NOVEL NEXT Treasure hunt begins in England
Chapter 53 Verification and Doubt
Chapter 53 Verification and Doubt
During the process of cleaning up the remains of the chief's residence, Liang En found that all those things were found from the corners of the room instead of the center of the room, and many charred pieces of wood could be found around.
And this can only show one thing, that is, the group of attackers very calmly searched most of the belongings in the settlement before leaving, and only a very small part escaped the search because they were in the burned room remains to this day.
After realizing that it is impossible to find too many discoveries in these core locations, Liang En began to expand the search scope to the residences of ordinary people according to the map in his mind.
With the expansion of the search area, Liang En found many residences of ordinary people.Compared with the leader's house, the attackers obviously didn't spend too much energy searching the civilian's house.
It's just that I don't know whether it's luck or misfortune. Those houses that haven't been burned have obviously been completely demolished afterwards, and there is not even a single nail left in place.
This situation is also very reasonable, because in that era of low productivity, treated wood was also a valuable asset, so it was a natural thing to demolish the ruins for the new house.
Of course, nothing can be found in those demolished rooms, because during the process of demolishing the rooms, those who demolished the rooms will definitely take all the things in the rooms.
Only some things remained in the room that had been burned before, but it couldn't be compared with what was found in the destroyed boss room.
This situation is determined by the characteristics of ancient Viking architecture. On the whole, compared with modern residences, ancient Viking houses are obviously both crowded and empty.
The reason why it is said to be crowded is that whether they are cooking, eating, sleeping or cleaning and polishing tools, spinning, weaving, and mending clothes, they all need to be carried out in the room, and the per capita living area is very low.
To make matters worse, their house has no windows for warmth.So even though the Vikings were more hygienic than most Europeans of that era by using the toilet outside and bathing regularly, the house still smelled bad.
But Viking's house also has an empty side, because they don't have much furniture.Even if they have money, they mainly buy comfortable cushions and colorful tapestries, among which the tapestries can also block the wind in addition to decoration.
In addition, the only furniture is pottery utensils and barrels for food storage and boxes for storing clothes, and at most a few multifunctional benches.
Therefore, those civilians often only have some simple items, and few of these items can be preserved to this day.Therefore, at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, Liang En only found seven or eight stone rings that looked like donuts from the civilian houses.
These circles of stones are part of a vertical loom, in which stones hang from the bottom of the warp threads to straighten the threads before weaving the weft threads.
"Finally, I'm done." After searching the last house that had been burned, Liang En straightened up and beat his waist, letting out a long sigh of relief.
After all, the burial of various things in this area is really too shallow. If you dig with an engineer shovel while standing, it is easy to lose control of your strength and damage something, so he can only bend over or squat down to dig.
It may be because the things found before are all popular goods, and there is no historical story behind them.So Liang En didn't get new cards from those things.
So having completed his search for possible riches, he began surveying the ruins of the fort, now completely hidden in the woods.
In theory, this kind of work often takes an archaeological team several weeks to complete.
But considering that Liang En himself had a map of the ruins and he didn't need to dig out the ruins, he confirmed the general situation of the ruins in just two hours.
From the traces left behind, it can be seen that the attackers launched a short and intense attack after gathering an armed force with a clear superiority in numbers in the early hours of the morning.
The people who stayed in this small town obviously did not expect to be attacked on a large scale, so after a short battle, the town was completely captured.This is why a large number of fire traces were found in the town.
When Liang En finally came to a conclusion, two new cards appeared in his mind, one [Detection (N)] and one [Appraisal (N)].
Seeing these two cards, Liang En laughed.For him, the biggest gain this time is not the gadgets that only cost seven to eight hundred pounds, nor the two cards themselves.
Instead, you know that in addition to looking for various antiques, you can also get new cards after discovering and identifying those relics that have never been discovered.
In addition to verification, considering that [Detection (N)] has accumulated six cards but there is no [Detection (R)], Liang En also consumed four [Detection (N)] to synthesize one 【Detection (R)】.
Seeing that the sky was getting dark, Liang En habitually reported to the local management agency, and then returned to St. Petersburg with the loot.And when he arrived at the hotel where he was staying, he found that Pierce had already been waiting there.
"I found a good thing this time." As soon as he entered the hotel room where he was staying, Liang En saw Pierce put down the cell phone he was playing with, and then took out a bag from under the cabinet with an excited expression on his face.
"Did you go to some museum to steal something?" Liang En subconsciously said after Pierce unzipped the bag, because he saw a glittering golden crown in the bag.
"Of course it can't be stolen. I've always been a law-abiding citizen." Pierce said with a smile. "I bought this in a store, and the other party sold it to me at the price of a modern handicraft. Can you see what it is?"
"Let me see." After taking the crown from Pierce, Liang En observed it carefully.Soon he discovered the oddities of the crown.
Judging from the weight, this should be a small crown of silver and gilt.The reason why it is regarded as a modern handicraft by the seller may be because the gold plating layer of this thing is well maintained, so it really doesn't look like an old thing.
Although the entire crown looks very gorgeous at first glance, but if you look closely, you will find that the overall workmanship of the crown is full of cheapness:
The patterns on the top of the crown are very rough, it looks like some gold-plated plastic parts, and there is a silver ring inside the upper part of the crown for fixing.Even what was previously thought to be a gem is just geometrically polished metal.
And the name of Jonas Yunel is engraved under the crown, which should be the person who built the crown.It's a pity that this silversmith is not well-known, so no information about him can be found at all. We can only guess from the name that this person is from Northern Europe.
"I really don't know what it is." After carefully observing the crown for 10 minutes, Liang En finally chose to give up.
"This crown is different from the crowns I know, or even similar aristocratic crowns. It's really hard to guess what it is."
