At this time, the waiter came from a distance, walked up to the front with a fruit bowl and a pot of black tea in his hand, placed it on the table and left. Su Hang picked up the dragon fruit in the fruit bowl he had just sent and cut it into pieces and ate it, looked at the female swing player next to him and asked, "Do you eat it?" ”

The female swinger shook her head and said, "During work, it is forbidden to talk too much with guests, there are rules. ”

"Rigid!"

"By the way, is there any difference between this hall style and the private room style?" Su Hang said after picking up a piece with a toothpick inserted in the dragon fruit.

"Private rooms are generally not open to the public, and can only be entered by shareholders who have invested in the hotel, or who have been invited by shareholders."

"It's a VIP room." The female swing player looked at Su Hang and said.

"In each billiard room, there is a small bar, drinks, and a fruit plate section is free. Even the billiards inside are made of ivory, which is very rare nowadays, and the cues are made of fine sandalwood wood. ”

"The clubs in the hall are made of ash, which is resilient but easy to decay."

"In every room, there are dedicated players and waiters, all of whom are trained. Their wages are several times that of ours, and they are in charge of food, lodging, transportation, and hotels. The tall and thin waitress was quite envious of those who could work inside, and said in a slightly low tone.

"You don't have to be here all the time, maybe you will be transferred to the VIP room one day, no one will stay in one place all the time, there will always be a chance to change places." Su Hang looked at the waitress and said with a smile.

"Chu, I'll go to the bathroom, will you do it for me?" Osmond walked up to Su Hang, handed the club to Su Hang and said.

"But I won't!" Su Hang chewed the apple piece in his mouth and said.

"It's okay, it's just joking." Osmond handed the club to Su Hang again, looking anxious to go to the toilet, obviously holding and urine.

"Okay, wait a minute!" Su Hang quickly eliminated the apple in his hand in a few bites, and then took the cue handed over by Osmond.

After handing over the cue to Su Hang, Osmond walked out of the billiard hall quickly, and Su Hang, who closed the door, saw him running towards the bathroom.

After Corporal Lynn left, he changed the table again, and let the female swing players set up snooker, Su Hang looked at Corporal Lynn and said: "I don't know how to play proportional billiards, you tell me to play snooker?" ”

"I can't even get to the basics!"

"Practicing proportional billiards can lay a good foundation, but you can also try snooker first!"

"It's not going to school, you have to have a foundation to receive esoteric knowledge." Corporal Lynn said as he motioned for the female pendulum to give him a new club.

"London now plays billiards, presenting two ways to play, one is the old-fashioned game played by most people1 three-ball pocket billiards, and the other is snooker played by a small number of people, which was brought back from outside by Zhang Yilun, who was born in the military and is now the Minister of Health." (Note: British proportional billiards is a three-ball pocket billiards)

"A lot of people in the military like this kind of play, but more people still don't accept it. I just asked, there are two kinds of billiards in this hotel, one is old-fashioned billiards and the other is snooker. I prefer snooker to play, but just now, Osmond prefers proportional billiards, so I played two games with him. ”

"If you really don't want to play, let's switch to another one." Corporal Lynn walked over to the table, took a sip of a cup of black tea, and said.

"Let's play snooker! I don't know how to play anyway, it's the same either. Su Hang looked at Corporal Lynn, who had finished drinking tea and walked in front of him, shook his head and said.

I don't know if Osmond is constipated, he went to the bathroom for forty minutes, Corporal Lynn taught Su Hang to play snooker for three rounds, and now he can play normally, and he doesn't have to play while teaching, this person hasn't come back, it really makes people wonder if he collapsed when he went to the bathroom and fell inside.

If Osmond doesn't come back at the end of this game, Su Hang and Corporal Lynn plan to go to the bathroom to "rescue" him.

At the beginning of a new game, Corporal Lynn kicked off, and under the back and forth between the two, soon only the last black ball remained, and the score at this time was that Corporal Lynn was 2 points higher than Su Hang, and the black ball became crucial. Corporal Lynn hit the white ball on this side of the table towards the end of the other side where the black ball was, and the black ball was hit, diagonally towards the hole, and the "poo" hit the eaves of the hole, bounced off the other side, and stopped diagonally in front of the other hole, while the white ball bounced to the center due to the impact just now. Due to the position of Su Hang's body, it is inconvenient to hit the ball, so he took the pole, took the shell powder from the table and wiped the head of the club, and put it on the pole, "touched", the white ball came out in response, and hit it in a straight line after the pole was adjusted, and the "snap" hit the black ball, and the black ball fell into the hole, and the game ended, Su Hang overtook Corporal Lynn by 5 points, and Su Hang won.

