[Sherlock Holmes + Shenxia] Mirror Theory

The atmosphere in the reception room was quite awkward.

Li Mingye was sitting on the couch, with an expressionless face and half-closed eyes, looking listless.John sat next to Li Mingye, staring at the carpet under his feet, as if he had become very interested in the pattern of the carpet.As for Irene sitting on the single sofa, she looked quite natural, but her folded hands seemed to be twisted together nervously.

For Irene Adler, being caught throwing herself into someone else's girlfriend is nothing. The sadistic queen has encountered many things in her career, and her attitude towards this matter is quite generous. .What makes her nervous is something else.

The painting above the fireplace has been taken down, revealing the combination disk hidden on the safe behind the painting.Sherlock stared at the cipher disk with his head half down, meditating—this young man who likes to use words to sort out and guide his thoughts when thinking, has no interest in speaking at all at the moment, and he stares at the safe with a cold face.

Although Sherlock usually doesn't have much expression on his face when reasoning, there is still an essential difference between "expressionless" and "cold face".

Actually... Sherlock doesn't care if it's another woman or man throwing arms at Li Mingye, and he doesn't think that Li Mingye, the most difficult woman in the world, would have thoughts about others.When not facing Sherlock, Li Mingye is an emotionally calm and ruthless reasoning machine, wrapped in a polite and warm appearance, as if she is afraid that the love of ordinary people will corrupt her mind.But if the woman's name is Irene Adler...

When Sherlock was bored, he also heard Li Mingye mention some things about him in the past, such as the name Irene Adler, as the woman who "defeated Sherlock Holmes", that strong, brave and beautiful woman is named after her The wisdom and decisiveness of the adventurer left a strong mark in Li Mingye's heart, and also slightly cured her sexist tendencies.At least not everyone can leave a photo with her.

The name Irene Adler is different after all. When Li Mingye mentioned her, she honored her as "Thewoman".Also as Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock is very clear about what this means—in a word, this is a woman who has defeated Li Mingye in wisdom, and she appreciates this failure, so this woman is a little bit different among all living beings. Bring a little different color.Of course, this does not mean that the former Mr. Holmes would fall in love with Miss Adler, but it is undeniable that in Li Mingye's mind, women in this world are probably divided into two types.

One is called "woman" and the other is "Thewoman".

But now, the former "Thewoman" has become Adler, the sadistic queen. Her appearance, figure, and temperament have all changed into another person, but what remains unchanged is her bright mind.The wisdom and deep scheming of the sadistic queen are amazing, and Sherlock doesn't want the sadistic queen to become "Thewoman" in Li Mingye's heart... At least the last Adler was still alive after defeating her. Chic left, and this one clearly looks like a lot of trouble.

"So—it seems that my password has stumped Mr. Holmes?" Irene suddenly said with a smile, "Speaking of which, if the person who came was Mr. Holmes...then I'm really worried about my password gone."

Sherlock didn't turn his head, and just snorted: "On the keyboard, only the three keys 2, 3, and 4 are stained with oil and wear, and the three keys have almost the same degree of wear and tear. Obviously, the three numbers in the password are evenly distributed."

Eileen chuckled, but didn't answer.After a short period of panic, confidence returned to this woman's face again. At this moment, she no longer looked like the weak and helpless woman just now. Even though she was dressed with the softest lines and the most coquettish patterns, she looked Still as beautiful as a queen.She looked at Li Mingye with a half-smile, and said softly, "You don't have to be too restrained here... You have been here for so long and you haven't even had a sip of tea. I'm being rude."

Li Mingye was quite helpless towards this woman who liked to dance on the tip of a knife.She stared at Irene for a long time, finally sighed, and said: "Miss Adler, your behavior is futile. Mycroft Holmes will not agree to your request, and my brother will not." Yes. Gambling may allow gamblers to obtain huge profits for a while, but this kind of profit will not last long-first of all, you must have the strength to ensure that you can enjoy the benefits safely, and when you hand over your mobile phone, what can you do? How about continuing to serve as your life-saving talisman?"

Irene rolled her eyes and smiled sweetly: "Mr. Holmes and Mr. Li are both gentlemen who keep their promises. I have no doubts about that. And when the time comes, if I come to ask you for protection..." She paused, her eyes turned to Li In the bright night, her eccentric light-colored eyes are bright and breathtaking. "Will you reject me?"

Li Mingye was stunned, unable to laugh or cry: "Miss Adler..."

"Call me Erin."

