Starting My Treasure Hunting In England

In the living room of the room, Liang En took out the tools and began to remove the cover of the book in front of him. Soon, the leather cover was slowly opened.

For the Lewis couple, a copy of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" published in the 1930s is indeed rare to a certain extent, but they are fully capable of opening the book at the risk of being damaged.

Compared with such an old book that may be worth hundreds of pounds, figuring out the hidden content behind this book is obviously more attractive to the Lewis couple, so Liang En quickly got permission to open the cover of the book. .

Just when he opened the cover, Liang En realized that this book was different from those books under normal circumstances. For example, this cover is not entirely glued to the cardboard of the cover like a normal book, but is only glued around a circle.

"There are words here." Because the center of the book was not glued, Liang En quickly removed the outermost layer of leather. At this moment, Mrs. Lewis, who was sitting on the edge, was the first to shout out.

It turned out that after the outermost layer of leather was removed, a line of blackened blue ink writing appeared on the cardboard cover where the leather cover had just covered it.

Soon, the small space that was originally hidden between the leather cover and the cardboard cover was cleared, and then all five people present focused on the few lines of text on the cardboard.

"Another disastrous defeat. Can Britain really win the war? I hope that if the war fails, my money can still be withdrawn. Remember, the money is under the bushes behind the park bench where I usually sit."

"What did you say so nonsense?" After reading these words clearly, Mrs. Lewis had a confused look on her face.

And this is also everyone's first reaction after seeing this pile of text, because these words have no beginning or end, and it is really difficult to understand what these lines of text mean.

"This should have been written during World War II. After all, the book was written in the 1930s, and Britain's successive defeats since then were the period when World War II began."

At this time, Liang En felt the bonus of the [Logic Enhancement (R)] card, so he quickly interpreted some contents from the text on the book cover that were not described in the text.

"Obviously, the person who wrote these words was somewhat pessimistic about the outcome of the war, so he made the decision to hide his wealth in the hope of preserving his property during the war."

"I remember that at the beginning of World War II, the British army was really ugly." Fan Meng said at this time, "Especially after the Dunkirk evacuation, many people thought that Britain might fall."

"Yes, that's it." Mr. Lewis nodded and said, "My grandfather left England for Canada at that time. He once told me that many people lost confidence at that time."

"In other words, at that time, it was a relatively common behavior for someone to hide their own money?" After listening to several men express their judgments, Mrs. Lewis put forward her own point of view.

"Yes, at least judging from this note, that's the situation." Liang En nodded and said. "And the money hidden by the other party is likely to be some precious metals or jewelry, and it is unlikely to be banknotes."

After all, once Britain fell, the Germans would certainly not recognize British banknotes. In this case, the only things that can maintain their value are gold, silver and jewelry, the most primitive hard currencies of mankind.

"In other words, the content of this book records a treasure containing precious metals?" Pierce frowned and said, "But we don't know where these things are hidden now."

"A.M.T." Liang En looked at the initials written on the title page of the book and fell into thought, because there were not many records in the book, and the card [Logic Enhancement (R)] made him feel This initials will be the key to the problem.

The Lewis couple were not idle at this time. They started up their laptops with excitement and started asking the real estate agent about the room.

Soon, the couple received a very valuable piece of information. "The real estate agent just told us that a professor lived here from the 1950s to the early 1970s, and the books on the cabinet should have been left behind by him."

After reading an email, Mr. Lewis looked up and said. "Do you have any detailed information about this professor?" After hearing what Mr. Lewis said, Liang En immediately stopped reading the books and raised his head and asked.

“There is—” Mr. Lewis said, looking at the back of the email. "The professor comes from King's College, Cambridge, and has always loved reading."

"So before the other party retires to New Zealand for retirement, he specifically tells the real estate agent that the next resident must be willing to keep his book before he will sell the room."

"Then where did these books come from?" Fan Meng asked loudly and excitedly to the Lewis couple sitting opposite.

However, the Lewis couple, who were already addicted to the treasure hunt game at this time, did not care about his rudeness and answered. "The origins of these books are very complex and no one knows the details anymore."

"However, it can be confirmed that the sources of these books basically come from this region. It can even be said that most of them come from books eliminated by some libraries of Cambridge University and some second-hand book markets on campus."

"Is there a second-hand book market in Cambridge University?" Liang En asked with some confusion.

Books are not cheap here in the UK, so it is indeed more popular among college students. Therefore, there are often many second-hand bookstores around the school, but it is obviously strange for such a commercial institution to open inside the school.

"Actually, this second-hand book market is not a real market." After realizing that there were some problems with what he just said, Mr. Lewis immediately added.

"This is just an exchange of goods within Cambridge teachers and students. Those who have extra things will write a note and post it on the notice board. Those who need these things will buy them directly face-to-face based on the information left on the notice board. "

"Of course, with the development of technology in recent years, people have gradually chosen to post this information online instead of on the bulletin boards in schools."

"So that's it -" Liang En nodded, because some of the books in the bookcase looked older. It must have been that the library had eliminated old books.

After realizing this, Liang En and the others immediately went to the bookcase in the study room on the second floor to check the books. Sure enough, they found the stamps of some libraries of Cambridge University among many books.

After a simple statistics, Liang En and the others found that these stamps mainly came from King's College of Cambridge University. One of the most famous schools in Cambridge University.

This college was founded by Henry VI in 1441. It was mainly used to admit graduates of Eton College, which was also created by Henry VI. For a long time, it only accepted students who graduated from Eton College.

At the same time, this college has a special library with a collection of 130,000 books, and the hard stamps on the books in front of Liang En and others prove that most of these books originally belonged to this library, but were later legally leaked out.