Wolf King

The play "Magistrate Holmes", no, it should be called a drama, is set in a slightly backward small town with a population of barely over [-], which is close to a large commercial city.

The reason is mainly to avoid the bug that a magistrate can't afford to hire a spellcaster to assist in the investigation... The public security departments in big cities are all at the level of the city police superintendent and the city defense team, let alone how rich they are.

The old-fashioned and poor sheriff of a small town, and the slightly sleek and decadent middle-aged fat assistant (the actor is Dr. Bruno, who played the priest in "Cinderella" before), these two characters who are not at all flattering in appearance, in the play At half time, it firmly grasped the hearts of the audience.

After sorting out the idea of ​​detection, Sheriff Holmes turned the direction of investigation to the manors, farms, and plantations with beautiful hostesses around the town; After entering the place, Sheriff Holmes focused his attention on one of the houses.

Undine Manor, a sweet red fruit plantation owned by a baroness.

The baroness is old, but she has a very beautiful niece; Holmes brought his assistants to visit this scene, and this play has finally appeared a good-looking lady...

Uh... the baroness's niece is actually played by the stepmother actor from Cinderella.

Compared with young people, this actress has no advantages, but against the backdrop of a group of farmers, small townspeople, bear children, old women, and sheriffs with negative appearances, she has a seven-point appearance. It can also show the effect of nine points...

The old-fashioned magistrate is still not good at words, and he offended the first heroine and her aunt in the play, causing countless good-natured laughter from the audience; fortunately, there is an assistant Watson who smooths things over, trying to persuade the furious host .

After understanding the intention of the two sheriffs, the beautiful niece shook her head in denial, saying that she had never invited young men.

The baroness even stated directly: She hated the entanglement between unmarried men and women extremely, and if her niece did such a thing, she would definitely drive her niece back to the country.

The case came to an impasse, and Watson once again offered to give up in frustration (Bajie Scene, Funny.jpg), while the stubborn Holmes said that his head was very hard, and it would be no problem to hit dozens of south walls.

The sheriff's partner returned to the town to continue the investigation. This time Holmes adopted a more flexible approach, hiring street gangsters, thieves, vagrants, etc. to monitor the several nobles living in the town around the clock, and even paid servants to investigate information.

On the other hand, the assistant Watson ran all over the town's clothing stores, tailor shops, and cobbler shops, looking for the source of the deceased's clothes.

In this section, the stage is divided into two halves to perform separately, using this "dual camera" form to show the hardships of solving the case, as well as to divert the audience's attention, to make the audience dizzy, and to ignore the problem that the plot is not progressing fast enough...

When Watson was suspected of stealing by the cobbler's shop owner and was chasing and beating him with wooden shoe soles, Holmes was squatting at the door of a nobleman's house and chatting with the concierge.

While Watson was molested by the fat tailor's shop owner, Holmes listened gravely to the waif's report of surveillance intelligence.

The two protagonists each obtained information through different channels and moved closer to each other. The staff in black quickly pushed the two-piece set off the stage and replaced it with the set of the Secretary of Public Security.

Viscount Pope couldn't help but admire in a low voice: "This way of transition is really great."

"It's never been seen before." The bearded Feng smiled and agreed softly.

Isaac: "..."

——Could you please stop talking to each other! !

Von Aldoni J, can you be a little self-conscious about being a wanted man? !

On the stage, after Holmes showed some pushing (pretending) reasoning (forced) skills, he switched to the set of a noble family again.

Watson found out that the family had just bought deerskin belts and cowhide riding boots belonging to two young men (of different sizes) from a cobbler shop in the first half of the year. Holmes discovered that the family was wearing the same belt through the surveillance of the vagrants. The youth in riding boots appeared.

The two magistrates fought wits and courage with the housekeeper of the noble family, and finally met a young master of the family... Strictly speaking, he was one of the illegitimate children of the master.

