[Sherlock Holmes] Captured a detective

Chapter 70

Jenny went to Tom's today. This year's winter social gathering seemed to be in vain. Tom simply decided to take his family to France for vacation, in the name of learning the styles of the French court to lead the future British fashion.Tom gave all the apprentices a big holiday and only left the key for Jenny, so Jenny would go there once a week.

"Look, Mrs. Hudson." Fantine called out suddenly when they reached the corner of Baker Street. "There is a carriage at our door. Mrs. Hudson, who could it be?"

"I don't know..." Jenny replied softly, and slowed down to observe the carriage.There were no signs on the carriages, which is not surprising, as carriages here often come without badges.But when Jenny saw the coachman, she knew whose carriage it was. Viscount Bruce Willie often asked his coachman to give gifts to Jenny. This taciturn coachman was said to be a retired veteran.

"It's okay, Fantine, it's Viscount Bruce Willie." Jenny paid attention to the coachman, and the coachman raised his hat very silently.

Jenny turned the door and found that the door was unlocked. It seems that Mr. Viscount didn't break into the door, which is great (Bruce Willie: Hey!).

"Fantine, give me the basket. Go and fetch Cosette back." Jenny took the basket from Fantine.

The room was surprisingly quiet. Jenny put the basket in the kitchen and went up to the second floor with her skirt.

"Come in." Bruce Willie's voice came out.Sure enough, there were people on the second floor. Jenny opened the door and found that there were only two people in the living room: Bruce Willie stood in front of the fireplace with great interest, taking tobacco leaves from Sherlock's Persian slippers that were often full of tobacco; Seriously, but not concealing his anxiety, he sat on the sofa shaking his legs.

"Good day, gentlemen." How did you get in here?Jenny didn't see John.

"Good day, Mrs. Hudson." Lestrade spoke quickly and seemed absent-minded.

"Dear Mrs. Hudson, I'm glad we meet again." Bruce Willie approached Jenny graciously, held Jenny's hand and kissed it.

Jenny: "Hehe... Viscount Bruce Willie, I'm glad to meet you too." You packed all the peanut candy last time, which one do you like this time?

"Well... just you? Where did Dr. Watson go?" Jenny asked strangely, and then she saw Bruce Willy's expression unnatural for a moment.Lestrade, who was sitting next to him, was about to speak, when suddenly there was a sound of "snacking" from the bathroom, and then someone came out from inside, so the three of them looked over at the same time.

"Ah, hello, Mrs. Hudson."

"Fu...Mr. Holmes?!" Jenny stared and opened her mouth wide.

"It's Sherlock Holmes, not Sherlock Holmes... Oh, well, of course it's me, if it's true, or else there will be others?" Wiping her wet hair with a towel, she walked over.

"My God, oh my God." Jenny clutched her chest, feeling frightened. "Holmes, you should have sent me a telegram in advance. My God, you look dark and thin, what's going on, you weren't so bad last time..." Jenny didn't know what she was talking about .

"Calm down, Mrs. Hudson, I'm fine." Sherlock put the towel on his shoulders and ran his hands through his hair. His hair hadn't been trimmed for a long time, and some of it hurt his eyes very uncomfortable.He poured a glass of water and sat opposite Lestrade, "I only sent a telegram to Lestrade. As for the extra one, I don't know. By the way, what's for lunch?"

Jenny: "You reminded me. Recently, I have to prepare some delicious food for you to replenish your body. I think you need a long vacation..."

Bruce Willie suddenly interjected quietly: "Is it really good to be so sweet in front of single dogs?" Show affection, share quickly!I really want to burn you this loving couple to death!

Lestrade: "I'm not single, I'm married." Don't count me in.

Bruce Willie: "==" If you agree, you will die!

Sherlock: "Why haven't you left yet? Are you going to eat again? Mrs. Hudson, when did our place become a restaurant... Aha, don't tell me you used the rent I paid you to treat guests? Kinda No one is ashamed to stay until dinner time without being invited by the host. Mrs. Hudson, you are also responsible, and you should not let others develop bad habits."

...What's the matter with this strong fucking feeling?The meanness made Bruce Willie and Lestrade wake up in an instant from the feverish minds they had just seen Sherlock.At this moment, their hearts were broken, but they were speechless because Sherlock hadn't said anything wrong.

Bruce Willie and Lestrade looked at Jenny's composure with great admiration, as if they didn't understand Sherlock's sarcasm, and said: "I originally planned to use rice to cook porridge, but since everyone wants to stay for dinner, porridge is not enough." , I'll see what I can do. You don't mind doing something, right?"

Bruce Willie and Lestrade shook their heads neatly together.

Bruce Willie: I always feel that these two combinations will be invincible.No matter, you can't lose face in vain.

"Then let's have some tea first. Oh, my God, I'm so happy that I haven't served tea for so long. I have forgotten everything. I must say again, welcome back, Mr. Holmes." Jenny clutched her chest explain.

Sherlock was obviously pleased, he twitched his eyebrows calmly,

When Jenny came downstairs, Fantine had brought Cosette back, and was sitting on a kitchen stool rebraiding her pigtails, and the kettle was filled and placed on the stove.Jenny was very pleased with Fantine's industriousness, and she took out the round-bellied white china tea-set, put on the best black tea, and waited for the water to boil.

"Need any help, Mrs. Hudson?" Fantine asked, smoothing Cosette's pigtails, standing up and washing her hands.

"Go and take out the rice cakes we made yesterday and place them on a plate, for three people." Jenny didn't look back.

