[Sherlock Holmes] The Legend of the Nightingale

(God's perspective)

Mycroft House in North Riding, Yorkshire, was not meant to be a peaceful place.

For more than 20 years since little Sherlock Holmes inexplicably drove away the mathematics professor from London and left the family, the manor has not experienced any twists and turns.Old Mr. Sig Holmes is over seventy years old, and his body is still strong, but his temper is more volatile than when he was young, and he is almost a different person. If Violet, who has endured for many years, has not honed a way to deal with and ignore him The solution, if it weren't for the fact that the boss Sherinford, who has been in the manor all the year round, has a temper more like a mother than a father since childhood, I am afraid that no one in the Holmes family would be willing to stay in this gradually depressing and closed manor for one more minute.Even Sherinford's own wife and children are determined not to live in the manor, but have another house in North Riding, so the boss has been used to a life of two o'clock and one line for many years.Except for a few workers and servants hired to work in the manor, only the old Sherlock Holmes and his wife are still rooted in the manor.

After 20 years of wear and tear, the manor has hardly any traces of Sherlock.After all, Mrs. Violet Holmes still left a picture frame of Mycroft. Although he has been away from his family since he was in college, there has never been a major conflict. The Holmes family never expect him to be satisfied with his lazy work in London. What else can you bring to your family outside of your personal life.But Sherlock was a different fate entirely. In July 1874, little Sherlock Holmes, who was studying at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge University, sent a concise letter without warning, informing—rather than asking for consent—the Holmes couple’s future choices, An angry and severe reply from Mr. Holmes received no reply.Old Sig waited a month in astonishment, and did not even cut off the finances at once, for he could not believe that Sherlock not only had not apologized and repented, but had the audacity not to say a word of justification or quarrel.Facts have proved that he did dare.People say that fathers often admire the son who is most like themselves, and hope that this son will become their heir. This sentence has become a paradox in the Sherlock Holmes family.Regardless of whether old Sig still admits it now, aside from the part of talent, when the three boys were still young, he had already noticed that the meek Sherringford and the lazy Mycroft were born Unlike myself, the former was influenced by too many mothers congenitally or acquiredly, while the latter couldn't wait to join the society early on, where she got a more solid education than at home.No one is more like old Sherlock Holmes himself than Sherlock.Due to the common fault of parents, the old gentleman stubbornly turned a blind eye to some of Sherlock's dazzling lights, and saw all the things he had inherited from himself.Of course, this is the father's fault. On the one hand, he filtered out the part of Sherlock's own growth. , on the contrary, it is more difficult because both sides refuse to give in.

A month later, because the old Mr. Holmes had already blamed himself, Mycroft had no choice but to bring back an equally concise and clear message for Sherlock: Sherlock had made a decision and did not intend to seek anyone else's opinion.

Little Sherlock Holmes has skillfully disappeared in the labyrinthine London at this moment, and is no longer in the sphere of influence of the old Sherlock Holmes. He is not worried about what disturbances this decision will cause at home.The unlucky Mycroft endured for two days, and fled back to London with Mrs. Holmes' plea to "retrieve Sherlock". , and that's it.Sherlock had no intention of eluding Mycroft, as long as the elder brother was willing to seek it, there was nothing he could do to escape.Nor had Mycroft himself ever considered handing Sherlock up.Dealing with a few letters caused the old Holmes and his wife far less trouble than getting little Holmes angry.

Sig Holmes was thoroughly offended. All the hard work in the past 20 years is still vivid in his memory. He spent the most effort and gave up his face. The most outstanding talent in the UK he hired was blatantly kicked out of the house by two and a half children. Now one of them is determined to engage in swindlers and beggars. Works like nothing else.He personally wrote a letter to London with a messy handwriting due to rage, regardless of whether it could be received at the mailing address left by Holmes, and it did not go through Mycroft.For old Mr. Holmes, Mycroft had long since disappeared from the family.When a frightened servant went out to deliver the letter to the post office, Mr. Holmes saw the framed picture on the table very inappropriately. there.Not only Sherlock's, but also those of his two older brothers. Out of nostalgia and sadness, every photo taken from his school days is decorated in a unique way at home, which can be seen in any room.Poor Violet ran up the stairs when she heard the sound of broken glass in the room. What she saw was the glass photo frame shattered all over the floor. The black and white image of a beautiful child lay in the middle of the crystal glass. Sherlock never smiled when taking pictures. A picture is full of deep or lifeless gazes.Mrs. Holmes reacted in a timely manner, coaxing the husband, and then called the maid to rush into Sherlock's room.The two women cleaned up the empty Sherlock's room within an hour, and Violet locked all the notes, photos and books he left at home into her box.Of course, we also know that although they escaped the fate of being shredded and discarded, these things that bewitched Sherlock in the eyes of the Holmes couple will never see the light of day again.Old Sherlock Holmes was still angry when he walked into the room, but seeing the half-empty room, there was nothing to get angry, so he let it go.Afterwards, Mrs. Holmes spent a month quietly replacing the photos of Sherlock that were displayed everywhere in the house, and the rest of the family just turned a blind eye.When all traces of Sherlock were wiped cleanly, no one felt any change in the house.

