Comprehensive Victoria's Secret

Elizabeth did not expect that after she woke up, Ron would come with Holmes.She hurriedly changed her clothes and hurried to the reception room on the first floor.

"It's hard for me to imagine that you will appear in my house together." Elizabeth woke up and it was afternoon tea time, watching the maid at home bring tea to the two gentlemen who came uninvited: "Ron, Do you have something urgent?"

Ron leaned back: "Well... Holmes wanted to take a look at Uncle Dungal's house, and he knew that it would not be suitable for him to come directly when you were a single girl. So I came."

"Thank you."

Elizabeth cut the muffins - after doing heavy physical activity and sleeping for so long, Elizabeth was indeed a little hungry. She took the jam from Ron, thanked her, and spread a thick layer of jam on the muffins. layer.

"Then, Mr. Holmes, what part of the house would you like to see?"

"May I have a look at Mr. Dungall's study? If you don't mind, I would also like to take a look at Earl Dungall's bedroom."

"can."

Due to a certain degree of etiquette in this era, Elizabeth allowed Holmes to explore, but she had to arrange for the busy old housekeeper to lead Holmes around the house.

"Fortunately, Uncle Dungal didn't make the house too big, otherwise Mr. Holmes would have had a hard time."

During Holmes' visit this time, he brought back all the documents that Elizabeth had brought to him. Obviously, Dungar was very cautious when writing these documents, and Holmes almost couldn't find too many clues, so he thought of coming home. take a look.

It was very laborious to put these files back, Elizabeth thought of Saroyan, yes Saroyan!He was thrown on the floor by Antonio last night, so what about others now?

Unresolved internal affairs asked Joseph, the old man quickly told her through Annie that Saroyan had been sent to his own room to rest.

"He hoped to explain to the lady that he didn't know there was someone at that time, and that man promised that he would not hurt the lady."

Elizabeth didn't say a word: "This matter is out of my control, but Joseph, I hope everyone can lock their doors and sleep at night."

Joseph clearly heard the implication: "You are the same, miss."

Holmes stayed in Dungall's study for a long time, but Elizabeth was surprised that he was no longer interested in Dungall's collection of books. Instead, he asked about the history of Joseph Morgan's family, and even the structure of this house.

After Ron greeted Elizabeth, he also plunged into the library. Elizabeth could only sit in a chair alone and embroider cross-stitch. It must be said that needlework was also an important condition for evaluating a Victorian lady.

It was almost eight o'clock, and Elizabeth had to ask the servant to come to dinner for the two men who could not get out of the books.

Because Elizabeth herself is really not flattered about English meals, the dinner she requested is a classic French meal.Fortunately, because of Estelle, Earl Morgan's kitchen can cook very authentic French dishes.

Elizabeth is not flattered about snails, but she loves foie gras very much.However, even Dungal couldn't let her eat such expensive food every day.

She enjoyed eating the foie gras bite by bite, and drank a glass of noble rot wine very happily.

Elizabeth's capacity for alcohol is not good, but in fact this sweet wine is served with foie gras, which is completely irresistible for a foodie like Elizabeth.

Luckily, that was all she drank, and she switched back to fruit juice for the rest of the day.

Then Elizabeth tried to eat a large plate of roast beef at a slower pace.Elizabeth then downed a large bowl of cream of mushroom soup.And almost round most of the oysters.

In fact, Elizabeth is very good at eating, and even Estelle, who has always been very demanding of her, indulges her in eating. Dungal's reason is that if she is not allowed to eat at this time, then she will not survive. Can't bear the consumption of so much energy.

Picking up a grown man is actually not easy at all.

After dinner, Elizabeth drove the two men to the smoking room to smoke, personally supervised the locking of the windows of each room, and asked Joseph to remember to lock the courtyard door.

After changing her clothes, she went to ask Holmes what she had discovered.

"In fact, I have always suspected that there is a secret room in this room of yours," said Holmes. "I think it is under Mr. Dungal's study, but I have found no switch in the breakfast room."

Elizabeth frowned: "That's impossible. Below Dungall's study is the breakfast room, and there are also some stairs."

"Yes, the designer cleverly used the stairs to cover up the size of the secret room, and cleverly used people's visual errors. After checking the breakfast room, I found that there is no way to enter the secret room. Some people come and go, if there is an entrance to the secret room, Miss Morgan must know about it."

"So Mr. Holmes thinks that the Chamber of Secrets is in the study?"

"Yes, ma'am."

So Elizabeth wore a rather cumbersome ankle-length skirt, followed the standard social etiquette in society, and went to the study to find the legendary secret room.

The mess she and Antonio made had already been cleaned up by the considerate old housekeeper, while Holmes looked around in the study.

Dungall's study room is very simple. On one side is a bookshelf as high as the ceiling, the desk is placed against the bookshelf, and CHUBB's safe is placed on the side.There is a grand piano on the other side, and a row of matryoshka dolls are placed on the wall, probably for the purpose of balancing the bookshelves.They are not stacked together, but according to the size, some have their heads facing the wall, and some are placed directly horizontally.