"Miss Adler." Li Mingye sighed—seriously, she has already sighed enough today, facing this shrewd gambler, she is really helpless. "Greed is the cause of death."

"Goldfish are so unrestrained, open their mouths to beg for food, and then feed themselves to death." Sherlock who was standing in front of the safe interjected sarcastically. He glanced at Irene coldly and said with a sneer: "Mycroft will Arranging for you to 'disappear' is already the biggest concession he can make, and you are reluctant to part with your fame and glory... This is a woman, meaninglessly pursuing something that will kill herself."

Eileen glared at him, but then smiled again in an instant.She knocked on her sofa, and said leisurely: "It seems that Mr. Holmes' deciphering work is not going well? This reassures me. If even you two 'Holmes and Lee' can't solve the code, then my A safe is the safest place in the world. After all, 'Holmes and Lee' are the smartest people in the world, aren't they?"

Sherlock glanced at her, and the sharpness and fighting spirit in his eyes made Irene startled.But he walked towards Li Mingye in an instant, and said quickly as he walked: "The six-digit password is most likely composed of two pairs of 2, 3, and 4 in random order, not birthdays, or other accounts such as Twitter. password. Irene Adler's information is on the way, you are looking at it, when is the wedding anniversary of her last marriage?"

"January 1." Li Mingye replied quickly.

"Not this. Then it's not marriage. Marriage is obviously insignificant compared with her own secrets (Europe is not true love and basically never gets married), so only those related to her will become passwords. When did she graduate from college?"

"No."

"When was the first 'business'?"

"No. It was June."

"Height? Weight?"

When Sherlock asked this sentence, Li Mingye paused in his answer.She was still staring at Irene, her sharp eyes scanned the woman like an X-ray.After a while, she replied: "It should be close. My pupils constricted, my breathing accelerated, my upper eyelids lifted, the corners of my mouth pulled back, my fingers became stiff... I was nervous and scared."

"You are really cunning..." Irene suddenly realized, and sneered, "You are not guessing the password from my information at all—you are looking at my reaction. This is called micro-expression analysis, isn't it?"

Sherlock glanced at Irene, frowned tightly, and muttered: "Height, weight, height, weight..." He was obviously lost in thought, and couldn't help but paced around on the floor anxiously. "You love adventure and like dangerous people and things. This represents extreme desire for control and self-confidence. If such a person wants to set a password, it is related to his body... six digits..."

"Measurements."

"Measurements."

Sherlock and Li Mingye said something at the same time.The two of them looked at Irene together. Irene lowered her eyelids and did not respond. Not to mention Li Mingye and Sherlock, who are proficient in psychology, even John could see it.

"As I said, goldfish are so unrestrained, open their mouths to beg for food, and then stretch themselves to death." Sherlock sneered, and sat next to Li Mingye very lazily. Be sarcastic. "You must have set a password for your mobile phone, right? The password is something that people will inevitably crack when it is set. Ordinary people always do this, with a fluke mentality..."

Facing the very annoying talk of this little bastard, Irene certainly didn't have a good face.She snorted, and said with a half-smile: "Let's talk about it after you crack the password of my mobile phone."

On the same day, Irene was directly escorted out of her house by MI6 agents, with her mobile phone on her body.And the trio on Baker Street didn't bother to join in the fun - the rest of the game between you and me was just a competition for mutual interests between Irene and Mycroft.

Irene is indeed a very smart and shrewd person among ordinary people, but it is far from enough to shake the Antarctica of the British Empire by one person, especially when there is no one around her to make suggestions.After MI6 secretly spread the news that the "Sad Queen" had reached a deal with the British government, Irene had almost lost the initiative to negotiate.

In the meantime, it's not that MI6 hasn't done any "house search", "highway robbery", "burglary" and other activities, but it's just that they have returned without success every time.

Anyway, this is also in London, and MI6 naturally has the initiative.So when MI6 protected Irene and her amulet and left, all governments and political organizations could only spit bitterly, but they didn't have the guts to do robbery.And the United States, the most difficult to deal with and the most powerful among these turbulent undercurrents, was out 10 minutes before Irene was taken away.

——This has to mention the hero Sherlock behind the scenes.

Before he sneaked into Irene's mansion with John, he met several field agents of the US FBI, and the other party seemed to be planning to sneak into the house-the FBI could be said to have carefully cleared a passage, so that they could enter from the second floor. Sneaked in, but unexpectedly met Sherlock.

