antique on the run

After leaving Mrs. Michelle's residence, Sewell sighed a long time.

"Why, feel tired, is it still difficult?" Qi Xiao rarely teased him: "Finally found that being Sherlock Holmes is not easy?"

Sewell shook his head with a smile and said, "No, I just lamented that the ladies in Sir Conan Doyle's works are really as intelligent as each other."

Mrs. Michelle is smart enough to see through the motives she may have for committing the crime and the reasons why she cannot commit the crime, and she can also accurately analyze the detective's psychological thoughts.

But after a pause, Sewell added: "Of course, except for Mrs. Hudson."

Qi Xiao: "..."

Don't you worry about Mrs. Hudson knowing when you make such sarcasm?

"Do you think Mrs. Michel is the murderer?" Sewell asked suddenly.

Qi Xiao glanced at him and didn't answer, but asked instead: "What do you think? Don't you want to find the real murderer?"

Saiwei blinked and said, "I don't think it's her. Generally, in this kind of detective novels, the more people look like murderers, the less they are....Of course, maybe Conan Doyle wants to surprise us, but it's not certain."

The smile on his face faded, and he said in a deep voice: "Most of the content recorded in the fragments has passed, but I feel that I am still confused."

Qi Xiao said: "If you can see the name so easily, is it still Conan Doyle's novel? Even if it is a fragment, I believe he must have sorted out the context and ideas in advance. Who is the murderer is only time to reveal It's just a question."

Conan Doyle's thoughtful thinking and clear rules, especially the last sentence he left at the end of the fragment proved that the story did not stop because it could not be written, but for other reasons.

"Speaking of the last sentence written by Conan Doyle, have you thought about it carefully?" Qi Xiao said suddenly: "He said, 'This is probably not a good story, because this kind of relationship is always not accepted by most people' .”

If the murderer is really Mrs. Michel, such murders caused by jealousy or wanting to monopolize the inheritance are too common to be surprising at all.

Sewell laughed and said, "So it was Conan Doyle's spoiler that ruled out a murderer for us. He should have more spoilers, so that we can directly know who the murderer is."

Qi Xiao gave him a vague look: It's a pretty good idea.

"However, I always feel that there is still something we can dig out on Mrs. Michelle." Seville took Qi Xiao's hand and put it into his pocket. After Qi Xiao broke free, he shrugged helplessly and continued: "Although I I don't understand why she avoided it, but she must not have told the truth about the reason for the divorce."

Probably due to playing Sherlock Holmes for a long time, Sewell felt that his insight was much sharper. For example, when he asked Mrs. Michel why she suddenly divorced her husband Richard after suffering for so many years, her erratic behavior The uncertain eyes, the sudden rapid breathing, and the vague answers all showed that she was hiding something.

Qi Xiao said: "But that's definitely not the reason for her to kill. After all, Conan Doyle has already shown that she is not the murderer."

"But I'm very curious. Aren't you curious?" Sewei took advantage of Qi Xiao's inattention and quietly put his hand on his shoulder. After waiting for a while to make sure Qi Xiao didn't notice, he couldn't help grinning silently.

Qi Xiao: "..."

Are you so happy to take advantage of me?

Saiwei coughed dryly, cleared his throat, tried to suppress the smile on his mouth, and said again: "But speaking of it, Qi Xiao, do you think Mrs. Michel really still loves her husband?"

Before Qi Xiao could answer, he went on to say: "I don't think I love him. The reason why she tolerated Richard's betrayal for so many years should not be because she still loves him. I think she should love him more than her husband." marriage and the high price she paid for it."

Mrs. Michel has been telling Sewell that she is not reconciled, and she is not reconciled to sacrificing her prominent family background and affluent life to pursue Richard, but Richard ruined her efforts.She wears the cheap wedding ring on her finger and the rose stone that Richard bought for her from Denmark on her wrist. It is not because she loves her husband deeply, otherwise it is absolutely impossible for her to talk about her husband who died less than half a year ago. So calm, and even analyzed clearly with Sai Wei why he could not be the murderer.

What she wants to save and what she wants to keep is probably never her husband Richard, but this marriage that she has paid a lot for.

It's a pity that such a wise and intelligent woman has never seen clearly.

"This doesn't seem to be the description on the fragmented scroll." Qi Xiao squinted at Sai Wei and said, "Is it your own deduction?"

Holmes is extremely intelligent, but he has never been ignorant of emotional issues. There is no mention of what Sewell said just now in the fragment, so it can only be Sewell's own inference.