Elizabeth always felt that this was her father's performance art habit.

Elizabeth searched around but couldn't find it: "Perhaps, the entrance to the secret room is on the first floor? Or in my parents' bedroom?" Elizabeth didn't doubt Holmes' ability to judge, but she was really hopeless about such a search.

Holmes clasped the piano in the study: "I don't see any need for a piano here, Miss Morgan, is your music class here?"

Elizabeth shook her head: "I don't take music lessons here, and I don't use this piano very much."

Could it be that Holmes suspected that this piano was the switch of the chamber of secrets, and then turned it on.

"But generally speaking, if you use a piano as a switch for a secret room, you need the correct sequence of music to open it, otherwise it won't open, or even be locked."

Holmes probably didn't like Elizabeth's suspicion of him, but he also explained: "At least we have found the switch of the entrance now, as for the password."

Holmes continued to look around the study.

Elizabeth did not dare to disturb the detective, she recalled in her mind the music that Dungal liked to listen to - the conclusion was that there was none.

Really not, Estelle has an obvious interest in opera, and also has a good appreciation for singing and dancing.And Dungall is not interested in symphony and opera, and has no interest in folk songs. Although his ballroom dancing is very standard, his sense of music is also in place, and he can accurately name the masterpieces of many musicians, and he has a considerable interest in music. taste, yet Elizabeth still did not know what she liked to hear.

Holmes noticed the Russian nesting dolls lined up on the shelf. He tiptoed to try to remove them, but found that the nesting dolls were glued firmly.

He gave up trying, then noticed something.

Holmes took out his notebook and wrote a row of strange things on it.

Having the opportunity to solve cases with this world-renowned great detective in the future was an experience that Elizabeth could not even dream of, so Elizabeth ignored the great detective's famous dislike of women, so she went to have a look.

Then she saw a series of bars and dots.

"Mr. Holmes, what does this mean?"

Genius also wants to be admired, Holmes said: "It is very rare to arrange Russian nesting dolls separately, and here every interval seems to be arranged according to some rules."

"If you regard the horizontal ones as horizontal bars, and the vertical ones as dots, plus the gap in the middle, it will appear like this."

Holmes showed Elizabeth his notebook.

-...--...--.---------..-.---.--...-..-

Elizabeth was confused, what is this?It seems that there is a lot of information, but...she can't understand it.

"This is Morse code, and it translates to 'The Phantom of opera'." Holmes put away his notebook: "Miss Morgan, do you know this song?"

"I know." Elizabeth sluggishly walked to the piano and began to play the prelude.

This is the piece she "wrote", and Dungal actually remembered that Elizabeth knew that this piano was here a long time ago, which means that this secret room has been built for a long time, and the Russian matryoshka on the opposite side is something she watched from behind. Dungall changed the opening password of the secret room to a song "written" by Elizabeth herself.

After playing a few bars, I heard the sound of the door opening.

The bookshelf that reached the ceiling on the opposite side was actually separated from the left and right, revealing a downward staircase with a very narrow entrance.

Ron took the gas lamp and looked down, and the inside was so deep that it was almost invisible. Elizabeth looked down, and the inside was almost bottomless.

"Let's go down and have a look." Elizabeth said, "This is my father's secret room, it won't harm me."

The author has something to say: trying to restore the IQ of Sherlock Holmes... However, the author's IQ is not as high as Sir Conan Doyle!A concubine can't do it!

☆、Valentine's Day episode

The author has something to say: Well~ Anyway, everyone should know who the hero is~

On Valentine's Day, generally boys will give girls roses, while girls will choose to give boys chocolates.

And Elizabeth decided to make a chocolate by herself.

Elizabeth had already prepared cocoa powder, cocoa butter, sugar and milk, and after driving everyone out of the kitchen (which also hindered Estelle's afternoon tea), she began to face the steamer.

Find a steamer, put water in it, and heat it up.Then place the large bowl on the steaming rack.Place cocoa powder, cocoa butter, and granulated sugar in a bowl, stirring constantly.until the contents of the bowl are mushy, as the old British saying goes, "as mushy as porridge".

Add a small amount of milk into the paste, stir again until it is thick again, and let it cool naturally.

It is then heated again, at which point sugar is added.

Elizabeth is very sweet, and has an unusual love for macarons, which are deadly sweets for normal people.The daily afternoon tea time is almost ignoring the sandwiches and muffins, sweeping up the fruit tarts and cakes.

So sugar for a girl like that, well, we pray the guy who gets it has a sweet tooth.

Antonio was flattered when he got the chocolate: "For me?"

"Well, Valentine's Day gift." Elizabeth flicked her long hair: "What do you want to give me? Mr. Red Rose?"

Antonio brought out a large bag of beautiful roses.

"Oh? Red roses?"

"Yes." Antonio handed her the bouquet: "You call me Mr. Red Rose, then I will give you myself."

"I love you, Elizabeth."

Antonio squatted down slightly and kissed the back of her hand.