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Mr. Lestrred clearly misunderstood something.

Agatha was about to explain, but then Holmes sounded behind her with some playful voice—

"How do you know it won't work?"

Mr. Lesterred raised his eyebrows, looked at Holmes standing behind Agatha, and smiled, "Does it really work?" Then the next time I encounter a case that you don't want to take, I can do it. ”

Sherlock Holmes squinted his eyes and smiled, he motioned for Mr. Lestrred to enter the door, and when Agatha closed the door, he pulled the person to his side, and said to Mr. Lestrred with a very solemn expression on his face: "Mr. Lestred, I would like to formally introduce to you, this is my fiancée, Agatha." ”

With a "thud", Mr. Lestred's hat fell in his hand, and he looked at Holmes in astonishment, thinking that he had probably misheard.

“…… Fiancee? ”

Mr. Lestrangered couldn't imagine how Holmes could have come up with a fiancée.

It's just a fiancée who popped up, but this fiancée was actually the little maid of Appledor Villa?

Mr. Lestrred had nothing to look down on Agatha, he just found it unbelievable.

But Holmes took it for granted, "Though I am reluctant to accept a commission about the murder of Milvington, Mrs. Millwharton does not hold a grudge against me for it. Agatha's fiancé has disappeared, and Mrs. Millwharton is willing to pay her a commission to find her missing fiancé. ”

Agatha: "......"

Agatha didn't know how Holmes wanted the engagement to end, and he wished everyone knew about it now.

Out of sight, out of mind.

Agatha decided to get some drink for Mr. Lestrred.

Mr. Lestrred was dumbfounded, "Since Miss Duran already has a fiancée, how can she be your fiancée?" ”

Is he getting old, or is it that young people are too playful now?

Sherlock Holmes stooped down and picked up the detective's hat that had fallen to the ground, glanced at Lesterred faintly, and said, "She is a young and beautiful young lady, and any man who sees her will have a good impression of her." The fiancé is gone, you can find another one, and the next one will only be better. ”

Mr. Lestrred: "......"

Sherlock Holmes was talking nonsense in a serious way: "I fell in love with Agatha at first sight, and she was so moved by my true feelings that she decided to forget about her missing fiancé and get engaged to me." ”

Mr. Lestrred: "......"

Sherlock Holmes handed the hat he picked up to Mr. Lesterred and asked with a soul torment, "Am I not better than a plumber?" ”

This is a proposition.

Mr. Lesterred did not dare to tell the truth.

Sherlock Holmes was a genius in some ways and an idiot in others.

This is confirmed by the story of Sherlock Holmes written by his partner John Watson, for example, that Holmes did not know that the earth revolved around the sun.

But Holmes really didn't know, because not knowing that the earth revolves around the sun doesn't have any effect on his work.

Of course, Watson also wrote that Sherlock Holmes hated associating with the opposite sex, and was an insulator of love, because feelings affect reason, and in order to stay calm and rational, he was an unmarried.

But Sherlock Holmes would do all sorts of experiments for his work, such as whipping corpses, trying alkaloids on others, and injecting himself with poisonous things......

Perhaps the beautiful girl who appeared in the Baker Street apartment was just cooperating with Sherlock Holmes in some kind of experiment.

Mr. Lesterred could only guess so, because to be honest, he didn't see that Holmes was in the slightest bit in love, and for a young girl who longed for love, a young plumber in the ascendant of her career was not necessarily worse than Holmes.

But Mr. Lestrred could not have told the truth, so he took the hat that Holmes had handed him, put on a professional smirk, and said to Holmes: "You are ten thousand times smarter than the plumber with no eyes, and he is definitely not as good as you." ”

Sherlock Holmes, the plumber with no beads: "......"

Holmes sat in his armchair, and Mr. Lestrangered sat on the sofa across from him.

The pot of black tea that had been brewed for Mycroft not long ago was still hot, and Agatha took out a white porcelain cup and poured it over to Mr. Lestrred.

