Mary's Nineteenth Century

The moonlight is hazy, and the kiss at the corner of the mouth is split.

Mycroft froze for a second, feeling a sudden warmth in the corner of his mouth in disbelief.

Quickly returning to his senses, he wanted to hug Mary who was engaged in the raid, and the two of them should discuss the important issue of who should take the initiative.

Mary flashed nimbly and successfully retreated to a safe distance of one meter away, then pointed to the door of the guest room without hesitation.

"Sensible Mr. Holmes, please don't forget that you need to leave at 05:30 tomorrow. Going back to your room and going to bed is what you should do now."

very good!

This kind of lighting and running is very in line with Mr. Minton's style.

Mycroft was used to the routine, "Dear Mary, you're right, I ought to go to bed early. So won't you help me and give me another goodnight kiss to lull me to sleep?"

Mary shook her head with a decisive smile, and immediately opened the door, "If you have time to think wildly, it's better to go to bed early, and you can have everything in your dreams."

Mycroft: Originally he was going to rest early, but who is deliberately disturbing his heart now?The culprit actually acted like nothing happened.

What's more, can dreams be done casually?If you dream of a scene that is too charming, lingering, and lingering, will you still be able to get up on time tomorrow?

"Well, good night. You don't have to get up early to see me off tomorrow morning."

Mycroft kept his head above water, and just cast a deep look at Mary before leaving to close the door.Next time, he must...

What do you want?

The door blocked the view.

Mary no longer restrained herself from laughing, Mycroft, who was teased today, was still very cute and charming.Then be kind and wish him a wonderful night of sweet dreams.

The moon sinks and the sun rises.

In the past night, whether anyone in the hotel dreamed that he was reluctant to wake up, it became a secret in the dark night.

After dawn, each went his own way.

Mary received a note from Mycroft asking the front desk of the hotel to pass it on. The situation last night was special, and there was one important thing that she forgot to mention.

Recently, Sherlock has also gone looking for the snow monster, which may bring more clues.Meet in York if necessary.

How many snow monsters have emerged since Christmas last month?

There is a snowman hiding a sheepskin inverted pentagram in a small village halfway up the mountain, and there is a snowman hiding a big beard in Pickering Town.

Comparing the descriptions of eyewitnesses, the shapes of the two snowmen are very similar.

They are all 1.2 meters high and consist of three oversized snowballs. It is very likely that they were piled up by the same person.

So far, whether it's the sheepskin magic map or the beards of many people, the things hidden in the snowman are not illegal.

Even if a man's beard is found, it cannot be determined that the unknown person killed a group of people and shaved their beard.

What does the new strange yeti maker want to do?

Mary doesn't know the specific purpose of the other party for the time being, but she found one thing by analyzing the beard in the snowman.

She sincerely thanked the priests of the discovery church. They acted cautiously after discovering the problem snowman. Instead of throwing away the beard in the snowball, they sealed it up.

This will be patient and tidy up the clumps of beard.According to the difference in its color and curl, it can be subdivided into one hundred and thirty or forty parts.

There is no way to give a more precise number because some beard samples are too close.

Even so, it is almost certain that the beards in the Yeti belong to [-] to [-] different men, but where do you get so many beards?

The most immediate answer can be blurted out: barber shop.

These days, long hair can be sold for money to be made into wigs, but there is not much demand for fake beards.Just squat in the trash can of a thriving barbershop and you can get a handful of beards in a few days.

Mary stayed in Pickering Town for two days, walking the streets and alleys, and visited the whole town.It is conservatively estimated that I met more than [-]% of the men in the town, which further narrowed down the source of a large number of beards.

There are five barbershops in the town. The barbers have identified [-] to [-] types of beard samples, and they are very sure that two-thirds of the beard colors and curls do not match the beards of the permanent residents of the town.

Pickering Town is not London, and there are not many mobile outsiders.

In other words, for the beards in the snowmen, their owners may have never been to Pickering in their entire lives, let alone get a local haircut or shave.

The Yeti Maker deliberately snatched more than 100 beards from other sources, most likely from certain barbershops in big cities, or from black market stalls selling strange items.

The clue to the origin of the beard is still unclear, but it raises a doubt.

Why did the snowman with the beard inside have to be in Pickering?

On January 1, another town farther from Pickering.

Sherlock came to Clay Town, where there were rumors of strange snowmen.

There is a snowman standing in the forest path by the cemetery on the outskirts of town.

This road is full of snow and dead branches, and few people usually pass by.After New Year's Day, a miner was catching a train to work, took a shortcut and encountered a snowman blocking the road. That day was January 1.

