[Sherlock Holmes] Captured a detective

Chapter 88

John felt that he was completely implicated, and Sherlock expressed his innocence.

Jenny: Hehe...Of course I know, I just want to get the duck back~

The next day John didn't get up until ten o'clock as usual, and then he found that his breakfast was half a duck and pancakes.

John: Can we eat it yesterday?

John came out of the wash and found a Sergeant Lestrade in front of the dining table.

"Is Holmes not here?" Lestrade seemed to have forgotten what happened yesterday. He ate John's breakfast with great gulps, and John was ashamed to say that he hadn't eaten yet.

"I got up and he was gone." John shouted to the door. "Mrs. Hudson, please give me another breakfast."

Lestrade: "...I thought you had eaten."

John: "It's okay, you can eat." Hehe...you will eat leftovers?

"Mrs. Hudson, have you seen Holmes?" Lestrade asked Jenny.

"No, Mr. Sheriff, he promised me to clean up the room this morning, but he disappeared early in the morning." Jenny replied.

"It's terrible." Lestrade wiped his mouth. "I had something to talk to him about, but now it seems that I can only talk about it at dinner. Good-bye, Mrs. Hudson, and good-bye, Dr. Watson . . . Now, eating wild duck early in the morning is a bit greasy, and it's not very good for your teeth." After speaking, Lestrade really lifted his foot and left.

Jenny: Don't eat anything!

John felt that this was not quite right: "...so...he just came to have breakfast and then came to have dinner...isn't it?"

Jenny: "It seems so."

Sherlock actually went for a walk, and as soon as he came back, he felt that John was not happy. "Watson, although Lestrade came to share your breakfast, you are not angry, are you?"

"How did you... Oh forget it, I don't want to know." John said discouragedly, "He said he would come to you at night."

Sherlock felt that he didn't understand the heart of a foodie very well, so if he didn't understand it, he didn't think about it.

Jenny originally wanted to use the wild boar and hares she bought to make cured or bacon, but after thinking about it, it’s been rainy lately, and I’m afraid the meat will grow green before it’s dried... Forget it, since it’s night Lestrade will come, so let's cook it all, and the meat can be eaten cold for a few more days.

Generally speaking, game meat is lean and firm, but it is also too woody and difficult to eat.Jenny decided to make that pork leg into dumplings and pies, braised pork knuckle, pheasant or stewed potatoes, it’s not so firewood, rabbit... just make spiced rabbit meat.

It's not easy to deal with a whole leg of pork, but luckily Jenny has been out of embroidery lately and she has all day to do it today.

Fantine poured a large pot of hot water to clean the pork leg, and even Cosette helped pluck the chicken, while Jenny went to the market to buy all the seasonings, vegetables, and eggs she needed, and then she Start handling the rabbit.

Pork knuckle takes the longest.Jenny put the cleaned hoof into a boiling water pot and took it out after boiling.After changing the water, put the hooves in the pot, Jenny put all the seasonings available: salt, sugar, soy sauce, ginger, wine, pepper, star anise, rosemary, cinnamon, onion... all in appropriate amount, waited for the water After boiling, turn to simmer.It would take four hours for the pot to come out. Jenny set the alarm clock and asked Fantine and Cosette to pay attention to the time and watch the water not boil dry.

Next, Fantine went to chop the meat, Jenny went to knead the dough, and Cosette went to wash the vegetables. The three of them worked together.

"Don't you have lunch at noon..." John suddenly poked his head in and asked.

"Oh, no, of course I did, but there are only sandwiches, and we're preparing dinner." Jenny hurriedly made a few sandwiches.

"Of course I don't mind! Haha, that's great, I ate big meals for two consecutive nights." John patted his stomach, "It seems that I have to exercise more these days."

After a simple lunch, Jenny asked everyone to rest for a while. After all, no one can stand chopping minced meat or kneading noodles continuously, so it happened to let the reconciled noodles wake up for a while.

"Mrs. Hudson, Mrs. Hudson." Cosette tugged at Jenny's apron.

"What's the matter, Cosette?" Jenny was always patient with Cosette.

"Can ginger be left out of the pie?" Cosette asked timidly.

"...Don't you like ginger, Cosette?" Jenny thought it was impossible, as Cosette also drank the ginger soup last time.

"It's Mr. Holmes, doesn't he dislike ginger?" Cosette said worriedly, "If you put too much, will he not like it?"

Sherlock, come out and tell me why you hooked up with Cosette!

Come out, I promise I won't kill you!

"You can't eat it, Cosette." Jenny told Cosette, "Ginger will have a fishy smell if you don't put it in. Ginger removes the fishy smell, you know?"

"So that's how it is." Cosette suddenly realized.

Jenny sweated.

Chicken stewed with potatoes is the fastest way. First fry the chicken pieces, color them with sugar, add seasonings, bring to a boil, cook on low heat for half an hour, then add potatoes and cook for another 10 minutes. It takes less than an hour to get it done.

Rabbit meat is not difficult to make. First fry it until golden brown, put it in a small pot, throw all kinds of seasonings, such as pepper, sugar, soy sauce, rosemary, ginger, cooking wine, and put it down together. 1 hour, and finally medium heat to collect the juice.

The pork bone Jenny doesn't intend to waste it, and it just cooks soup with corn and radishes.After the blood and impurities are removed from the pork bones, take them out and rinse them with cold water, put them together with the sliced ​​white radish, carrots and corn and cook on high heat for 20 minutes, then turn to low heat and cook for an hour and a half, finally skim off the oil and season with salt That's fine.Very simple, but also very sweet and delicious.

