"Please bring us two glasses of Brandy Alexander." Osmond looked at the waitress standing by the table and said.
"Okay sir, please wait a moment!" The waitress walked towards the bar. After a while, the waitress came over carrying two cocktails on a tray.
Chu Long ate the fruit from the fruit plate, and sat on the sofa with Osmond, chatting, and drinking the cocktail that had just been delivered.
"Chu, your progress is so fast. It only takes one morning to win." Osmond said to Chu Long, who was sitting on the sofa diagonally across from him.
"Looking at you guys playing, the corporal even taught me specifically, plus constant practice, how stupid do you have to be to not be able to do this!" Chu Long sighed helplessly.
"Practice makes perfect, my teacher told me, this word seems to be from some Chinese language." Osmond said while drinking.
"An idiom is a phrase with Chinese characteristics. My mother is Chinese and she often said it when she was a child." Listening to the four-character word Osmond opened his mouth, relevant information flashed through Chu Long's mind. It was Aldrich.
Chinese vocabulary that his mother taught him when he was a child.
"Yes, it's an idiom. The teacher said it, but I forgot it." After hearing what Chu Long said, Osmond immediately remembered it.
"By the way, your teacher really knows a lot!"
"You're right about this. Teacher is very knowledgeable about the history and culture of various countries. Even his proficiency in billiards was learned from him." Osmond said about his teacher with a look of admiration.
"Listening to what you said, I want to meet your teacher even more." Chu Long said after taking a sip of wine.
"There will be a chance. Teacher is a person who loves to make friends." Osment looked at Chu Long seriously and said.
"It's been such a long time, and the corporal won't come back even after receiving a call!" Chu Long picked up the cue and said.
"This game is over. If he comes back or not, we will go find him." Osmond stood up and said.
Chu Long and Osmond were preparing to start a new round, but at this moment, the hall door was gently pushed open, and Corporal Lin En, who went to the hall to answer the phone, hurriedly walked towards Chu Long and the two.
"Something happened to Yaheng, and he is in the hospital now." Corporal Lin En walked up to Chu Long and Chu Long with a sullen face. Before Chu Long and Chu Long could speak, he came up and told the shocking news.
"What did you say?" Chu Long and Osmen said in unison, both thinking they heard wrong.
"You heard it right, something happened to Mr. Selter!"
"Just now the London Police Department called me. The groom who followed Ya Heng out found him lying on the second floor of the store. At the same time, the groom found the store manager bleeding and lying on the ground near Ya Heng who was unconscious. Now
A report has been made and Yaheng was sent to the hospital." Corporal Lin En briefly explained what happened.
"Oh my God! How could this happen?" After hearing this, Osmond looked at Corporal Linn in surprise and asked.
"The police station did not disclose the specific details of the incident. They only learned that the groom was frightened by what he saw. When he ran out of the store, he encountered a patrolman patrolling the street. The patrolman immediately blocked the scene and sent the injured Yaheng to the hospital.
We went to the hospital." Corporal Lin En told Chu Long and Osmond what he learned.
"Have his family been notified?" Osmond asked.
"The police haven't been contacted yet, but they will be soon," Corporal Lynn said.
"Let's go see how Mr. Selt is doing first, and ask the doctor about his condition!" Chu Long saw that these two were still talking nonsense, and immediately became anxious and urged.
"Then let's go!"
"The hotel has arranged a car. Let's go directly to the hospital." Corporal Lin En said to Chu Long as they walked.
Chu Long and the other three left the billiard hall and quickly came to the hotel entrance. A car was already parked at the door. Chu Long saw a very eye-catching monster logo of a griffin on the front of the car. The car looked a bit old.
There is a slight scratch on the edge of the door of the car body. The traces left by time on the car body can still be seen even if it is regularly maintained.
The hotel arranged a driver, a thirty-one or twelve-year-old British young man, tall and thin, with light blue eyes that looked like a toy glass ball from the East. After getting in the car, Chu Long once again confirmed that the car was not short.
, after discovering that although the interior decoration of the car is new, it can still be seen from the small damage to the corners of the car that the car has been used for a long time.
"Ya Heng was sent to Butts Hospital, the nearest hospital in the Smithfield area where the store is located. Butts Hospital has the best medical conditions nearby." Corporal Linn sat in the passenger seat and turned to look at Chu who was sitting in the back seat.
The two dragons said.
When Chu Long heard the name Barts Hospital, he felt as if he had heard it somewhere before. He unconsciously touched his chin and thought about it. When he was thinking about it carefully, he suddenly saw a violin placed in the window of a musical instrument store passing by outside the car window.
When I was watching the first part of "The Complete Sherlock Holmes", "A Study in Scarlet", I thought that Watson first met Sherlock Holmes at Butts Hospital.
Speaking of "The Complete Works of Sherlock Holmes", it can be said to be the most profound novel in Chu Long's memory. In Aldridge's memory, the first book he saw when he was a child was not "Andersen's Fairy Tales" or the like, but "Andersen's Fairy Tales".
It's "The Complete Works of Sherlock Holmes". That's the first edition.
"A Study of Scarlet Letters" was already a few years old when Chu Long got it. It was still well preserved, but traces of being ravaged by time could be seen vaguely. It was a book that his father, Alger, had brought with him since he was in school.
One of the few books, which shows how long it has been!
Coincidentally, Chu Long also saw the book in "The Complete Works of Sherlock Holmes" in Ya Heng's private collection, but it was not "A Study in Scarlet" but the "Four Signatures" published later. Chu Long was then
I borrowed this book from Yaheng, and it still has the bookmark on it on the bedside table in my bedroom.
For him who loves "The Complete Works of Sherlock Holmes" so much, Barts Hospital is still fresh in his memory as the place where the good friends Dr. Watson and Detective Sherlock Holmes first met. When Corporal Lynn said it, he instantly remembered it.
It felt familiar, and then I remembered it.
Soon, as the car turned left and right, Chu Long and the other three arrived at Butts Hospital in Smithfield. When Chu Long got off the car, he saw that the Butts Hospital building can be roughly divided into three sections (the ones on both sides are shorter,
The middle is slightly higher). Through the mottled marks on the courtyard wall and some small cracks in the corners of the courtyard door, we can see that these are traces carved by time.
Not many people were seen at the door. The walls were mottled and small "herbaceous plants" loomed beside the walls. The driver parked the car at the door of the hospital and waited for Chu Long and others.
After Chu Long got off the car, he kept looking at this hospital. This is the "famous" Butts Hospital. It's so shabby! I wonder if Corporal Linn repeatedly said that this is the best hospital in Smithfield. Chu Long
I can't believe it. The appearance is so unexpected. Just looking at the appearance, I thought this place was just a larger old warehouse!
When Chu Long was observing the hospital, two people walked out of the main entrance of the hospital. One was wearing a police uniform with two Bass stars on his epaulettes and a red and white "sillitto plaid" pattern large-brimmed hat.
, a middle-aged police officer wearing an open-collared tunic, a patterned belt, and a black tie. The other young police officer wears an shoulder patch with the number 252 underneath a capital V. He is a second-class police officer.
There was a loudmouth who told me about this, that is, Fitch, the volunteer policeman in the small town of Dover. He would talk about anything while drinking, and everyone would listen to this as a news story.