147. The Goldfish of the British Empire[33]
It happened when Mycroft Holmes, the eldest son of the Sherlock Holmes family, was seventeen years old.
At that time, the British government was not the future powerful British government, he was going to Oxford University in the second half of the year, and his hairline was still strong, but there was one thing that had not changed from the past to the future, that is, he met with the dentist regularly.
This time Mycroft started to have a toothache again, and it just so happened that Sherlock, who had recently been obsessed with real yΓ n and perfunctory about such trivial things as brushing his teeth, and Sherlock, who was ten years old, also lived up to his expectations of tooth decay. As for the youngest Patrick, Mommy's little apple pie, he is only five years old, because he was frail at birth, he looks a little younger than children of the same age, and has not yet started to change his teeth, but Mommy still brought the younger son with him when she took her two older sons to the dentist's office.
- Don't think that Mommy didn't find out that the second son took the younger son to do the real yΓ n, he didn't have the real yΓ n high!
"Actually, I can take them, Mommy." Mycroft mentions it so intimately, the eldest brother is like a father.
"Take them to the candy store, Mike?" Mommy saw through her eldest son's mind at a glance and directly pierced him.
"The name you gave me is Mycrof, and you will use it until you die." Mycroft, who had been in a violent mood since the protest of his teeth, gave Mommy a smirk and was glared at by Mommy. "Xiali, stand up for me!"
Nothing escaped Mommy's eyes, and Sherlock, who was about to sneak back to be his real yΓ n, angrily kicked the pebbles at his feet.
Mommy hugged her little son who had been standing obediently and kissed her, "Baby, you see that your two brothers are really not good." Don't wipe your face, Mommy will kiss you! "--The well-behaved youngest son has a clean habit again.
None of the three sons seemed to be really worry-free, but fortunately, they still went to the dentist's office smoothly, and of course, it took Mommy a little time to get them all in.
The dentist's office is doing a brisk business, and there are a lot of parents who are leading their children to the dentist in the corridors outside, and of course, children running around.
When Mommy brought her three sons in, she immediately attracted everyone's attention.
Seventeen-year-old McCroft, tall and handsome, wearing a three-piece suit, full of spirit; And the ten-year-old Sherlock, he is wearing a suit but no tie, and he is baggy, but with his unruly look, he is definitely a tsundere little prince; The youngest Patrick, with baby fat on his face, a small suit and shorts, and a leather schoolbag, couldn't be more cute.
Mommy was proud for a while, and when she told Mycroft to go to the dentist for a pleasantry, the three sons were revealed.
Sherlock stared at the bench for the waiting patients, and told his brother what germs were going to be there and what diseases they could cause, as if trying to scare him into tears and escape from the terrible dentist's office.
Patrick, AKA Gu Qing of course didn't cry, it was other children who cried, how could there be children who were not afraid to see a doctor, especially a dentist, so one cried, one cried, and the nurse heard the crying and came over to help coax the child.
βFunny.β Mycroft, who had already sat down, glanced at the nurse lightly, and said a word in a bored tone, which attracted the attention of his eldest brother Sherlock, who had recently contracted the "vice" of working against his brother: "What? β
"Observe for yourself, Sherlock."
Taking advantage of this, Gu Qing slowly climbed onto the bench and sat down, and by the way, he put the leather backpack on his lap, and the eldest brother who loved his younger brother raised his eyebrows, and saw through the contents through the backpack: "The just-published "Conservation of Time"? β
"Sherlock, I don't think it's a wise choice to offend the nurse." Gu Qing's milky voice - given that his biological age is only five years old now, it is not strange to choose the word milky milk - he turned his head to look at the eldest brother who provoked Sherlock to play the nurse, and showed him his intact white teeth, "Mycrof, I hate the smell of disinfectant water. β
Mycroft glanced enviously at his younger brother's teeth, and it was clear that they both had the same sweet tooth, but the younger brother's teeth that had not been replaced were intact, while his was 'full of holes', which was really unfair.
However, Gu Qing's words to remind Sherlock seemed to have the opposite effect, and Sherlock, who thought that this was a good way to escape from the dentist's office, almost immediately said his interpretation: "Her boyfriend is splitting her legs behind her back, and she has two different perfume smells on her." β
Mycroft's gums ached, and instead of stopping it, he added, "Oh, another kind of best friend for her, Sherlock." β
Miss Nurse blushed: "What nonsense are you talking about?" β
Mycroft pushed his cheeks down, trying to distract himself in this way: "Call and ask, your boyfriend will definitely tell you that he is at work, but in fact he opened a room with the best friend you just met today, oh, the hotel is the closest to your apartment." β
The nurse called angrily, and then ...... Gone are the moments.
