My years as a menswear boss

Not long after Poirot left, Holmes and Jiqiu quickly packed their luggage and left Tulip Town, walking all the way south. During this period, Holmes suggested that Jiqiu return to London, where it is safe now.

"Sir, I've made up my mind, and you can't change my mind." Jiqiu leaned on a hiking stick, walked carefully around the thorny grass, and strode towards the steep cliff.

"Listen, Gary. You still have plenty of time in your life." Holmes persuasively plucked off the dead branches hanging from his clothes.

"The scenery is very nice. I hope we can rush to the Alps tonight, where we can have a hot drink." Jiqiu ignored it, and said to himself, "Then we will go to the Netherlands."

The snow on the mountain is very thick, and the whole field of vision is a vast expanse of whiteness. If there is no Moriarty pressing behind him, then this must be a pleasing trip.

Seeing that he could not shake Jiqiu's mind, Holmes stopped talking about letting Jiqiu return to London. The two of them hurried along the road without a word, and finally arrived at a hotel at the foot of the Alps at the moment when the sun disappeared from the horizon.

The hotel owner is a Belgian with a round figure and a well-trimmed mustache. Jiqiu saw him and couldn't help thinking about whether Mr. Poirot would have the same image decades later.

"Breakfast, dinner service, and hot water are available here. Believe me, you can't find a better hotel around here than mine."

The boss blinked his small gray-blue eyes, and said in a playful tone, "There isn't a single mouse in the room here!"

"However, it's strange that there are mice in this kind of place." Jiqiu complained in a low voice, and pressed down the buckskin hunting cap on her head. She looked around the surrounding environment, and it was indeed very clean.

The boss's ears keenly caught Jiqiu's thoughts, and let out a series of mellow laughter, "Never underestimate the vitality of these little things, as long as there is a little food, they can live well."

"Thank you." Holmes turned into a state of cherishing words like gold, and carried the box to get the key and went upstairs.

Jiqiu hurriedly followed, her room was next to Holmes.Although she had thought of booking only one room for safety reasons, Holmes was more determined than ever and insisted on booking two rooms.

It was only at this time that Jiqiu felt that Holmes treated her as a member of the opposite sex.

As the boss said, the bathroom and hot water in the room were

The mattress was clean and warm, and Jiqiu took a pleasant bath. After taking a bath, he obviously felt much more relaxed physically and mentally.

"Sir?" Jiqiu used the makeup techniques taught by Holmes to disguise her delicate face before knocking on the door next door.

Jiqiu knocked three times in a row, but no one came to open the door for her. An ominous premonition arose in her heart. She turned the door handle and found that the room was unlocked. She went straight in. There was Holmes on the big bed in the room. The suitcase, the door of the bathroom on the right hand side of the door is wide open, and there is no one in it.

Jiqiu hurriedly stepped forward to check the suitcase. The buttons were buttoned by her in Tulip Town at that time. Sherlock Holmes used to press the copper buttons on both sides to fasten the suitcases, while Jiqiu pressed the buttons down. The brass clasp of the case was firmly attached to the side of the suitcase.That is to say, Holmes has not opened the suitcase since he came in.

"Adolf! Did you see Mr. Jones?!" Jiqiu ran downstairs quickly and grabbed the wooden cabinet at the front desk.

"Mr. Jones? Oh, I saw it. He said he was going outside for a stroll." Adolf wiped the beer glass in his hand, "But there is nothing to see outside, and he will be back in a while."

"Okay, thank you." Jiqiu frowned, Holmes never did anything inexplicable, and the best thing to do now was to wait for him to come back in the hotel.

Jiqiu waited in Holmes' room for two hours, but the big detective hadn't come back yet.She had no patience to wait any longer.

"Adolf, I'll look for Mr. If he comes back, please tell him for me. I'll go buy tomorrow's lunch."

Jiqiu left a word, tied the scarf around his neck, put on his hunting cap and ran out of the hotel.

She didn't know where Holmes would go, so she could only run towards the edge of the mountain based on feeling. The night was too dark, and the flashlight in Jiqiu's hand could only illuminate the road in front of her. She squinted her eyes and saw a tree in the forest ahead. There was a cane stuck under the pine tree.

Jiqiu ran over to pick up the cane, and recognized that it was the hiking stick that Holmes had been holding all day. Her heart seemed to be tightly grasped by a pair of invisible hands. Followed the footprints in the forest and ran all the way.

