Starting My Treasure Hunting In England

The information currently provided by the Nelson family is mainly a series of agricultural information. Obviously, the Nelson family also tried to operate this manor in history, but later failed to achieve its goal due to various reasons.

Although the Nelson family's goal of running the manor was not achieved, and later they donated most of the manor and turned it into a national nature reserve in order to avoid massive property taxes, these materials were still preserved.

This information is very important to Liang En, because the documents they obtained previously specified that the contents of the 50 barrels were placed in the wine cellar, and the wine cellar cannot be excavated everywhere.

Considering that this is England rather than Scotland, the wine cellar here refers to the wine cellar for storing wine, and such a facility obviously cannot be solved by digging a hole.

Because Liang En himself owns a winery, he certainly knows that a good wine cellar design must meet some basic conditions.

For example, there should be sufficient storage space and activity space, good ventilation performance, easy to keep the environment dry, isolation from natural light, anti-vibration and loud noise interference, and relatively constant temperature conditions.

Although the ancients hundreds of years ago may not have known these details, their experience was enough for them to subconsciously comply with these basic principles summarized today when building wine cellars.

Therefore, after having this geological survey report on the manor, we can confirm that many places can be directly excluded by comprehensively considering the historical background at that time.

For example, places with high underground water levels are not suitable for wine cellars. Although they are more suitable for growing crops, there is not much difference between digging a wine cellar and digging a water well in such a place.

Another example is that a hill not far from the manor building is suitable for storing wine. It is definitely suitable for building a wine cellar today. But considering that it is an entire stone mountain, it is unlikely that humans hundreds of years ago dug wine cellars on it.

Although it is said that the wine cellar in Liang En's manor was carved out of stone, it was actually the remains of a utilized quarry, which was completely different from the situation here.

In addition to passing documents, they can also screen based on various other reasons. For example, a normal wine cellar cannot be too far away from the main building, and the wine cellar will also have roads to facilitate transportation.

After many layers of screening, Liang En and the others immediately identified three suspicious locations and started searching. Fortunately, Professor Alexander called his students in the afternoon, and Nelson also called a few people who could help. The work efficiency naturally increased.

In less than an hour of work, the team of Joan of Arc and Liang En found half a broken horseshoe and several copper-buckled iron nails, as well as traces of the road.

Although this kind of road is different from the roads on the street and is not paved with stones or bricks, after digging out the surface layer of loose soil, the traces of rammed earth below can be clearly separated.

As for the exploration results of the other two locations, they came out at about the same time. One of them contained nothing, and the other was the stables of the manor long ago.

"Yes, there are underground structures here, and they are reinforced with stones or bricks." After searching with a ground-penetrating radar the size of a lawnmower, Professor Alexander gave a preliminary judgment on the ruins discovered by Liang En and the others.

This place is located on a high platform two or three meters higher than the surrounding area. Standing here, you can easily see the main building of the manor, which is almost in ruins. The straight-line distance between the two will not exceed 20 meters.

According to a series of clues they had found before, especially the building layout map produced by the Nelson family, this was indeed located within the walls of the former manor building.

Unlike most manors in the UK today, which use electric fences, simple barbed wire or plants to divide the estate, at least before World War I, the British preferred to build stone walls on their estates.

This is mainly because Britain was not a peaceful place in the past. Both wild animals and robbers may cause serious security problems. Therefore, the owners of these manors are more accustomed to building a solid wall to separate the manor from the outside world.

So under normal circumstances, those important facilities would naturally be built inside a yard that could be protected by a wall, such as the manor owner's residence, or a cellar used to store food and beverages.

"Let's start digging first." After clearing away the accumulation on the ground, they quickly found the remains of a stone arch, so under Liang En's command, they quickly started digging.

Because of the large number of people and the strong strength, plus the guidance of two professionals, Liang En and Professor Alexander, by the time it got dark, they had already dug out the accumulation that had previously been blocked by hand. level and found the entrance to the wine cellar.

There are no treasure-hunting movies that depict the terrifying mechanisms, deep and complex underground passages, or the three-headed dogs or acromantulas guarding the various treasure locations.

This place looks like an ordinary cellar. If there is anything different, I can only say that this cellar is very well built, and it can even be said that no expense was spared.

"It was actually built with polished stones. It seems that a lot of money and effort must have been spent to build this cellar." Looking at the well-preserved wine cellar in front of him, only the entrance was partially damaged, Liang En sighed subconsciously. road.

Liang En carefully checked the entrance to the cellar while it was being ventilated, and it was confirmed that the missing part of the cellar entrance was artificially damaged. In other words, the wine cellar was deliberately destroyed and hidden.

If the situation is combined with the contents of the previous documents, it becomes a high probability event that there is something important in the wine cellar. So after half an hour of ventilation, Liang En and the others brought small offerings The equipment went into the wine cellar.

The area inside the wine cellar is not very large, but a stone on the side wall of the wine cellar fell off, which attracted everyone's attention. After approaching the breach, everyone found that there was an underground space that was larger than the wine cellar. At the same time, There were some shiny silver things scattered on the ground.

"This should be a secret room in the wine cellar. It was not discovered because there was a wall." After turning on the flashlight and looking inside, Liang En quickly came to a conclusion.

"It's just that after a long time, the wall fell down because there was not enough support behind it, so we can now discover the secret room and the things inside it."

For the sake of privacy, this wall was built to be no different from the surroundings. However, because the wall was empty behind it, it collapsed and opened up the space behind it that was intended to be hidden. This seems ironic now.

After confirming that everything was normal inside, they quickly entered the secret room and began to search. Soon Liang En and the others found traces of a barrel in the corner.

"Maybe this is the place we are looking for." After turning on the low-light flashlight in his hand and looking around carefully, Professor Alexander said with some excitement, "Let's see what's inside."