This little bastard, Sherlock, doesn't show affection. He and John made a look of "passing by" and "planning to go straight into the room", and even called the police... After he scared the people away, he was very upset. Shamelessly, he sneaked into the house directly from the second floor with John, originally planning to set off the fire alarm.

"At that time, Sherlock was walking outside, and suddenly said something 'it's time', and then pulled me to the back of the house." On the taxi back, John finally couldn't help asking. "I figured out everything else, but I just can't figure out the 'time's up'... When did you make an appointment?"

"'A pot of Turkish coffee brewed in a drip coffee maker'." Sherlock replied absently.While looking out the car window, he grabbed Li Mingye's hand with one hand, and tapped the back of her hand carelessly with his fingers.

"What?" John turned to Li Mingye in confusion.

"Perhaps you haven't noticed. The coffee we drink for breakfast these days is Turkish coffee. This morning's coffee was made by Sherlock, and it took about 17 minutes." Li Mingye explained patiently, very casually He pulled his hand out and grabbed the back of Sherlock's hand with his backhand.She glanced at Sherlock helplessly, then raised her voice and said to the driver, "Please stop in Hyde Park, thank you."

The driver responded, turned the steering wheel and turned out.

"The love time after the case is over?" John looked at the two suspiciously.Sherlock still looked out of the car window with a blank face, while Li Mingye smiled at him helplessly. "You can even use brain waves to communicate with each other when you make appointments?"

Before one of the two could answer, John cut it off.He spread his hands: "Don't continue to popularize 'Sherlock Holmes and Lee' communication methods with me, let me be my earthlings honestly. And the two heroes who seem to have saved Britain once again, as ordinary people Brits who are familiar, I will wish you a good date on my blog."

The sky is high and the clouds are clear, the water and the sky are the same color, and the ducks and swans on the lake lazily swing their flippers hidden under the water, creating wrinkles, like kisses on a smooth mirror.Sherlock just walked along the way, with a flat face - even Li Mingye couldn't see anything from his face when he deliberately restrained himself.He is like an ordinary tourist, leading his girlfriend through lush forests, forest trails, and smooth stone paths, but he is very unlike an ordinary tourist. A little bit of it is projected in his calm eyes.

Li Mingye didn't ask, but instead admired the famous rogue swans in the park with great interest... If the fighting power of swans is projected on the human race, the swans among this group of teals are like Italians. A few Russians are arrogant among the people.But at this moment, these white and elegant mute swans are just lazily patting the water, their postures are noble and dignified, like the ladies who shine under the lights of the ball.

Perhaps because of the working day, there are not many tourists in Hyde Park today, and there are only a few scattered groups of people on the shore, sneakily tearing a bit of bread and throwing it into the water from time to time.After the two reached an uninhabited shore, Li Mingye simply stopped in his tracks.

The two have been together for a long time, and the imprints in their souls are very similar, of course Sherlock understood what she meant.He looked sideways at his girlfriend for a while before saying, "I remember I asked about your sexual orientation before."

"It was when I first went to your house for Christmas."

"Yes." Sherlock frowned, with a distressed look on his face. "Feelings cannot be measured by logic, so since you were with me, I have never asked if I like men. Just on the way, I analyzed the era you lived in. Gay men were forbidden at that time , and you have never been interested in women..."

"You think I'm being too lenient with Miss Adler." Li Mingye interrupted his long talk, she was a little amused - she guessed Sherlock's words as soon as she uttered it, this kid was beating his belly all the way, if he didn't type Break him, he can talk for an hour, just to cover up his real purpose. "You're my boyfriend, and you're entitled to dispute that, Sherlock."

Sherlock opened his mouth, but felt that he couldn't speak, but he felt aggrieved if he didn't speak.After thinking about it, I still turned my head: "I will not allow you to crack the password of her mobile phone. We are private detectives and do not work for the government."

"it is good."

"So..." Sherlock paused, and rarely looked back at her in surprise.

"I said 'yes'." Seeing him like this, Li Mingye couldn't help coughing lightly to suppress his smile.She raised her hand and patted Sherlock's curly hair that was a little messed up by the wind by the lake. The rare intimate gesture gave her a sense of comfort, like comforting a jealous cat. "I don't have to do this kind of thing, and since you drove me away, you have to take over my work yourself."

Sherlock was really surprised now.

What kind of person Shirley was, he couldn't understand more.She is very conceited most of the time, conceited, stubborn, bohemian and extremely arrogant, there is no reason to give up a commission when it is given to her, in her words, "It will damage my self-esteem" .Although in the past few years, in addition to her gentle and polite appearance, her temper has also become much milder (Sherlock admitted that this has something to do with himself), but this does not mean that her dedication to her career will also weaken because of this.

