[Sherlock Holmes] Captured a detective

Chapter 4

"So, did you come to me, did you make any decision?" Jenny asked with a smile.

Sherlock raised his eyebrows. It was absurd for such a rough man to make such an action, "Mrs. Hudson, I think you may have guessed the purpose of my coming to you, haven't you?" Sherlock's original intention It's just a small compliment to Jenny, women, aren't they all like this, as long as they flatter a little, they will proudly tell what they know.

It's a pity that he met Jenny.

Jenny shook her head and said honestly, "I don't know."

The corner of Sherlock's mouth twitched, knowing that this would not work.He was a little annoyed, this woman was soft and hard, but she might hold the key.

"Okay." Sherlock put his hands together on his chin, leaned his elbows against the table, lowered his head slightly, and looked at Jenny sharply, "It seems that you are indeed a smart person, I must tell the truth. You know... What about your husband? What is he doing? Who does he work for? What did you know on that tin can? Did you know it was dangerous? Not only your husband, but you too, are in a dangerous situation? "

Do you still want to do this set?

Jenny smiled lightly, and said leisurely, "I guessed a little bit."

Sherlock, who got this sentence after talking for a long time, was not depressed, on the contrary, this different woman made him feel a little excited.

"Really?" Sherlock raised the corner of his mouth slightly, "Then what are you going to do?"

"nj, 29, 50, 38, 106." Jenny suddenly announced a series of letters and numbers, "This is written on the back of the label."

Sherlock's eyes lit up, but he frowned quickly and fell into deep thought, muttering words.After a while, he raised his head and found that Mrs. Hudson was still sitting there leisurely, her eyes slightly lowered, and she did not move.

"Cough!" Sherlock coughed lightly, and seeing Jenny looked up, he said, "Do you remember the messages from the previous few times?"

Jenny shook her head slightly: "Before today, I didn't think I needed to know this."

So what happened that she had to pay attention to the information?Sherlock made a mental note of this.

"But I can pay attention to it later, if you want. I actually know some others, but maybe you're not so interested." The small flame of the oil lamp flickered in Jenny's eyes.

"Then if I want to get those information, I must pay for it?" Sherlock said slightly mockingly.

Smart~

Jenny gave Sherlock an appreciative look, "I have three requests." She said unhurriedly.

"Of course, you said." Sherlock leaned back on the back of the chair.

Jenny didn't care about Sherlock's attitude, "First, I hope my husband can die in prison according to normal legal procedures. Second, I hope you can help me get my husband's entire estate smoothly." Her The attitude seems to be not talking about the death of her husband, but just saying "Oh, it will rain again tomorrow". "Third, I will not take the initiative to provide you with any information. If you want to know something, you can ask me. If I can help you, I will naturally help you."

"You seem very sure that your husband will definitely die?" Sherlock asked tentatively after thinking for a while.

Jenny gave Sherlock a strange look, and said, "He's been doing this job for almost a year, and I don't think he'll do it forever. Although he disagrees with me, I can't just do nothing, right? "

Sherlock felt that there was nothing to think about this matter. Now that Mrs. Hudson had made up her mind, and Mr. Harper had conclusive evidence in Mrs. Hudson's hands, now he still needed Mrs. Hudson's help... ... Sherlock is very clear that Mrs. Hudson only proposed the second condition because he is a man and she is a woman, and the third condition is more ingenious. This lady is only willing to help secretly and does not want others to know. excusable.

All that is needed now is timing.

Sherlock snapped his fingers and said, "Let's make this decision, then next time..."

"The next time you come to see me, if there is any new news, I will tell you." Jenny said without losing any reason.

Sherlock: You are so watertight.

Jenny: Thanks for the compliment.

"Well, then, goodbye."

"Goodbye."

With Jenny's help, Sherlock felt much more convenient, although he didn't know how the lady got the news without being discovered.You must know that all the news is sealed, as long as the receiver finds that there is something wrong, the body of the lady's husband will float on the Thames the next day... And up to now, Sherlock has received information three times. Mr. Harper is still active in various casinos.

Jenny knew very well that no matter what they wanted to do, they had to speed up.In the past month, there have been more messages from Tom. In the past, there was only one order every seven or eight days, but now it happens once every five or six days. This shows that...those guys are about to give up on Tom.

As far as Tom was concerned he was so confident now that he would even throw Jenny a shilling or two now and then when he pleased.

"Just wait, we're going to get rich soon." Tom took a sip of the low-quality wine, and staggered out again.

But Tom was not happy for too long, and soon the people of Scotland Yard came to him. He was accused of many crimes. Somehow Scotland Yard found out about the girl.He swore that he was just drunk at that time. Although he later brought back the necklace on the girl's neck because of greed, he didn't dare to change it into money, and still put it on there. In a locked box.

"Tom, I, I don't know what to do. They said you killed someone, and if you want to mitigate the crime, you need a lot of money, about three hundred pounds...we have no money." Jenny who came to visit the prison was completely at a loss. The appearance is very in line with her usual image.

"What, three hundred pounds, they're killing me!" cried Tom, jumping up.

"Sit down!" A policeman guarding the door knocked hard on the door.Tom sat back on the chair embarrassingly, and he scratched his hair vigorously, feeling as if a fire was burning in his heart.