The dentist's clinic riot has just begun.
Mycroft looked at the family of three diagonally opposite, and his eyes paused on the child for two seconds: "The color of the pupils is lighter than that of both parents, which means that the child is only born to one of the parents, and I guess the mother is having an affair." β
Not to be outdone, Sherlock looked over, and after five seconds, he spoke: "It's her wedding ring, and there are traces of often taking it off and wearing it." β
Mycroft nodded noncommittally, urging his self-motivated brother to "Look closer, Sherlock." β
Although Sherlock was dissatisfied with McCroft's tone, he still observed carefully, and soon suddenly said: "Oh, I know, it's her jewelry, and her jewelry presents three different styles as a whole, so she has at least two lovers." β
Gu Qing, who had been quietly watching his brothers deduce all kinds of life without speaking, looked at his father who was almost violent, and said silently: "The principle of covering." "A method of understanding judging things based on a high probability of their development.
Mycroft looked at his younger brother with encouragement: "Tell me about it." β
Gu Qing said slowly: "The probability of a father raising a child for others in the family is much higher than that of a mother. β
Mycroft laughed, and his gums hurt again, which made his cheeks twitch, but it did not prevent him from commenting on his younger brother's statement: "My dear little brother, it is a bit reluctant to use the principle of glorification here, but it is also a kind of self-consolation on the father's side. β
Then, the family that was just talked about ...... As for the remaining parents in the dentist's office, if their father was also present, only they would know what was going on in their hearts.
However, it soon balanced.
McCroft narrowed his eyes and commented to the man who was sitting across from them from a family of three who had seen from time to time: "GAY, I have to marry and have children because of inheritance. β
The other party almost asked rhetorically: "What nonsense are you talking about?" β
The displeasure in McCroft's eyes flashed, and he did not like the way the gentleman looked at their brother, so he said unceremoniously: "Ask your sentimental boyfriend, and you will know if I am talking nonsense, sir, it seems that your wife has remembered who it is." β
It's good that this is another one that was sent away.
Then, there is no need for the three brothers - the most effective one is still McCroft, after all, his two younger brothers are still young, and the social experience still has to be accumulated slowly, and there is also a sexual orientation problem here, one is five years old and the other is ten years old, and he has not yet reached the age of contact with this kind of thing - if he is powerful again, the other families are afraid that they will be deduced some shady secrets, and if the family is out of harmony, it will be more than worth the loss, so it is the same to see a dentist or something, and wait for tomorrow to come back.
Hula walked around, and only the three brothers were left in the corridor.
When Mommy and Mr. Dentist came out together, Mr. Dentist was stunned at the empty hallway and the nurse who was gone. Mommy was stunned, and then looked at the three brothers sitting in a row, the three brothers were in love with each other, the youngest brother sat in the middle, and the brothers on both sides also came over to look at the book in his hand, how harmonious, but Mommy was really angry.
But of course Mommy won't say it, she just said: "Since everyone else has left beforehand, then we don't have to wait, Mike, you come first!" β
McCroft: "......" seems to #shoot yourself in the foot#.
Sherlock, with his messy curly hair, immediately gloated and laughed, even though he knew that it would be his turn next, but what did it have to do with him laughing at Mycroft who was pressing on top of his head, anyway, he would be happy to see Mycroft unhappy, yes, the bear child is so willful.
Mycroft set his eyes on the youngest brother, and the younger brother winked at him with his watery blue eyes, revealing a soft smile, thinking of the fire that the younger brother had provoked intentionally or unintentionally, and McCroft instantly felt that the entire back molars began to hurt. He just went to school, and the cute younger brother in the family began to mutate, and Mommy must have been deceived by him. You ask where you see this, Sherlock was not allowed to enter Mommy's room when he was five years old, and now Mommy's apple pie follows Sherlock to do it, and Mommy turns a blind eye.
Oh, Sherlock followed him into the real yΓ n room at the beginning, could it be that his twelve-year-old himself was not as reliable as Sherlock who is now ten years old in Mommy's eyes?
- Oh, that's a sad story.
Then, because Mommy was in charge, there were no more accidents. As for the surviving Mr. Dentist, after all, he has a "weapon" - dental machinery in his hand, and even Sherlock, who has always been very bearish, is honest, and obediently looks at his teeth, and he can't lift his spirits.
