48 Hours a Day

The delightful wine party did not last too long and was interrupted by an uninvited guest, who was a tall man with white, grey and yellow hair, but now he looks a little frowned upon, as soon as he enters the door, "something happened. ”

“When did you come to see me because of something,” Holmes sat on the couch, but was not in a hurry, and introduced Zhang Heng.

“Gregson, the leader of Scotland Yard, of course, compared to his companions," he looked at Gregson again, “Zhang Heng, my mysterious and adorable new roommate from the East, we are discussing together the effect of professional rivalry and, by the way, destroying my treasured Potter, you came just in time, do you want a drink together? ”

“I'm afraid this is not a good time to drink.” The sheriff looked at Zhang Heng at the same time.

“Don't worry, this friend of mine has a tight mouth and won't talk all over the place.” Holmes Road, “so you can safely say anything. ”

“Well," Gregson obviously didn't deal with Holmes on the first day either, and the rumors stopped tangling with Zhang Heng's problem, straightforwardly, "I came across a very difficult case. ”

“I doubt that, but you can go on. ”

“In the afternoon, a patrolling police officer found a body on the Thames River and asked a nearby sailor to help salvage it, a young girl, but there was no other clue. The poor child had no clothes, jewellery, nothing else to prove her identity. We didn't know her name, we didn't know where she lived, what work she did, whether she had any friends or relatives. Simply put, we didn't know anything about her and nobody had come to report her missing recently. You said you were most interested in such a no-go case, so I came to you at the first minute. ”

“Wise move.” After listening to Gregson's description, Holmes turned to Zhang Hengdao with an excitement on his face, "my friend, I'm sorry that our wine party is ending early. ”

“It's okay, it's important.” Zhang Heng expressed understanding.

Holmes got up and put his coat back on, but then he said, “Where's your hat, theory class is over, and it's time for us to put it into practice. ”

Zhang Heng had some surprises, he could see that Gregson didn't really want him to be involved in the case, and he and Holmes had just met for less than two hours. Although they had talked speculatively before, Holmes didn't have to be with him when he got to work.

Zhang Heng had the main task, but he didn't expect to meet the opportunity immediately on the first day. Holmes was a very good observer, and Zhang Heng happened to have a lot of secrets on his body. Therefore, it was not easy for him to pass the last two hours. Even though he had mentioned something he wanted to learn from Holmes before, Zhang Heng didn't want to act too urgently, just in case.

But now it seems that Holmes likes to pull roommates' problems as badly as in the original book. When he first met Watson, he and Watson had to say that he had dragged the latter to the crime scene, but if Zhang Heng was right, Watson had lived with Holmes for several weeks, and they had also touched each other's temper, and this time he and Holmes were really a little better than the passers-by.

The sheriff on one side opened his mouth, but eventually didn't say anything.

Zhang Hengmei naturally won't be polite anymore. He followed Holmes out, and the three of them boarded a four-wheeled carriage parked outside the door.

Most of the stories in the Holmes Exploration Collection occurred in the late 19th century, when Britain was in Victorian times, when it completed its industrial revolution, while expanding its colonies overseas, rapidly developing its political economy and culture, and producing more industrial capacity than the rest of the world combined, when the Sunset Empire was truly the center of the world.

And London, as the capital, is also the world's largest city with no suspense for more than six million people.

But the gap between the rich and the poor here is also enormous, in the words of Dickens at the beginning of The Twin Cities - the best of times and the worst of times.

The rapid expansion of the population in a short period of time made the city crowded. Zhang Heng remembered some data that future generations had seen. At about 1,200 feet in size, there were 2,795 families, more than 10,000 people, and grandchildren were crowded in a small house, like pigs locked in a pig circle.

Ordinary workers earn less than £10 a year, the vast majority of whom fall into their landlords' backpacks and eat poor quality bread blended with expired flour, potato flour even bamboo and chalk powder, do not dare to get sick, do not have the money to buy clothes or buy toys for their children, and do not have enough rest time.

In contrast, Watson, who is a military doctor in the book, for example, although he is not a wealthy man, can already live comfortably in London, receiving 11 shillings and 6 pence a day, earning almost £17 in a month. As for the landlords and factory owners, there is more money in their pockets, connected to various prom theatres every day, and the beds next to them are replaced.

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The carriage headed for the Thames River and Holmes was in a good mood along the way. He talked about the concert he had been listening to before, but unfortunately, both of his companions had difficulty sharing too many common languages with him on the subject. Sheriff Gregson was still having a headache for the case in hand and seemed a little distracted. Zhang Heng, although he had practiced the piano for some time, knew only a few of the musicians of the nineteenth century.

“I love music, it's one of the few things in this boring and boring world that excites my nerves, and beyond that, it's all kinds of cases. The more fantastic the code, the more pleasant it is to duplicate complex analytical work, but unfortunately there are fewer and fewer criminals who are brainbreaking now," Holmes seems to be on the rise, opening the phone box.

“The vast majority of cases you can actually find similarities or similarities in past cases, so when you're confused, turning over old files is always rewarding. ”

“What, did you build an archive where you lived?” Gregson intervened.

“I do have a habit of collecting clippings for difficult miscellaneous cases, but more records are here.” Holmes pointed to his head, laughing.