[Sherlock Holmes] Captured a detective

Chapter 74

"Oh..." Sherlock took out the card in the envelope and opened it within a second, then made an annoyed sound, and threw the two cards in his hand onto the table.

"What?" John picked it up curiously and read, "To our dear friend Sherlock Holmes, Mr. Fitzwilliam L. Darcy and Miss Elizabeth Bennet will be married at Pemberley Manor on October 10th. Ceremony, please come... Oh, it's Mr. Darcy's wedding? How do I remember he said it was in... July? Has it been postponed?" John flipped through the back of the card, and there was a small receipt behind it Card.He picked up the lower card and opened it. Except that the initial name was changed to "John Watson", the content of the card was almost the same.

"I do know what's going on." Jenny knocked on the door and walked in, holding another identical wedding invitation in her hand. "At first, it was because an elder in Mr. Darcy's family passed away, from his mother's side. After that, it should be last month. It seems that he was in East Asia? South Asia? Southeast Asia? In short, there was something wrong with the plantation over there. .The result is that the wedding has been postponed several times, but it may be bigger than previously thought."

"Mrs. Hudson, how do you know?" John asked in surprise.

"Remember Georgiana? We have been communicating. She is very upset that the wedding has been postponed. She seems to have a good relationship with Miss Bennet. She very much hopes that her new sister-in-law can marry as soon as possible." Jenny said.

John thought back to the pretty little girl, who was surprisingly unimpressive, although she was a beauty, and John only remembered that she was very shy.

"Is it Mr. Darcy's sister? I didn't expect you to be pen pals, Mrs. Hudson... Wait, Plantation?" John turned his head to look at Sherlock suddenly, "It's not what I thought, Holmes, or you Didn't you indirectly cheat yourself?"

"Do I look that stupid, Watson? Don't compare me to you." Sherlock rolled his eyes, and he was very dissatisfied with what John blurted out. "Of course I telegraphed a little innocuous secret in advance." To Mr. Darcy, or you will not have this invitation before you."

"Oh." John immediately felt relieved, "Of course I don't think so, Holmes, I'm just a little worried. You have been away from England for so long to handle the case, but you didn't call me. I still think I'm you. Where's your assistant... ah, yes, I'll write the receipt, of course we'll all be there, right? Let me see the date, er... aha, we'll go on vacation first, and then we'll go to Pemberley Manor for the wedding. "

Jenny also looked at the date again, and muttered: "What date is it today, the time is a bit tight, it seems that they don't want to have any more accidents this time."

Sherlock said to John who was writing the receipt: "Since we are going to Pemberley Manor, then we don't need to go on vacation, anyway..."

"No." John said while lowering his head while writing, "It's still half a month away, and your physical condition is urgent, Holmes, can you relax? We haven't gone yet, don't always think about canceling."

"Then shall I go to Pemberley Manor together after you come back?" Jenny asked John.

John hesitated for a while, then raised his head, "I'm afraid this is the case. If you have no other plans, Mrs. Hudson, of course we will come back first. Maybe there is enough time to buy a gift or something?"

"I think you can think about what to give when you are on vacation, so as not to be in a hurry." Jenny looked at John's receipt, "Have you finished writing, Dr. Watson? Ah, Mr. Holmes, give me a pen too." Okay? I'm going to Tom's later, just in time for the post office."

"I'll go with you. I just want to go to the post office to send a telegram to Colonel Haight, telling him that we are going to his place for vacation." John said without raising his head.

"That's just right." Jenny finished writing her reply quickly, and handed the pen to Holmes, and Holmes finished writing her reply by the fireplace.John stuffed the three receipts into the same envelope and sealed it.

John and Jenny went to the post office to post the letter, and he sent a telegram to Colonel Haight, and then accompanied Jenny to Tom's—it is still not completely safe, and the ladies still maintain the habit of more than two people when they go out .

Naturally, there was no one at Tom's house. Jenny just happened to meet a customer who urgently ordered two dozen handkerchiefs when she came last time, and this time she made an appointment to pick up the goods.

It's just that I didn't expect that before the guests came, there was another woman sitting on the steps dejectedly. When she saw Jenny, she stood up in surprise and shouted: "Mrs. Hudson~"

"Tsk." Jenny immediately showed an impatient look.

This woman was hired by Tom to do rough work before, but she just said that she used to be a maid in some earl's house and could embroider.It happened that Tom was short of staff at that time, so he asked her to make the simplest kind of skirt bottom... Good guy, she snagged the skirt as soon as she started (the hands are too thick), and then stained the skirt, which is terrible Tom had to cut off a skirt as thin as possible, and sewed a lace border on it, which made Tom angry...

