Detective Bennet [Comprehensive novel]

Mrs. Hudson is really out of talent working in the bakery.

Such a rich imagination should be introduced to Watson. Being able to invite her to participate in the writing of the musical script will definitely add many unexpected plots.

"I'm afraid I'm going to disappoint you."

Sherlock answered Mrs. Hudson's question seriously, "We are neither wizards nor angels, nor have we come from another world. We are just ordinary people born and bred in this world."

As he said that, Sherlock asked Kelsey in a serious manner, "Mr. Bennet, did I get the answer right?"

"Of course, Mr. Holmes, you are always right."

Kelsey agreed, of course, and turned to shatter Mrs. Hudson's illusions again. "Like the people you see everywhere on the streets of London, we don't have any supernatural powers. We are here today to investigate something that happened more than 20 years ago."

Therefore, the encounter was just by chance.

As for Sherlock's speculation that Mrs. Hudson will be robbed by her husband, it is very simple for him.As for the method of treating dislocation, Kelsey said that it is also a great skill.

"Hey--"

Mrs. Hudson sighed with regret, as if some dream had been shattered.

Kelsey and Sherlock kept smiling, not trying to understand why Mrs. Hudson was sorry.

After the two briefly introduced themselves, they respected Mrs. Hudson's wishes and sent him home first.

Mrs. Hudson said that she would wait for a certain Chinese medicine clinic to open tomorrow, and then she would go for a plaster cast.

There is a famous orthopedic doctor Huaguo, in an era when there is no instrument that can see through the human body, he has a miraculous bone setting technique that seems to be able to see through the flesh.

About Kelsey Why?If Sherlock asked, she could also give a plausible explanation.

I used to know something about the structure of human bones, and later met Mr. Tang in the dark castle, and asked his bodyguard Bai Yi for some advice.

Right now, the three of them came to Baker Street without mentioning bone setting.

Mrs. Hudson didn't mention being robbed halfway. She had to think about it seriously and make a break with Hudson.Until then, let her do what she can for the gentlemen who reach out.

"Gentlemen, let's save those formalities, and if you have any questions, just go directly. As long as I know, I will know everything."

Sherlock straight to the point brought up the dismemberment case, because the newspaper published the story that Inspector L and the guano had to tell. The case that happened around the subway station this time is somewhat known to outsiders.

"From 1854 to 1857, Mrs. Hudson, did you work at Rainbow Sugar? "

哈德森太太点头，“准确地说，是1854年11月10日到1859年3月21日，我在「彩虹之糖」的马里波恩区分店工作。”

"Very well, you remember the exact date."

Sherlock hoped that Mrs. Hudson's memory would be better. "So did you ever meet a guest: a white female, about 30 years old, about the same height as you, and on the thin side."

"She may have a ten-year-old child, or she may have a hobby of collecting candy wrappers. Although the economy is not so good, she will come to buy candy from time to time."

Sherlock took out some samples of sugar wrappers and motioned Mrs. Hudson to take a closer look.It is impossible to confirm that the candy wrapper on the side of the skull must be related to the deceased, but it is advisable to speculate that it may be related first.

Mrs. Hudson remembered that these candies were all cheap products and were very popular among children.

"There are a lot of people who buy these types of candies, and they are basically parents with children. Oh, you also know that it is very common for people around the age of 30 to have children around the age of ten."

Therefore, only from the appearance description, those who meet the conditions can make a lot of money.

As for the lack of money, Mrs. Hudson asked, "Gentlemen, you must have no experience in taking care of children. I mean taking care of children carefully even if you are poor."

Sherlock and Kelsey shook their heads together.

"That's right, you don't understand that hard-pressed parents have their own strategies."

Mrs. Hudson gave an example on the spot, "Even if the family conditions are not good enough, it does not prevent everyone from buying candy to coax the children. For example, acquainted neighbors, laundry girls who work together, etc., everyone pools money to buy a can of candy and share equally. Such cases are not uncommon. "

Most of the children in those families are precocious and sensible, and they are very happy to be rewarded with a few candies at a time.Buying candies together in this way not only saves money, but also allows you to try something new from time to time.

"It's because I don't think comprehensively enough. Life is full of wisdom."

Sherlock accepted Mrs. Hudson's advice humbly, and tried to narrow down the scope of finding the identity of the deceased.

"15 years ago, the victim's spine was injured and his lower body was paralyzed."

Sherlock asked, "It's been a few years since the demolition, and she probably doesn't live around there anymore, but maybe some rumors will come back to Baker Street. Have you heard?"

"God, paralyzed!"

Mrs. Hudson couldn't imagine the powerless scene, and shook her head after seriously recalling, "Sorry, I haven't heard such rumors. The victim probably had to rent a house on the other side of London due to demolition. Word of the paralysis does not reach Baker Street."

Indeed, this fits the initial speculation.

Sherlock and Kelsey had already made psychological preparations, and it was not easy to determine the identity of the deceased.

Mrs. Hudson was eager to help, and she had read newspaper reports such as, "Corpse found in abandoned house!"Guidance from bird droppings——Inspector L encounters another strange case.”

Before the two could ask, she took the initiative to bring up the matter of the abandoned house. "If you want to ask the Wilic family, as far as I know, no one related to his family fits your description."

