Chapter 577: The box is actually a treasure (around 6:30)
Watching the big boxes being taken out one after another, the super big stuff that Ju An imagined still didn't appear, just buckets of silverware, small pieces of gold jewelry and the like.
Ju An was very disappointed, but Miles, Wang Fan and the others were happy. They kept looking around, and Nini was happily taking photos. Le's face almost burst into laughter. Xiao Zheng and Xiao
The two children were being pulled by Dinah and Cora, and they were still looking into the cellar with their heads bent. It seemed that the two little people were more interested in the dark hole than the silverware.
Just when Ju An was disappointed, things took a turn. The young man in the cellar shouted: "Finally, there is a small box with some strange gold coins in it, with pirate signs on them, and a book with parchment pages.
A dozen pieces of paper, in Spanish."
When Ju An heard this, he immediately became energetic. Did he find a gold coin in the style of Pirates of the Caribbean? This was enough of a gimmick. He quickly shouted to the people below: "Take it up and take a look."
After waiting for less than two minutes, a young man came up with a small box in his arms. The whole small box looked like it was made of iron, and there were patterns on it. It was very difficult for one person to hold it. It seemed to be painted with a layer of black.
Huhu things, several fixed straps covered with grease like a big box, were placed on the ground. Ju An couldn't wait to put his head over it, and waited to open the box. He saw that the gold coins were good.
It’s just a shiny gold surface with a raised relief engraved with pirate logos, a dagger and a scimitar crossed under a skull. As for the complicated patterns in the movie, there’s not even a trace of them. The entire box
There were about fifty or sixty gold coins in total, including the old-fashioned gold-handled dagger, and the rest was a booklet of more than a dozen pieces of parchment, with a well-bound cover and two iron pins.
Chris picked it up, then opened the page and read the Spanish text on it: "Code of the Feynman Princess, all crew members on the ship can vote on everything, all members are equal, no gambling, no stealing
"Those who steal will be thrown into the sea..." After reading for a while, I turned to the next page, which was about how to distribute the loot of robbery. Now it became clear that these things were stolen by pirates.
After Chris finished reading, he said to Ju An: "Now I can confirm that these are pirate treasures, but I have never heard of this Feynman Princess, and this book looks better than Morgan's Pirate Code."
It should be earlier, it seems that this pirate captain is Spanish, at least the one who wrote this code is Spanish."
How could Ju An care about this? From the moment he saw the gold coins, he felt disappointed again. The gold coins were not beautiful enough. After thinking about it, he said to Chris: "This pirate really casts gold coins like in the movie!".
Chris smiled and shook his head, flipping through the book and explaining to Ju An: "These gold coins are not for reading, they are equivalent to votes. When important things are written on them, the gold coins will be distributed to each pirate.
Then everyone uses gold coins to vote!”.
Ju An had no interest in caring about how these pirates conducted democratic elections. He stretched his head and looked down, and asked loudly: "Are there any more?"
"No more," the person below replied immediately.
Miles came next to Ju An, looked at the gold coins in the box and said, "Isn't this enough? With so many things, they should be worth at least one or two million." After that, he reached out and picked up a pirate in the box.
I looked at the gold coins carefully.
Wang Fan also walked over, picked up the small dagger in the box, and said to Ju An: "It seems that this dagger is quite finely made. I think these pirates are really poor.
I just grabbed some of these things. I saw that they just ran to other people's houses to grab plates. Look at Yi Shuier's tableware. It seems that when your children get married in the future, each child will receive a set.
Six or seven generations later." After speaking, he jokingly patted Ju An on the shoulder: "This saves a lot of money."
Ju An glared at Wang Fan, took the dagger from Wang Fan's hand, and put it into the box: "No matter how small a mosquito is, it's still meat. It's better than you having nothing at all."
Luther looked at Wang Fan and said: "Although other things are not worth much, this code and the dagger gold coins are still more meaningful." Then he turned to Ju An and said: "If you are willing to sell it,
, I want to buy this gold coin, what do you think of it for $20,000?”.
Twenty thousand dollars? You're so beautiful! You don't need that much money, and Frank is planning to build an exhibition hall to attract tourists. You and he took away the twenty thousand gold coins, and only one was left in the exhibition.
The museum was so boring. It would be better to put many of them together. The visual effect would be better. Thinking of this, I shook my head at Luther and was about to refuse.
Frank, who was standing next to the old man, said: "Sorry about this, we are planning to build an exhibition hall in the future, and everything that comes out this time will be the exhibits in the future exhibition hall!".