Gu Qing, the only one who survived, was very well-behaved and cute, and when his brothers came out of it, he also gave him a soft and cute smile, and his white tender teeth were really good-looking.
Mycroft clutched his cheeks, reluctant to speak.
It's Sherlock, he has a particularly good relationship with his younger brother now - after all, Mycroft went to the public school, and there were only two left in the family, he and Gu Qing were the only two left, and Sherlock was still very brotherly, probably. Otherwise, he would not have allowed his younger brother to enter his real room, of course, he would have helped him - so he went over to educate his younger brother and Brown McCough: "Don't learn from McCroft to eat so many sweets in the future, see that he is so fat that he now even has to make a suit specially made." β
Mommy glared: "Why don't you say you don't brush your teeth well!" Mike's sweets are canceled for the next week, and I'll let Daddy watch you brush your teeth, and you, apple pie, and return the books to the neighbors. β
"Mommy!" x3
Mommy has experienced a hundred battles, but she will not be moved because her three sons are coquettish, well, after she met her youngest son's cute pleading eyes, she still added: "Because Pie's teeth are very healthy, you are allowed to return this book after reading it." β
Mommy still knows her sons very well, don't you see that they all add preconditions in front of them, and there is no chance for Sherlock to shout "this is not fair". McCroft took a longer view: "Mommy, I think you'd be happy to talk to your neighbor about the child's integrity, Patrick's book is his family's," Mycroft originally wanted to say "the goldfish", but changed his words under Mommy's eyes, "The ninth-grader gave it behind his parents' back." β
Mommy was about to ask Gu Qing what was going on, but Sherlock, who was unwilling to lag behind Mycroft, shouted: "Let five-year-old Patrick help him with his homework, what is his little head thinking!" Oh, I see, it's hormones, he's thinking about the opposite sex all day, bored. β
Of course, Mommy decided to talk to the neighbors, it seems that there will be one less channel to read books in the future, Gu Qing looked at the union - even if it is a passive union it is also a union - got up to suppress his brothers, he puffed out his face, took out a lollipop from the pocket of the small suit and stuffed it into his mouth.
Mycroft covered his forehead and groaned, "What an irresponsible dentist with candy in the dentist's office, it looks like we need a different dentist's office." β
ββEven if they don't change, when everyone at the clinic knows what they have done, they will probably list the three brothers as refusal customers, which is really ...... It's a pleasure to see.
When it was time for dinner, Sherlock, who was daunted by spending at least five extra minutes each day on something as boring as brushing his teeth, perked up when he saw Mycroft's eyes drift at a very regular frequency to the sponge cake that Mommy had made for her youngest son, topped with homemade maple syrup, which looked particularly tempting.
Well, it's not to cheer up and eat, but to cheer up and bear: "McCrof, how did you deduce that the man who got married and had children was a GAY?" β
Mommy suddenly looked up, stared at McCroft and asked, "When you were at the dentist's office?" β
Mycroft glanced at Sherlock, who #self-damage eight hundred and one also had to kill the enemy eight hundred and one#, and sighed in his heart, he just went to school, Sherlock became more and more awkward, maybe he should find a time to talk to him. By the way, I hope that the youngest brother will not follow Sherlock in this regard.
The youngest Sherlock Holmes ate dessert slowly, anyway, the war didn't burn him, but even if the war came over, he still had Mommy.
Daddy watched happily from the side, and didn't forget to stuff food into Sherlock's plate.
After this lively dinner, he watched TV with Mommy and Daddy for a while, during which Sherlock expressed a lot of disapproval of the TV channel, whether it was a science fiction drama or a family ethics drama. Half an hour later, Gu Qing, whose biological age was only five years old, was sent to the bedroom by Mommy, and Sherlock was escorted to bed, and he was also watched by his father and brushed his teeth for a full three minutes.
As for Mycroft, Mycroft was already a big kid, and he slipped into the study after dinner under the pretext that he had schoolwork to do, and God knows what he was doing. Well, at the Sherlock Holmes, probably only Daddy would believe his bad excuses.
It's rare to be a child, and there is a normal and sound (?) Gu Qing of the family also accepted it after the awkwardness, and yawned a little after Mommy gave him a goodnight kiss. Well, it's not good, the child's body is always easy to get tired, but he still doesn't fall asleep. Ten minutes later, the window of his bedroom was arched open from the outside, and Sherlock crawled in with curly hair.