Holmes went up and asked if your brother was missing, and was almost kicked out by this illegitimate young master...

After relying on Watson to make a rescue, the young master said that their family did buy two New Year's gifts, one belonged to him, and the other was given to a clerk in the town hall by his father, that is, the male owner. .

The two magistrates hurried to the Town Hall, and the clerk of the Department of Trade did not embarrass the two colleagues. After learning that they were investigating the whereabouts of Sir Churchill's gift (father of the illegitimate son), he frankly told him that he had received the gift. On the same day, he forwarded it to another friend who was similar in size to him, and he didn't even open the box.

After twists and turns, the two sheriffs finally found out the identity of the deceased—a young man named Mark Jim in this town.

However, it is still a mystery about how Mark Jim was victimized and how he was abandoned in the wilderness... Jim, who inherited the inheritance of the lord's father, has been spending and drinking in the big city next door, and almost ruined his family fortune. Back in the old house in the town, he lived frugally and had no relatives in this town. The clerks of the trade department were one of the few old relatives and friends who kept in touch with him.

At this point in the plot, the assistant Watson once again became the spokesperson for the audience: "Could it be that the niece lied? She tricked Mark Jim into killing her at home when the aunt was not paying attention?"

"A woman who is living in someone else's house, her aunt treats her nonchalantly, and her maid can even throw her face at her, how can she convince the servants in Undine Manor or men like grooms and gardeners to help her throw away the corpse? It was one person, it had to be two people, and her aunt's carriage had to be used."

"Then, could it be the clerk of the Trade Department? It doesn't seem difficult for him to make up an excuse to trick Jim out. It can't be the illegitimate child. That guy doesn't know Jim at all."

"Stop guessing, Watson."

Sheriff Holmes got up from the sofa with a hole in it, walked to the coat rack, put on a black cloak and a bowler hat, bit his pipe, picked up his crutches, and said with his iconic stepfather face: " As long as the source of the unknown corpse can be found, half of the case will be solved. This case is even simpler. The moment the source of the corpse is found, I already know who the culprit is. Now, let us solve the final problem... Live and punish the real killer of Mark Jim."

Audience: "??"

"Simple...?" Viscount Pope's mouth twitched.

"Already found it? When? Did I miss any plot?" Prince Maurice looked blank.

In the VIP room on the second floor, at the beginning of the performance, they often frowned at the "drama" without arias at all. Now the "really fragrant" Earl Winston and his son looked at each other, and looked at the forest elf warriors who were in the same room with them.

"Heilene, Kai, have you guessed who the murderer is?" Master Winston asked.

"This... the most suspicious ones seem to be the young master of the illegitimate child and the clerk of the trade department. Besides them, there will be no one else." Helene asked in embarrassment, "Master Winston, what do you think?"

"Master" Winston: "..."

Next to him, another Winston said awkwardly, "Well... Heileen, it is my father who is talking to you."

Hailin, Kai and other elf warriors: "..."

The appearance of the sea people does not change much after adulthood, and they are long-lived species, which makes Winston and his son look like brothers; if they appear at the same time, and I don’t take the initiative to introduce them, it is really difficult for foreigners to tell who is the father and who cub...

In the last scene, what the staff pushed onto the stage was the background of the illegitimate son's home.

"Sure enough, it's the illegitimate son, Earl Winston, I guessed it right!" Heilene quickly changed the subject and tried her best to resolve the embarrassment.

As soon as the voice fell, a carriage slowly drove out from the other side of the stage and stopped at the door of the illegitimate young master's house. The maid helped an old woman down...it was the hostess of Undine Manor, the baroness .

The baroness stepped up and was about to go up the stairs when Sheriff Holmes, who was hiding in the alley beside her, suddenly appeared.

After the performance, Holmes, who had only one expression on his face, bowed slightly and raised his stepfather's face: "Meet you again, ma'am."

