30. The Goldfish of London 29

After Angelo, who was deeply shocked, put down the candles and the menu, Erin looked down at the menu and said casually, "What excuse do you think the private investigator he hired would use when he told him about his situation?" ”

"Private detective, obviously." Sherlock finally took the initiative to look at the menu this time, and he stuffed his brother's breakfast to Scotland Yard in the morning, and blacked his brother after eating it without appreciating it. Hearing Erin say this, he pouted, "I guess I still have a face like I'm still a good husband and father, boring." This time, let's look at the table on his left, you come first. ”

"So good?" Erin naturally looked up at the table Sherlock had designated, "A sweet-looking couple who went to see the engagement ring earlier. Oh, I want a seafood cheese gratin. Erin looked at Angelo with a depressed face, thought about it and asked Sherlock in a low voice, "Are you familiar with the waiter at this house?" ”

β€œWhatοΌŸβ€ Sherlock looked up at Angelo and blinked, "Oh, so-so. Sherlock ordered his share, motioned for Erin to ignore Angelo, and continued.

Angelo: "......" He didn't want to come, but as a boss, he couldn't even instruct his waiter here. Oh, he now understands what the two of them are talking about, and his mind has been seen through by the way, isn't it!! Well, the restaurateur who was having fun also followed Erin's line of sight at the table of sweet couples, what was wrong with this couple?

"Love runs long distances, boyfriend cheats and is addicted, which can be seen from his mobile phone. His skin color suggests that he doesn't work outdoors, but his smartphone has a waterproof protective layer, which means that he has a habit of taking his phone with him in the shower, indicating that he often receives shady text messages and emails, and I wonder why his girlfriend didn't see it. After Erin finished speaking, Sherlock said, "Five years, five years of long-distance running, this phone of his is also a gift from his girlfriend for his anniversary, with five hearts on it." Sherlock rolled her eyes in disgust, "Also, she has turbinate hypertrophy, which shouldn't be strict, but it's enough for her to be so stuffy that she can't smell the perfume that her boyfriend often changes from person to person, and it's clear that her boyfriend knows this." ”

Erin looked at the poor girlfriend who had been split several times again, "I don't see that. ”

Sherlock said it as a matter of course: "So you have to keep learning." ”

Erin didn't think there was anything wrong with that: "I see. ”

Angelo wanted to be quiet, but Sherlock suddenly noticed him: "Your bathroom here is being repaired?" ”

"Ah, oh, yes." Angelo didn't want to ask, 'How do you know?' before Sherlock gave him a crumpled smirk, "If you tell the man about this, you'll be able to save a lady who has been trampled on." ”

"Huh?" What's the hell about the relationship between the two?

"The object of his cheating is outside the restaurant, it should be passing by by accident, and now she hasn't seen him, but he has seen her, and the best thing to do is to go to the bathroom and hide." Erin explained the matter clearly, and then sighed, "'I often walk by the river, how can I not get my shoes wet', it seems that today is not his lucky day." ”

Sherlock's focus is on Irene's Chinese saying: "I love this saying. ”

"In this way, it is similar to this common saying, and 'if you walk too much at night, you will inevitably encounter ghosts'." After Irene herself finished speaking, she thought about her own situation, and said something in particular, "It's not literal. ”

"I know." Sherlock, who was already a little accomplished in Chinese, or had a tacit understanding with Erin, turned his head to look at her, and Erin laughed.

You ask Angelo, who is ignored again, he didn't face the flashbang, but he actually heard the male guest suddenly stand up and say that he was going to the bathroom. Angelo showed signs of collapse in her heart, and when she opened her mouth, she told the people: "Sorry sir, our bathroom here is being repaired today." ”

The direction of the next accident is simply as the two of them said.

When the drama came to an end, Angelo broke down and went to give Sherlock the table the meal they ordered, wishing they could be quieter while eating. The two of them did quiet, and Angelo quietly breathed a sigh of relief behind the counter.

However, Sherlock refused to eat after stuffing enough into his stomach as he thought he needed, and he wanted to play that little game with Erin, but Erin was still eating her seafood cheese gratin and refused without hesitation.