"What to do, what to do, Tom, how do you think we can get so much money to help you? Even Old Willy can't afford five hundred pounds. He is already the richest person among us." Jenny "Sob" said.

Hearing Willie's name, Tom had a flash of inspiration, "Yes, Willie, didn't he always want to buy my house? There is still land, that old bastard, the butcher, tell him to take three hundred pounds, and I will buy the house." Sell ​​it to him peacefully." Tom rubbed his hands together and blushed.

"But...but that's our last..."

"Shut up, you idiot, we can make more money when I get out."

"But...but what should I do?"

Tom took the key from his neck, hesitated for a moment, put the key on the table and pushed it to Jenny. "That box of mine, you know the one with the lock, has some land and house certificates in it."

Jenny took the key in a daze for a while, and then suddenly realized that she took out a piece of paper folded into a square from her pocket in a panic, "This is, this is from Old Willy, he said, What kind of authorization did he say? You need to sign on it...and press your fingerprints to buy a house for him."

Tom didn't believe that his cowardly wife would think of a power of attorney, let alone how old Willie knew about such a thing as a power of attorney, and he didn't think there was anything wrong with the whole thing.

Tom opened the paper cursingly: "That old xx is taking advantage of the fire, he is ready and I can only buy it for him." But now he can't find anyone else who can save him with money, so he can only buy it at Press your fingerprint on the power of attorney.

When Jenny tidied up her hair and walked out of the police station, except for her red eyes, she couldn't see what the cowardly woman who could only sob had anything to do with her.

"It seems to be going well, Mrs. Hudson."

The young man standing at the door said to Jenny.He was thin and tall, with almost no flesh on his face, but his fingers were slender, and his eyes were as bright as fire, like a hound, ready to pounce on his prey at any time.

This time Sherlock came with Jenny in his true colors, wearing a fitted black suit, a top hat, and a woolen coat.Standing with Jenny, the two are simply master and maid in terms of their clothes.

"Yes, it went well." Jenny smiled and shook the folded paper in her hand.

"Then, I wish you all the best." Seeing that Jenny didn't make any additional requests, Sherlock touched the brim of his hat and turned away. Their transaction was not over, but the lady's involvement was no longer needed for the subsequent matters. He will fulfill the agreement.

Jenny didn't feel Sherlock's rudeness either, she left in the opposite direction to Sherlock, not worried at all that her husband would come out of prison alive.

The house and land are the first pot of gold, and of course Jenny doesn't plan to sell them to some old Willy.In fact, Jenny has not been idle in the past two or three months. She used a dozen embroidered handkerchiefs to open the business of a tailor named Tom, and just embroidered some handkerchief lace every month, which was enough to maintain Jenny as before. live.

But this is far from enough for Jenny's goal.

Through Tom Tailor, Jenny also had the opportunity to meet some middle-class and upper-class wives. Although there were not many and they were not familiar with each other, Jenny still made friends with a lawyer's wife.

The kind lawyer wife not only admired Jenny's embroidery skills, but also lamented Jenny's fate.Knowing that Jenny's villainous husband needs a large amount of bail in prison, and Jenny is going to buy the inheritance to save her husband, the lawyer wife suddenly remembered something she had heard from her husband: his main family , James Brothers Construction Company wanted to develop a piece of land, but strangely, the property rights of this piece of land were not in the hands of the government, but in the hands of a small gangster.The lawyer's wife realized later that the land seemed to be what Jenny wanted to sell.

The lawyer's wife hurriedly told her husband about the matter, and the lawyer also quickly reported the matter to the boss.As expected, the James brothers did not give up on the land, and they immediately sent a manager to discuss the matter.

At first I thought it would be a very easy task, after all, this Mrs. Haver was in a hurry to spend money.But the final result was unexpected. The James company paid more money than expected to get the land.According to the manager, although the negotiation was not very smooth, it was worthwhile to get to know such a lady.

However, because the negotiation took too long, Jenny's husband did not wait for the life-saving money. The day before Jenny got the money, Tom was sentenced to death.

Jenny, who lost her husband and her place of refuge, was "heartbroken" and decided to leave this sad place to live on the other side of the city.She bid farewell to the reluctant Tom tailor family, and left here with the only property she had.

A year later, in the London Stock Exchange, there was a young guy in a jacket and a deerstalker who often went in and out of it. He was like those people who want to get rich overnight with stocks and futures, but every time he only Do short-term business, never long-term.

No one paid attention to such an ordinary young man, so no one knew that almost every business he did was accounted for, and he never lost money, and no one noticed that he invested more and more money.

Two years later, the guy disappeared, like all people who lose all their money and end up broke.

Jenny set the last table and let out a long breath.After she changed places three years ago, she still found Tom Tailor and cooperated with him on haute couture, she was in charge of embroidery and design, while Tom was in charge of making clothes and doing business.Jenny let Tom get some good information from the ladies, although Tom didn't know what she was asking for gossip.

Jenny used these information and Naoko Kushita's knowledge to disguise herself as a man to speculate in stocks, slowly saved up money, and finally bought a three-story house of her own, as well as several steel companies and timber companies. dividend-paying shares of the company.

Now Jenny can finally rest and live the life she wants.

But... this house seems a bit too big, it's scary to live alone, how about... find some tenants?