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After a day of rain, it finally stopped in the middle of the night. Vettel called Mycroft's private family doctor, and the two hurried in.

The wet mud on the leather shoes left deep shoe prints on the floor. The doctor asked calmly, "What's the patient's condition?" Khan, just followed Vettel into the room, but stammered: "Why is it a maid? Did you make a mistake? Vettel, you invited me here in such a hurry just to be a maid?"

The doctor was obviously very surprised when he saw Melina lying in the servant's room. A senior private family doctor like him couldn't afford to hire a decent middle class, let alone a maid.

Athena frowned and was very dissatisfied with the doctor's question. She was already extremely worried about Melina's situation and now she asked impatiently, "Can't maids even see doctors?"

The doctor glanced at Athena, but he just put the handkerchief in his pocket and was not angry. Instead, he calmly said, "Miss Holmes, I don't mean that, but you must know that my fees are very expensive. I work with those outside to make money. The bastard who prescribes drugs indiscriminately is different, you hired such a good doctor for her, I need to make sure...whether she can afford my fees!"

"Of course doctor, the money will be paid by us." Vettel immediately accepted the doctor's words, and now is not the time to argue about life and death.

The doctor nodded slightly, opened his purse and said, "That's good! I won't ask who the patient is when I get money to see a doctor, but I can't default on the fees I want to collect."

He quickly unbuttoned Melina's neck, held the pocket watch in one hand and put the pulse on Melina's wrist with the other, and murmured: "There is no life-threatening situation, but the situation is still very bad! The heartbeat is fast, The body is also very hot, and the cause must be known as soon as possible before treatment can be carried out." He clicked his tongue, but his words were not very clear, after all, it is impossible to determine the cause in such a situation, and some more definite clues are needed.

After finishing speaking, the doctor turned his head and was ready to ask about what happened before Melina passed out.Seeing this, Lestrade quickly handed over the brown bottle in his hand and asked, "She should have drunk this but...it smells like ordinary cough syrup? Won't you wake up?"

The doctor took the bottle, first smelled it slightly, and then stretched out his hand to dip a little liquid and taste it.Athena looked at the bottle of cough syrup that she drank up, and said to herself strangely: "She hasn't coughed and complained of discomfort recently! Why...drinked up such a large bottle of cough syrup?"

"This is no ordinary cough syrup. These quack doctors don't know how many people have been killed by these cough syrups. It's such a harmful medicine, not to mention prescribing medicines for money. It looks like she drank a lot of them too." I'm afraid it's more than just this one bottle, do you have any empty bottles at home?" The doctor asked in a very serious but slightly angry manner, while he had already taken out the medicine from the suitcase and prepared to inject it.

After hearing what the doctor said, Vettel looked at Athena with a serious expression and said, "Miss, I'll go to the storage room!" After getting Athena's approval, Vettel strode out.

Athena is not idle either, since it is Melina's empty bottle in the room, I believe there may be one in the room too!She squatted down and rummaged through the cabinet next to the bed one by one.

Lestrade still stood where he was. He bent over to pick up the bottle. The brown bottle didn't have any trademarks and advertisements attached to it like ordinary cough syrup. If you didn't check the empty bottle carefully, you might think it was just a Plain empty bottle.

Lestrade felt that the bottom of the bottle was uneven, and he picked up the kerosene lamp by the bed and slowly lifted it up, illuminating the dark glass bottle.

Taking advantage of the light from the kerosene lamp which was not too bright, Lestrade narrowed his eyes and slowly recognized it: "Mrs. Tarry's...soothing syrup! Doctor, you said this is not an ordinary cough syrup, because someone changed it. Is it the medicine in it? It says soothing syrup on the bottle, right?"

The doctor looked up at him slightly and said, "Sir, what she drank is indeed soothing syrup..."

"But didn't you just say that this is not syrup, but a poisonous medicine?" Lestrade asked puzzled.

The doctor flicked the medicine off the needle slightly, and said calmly: "The miscellaneous brands like this outside use generic names. Some people use it as soothing syrup, cough syrup, and some people use it as a sedative for children. To some extent , These medicines have indeed played a certain soothing and calming effect.

But...it can lead to addiction and even death. This patient just took too much caffeine and fell into a deep sleep. After the injection, I had to artificially induce vomiting for her. "

"Caffeine?" Athena opened the drawer and turned her head: "Doesn't coffee cause you to wake up? It should be drunk to make you excited? How could..."

The doctor held the pocket watch in his hand and prepared to count Melina's heartbeat again. He said, "That's a moderate amount of caffeine. Excessive intake of caffeine can cause toxic reactions, such as palpitation, insomnia, nausea and vomiting, headache, Coma, elevated body temperature, etc. Don't think Americans drink coffee so well, fashionable lady!

In terms of her current situation, the situation is very bad, maybe she is already addicted to caffeine, and what's more terrible is that there may be datura flowers in this bottle of soothing syrup used as medicine.I'm afraid..."

The doctor sighed slightly and didn't continue, he just checked Athena's pulse on his own.Athena stood up and looked at Lestrade puzzled and asked, "Datura flower?"

