[Sherlock Holmes] Captured a detective

Chapter 61

Sherlock seemed to be working late that night, and Jenny seemed to hear people walking around downstairs in a daze, and occasionally there was a sudden cry.

"What the hell are you staying up so late?" Jenny thought in a daze.

The next morning, Jenny got up early as usual, and then she and Fantine took the bedding to the sink.Because there is no need to go shopping today, the time in the early morning has become a little more abundant, and fortunately there is no need to go shopping. Although the stench outside has dissipated a lot today, it is still choking. It is better not to go out if you can not go out.

Jenny is sitting in the kitchen planning today's work. Apart from a lot of laundry and three meals, the borrowed clothes should be returned to Tom today. It's almost time to collect the rent again. Oh yes, I have to count Expenses... It may not seem like much, but it takes a day to do it.

Jenny was listing the tasks on paper one by one, when she suddenly heard the sound of someone opening the door, she looked up... Sherlock Holmes, you went out so early... Jenny asked whatever she thought.

Sherlock took off his hat and replied, "Oh, yes, the weather is fine today."

Jenny: ...Why is it so smelly?

Sherlock: "Is there anything to eat, Mrs. Hudson?"

"I can do it now." Jenny stood up and went straight into the kitchen.

Sherlock was sitting on another chair, tapping his fingers rhythmically on the table. At this moment, his heart was tangled.

I don't know why, since returning to 221b two days ago, Mrs. Hudson suddenly returned to the mode of the landlady. There was obviously a different tacit understanding between them before.

……woman……

For the first time, Sherlock felt his own shortcomings.He thought back to his previous time at Windsor Castle.

common topic? √

Sweet talk (no)? √

Intimate contact? √

Harmonious atmosphere? √

Gift? √

...He thought he was doing pretty well, but why did he seem to be back in the mode of landlord and tenant all of a sudden?If it was normal, he would still have time to explore slowly, but now he had to go to Europe... maybe he could write a letter?

Jenny didn't understand Sherlock's inner entanglement, she turned on a low heat, cut two thick slices of bread and baked them slowly in a pan for a while until the surface of the bread was slightly browned.Putting the bread on a plate, Jenny brushed a layer of oil in the pan and started frying eggs.Her fried eggs are excellent, the eggs are round, the periphery is browned and crispy, and the egg yolk in the middle has just solidified, and it can still shake tremblingly.Sprinkling a few pinches of salt in the yolk, Jenny scooped the egg into the plate.Then came the grilled mushroom and onion rolls.And finally the aspic.

Yesterday, Jenny put the fish skin and fish bone and a piece of meat skin together and boiled it with salt to make soup. After cooling overnight, the fish bone and meat skin soup condensed into jelly.Jenny poured out the jelly, and the semi-circular jelly was trembling. Jenny cut it into slices and dices with a thread, then put some dices in a bowl, and put the rest of the jelly in another bowl inside.

Bread slices, butter, fried eggs, vegetables, diced skin jelly, the entire breakfast making process took no more than 15 minutes, and Jenny took it out and placed it in front of Sherlock.

"There's still tea, wait for a while." Jenny poured out a cup of the tea she had boiled early in the morning, and then poured it back and forth with two large cups.

"A novel method." Sherlock said curiously.

"This will make the tea taste better." Jenny poured it back and forth several times, and poured the tea into the cup. "Do you want sugar? Or cream? Or milk?"

"cream."

Sherlock took a sip, and now he understood why Mrs. Hudson's special tea was always smoother and less astringent than the outside tea...a little trick.

"Mrs. Hudson," said Sherlock, as he buttered the bread, "I'm going to Europe. It may take a while."

"Europe?" Jenny sat down, indicating that she was listening.

"To be precise, it's Holland."

"The... case yesterday? I think it must be very important."

"It'll be interesting," Sherlock continued, "I'll write to you."

Jenny suddenly didn't know what to say.You go to handle the case... make up an undercover stalking... won't you reveal the information by writing a letter?

but……

"Okay." Jenny agreed with a smile, "Maybe this case will make you famous in Europe, and I will be the first to know how you broke it." Thinking about it, I am a little excited~

Sherlock was very satisfied with Jenny's answer, he forked half a mushroom and put it in his mouth, feeling that today's mushrooms seem to be tastier than ever before.

"So... when are you leaving? Take the train? Do you want me to prepare some food for you to eat on the way? Oh, I wish I had more time."

Sherlock took out his pocket watch to check the time, and said: "Of course not today, I have to visit my two guests first, and then decide what to go, but I think it should be tomorrow's train, Then get on the boat."

That's enough time.Jenny nodded, "What do you want to bring? We also made a lot of biscuits and candies yesterday."

"No candy." Sherlock flatly refused.