"Okay, Mrs. Hudson, it's trotter time," Cosette cried.Jenny went over to open the lid, and a scent rushed towards her face. Cosette beside her couldn't help swallowing, and Jenny, who was so loud, could hear it.

Jenny poked the pig's trotter with a fork, and felt that the meat was soft and rotten. She nodded in satisfaction, put the lid on the pot and put it aside, allowing the remaining temperature to slowly absorb the juice.

The remaining pork skin just happens to be made into pork skin jelly for dessert.

Dumplings and pies are often made, Jenny and Fantine made many kinds, pork cabbage, pork celery, pork mushrooms, pork radish, pork... sauerkraut.Well, actually the last one was just made by Jenny to try the flavors.It happened that Mr. Pedro next door came to look for Black and Lupine, and Jenny asked Cosette to bring some pies to him.

It's rare that today it took so much effort to cook a table of dishes, but Jenny didn't plan to put them on the first floor.

Sure enough, Lestrade did not come alone that night.

"Good night, Lord Bruce Willie." Sherlock raised his eyebrows.

"Good night, Mr. Holmes, Dr. Watson." Bruce Willy turned to Jenny, "Dear Mrs. Hudson, it is a great honor to be invited." He handed Jenny a gift, which contained a box of French chocolates.

Jenny: Actually you two came here uninvited.

"You weren't so polite before." Jenny smiled. "And I didn't invite you. This was probably Mr. Lestrade's 'surprise', so I had to follow the old rules."

"No problem at all."

"The old rules...what are they?" John asked what Sherlock wanted to ask, it didn't feel good to be left in line.

"Mrs. Hudson eats whatever she cooks." Lestrade stroked his beard. He always came empty-handed, but this time he brought a bottle of wine.

Sherlock looked very displeased at his wife and Bruce Willie chatting beside him.This one says, "Oh, Mrs. Hudson, you're beautiful." The other says, "Viscount Bruce Willie, you look better without a beard."

……Really annoying!

The dinner for four people was served on the second floor, and Jenny, Fantine, and Cosette were on the first floor, eating the fruit of today's labor beautifully... It feels very delicious~~~

"Don't just eat chicken, Cosette." Fantine cut a pie for Cosette.

Jenny jokingly said: "Cosette, why do you like to eat all kinds of chickens, did you become a fox?"

"No!" Cosette retorted extremely seriously, "Cosette didn't become a fox!"

Jenny: "Ahahahaha..."

Fantine: "..." Can you stop playing with my daughter?

After all, Cosette was not yet ten years old, she had worked another day today, and she was already tired. She started "fishing" before dinner was finished, and Fantine urged her to go to bed.

Jenny was sitting in front of the fireplace on the first floor, wearing a wool scarf while waiting for the results of the discussions among the men on the second floor.Although I don't know what it is, it is impossible for Bruce Willy to come to dinner without being invited, so someone must have invited him... Who else but Sherlock?It also means one thing: there are cases, and there are big cases.

At almost eleven o'clock, Jenny finally heard the sound of the door opening on the second floor. She put down her work and stood up, telling Fantine to go up to clean up the mess, while she stood at the kitchen door with a candlestick.

"Ah, a very good dinner, Mrs. Hudson, every dish is to my liking." Bruce Willie and Lestrade came downstairs in their coats and hats, "I think your hands must be God bestowed upon..."

"I don't think it has anything to do with God." Sherlock stood on the stairs with his hands in his pockets. "It has nothing to do with you either. See you tomorrow, Lord Viscount Bruce Willie."

"……See you tomorrow."

"So... what's the matter? I have a hunch, it's not good." Jenny watched Sherlock walk down the stairs slowly.

"I'm sorry, I didn't pack my things today." Sherlock said as if the pigs, horses and sheep were irrelevant.

"……what?"

"I'm afraid it's going to have to be postponed again ... it's really frustrating, things keep colliding sometimes."

"So, what's the matter?"

"I'm afraid I'll have to go to France." Sherlock took the pipe out of his pocket, pressed it with his thumb, but did not light it.

"Oh..." Jenny didn't even know what to say.They were supposed to be just newlyweds, and who would believe it, they hadn't even been alone much.

"It's tomorrow, right?"

"……Yes."

"So urgent? You can't say what's going on, can you?"

"Yes. It's not that I don't trust you, but it doesn't do you any good to know too much."

"It seems that it is not a private case, nor is it a commissioned case by ordinary nobles."

"..." Sherlock raised his eyebrows, "You are always beyond my expectations."

Jenny smiled, but she was actually a little sad in her heart.It felt like...something was holding them back from being together, and Jenny didn't want to call that "fate" or "God" or something, she'd rather believe it was just bad luck.

"Okay, what time is tomorrow?" Jenny felt that she could only ask this.

"Take the train at two o'clock at noon, and we will take the boat at night."

"Mr. Holmes, please always remember that you are a married man, okay? Please... try not to put yourself in danger." Before, Jenny was quite confident that she would not change Sherlock's life, but she didn't expect that It hadn't been a month, and they hadn't even shared the bed, and she was already worrying about her future.

"Well, I'll try my best, um..." Sherlock seemed to have something to say, but he didn't say it in the end, he just lowered his head and kissed the top of Jenny's head, "Good night, Mrs. Holmes."

"Good night, Mr. Holmes."