NOVEL SIMPLE Treasure hunt begins in England
Chapter 1 The Job of the Treasure Hunter
Chapter 1 The Job of the Treasure Hunter
On the outskirts of London, a semi-new van parked in front of a Victorian-style red brick row house.The rare sunlight in the British Isles shone on the white car body and the road, making the area at the door of the room look much brighter.
And in the house closest to the car, the sound of objects colliding came from the open windows on the second floor.
"Boom——" A large pile of thick books and magazines were placed heavily on the ground from a bookshelf, and then some books that were originally hidden behind these books were exposed.
"It seems that my guess is right. How could there be only one layer of books in such a wide cabinet." Liang En shined a flashlight on the depths of the bookshelf, and then used his hands with thick tool gloves to remove the items inside one by one. The piece was brought out.
Maybe because these things stayed inside for a long time, even on a dusty island like England, each of these things was covered with a not-so-thin layer of dust.
When these books were taken out from the partition of the bookcase, clouds of dust immediately filled the small room.Fortunately, Liang En was not caught because he was wearing a gas mask for spraying paint.
For some reason, Liang En did not engage in a job related to what he studied after finishing college in Ireland, but chose to go to London to become a freelance treasure hunter.
It's a pity that, due to bad luck, all his work in the past two months was to act as a porter and recycle all kinds of junk.
But now it was finally time for Jitai to come. After running through six houses in vain, he finally found something of value in the seventh house that needed to be cleaned up.
"If it doesn't work, I'll have to reach out and ask my parents for living expenses, so at least let me make a little more money this time—" Liang En muttered in a low voice while carrying things.
There are not many books hidden behind the bookcase, and they don't look old enough to be scattered at any time.So it only took 10 minutes, and a dozen items were laid out in a row on a table by the window.
These things all looked like books with leather or faux leather covers.Considering that the prices of books in Europe are generally high, hardcover books, even second-hand books, can be sold for a considerable sum of money.
Then there was another round of rummaging through boxes and cabinets. After confirming that everything in the small living room had been checked and that nothing was missing, Liang En began to sort out the trophies that he had put on the table in front of the window.
"Pride and Prejudice in 1962, The Hobbit in 1968, A Tale of Two Cities in 1951..."
After wiping off the thick dust on the covers of those books with a dry cloth, Liang En found that these books were all hardcover books before the 70s.
Although these dozen or so books seemed to be some old books, after opening the books, Liang En found that these books were basically brand new, and there seemed to be no trace of being read at all.
Old books in England are not cheap, so these books can sell for at least three or four hundred pounds.
Obviously, considering that the residents of these row houses are all low-income manual laborers, they should not have bought this kind of hardcover literature books by themselves.
According to the current situation, Liang En can easily judge that the previous residents should have obtained these books by some accident, and then they have been thrown here to eat ashes.
It wasn't until now that the landlord of this house wanted to sell the house and Liang En was hired to clean up the house that had been deserted for at least a year or two.
Liang En was quite excited by this discovery, because although these hardcover books were all popular goods, they might be sold for four to five hundred pounds if they were sold as second-hand books in the right place.
For his current job, the simple cleaning work can't actually save much money. The real money is the good things that others don't or forget during the cleaning process.
For example, the contract signed by Liang En this time was like this. The landlord paid Liang En only half of the market price, but it specifically stated that except for the part of the house itself, everything else he found would belong to him.
But whether you can find something good is purely luck.During the cleaning work in the previous two months, Liang En's greatest achievement was to find a limited edition silver zippo with carvings in a pile of rubbish in a house, and then exchanged it for more than 150 pounds .
Check out all these expensive books now, and pack them one by one in the big schoolbag I brought.Liang En moved a stool from the side, took off the gas mask on his face and sat down facing the window, then breathed in the fresh air, staring at the blue sky and white clouds in a daze.
He is 24 years old and comes from a parallel space on the earth.As a result, when I woke up two months ago, my life was switched and I became myself in another world.
After spending a few days summarizing the memories in his mind, Liang En found that the two worlds had very little difference in history, geography, and politics, and they could be regarded as twin worlds.
For example, this world also has the Zhou, Qin, Han and Tang Dynasties, as well as Europe, Asia, and Africa.Even my relatives are the same as in the previous life, almost unchanged.
The reason why the word almost is used is that there is not much difference between the two worlds as a whole, but in some small aspects, the two worlds are very different.
For example, compared to himself in the previous world, Liang En's biggest change was from a Chinese to a Chinese-Irish.
The reason for such a change was that a relative in this world who had lost contact for more than half a century chose Liang En's father instead of one of his uncles in the original world when choosing the heir of the inheritance.
As for the reason for doing the current job, it is also very simple, that is, besides the memory, there is also a heritage called the historical explorer who accompanied me here.To activate this golden finger, a series of conditions must be met.
It's just that what he didn't expect was that it was so difficult to make money in this job, so that the money in hand could only support his life now.
"Card." Thinking of this.Liang En immediately used his thoughts to mobilize the only function in his golden finger, and then, in front of his retina, a card began to appear——
This is Liang En's current golden finger, and it is also the embodiment of that inheritance.It's a pity that this card is now gray, which means it has not been successfully activated.
And in the middle of the card, a line of golden text is floating on the card. [Exploration has been completed and can be activated]
"Huh?" Seeing the three words "Activable" in the column of the final state, Liang En stood up abruptly from his seat, and even turned over the stool.
Because before this, the front of this line of text has always shown that the exploration is not completed, and the last text has always been three words of inactive.
"That is to say, my act of finding these books was actually a recognized exploration, and neither reading the books nor finding the silver lighter before was counted." Liang En, who calmed down, quickly summed up a rule.
