for some soup?
As she thought of this, Queeny's eyes flickered with pensiveness.
But Bella's patience had already run out.
She snapped, "Queeny, what are you waiting for? Isn't it obvious?
"The meat Donald sent here is the best kind. And only Gina has the key to the cabinet. Now it has been
swapped, who else could the thief be if it's not her?"
Queeny looked up at Bella.
Her eyes were chilling.
Bella caught her gaze and was somehow unnerved. At once, she quieted down.
Queeny then looked back at Gina.
"Is there a surveillance camera in the kitchen?"
Gina was a little dazed.
Then, she hurriedly nodded and said, "Yes."
"Show me."
Therefore, the servants led Queeny toward the kitchen.
Perhaps because this matter had spread to the main building, Felix also came over.
Now he was here, Bella naturally wanted to present herself as smart and perceptive. Therefore, before
the surveillance footage was even played, she said righteously, "Queeny, let's get this straight first.
Gina is obviously the thief. But you've been trying to find excuses to let her off. Sure, we can check the
surveillance footage. But if we find out it's truly her, how will you deal with her then?"
Queeny gave her a cool glance and said, "She'll be punished as she's supposed to, of course."
Bella sneered and said, "Okay. You can't go back on your word. Don't stop me when I call the police in
a moment."
She then puckered her brows in disdain.
"I loathe thieves since forever. Only you, who can't tell right from wrong, will shield them."
Queeny didn't bother to squabble with her. If they really got into a fight, Bella would definitely be the
one to suffer.
Thus, what was the point of bickering with her?
Queeny immediately asked the security to check the surveillance footage since the day Donald
delivered the ingredient. Because the footage spanned several days, this task would take some time.novelbin
Queeny couldn't watch the footage all by herself. Therefore, she asked the others to fetch more
computers here and uploaded a copy of the footage to each of the computers. Then, she picked
several people she thought were reliable to check the footage as well.
During the whole time, Felix just stood by the door in silence, not saying anything at all.
A gleam of playfulness lit his dark eyes.
Queeny viewed the footage very fast.
When the others hadn't finished the first hour of the footage, she was already done with the first day's
recording.
She knew she didn't have to check every second of the footage. After all, if anyone went to unlock the
cabinet with the ingredients, it would be easy to spot.
Hence, she played the footage at the fastest speed. After watching for about half an hour, she was
suddenly dazed.
Her elegant brows furrowed deeply.
"Hold on. Stop there. Fast backward 20 seconds," she told Ella, who was controlling the computer
beside her.
Queeny still couldn't use her arms yet because of the injury, so Ella helped her with it.
Hearing her words, Ella nodded and reset the video to 20 seconds ago.
Queeny told her to play it at the normal speed this time and watched the clip carefully.
In the video, the servants were all busy with their work. Soon, they got their job done and left one after
another.
Ella stared at the screen for quite a while but didn't find anything fishy, so she frowned in bewilderment.
"Miss Horton, what's wrong with this part?"
With a calm face, Queeny said, "Backward 10 seconds. I wanna watch it again."
Despite her confusion, Ella said "yes" and played this part again.
After watching it the second time, Queeny found the answer.
When the video was still on, at a certain point, Queeny said, "That's it. Pause here."
Ella quickly clicked "Pause".
Then, Queeny said seriously, "It's done. Everyone, you can stop checking the footage."
The others all looked up at her, nonplussed.
When Queeny and the others were checking the footage, Bella just stood on the side, ready to ridicule
Queeny. She was convinced that Gina was the thief. No matter how much investigation Queeny
conducted, the culprit would still be Gina.
Therefore, she was not worried. Had Felix allowed her to go near him, she would even go over and
chat with him to kill time.
Seeing that everyone had stopped working on the footage, she said sarcastically, "What? Got any
clues?"
Though she sounded like she cared, her tone was dripping with mockery and smugness.