[Sherlock Holmes] Captured a detective

Chapter 12

When Sherlock and John came back in the carriage at night, they found that there was an extra maid in their house, and her name was Fantine.

Fantine's hair was terrible. According to her own account, she bought her hair and sent it to the small hotel where her daughter was adopted.By the way, she has a five-year-old daughter named Cosette, and Jenny has promised her to bring her with her to raise herself.The utility room next to the kitchen had been cleared away to serve as Fantine's bedroom.

Jenny was no philanthropist, it was just that she needed a maid just in time, and Fantine was there.

Fantine was cleansed, and her wounds were medicated.Her old clothes and shoes had been burned, and now she was wearing one of Jenny's old clothes, an apron, and a piece of her head that covered her head tightly.Although Jenny herself was very slender, the dress looked very roomy on Fantine.

Silently, Fantine filled a bowl of soup for everyone, gave John a piece of fried chicken, put a basket with buns on the table, filled everyone's cups with drinks, and finally held a plate for herself. Bread and mash hide in the room.

John breathed a sigh of relief, and all the curiosity in his heart would turn into question marks popping out of his forehead.

"Mrs. Hudson, don't you introduce me? And where did you find such a..." John asked.

"Her name is Fantine, and she is the maid I found today. You can call her if you need anything in the future." Jenny didn't intend to say anything more, "Poor woman, her husband died very early, and she didn't even have time to wait for the child to be born. , She found a job in the factory in order to live, but she was fired last month, I hired her as a maid, if there is no accident, she will be my maid for a long time, I think it is very good."

John: "Oh." It's strange to believe you.

Jenny: "Yes." Anyway, that's it.

Sherlock: "..." There are lies in the truth, and there are truths in the false. This woman doesn't blink when she tells a lie.

But Sherlock felt that this matter had no effect on his life at all.

"Ah, by the way, in a few weeks we will have a lovely little lodger, Cosette, Fantine's daughter, who is five years old." Jenny smiled at the men.

John: "!" I really want to know the gossip.

Sherlock frowned and said, "You mean there's going to be a noisy, dirty little slick going to live with us?"

Jenny retorted: "She is a lovely and obedient little girl, and she lives with Fantine in a small room on the first floor."

Sherlock: "How do you know it's cute and obedient?"

Jenny: "But there's no evidence that she's loud and dirty, and I'd ask Fantine to keep her clean and tidy."

Sherlock shut up immediately.

After a few minutes of silence, John felt that the atmosphere was too embarrassing, and it was just a maid. There was no need to make everyone so tense because of a maid.

"Uh, Mrs. Hudson, remember the case two days ago?" John found a topic.

"Oh? How's it going?" Jenny asked with dignity.

"It's over. The murderer is the man you saw at noon today. We happened to meet you when we got into the carriage."

Jenny really showed interest as John thought.

"The whole incident is exactly as Holmes expected..." John began to describe the whole case, and Sherlock interrupted from time to time to correct John's statement.

"In my memory, there is no more exciting case than this one. Although it is simple, there are a few points in it that are worthy of deep learning." Sherlock's mood has completely improved, and his relaxed fork He took a piece of sausage and put it in his mouth.

"Simple?" John exclaimed instead.

Sherlock smiled proudly at John's surprise, "Yes, of course, I only spent three days on the whole case."

"Oh, that's true." John said honestly, which made Sherlock even more proud.

Sherlock said with pride: "I said before, all unusual things are generally not an obstacle, but a clue. Using the method of reasoning, backtracking reasoning layer by layer, you can usually get some truth. This It is very easy, but most people are so stupid that they don't see it. If fifty people can reason comprehensively from all aspects of affairs, then there are only a few people who can reason analytically."

"...To be honest, I still don't quite understand it." John felt that he was stupid enough.

"Are you saying that the most important thing is not reasoning, but the direction of reasoning?" Jenny asked the core.Sherlock nodded slightly reserved, but John was still bewildered.

"Yes." Sherlock admired the landlady, as a woman, she was smarter than many men.

"I still don't understand..." John protested, what are you doing, I hate smart people!

"For example, Dr. Watson, if Mr. Holmes said that he would no longer accept cases this year, what would be your first impression upon hearing the news?" Jenny decided to remind John with specific examples.

"Impossible...Is it? Oh, well, probably some big case will take a year? It seems unlikely, maybe it's because of illness." John gave a conservative answer.

"If Lestrade or Grayson would probably turn pale with fright, there is one less way to make them function." Sherlock said meanly.Neither Jenny nor John responded to what he said.