The Baroness is a serious actor, and she beat the paralyzed doctor apprentice Holmes with her acting skills. She first showed a brief panic expression, then quickly calmed down, and raised her chin coldly: "Is it such a coincidence, Sheriff Holmes, you also To visit Sir Churchill?"

Holmes nodded and said frankly, "Yes, ma'am, I am waiting to interrupt you when you visit Sir Churchill."

The baroness's facial muscles twitched obviously, such a delicate performance could not be seen by the audience far away, so the baroness slipped her foot slightly when going up the steps to express her uneasiness.

... This is also the shortcoming of stage performances. The actor's lines can be passed through the loudspeaker device installed on the outer circle of the stage (sound shells or alchemy products, the former is relatively rare, while the latter is mature and not too expensive compared to other alchemy products) It was clearly transmitted throughout the audience, and only the first few rows of audience could clearly see the micro-expressions.

Hailin: "..." Oh yeah, my face hurts so much!

The Baroness and Sheriff Holmes walked into the gate one after the other, and the staff quickly pushed the door set away, and what appeared on the stage was the living room set of the illegitimate son's house.

The baroness sat down with the help of the maid, and the maid of Sir Churchill's house brought black tea for the baroness without even asking if she liked it.

The illegitimate son came out to receive the guests, and naturally greeted the baroness. When he found Holmes present, he was not very happy: "Didn't you come here during the day, Mr. Magistrate? Why are you here again?"

"Of course I'm here because I have something to do." Holmes said with a negative EQ, and took out his pocket watch to check the time, "Please wait a moment, my assistant will invite Mr. Louis soon."

"Louis? Who is that?" The illegitimate young master was even more unhappy.

The baroness who picked up the teacup flicked her wrist, a little black tea spilled out, and the maid hurriedly stepped forward to clean it up.

"It turned out that this baroness did something good?" Prince Maurice was confused in the audience.He guessed and thought in his mind for a long time, but he didn't consider this old woman.Fortunately, I didn't say the conclusion, otherwise I would slap my face more.

"Yeah, I thought it was that young niece." Viscount Pope was confused.

Prince Maurice's expression remained the same, and he felt much better with the addition of a slapped companion.

There were quite a few spectators who had similar doubts. On the side of the centaur, Sale and a few soldiers even exchanged low-level discussions about the baroness's kind face and she didn't look like a murderer...

Assistant Watson coaxed and tricked Louis, a clerk from the Department of Trade, into the venue. The clerk was very dazed: "Magistrate Holmes, what are you inviting me to Sir Churchill's house for?"

"What are you doing, what are you treating our family for!" The illegitimate young master was even more dissatisfied.

"Don't be impatient." Holmes walked into the arena, with a pipe in one hand and a cane in the other, slowly, "Next, I would like to ask you to listen to me tell a story, a story about 'revenge'."

No one in this world will complain about the evil taste of the original reasoning school who is keen on gathering people together to solve puzzles. When Holmes began to recite his lines incessantly, all the audience stared at him impatiently and intently. At the same time, he desperately wondered who the real prisoner was, why Holmes came to Sir Churchill's house, and called all the clerks of the Department of Trade...

Holmes recounted a public case that happened in a small town ten years ago. After a viscount died accidentally, the manor and farm under his name were quickly divided up by other nobles. The orphans and widows kept only a small amount of property , had to leave his hometown to seek a living.

Ten years later, the young man had grown into an adult, and his mother died of illness due to years of depression.After burying his mother, the son made a disguise and returned to his hometown with high spirits, intending to take revenge.

"Mark Jim is not the libertine as the rumors say, for two reasons." Holmes said calmly, "One is that there is a thin layer of callus on the first joint of his right middle finger, which shows that this is a pair of The hand of the pen, a large number of books and documents seen in the old house of his family can be used as circumstantial evidence. The second is that in order to play the role of the rascal who ruined his family, Mark Jim returned to the town alone, without servants, Maid, but his old house was cleaned fairly clean."

