NOVEL WEB Treasure hunt begins in England
Chapter 35 The Book and the Coffin
Chapter 35 The Book and the Coffin
The things in the package seem to be things for children, such as toys, small clothes, books and so on.And the glowing target was crushed under this pile of things.
"Let me see what these are." At this time, Liang En was not in a hurry, but began to check the contents of the cloth bag slowly from top to bottom.
Soon, many valuable things were cleared out.For example, he has a well-preserved teddy bear doll from the 70s. It is estimated that if you find the right person, it should be able to sell for more than 100 pounds.
But the other part of fairy tale books is not so valuable. Even a thick dozen can only be sold for seven or eight pounds in second-hand bookstores.From the bibliography of these fairy tale books, Liang En found that this collector's taste was very popular.
At least half of them were the ones I had seen when I was a child.And after cleaning up those things on the surface and putting them away in different categories, he finally saw what the search target that was pressed down was.
"A whole set of "Harry Potter" and various setting sets." Seeing the things exposed at the bottom, Liang En suddenly became excited.
For him, who was a Harry Potter fan in both the previous life and this life, this thing is definitely very attractive, so he naturally plans to move this pile of things home for his own collection.
Anyway, these things are basically mass-produced goods printed in large quantities, and they are not very expensive in terms of economic value. If they want to sell them, they can only be sold as second-hand books at a discount.
As Liang En happily stuffed these books into the schoolbag he was carrying, the thick pile of books piled up on the bottom of the package gradually shrank, and at this moment he found the shining target .
"Hey, did you wrap it in kraft paper?" Liang En felt a little curious when he saw the book at the bottom of the package.Because only this book in the whole package has extra protection.
After gently cutting the thread wrapped around the package with the pocket knife he carried and opening the kraft paper package, a 32 paperback, cheap hardcover book with a red cover and a blue back cover appeared in front of him.
The cover of the book features a red steam locomotive and Harry Potter wearing glasses standing in front of it.The top half of the cover reads Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.
Turn the book over, and on the edge of the blue back cover is a middle-aged man smoking a cigarette.
"This can't be the first version of the legendary Harry Potter!" As a Harry Potter fan, Liang En naturally has deep memories of certain things.So he immediately turned the page and read it.
Sure enough, after a few minutes, he found two errors in this version of the book.One of them is on the back of the book, and the word philosopher's stone is missing an o.And another has the word "a wand" written twice in the list of Harry's pre-school belongings in the book content.
What's more, there is JK Rowling's signature on the title page of this book.From the signature, it can be seen that the previous owner of this book may know the author, so the first time I bought the book, I asked the author to sign it.
If the date behind the signature is true, then the signature on this book is likely to be the first name JK Rowling signed on a self-published book.
Because the official publication date of this edition of the book is June 1997, 6, and the signature date left on this book happens to be on this day.
You must know that JK Rowling was a pure newcomer in the publishing industry at that time, and there should not be a few people who would run to her with a book to sign.
After Liang En finished the analysis, three cards appeared in his mind.It is one [Detection (N)] and two [Appraisal (N)].
After realizing that he already had six [Appraisal (N)] cards in his hand, Liang Enxuan finally made up his mind and chose to synthesize a [Appraisal (N)] card once.
It was the same as when the [Detection (N)] card was synthesized last time. After confirming the synthesis, a ray of light enveloped four identical cards, and then a bronze-colored card appeared in the original place of the card.
[Appraisal (R): During the journey of searching for history, just knowing the specifics of those historical sites cannot meet the needs of those looking for history. In this case, everyone naturally needs to go further.
Skill card (one-time), consuming this card, the card holder can designate a certain historical item as the target, and then use this item as the observation point to observe a period of history.This period is not splittable and has a maximum of three days. 】
"This is definitely a treasure card." Liang En became excited after reading the introduction on the card.Because it means that he can see the leopard through the tube and spy on some water droplets in the long river of history.
Not to mention even just watching the lives of ordinary ancients for three days, which is enough to make those historians scratch their heads. If he is lucky, he may have the opportunity to see some important historical events, or find Certain forgotten treasures.
Because of such a discovery, it took Liang En more than ten minutes to calm down, and then continued his tidying work.It's a pity that nothing eye-catching was found either on the shelf or in the cloth bags.
Several of the cloth bags contained empty boxes or messy clothes, and even the knots tied on them were different from most cloth bags.
This situation shows one thing, that is, after the owner of this house passed away, his children once entered this house and took away some things that were likely to be valuable.
And this may be why the current owner of the room is willing to let Liang En and the others take away the things in the room after accepting two thousand pounds.Because they have been here before and took some valuables with them.
Liang En and Pierce confirmed this even more when they shared their findings over lunch, because Pierce also found many similar empty containers.
"I found a violin bag, a flute case, and several silver-plated brass jewelry boxes." Pierce shrugged. "There is no doubt that they are all empty."
"However, this does not mean that I have gained nothing. For example, I just found a box for storing video tapes. It should look like a very good antique."
After finishing speaking, Pierce swallowed the fried fish and potato chips wrapped in newspaper in two or three bites, and then walked out the door.Soon, he came in dragging a box that was covered with reliefs except for the bottom.
"This is the treasure I found before." Pierce patted the metal box about 1m long and said. "The material of the box is silver-plated copper, and the overall look is quite exquisite, so I want to keep this thing for my own collection."
"Uh..." After carefully looking at the metal box, Liang En turned his head to look at Pierce. "Does your family not have too many taboos about things in the funeral industry?"
"How is it possible? We Irish pay more attention to this aspect than most British people. For example, when my father saw a hearse, he would quickly find a piece of wood and tap it with his fingers."
"Then I suggest that you sell this thing as soon as possible." Liang En pointed to the metal box and said, "This should be a ritual coffin."