(End of this chapter)
During the process of cleaning up the remains of the chief's residence, Liang En found that all those things were found from the corners of the room instead of the center of the room, and many charred pieces of wood could be found around.
And this can only show one thing, that is, the group of attackers very calmly searched most of the belongings in the settlement before leaving, and only a very small part escaped the search because they were in the burned room remains to this day.
After realizing that it is impossible to find too many discoveries in these core locations, Liang En began to expand the search scope to the residences of ordinary people according to the map in his mind.
With the expansion of the search area, Liang En found many residences of ordinary people.Compared with the leader's house, the attackers obviously didn't spend too much energy searching the civilian's house.
It's just that I don't know whether it's luck or misfortune. Those houses that haven't been burned have obviously been completely demolished afterwards, and there is not even a single nail left in place.
This situation is also very reasonable, because in that era of low productivity, treated wood was also a valuable asset, so it was a natural thing to demolish the ruins for the new house.
Of course, nothing can be found in those demolished rooms, because during the process of demolishing the rooms, those who demolished the rooms will definitely take all the things in the rooms.
Only some things remained in the room that had been burned before, but it couldn't be compared with what was found in the destroyed boss room.
This situation is determined by the characteristics of ancient Viking architecture. On the whole, compared with modern residences, ancient Viking houses are obviously both crowded and empty.
The reason why it is said to be crowded is that whether they are cooking, eating, sleeping or cleaning and polishing tools, spinning, weaving, and mending clothes, they all need to be carried out in the room, and the per capita living area is very low.
To make matters worse, their house has no windows for warmth.So even though the Vikings were more hygienic than most Europeans of that era by using the toilet outside and bathing regularly, the house still smelled bad.
But Viking's house also has an empty side, because they don't have much furniture.Even if they have money, they mainly buy comfortable cushions and colorful tapestries, among which the tapestries can also block the wind in addition to decoration.
In addition, the only furniture is pottery utensils and barrels for food storage and boxes for storing clothes, and at most a few multifunctional benches.
Therefore, those civilians often only have some simple items, and few of these items can be preserved to this day.Therefore, at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, Liang En only found seven or eight stone rings that looked like donuts from the civilian houses.
These circles of stones are part of a vertical loom, in which stones hang from the bottom of the warp threads to straighten the threads before weaving the weft threads.
"Finally, I'm done." After searching the last house that had been burned, Liang En straightened up and beat his waist, letting out a long sigh of relief.
After all, the burial of various things in this area is really too shallow. If you dig with an engineer shovel while standing, it is easy to lose control of your strength and damage something, so he can only bend over or squat down to dig.
It may be because the things found before are all popular goods, and there is no historical story behind them.So Liang En didn't get new cards from those things.
So having completed his search for possible riches, he began surveying the ruins of the fort, now completely hidden in the woods.
In theory, this kind of work often takes an archaeological team several weeks to complete.
But considering that Liang En himself had a map of the ruins and he didn't need to dig out the ruins, he confirmed the general situation of the ruins in just two hours.
From the traces left behind, it can be seen that the attackers launched a short and intense attack after gathering an armed force with a clear superiority in numbers in the early hours of the morning.
The people who stayed in this small town obviously did not expect to be attacked on a large scale, so after a short battle, the town was completely captured.This is why a large number of fire traces were found in the town.
When Liang En finally came to a conclusion, two new cards appeared in his mind, one [Detection (N)] and one [Appraisal (N)].
Seeing these two cards, Liang En laughed.For him, the biggest gain this time is not the gadgets that only cost seven to eight hundred pounds, nor the two cards themselves.
Instead, you know that in addition to looking for various antiques, you can also get new cards after discovering and identifying those relics that have never been discovered.
In addition to verification, considering that [Detection (N)] has accumulated six cards but there is no [Detection (R)], Liang En also consumed four [Detection (N)] to synthesize one 【Detection (R)】.
Seeing that the sky was getting dark, Liang En habitually reported to the local management agency, and then returned to St. Petersburg with the loot.And when he arrived at the hotel where he was staying, he found that Pierce had already been waiting there.
"I found a good thing this time." As soon as he entered the hotel room where he was staying, Liang En saw Pierce put down the cell phone he was playing with, and then took out a bag from under the cabinet with an excited expression on his face.
"Did you go to some museum to steal something?" Liang En subconsciously said after Pierce unzipped the bag, because he saw a glittering golden crown in the bag.
"Of course it can't be stolen. I've always been a law-abiding citizen." Pierce said with a smile. "I bought this in a store, and the other party sold it to me at the price of a modern handicraft. Can you see what it is?"
"Let me see." After taking the crown from Pierce, Liang En observed it carefully.Soon he discovered the oddities of the crown.
Judging from the weight, this should be a small crown of silver and gilt.The reason why it is regarded as a modern handicraft by the seller may be because the gold plating layer of this thing is well maintained, so it really doesn't look like an old thing.
Although the entire crown looks very gorgeous at first glance, but if you look closely, you will find that the overall workmanship of the crown is full of cheapness:
The patterns on the top of the crown are very rough, it looks like some gold-plated plastic parts, and there is a silver ring inside the upper part of the crown for fixing.Even what was previously thought to be a gem is just geometrically polished metal.
And the name of Jonas Yunel is engraved under the crown, which should be the person who built the crown.It's a pity that this silversmith is not well-known, so no information about him can be found at all. We can only guess from the name that this person is from Northern Europe.
"I really don't know what it is." After carefully observing the crown for 10 minutes, Liang En finally chose to give up.
"This crown is different from the crowns I know, or even similar aristocratic crowns. It's really hard to guess what it is."
(End of this chapter)
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