Lestrade stared at the medicine bottle in his hand, his face became more and more ugly, and he raised his head after a long time and said: "The datura flower is also known as the temptation of the devil and the cursed flower. I have never seen it exactly. ,but……"

Seeing his stammering appearance, Athena became more and more anxious. Since there is caffeine that can make people addicted, even if she doesn't know what the effect of Datura flower is, she also knows that it is not a good thing.She pulled out Lestrade's arm and asked, "But what did you say!"

"But...Many datura flowers are used in the opium in the opium dens. I have seen too many people who are addicted to opium | opium. For people... once infected, it is nothing Good end!" As he spoke, he slightly turned his head to look at Melina who was still asleep on the bed.

The teenage girl is actually not a few years younger than Athena. First, she was sold from Greece to London by her biological father. She left home without even acquaintance. If Lestrade hadn't accidentally rescued her Now she has been sold to a poor area like Whitechapel to be a prostitute.

Now it’s opium addicted again, Mycroft didn’t even plan to let her do it for the maid, if someone who protects his sister like him knows the news, I’m afraid he won’t let Melina stay with Athena now up.What's worse is that Melina doesn't know if she is infected with this thing...whether she can quit.

This kind of news is a great blow to Athena. Compared with people in the Victorian era, opium is not something that is forbidden, and there are even many opium dens opened on the streets of London.

Even Sherlock Holmes himself had injected himself with cocaine more than once. If it weren't for the doctor Watson who has been supervising him all the time, he was so emotional and reasonable that he faced Sherlock over and over again. Introducing the dangers of cocaine, Sherlock has long been addicted and can't quit.

But as a person who traveled through the 21st century, especially as a Chinese, she is very clear about the dangers of opium and drugs.

The doctor raised his head slightly, breathed a sigh of relief, and then said lightly: "The heartbeat has calmed down a bit. I will induce vomiting when she wakes up. Now if she is asleep, it is very difficult to control and it is easy for her to choke and suffocate if she is forced to vomit." Putting the pocket watch into the pocket of the vest, looking at the medicine in Lestrade's hand, he said: "Just smoking the smoke of Datura will cause people to have a lot of beautiful hallucinations, and even bring people a kind of physical pleasure. It is also for this reason that those who use or inhale it will become dependent and addicted. The most beautiful, most enchanting and most lethal flower, it has been cursed by God but has become a devil's temptation."

The doctor walked aside slowly, sat on a chair, looked at the worried Athena and Lestrade and comforted him: "Don't worry, she may just drink this bottle, or maybe there is no Datura flower in the bottle, It's just caffeine. Maybe she has a strong reaction to caffeine, after all, you haven't found any other bottles yet, have you?"

"I'm afraid that's not the case!" Vettel, who was standing at the door holding a whole cardboard box with a livid face, handed over a cardboard box of empty bottles and said, "There are at least a dozen bottles here, maybe Melina's current situation is worse than ours. It's worse than you can imagine."

The doctor slowly got up and took a look at the empty bottle in the carton. Before he even raised his head, he could already feel that almost everyone present was staring at him. Being a doctor is always looked at like this. .

I am not God!

He put his hands in his pockets and said: "Then pray that these soothing syrups don't contain datura flowers! Coffee|caine is always easier to quit than datura flowers, after all, datura flowers are the most The main ingredient is scopolamine, which is much more powerful than caffeine."

The doctor looked a little tired and said: "It's all those black-hearted businessmen and quack doctors. Whether it's caffeine or datura flowers, as long as they are used properly, they are good medicines for curing people and diseases, but they only save money for money. People become victims."

Speaking of the doctor taking an empty bottle from the box, and stuffing the bottle into his bag without a word, Vettel only asked: "Doctor, is there any use for this empty bottle?"

"Just by smelling and looking, I can't tell whether the soothing syrup contains datura flowers or not. After she wakes up and induces her to vomit, I have to go home immediately and test the ingredients in it."

When talking about the test, Athena almost instantly thought of the magnifying glass and messy instruments that Sherlock left in the living room. Before she could speak, Lestrade beside her said: "Those things from Sherlock, aren't they? Can it come in handy?"

"Huh?" The doctor was slightly taken aback, and Vettel only said after hearing Lestrade's reminder: "Our little gentleman is also very interested in chemistry, and there are some instruments related to it at home. Or... I'll take you to have a look first, maybe you can use it, so you don't need to go again."

The doctor slightly raised his hand and said with great interest, "Mr. Sherlock Holmes?"

"Exactly!" Vettel nodded.

The doctor put down the bag and directly picked up the soothing syrup in his hand, saying: "Then I'm sure it can be used, and I can save some time to prevent any errors."

"Then... please!" Vettel said lightly, guiding the doctor and going out.

Suddenly, in the empty and dark room, only Lestrade and Athena were awake and alive. Melina, whose heartbeat had stabilized, was still lying quietly on the bed, just like Snow White in a fairy tale. A princess usually waits for a prince who will come and save her.

