148. The Goldfish of the British Empire[34]

Ten-year-old Sherlock and five-year-old apple pie get on the train home, and Sherlock is silent all the way, and this incident leaves a deep impression on him, and it is the beginning of his career as a consulting detective, real.

The little Gu Qing held his brother's hand and didn't hold it halfway, and fell asleep on Sherlock's shoulder amid the sound of the train's tracks. Sherlock felt a sinking on his shoulders, and returned to reality from his contemplation, and whispered in disgust: "A child is a child." But he still clumsily moved his position, let his younger brother lie on the chair and sleep on his knees, and brushed a handful of his brother's curly hair like him - among the three Sherlock Holmes brothers, Sherlock and Gu Qing both have black curly hair, but Gu Qing's curls are not as curly as Sherlock's, but this does not prevent Sherlock from automatically putting him in his camp, especially after he contracted the 'vice' of working against Mycroft - muttering quietly: "Pie, you're right, they're all goldfish, so I don't want to be like a goldfish." ”

"Their brother is so cute, and the elder brother is taking care of the younger brother."

Some passengers were cute, don't want to, and the voice was louder, and they were glared at viciously by Sherlock, but they didn't know that it really had no effect.

"Do you think we're making my brother sleep? It's cuter. ”

Sherlock wanted to play the role of them shutting them up, but he was really afraid that it would make his brother sleep, so he kept glaring at them until they stopped looking at them.

The two brothers left home early in the morning, and when they came back, it was already evening, but they had already thought about this problem, and left a note for Mommy, and besides, Sherlock had often gone out for a whole day in recent times, and it was not a problem to go out with his curious brother. However, there is still a problem -

"Mycroft will definitely sue Mommy when he sees it!"

Sherlock took his brother's hand and pouted.

"Charlie?"

"What's wrong?"

Gu Qing wanted to say that they hadn't hidden McCroft at all, but in view of his current learning progress, he hadn't come here yet, and was about to say something else, when he saw Mycroft, "I saw Mycroft!" Mike! ”

"Don't call him!" Sherlock and McCroft are working against each other again, and he knows that he can't beat McCroft now, and now he doesn't want Mycroft to know what happened in London!

It's a pity it's late, all the way to the end

Sherlock snorted, "Did you find a candy store for us?" Oh, the candy store owner's daughter likes you, and she's almost knocking you out andβ€”"

"Sherlock!" Before Sherlock could say anything more forbidden or larger, Mycroft stopped with a little warning, but he noticed that Sherlock had already covered his younger brother's ears before he said this, and did not continue on the topic, "You guys, Mommy won't believe that you went out to find real materials." ”

Sherlock was even more upset because of the meaning of Mycroft's words of knowing + reluctant not to sue, when his younger brother threw himself into Mycroft's arms and let him walk on his back, his mouth was so pouting that he could hang a soy sauce bottle, but he did not teach his weak brother a lesson, but warned Mycroft: "You have to carry Patrick steady, who knows if you have the strength to eat sweets today!" ”

Xiao Gu Qing lay on the eldest brother's back and whispered to him: "Mike, I can secretly give you my fruit candy." ”

Mycroft's gums that had just been treated yesterday were still aching, and when he thought of his younger brother's hard fruit candy, he #ten refused# and pulled Mommy in, "Mommy said that the week passed quickly." "He doesn't want to turn a week into two weeks.

"Well, I was going to say that I left you a sponge cake yesterday, and it seems that only Xia Li and I ate it." Gu Qing happily said to Sherlock that Sherlock himself didn't like to eat, but he was very happy to be angry with Mycrof, so he made an agreement with his younger brother.

McCroft: "......"

Of course, the eldest brother will not "sit still" so much, and if he doesn't sue Mommy, then do a good job of disguise, so he took his younger brothers to the pond to catch frogs, and Mei said that his name was for Gu Qing to catch. Dissecting frogs is an entry-level real yΓ n, McCroft had caught Sherlock before, and their brother's relationship was still very good at that time, and Mycroft was commanded by Sherlock who stayed on the shore in the pond, disgusted that the frog was not big enough, or that the frog was not good-looking, and at that time Redbeard was still stupid next to him.

Now there's an apple pie, but Redbeard is gone.

Sherlock took off his shoes and socks, rolled up his trouser legs, and before going down to the pond, said to his brother, "Whatever happens to the frogs I catch later, you'll have to say it's good, you know?" ”

Gu Qing took Mycroft's hand, tilted his head and asked the second brother, "Why?" ”

Mycroft didn't speak, he just needed to be silent, and the silence of the mystery was enough.

