British writer

Because Lu publicly responded to Doyle and James in the newspaper, readers smelled gunpowder.

Everyone has a vague feeling——

Lu has new work.

The speculation intensified, and people began to get restless,

Even the movement of time seemed to slow down.

Everyone is waiting for Wednesday.

On this day, "Return" will update new short stories, and "Antique Dealer Strange Records" will also update new short stories,

If, plus Lu,

That would be fun!

...

January 21, 1901,

on Monday.

Lu Shi got up early as usual, ate some biscuits casually, and then slowly started the adaptation of the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy.

He is using pen and paper now, because it is more convenient to modify,

Anyway, the serialization of "The Hobbit" will last for about one and a half months, the time is not urgent, and there is no need to use a typewriter.

On the other side, Natsume Soseki is feeding us,

"Meow~ eat meat~"

"Meow~meow~"

My generation lay down on the chicken and chewed.

Lu Shi stretched, stopped the pen in his hand, and looked back at Natsume Soseki feeding the cat.

He asked, "Natsume, do you think we should change places?"

Natsume Soseki was surprised at first, and then suddenly realized: "What? You have a girl you like? It's true, you have been out of favor for a long time, and you really should get married. It's just that white women are a little bit...hehe..."

Hey Hammer!

Obviously, Natsume Soseki felt that Lu Shixiao couldn't bear it.

Lu Shi waved his hand,

"No. I think we have two people and one cat. Although the living space in Brear Road is enough, we can't start a fire. We can't go to the landlord every time we boil chicken, right?"

Natsume Soseki pondered,

After a long time, he said, "It's not necessary."

Lu Shi was puzzled,

"how?"

Natsume Soseki explained: "I think we'd better not move, just like Holmes and Watson, live at 221B Baker Street for a little longer."

Lu Shi looked at the other party, waiting for the follow-up.

Natsume Soseki continued: "Imagine that in the future, people introduced Bulaier Road as the former residence of Rutoki and Natsume Soseki, 'in this dark, cramped small room, the two writers completed a great series. Works, until the body of the book'."

Lu Shi complained: "Are you confident that you are a writer?"

Natsume Soseki smiled shyly,

"I'm just thinking about it."

After finishing speaking, he said again: "Besides, because you are a famous person now, the landlord doesn't mind us borrowing his stove at all, that's not very good..."

Before the words fell, there was a knock on the door outside.

thump thump——

It sounded very rushed.

Lu Shi looked at the sky outside, muttering "Who would be so early?", and walked over to open the door.

Unexpectedly, Phyllis stood at the door.

She was still dressed like a newsboy, and she was panting heavily with her chest heaving violently.

Beside her, Zena was also swallowing hard, her little face was flushed, and she didn't know if it was from the cold, or because she ran too fast and flushed.

Lu Shi was somewhat surprised,

"Are you still experiencing the work of a newspaper boy recently?"

Phyllis nodded.

"Well, I...I think we should first...destroy a profession...well...don't talk...don't talk about this."

The girl rushed into the house, and she was not polite, she poured herself a glass of water,

She poured it "gudong gudong".

Zena is much more ladylike, drinking water in small sips.

Natsume Soseki quickly persuaded: "Miss Phyllis, don't choke."

Lu Shi also said, "Be careful of pneumothorax."

Phyllis nodded, and stroked his chest with his hand. It took a while before he turned tired,

She took a copy of "Seaside Magazine" from her messenger bag and put it on the table.

Lu Shi looked puzzled,

"Last week's "Empty House" I already...uh..."

Lu Shi saw the date,

"Today? Why is the Shore Magazine coming out on a Monday?"

Phyllis had already calmed down at this time, and explained: "I don't know either. I just heard from those readers that today's Sherlock Holmes series is very interesting, so I brought it here for you. By the way, they also mentioned you and said it was Doctor Doyle's challenge to you."

Zena on the side added: "We got this magazine only after increasing the price!"

Natsume Soseki was surprised,

"Increase the price? With Sherlock Holmes so popular, there has always been an oversupply of The Strand Magazine. Why would the price increase?"

Phyllis and Dale shook their heads,

They don't understand either.

Lu Shi said: "Remember when Mr. Wilde passed away, I added "A Generation" before the end of "And There Were None?"

Natsume Soseki understood,

"You mean... a temporary addition? Indeed, in this case, the supply will be less. Is it just necessary to increase the price to buy?"

Lu Shi opened the magazine,

The other three also came together.

This time Sherlock Holmes is a short story called "The Dancing Little Man\

,"The client showed Holmes a group of strange dancing figures, and said that his wife was disturbed after seeing this group of figures.

Holmes intervenes in the investigation,

As a result, the dancing villain appeared many times thereafter until the client's family was killed.

When everyone was at a loss, Holmes drew a group of dancing figures, claiming to make the prisoner voluntarily surrender.

...

The story ends here.

A sentence was added at the end: "I think, there must be comrades who are good at tricks who can crack this code?"

(Illustrated in this chapter of this line, interested readers can check it out by themselves.)

Natsume Soseki was stunned,

"He said, 'comrades who are good at trickery', this is Lu... Isn't this equivalent to name-calling?"

The corner of Lu Shi's mouth couldn't help curling up, and he said, "This is Dr. Doyle's response to me. Before, I criticized him in the book review section of the "Manchester Guardian", saying that his "The Empty House" was to please readers." work."

Zena's eyes widened.

"So, Doctor Doyle came up with such a work to prove that he can also write excellent tricks that are difficult to crack?"

Lu Shi nodded,

"Bingo!"

According to the chronological order of publication, the second part of "The Return" should have been "The Architect of Norwood", not "The Little Dancing Man\

,""Little Dancing Man" should be the third one.

It's just that Lu Shi's butterfly flapped its wings, which made everything different.

Natsume Soseki said: "Actually, Dr. Doyle not only challenged Lu, but also challenged everyone in London. I think he must be very confident in the password he set."

Very confident?

Is that true?

Phyllis frowned slightly and said, "Mr. Natsume, isn't it?"

Natsume Soseki was not angry when he was refuted,

"Why not?"

Phyllis said: "Think about it, if Dr. Doyle is really confident, why doesn't he prolong the cycle? Since "Dancing Little People" is divided into two parts, why not separate them on Wednesdays of two weeks? Laifa, but Monday and Wednesday of the same week?"

Natsume Soseki was stunned,

"this……"

He was persuaded by Phyllis.

At this moment, Lu Shi who was on the side said, "We have no way of guessing what Dr. Doyle really thinks, so there's no need to think about something."

Phyllis objected,

"But...but he is obviously provocative! Are we going to swallow it?"

Lu Shi shook his head,

"Who said I'm going to swallow my breath?"