Starting My Treasure Hunting In England

After getting off the car, Liang En and the others quickly found the auction organizer who was surrounded by a group of treasure hunters. After waiting here for more than half an hour, the auction started soon.

Because this was not a formal auction, the various procedures were naturally not very formal. Only after everyone had almost arrived did the other party announce the rules of the auction.

Maybe the auction party hopes to make more money at this auction, so this auction chose a hidden bid instead of an explicit bid.

According to the rules, the organizer will take them past those houses in turn and stop at the door of each house for five minutes. Then everyone will place a secret bid together, and the one with the highest price will win.

"What can be seen from this!" After listening to the organizer announcing the rules, Fan Meng looked at the row of small buildings in front of him with a puzzled face. In his eyes, although the styles of these dilapidated buildings were different, they were not visible at all. Which one is more valuable?

"Of course we can see a lot of things." Because the two parties may have to work together for a long time in the future, Liang En whispered some knowledge in this area to Fan Meng.

"You see, these houses are single-family rooms with gardens, so compared with the common townhouses in urban areas, these places are often occupied by high-end white-collar workers or small businessmen."

"I understand, that is to say, because the people in this place are relatively rich, it is easy to find valuable things in the room." Fan Meng was just not familiar with these aspects, so Liang En understood it as soon as he explained What exactly is going on.

"Yes, although expensive boxes may not contain valuable things, the probability of valuable things being contained in those expensive boxes is always much greater than that of being contained in broken boxes."

Now that he has said this, Liang En doesn't mind saying more. "But the problem is, what you can see can often be seen by others."

These small buildings all look similar, with the mottled paint and broken glass looking a bit miserable. However, the state of preservation is much better than the buildings that Liang En saw before that even had their roofs collapsed.

If there are no accidents, there will be many things in this kind of room that can be preserved to this day, and they are like treasures to treasure hunters like Liang En.

However, these treasures have attracted quite a lot of people today, and there are even several big guys who are well-known in the treasure hunting industry and own companies or clubs.

So even though Liang En took advantage of his abundant liquidity and bid on all 16 houses in this row, he only won one house in the end.

"The eyes of those veterans are really sharp. They took over the three houses I was most optimistic about." After paying the money and getting the keys, Liang En said to Fan Meng as he walked towards the room.

"Fortunately, I didn't miss out on this guaranteed house, so I won't go back empty-handed."

"Then why don't we add a little more money and focus on bidding on the rooms you like?" Fan Meng asked with some confusion. “If we keep adding more money, I think we should be able to get one or two of those three rooms.”

"This may be because everyone's habits are different." Liang En said as he walked to the door of the room.

“I don’t like to take too many risks, so every time I bid, I will set a maximum limit. If it exceeds the maximum limit, no matter how attractive it is, I will choose to give up.”

With that said, Liang En used the old bronze key to unlock the door of the room, then pushed the door open and walked in. Just as the two people opened the door, a gust of wind blew in and kicked up the dust in the corridor.

"Okay, where do we start looking?" Fan Meng looked at the completely rotten furniture placed next to the broken glass window, and turned to Liang En beside him to ask. "And - what are we looking for?"

"There are so many things we are looking for. All valuable things are the targets of our search." Liang En glanced around the living room and then said. "But the specific goals can range from various small decorations to furniture."

"Understood." Fan Meng nodded, and then he and Liang En began to search using the living room as the starting point. Soon, Liang En focused his attention on the coffee table covered by a tattered tablecloth in the living room.

"Is there something wrong with this coffee table?" After lifting the rag covering it, Fan Meng looked at the coffee table with drawers with a puzzled look on his face.

Because in his eyes, this coffee table was dusty, without any decoration on it, and the copper handles and pull tabs were also covered with a layer of green rust, making it look unremarkable at all.

"This coffee table should be an oak coffee table that has survived to this day from the Victorian era, and it is very well preserved." Liang En gently knocked on the table top and said, "If this thing is cleaned, it will sell for a thousand dollars." It won’t be too difficult to get around the pound.”

"Just this coffee table is worth 1,000 pounds!" Fan Meng stared at the inconspicuous coffee table in front of him with wide eyes. If he had come alone, he would definitely not have realized that this coffee table was actually worth so much money.

"Don't forget, I spent 2,150 pounds to buy this room, so there is a coffee table worth 1,000 pounds in the room. It is not a strange thing." Liang En said after looking around the living room.

"But it seems that this is the only valuable thing in this living room. As for the other furniture, I think it is not qualified even for burning the fireplace."

The reason why he said this was because the remaining furniture in this room was made of pine wood and plywood. After such a long time, they were all cracked, and some were even moldy.

Originally, Liang En thought the wool carpet pattern near the house looked interesting, so he planned to roll it up and clean it, and maybe sell it for tens of hundreds of pounds.

As a result, after grabbing it with hands and lifting it up, a palm-sized piece of carpet was torn directly from the main body of the carpet. Taking a closer look, Liang Encai discovered that although the carpet looked good, it was basically rotten and could not even be lifted off.

After the living room was inspected, there was the kitchen and dining room. Unfortunately, this house was used until the 1960s and 1970s, so everything inside was replaced with items from that era, so it has little value.

But just when Liang En was about to leave after looking at the pile of junk in the kitchen, he found that Fan Meng had been standing at the door of the kitchen staring at the top of the door, as if he had discovered something.

"What did you find?" Liang En walked to Fan Meng and asked.

"I think there might be something hidden in the center." Fan Meng stood up on his toes and took a look before saying. "Because the beam of the door frame was pressed down a bit seriously, the entire beam was bent into an arc, which should not be the case under normal circumstances."

"That's true." After standing in the kitchen and taking a look, Liang En also realized that something was wrong with the door beam.

So he asked Fan Meng to go out and get the handsaw from the car, while he found a sturdy wooden stool in the room to try, then climbed up and cut the beams with the handsaw.

Soon, he discovered that the middle of the beam was actually empty, and the space inside was filled with nearly square newspaper bags wrapped in yellowed newspapers.

"This thing is quite heavy, it should be hard currency." After Liang En jumped off the chair, Fan Meng pointed to the six small square paper bags on the table with a smile on his face. "I don't think anyone would be bored enough to put lead weights on doorframes."