So this time, Sherlock actually made a long speech before speaking. No matter what, he was not happy that Adler continued to contact Shirley.They both knew what the woman was up to, and besides distracting them by pretending to be weak, she was trying to control them—or one of them—with her own charm.There were other reasons for this besides Ms. Adler's naturally strong thrill-seeking nature.

For Adler, charm is her invincible magic weapon, and they are the worst enemies she meets, and they may even ruin her life and future completely.This caused her to subconsciously want to use her most powerful magic weapon to attack them. Judging from her choice of password, she is an extremely confident woman, and she doesn't think her charm will not work.

But she meets Holmes and Lee.

And Shirley has such a little empathy for this woman, even though he completely trusts her, he still doesn't want her to be teased and used by that woman in every possible way.

First of all, Sherlock didn't want the current Adler to affect the noble and decisive "Thewoman" in Li Mingye's memory—even though she didn't say it, Sherlock could tell that she still admired that woman quite a lot. Irene Adler in the ninth century was like a pearl in the grit, she had to be surprised and admired.

Secondly... Anyway, he just doesn't want to see the two of them meet again. He is Shirley's boyfriend, and he has the right to do so!

Of course, after all, he really didn't expect Shirley to agree so easily, as easily as they were discussing who would cook for dinner... Oh no, it should be said, as easily as they solved an unorganized murder case.

Li Mingye looked at Sherlock, finally couldn't help laughing, and smiled.She stood by the lake, and the wind blew her long hair, strands brushing her ivory cheeks.This smile is different from her usual polite and official smile. Only at this moment does this delicate and full girlish face glow with a kind of real gentleness, just like a real girl, yes The apple on the branch that tempted Adam and Eve.

"You probably forgot that the client is not satisfied with me as the candidate, and the person they chose was you. And I wanted to see Ms. Adler out of curiosity, which opened my eyes a bit... I I really never thought that Ms. Adler would be like this." Li Mingye paused, "And I was too tolerant of her—maybe you are right, there is part of the reason for empathy, but I You could swear I was just out of sympathy."

"Do you think Mycroft, or my brother - which one of them is easy to deal with? Out of humanitarianism, I did persuade Ms. Adler a few words, but there is no more." She thought for a while , added another sentence. "And as far as I personally think, when there is a conflict between career and partner's wishes, truly intelligent people can adjust the conflict. They can take care of their partner's wishes while taking care of their own career, just like I do now the same."

Not to mention that Li Mingye switched the concept of Irene Adler and career with the unique cunning of a man—it is worth mentioning that such tricks often appear when a man coaxes his girlfriend, after all, only a fool can do it at this time. He would keep explaining "Nothing happened to me and her" - while Sherlock looked at her in a daze, and coughed after a long while, pretending to be calm: "Mate? (mate in life)"

"Yes, I think that's a very appropriate statement."

"Oh..." Sherlock blinked. At this moment, his lake-green eyes are almost the same color as the lake water next to him, clear and bright, and even look extraordinarily bright because of his emotions. "I-I... um... well, you know what I mean, don't you, Shirley?"

"I know, but trust me, I'm not proposing, Sherlock." Because of the distance, Li Mingye had to look up at the young man's blushing face at the moment, but even from the angle she looked up, she couldn't There is a kind of gentleness and calmness that has gone through the years. "I plan to officially introduce you to my brother and parents tomorrow." She paused, "As a boyfriend."

"...What made you suddenly have this idea?" Sherlock's nature made him surprise even if it would not last long. Instead, he discovered Li Mingye's previous concept of sneaking quite sharply, but at this moment this Once the explosive news was dropped, he had no intention of pursuing it any further.He calmed down, and casually raised his hand to pin his girlfriend's wind-blown, somewhat scattered sideburns behind his ear, and unexpectedly found that the ear was also a little red, and his hand was itchy for a moment, but he even pinched it.

Li Mingye glared at him, pushed his hand away, put it in his hand and held it.She looked away and looked at the lake, as if she wanted to calm her own blood along with the lake.

A cool breeze blew on the lake, and ripples unhappily swayed, and a few swans leisurely traced elegant traces not far away.They combed each other's partners lazily, and the long and graceful necks of the pair of long and graceful necks seemed to be in the shape of hearts.

After a while, Li Mingye finally spoke.

"'Those who go can't be persuaded, those who come can still be pursued.'" She whispered something in Chinese, "I just discovered this truth suddenly."