[Sherlock Holmes] Captured a detective

Chapter 34

"Madam, you...do you really want me to be the housekeeper?" Fantine said a little excitedly.

Jenny smiled and patted Fantine's hand and said, "Of course, my dear, I think you are already competent." In fact, Fantine has already taken charge of the keys to the kitchen, but Jenny can understand Fantine's thoughts, "I think Cosette is quite talented, so I want to train her well in the next few years. This time I will take you to Pemberley Manor, and I hope you can learn a lot. I heard that Pemberley Manor has many works of art. Seth is good too."

Fantine was so excited that she couldn't help it. She didn't expect that Jenny took them to travel together for this purpose. She nodded with tears in her eyes.Fantine once thought that this was the end of her life, but God still loved her, so she met Mrs. Hudson and lived with her daughter. Now her good master is willing to train Cosette, It was like a dream.Fantine secretly decided that when she went to Pemberley Manor this time, she must learn the work of the housekeeper of the other's family and never embarrass Mrs. Hudson.

Jenny didn't know that Fantine had made up her mind. She really felt that Cosette was very talented in art and liked embroidery very much, but it would take a few years to know whether she could really inherit her craft.

Because they just missed lunch and dinner on the train, Jenny and the others only prepared some snacks for afternoon tea.Cakes, butter buns, preserved fruits, dried meat, fried potato chips, various small biscuits, sliced ​​sausages, a few pieces of roast duck, jam... Of course, there is also tea.Jenny is not someone who treats herself badly, she ordered two travel baskets, the larger one was taken away by Sherlock, and she took the smaller one with her.

The trip was scheduled for a week, and apart from the food she took away, Jenny gave all the food that was not easy to store and gave it to the Potters, Black and Lupine next door, which made them very happy .

After lunch and resting for a while, Fantine went out to call for a carriage, and asked the coachman to help load the luggage into it.Jenny walked slowly downstairs with the help of Cosette on the crutches John had kindly provided.Because of Jenny's limited mobility, they had to go to the train station earlier.

This was the second time Fantine and Cosette took the train, but the mood was completely different from the previous one.When Fantine came to London by train for the first time, her heart was full of uneasiness about the future, even faintly hopeless. She had hoped to marry her sweetheart, but in the end she almost became a street girl.Cosette was taken away by a kind stranger (Sherlock) last time, completely unaware of her future.

Compared with the last time, this trip was a novel experience for the Fantine mother and daughter, and Cosette held Jenny's hand tightly and did not dare to relax.After finally sitting in the box, Fantine and Cosette breathed a sigh of relief at the same time. The two similar faces made exactly the same relaxed expressions, which amused Jenny.

"Honey, there's no need to be so nervous." Jenny pinched Cosette's little face.

Because it was a trip, Jenny was wearing a gray woolen travel suit, and her hair was tied tightly behind her head into a bun. The hat was a wide-brimmed cap of the same style as the dress. It was not fixed on the hair, but an elastic band was used. , but also for the convenience of taking off and wearing on the train.Fantine and Cosette had no traveling clothes, and they wore the same skirt of blue cloth, which was originally made for the convenience of work, but which is also suitable now.

After the train started, with Jenny's permission, Fantine led Cosette from beginning to end along the train corridor.Although Fantine tried to appear more demure and generous, the curiosity in her eyes was not deceiving, and in any case she was only twenty-two years old.

Fantine felt a little embarrassed when she came back, she left the hostess and ran to watch the train by herself, which made her a little disappointed in herself, and she couldn't hold back her curiosity... qaq... Although Mrs. Hudson didn't say anything, but she is now It's the housekeeper, you must not let down the trust of the hostess!Fantine clenched her fists in her heart.

However, it was difficult for Cosette to restrain her childish nature. After sitting down for 10 minutes, she began to writhe around.

"Mrs. Hudson, Mrs. Hudson, may I go outside and play for a while?"

"Cosette!"

"It's okay, Fantine, it's really boring to always sit in the box after such a long time. Yes, Cosette (Cosette: Oye~). But...you can't run on the train, be careful of people holding things , especially those who are holding pots or cups, don't go to dangerous places, can it be done?"

"Yes~ Mrs. Hudson~"

Cosette ran out happily, but within half an hour she came back depressed.

"What's the matter, Cosette, you don't seem very happy?" Jenny asked strangely.

"Mrs. Hudson... Mrs. Johnson won't let Ethan and Birdie play with me. She said, I'm a servant's child, and they can't play with servant's children." Cosette said with a sad face.

"Who are Ethan and Birdie?" Jenny asked.

"It's the two boys I just met. They're there. They're in the first-class box. That's what Mrs. Johnson said." Cosette had a good memory.

"Oh..." Fantine did not know what to say.

"That's right." Jenny understood, "Cosette, I think you have discovered that this world is not fair, right?" Cosette blinked, she still didn't quite understand what fairness is. "You can't make everyone like you, but all you can do is be a lady and let other people know that you are."

Cosette found Mrs. Hudson's words too deep for her to understand.

