Starting My Treasure Hunting In England

After coming out of the wine cellar, Butler Robuchon took his leave, and before leaving, he invited Liang En and the others to meet at the count's residence in Paris when they were free.

Next, Liang En's lawyer also left here. After all, the contract work was over now, and he was finally able to take a good vacation after being busy for several months.

However, Liang En and Joanne plan to stay here for two days. After all, this place is their most valuable property now, so it is necessary to spend a few days to get to know it.

Different from what I had imagined before, this manor usually only has five or six staff members. Even if you include those who work on the grassland, there are more than fifty people.

However, during busy farming periods, for example, when picking grapes, the principle of manual picking is adopted, so it is necessary to temporarily hire some additional manpower, otherwise it will be too busy.

However, this does not mean that Hebao Manor is the most traditional winery. For example, the brewing plant is very modern, using computer-controlled stainless steel tanks as fermentation equipment.

However, in addition to this modern wine production plant, there is also a small plant that adopts the most traditional ceramic vat fermentation method, mainly for winemaker Gro to conduct brewing experiments.

Because the value of the manor was less than the money that should be paid to Liang En, Butler Robson simply put the money in the account of the manor as operating capital.

With the operating capital of 850,000 euros, the entire manor can naturally operate smoothly and does not require additional capital injection in a short period of time.

Although it is not far from the sea and the latitude is relatively low, the manor will not freeze, but there is not much to see around it in winter, so Liang En quickly became interested in studying the manor and the wine cellar.

As he had guessed before, the manor does not have a long history. At the same time, the facilities and furniture inside are also old and new, and there is not much worthy of careful study.

So after wasting a day on the ground building, Liang En took the metal detector he brought with him into the wine cellar and started searching.

This kind of behavior is indeed strange, but considering Liang En's status as a historian, it is normal. So after running for a few days, both the workers working in the wine cellar and the winemaker Mr. Groh were concerned about carrying metal detectors to the wine. Liang En, who was running in the cellar, was not surprised.

At most, when meeting them in the wine cellar, or reminding Jeanne who came with them, they would remind him of things like it is best not to touch those wine barrels or be careful of those high shelves and stacked wine barrels. .

Through inquiries, Liang En learned that this wine cellar is one of the largest in the area, so not the entire wine cellar is currently in use, and there may even be a section of the wine cellar that has not been cleaned.

This situation occurs mainly because the entire wine cellar is built on the basis of a quarry, so it is normal that some tunnels are not put into use.

This is a very good investigation target for Liang En, especially for those tunnels that have not been put into use for a long time. It is very likely that there are some things hidden by history.

Wine cellars require constant temperature and humidity, but because the humidity in the wine cellar is kept at a high level all year round, and to ensure the safety of staff, the wine cellar is not only ventilated but also disinfected twice a year.

This is naturally a good thing for Liang En. It means that he does not need to be fully armed when conducting searches, which saves a lot of work.

And unlike the imaginary wine cellar layout where one road leads to the bottom, this wine cellar is distributed in a tree shape, so those enclosed areas are basically distributed around the currently used wine cellar.

The branch alleyways closest to the entrances and exits that we found at the beginning were all empty and not large, so we basically just took a look and ended the inspection.

However, as we went deeper, some interesting things began to appear in the closed lanes, such as some half-carved stones, and some damaged tools and daily necessities.

Of course, these things are not very high in terms of archaeological or economic value, but they prove the history and inheritance of this manor from the side.

At the same time, as he gradually penetrated deeper into the cellar, the things Liang En found became more and more interesting. He also realized that although theoretically the alleyways became newer as he went deeper, but because those places were relatively remote, later generations would clean them up. There are relatively few.

On the contrary, those ancient alleyways near the entrances and exits were relatively clean because they were used as the first batch of backup wine cellars by later generations. Even the first few alleyways can be said to be no different from the wine cellars in use except that there are no racks and wine barrels.

"We can now clear out an empty room to make a small exhibition room." As the winemaker and the manor manager when Liang En was away, Groe was very interested in Liang En finding these things.

In particular, a bronze-colored copper fire-lacquer seal attracted his attention. According to him, this copper seal should be the seal used by the manor to seal the mouth of wine bottles with wax in the 18th century.

In fact, there is something similar in the wine cellar of the manor now. For example, the filling of wine is actually carried out in a special room in the wine cellar. There are various tools in it, including With such a copper seal.

Considering that wineries of this type were basically affected during the French Revolution, it is normal for things like seals to be forgotten in the wine cellar.

Of course, when this seal was found from a pile of broken wooden barrels yesterday, it was still covered with green rust, but after consuming a [Repair (N)], a little copper wire and charcoal, he repaired it. .

I have to say that this bronze seal is very valuable, so Liang En spent cards to repair it. Unfortunately, the historical value of this thing is so small that not a single card has been released.

But for Gro, this brass seal is very valuable, because it is a good thing that can show the history of the winery.

So he plans to use this seal on some of the fine wines produced in small batches at the winery to add more added value to the wines.

As for the other things, although they looked more like a pile of rubbish, Liang En arranged them according to time and could just fit into a small exhibition room telling the history of the manor.

You know, the manor is open to tourists and sells some wine, so having such an exhibition room is obviously more conducive to publicity in this area.

Just when Gro was looking for someone to arrange the display, Liang En and Joan of Arc came to the wine cellar again. Although they had detected all the closed lanes, they still had some doubts in some places.

For example, during their searches in the past few days, they saw several Crosses of Lorraine carved on the walls. However, these crosses were not carved at normal carving locations, such as intersections or the entrance of a wine cellar. Some secret place.

Being different is actually the biggest suspicion, so Liang En quickly counted the locations of the found crosses and marked them on the map of the wine cellar. It turned out that a rough semicircle was formed on the map.

So today Liang En and the others came to the center of the semicircle, ready to check what was going on in this suspicious place.