"Holmes!" Jiqiu shouted at the top of her voice, and only her echoes echoed around her. She ran to the edge of the cliff and saw a thin piece of paper under an oval cobblestone. I picked it up on the side of the road in the small town, because there was a flame-like red pattern on it, she couldn't help but put it in the bag,

But later she was taken away when Holmes taught her some pickpocketing skills.

"Sherlock? Holmes!" Jiqiu hurriedly leaned her body to the bottom of the cliff. It was pitch black and she couldn't see anything. She could only hear the sound of the rushing water of the waterfall. Her heart sank little by little, and her voice seemed to be It was blocked by a foreign object and could not make any sound.

Just when Jiqiu wanted to get up and walk downstairs, she found that her whole body was numb. She didn't know how long she had been here.

"Do you need help?" Jiqiu stretched out a hand in front of his eyes, and a familiar voice came from his ear.

Jiqiu turned her head in disbelief, only to find that Holmes stretched out his hand towards her with a smile, Jiqiu got up on the ground and hugged him tightly, "You are still alive!"

It was the first time that Holmes was so intimate with a person, and his body froze, but he felt the trembling whimper of the girl in his arms, and the hand in mid-air still changed direction and patted her on the back gently, "It's all over."

After a while, Jiqiu got up from Holmes' arms, and asked with a suppressed cry, "What's going on?"

Holmes bent down to pick up the cobblestones and papers on the ground, "When I entered that room, I saw Moriarty outside the window, and he saw me too. At that moment, I knew that we were going to end the night, so I walked out of the hotel, followed him to the edge of the cliff, and he gave me a moment to write this letter."

He shook the yellowed paper in his hand, "Just as I was pressing the letter with cobblestones, Moriarty rushed over from behind, and we wrestled together. But obviously I was better, and while he was lying on the On my back, I pressed his arm and threw him out."

"Then he fell off the cliff." The smile on Holmes' face was a little relaxed. After finishing off the biggest enemy, his expression was obviously much more relaxed.

"It's really great." Jiqiu couldn't help showing a smile from her heart. Although Holmes only described the whole process in a few short sentences, she knew that what actually happened was hundreds of times more thrilling than what was described. .

"We can start our journey with peace of mind." Holmes handed the letter to Jiqiu, "You take this back to London."

"Is there any use for this?" Jiqiu unfolded it and looked at it. It was the suicide note written by Holmes.

"After the trip, I plan to go back to the countryside to continue my chemical research." Holmes raised the cane on the ground with his foot, and the cane fell lightly in his palm.

Jiqiu was a little dumbfounded for a moment, "You mean... what about your detective career in London?"

"Isn't there still you?" Holmes said in a confident tone, stepping on the thick snow with long legs, "I think you can try to be your own."

"I'll screw it up." Jiqiu shook her head subconsciously, "No, I can't do it alone!" She never thought of doing it alone.

"How do you know it won't work if you don't try it?" Holmes led the way with a cane, and Jiqiu followed closely behind.

"You are not afraid that I will ruin your career." Jiqiu refused with a face full of refusal. Sherlock Holmes in front of her suddenly stopped, and she stopped her feet and slammed into him.

"Only if you leave me, you will grow on your own." Holmes turned around, seemed to think of something, and tapped Jiqiu's head with his cane, "Be more confident, Gary. Those straw bags that are not as good as you in Scotland Yard are fine. Why do you no."

Jiqiu pressed her lips tightly, "That's different."

"A person cannot decide his origin, but he can decide the path he will take in the future."

Holmes said in a low and hoarse voice, "I have sorted out all the cases. It is in the study on the second floor of 221B. If you are at your wits end, you can go to my brother Mycroft, and he will look in my case. I will give you some help in face."

"Okay, I'll try." Jiqiu was a little shaken, so he had to agree first, maybe Holmes would change his mind after the trip.

After all, he is only 31 years old now, he is in his prime, and he has a lot of energy to squander. Maybe he still can't let go of the exciting private detective career and return to 221B.

"Thank goodness! You are finally back!"

Adolf made a sign of the cross on his chest, "If you are late, I will send people to bring torches to find you! Countless people are buried in the Alps every year."

"I'm so sorry. I just got lost in the woods. Fortunately, my assistant found me and brought me out of the woods." Holmes wiped the fog from his glasses.

Jiqiu looked at Holmes who insisted on carrying out his status as a scholar, and felt a little helpless, so he had no choice but to play a loyal little servant.

"Oh, what a good guy!" Adolf sighed, looking at Jiqiu with a face full of disrespect, "Having such a servant is far better than some scumbags!"

"Of course, Dormer has helped me a lot." Holmes smiled and accepted the compliment for Jiqiu.