"Most of the farms that were robbed by Viscount Jim became property under the name of Sir Churchill. As for you, Baroness... ten years ago, Undine Manor wasn't called by that name, right?"

"Wait, do you want to say that my father is a murderer? Impossible!" The illegitimate young master stood up excitedly.

Holmes looked at the young master expressionlessly: "Don't you think it's strange, young master, your father has never come forward to drive away such rude guests like us, why?"

"This……"

"Because your father left footprints at the corpse site, and I gave the general characteristics of one of the corpse dumpers on the day of the investigation. Your father was worried that he would be listed as a suspect after meeting me." Holmes had a stepfather face and talked eloquently, "Although Mark Jim has not successfully inherited his father's title, the title of Viscount Jim has not been revoked. Murder of a future viscount who is eligible to be a viscount is a felony. Sir Churchill could not do it to others, he had to do it himself."

The illegitimate child turned pale and sat back on the sofa.

Holmes took out another small bottle and looked at the baroness: "This is the sand scraped from the knees of Jim's trousers and the soles of his shoes. It is consistent with the soil of Undine's red fruit plantation. This estate used to be Jim's Where I grew up, you must have been Jim's first enemy on the list, ma'am."

Without waiting for the baroness to refute, Holmes looked at the clerk of the trade department who had an innocent face throughout the whole process: "The process of Jim's murder, after my investigation, can be roughly inferred as...Jim, who returned to his hometown for revenge, remember you ten years ago? My friend, I will be the first to contact you when I return home."

"But what Jim never expected is that your old friend and his second enemy, Sir Churchill, are in a relationship that can give each other holiday gifts."

Louis, a clerk in the Trade Department, changed his face, and his hands on his knees began to tremble.

"Holiday gifts from decent people are usually not too expensive or special. When you receive a gift from Sir Churchill, you can pass it on to Jim to show that you still care about your friendship with him. Afterwards, when you pretend to be kind When he introduced a beautiful lady to Jim, such as ... the baroness's beautiful niece, Jim's performance at the time was naturally obliging."

"Jim, who was eager to get close to the Baroness's revenge, did not realize that this was a trap set by the three parties. You controlled him before he met the beautiful niece who knew nothing about it from the beginning to the end. Churchill The Baron himself put an end to this troublesome troublemaker—"

Holmes pointed to the crutches in the corner of the living room next to the coat rack: "I have done some research on crutches myself. The crutches used by Sir Churchill seem to be the same as the ones I use, but the design of the handle Look, it's a custom grip made for the right hand."

Holmes showed the crutch he was holding in his left hand: "What kind of person would design a crutch with a special grip for the right hand? Jazz is in his prime of life, and he has not yet reached the age where he needs to transfer his strength to the crutch to support his body. Consider Now that jazz also likes pipes, then..."

Taking a puff of the pipe held in his right hand, Holmes said unhurriedly, "The conclusion can only be that Sir Churchill is left-handed."

"That's right, Mr. Louis, Baroness, what you saw at that time should be that Sir held the ordinary and insignificant knife in his left hand, and stabbed Mark Jim, who was forced to kneel on the ground with eyes full of hatred. on the right side of the neck."

"Please don't speak indiscriminately because you are eager to deny it. Although I have never seen Jazz in my humble status, there must be many people who have seen how Jazz uses his left hand flexibly."

The baroness slowly closed her eyes, and the clerk of the trade department lowered her head and covered her face with her hands.

The illegitimate young master looked at them in disbelief, slowly got up and left the sofa.

In the audience, the audience were all dumbfounded.

"Mark Jim's coat is missing, presumably because his coat has an identifying mark on it, such as his father's custom-made coat or something. And he has a buckskin worth two gold coins that is more easily traceable. The belt and the cowhide boots with one gold coin and 25 silver are still there. It should be that Mr. Louis didn’t know that it was a gift from Sir Churchill, and Sir Churchill didn’t know that it was a gift from Mr. Louis to Jim. You both ignored it by accident. at this point."