Mr. Lesterred took a sip of black tea, looked at Agatha, and approvingly, "The tea is well brewed." ”

Agatha smiled: "I'm glad you'll like it." ”

Sherlock Holmes clasped his hands on his abdomen, fingertips against each other, his voice languid, "You didn't come here just for tea, and you encountered some tricky problems?" ”

Without waiting for Mr. Lesterred to speak, he added: "It's not that I have to say that your police have too low a threshold for selecting detectives. Every time I work with you, I'm struck by the angle and speed with which they think. Lesterred, I think you need to raise the criteria for selecting police detectives, otherwise the overall IQ level of the police will only get lower and lower. ”

Mr. Lesterred silently picked up a white porcelain teacup from the East.

Agatha looked up at Mr. Lestrred, and could not help but admire the good temper of the Inspector.

If you change to an ordinary person, you will be angry to the extent of having a heart attack every minute.

Mr. Lesterred coughed lightly and said, "Sherlock, it's a plumber named John Horner. He entered the dressing room of the Countess of Moca at the Metropole Hotel on the twentieth of this month, one of the railings of the fireplace parapet of the dressing room was loose and needed to be welded, and he entered the dressing room a quarter of an hour before leaving. After he left the Metropolitan Hotel, he went straight home. And on the 21st of this month, his wife called the police to report that John Horner was missing, and insisted that it was the Countess of Moka who sent someone to arrest her husband. The reason is that John Horner learns a shocking secret in the Countess's dressing room, which is enough to ruin the Countess's reputation. ”

The armchair in which Holmes sat swayed slowly, and he played with his clay pipe with one hand carelessly, seemingly uninterested in the case of which Mr. Lestrred was speaking.

Agatha could tell from the dangling armchair that he was in a good mood, but she was pretending to be reserved.

Agatha looked curious, "Mr. Lesterred, what is the secret?" ”

Mr. Lestrred shook his head, "We have no way of knowing this, but Mrs. Horner says that John Horner was very excited when he came home, and carried her around several times, saying that he had learned a shocking secret, and that it was finally their turn to be poor in this rich family. As for what the secret is, John Horner is silent. ”

Agatha: "......"

Holmes tapped his pipe, and his slow tone took on a hint of mockery, "At this time, shouldn't you go and find out what the Countess had done before John Horner disappeared on the twentieth of this month?" ”

Mr. Lesterred smiled wryly, "That's the problem. Sherlock, John Horner himself was detained for theft, and after he left the Metropolitan Hotel, there was some commotion at the hotel, which was investigated as the result of an accident in the hotel kitchen and had nothing to do with John Horner. The Countess had never met John Horner himself, and Mrs. Horner's one-sided statements would not have been able to open a formal investigation. ”

In fact, Mr. Lesterred thought Mrs. Horner's words were absurd, but the lady's private plea to him did not look like a lie.

"Christmas is coming, it should be a day to celebrate, and John Horner's wife and young children are still waiting for him to come home, and I promise Mrs. Horner to do everything in her power to find her missing husband."

Mr. Lestrred looked at Holmes, "I know you like all kinds of cases, and in addition to the big ones, sometimes the little things may be worth looking into. ”

Holmes was silent for a moment, then the armchair that had been rocking stopped, and he looked at Mr. Lestrred.

Seeing this, Mr. Lestrred squinted and laughed, "Looks like you promised to do me a favor." ”

Sherlock Holmes: "Who made the detectives in the London Hall all the embroidered pillows that they didn't like?" ”

Instead of being angry, Lesterred burst out laughing. He stood up and walked to the coat rack at the door to remove his coat and hat, "I hope John Horner will be home to spend Christmas with his wife and children as scheduled." ”

Holmes, who was sitting in the armchair, did not look back, and reached out to Mr. Lesterred to make an OK gesture.