Sherlock turned his face away and yelled at his brother, "Look at the water in the pond, the water in this pond is stagnant, the main source is rainwater, do you see the color of the water?" It's emerald green, which is a sign of aging water, and there's a green film floating there, isn't it disgusting? That's because there's a lot of cyanobacteria and green algae in the water, well, I'll put a test tube back and put it under a microscope for you to see. Now, you know what I mean, right? ”

Xiao Gu Qing nodded solemnly: "I know." ”

As soon as Sherlock stepped into the pond, he heard his brother exclaim, "Charlie is great!" ”

Sherlock's face turned red all of a sudden, and he turned his head and yelled at his brother on the shore, "Send you little fool! It made him look like an idiot.

Mycroft almost wanted to laugh, but in order to avoid #friendly accidental injury#, he held back, but laughed out loud, but the gums hurt and the laughter turned into a hiss.

Sherlock, who was originally annoyed and angry, suddenly became happy and said, "You deserve it!" "I'm going to look for the frog.

"It hurts, doesn't it?" Xiao Gu Qing covered his cheeks with baby fat, and seemed to empathize with McCroft, who looked down at him, as if he felt that his younger brother was asking nonsense. And he thought he should learn a lesson from himself, and McCroft didn't ask his younger brother to stop eating sweets, as long as he didn't eat them in front of him for the week. However, I didn't wait for my younger brother to learn from the pain, but-

"It's okay, I'm going to have to change my teeth anyway, and Mommy said that my teeth are very good, and after changing my teeth, according to the principle of generosity, it will become better. Mike, am I using the right one? ”

"Mycroft is Mommy giving me a name, and you'll use it until I die." Mycroft can even anger his younger brother for sweets, no, it's "a toothache is not a disease, it hurts to kill", and by the way, he sighed again about the genetic differences between brothers.

- Well, in a few years, the eldest son of the Sherlock Holmes family will sigh more than this genetic difference, his own hairline is tragic, and his younger brothers are as strong as ever, which is really sadistic.

Sherlock soon catches a frog, and as a younger brother, he naturally wants to give praise: "Charlie is amazing!" Xiali is the best! ”

If it hadn't been for the little episode at the beginning, Sherlock would have liked his brother's compliment, but now he really preferred not to, glared at his brother and told him to shut up.

After catching another one, Sherlock didn't want to be a clown anymore. However, he still brought test tubes and straws from the treehouse (his secret base) not far from the pond, and the water quality of the test tubes was put back to show his brother, along with a lunch basket that he had put away yesterday.

Mycroft looked at the time, felt that it was almost time, and beckoned his brothers home.

Sherlock was carrying his shoes and lunch basket, covered in mud, and it looked like he had been messing around outside all day, while Gu Qing was clean, which is not surprising, everyone knew that he had cleanliness, but Sherlock still messed up his hair, and the button of his small suit was also removed, and if you want to pretend it, you have to pretend to be decent.

The three brothers went home like this, and the sun set and shone on them, and the old man who pulled the shadow almost did not distinguish between you and me.

When he was about to get home, Xiao Gu Qing, who was lying on McCroft's back, asked a soft and glutinous question: "Mike, Xiali, have you ever eaten frog meat?" ”

McCroft: "...... Sherlock, don't take Patrick to try! ”

After listening to his brother's words, Sherlock snorted, "Practice makes sense!" ”

He was still very reasonable, and Mycroft knew that he couldn't stop it, and he could only do it if he asked them to find out the information.

But the eldest brother of the Sherlock Holmes family can rest assured, in my big foodie country flying, swimming, and running on the ground, as long as it can be eaten, all of them can't escape, but it's not like the current Great Britain, the most famous dishes are the stargazing pie known as #Death is not blind#, and eel jelly.

When she got home, Mommy was worried, so she hugged the apple pie that she had gone out with her brother for the first time and looked at it, and when she found that nothing had happened, she asked Sherlock what she had done with her brother, and asked them both to go upstairs to take a shower and change clothes.

Mommy didn't seem to notice anything, and after watching her brothers go upstairs, McCroft turned her head to look at Mommy, who was glared at her viciously. Mommy wasn't deceived, she just didn't say it.

McCroft felt innocent, but he couldn't deal with Mommy right now, so he said, "I'll talk to them." ”

"You'd better do it, Mike." Mommy turned around and dragged her unknown daddy to prepare dinner, and McCroft couldn't help but roll her eyes when she heard Daddy in the kitchen say, "Children love to play, don't be angry with our beautiful Mrs. Holmes."

