Chapter six hundred and fifty seventh accidental necessity
They moved forward along the winding tunnel, and like the shepherd Paris, they finally entered a mysterious underground tomb, which was filled with gold coins, jewelry and other valuables, as if all the wealth of ancient France were concentrated.
here.
Although Abbé Saunière was a little carried away, he did not forget the danger: did anyone else know about this wealth? Maybe the descendants of the treasure hunter also knew about this wealth?
Father Saunière then quietly scraped off the inscription on the Countess's tombstone in the cemetery. He carefully eliminated all clues that would allow others to discover the underground tomb, and hid the mysterious parchment in a secret room where only he and
Mary's knowledge of the crypt.
The priest and Mary got a lot of gold coins and jewelry from the crypt, and they did it all so that no one knew about it. After that, they sealed the tomb.
The priest and Mary also drew up a plan to hide the money from others. Father Saunière would first go to Spain, Belgium, Switzerland, and Germany to exchange the gold coins into cash, and then send the money to the town of Cuissa through the post office in the name of Mary Denardo.
Soon, by 1893, Father Saunière had become a rich man with hundreds of thousands of dollars. He renovated the entire church and decorated it magnificently and solemnly.
He renovated his house, built a pavilion in the garden with a fountain and a rockery, bought land and a house, and built a cemetery wall.
All this was done in the name of Marie Denardo. Abbé Saunière married Marie, and the charming Marie suddenly became the real first lady of the castle.
All these sudden changes will inevitably attract attention from all walks of life. The sudden wealth will bring about a series of troubles. First, the mayor, then the bishop, the archbishop, and the pope have all asked about this matter.
The mayor of Rennes-le-Château specifically visited the priest and asked about his sources of funding. He also accused him of embezzlement, wasting public funds, and ruining the cemetery.
The smooth-talking Abbé Saunière claimed to the mayor that he had inherited an inheritance from an uncle in America and gave the mayor 5,000 gold coins (equivalent to 5 million francs in 1914). The mayor never asked about the matter again.
The Archbishop of Carcassonne, His Excellency Lars, who was in charge of the church in the town of Rennes, was also deeply disturbed by the actions of the priest Saunière under his jurisdiction.
He sent people to investigate. But the gold coins, wine and delicacies provided by Abbe Saunière made the investigation impossible.
Even Archbishop Pilar received a sum of gold coins, and he became silent from then on, and everything went smoothly.
In 1897, Father Saunière began to build the Villa Bedania. The cost of this villa with walls and towers was equivalent to 1 million gold coins. In order to enjoy flowers in all seasons, the priest also built a greenhouse and a bath for him.
Luxurious bathroom.
The first thing that Bishop Beausejour, the successor of Archbishop Pilar, did after he took office was to once again ask Father Saunière to provide necessary explanations for all his actions. However, Saunière ignored all this and continued.
Doing his own thing.
Later, the Pope heard about this and asked the Roman court to investigate. Father Saunière was summoned to Rome to appear in court. Finally, the Holy Court announced that Saunière would be suspended from his position as priest.
However, Saunière didn't care. He continued to pray and pray in the chapel in his villa. Interestingly, almost all the parishioners came to his home to pray and pray. As a result, the newly appointed priest was very embarrassed.
, I had to swear never to go to Rennes Castle again.
Saunière was also enthusiastic about public welfare. As a priest, he was very concerned about the development of Rennes Castle, and he formulated a new plan to beautify Rennes Castle.
He wants to build a road to Cuissa, build water diversion projects and water conservancy facilities in Rennes Castle, build another tower for residents to use, buy a car to transport the townspeople, etc.
His budget expenditure amounted to 8 million gold coins. This was equivalent to 8 billion francs in 1914. This shows how large the treasure of Rennes Castle was.
On January 5, 1917, Saunière fell ill just after signing several orders. Cirrhosis of the liver took away his life before Saunière could implement his new plan.
Mary was so distraught that she covered the priest's body with a red pom-pom cloth and placed it on the balcony. All the residents of Rennes Castle took the initiative to pray for the priest.
He took away a red velvet ball, just like taking a holy relic from a saint.
Mary soon began to live a secluded life and never received any visitors. It seemed that she had never been to the mysterious treasure tomb again.
Only Mary knew the secret of this treasure.
Later, a man named Kobe appeared, and there was hope that the secret treasure could be discovered again, but Mr. Kobe's luck was too bad, and this is what happened.
From 1946 to 1953, Mr. Noel Kirby met Mary in her later years.