Sure enough, Sai Wei admitted: "Yes, this is indeed my own idea. Not only that, Qi Xiao, I have another question about Mrs. Michelle."

Just as they walked on a main road, Qi Xiao stretched out his hand to stop a carriage. After he climbed up, he saw that Sai Wei was still stunned below, frowned, and stretched out his hand to him: "What's the matter, why don't you come up?"

Saiwei held Qi Xiao's hand and was pulled into the carriage by him. He heard Qi Xiao say to the coachman, "Go to St. Carmel Middle School, thank you."

Saiwei blinked, immediately burst into laughter, and took advantage of the opportunity to pull the back of Qi Xiao's hand to him and kissed him gently.

"Qi Xiao, as expected, you know me best and know where I want to go."

This is another question Sewell has. It is clear that Richard and Michelle have an only son named Mick, and this child is studying at St. Carmel Middle School, but in the conversation with Mrs. Michelle she Was it not surprising that her children were not mentioned once?

Judging from the information obtained by Lestrade, Mick is indeed the biological son of Richard and Michelle.

A mother and son suddenly appeared in Qi Xiao's mind. The mother hated the son because of his ugly appearance and disabled legs, avoided him, and even refused to admit that he was her own son.

The queen Hera and the god of fire and craftsman Hephaestus, the pair of mother and child they only met in the time and space of the statue of Hera...

"Oh, you're talking about Mick Ryan." The young female math teacher, who was also the head teacher of Mick's class, said, "Their class should be in class right now... Wait a minute, let me check the schedule."

There was an apologetic smile on her face, "You know, we have relatively few teachers here, and each teacher is in charge of several classes. I can't keep track of the class schedule."

She took out a stack of timetables from the belly of the desk, searched for a long time and said: "Oh, here, their class is currently having an activity class. The location is the activity room on the first floor of the teaching building. I can take you there."

She enthusiastically got up and led Sewei and Qi Xiao to the teaching building, "My name is Helen. Speaking of which, this is the first time anyone has visited Mick. The child is always alone, and he doesn't have to live in the school. People come to see him, and their housekeeper will come to pick him up during the holidays, and then send him back when school starts."

Compared with the Dolly she met before, Helen's personality is obviously more cheerful. She walked beside Qi Xiao and kept talking to him, "You are Mick's uncle, right? I've never heard his housekeeper mention it."

With a polite gentleman's smile on his face, Qi Xiao deliberately changed his pronunciation, and said in a not-so-native English: "Yes, I went to France to do business when he was very young, and I just came back a while ago. "

Helen covered her mouth and chuckled lightly when she heard this, and joked: "No wonder, I just said why you are a bit rapt when you speak. Presumably you speak a lot of French, and your English is a bit misleading."

Qi Xiao said embarrassingly: "Ah, is it? I haven't spoken English for too long, and even I am not used to it."

"Speaking of which, the gentleman next to you is..." Helen cast her eyes on Sai Wei who had been silent and had a rather ugly face beside Qi Xiao.

Qi Xiao knew what was going on just by looking at it. It was nothing more than Helen saying a few more words to him, and this narrow-minded guy became jealous again.

He patted Sewie's arm without a trace, and said: "Oh, this is my business partner in France. This time I will go back to London with me to inspect the market. I said I would come to visit my nephew. He happened to be idle. It's okay, just come here with me. He... well, he doesn't understand English."

As he spoke, he turned his head and glared at Sewi, and said in French, "Say hello!"

Saiwei pursed his lips reluctantly, and then he pretended to understand and nodded to Helen, "Stupid pig."

Qi Xiao: "..."

Don't think that I didn't catch that you are pronouncing these two characters in Chinese!

Fortunately, Helen couldn't understand French, so she didn't seem to notice Seve's hostility, and still said "Hello" to him with a smile.

The activity room is not far away, they are there in 3 minutes.

Helen knocked on the door and said to the teacher who was in class: "Excuse me, find Mick Ryan, his uncle is here to visit him."

Qi Xiao and Sai Wei stood at the door, blocked by the door and couldn't see what was going on inside, but they heard Helen's voice just finished, and the classroom erupted into laughter.

"Hahaha, someone is looking for fool Mick!"

"The fool actually has an uncle!"

"Isn't he a unwanted orphan?"

"Nonsense, he is a rich man with a luxury car and a butler!"

These voices sounded immature, so it can be seen that these students should not be very old, but what they said made the two adults, Qi Xiao and Saiwei, feel sad.

Helen's face was a bit embarrassed, she bowed towards Qi Xiao apologetically, walked into the classroom, and led out a chubby little boy after a while.

"Uncle Mick, Mick... is here."