Chapter 499 Excuse Me, Does Mr. Holmes Live Here?

There were a total of five pursuers, which were a little too many, so Zhang Heng didn't stand still, but went directly to meet them. At this time, there was still a distance of about five or six meters between the leader and the last person.

Their target was a gypsy busker, and they were a little unable to react to Zhang Heng who suddenly rushed over.

According to the usual habit, the leader was about to speak to scare the Oriental in front of him, but the other party had already made a move first, and punched him on the trachea.

The leader felt a sharp pain, fell to the ground, clutched his neck, and felt shortness of breath for a while, Zhang Heng didn't stop, and kicked the people behind him to the fish stand beside him, the unlucky guy knocked over The trolley loaded with salmon was buried by smoked fish.

Seeing this, the three people behind quickly stopped in their tracks, as if they were facing a formidable enemy.

They usually fight a lot, but basically what they do is to bully the weak and fear the hard. They rely on the number of people to go up to take advantage of it. They have never fought tough battles. Where have they seen this kind of posture? He was brutally knocked down.

The three of them looked at each other, hesitant.

Zhang Heng made a gesture to chase, but the next moment the three of them turned around and ran away.

"Ha." The gypsy busker's eyes widened. This scene looked a little ridiculous. The three guys who were still holding wooden sticks were frightened away by an unarmed man.

Zhang Heng stepped past the moaning guy on the ground, took back his coat from the hand of the gypsy busker, and put it on with a shake.

"It's okay, but I advise you to leave here early."

After Zhang Heng finished speaking, he turned around and left without waiting for the other party to answer. He just saved the gypsy busker. The latter had a good heart to help the Jewish family. Since he met him, he didn't mind helping the other party.

As a result, not far after walking, the gypsy busker chased up from behind again and asked, "You are quite interesting. How long have you been in London? What's your name and where do you live?"

Zhang Heng did not hide anything, and reported his address and name.

"Hey, you're not from the East District, so what are you doing here?" the gypsy busker asked curiously.

"You're not from the Eastern District, aren't you here too?" Zhang Heng said.

"I...Of course I have my reasons." The gypsy busker rolled his eyes, paused, and continued, "Anyway, thank you this time, I will visit you when I have time .”

"En." Zhang Heng didn't take this matter to heart, and agreed casually. The two said goodbye at the intersection, and called a carriage to go home.

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Back at the cottage in Baker Street, Mrs. Hudson had just finished supper, bacon, potatoes, and pumpkin soup.

But Zhang Heng found that the big detective was not in his room and continued to play dead. Mrs. Anderson said that Holmes had received a letter and went out in the afternoon.

Zhang Heng couldn't help being a little curious. What kind of case did he encounter again? In the morning, Holmes was still nestled in the easy chair trying to murder himself, but in the afternoon, he went back to work. Those things seemed to have no effect at all. to him.

Zhang Heng helped Mrs. Hudson set the dishes. At this time, there was a knock on the door. Zhang Heng opened the door and saw a bearded coachman. He said in a rough voice, "Excuse me, is this Mr. Holmes' residence?" ?”

"Yes, but he's not at home now."

"Not at home, but my master has something urgent to see him." The bearded coachman said dissatisfied.

"I don't know why he went out, but if you are in a hurry, you can come in and wait for him..." Zhang Heng paused, then raised his eyebrows, "Holmes?"

The bearded driver laughed loudly when he heard the words, and his voice returned to normal, "That's right, you can see through this."

While talking, Holmes took off his wig, beard, eyebrows, and other messy things, and his whole person returned to his original appearance.

"You did a good job of disguising yourself. Not only did you look like a coachman on the outside, but your eyes and temperament were no different from that of a coachman. In addition, you deliberately changed your accent, lowered your pitch and mixed certain dialects, and even your body shape There are also changes."

"But I still didn't hide it from you..." Holmes regretted, "How did you recognize me?"

"You should pay attention to cleaning your palms, the ink is gone, but the traces of chemical reagents are not so easy to remove, and your shoes are a bit new, not like what a horse driver would wear." Zhang Heng said here After a pause, he seemed to remember something, but he couldn't remember it again.

Holmes looked a little annoyed, "Ha, it seems that you have gained a lot this afternoon. Did I get your hands dirty on purpose? As for the shoes, I was careless. I have a pair of old shoes. In order to cope with today's situation, but it was damaged by my experiment some time ago, I haven't had time to buy it again, so I can only find a pair of unremarkable ones, but fortunately, not all people in this world are like you and me. Excellent observation."

"It seems that your trip went well." Zhang Heng temporarily put aside the incident that he hadn't thought of.

"It's a worthwhile trip." Holmes sniffed. "Has Mrs. Hudson finished the dinner? Let's chat while we eat."

At the dinner table, Holmes briefly introduced a job he took on in the afternoon, tracking down a well-known member of parliament and investigating his relationship with a young woman without disturbing the other party.

"The other party is the face of the Conservative Party and has many allies in the House, but now some people in the Conservative Party suspect that he has fallen to the opponent Liberal Party. After a preliminary investigation, they ruled out the possibility that the MP was bribed or blackmailed, but recently For a period of time, he had indeed been in close contact with a young woman, so this may be a beauty trick used by the Liberal Party. People from the Conservative Party cannot find out the relationship between the two without alerting the other party, so they had to ask I'm on my way.

"What did you find out?"

"How should I put it, the matter is quite interesting." Holmes leaned back on the chair. "I disguised myself as a coachman, went to the mansion of that young lady, and found that she had a boyfriend who was in love. They were like glue. Therefore, I can be sure that there is no relationship between her and that congressman as everyone thinks, but it can be seen that the congressman really likes her and gave her a lot of expensive jewelry and clothes. The age between the two, I think the answer is obvious."

"Um?"

"She is the illegitimate daughter of that MP."