(End of this chapter)
The things in the package seem to be things for children, such as toys, small clothes, books and so on.And the glowing target was crushed under this pile of things.
"Let me see what these are." At this time, Liang En was not in a hurry, but began to check the contents of the cloth bag slowly from top to bottom.
Soon, many valuable things were cleared out.For example, he has a well-preserved teddy bear doll from the 70s. It is estimated that if you find the right person, it should be able to sell for more than 100 pounds.
But the other part of fairy tale books is not so valuable. Even a thick dozen can only be sold for seven or eight pounds in second-hand bookstores.From the bibliography of these fairy tale books, Liang En found that this collector's taste was very popular.
At least half of them were the ones I had seen when I was a child.And after cleaning up those things on the surface and putting them away in different categories, he finally saw what the search target that was pressed down was.
"A whole set of "Harry Potter" and various setting sets." Seeing the things exposed at the bottom, Liang En suddenly became excited.
For him, who was a Harry Potter fan in both the previous life and this life, this thing is definitely very attractive, so he naturally plans to move this pile of things home for his own collection.
Anyway, these things are basically mass-produced goods printed in large quantities, and they are not very expensive in terms of economic value. If they want to sell them, they can only be sold as second-hand books at a discount.
As Liang En happily stuffed these books into the schoolbag he was carrying, the thick pile of books piled up on the bottom of the package gradually shrank, and at this moment he found the shining target .
"Hey, did you wrap it in kraft paper?" Liang En felt a little curious when he saw the book at the bottom of the package.Because only this book in the whole package has extra protection.
After gently cutting the thread wrapped around the package with the pocket knife he carried and opening the kraft paper package, a 32 paperback, cheap hardcover book with a red cover and a blue back cover appeared in front of him.
The cover of the book features a red steam locomotive and Harry Potter wearing glasses standing in front of it.The top half of the cover reads Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.
Turn the book over, and on the edge of the blue back cover is a middle-aged man smoking a cigarette.
"This can't be the first version of the legendary Harry Potter!" As a Harry Potter fan, Liang En naturally has deep memories of certain things.So he immediately turned the page and read it.
Sure enough, after a few minutes, he found two errors in this version of the book.One of them is on the back of the book, and the word philosopher's stone is missing an o.And another has the word "a wand" written twice in the list of Harry's pre-school belongings in the book content.
What's more, there is JK Rowling's signature on the title page of this book.From the signature, it can be seen that the previous owner of this book may know the author, so the first time I bought the book, I asked the author to sign it.
If the date behind the signature is true, then the signature on this book is likely to be the first name JK Rowling signed on a self-published book.
Because the official publication date of this edition of the book is June 1997, 6, and the signature date left on this book happens to be on this day.
You must know that JK Rowling was a pure newcomer in the publishing industry at that time, and there should not be a few people who would run to her with a book to sign.
After Liang En finished the analysis, three cards appeared in his mind.It is one [Detection (N)] and two [Appraisal (N)].
After realizing that he already had six [Appraisal (N)] cards in his hand, Liang Enxuan finally made up his mind and chose to synthesize a [Appraisal (N)] card once.
It was the same as when the [Detection (N)] card was synthesized last time. After confirming the synthesis, a ray of light enveloped four identical cards, and then a bronze-colored card appeared in the original place of the card.
[Appraisal (R): During the journey of searching for history, just knowing the specifics of those historical sites cannot meet the needs of those looking for history. In this case, everyone naturally needs to go further.
Skill card (one-time), consuming this card, the card holder can designate a certain historical item as the target, and then use this item as the observation point to observe a period of history.This period is not splittable and has a maximum of three days. 】
"This is definitely a treasure card." Liang En became excited after reading the introduction on the card.Because it means that he can see the leopard through the tube and spy on some water droplets in the long river of history.
Not to mention even just watching the lives of ordinary ancients for three days, which is enough to make those historians scratch their heads. If he is lucky, he may have the opportunity to see some important historical events, or find Certain forgotten treasures.
Because of such a discovery, it took Liang En more than ten minutes to calm down, and then continued his tidying work.It's a pity that nothing eye-catching was found either on the shelf or in the cloth bags.
Several of the cloth bags contained empty boxes or messy clothes, and even the knots tied on them were different from most cloth bags.
This situation shows one thing, that is, after the owner of this house passed away, his children once entered this house and took away some things that were likely to be valuable.
And this may be why the current owner of the room is willing to let Liang En and the others take away the things in the room after accepting two thousand pounds.Because they have been here before and took some valuables with them.
Liang En and Pierce confirmed this even more when they shared their findings over lunch, because Pierce also found many similar empty containers.
"I found a violin bag, a flute case, and several silver-plated brass jewelry boxes." Pierce shrugged. "There is no doubt that they are all empty."
"However, this does not mean that I have gained nothing. For example, I just found a box for storing video tapes. It should look like a very good antique."
After finishing speaking, Pierce swallowed the fried fish and potato chips wrapped in newspaper in two or three bites, and then walked out the door.Soon, he came in dragging a box that was covered with reliefs except for the bottom.
"This is the treasure I found before." Pierce patted the metal box about 1m long and said. "The material of the box is silver-plated copper, and the overall look is quite exquisite, so I want to keep this thing for my own collection."
"Uh..." After carefully looking at the metal box, Liang En turned his head to look at Pierce. "Does your family not have too many taboos about things in the funeral industry?"
"How is it possible? We Irish pay more attention to this aspect than most British people. For example, when my father saw a hearse, he would quickly find a piece of wood and tap it with his fingers."
"Then I suggest that you sell this thing as soon as possible." Liang En pointed to the metal box and said, "This should be a ritual coffin."
(End of this chapter)
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