Velic, the owner of the abandoned house where the buried body was found.

In the past two days, Sherlock obtained the demolition list 20 years ago, and visited the old neighbor of Velic who is still in London.

According to the memories of the neighbors, 37 years ago, there were four members of the Velic family.

The couple lived with their twin boys, but the twins died one after the other from the flu at the age of 12.

Since then, the Velics don't like to have contact with their children, and they also live in the United States to escape from the sad place.During that time, London was planning to build and demolish the subway, but the municipal government had not been able to contact the Willichs.

When the Velics returned to London, they failed to negotiate the demolition and resettlement with the municipality.One of the reasons is that they are unwilling to easily destroy the house where the children used to live.

Even the memory left by this house keeps reminding the couple that what they lost will never come back.

Mrs. Hudson said much the same as the Sherlock investigation, and she also made a point:

"The Willichs don't like to touch children, especially children around ten years old. At the same time, they don't like to touch too much with parents who have children. It should be because they are afraid of talking about their children's sadness."

Not to mention people, Velic rarely touches items related to children.

Mrs. Hudson added, "I remember the old staff in the store talking about the Velics, they used to come to buy candy, but they hadn't set foot in the candy store since the twins died."

The unnamed female corpse has a history of childbirth, and the candy wrapper next to her skull is loved by children aged seven to 13.

In this way, the Velics do not have contact with anything related to the child, and subjectively they should have little contact with the deceased.

However, the murderer dismembered the body of the deceased and buried it at Willich's house, hiding his head in the attic in the garden, which is far from throwing it away.

Kelsey changed her thinking from a new perspective. The murderer killed the unknown lady and buried her in Velic's house in two steps—killing and dismembering the body, and carefully burying the body.

For the murderer, is killing the unknown lady the key point, or burying the body at the Velic's house, or both?

Sherlock was also thinking about this, exchanged a look with Kelsey, and nodded to each other.

No matter what the murderer's focus is, he will regard the unknown lady and the Velics as having a certain connection.

The Velics have similarities to the unknown lady.

Both have children.

Besides, the unknown lady who is not rich has been cared for more than ten years after being paralyzed.

She has adequate nutrition and comprehensive care (including leg massages, etc.) to maintain good physical function.

Although the repeated bone injuries on the unnamed lady cannot be explained for the time being, at least one point can be explained from the large daily expenses of various foods and the close and uninterrupted escort.

——During the illness of the unknown lady, there was a relative who took good care of her and never gave up.

Inferred from the time, after the unnamed lady was paralyzed, her child was about 15 years old.

For families that are not well-off, children basically go out to work to earn a living when they are 12 years old, and they can afford half of the family's household at the age of 15.

Is the person who takes care of the unknown lady all the year round her child?

If the answer is affirmative, there is a sharp difference between the Velics and the unknown lady, but it should also be in the children.One family loses early, another always has.

If the answer is negative, the unnamed lady was rejected by her child after she was seriously ill, and she and the Wilić couple have similar sorrows.

Regardless of the possibility, the murderer is making a correlation comparison between the two.

Thinking of this, Sherlock asked Mrs. Hudson again, "Just now you said that many parents bought candy. As far as you know, was there any family who loved their children very much near the Willich's house 20 years ago? It may be doting. .”

Kelsey added, "Or is there any other family that has twins that people have compared to the Velics. Also, where the family abuses the child, but the child respects the parents well."

"Slower, slower."

Mrs. Hudson needed time to reflect on the different situations. "Twins, no, no other twins. Abuse, never heard of it. As for special favors..."

Mrs. Hudson still remembers several families, "The Howsons cut down on food and clothing so that their son could go to a good high school; After losing his husband, Gen took his daughter with him and lived by doing odd jobs, but he still wanted to spoil his daughter like a princess..."

In bits and pieces, Mrs. Hudson told what was still in her mind.

Kelsey wrote them down one by one, and they were all tenants in and around Baker Street back then.

It was much harder to track down the tenants than the homeowners who had eviction fees, but she still asked Mrs. Hudson to describe the faces of those people as best she could.

Perhaps one of them can match the restored face of the deceased's skull.

At ten o'clock at night, the conversation is over.

Hudson, who robbed his wife's salary, has not yet returned home.

Mrs. Hudson, who has not recovered from her foot injury, please rest well. Kelsey and Sherlock left 221B Baker Street.

Before leaving the house, Kelsey wanted to leave a note for Mrs. Hudson, but saw Sherlock give the contact information first.

Why would Mrs. Hudson contact them again?

One possibility is to think of more clues to the case, the other is to ask the detective for a favor.For example, investigate her husband and obtain evidence to successfully divorce.

It was already dark.

The autumn wind in October is more chilly.

The two did not call the carriage directly to return to Montague Street.

"At ten o'clock in the night, the injured should rest, but for others the night life has just begun."

The implication of Kelsey's words is obvious. Mrs. Hudson has a foot injury, but Hudson, who robbed his wife, is still spending money in the bar.

Sherlock looked at Kelsey, "So, I have a proposal. Why don't we do some night sports during the long night. Jerry, do you think it's possible?"