"That's right." Luther nodded regretfully after hearing Frank's words: "It would be nice to put them together in an exhibition!"
Frank continued to say to Luther and Chris: "So when will these things return to their original luster?" After speaking, he pointed to the buckets of gold and silverware at his feet.
Chris glanced at the plastic buckets around him: "It will take about three or four days." After speaking, he discussed with Luther: "Tonight we can select a few better ones to clean out. Then you can
You can go to the yard and take a look."
After listening to the words of the two old men, Frank nodded and looked at Ju An. Ju An only stayed here for three days, and he had nothing to do. He couldn't let the three children squat here and fool around without going to school.
Tomorrow, we can take a look at some representative or more gorgeous gold and silverware and then close the stall. He nodded: "Okay! Let's take a look tomorrow, and you can discuss the next thing with Frank."
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It was no longer interesting to stay here, so Ju'an and the others continued back to the small courtyard and started thinking about what to eat for dinner.
In the afternoon of the next day, Ju An took Wang Fan and Miles to continue unpacking the cleared gold and silverware. As for the crew, they had already taken their luggage to the airport and were waiting for Ju An and his family to finish viewing.
Pirate treasure, ready to go home.
It was not far away, and the place where these things were placed was in another small courtyard four to five hundred meters away. When Ju An led three families into the courtyard, he saw thirty or forty items on a table in the courtyard.
A shiny piece of gold and silver.
What I got this time is probably the best. The whole table was white and sparkling with yellow. The porcelain that Ju An saw was also in it. Only then did he realize that this thing actually came from a set. One was wrapped with silver patterns.
Milky white porcelain, with two cups of the same style, and many silver trays underneath. The most eye-catching one is of course golden, which makes people feel so happy when they see it. A pure gold cup is half the size of a palm.
The middle and four corners of the cross were inlaid with gems of different colors. A dagger with a gold handle was also placed on top. Of course, there were also all the gold coins. They were piled together so brightly that they almost blinded Ju An.
Krypton gold eye.
Nini happily continued to do her homework with the camera, while Ju An picked up one item, looked at it carefully, put it down, and continued to pick up the second item.
Dinah looked at the set of cups carefully. Cora watched Dinah staring at the tea set and said with a smile: "If you like it, just take it back and keep it for yourself!".
Dinah shook her head and said: "It looks very nice. I don't know how much blood was on it when these pirates snatched it. Let's just take it home."
After hearing Dinah's words, Frank felt relieved. If all the good things were moved back home by the landlady, he might as well just stop opening his exhibition hall.
Ju An held a gold coin in his palm, put it on his thumb, bounced it, and then caught it with his hand. While playing with it, he asked Frank: "How much do you think these things are worth roughly?"
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Frank said to Ju An: "The rest of the things total about two million U.S. dollars. If they are sold as antiques, they will cost about the same. The pirate code and these gold coin daggers are not easy to value because they have a certain value."
Meaning, Chris said, if you find someone you really like and have money, the book might be worth 400,000 US dollars, but if it’s the most expensive, you still have to look at the box.”
"Box?" Ju An listened to Frank's words and walked towards the end of the table. The box he finally picked up yesterday had completely changed its appearance. His whole body was shiny, and there were film figures holding the box like belts on all four sides.
You can see it in the photo. The west side of the box is engraved with complicated European-style patterns. The keyhole in the middle is actually the mouth of a skull. Ju An touched it and looked at it carefully: "This is all silver? I didn't notice it at the time.
"After speaking, he patted the box. This carving requires a lot of effort, but it should be worth a lot of money.
Frank smiled and explained: "This is not silver, but platinum. The entire box is made of platinum."
"Holy shit!" Ju An unconsciously said two Chinese sentences from his mouth, and then touched the box with both hands: "At that time, was there platinum?".
Frank explained: "Actually, humans have had platinum jewelry very early on. When the Spaniards arrived in Central America, they discovered platinum, but at that time they called it inferior silver. Generally speaking, they would throw it away when they found it, or they would pass it off as silver.
"But these pirates actually used this to make a box to put books and daggers and gold coins. This was unexpected. Chris and Luther were surprised when they were cleaning it."
When they heard about the platinum box, Dinah, the women, Wang Fan and Miles put their heads together. The whole box was made of platinum. Wang Fan looked at the box and faced Miles next to him.
Said: "This is bullshit luck!".
Hearing that it was platinum, Ju An looked happy and satisfied. He finally got a big harvest this time. My luck is still so good.