Starting My Treasure Hunting In England

Liang En had reservations about the librarian's statement because he didn't know whether the other person was really telling the truth or hoping to induce those searching for treasures to look in the wrong direction.

However, after checking these documents the next day and reading a lot of personal information of the people he suspected, he found that at least the fact that the treasure was not found should be true.

Because from the analysis of these personal data, these people appear to be very regular in their finances. All large amounts of income and expenditure have clearly explained sources, and there is no such thing as suddenly becoming rich.

If they really have some kind of treasure, it would be difficult to guarantee that they would not use it for so many years. As long as they use it, these records will not be as illogical as they are now.

In order to prevent these documents from being tampered with, Liang En randomly checked three documents and used the [Appraisal (N)] card to confirm the authenticity, and the feedback from the card told him that these were all real and had not been tampered with. Pass.

Considering that most of the people here are just ordinary people on the surface, Liang En doesn't think anyone can hide it from others when they suddenly become rich.

After realizing this, he changed the target of his search and began to focus on the personal letters and diaries of early Freemasons, especially those who were most likely to be descendants of the Templars.

However, it is not an easy task to find valuable things from a large pile of thick documents. Fortunately, the historical value of these things is not in the carrier, but in the content, so Liang En was able to pass the card. Cards help you filter.

As before, Liang En used the [Detection (N)] card once to search for valuable records in the pile of records, and finally found a document bag containing a letter, a list of items and a travel record.

The content of the letter was written by an early Freemason to his wife, saying that he was going to the north to build a stone church for the King of Sweden to replace the original wooden church.

As for the list of items, it was sandwiched in a pile of travel records. Judging from the records, they were items used to build churches in Northern Europe and the means of transportation rented there.

In the end, Liang En carefully read through the travel records and found a piece of paper with some safety information on it. However, it can be seen from the sentence that these people seemed to have found something important when they were in Northern Europe.

Considering that the scope of this screening is the information left by the early Freemasonry, the most historically valuable things found by the cards now are likely to come from the notes left by the Knights Templar or their heirs.

And now the documents Liang En found obviously have many strange things. For example, in ancient times, when transportation was inconvenient, few people would choose to hire workers or designers from abroad. Another example is that there are some abnormalities in the item list.

"What do you see from this?" Liang En handed the list of items to Joan. After all, he was currently engaged in treasure hunting, so he also consciously cultivated Joan's ability in this area.

"These people are devout enough in their beliefs." Joan of Arc easily found some suspicious points from these documents that Liang En had thought about several times before. "I actually kept fasting during the trip and enforced it very strictly."

According to Catholic tradition, believers must observe fasts, and fasts vary in size. Both large and small fasts require fasting from meat, but the meat mentioned here does not include fish, shrimp and some aquatic mammals.

Even at that time, some people in Europe considered beavers and the like to be fish, so that stewed beaver tails became a famous delicacy throughout medieval Europe.

According to regulations, you can only eat one main meal a day during Lent, supplemented by snacks to satisfy your hunger. On fasting days, you can eat your usual meals, but you cannot eat meat. Good Friday and the day before Christmas are Lent, and every Friday is Lent.

In addition to the Great and Small Fast days, the 40 days before Easter each year are called Lent. Fasting is also required and all kinds of meat are prohibited.

In other words, if a believer is pious enough, he will fast for up to 1/3 of the year. Especially for clergy, they can only eat water and bread, not even fish.

But even in the Middle Ages, when the religious atmosphere was strongest, there were only a few people who could keep fast like this, let alone in the Renaissance era, which paid attention to the recovery of human nature.

Therefore, if someone really observes fasting as strictly as mentioned in the travel records, then apart from the possibility that the person is a clergy, it can only be said that the person is very religious.

According to Liang En's inference, the remnants of the Knights Templar should rely on religion as a bond. Otherwise, it would be difficult for them to maintain their independence in this long era.

To give the simplest example, Joan of Arc is a very pious person, but she only observes small fasts at home and does not observe fasts when going out.

Therefore, the fact that four freemasons were dispatched collectively but all strictly observed the fast is basically confirmed that they are indeed the remnants of the Knights Templar, which shows from the side that the item found is most likely related to the Knights Templar. .

"But if this is the case, it is basically impossible for us to find the information we are looking for." Joan frowned after spending several hours looking through the information. "Because we don't know what they found."

"I still have another way." Liang En said, because these records have dates, so if he uses the [Appraisal (R)] card, he might be able to see some important information.

However, before using the card, Liang En went to the administrator with a glimmer of hope and asked if there were any items related to this matter besides the documents in the bag.

"The team brought back a stone tablet with a cross engraved on it. It was said to be precious early Christian information." After looking at the information in Liang En's hand, the administrator said something that was beyond his expectation.

"As for that stone tablet, it is in the museum now, in the exhibition hall below. If you want to see it, you can go directly there, but don't think about finding any treasures."

The administrator's words shocked Liang En, because he didn't expect that someone had thought of these things before, so he quickly stepped forward to ask, and finally learned the details of the matter.

It turns out that after entering the 19th century, the legend of the Knights Templar's treasures became well-known, so organizations like the Scottish Freemasonry that had really accommodated the remnants of the Templars naturally began to pursue these things.

After a long period of time, the descendants of the Templars were completely integrated into the Freemasonry, so the entire investigation was naturally carried out without anyone's hindrance.

Through this information, those people also found what Liang En had discovered now, and carefully studied the stone tablet downstairs. Unfortunately, everyone was stuck at this step and failed to find the stone tablet. What does it mean?

So in the end everyone could only conclude that this group of people was a group of very pious people who were excited to see the traces of early Christianity spreading to Northern Europe and brought this thing back with them.

"So that's it -" Liang En nodded after listening to the administrator's words, "It seems that I have to check that stone tablet next. I hope I can find some new information from that stone tablet."