"If it were me, I would probably be worried about whether Mr. Holmes' rent for this year can be paid in time." Jenny spread her hands.

"So that's the case, it really makes sense." John felt that he finally understood.

Both Jenny and Sherlock breathed a sigh of relief... It's not easy, dull star.

After dinner, the men usually go upstairs for a smoke.Fantine, who had been hiding in her little room after eating, came out to clear the table.

"Come here, Fantine." Jenny beckoned, and let Fantine sit across from her.

Fantine wiped her hands on her apron, and sat down with a look of terror.

Jenny looked at Fantine, this young and desperate woman at noon now had hope rekindled in her eyes, which made Jenny feel that even asking for trouble was worth it, but those who should be warned should still be warned.

"Fantine." Jenny said, "I have reached a consensus with the tenants, they will not have any opinion on your matter." Before Fantine was relieved, Jenny said with a stern tone, "But there are some things I think we still need to keep that in mind."

"You told me that you used to work as a female worker on a farm. Only half a year after you got married, your husband was frightened by a horse, kicked him in the chest, and died. You didn't know that you had a child. After the child was born, you went to the city to support your family. Li came to find a job in a factory and put her daughter in a small hotel. You missed your daughter too much, and you made a mistake at work and were fired. I sympathize with you and your daughter, so I hired you. Now I give you permission to bring your daughter with you until you are able to move out, or until Cosette grows up."

Fantine seemed to want to correct Jenny, but Jenny would not allow her to do so.

"Remember, Fantine, I'm willing to give you a room and sixpence a day and food because I sympathize with you as a widow like me, and you have a poor posthumous daughter to support, do you understand ?”

Jenny pronounced the words "widow" and "posthumous child" heavily, and Fantine immediately remembered the reason for her dismissal, her face turned pale, she pursed her lips fiercely, and nodded.

"Yes, Mrs. Hudson, I understand, and I appreciate you for that."

Jenny relaxed, luckily the woman wasn't too stupid yet.

Jenny clapped her hands and said, "Okay, your job today is to clean these tableware. Tomorrow I will find someone to fix the bathroom and toilet on the first floor, and you will take a shower and wash clothes there from now on... Well, I'll go buy you a bucket tomorrow, and you can use the kitchen stove to boil water...what else?"

"No...it's nothing, ma'am." Compared with the previous life, it was much better, Fantine really thought so.

"Oh, yes, there are clothes, you need a change of clothes, tomorrow we will buy some clothes for you, you can buy them yourself when you have money, and Cosette's, you have to prepare two for her Clothes. Tomorrow morning, I will go shopping with you first, and then you will have to buy the usual cooking materials and so on by yourself."

Jenny thought about it, and felt that she should have done nothing, "Let's do this first, go to bed early." She stood up, gave Fantine an encouraging smile, and went upstairs first.

I'm so happy, I can finally stop doing chores by myself. Tomorrow, remember to tell Mrs. Potter's maid that she doesn't need to come over, and everyone doesn't need to eat dry bread, and don't need to take out the clothes to wash... Eh, so Thinking about it, it really saves money.

When Jenny came downstairs the next day, Fantine hadn't gotten up yet. Fantine came out in a hurry when Jenny told the maid next door who came to help that she would not be there anymore.Of course the maid was very upset, but there was nothing she could do, after all, she couldn't spend more time with Jenny herself.She gave Fantine a hard look, and took the salary Jenny gave her and left.

"Yes, I'm sorry, Mrs. Hudson, I'm late," said Fantine flustered, for she was very worried about losing the job.

"It's okay, you were really tired yesterday." Jenny didn't care, she looked at Fantine, there was nothing wrong. "Let's go, I'll take you to the market."

"The milk is delivered every day and you check to see if it's fresh."

"Meat can also be delivered by him, but you have to cut the parts you want first, otherwise the butcher will send some bad meat."

"I'll make a list of other dishes for you the night before. What, you can't read? It's too bad. If you have a chance, you should learn it. Well, I'll tell you how to do it slowly in the future."

"bread……"

"butter……"

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Fantine followed Jenny all the way, feeling dizzy and dizzy. She never knew that she needed to buy so many things to eat three meals. In the past, she used to eat the cheapest bread, water, beans and potatoes for several years. .

With Fantine around, Jenny felt a lot more relaxed, and the tenants who no longer had to eat dry bread felt that the maid was well worth it.Jenny now cooks a meal every seven or eight days when she is off, and the tenants know they can look forward to dinner when they have something other than a sandwich for lunch.

The only thing bothering Jenny now is how to bring back Fantine's daughter, Cosette.