The train was moving smoothly, and Tom and Dumbledore sat in their seats without saying a word. They both knew that this was Evans' memory, and in other people's memories, no matter what they did, it would not interfere with the memory.
Go ahead. Tom, now, it's like watching a 3D movie.
Like a true Muggle gentleman, Evans read the newspaper carefully in the first-class carriage. Tom felt that the reason why he traveled the Muggle way was to experience Muggle life.
Tom noticed that there was a fat man sitting near the door of the carriage. The man was wearing a suit. Tom knew at a glance that the clothes were valuable, but even the most skilled tailor could not hide his fat figure.
figure.
At this time, the chubby man was placing his suitcase on the table. Next to the suitcase was a pen and a notebook. He twisted the combination lock on the suitcase, and the suitcase slowly opened, revealing the contents inside.
Things: A dozen or so tightly wrapped antiques scattered here and there.
The obese man carefully put on his gloves, then took out the coins from the box one by one and looked at them, while writing and drawing in his notebook.
Out of curiosity, Tom leaned over and couldn't hold his nerve after seeing the coins and the words he wrote clearly.
The man was holding an ancient Chinese coin in his hand. It was in very good condition. There were four big characters written on it: Chunxi Yuanbao. This copper coin gave people a very positive feeling. Tom took one look at it.
I think it is genuine. But what the man wrote in the notebook is very interesting.
Name: Chunxi Yuanbao 25% off
Weight: 6.90g
Size: 29.9*1.7MM
Price: 5000￡
Well, thirty years later this copper coin can be sold for a high price of 90 yuan a piece with free shipping.
The fat man murmured to himself: "This coin is from ancient China a thousand years ago. It has been preserved to this day. It is rare in existence and is still in such complete condition. I bought it for only five thousand pounds. I really missed it."
However, Tom never expected that this "Chunxi Yuan Bao 25% off" would be the only genuine piece that this gentleman took out next.
Next, he also took out many other "antiques" from China, including various knife-shaped and shovel-shaped bronze coins, bronze lords from the Shang and Zhou dynasties, and the shiny Xuande furnace. The missing corner was repaired with gold.
The jade seal on...
Tom:……
It seems that the person who sold him the copper coins at first was quite conscientious.
Dumbledore also stood next to Tom and marveled, "This Muggle gentleman seems to like collecting defective products of modern industry."
However, his and Tom's eyes immediately froze, because there was actually another layer under the box. The first layer was various Chinese "antiques", and the second layer was various European and American cultural relics, and the strange gold coin was mixed in among them.
The fat man took out these antiques one by one, and then wrote their prices, names and data in his notebook. When he took out the gold coin, Evans also raised his head and looked at the fat man.
past.
The fat man was completely unaware of this and still held the gold coin and looked at it carefully. The distance between his face and the gold coin was less than twenty centimeters, and his eyes gradually became blurred.
Tom glanced at his notebook and found that the gold coin he dated was a gold coin from the time of Caesar. Tom looked at Dumbledore.
"This time his judgment was correct. The gold coin was indeed minted during Caesar's time." Dumbledore answered Tom's doubts. "It should be when Caesar led his army back from the battlefield in Gaul in 49-48 BC."
A gold dinar coin issued by Caesar's mint in Rome."
"The elephant symbolizes Caesar, and the snake represents Caesar's political enemy Pompey. If you look carefully, you will find the inscription 'CAESAR' engraved on the front." Dumbledore said, pointing to the line of unclear letters at the bottom of the gold coin.
He noticed that Tom looked at him strangely, so he spread his hands and said, "I have read a lot of books, so it is normal to know something about the history of the wizarding world and the Muggle world. If you live as long as me,
, then you will be as knowledgeable as me."
"Professor, look at this man." Tom pointed at the fat man. At this time, something was wrong with him: there was no luster in his eyes, and black lines appeared on his face - this was the blood in his veins turning into
His eyes were turning black, his pupils were rapidly dilating, and his eyeballs were becoming cloudy.
Dumbledore glanced at him and frowned: "He is dead."
Not only was the man dead, but he was also decomposing at an unusual speed. However, none of the passengers in the carriage noticed this change.
The track of the train may have some bulges, which caused the train to suddenly shake while it was running. The gold coin slipped from the fat man's hand and fell to the ground. Tom clearly saw Evans hooking his fingers towards the gold coin, and the gold coin reluctantly
It flew into his hand. As soon as the gold coin came into his hands, Evans's expression changed suddenly, and he quickly threw it into his bag, not daring to hold it or carry it with him.
Something strange happened. The man who was obviously dead and still starting to rot suddenly became active. His face became extremely ferocious. Losing the gold coin was like losing the most important thing in his life.
Not even death can stop him from getting the gold coins back.
This matter must be explained by magic. Even though Evans didn't make any sound when he used the Flying Curse just now, the man still locked the position of the gold coin in an instant.
His cloudy eyes had turned blood red, and veins bulged out on his forehead. The man stood up unsteadily and walked straight towards Evans.
The noise alerted a woman sitting in the man's back seat. When she saw the man's face in the front seat clearly, she couldn't help but let out a scream: that face was so hideous that it didn't look like a living person at all.
The screams made other passengers in the carriage stop their work, and then they saw the moving body. Many people took a breath.
The fat man walked up to Evans and stretched out a hand that had begun to swell and deform. "Give me back the gold coins." The man said word by word.
Evans looked at the man, "Is this gold coin really that important? It will make you remember it after you die. This gold coin will only bring disaster to you, your family and friends, so let me deal with it for you...
…”
"I, after death?" The man was a little confused, and then he seemed to have come to his senses, and said to himself: "Oh, yes, I seem to be dead..."
His skin began to bulge into large bumps, then burst, and foul-smelling pus gushed out.
He raised his fist and hit Evans, while shouting something that no one understood.