A few days ago, Jenny went to an Indian to sell a bag of rice. The quality was not good, there was too much broken rice and there was sand, but she was not too picky, it was cheap anyway.When she came back, Jenny carefully sifted out the broken rice and washed it several times to remove the sand. The last good rice was used to cook the porridge at noon today, and the broken rice was ground into rice fractions to make rice cakes.

Jenny used a small grinder to grind the broken rice several times before grinding it to a satisfactory fineness. Fry the rice separately, stir it with maple syrup-added milk to form gnocchi, knead it into small doughs one by one, add All kinds of red bean paste, just like making glutinous rice balls, and finally molded into finished products one by one. The pattern is the cute rabbit that Jenny likes...put a raisin on top...perfect.

"Okay, Mrs. Hudson." Fantine also thought that John brought Bruce in, and she opened the cabinet and took out a large box for snacks.

After thinking about it, Jenny decided to tell Fantine the news, lest she drop the snack on the ground later.

"It's Mr. Holmes, he's back, and Inspector Lestrade, too."

Fantine opened her mouth in the shape of an "O", "Mr. Holmes...is he back? Oh, my God, he has been away for a long time."

Jenny satisfactorily put the teapot and three small teacups on a large tray. It is said that all the trays here are large, and it is really hard to bring a lot of things upstairs every time.

Fantine came back to her senses much faster than Lestrade and the others. She quickly put the snacks for three people on three plates, and put the plates on the tray.

"So, are there Mr. Holmes, Inspector Lestrade and Viscount Bruce Willie on the second floor?" Fantine asked, holding up the tray.

"Yes." Jenny nodded.

"Then Inspector Lestrade and Viscount Bruce Willie are going to eat here?" Fantine followed Jenny.

"Yes." Jenny replied.

The men were probably discussing something, but they stopped the discussion as soon as Jenny and Fantine went up, which meant that they didn't want the ladies to participate.Jenny checked the time by the way, it was already twenty past eleven, she needed to hurry up to prepare lunch, but luckily the porridge was cooked in the morning.

Big bones without meat are not worth much, and Jenny often buys them very cheaply for stock.Bring the broth that was cooked yesterday to a boil on high heat, put down the soaked rice, boil on high heat, then cook on low heat for half an hour, then slowly stir while continuing to cook on low heat for 10 minutes.The porridge smelled very good because the oil in the stock was not completely drained.

Originally, Jenny planned to eat plain porridge, but since there were a few more men, it was obviously not enough to just drink porridge, so she had to cook some other staple food.

Jenny had already thought about it.She hurriedly kneaded two kinds of dough with Fantine, one was flour mixed with warm milk and sugar, the other was kneading flour directly with boiling water, and added some salt, and then put the two kinds of dough in the basins Cover it with a damp cloth and put it near the stove to ferment, which takes a little time, maybe half an hour to 45 minutes or so, so Jenny decided to do something else first.

In the morning I just bought an old pumpkin, and Fantine peeled and cut it into pieces, steamed it, and mashed it with a spoon.Pumpkin is already very sweet, so there is no need to add sugar, just put the pumpkin puree into the porridge, stir it with the thick white porridge and simmer until they blend together.

Jenny picked a few big potatoes and asked Cosette to wash and peel them, and the tomatoes also needed to be washed.Jenny shredded the potatoes and soaked them in water for later use, then cut the tomatoes and put them in a bowl.After Fantine cut up some side dishes such as diced ham, green peppers, and meat, Jenny first fried two dishes: shredded potatoes with vinegar and scrambled eggs with tomatoes.

The vegetables are fried well, and the noodles are almost ready.

According to Jenny’s instructions, Fantine rolled the salted dough into thin sheets, brushed the surface with oil, and then sprinkled rosemary, pepper rice, diced ham and sesame seeds, and spread them evenly, starting from one side Roll the dough sheet, roll it into a long roll, rotate it into multiple layers, flatten it, and continue rolling it into a dough sheet.Brush a layer of oil on the pan, pancake on low heat, and bake one sheet in a few minutes, and it will be baked in a while.

Jenny kneaded the sugared dough for a while, and finally divided it into four pieces.

"Qiang Qiang Qiang~" Jenny took out the treasure she found in a Chinese place - a four-story steamer, which was still made of bamboo, but it was very small.Jenny didn't dislike it, anyway, she didn't have a big pot to put the steamer in, and this size was just right anyway.She kneaded four pieces of dough into a round shape, put them in a steamer to rest for 10 minutes, and steamed them for another 10 minutes.

Jenny threw the hot steamed buns into a small plate, and with the plate, cut a cross on each steamed bun that was as big as her two fists, and that was the end.

While Jenny was steaming the steamed buns, Fantine sliced ​​the leftover aspic and cold roast goose from last night, and took out a small plate of fried peanuts from last week.

"That's it." Jenny counted.Pumpkin porridge, pancakes, steamed buns, vinegar potato shreds and tomato scrambled eggs, aspic cold goose and peanuts...it doesn't look like an English lunch...==

"Cosette, go and inform the gentlemen that it's time to eat." Jenny gave Fantine and Cosette some meals.The two of them couldn't eat with the others, and Jenny didn't want to let Fantine and the others eat when she had finished eating herself.

"Yes, Mrs. Hudson." Cosette swallowed the pancake forcefully, gave a military salute, and ran towards the second floor.Jenny and Fantine were busy putting the dishes on the table, while the other began to tidy up the kitchen.