At that time, the Kobes stayed at Mary's house and played with Mary all day long, which won Mary's trust and friendship.
Mary saw that Kobe was very reliable, so she decided to tell Kobe where the treasure was hidden.
One day, Mary, who had always been tight-lipped, said to Kobe: "You don't have to worry, Mr. Kobe, you will get the money you can't spend!"
"Where are you going to get the money?" Kobe asked.
"Well! Don't worry, I will tell you everything before I die."
On January 18, 1953, Mary suddenly fell ill and fell unconscious. She secretly left the world with the treasure in her heart.
"So, these treasures should be easy to find, but those people just can't find them, right?" Han Peacock looked at the big mouse thoughtfully.
The big mouse continued to write: "Mary knew these things. This was the most profound thing in her life. The inscription on the tombstone had been destroyed, and the parchment recording the treasure had been placed in the cemetery. Now the only
The clue is the castle, and the protected cemetery is obviously where the castle is located, so now no one knows which tomb the castle is, not even Mary."
"This is not a reason why the treasure cannot be found. As long as there is a general location, even if you dig three feet into the ground, the so-called castle tomb should be able to be found." Han Kongque said.
The big mouse disagreed: "The fact is that no one has found it, and the only clue is that a tunnel was found under the already empty cemetery called 'The Castle'.
I don’t think the castle can be called arbitrarily, which is more troublesome, and there is an adjective in it, which is empty, which is even more troublesome. This shows that this castle is not small.
Besides, any treasure cannot be found so easily. It can only be found by chance. The shepherd was a chance, and Mary was also a chance. But there is an inevitability in this kind of chance.
Therefore, the probability and luck are the most important. I think that without the help of my old man, the castle hidden underground would not be so easy to be discovered."
Han Peacock nodded in agreement. If the treasure was so easy to find, the owner of the treasure would not hide the treasure there.
Although Mary can pinpoint the general range of the treasure, such a range is definitely not small. If the local terrain is more complicated, it will be even more difficult to find.
In fact, there is no need to think about it. The local terrain must be complicated. Otherwise, there would be no underground castles and winding underground passages. All of this shows that it is not that easy to enter the treasure room.
Even Mary and the others were lucky enough to enter by accident. Of course, the shepherd was even luckier.
Han Peacock looked at the words written by the big mouse again and found nothing special, so he carefully put them away.
"Let's go! I hope your performance can satisfy my family, otherwise, you, a useless mouse, will not enjoy such wonderful treatment." Han Peacock grabbed the big mouse and wanted to confiscate it.
paper and pen, this thing cannot be discovered.
The big mouse squeaked and quickly wrote on the paper: "That wine cellar is mine."
"Yours? Are you sure? You have to know that there are many things that involve killing people and seizing treasures. How can a mouse protect such a useful wine cellar?" Han Peacock said, squinting at the big mouse.
The big mouse wrote anxiously: "What I found, as well as the fruits there, were all transported in by me."
The big mouse asks to drink in the wine pool every day. It does not want to give up this benefit, because it knows that the reason why it, a mouse, can live so well is entirely because of the medicinal wine in the wine pool. Compared with
Those treasures that cannot be eaten or drunk, medicinal wine are more important to big rats.
"Behave well. If you behave well, I don't mind giving you some medicinal wine. If you don't do well, I'll kill you and eat your flesh instead of talking about medicinal wine." Han Peacock put it away, put away the paper and pen, and walked out.
Went to the room, it was already past twelve o'clock, LiuXu and the others should have gone to bed.
The big mouse squeaked and was taken back to the east yard by the Korean peacock. But as soon as it entered the yard, the big mouse stopped squeaking.
It twitched its nose and looked directly at the tank under the courtyard wall. The koi fish in the tank were swimming freely, and the big mouse obviously noticed that the water in the tank was special.
"Squeak." When the big mouse saw Han Peacock entering the room without stopping, it became anxious and pointed its two little paws directly at the sink.
Han Peacock ignored it and ordered it into the room. He went to the kitchen, took out a goblet, threw it into the big mouse's arms, and poured a glass of activated water for it.
"If you behave well in the future, you will have this kind of water to drink. If you behave badly, you will be stewed in this kind of water." Han Peacock threw the big mouse down and stopped caring about it.
"Don't run around, there are a lot of wild cats around here." Han Peacock is still very rare about this big mouse. He plans to surprise Liuxu and Xiaoxiao tomorrow, so he doesn't want this big mouse to run away on its own.