Jenny took the basket and took out a piece of cake from it, "Do you want to eat?"

"Yes~" After taking the cake, Cosette immediately put the frustration behind her.

Cosette soon became happy with the cake.At this moment, Jenny suddenly noticed two little heads shaking at the door in turn.When one of the boys looked over again and found Jenny looking at him with a smile, he was startled, and then knocked on the door embarrassingly.

"Come in." Jenny invited.

A boy about ten years old opened the door and came in, followed by another boy, a little younger, about seven or eight years old.Cosette recognized them both, "Ethan? Birdy?"

"Hi, Cosette, hello, ma'am." Ethan waved his fingers as a greeting.The other boy was obviously in a hurry, he said arrogantly: "Cosette, don't stay in this third-class box all the time, let's go exploring?" Ethan was startled, he thought he didn't see it Touching the corner of Boddy's clothes, Boddy closed his mouth indignantly.

Jenny raised an eyebrow.

Ethan cleared his throat and said, "I'm Ethan Bruce Johnson and this is my cousin, Besdick Johnson, ma'am, can we hang out with Cosette? It won't be long ma'am .” Then he and his cousin pretended to be reserved, looking at Jenny expectantly.

Jenny smiled: "No."

"What? Why?" Little friend Ethan, who was pretending to be an adult just now, broke his skills. Obviously, when he did this before, adults would not reject him.

"Cosette, are you going?" Jenny ignored the two brats.

Cosette shook her head. Birdie despised Mrs. Hudson face to face, but Ethan didn't apologize first. Although Cosette didn't understand the reason, she felt that it was not good.

"Don't pull it down, mom is right, you are just the daughter of a maid who can only afford to sit in the third-class box." The irritable Birdie shouted. (Note: Birdy thought his mother said that maids only sat in the third-class box.)

Cosette looked at Ethan, but found that he was looking at him accusingly, so Cosette also said angrily: "You are monkeys wearing human clothes but without brains, and I don't want to play with monkeys."

After the two brats ran away in anger, Jenny blinked and asked Cosette: "Cosette, what you just said... who taught you?" Such a long sentence was actually quite fluent.

"I heard what Mr. Holmes said." Cosette looked innocent. She only knew that this sentence was used to mock the other party, but she didn't quite know what it meant.

Jenny: "Oh~" It seems that the lady's self-cultivation class needs to be put on the agenda.

Jenny looked at Cosette carefully. Fantine was not bad in appearance, otherwise she would not be attracted by scumbags, and Cosette obviously inherited the advantages of both parents.Cosette is a beauty, more delicate than Fantine, the pigment on her body seems to have been lightened by God, light yellow hair, light blue eyes, slightly pale complexion, only her face and lips are very rosy.

It can be predicted that when Cosette grows up, she must be a beauty, but in this era, if she doesn't have a matching status, excessive beauty is a woman's sin.

At this point, Jenny can hardly do anything for Cosette, the only thing she can do is to teach her the ability to protect herself before anyone discovers Cosette's beauty.

Cosette didn't know what Jenny was thinking, she was still ignorantly overjoyed for a piece of cake.After the bear child, Cosette didn't run out of the box to play again, she sat by the window and looked at the flying scenery outside the window curiously.

"Mrs. Hudson, why are the houses and trees running backwards?"

"Mrs. Hudson, why do trains only run on the tracks?"

"Mrs. Hudson, why is the mountain in the distance running very slowly, but the open space ahead is running very fast?"

"Mrs. Hudson..."

In Cosette's mind, Mrs. Hudson is omnipotent, but Mrs. Hudson herself doesn't think so.

"I don't know, Cosette, maybe you can figure it out for yourself when you take the train a few more times."

"Can I still take the train in the future?"

"Oh, of course, until you get bored."

"I'm not going to get tired of riding the train, ever."

"Oh, really?"

"Yes."

After the train traveled for several hours, the sky gradually darkened, and the compartment became quiet. Cosette had already fallen asleep, and Jenny and Fantine closed their eyes to rest after taking a nap.The food they had brought had already been eaten and the tea was finished, but fortunately there was still an hour to go to the station.The train slowly climbed up a slope, passed through a cave, and then drove into two merged railways with another train at a slow speed.

Jenny opened her eyes and found this scene very interesting. Another train was running parallel to them at an arm's length away. She could see a group of people in the opposite train compartment discussing something intensely, and then they noticed When they saw her, they turned their heads together, with the same surprise in their eyes.

"Fantine, look, Fantine." Jenny tapped Fantine's shoe with her stick.

"What, Mrs. Hudson?" Fantine opened her eyes and saw the train opposite, "Oh..." Then she pushed Cosette who was lying on her lap, and asked her to come and see this wonderful scene.

In a few seconds, the train on the opposite side began to speed up. Jenny and the others could see the boxes on the opposite side. A couple were kissing, three men were smoking, a silver-haired couple was waving to them, and the curtain of one box was drawn. On... Suddenly, the curtain rolled up.Jenny and Fantine's eyes widened at the same time.

"what!!!!"

"What's the matter, what happened?"