As a result, this woman had a good attitude of admitting her mistakes, but she didn't know how to repent. She didn't feel that there was anything wrong with her carelessness at all.If you want Jenny to tell you, don’t do porcelain work if you don’t have this diamond, and you don’t take it seriously if you ask someone else to wipe your ass... Either get out, or lose your money and get out.

"Mrs. Hudson, why is Mr. Clayton's shop closed? Oh, my God, Mrs. Hudson, Mrs. Hudson?" the woman posted with a pitiful face.Jenny ignored her at all, as if she didn't see it, and didn't let her in.

On the contrary, John had a slight embarrassment on his face, "Mrs. Hudson, that lady..."

"Don't mind her, Dr. Watson. She had a good job. She screwed up and didn't repent of her mistakes, so Tom fired her. I think Tom did the right thing, no one opened the shop." For charity." Jenny said in a bad mood.

John shut up immediately. Someone who can make a good-tempered Mrs. Hudson not like it must not be a good bird.

At the moment when John and Jenny were sitting in the store waiting for the guests, the woman not only left without tact, but even sat at the door and wiped her tears. People who didn't know thought that What did someone here do to her?

John finally knew why Jenny didn't like that woman.

Even if the woman was sitting at the door and "beeping", Jenny pretended she didn't hear it. She wasn't worried at all. Who would meddle in other people's business these days and wonder why a woman sat in front of someone's shop? What about wiping tears?Especially this woman looks very indecent.

However, there is no certainty. It didn't take long for Jenny to see a carriage parked on the side of the road, and then a young and beautiful lady came down. Mrs Dalton.Jenny keenly noticed that Mrs. Dalton's face was tense, as if she was offended by someone.

The lady didn't notice it, she walked up the steps lightly, and seemed to have a great interest in the woman sitting on the steps.Not only did she condescend to have a few words with the woman, she even took out a few coins from her exquisite small bag and stuffed them to the woman regardless of Mrs. Dalton's stop.

Jenny couldn't help but want to "hehe".Really... How should I put it, seeing this lady can understand why most men in this era want to discriminate against women's IQ, tsk tsk, look at this lady, she almost doesn't have "I'm crazy, I'm crazy" written on her face Silly, I am a white lotus~"

Jenny silently made a plan to kill her severely.

"Good day, sir, madam." Miss Bai Lianhua happily opened the door and walked in.

"Good day, miss." Bewildered by the beauty, John stood up and greeted Miss Bailianhua graciously.

"Hello, this... (Ms. Dalton: Miss Bardwell.) Miss Bardwell, good day, Mrs. Dalton." The latter sentence of Jenny is much more sincere.

"Hello, Mrs. Hudson." Mrs. Dalton standing behind seemed to want to make a quick decision and leave immediately after delivering the goods, but Miss Bardwell didn't give her a chance.Before Mrs. Dalton could speak again, Miss Bardwell asked: "Why did you fire that poor woman out there, Mrs. Hudson? She would starve to death without this job. Even if she committed What's wrong, can't you forgive her once?" She looked at Jenny with a pure and innocent face and condemned with her beautiful sky blue eyes, as if Jenny had done something heinous.

Jenny glanced at Mrs. Dalton sympathetically before speaking, and was not surprised to see Mrs. Dalton's expression of wanting to die.Even John, who couldn't get his eyes out of the beautiful woman, felt something was wrong.

"I'm sorry, Miss Bardwell." Jenny didn't intend to get used to other people's bad habits, "I'm not the owner of this shop, so it's not up to me to fire or not. Besides... If I It's Mr Clayton, I wouldn't be so merciful if I didn't feel I did something wrong for ruining a £25 dress for a 'poor' woman hired by a good heart just Chasing her away. Even if it's unintentional, you're going to pay for damage? What do you think, Miss Bardwell? I don't think a lady like you would think that breaking someone's stuff is just a matter of saying' I'm sorry, is it over?" Jenny looked slyly at Miss Bai...Miss Bardwell.

"Oh... yes." Miss Bardwell couldn't see anything wrong with that.

"That's right, I almost missed the construction schedule that time. If the work cannot be completed on time, it will affect the reputation of the store, and may cause no more customers to come. In this case, other employees in the entire store will have no food." Jenny It's an understatement.

"What's more, that woman has made this mistake more than once. I think Mr. Clayton is so kind that he can't bear to fire her after paying so much, just because he thinks she is pitiful, oh, he didn't even let her go. She pays for damages. Mr. Clayton is a very kind man, Miss Bardwell, don't you think so?"

Jenny looked back with a more innocent expression than Miss White Lotus.