Holmes took a puff from his pipe and made the last stab with a deadpan face: "This is really regrettable."

In the front row of the auditorium, Prince Maurice couldn't help but smile.

Viscount Pope didn't tense up either, the corners of his mouth were slightly raised.

Unlike "Cinderella", which is full of coolness in the audience, "Magistrate Holmes" delays the coolness until the end before breaking out.

It's fun!

"You're right—so what?!"

With a bang, Sir Churchill, who had been hiding behind the scenes, made his grand appearance.

As Holmes guessed, this man was about forty years old, tall and strong (for the human race), and when he appeared, he glared at the sheriff's partner with a bad expression: "Running to show off will be the biggest regret in your life." , Holmes! Do you think you can walk out of this door alive?"

The audience, who had just felt comfortable physically and mentally, immediately raised their hearts.

Well...movies always have so-called twists and turns and climaxes at the end. If our drama wants to break out of operas and dramas, we must use proven and useful routines...

Seeing that the situation was deteriorating, the assistant Watson was so nervous that he immediately hid behind Holmes.

Holmes expressed his composure, and his stepfather showed no expression on his face, and he chuckled twice, "Sir Churchill, your memory may not be particularly good. You forgot all about it in a short time—murdering a future viscount who is eligible to be a knight is a felony, and if you commit such a felony, your fate may not be much better than the accidental death of Viscount Jim back then."

As soon as the voice fell, a large group of soldiers rushed out from both sides of the stage, broke through the "door" and entered to control everyone. Sir Churchill, who tried to resist, was directly taken down.

The belated mayor appeared with a smile, praised Holmes for his wisdom and bravery on the spot, and said that he would severely punish the real culprit who killed Mark Jim, and would never let the criminals go unpunished.

Happy ending, happy ending...

The centaurs applauded vigorously. Just now they thought that the protagonist Holmes would suffer a loss. This ending is really great!

In the human seats next to them, some Scourge & Viscount Pope & Prince Morris said: "eeeemmmmmmmm..."

A seasoned old fox like the bearded Feng couldn't help but look back at Isaac...

It's just... beautifully black!

The happy ending of the fart is simply a bad mockery of the undisguised, naked ugly appearance among the nobles!

The sentence that Holmes used to stab Sir Churchill is the core of this drama. The nobleman who was caught attacking the pain point will end up in the same way as the unlucky ghost who suddenly lost power after the sudden death of the head of the family!

Magistrate Holmes trampled on Sir Churchill and the Baroness, and the mayor, who represented the highest authority in the whole play, rushed out to pick peaches, no, grab peaches-you tell me this is a victory of justice? !

Obviously a victory for greed!

Viscount Pope was especially painful, the corners of his eyes and mouth twitched. He is also a human being. Although Isaac is very dark, it is impossible for him not to see it...

Originally, Viscount Pope was thinking about doing work for Isaac later, asking him to set the background of this drama in any small town in Valentine, and also taking the opportunity to gain reputation for himself.

Seeing this ending...forget it!

Regarding the sudden silence of the three people in the front row, Isaac expressed his composure.

The teacher said that the pursuit of artistic expression does not have to be just praise and praise, satire is also a high-level form of artistic expression.

In terms of art, Isaac must be no better than the Sea Race and the Elf Race. This is what Mr. Ayun said bluntly, and Isaac also agreed...he is still very good.

Since the front is not strong enough, it is better to take a slant of the sword and fight against the unexplored and fertile land of "satire"——"The Daughter of the Sea", a drama that is anti-love and anti-praising art, has received mixed reviews from the human race. The tribe and the forest elves are quite appreciative!

Anyway, in terms of art appreciation, all the tribes use the aesthetics of the sea tribe and the elves as the vane. This road can work~~!