"Wow! Chu, you won. Osmond walked into the billiard hall at some point, and when he walked in front of him, he happened to see the scene of Su Hang's goal.

"Are you alright?" Su Hang looked at Osmond in front of him and asked.

"Nearly an hour to go to the bathroom, are you constipated, or do you clean the hotel!" Corporal Lynn also looked at Osmond and said.

"I don't know why my stomach is a little uncomfortable, so I went back to my room to rest for a while."

"It's not good, so it's coming." Osmond's excuse was so bad that it was evident that there was something else, and Corporal Lynn didn't ask any further.

Next, Su Hang played four games with Osmond and Corporal Lynn, losing three and winning one, and lost with Corporal Lynn, and won one game here with Osmond. After playing four games in a row, Su Hang sat on the sofa, eating fruits, drinking tea, watching Corporal Lynn play, and from time to time he went to other tables to watch others play.

"Hello sir, are you Corporal Lynn?" Towards the end of the round between Osmond and Corporal Lynn, a waiter softly opened the hall door and walked up to Corporal Lynn and asked.

"Yes, what's the matter?" Corporal Lynn struck the ball out with a club, and the white ball hit a red ball into the bag. Then he looked up at the waitress with short black hair who came to him.

"Corporal Lynn, there's a phone number looking for you at the front desk in the lobby, it's from the police department." The short-haired waitress said to Corporal Lynn.

"What, the police department?"

"Yes Corporal, I confirmed." The short-haired waitress affirmed.

Osmond walked over at this time, looked at Corporal Lynn and whispered, "Corporal, you go and deal with things first, we are waiting for you here." ”

"Okay!" Corporal Lynn looked at Su Hang and Osmond and smiled apologetically, and walked out of the hall.

Strange, what can the London Police have to do with me, isn't the attack handed over to Ensign Avery? Why did no one inform me when they found me? Suspicious, Corporal Lynn walked towards the front desk on the first floor, wondering why the police were looking for him as he went.

"Please, give us two glasses of brandy." Osmond said as he looked at the waitress standing at the table.

"Yes sir, please wait a minute!" The waitress walked to the bar. After a while, the waitress came over with two cocktails on a tray.

Su Hang ate the fruit in the fruit bowl, sat on the sofa with Osmond and chatted, drinking the cocktail that had just been delivered.

"Chu, your progress is so fast, you never win, just one morning." Osmond sat on the sofa and said to Su Hang, who was diagonally opposite.

"Look at you guys playing, the corporal also teaches me specially, and I am constantly practicing, how stupid does this be!" Su Hang sighed helplessly and said.

"Practice makes perfect, my teacher told me, this word seems to be some kind of Chinese language." Osmond said, sipping his wine.

"Idiom is a phrase with Chinese characteristics, my mother is Chinese, and I often used to say it when I was a child." Listening to the four-word words that Osmond opened his mouth, Su Hang instantly flashed relevant information in his mind, which was the Chinese vocabulary that Aldrich's mother taught him when he was a child.

"Yes, it's an idiom, the teacher said, I forgot." After hearing Su Hang say this, Osmond immediately remembered.

"Anyway, your teacher knows a lot!"

"You're not wrong about this, the teacher has an understanding of the history and culture of various countries, and even the proficiency of billiards is practiced by the teacher." Osmond looked adoring when he spoke of his teacher.

"Listen to what you said, I want to see your teacher more and more." Su Hang took a sip of wine and said.

"There will be a chance, the teacher is a very friendly person." Osmond looked at Su Hang seriously and said.

"It's been so long, and the corporal won't come back after answering a call!" Su Hang picked up the club and said.

"This game is over, he's not coming back, we're going to look for him." Osmond said, standing up.

Su Hang and Osmond were about to start a new game, but at this moment, the hall door was gently pushed open, and Corporal Lynn, who went to the hall to answer the phone, hurriedly walked towards Su Hang and the two.