"Ah, don't say that, Mr. Holmes, you can try it first." Jenny said so, and went to take some of the sweets such as the various halva biscuits she and Fantine made yesterday, and put them on a plate. Here, after thinking about it, she took another jar of pickled apricots.

"Try it," Jenny said.

"Good morning, Mrs. Hudson...!! Holmes, why are you here? Am I going to be late?" John, who had walked down slowly, quickly took out his watch and found that he was not late, "Oh Holmes, you startled me." He breathed out, and sat down next to Sherlock, "What is this?" John picked up a small piece of walnut halva and put it in his mouth.

"Enn..." John bit into the "creak" sound, and stretched out his hand to take the second piece, Sherlock quickly moved the plate away, "If you eat too much sweets in the morning, you won't be able to eat, Watson. " Sherlock twisted a piece of peanut candy into his mouth.

"What, is this for you alone?" John stretched out his hand to snatch it.Sherlock moved a step faster, he put the plate in his hand first, raised his eyebrows proudly, "That's right."

"What... are you doing?" Jenny Tuzki, who made John a breakfast, looked at the two men who suddenly became childish.The two men immediately became serious when Jenny spoke... This is the disadvantage of being too familiar with men, sometimes you will find that they are actually very childish, and you have to incarnate into something else... Uh, like babysitters or something.

"Thank you, Mrs. Hudson." John smiled and thanked as usual, as if the man who grabbed candy from Sherlock just now was not him. "Mrs. Hudson, can you make me a sandwich? It would be even better if there are afternoon tea snacks. I have a lot of appointments today."

"Of course, Dr. Watson." Jenny felt that this was not a problem.

"This salty pudding is so delicious, can it be made into a sandwich? And the fruit from last night..." John pushed forward, but he didn't notice that Sherlock's face was getting darker and darker.

"Doctor Watson, I'm afraid I have to listen to this matter." Jenny interrupted John's fantasy.

"Uh... well, you have the final say." John's momentum suddenly faltered.

Jenny nodded in satisfaction and went to the kitchen.

Cut two slices of bread, then mixed the eggs with fish sauce and spread them into egg skins in a pan. Jenny cut a small sausage vertically into slices, fried them in the pan, sprinkled some pepper, and finally put the bread on Also baked and made into sandwiches.Cutting off the sides, Jenny cut the sandwiches into rectangles and triangles and wrapped them in greased paper.Then she found a tin box and packed some biscuits and candies, so that John could keep them in the office and take them anytime.

Suddenly, I found that I had a lot of boxes and jars like this on hand, all for the convenience of carrying... When I realized this, I felt that my whole body was not good...

How come there is a feeling that I am the omnipotent butler... an illusion?

After breakfast, Sherlock went out with John, and he grabbed a sandwich from John, and jumped into the carriage amid John's protest.

About what dry food to bring to Sherlock... Jenny thought for a long time, and decided to make some meat floss, which is weightless but compressible, nutritious and delicious.If Sherlock is willing, bring some sausage and jam. These things are easy to carry and have high calories. You can eat them alone or as a side dish. The only trouble is that they are a bit heavy.

The meat is ready-made, beef and fish. Jenny also bought a piece of pork. It was originally prepared for cooking, but now it is also used to make meat floss.

No matter what kind of meat it is, the steps to make meat floss are similar.Cut the meat into pieces, marinate it to taste, remove the fishy smell, and cook it.Salmon is cooked after a little steaming. Beef and pork need to be cooked for a long time. After skimming off the oil, add various seasonings. Remove and let cool.

The dried pieces of meat were very rotten. After tearing them apart by hand for a while, Jenny decided to roll them into fine pieces with a rolling pin.After that, stir-fry with olive oil, add some sugar in the middle, Jenny also tasted the taste, and added some spices, and finally fried until the water in the shredded pork evaporated slowly, and the shredded pork was fluffy and turned golden yellow , this is done.

The three pieces of meat are not big, and there are only three bowls of dried meat floss. Jenny put them on the table to cool.

"Cosette, Cosette," Jenny called, unfastening her apron.

"Yes, Mrs. Hudson?" Cosette ran from the room.

"Will you look at this for me, Cosette?" Jenny poured a cup of tea and downed it in one breath, "This is for Mr. Holmes, can you look at it for me, and let you wait for it to cool down." Mom put it in the cabinet, and I will find something to pack when I come back."

"Good lady, are you going out, lady?"

"Yes, I'm going to Mr. Clayton's store to return the clothes. When your mother finishes washing the clothes, tell her to buy some meat, pork, chicken, goose, etc. I just used up all the meat."

"Okay Mrs. Hudson, I'll tell mother."

"Good boy."

Jenny took some finger cakes for Cosette to grind her teeth, went upstairs to change clothes, and went to find Tom with those dresses.