After dinner, it was McCroft who delivered the apple pie to bed.

After the eldest brother went to bed, he sat on the edge of the bed, smiled at the younger brother who showed a curly hair, and asked, "Do you want me to read a fairy tale to you?" ”

Don't think that the Sherlock Holmes family doesn't have this kind of book, Gu Qing took out a book from the bedside table and handed it to Mycroft: "Here you go." ”

Mycroft raised an eyebrow and took it, with a look of disgust: "It was given by Aunt Marilyn, she doesn't like us, she gives the exact same gift every Christmas, and she doesn't even take off the label." ”

"Oh." Gu Qing didn't care, he patted the quilt and looked very expectant, "I want to listen to Mike you read "Snow White", and you have to be emotional." ”

Mycroft looked at his younger brother who made such an unreasonable request, "But no one has taught me how to read fairy tales with emotion, otherwise you can show me, or you tell me what you and Sherlock did on the train to London today?" ”

"Mike, you know." Gu Qing pulled down the quilt and gave Mycroft a place. Mycroft was actually quite happy to start this mode of secretly talking about things in a bed with his younger brother, he took off his vest and hung it aside, and lay on his side - the little brother's bed smelled very good, the smell of sweet milk - hugged the little brother's small body, "Okay, now you can talk, little one." ”

Gu Qing rubbed his eldest brother's cheek, this was really a novel experience, and began to talk to him about today's #London Day Trip#. Mycroft knows most things, but he is still happy to listen to his younger brother, but #There are unforeseen circumstances in the sky, and people have good and bad luck#, don't forget the other party in the day trip-

Sherlock sensed something was wrong when McCroft brought the apple pie to bed, and he lingered for five minutes before finally going upstairs and ...... After Daddy left, he listened to the sound of Daddy going downstairs, and after another minute passed, and then he rubbed into his brother's room.

Oh, he didn't climb the window this time, so he didn't want to give Mycroft another chance to complain to Mommy. But when I got to my brother's room, not only did I see my brother and my brother so close, but I also heard my brother talking about the crime scene, so I was annoyed and angry, and I threw off my shoes and threw myself directly to the place where the quilt arched.

It is conceivable that the volume of the seventeen-year-old Mycroft and the five-year-old Gu Qing arched on the bed, purely according to the probability theory, is that Mycroft has a good chance of being pounced, not to mention that Sherlock is still accurate.

Mycroft was overwhelmed by Sherlock, the bear child, and almost didn't catch his breath.

"Sherlock!"

Sherlock sat on his knees on the bed, condescendingly glared at Mycroft, and then stared coldly at his brother who had betrayed him, "Patrick! ”

"Xiali, do you want to sleep with you too?"

"Are you an idiot? How can you tell this to McCroft! "What happened today in London, in the eyes of Sherlock, who had a very high self-esteem at the age of ten, was a sore spot, and the first thing he didn't want others to know was McCroft! If, if Mycroft had been there, he would not have been as helpless as he was, and he would have convinced the police that he was still too weak.

Sherlock bit his lower lip stubbornly, looking away from McCroft, he would laugh at himself, he would be disappointed in himself.

"Alright, Charlie, listen to me." Mycroft called Sherlock's nickname again after a few years, but Sherlock still didn't look at him, and when Gu Qing called him again, he moved to the edge of the bed and sat down, his arms wrapped around his knees, he didn't look at his brother and brother, his eyes stared straight at the ground.

Mycroft originally planned to let Sherlock get through this difficult time by himself, but now looking at Sherlock's appearance, he couldn't be ruthless again, and after thinking about it, he talked about an incident that happened when Gu Qing was one year old.

As mentioned earlier, Gu Qing has his own aura of "lucky Β±E" in this world, that is, there are many disasters everywhere he goes, and he has been kidnapped since he was a child, this is lucky-E, but in the end, he is fine, he is the person who wants to do something to him, this is +E.

He started this kind of lucky Β± E when he was one year old, and he didn't know what to say.

Mycroft was only thirteen years old at the time, but he was intelligent enough to spot clues that the police had overlooked, but as happened to Sherlock today, the police didn't believe him. Even if Mommy and Daddy insisted later, the police did what McCroft said, just like he said, they also insisted that McCroft was talking nonsense.

Gu Qing didn't remember, his body was not enough to support the supply and demand of the brain at that time, and he often needed to sleep for a long time to reduce the energy supply, and it didn't get better until he was two years old. Sherlock was only six years old at the time, and he only remembered that something big had happened in his family at that time, but he didn't expect such twists and turns to happen.