"Something happened to Yaheng and he is in the hospital now." Corporal Lynn walked in front of Su and Hangzhou with a calm face, and without waiting for Su and Hangzhou to speak, he came up and said amazing news.

"What did you say?" Su Hang and Osmond said in unison, thinking that they had misheard.

"You heard it right, something happened to Mr. Selt!"

"Just now the London Police called me, it was the groom who followed Yaheng out and found him lying on the second floor of the store, and the groom found the store manager bleeding and lying near Yaheng who fell to the ground and fell unconscious at the same time, and now the police have been reported, and Yaheng was sent to the hospital." What will happen to Corporal Lynn, briefly said.

"Oh my God! How so? Osmond looked at Corporal Lynn in surprise and asked.

"The police station didn't say the specific details of the matter, but only learned that the groom was frightened by what he saw, and when he ran out of the store, he met the patrol officer patrolling the street, and the patrol officer immediately blocked the scene and sent the injured Yaheng to the hospital." Corporal Lynn told Suhang and Osmond what he had learned.

"Did you inform his family?" Osmond asked.

"The police haven't been contacted yet, but it's fast." Corporal Lynn said.

"Let's go see how Mr. Celt is doing, and ask the doctor about him!" Su Hang saw that the two were still talking nonsense, and immediately got up in a hurry and urged.

"Then let's go!"

"The hotel has arranged a car and we will go directly to the hospital." Corporal Lynn said to Su Hang as he walked.

Su Hang and the three of them left the billiard hall and walked quickly to the gate of the hotel, a car had been parked at the door, Su Hang saw that the front of the car had a very eye-catching monster logo with a sphin's head, and the car looked a little old. There are slight scratches on the edges of the doors of the body, and the traces left by the years on the body can still be seen even if they are often maintained.

The hotel arranged for the driver, a thirty-one or twelve-year-old British young man, tall and thin, with pale blue eyes that resembled a toy glass ball from the East. After getting into the car, Su Hang once again determined that the car was not short, and found that although the decorations in the car were new, from the small damage in the corners of the car, it could still be seen that the car had taken a long time.

"Yaheng was taken to Butts Hospital, the nearest hospital in the Smithfield area where the store is located, and Butts Hospital has the best medical conditions in the area." Corporal Lynn sat in the co-pilot's seat, turned his head to look at Su and Hangzhou who were sitting in the back seat, and said.

When Su Hang heard the name of Butz Hospital, he felt as if he had heard it somewhere, and unconsciously touched his chin and thought about it, when he was thinking about it carefully, suddenly, when he saw the violin placed in the window of a musical instrument store passing by outside the car window, he thought that in the case of watching the first part of "Sherlock Holmes Detective Collection", "A Study of Blood Letters", Watson first met Sherlock Holmes in Butts Hospital. Speaking of "Sherlock Holmes", it can be said to be the deepest memory of Suzhou and Hangzhou, in Aldrich's memory, when he was a child, the first book he saw was not "Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales" or the like, but "Sherlock Holmes". It was the first edition of "The Study of Blood Letters", and when Su Hang got it, the book was already some years old, and it was still very well preserved, but the traces of being destroyed by time can still be seen. It was one of the few books that his father, Alger, had brought with him since he was in school, which shows how long it has been!

Coincidentally, Su Hang also saw the book in "Sherlock Holmes" in Yaheng's private collection, but it was not "A Study of Blood Letters" but "Four Signatures" published later, Su Hang borrowed this book from Yaheng at that time, and still inserts bookmarks on the bedside table in his bedroom.

For him, who is very fond of "Sherlock Holmes", the place where Dr. Watson and the great detective Sherlock Holmes first met, Butz Hospital still remembers it vividly, and when Corporal Lynn said it, he instantly felt familiar, and then remembered it.

Soon the car turned left and right, and the three of them came to Butts Hospital in the Smithfield area. When Su Hang got off the bus, he saw that the hospital building of Butz Hospital could be roughly divided into three sections (the two sides were shorter, and the middle was slightly higher). Through the mottled marks on the courtyard wall, there are still some small cracks in the corners of the courtyard gate, which can be seen to be the traces carved by time.