Sherlock was quiet for a minute, then put his artist's hands on the table and began tapping on it regularly. [At the table at the entrance, the widow and her old son of the gnawing clan have a western beagle.] ]

[I'm in the direction of ten o'clock, oh, this one is a little bit more interesting, GAY and the daughter of the boss who is interested in him, by the way, he has a boyfriend.] ]

"Sherlock!" Because of Sherlock's movements, on the one hand, he had to distinguish the information he typed out, and on the other hand, he couldn't help but want to observe and deduce, and Irene, who couldn't eat properly with three purposes, couldn't help but stare at him.

"I'm exercising your sensitivity to Morse code," Sherlock said, "or you'll sue me for what else you said to that fat man." Without waiting for Erin's answer, he quickly said, "No, no, you don't have to sue me, you can continue to eat your meal." ”

As soon as he finished speaking, he made the usual movements, clasping his hands together against his jaw, as if he was immersed in his own world and refusing to be disturbed. began to quickly analyze what his big demon brother said to Erin, which made her previous behavior deviate, and another thing that made him feel a little uncomfortable, that is, Erin's attitude towards Mycroft, she seemed to have a tendency to treat him as an elder.

The reason for this can be analyzed, as far as he deduces from her, her father, whom he mistakenly interpreted as his mother in the first place, is obviously not an ideal model for elders. Besides, Mycroft, though he doesn't want to admit it, is still very deceptive when he pretends to be. That's why Sherlock felt so upset that he angered Erin and her father.

- I don't know that he is already on Ai Ye's blacklist, which is a two-way bad feeling when he hasn't met yet... Finish.

Erin hadn't intended to talk to Sherlock about the rest of the storyβ€”the part with Mycroft about his sexuality, probablyβ€”at least not now, but before she lowered her head and continued eating, she didn't hold back her gaze at the two tables that Sherlock had performed earlier, and she finished the rest of the meal. When she put down her fork, Sherlock opened her eyes: "What do you think?" ”

"Hmm, I'm thinking that if the two of us are like this, can we also gnaw on the old clan?" Erin said slowly.

This sentence is really not untargeted, the only consulting detective in the world who takes on cases has never been pro bono, he just wants to not let himself die of boredom. Speaking of the usual expenses, even if Mrs. Hudson, the landlord of 221B, takes care of him and gives him a discount on the house price, you must know that 221B is in the city center, and the rent price is not cheap. In addition, he usually "jumps up and down" in London, and the cost of taking a taxi alone is not small. Not to mention, his cabinet of tailored suits and coats...... Oh, both of these are sponsored by the British government as an elder brother.

As for Irene, not to mention before, she didn't say that she was looking for a serious job after coming here, and her expenses were all from her father in the storage bracelet, and she finally took on a commission that she would have taken before, and she didn't say anything about getting paid for it.

"That's how you feel?" Sherlock said hatefully, he thought for a moment and replied, "I have a job, at Buzz Hospital, oh, I majored in chemistry in college, if that's what you want to know." ”

Erin also said casually, but she didn't expect Sherlock to answer so seriously, so she said "courtesy": "I majored in physics in college, yes, physics, thank you for being strong enough not to get lost between science and non-science." By the way, the 'law of conservation of energy' is the strongest one. "Think about it, as a scientific discipline that can see the existence of non-human races, and to study the scientific disciplines written by scholars who cannot see their existence, I don't know how many contradictions there are." So when I graduated, I became a 'vagrant', well, in a certain way. ”

"From the point of view of a 'normal person'?" Sherlock glanced over and took in the rest of the restaurant's guests, normal people, "Look at what these 'normals' have in their 'normal lives', boring, boring-"

And at this moment, the direction he looked at happened to be a man and a woman, the man to the woman confessed successfully, they were hugging each other and kissing.

"Still boring."

Sherlock froze, Erin followed his gaze, retracted his gaze, and when he saw that Sherlock was still staring at them, he asked puzzledly, "What's wrong?" ”

Sherlock's brain is running at high speed, playing the man and woman who have just become a couple, trying to find the 'fake' situation, such as the pair of dating men and women he played before, the man himself is a GAY and a boyfriend, or the couple who started the long-distance love run, the man cheats and is addicted. But Sherlock failed, and the pair liked each other and there was no 'stain'...... He retracted his gaze casually, and said to Comrade Xiao Ai, who asked him: "It's nothing, since you have eaten well, then let's go." ”