Sherlock looked up at Mycroft, a rare blank look in his eyes, "Why?" He asked.

"Arrogance, arrogance brought about by the difference in power given to individuals by society, omnipresent, self-righteous arrogance." If it weren't for Mommy and Daddy's insistence, and the police didn't do what he said, his younger brother would not have been saved in the end, because he wouldn't count his younger brother's life, but he decided that he would hold this supreme power in his own hands and protect his younger brothers and family. He's getting strong, and until he's strong enough, he's teaching his brothers to be strong themselves.

"Think about it, Sherlock." Mycroft touched Sherlock's curly hair, and Sherlock jumped out of bed like a frightened cat, grinning at Mycroft, "Why should I listen to you?" After saying that, he walked out angrily, and his brother stopped him before he walked out of the door.

"What are you doing?" He said in a wicked voice.

"Xiali, you forgot to put on your shoes."

Sherlock: "......" Sherlock was so angry that he didn't say anything about putting his shoes on, so he just walked away with his shoes and decided to replace the sugar in his brother's milk with lemon juice tomorrow, this little traitor!

After completing Mommy's task of talking to his younger brothers, McCroft was ready to say goodnight to his youngest brother.

The younger brother showed a soft and cute smile at him: "Don't you read "Snow White"? ”

β€œβ€¦β€¦ Let Daddy read it to you! The eldest brother of the Sherlock Holmes family, who was mature and stable and loved his younger brother before, rolled his eyes at the stupid fairy tale book with various illustrations, and rubbed his younger brother's curly hair, which felt good, and rubbed it again, before Gu Qing protested to him, he removed his hand and pulled the quilt for little Gu Qing, "Good night, brother." ”

Waiting for Mycroft to close the door and leave, Gu Qing rubbed the soft pillow, to be honest, at the beginning, he was not used to this feeling of being cared for and protected, he was used to being strong and letting others rely on him, but now he asked himself, this feeling of being protected under his wings made him feel a little ...... Addicted.

Well, add some sugar to the milk tomorrow and let it be for Mycroft.

As for the next day, Mycroft drank milk with granulated sugar and drank a mouthful of lemon juice, and his whole face was wrinkled, and Sherlock, who originally wanted to bully his younger brother, saw that the effect was better, and he got carried away and sprayed the porridge in his mouth, which happened to splash into Gu Qing's bowl opposite, and then was punished by Mommy, and had to pinch his nose and drink a large glass of milk or something, which can only show that their brother is really ...... Love each other.

After breakfast, Sherlock and Gu Qing went to Sherlock's (accented) room, and Mommy opened one eye and closed one eye, as if she didn't see it.

At the Sherlock room, Sherlock said that because Apple Pie had complained to Mycroft without his consent, he had been deprived of his right to be a real yΓ n on his own.

Gu Qing was not interested in dissecting frogs, he ...... I was more interested in frog meat, so I let out a soft "oh" and focused on the two frogs waiting to be put on the cutting board.

Sherlock stared with his hands on his chest and seemed to be lost (?). After a moment, the younger brother "cut" and said in an impatient tone: "Okay, okay, the second one will let you dissect independently." ”

Unexpectedly, the younger brother did not rejoice at his words, but looked at him with big watery eyes and said, "Xiali, let's roast frog legs!" You and Mike haven't done it, have you? ”

Sherlock, who has always touted himself as a maverick β€” that is, unlike McCroft β€” said it could be.

Of course, before that, their brothers still have to do their homework, after all, frogs are the host of a variety of parasites, viruses and bacteria, and no matter how interested they are in frog meat, they can't ignore their own health. So until then, it is still necessary to dissect the frog.

After Sherlock had finished instructing Apple Pie on dissecting a frog, he said coldly, "Pie, I'll protect you in the future." ”

Gu Qing blinked and looked at Sherlock, who glared at him: "So you'd better not become a goldfish!" "What's the connection, second brother?

"I love you too, Charlie."

"What nonsense are you talking about?" Sherlock's cat-eyes widened at him, and he thought his brother had problems with hearing and comprehension, but his ears were red, which was pretty telling, wasn't it?

……

……

If you have to know, the brothers didn't manage to roast the frog's legs in the end, and when they went to the kitchen to scavenge for spices, they were discovered by Mommy, and after learning of their intentions, they were suppressed.

Upstairs in the study, Mycroft clutched his sore teeth and casually flipped through the original papers in his hands.

Well, this is still the warm daily life of the Sherlock Holmes brothers...... Right?