"I snuck into the bedroom and spent some effort finding the relevant evidence, and I've heard rumors before that Mr. Councillor is good at everything, but he is very afraid of guilt, which is probably why he only dares to meet secretly with his illegitimate daughter."

As he spoke, Holmes cut open a potato with a knife and fork and stuffed it with bacon in his mouth.

It was evident that he was really hungry, and he had not eaten breakfast since he got up early in the morning, and at noon his medicine had not yet passed, and Mrs. Hudson had only eaten a few bites of his lunch, and then he was so energetic that he could endure it until now.

If it weren't for the previous Zhang Heng, he almost forgot about it, in addition to his extraordinary observation and reasoning skills, the master in front of him has very good makeup skills, which is difficult for ordinary people to see, especially after the original Zhonghua Sheng wrote his story into an article and published it, his fame is also getting bigger and bigger, and many times he will choose to act after makeup in order not to be recognized.

He can be dressed as a coachman, an old man, a beggar, an officer, and even a woman can occasionally make a cameo...... If you have the opportunity in the future, it would be nice to learn his makeup skills.

Holmes finished the food in front of him, put his knife and fork down, and let out a satisfied sigh.

"Tomorrow I have a French friend coming, will you come with me to meet him?"

"Well, what does he do?"

"Like me, he is a detective, his name is François le Viard, he is a fledgling newcomer, not very well-known, but I worked with him last year when I was working on a case in France, he is a very interesting young man, although a little rough, but also very potential, he didn't say anything in the telegram, but it is obviously impossible to come to London all the way to come on vacation, let's see what he has to do with me this time."

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Early the next morning, Sherlock Holmes and Zhang Heng came to the dock, and the two waited in the thick fog for the steamship named the Seagull to dock.

"It's interesting, isn't it," Holmes said, holding his cane, "before Watt invented the steam engine, no one thought that ships could sail on the water without relying on sails and oars, but this magical machine has indeed changed a lot of things, whether it is a factory, a boat, a train, now it is inseparable from it, this is the charm of science, the world is changing every day, no matter what industry you are in, if you don't notice the changes, then you will soon be eliminated by this world, for example, like alkaloids, This highly toxic substance was only discovered decades ago, but I have noticed that it has been appearing more frequently in recent cases because the use of alkaloids is more subtle and undetectable than traditional methods of murder. ”

"Can't agree more." Zhang Hengdao said that he is in the era of information explosion, and all kinds of new crimes have been emerging in an endless stream, whether it is a criminal investigator or a powerful criminal, they need to continue to learn.

Sherlock Holmes could become the best detective in the whole of Great Britain and even in Europe, and of course he would not be a man of complacency, and his research and essays also played a role in this.

Of course, some of the experimental studies he conducted have yet to be demonstrated in terms of safety and morality.

A quarter of an hour later, Vial stepped out of the Seagull, a young man with red hair, who was indeed young and had many freckles on his face, and a look of excitement and shyness on his face when he saw Sherlock Holmes.

It's like a little fan brother who has met his idol.

"I can see you again at last, Mr. Holmes." Vial said excitedly as he shook hands.

"I'm glad to meet you, Vyal, too." Holmes also spoke, and then gave a brief introduction to the two of them.

"I'm here to track someone in London, and I'm visiting you by the way." After shaking hands with Zhang Heng, Vial continued.

"Who are you tracking?" Holmes was really different from ordinary people, skipping those polite words and going straight to the point of his interest.

"A big thief, he has done a lot of cases since his debut, but few people know about his existence."

"Oh, why is that?"

"Because unlike other thieves, he doesn't target priceless things like jewelry or artefacts, he focuses more on the value behind the objects he targets." "His target is usually a celebrity, this guy is so bold that even the royal families of European countries will become his prey, and once he is targeted, he will start digging up the secret behind you, maybe it's an unsavory affair, maybe it's a murder you committed in your early years...... In short, it is a bad thing, once he steals something that can be used as evidence, the owner will be miserable, and he will face a huge extortion fee, and what is even worse is that he can only eat coptis dumbly, and it is impossible to even find the police. ”

"Is it more appropriate to be a thief of honor, or a blackmailer, what did your employer lose?" Holmes asked with interest.

Vial hesitated and said, "If it were someone else, I couldn't say anything according to the agreement, but I believe that you and your friends, you are both gentlemen of noble character......"

"Okay, okay, let's skip the link of putting a high hat on us, just talk about the point." Sherlock Holmes waved his hand.

"Oh, well, my employer is a viscount, he likes Canaletto's paintings, about nine years ago, a very famous collector's house was stolen, and a lot of things were lost, including a Canaletto painting, but after two years, someone approached my employer and asked him if he wanted something good, and my employer recognized at a glance that the man was holding the Canaletto painting that the previous collector had lost, and he knew that a person of his status should not steal it, But he liked the painting so much that he thought about it for a long time, and several times he was rejected from collectors, and now he had the opportunity, so he chose a more roundabout way.

"On the surface, he refused the man's request to buy and sell, and righteously asked the other party not to step into his mansion, but behind his back he found an irrelevant person to buy the painting, he had not taken out the painting for all these years, it was all appreciated by one person, but somehow it was discovered by the guy, and I came to London to deal with this matter." Verya Road.

But soon he added, "Of course it's more important for me to visit you." ”