The snowman is 1.2 meters high and consists of three big snowballs, just blocking the path that can accommodate one person.

The absentee who was blocked from work didn't think much about kicking the snowman to vent his dissatisfaction.This kick not only scattered the snowman, but also two pairs of old ladies' gloves.

Miner does not know the history of ladies' gloves, except that they are very valuable.Because each glove has 12 small gold buttons, and the buttons are inlaid with diamonds in the middle.

At that time, the first reaction of absenteeism was that it would be better to sell the gloves to a pawn shop, which would surely fetch a good price.

But a discovery made him pause because there was blood on the inside of the glove.Located on the inside of the palms of the four gloves, each has a blood-painted bug pattern.

The pattern painter is very poor, and it is impossible to tell what kind of bug it is at a glance.

But the miners could smell the blood-colored goat's blood, which was incompatible with the delicately crafted gloves.

Does this pattern of bugs drawn later represent some kind of special meaning?Moreover, the snowmen were deliberately piled next to the cemetery, which is not a good place for auspiciousness.

Because the inside of the glove was contaminated by blood, it was impossible to sell it at the ideal price, and because of the weird blood, it might cause trouble to the upper body.

In the end, the miners did not dare to sell the object rashly, and instead inquired whether there were rumors related to it, and later heard about the snow monster murder in the Saint Laurent Valley 40 years ago.

He was so scared that he took the lady's gloves directly to the church in Pottery Town, asking for the power of God to resolve the weird things he might encounter.

Related rumors inevitably came out.

Sherlock is quite an exploratory spirit, and when he hears rumors, he comes to ask what happened.

He saw two pairs of leather gloves in the church, the same size, probably belonging to the same lady.

It is said to be a relic, first of all, it is judged from the newness of the gloves.

Despite careful maintenance, the leather of such fine gloves has inevitably faded over time.

With a keen sense of smell, Sherlock could determine that there were two scents of perfume left on the glove.It reminds people of scented gloves, the kind of expensive gloves that originated in England in the 16th century.

Back then, the gloves presented to Queen Elizabeth had a strange fragrance, which covered up the smell of the animal skin itself.

Later, recipes for related scented gloves appeared on the market, mostly using expensive spices, such as ambergris supplemented with Damascena rose water.

This smell also appeared on the old gloves hidden in the snowman's belly.

"From this, the old glove comes from a certain family."

Sherlock borrowed a glove and came to York to show it to Mycroft.

"Unless they are down to a certain level, such expensive ladies' gloves will hardly be sold as pawns, and [-]% of them are stolen."

Mycroft agrees, "It is true that women's gloves are very personal items. The rich and powerful people are even more particular about women's gloves that cannot be easily touched by outsiders."

If it is a burlap glove worn by a laborer, throw it away and throw it away. There are not too many rules.

However, expensive and exquisite female gloves mean that its users are of high social status, so a code word must be considered.

Beginning in the Middle Ages, it was assumed that a man would declare war by throwing a glove at another man.

After changing to a woman, the meaning is completely different.A woman deliberately drops a glove in front of a man, implying that the two can go further, such as intimate contact with a negative distance. ①

Women's gloves are attached with a special meaning of sex, and gloves are sometimes equated with women themselves.

A man, other than a husband or lover, who deliberately wears a woman's gloves.The process by which he forced his fingers into a lady's glove would have been considered an insult to the lady herself.

Because of this, a sophisticated family will not easily sell used women's gloves, which are very personal items.

At the moment, two expensive old ladies' gloves are buried in the snowman.

Its origin is very questionable, and it is necessary to find out which rich family has stolen it.

Mary also came to York with a collection of whiskers.After learning that a third snowman appeared with women's gloves hidden, he immediately deduced why the beard was buried in the snowman.

"Once upon a time, the body fluid theory prevailed in the medical field, which associated beards with a man's body, especially representing a man's vigorous energy."

Mary pointed out, "Ms. gloves and men's beards are both related to sex. Combined with the sheepskin inverted pentagram hidden in the snowman, the maker of the weird snowman is probably performing some kind of sacrificial ceremony to the devil."

It is not difficult to obtain sheepskin and beard, but it is risky to obtain exquisite and expensive old ladies' gloves.

If the maker of the weird snowman hadn't followed a set of sacrifice theory, he wouldn't have had to spend a lot of trouble.The question is, will there be other sacrifices?What is the ultimate goal?

At this moment, Mycroft had a flash of inspiration, took out the map of Yorkshire, and marked the three discovered landmarks.

"You see, the location where the three snowmen were found is a bit special. It can form an obtuse isosceles triangle, and the obtuse angle is 108 degrees."

108°, what does it represent?