Athena sat quietly on the edge of the bed. Although she kept looking at Melina, she could clearly feel Lestrade who was standing by the side full of unnatural embarrassment from the corner of her eyes.

She was holding Melina's cold right hand, and was about to turn her head to speak, but suddenly heard the voice of little Corgi Giovanni coming from the stairs, and getting closer and closer.

"Wang Wang Wang!"

"Why did you come down? Vettel let you slip out without paying attention!" Lestrade instantly seemed to have found a savior, he only breathed a sigh of relief and quickly picked up the little Corgi and sat on a chair beside him. Touching Corgi's head affectionately, he said, "Aren't you tired of running up and down with short legs?"

"It always wants to be more lively than usual when it sees you, and it likes you!" Athena smiled faintly at Lestrade with her eyes bent.

Giovanni wagged his tail happily while enjoying Lestrade's smooth hair massage, while licking the back of Lestrade's hand restlessly.

Lestrade smiled dotingly, and slowly raised his head when he heard her words, and asked lightly, "Do you like it?"

"Of course! Otherwise why would I raise it?" Athena didn't understand why he would ask such a question all of a sudden.

Lestrade didn't look at her, but said: "I don't know! From the beginning when you adopted it to keeping Melina, you did these difficult things but you were very decisive. It’s all very easy to be responsible for.”

Speaking of this, he laughed a little self-deprecatingly, "I really envy you sometimes, you are happy, Athena! I hope you can be so happy all your life, and you can make such a decision without thinking about any consequences. "

"What exactly do you want to say?" The smile on Athena's face slowly subsided, and she only stuffed her warm palms for Melina back into the quilt before she got up and went to Lestrade's side.

Her fiery eyes are like the fire in the fireplace, making people want to get close but worried about getting hurt because of getting too close.

Athena propped her chin and said: "You have been very strange since today's concert, Lestrade, you are more unwilling to face your heart than me! You keep saying that you like me, but I take the initiative to get close to you but you refuse For me, why are you a catholic who thinks premarital sex|acts compromise your chastity?

He also said that I was too childish to you and could not see any sincerity at all. Do I have to go to a duel with Mrs. Pembasa for you and implicate all my family members before I really like you? "

Lestrade looked directly into her eyes, listened to her scolding but was not angry, instead calmly replied: "You know that's not what I mean, I just... don't want to make an irreparable mistake because I like you too much I am a consequence of my parents' mistakes, and I will never be able to get rid of this identity for the rest of my life.

I don't want to inflict the humiliation I suffered on others, especially you..."

Lestrade didn't finish his words, he just looked at Athena and smiled lightly. Athena knew that there was bitterness and bitterness hidden under that light smile, but she stubbornly refused to accept it. Ken opened his mouth to say what he really thought.

Instead, he said duplicity: "Then what you mean is... we should stay away from each other, let each of us return to the track of life and follow the life arranged by others, as if we have never met before, each step by step, honestly have you lived your whole life?"

"Woo..." Just as Athena finished speaking, the little Corgi Giovanni on Lestrade's lap began to sob, as if it could understand the extremely heavy and insincere conversations between its masters.

Lestrade tilted his head slightly, and said with a wry smile, "I'm afraid so!"

"Heh~" Almost the moment Lestrade finished speaking, Athena sneered, and that smile completely chilled Lestrade's heart, even though it was his own decision.

"Then why did you chase after me today, just to say to me: I'm sorry! I'm going to marry Mrs. Pembasa, so we don't have any contact. Isn't that right?" Athena leaned forward, her amber eyes Deep and beautiful under the light of kerosene lamps.

But he knew that this was the end between them!

It was the first time he liked a woman so much, and it was about to end like this!

Maybe this feeling will never be there again!

Athena raised the corners of her lips slightly and said: "I like you, I like your handsome face, your hormonal sexual tension, I like you always saving me again and again, and I like you... the shy look of being molested by me. "

This sudden confession of true feelings made Lestrade unexpected, his Adam's apple moved slightly, and he was stunned, not knowing what to say.

But Athena gave him a fatal blow again. She stretched out her hand and pulled his chin, and said word by word: "I want to go to hell with you, because it will make me feel happy, happy, and happy." There is no life in vain in this world. I want to live happily in this world, we are all nobody, why do we give up our right to be happy because we live according to other people's wishes?"

After saying this, she stood up and looked at Lestrade, and said calmly: "You are special to me, you are the first person I... fell in love with in this world, This should be called first love!"

"So no matter what you choose, no matter who you choose to live for, I hope you can live happily in this world!"

The author has something to say: Athena: I've said it so bluntly, how come you, a straight man, don't react at all?

Lestrade: What did you say?What am I going to do?What?What?What?

Athena: I said I love you!I want to drive with you!

Lestrade: All right!I'm off to pick up my used bike!

Jinjiang: Prohibition throughout!Neither do bicycles!You two still walk on your legs!

感谢在2020-07-1622:43:54~2020-07-1723:50:47期间为我投出霸王票或灌溉营养液的小天使哦~

Thanks to the little angel of irrigation nutrient solution: 50 bottles of African chiefs;

Thank you very much for your support, I will continue to work hard!