Here it is difficult to say what effect this seemingly decisive decision of Mrs. Holmes really has, because it is no longer clear whether Sherlock kept all his records out of a filing habit, or the teenage boys The immature notes really mattered to him, or maybe it was just wishful thinking on Mrs. Holmes's part to keep the quiet kid at home.But at any rate, this mild and delicacy of character was well suited to Holmes's accustomed ways.In fact, if it were not for (or even for) Sherlock's malicious indifference to all other ways of life except free celibacy, Mrs. Holmes' planned future spouse for her youngest son would be almost like herself, Just like only Violet can appease the stubborn and eccentric Sig Holmes, Mrs. Holmes really can't think of any other woman who can control Sherlock.Even though she had to admit that no such person seemed to exist, in her heart she didn't really believe that her youngest son would persist in escaping the shackles of the family all his life, just as she never doubted in her heart that he would reconcile with his family sooner or later Same.

At any rate, this was the last correspondence between Sherlock and the family.Since then, the elder Holmes forbade anyone in his family to contact the younger Holmes in London.At first, Violet underestimated her husband's secret anger, thinking that everything would go on as usual after the limelight passed, and as long as she persuaded her with kind words, Holmes' attitude would naturally soften after two days.It is conceivable that she caused more than one uproar in the manor.Sherlock had let her down and hadn't let time pass.After all, on such a day, Sherlock became a name that Holmes' family never mentioned.They still kept in touch with Mycroft occasionally, but on the surface they never mentioned the situation of their youngest son.After a certain trial found that Sherlock did not hold grudges with his family, the eldest Sherringford began to write letters to Baker Street regularly, because the mailing and receiving addresses were outside the manor, so there was no need to worry about causing additional troubles.Sherlock still replied one by one in a calm tone, as if nothing had happened, only Sherringford saw between the lines that his brother, whom he hadn't seen for many years, gradually became mature and stable.Mrs. Holmes would still timidly ask Mycroft about her younger son, and she would keep it from her husband.The letter she sent herself was never answered by Sherlock, at best she responded briefly and concisely through the second brother, because he knew that even if Violet could manage to send the letter without Sig's knowledge, it would never His ability prevented him from knowing that a letter had been sent from London to the estate.

The perennial peace was broken by Sherinford.The most seemingly unharmed of the three brothers.What seemed at first to be just gossip, the locals of North Riding whispered that the eldest Holmes family might be in an illicit relationship with a strange foreign woman of unknown origin who was proficient in several gruesome forms of witchcraft.With terrified and mysterious expressions, they guessed that Mr. Holmes was bewitched by some kind of power.A few months later, a wealthy local gentleman was found dead in his home in the presence of only a delirious Sherringford Holmes.

There was no direct evidence of Sherinford's guilt, but there was no way to prove his innocence either.The murder weapon remained on the body of the deceased and was wiped clean. The blood on Sherringford's body can also be said to have been splashed on him when someone else committed the crime, and he was probably unconscious at the time, but he was indeed wearing gloves at the time. It would also make sense to say that he fainted after committing the crime.All of this is just guesswork.The investigation of this case lasted for nearly a month, and only a little shadow was found, a mysterious group that seemed to be related to supernatural forces.The turmoil has caused residents across North Riding to sound alarmist, even forgetting that they are living in the 17th century of science.

Before there was any definite news, this case had faintly alarmed Sherlock Holmes in London.This month happened to be the time for the regular letter from Sherringford, a well-behaved academic Oxford student who never breached his contract.Sherlock suspects what is going on at home, and Mycroft is keeping it from him, which is not the case, because none of the Holmes in London actually know about it.When the news finally reached the sick Holmes, he made up his mind to let the student who tortured him take the lead first.The feverish detective smiled weakly and ironically as he put down the letter.Black magic, in the 19th century!These idiots actually believed this, no wonder it dragged on till now and they still don't have a clue - but Nightingale, you probably like this case.

Hearing the doorbell ring, the maid who didn't remember that there was an appointment opened the door a little puzzled.Standing in front of him was a lean and vigorous gentleman, all in black, holding a box in his left hand. When he saw someone coming, he immediately took off his top hat.The maid was stunned to see something familiar in the pair of clear and sharp gray eyes and a faint smile. She looked a little like old Mr. Holmes and a little like Sherringford, but they were completely different, warmer than the former, and harder than the latter.

For 20 years, Sherlock Holmes, whose name has never appeared at home, stood calmly at the door of the Holmes family.

The author has something to say: Well, I didn’t save the manuscript, I didn’t have a plan, and I only have a rough idea of ​​what will happen later, as if I saw a large group of bugs beckoning to me...