Sherlock was wearing pajamas, and with a wet body after taking a bath, he got into his brother's warm bed, shivering comfortably, but pouting in disgust: "Pie, you shouldn't drink milk anymore, you're five years old, and you still smell of milk." β
"Xiali, can you finish what you want to say before I fall asleep?" He had been running for ten minutes and was almost at his limit, and as he said he yawned a little more and rubbed his head against the soft pillow.
"A child is a child!" Sherlock was still disgusted before he began to say what he really meant, "Do you want to take the train to London?" You haven't been to London yet. β
Xiao Gu Qing didn't want to think about it, so he said, "I don't want to." β
"Your curiosity, Patrick!" Sherlock complained that his brother had blocked him, so he 'accused' him, but he remembered that he had snuck into his brother's bedroom and hadn't shouted loudly. He glared at his younger brother, trying to get him to change his mind, Gu Qingbian flattened: "Then you sue me first, what are you going to do in London?" β
Sherlock squirmed, but decided to tell his brother the truth: "I read in the newspaper that a child who had gone from Bretton to London to participate in the Games, he was obviously a good swimmer, but he had cramps in the water, and by the time they rescued him, it was too late!" Yes, Patrick, he's dead, and everyone will die eventually, and don't believe the folly that those people will go to heaven when they die. What I want to say is, I think there is something strange about this matter, I have to go to the scene to see, you go with me, and when Mommy knows, you will hold Mommy and be coquettish, so that Mommy will not punish us. β
Gu Qing rubbed the soft pillow again, and said vaguely, "You have to make me think about it, Xia Li." β
"What else do you want! I promise you, when you come back, I'll let you do it independently, so it's always okay, right? Sherlock rubbed his brother's curly hair, who was about to fall asleep, and said with hatred, as if he had forgotten the reality that his brother was only five years old and he was only ten years old.
"Okay." Gu Qing was so sleepy that he forgot about it, so he agreed to Sherlock. But he hadn't forgotten one thing, "Didn't you run out of pocket money?" β
It takes investment to be practical, but Mommy obviously doesn't encourage it, so she has to be self-reliant, and Sherlock's pocket money is used to buy real equipment and parts. Hearing his brother's question, Sherlock replied as a matter of course: "So we're going to use your pocket money, I know where you put it." Now you can sleep, and tomorrow you remember to listen to my instructions. β
Outside the bedroom, Mycroft, who was about to say goodnight to his brother, raised his eyebrows when he heard the movement in the room, put his hand in his trouser pocket, did not make a sound, and only left quietly when he could no longer hear the slightest movement in the room. I went downstairs and stayed for a while, went to the kitchen and poured a glass of water and drank half a glass before going upstairs again.
The next day, after the two younger brothers left the house in good disguise, he casually found an excuse to talk to Mommy, and followed the two worried younger brothers. Of course, Mycroft's tracking skills were good, and he didn't let his brothers find out, and he smiled with satisfaction after the brothers made a little trick and got on the train.
So he went all the way to London and found the scene of the crime, and Sherlock found out that there was a problem, the swimmer Carl Bauer who had drowned in the pool, and the rest of his clothes were in the locker in the dressing room, but his shoes were missing.
"I knew it!"
But the police at Scotland Yard didn't think about the possibility of him being killed at all, after all, even such accidents are not uncommon, and who would have thought of killing a child, everyone thought it was an accident. So when the ten-year-old Sherlock went to them, where would they believe the nonsense of a child, and not only that, but they also took Sherlock as a child who had come to cause trouble on purpose, and kicked him out of the cordon.
Sherlock bit his lip tightly, his face was pale, and Gu Qing, who was originally looking up the list of people who came to participate in the swimming program of the Games at that time, ran over and held Sherlock's hand when he saw this. "Charlie?"
"Pie, they don't believe me, there's something wrong with it."
"That's because they're all goldfish."
"yes, they're all stupid!"
Mycroft, who had expected this to happen, did not show up, he felt that this was a necessary training for Sherlock to grow up, and as for Patrick, he was still young and could take his time. Mycroft was still thinking about going back and writing a plan to come out, and the curly-haired brothers were holding hands and were about to leave, Sherlock was very frustrated, Gu Qing was keenly aware of a sight, so he suddenly turned his head to look over, but he didn't see anything, he wrote it down in his heart.
After they left, around the corner came a big-eyed boy who looked in the direction Holmes had left and smiled like a fox.
Well, this is the warm routine of the Sherlock Holmes brothers...... Right?