Baker Street Charterers

Holmes and Nora hurried out of the antique shop, ignoring the suspicious shout of the boss behind them.

"I'm assuming that Sherlock already has the answer?" Seeing Holmes' confident expression, Nora couldn't help but smile slightly and joked.

Holmes straightened his bow tie, put on his black top hat, and replied slowly, "It can be said that... I have already sorted out the whole matter, and now there is only a final decision - we need evidence."

"Oh?" Nora raised her eyebrows, "Let me guess, the evidence is the key person——McAdam?"

"That's why I like talking to smart people." Holmes lifted his chin slightly, and a very pleasant smile appeared in the corner of his eyes, "You don't need to use superficial words and complicated social etiquette to deal with those empty-headed bigwigs. Stupid, it's like playing a guessing game, as long as there is a clear clue, your partner can follow the clues to find the answer."

Nora smiled, "To be called a partner by the famous Mr. Holmes, I think this honor will be more noble than seeing Watson know how to appreciate music." You must know that Holmes's popularity in the world in later generations is only His "partner" John Watson enjoys the hatred, love and jealousy of women and men all over the world.

Hearing such a high evaluation, Holmes stopped in his tracks. He turned his head to look at her with a little scrutiny. After a few seconds of consideration, he said slowly, "Actually, there is one question I still don't understand."

Nora was not shaken by the other party's serious expression, she shrugged, "Listen all ears."

"As Miss Sharp said, you were born in a not very wealthy family - no offense, your hometown is in the countryside of Liverpool, and you have only been in London for half a month, but you seem to know my name well - of course the reputation It has always been related to personal character and IQ." Even though he was puzzled, Holmes did not forget to boast, "I am very surprised, where did you hear about me, and you are not stingy about such a high evaluation?"

It’s finally here—after hearing this almost fateful topic, Nora breathed a sigh of relief. Her high ponytail looks extremely energetic, and her pair of green eyes are like a wilderness growing broom He looked at him with a smile, and said slowly, "To tell you the truth, Mr. Holmes, I have heard of you before I came to London."

Holmes raised an eyebrow.

"Remember that case you solved two years ago, the Musgrave Ceremony case?"

Holmes nodded without hesitation. The cases he has solved will never be forgotten, nor any details.

Nora smiled, with undisguised admiration in her eyes, "You may not remember, although the case was not a sensation, I still saw it in the next day's newspaper—it was It's the first time I've heard your name and I've taken a whole lot of interest in you."

She didn't feel any ambiguity in the sentence that made Holmes couldn't help but continue to say, "At that time, the police department covered up this case a lot, which aroused my interest. I just passed it by, but I know how extraordinary the protagonist must be if he can make the always proud police department helpless, but let an unknown person solve the case."

Even though these stories were made up long ago, Nora's real evaluation of Holmes is not low, and I believe no one will disagree with her words at this moment, "So I started to notice you, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, you are really a good one You are an extremely low-key person, even if I never miss the news cases in the newspapers, I can't find any news about you-fortunately, I saw your article about criticizing Yuchuang in a magazine a year ago Disadvantages of the wood liquid test method, articles advocating the new method of mixing and identifying blood..."

"You also read that article?" Holmes was genuinely surprised this time.

"Yes." Nora said calmly, "You also said that if this method had been promoted last year, then the Beschoff case in Frankfurt, the Mason and Moller cases in Brad would have been solved earlier." Her The smile is full of affirmation, "Although not many people agree with your argument, I am very interested in it."

"It's a pity that my family life changed later, and I haven't seen any articles published by you, or maybe I missed the opportunity to read it." Nora sighed, then her face brightened, and her eyes brightened, "But maybe God I never thought that I would meet you after I came to London and failed to recognize my relatives. If there is such a thing as fate, then I should be grateful for it. Nora has spent 18 years in a daze, but I met you here True friends, partners, and the opportunity to share with them what I know and love, no one has been more fortunate than me."

She smiled and looked earnestly as she spoke.Judging by her own experience, most of them are actually true. She told him without any concealment of her admiration for Holmes' personality, her affirmation of his extensive knowledge, and her love for his seriousness and perseverance in solving cases, except that That doesn't tell anyone the point.

After all, even a man like Sherlock Holmes would not believe that.

Sometimes the fear of ignorance will make the follow-up of an event very terrible. Traveling through this event is tantamount to heresy and evil for people of this era, and she will not let herself fall into such a situation similar to destruction.

Nora finished all the words in one go. After finishing speaking, she opened her eyes slightly and stared at him intently, waiting for his answer.

Holmes stood there, seemingly in a daze for a long time, until he noticed her gaze, and then he suddenly came back to his senses, blinked his gray eyes, touched the pipe subconsciously, and let out a drawn out, slightly dull voice, "Oh— —”

He tried to let his appearance just now disappear into his calmness now, his expression was very calm, his hand holding the pipe was slender and strong, his eyes were deep and calm, if one ignored the smile that could not be hidden on his mouth, he looked very proud and arrogant Wisdom, "hmm... the truth is amazing, I didn't know I had such a special..."

He tilted his head slightly, as if he was thinking about what words to use to describe her.

"Fans." Nora said. Seeing Holmes looking over suspiciously, she paused and explained, "Well...it means supporters, supporters."

Holmes nodded, "It seems that there are still many things I don't know. Fan... Yes, I am very happy for your love."

Different from other people's politeness and perfunctory, the "happy" in Holmes's mouth represents his true emotions. For Sherlock, who has always used commendatory words as a mockery, the feeling he describes now is undoubtedly very precious.

"No no no." Nora smiled, "It's my honor."

She bit the "pleasure" very hard—Holmes couldn't understand her mood at the moment. As an enduring national idol, he was able to learn a little bit of useful things from his side. It was just a weak word like "honour" Can't explain enough.

"Okay, this is the end of the touching mutual compliments." Sherlock Holmes slightly bent his eyes happily, with an indistinct smile in his tone, "It's time to return to the cruel real world, Nora, do you think we Where should I find that Mr. McAdam?"

"The most dangerous place is the safest place." She straightened her face and made inferences following Holmes' intentions. "So for Mr. McAdam, what is the most dangerous place and the safest place?"

Holmes and her looked at each other, almost without thinking, and said the answer at the same time——

"The bakery."