Early the next morning, Mr. Lambert took a train and went straight to the treasure location to inquire about the owner of the land. Because that place was not far from London, Mr. Lambert had already finished his inquiry and went home by noon.
Seeing Mr. Lambert walking in with a strange expression on his face, his mother Sally asked curiously: "What's wrong? Is it the territory of the royal family or nobles, and we are not allowed to enter to dig for treasure?"
"No, it's not." Mr. Lambert shook his head, then took a sip of water from the cup on the table and said, "When I went there in the morning, I found that the place was a small farm with a dilapidated private house in it. It was surrounded by
Someone told me that this small farm has been managed by an agricultural company for the past ten years. Its owner has not been to the farm a few times during this time."
"Isn't that better? They are not professional farmers anyway, so the probability of them agreeing to us digging things on the farm is higher." Ryan said happily after listening to his father's statement.
"Yes, I was very happy to go to the town to check the owner of this land, and then I found that this land belonged to a lady named Jane Sterling."
"Wait a minute, this name seems familiar. I seem to have heard it somewhere? Do I know her?" Sally said suddenly.
Lambert nodded, "You must know her. This lady later went to college in London, and then got married here to a dentist named Charlotte Granger."
Poof, Ryan spit out the water in his mouth: "Father, do you mean that this treasure is hidden in the farm of my classmate Granger's mother?"
"If I'm not mistaken, that's it." Lambert continued: "I think you need to use your wizard's method to contact your classmates. After all, Dentist Granger and his family are traveling and we can't contact them.
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"Okay." Ryan missed the era when mobile phones were popular.
That night, Ryan received a reply from Hermione: "Dear Ryan, we are now in Calais waiting for the boat to go home tomorrow morning. After receiving your letter, my parents were very excited and they agreed to your treasure hunt. The only thing
The request is that I hope we can go together when they come back, because my parents are also interested in treasure hunting."
It seems that the number of treasure hunters has increased again. Now I can only hope that the final treasure will be richer. Don't be sorry for everyone's efforts and efforts.
On the third day, the morning after the Grangers returned, Lane and his family drove to the Grangers' farm near Eastbourne.
Because Eastbourne is located at the eastern end of South Downs, it is the sunniest place in the UK. Therefore, this town has become a popular tourist area. Along the way, we saw many vehicles traveling back and forth on the road.
After arriving in Eastbourne, the car turned east and drove for ten minutes. The scenery on the roadside slowly changed from hotels and houses to hedges and farms. Finally, they turned onto a gravel road.
, arrived at the destination.
Similar to Mr. Lambert's account, Lane saw a small farm at the end of the gravel road. The farm house was a stone bungalow with a pointed roof, but the glass on the windows and the tiles on the roof were all in tatters.
It seems that not many people come here usually.
Surrounding this house is a chest-high stone wall, and a blue Volkswagen SUV is parked inside. It seems that Hermione and her family's farm have arrived.
Sure enough, after hearing the sound of the car, the Granger family of three turned out from the back of the dilapidated house. It looked like they must have had a lot of fun during this trip to France, and everyone was tanned to a healthy tan.
After chatting for a while, mother Sally and Mrs. Granger started preparing a picnic in the yard, while the fathers took their children to start a treasure hunt.
According to Nick's description, they quickly found the large stones embedded in the abandoned wall at the edge of the pasture. According to Mr. Granger's description, this place used to be the manor of a French nobleman and was later sold to Herbert.
For Min's mother's ancestor, this stone has not been moved from that time to now.
At this time, Ryan was shocked to realize that Hermione came from a wealthy family, but think about it. Dentistry in British universities is one of the most expensive majors. It is impossible for a family to support a college student studying dentistry.
Conditions are too bad.
In Nick's letter, the boxes were buried in a secret room under the big rock of the car. Moreover, Nick said that the ghost specifically emphasized that the big stone was part of a secret room and could be found by digging around.
The door to the secret room.
According to what Ryan said, the two fathers dug with shovels for a while. Sure enough, when they dug about thirty centimeters down, several pieces of stone that had obviously been cut were exposed.
This discovery cheered everyone up. Even the two ladies came out of the yard and took out shovels to help dig. After spending more than an hour, a stone arch with a length and width of two meters was revealed. Then it was revealed.
There are also wooden door leaves and iron door bolts installed on the arch.
There was a lock on the door bolt, but two hundred years of wind and rain had completely rusted the lock. Mr. Lambert smashed the lock off with a swing of his shovel.
Fortunately, the door hinges were made of copper and were not rusty. When the door was pushed open with a creaking sound, everyone found that there was a large pile of black weathered straw poles inside the door. After cleaning the straw poles, the length and width of the three straw poles were nearly 1.5 meters.
, a wooden box two meters in length was exposed.
Using the wire ropes and pulleys on the car, everyone easily dragged the three boxes out of the secret room along the newly dug slope. The boxes were very strong and did not crack as expected.
After a brief lunch, the two gentlemen took the crowbar and prepared to open the box to see what was inside. Ryan had just confirmed through Taoism that there was nothing dangerous inside, so he stood aside with a smile.
Watching. Hermione stood nearby with her eyes wide open in excitement.
The first box contained a pile of clothes that looked very beautiful and were embroidered with gold and silver threads. Unfortunately, the color of the clothes turned gray due to time.
The second box was filled with cotton wool and other shock-absorbing items. When the cotton wool was uncovered, there was a small pile of gold and silver utensils underneath. After careful inspection, it was discovered that these were crosses, incense burners and candlesticks used in some churches.
Mr. Lambert picked up one and shook it, then said: "This seems to be just gold-plated, too light." Mr. Granger picked up another cross and nodded: "This cross is actually silver."
In the end, they discovered that only the small items smaller than the size of a palm could be made of precious metals, while the others were at best plated with gold and silver.
The promised treasure was a bit anticlimactic, and everyone turned their attention to the last box. The difference between this box and the other two boxes was that it was painted with a layer of black paint and had some simple patterns carved on it.
After opening the last box, Hermione looked at it and screamed.