According to his guess, these books can barely be regarded as items of historical value, so finding these books is considered an exploration approved by Goldfinger, and the previous lighter is obviously not as historically valuable as this one.
"Okay, let me see what you are—" After taking a deep breath, Liang En clicked on this card with his own consciousness.
Old salted fish new book, I hope everyone will join in.Readership 697984254
(End of this chapter)
On the outskirts of London, a semi-new van parked in front of a Victorian-style red brick row house.The rare sunlight in the British Isles shone on the white car body and the road, making the area at the door of the room look much brighter.
And in the house closest to the car, the sound of objects colliding came from the open windows on the second floor.
"Boom——" A large pile of thick books and magazines were placed heavily on the ground from a bookshelf, and then some books that were originally hidden behind these books were exposed.
"It seems that my guess is right. How could there be only one layer of books in such a wide cabinet." Liang En shined a flashlight on the depths of the bookshelf, and then used his hands with thick tool gloves to remove the items inside one by one. The piece was brought out.
Maybe because these things stayed inside for a long time, even on a dusty island like England, each of these things was covered with a not-so-thin layer of dust.
When these books were taken out from the partition of the bookcase, clouds of dust immediately filled the small room.Fortunately, Liang En was not caught because he was wearing a gas mask for spraying paint.
For some reason, Liang En did not engage in a job related to what he studied after finishing college in Ireland, but chose to go to London to become a freelance treasure hunter.
It's a pity that, due to bad luck, all his work in the past two months was to act as a porter and recycle all kinds of junk.
But now it was finally time for Jitai to come. After running through six houses in vain, he finally found something of value in the seventh house that needed to be cleaned up.
"If it doesn't work, I'll have to reach out and ask my parents for living expenses, so at least let me make a little more money this time—" Liang En muttered in a low voice while carrying things.
There are not many books hidden behind the bookcase, and they don't look old enough to be scattered at any time.So it only took 10 minutes, and a dozen items were laid out in a row on a table by the window.
These things all looked like books with leather or faux leather covers.Considering that the prices of books in Europe are generally high, hardcover books, even second-hand books, can be sold for a considerable sum of money.
Then there was another round of rummaging through boxes and cabinets. After confirming that everything in the small living room had been checked and that nothing was missing, Liang En began to sort out the trophies that he had put on the table in front of the window.
"Pride and Prejudice in 1962, The Hobbit in 1968, A Tale of Two Cities in 1951..."
After wiping off the thick dust on the covers of those books with a dry cloth, Liang En found that these books were all hardcover books before the 70s.
Although these dozen or so books seemed to be some old books, after opening the books, Liang En found that these books were basically brand new, and there seemed to be no trace of being read at all.
Old books in England are not cheap, so these books can sell for at least three or four hundred pounds.
Obviously, considering that the residents of these row houses are all low-income manual laborers, they should not have bought this kind of hardcover literature books by themselves.
According to the current situation, Liang En can easily judge that the previous residents should have obtained these books by some accident, and then they have been thrown here to eat ashes.
It wasn't until now that the landlord of this house wanted to sell the house and Liang En was hired to clean up the house that had been deserted for at least a year or two.
Liang En was quite excited by this discovery, because although these hardcover books were all popular goods, they might be sold for four to five hundred pounds if they were sold as second-hand books in the right place.
For his current job, the simple cleaning work can't actually save much money. The real money is the good things that others don't or forget during the cleaning process.
For example, the contract signed by Liang En this time was like this. The landlord paid Liang En only half of the market price, but it specifically stated that except for the part of the house itself, everything else he found would belong to him.
But whether you can find something good is purely luck.During the cleaning work in the previous two months, Liang En's greatest achievement was to find a limited edition silver zippo with carvings in a pile of rubbish in a house, and then exchanged it for more than 150 pounds .
Check out all these expensive books now, and pack them one by one in the big schoolbag I brought.Liang En moved a stool from the side, took off the gas mask on his face and sat down facing the window, then breathed in the fresh air, staring at the blue sky and white clouds in a daze.
He is 24 years old and comes from a parallel space on the earth.As a result, when I woke up two months ago, my life was switched and I became myself in another world.
After spending a few days summarizing the memories in his mind, Liang En found that the two worlds had very little difference in history, geography, and politics, and they could be regarded as twin worlds.
For example, this world also has the Zhou, Qin, Han and Tang Dynasties, as well as Europe, Asia, and Africa.Even my relatives are the same as in the previous life, almost unchanged.
The reason why the word almost is used is that there is not much difference between the two worlds as a whole, but in some small aspects, the two worlds are very different.
For example, compared to himself in the previous world, Liang En's biggest change was from a Chinese to a Chinese-Irish.
The reason for such a change was that a relative in this world who had lost contact for more than half a century chose Liang En's father instead of one of his uncles in the original world when choosing the heir of the inheritance.
As for the reason for doing the current job, it is also very simple, that is, besides the memory, there is also a heritage called the historical explorer who accompanied me here.To activate this golden finger, a series of conditions must be met.
It's just that what he didn't expect was that it was so difficult to make money in this job, so that the money in hand could only support his life now.
"Card." Thinking of this.Liang En immediately used his thoughts to mobilize the only function in his golden finger, and then, in front of his retina, a card began to appear——
This is Liang En's current golden finger, and it is also the embodiment of that inheritance.It's a pity that this card is now gray, which means it has not been successfully activated.
And in the middle of the card, a line of golden text is floating on the card. [Exploration has been completed and can be activated]
"Huh?" Seeing the three words "Activable" in the column of the final state, Liang En stood up abruptly from his seat, and even turned over the stool.
Because before this, the front of this line of text has always shown that the exploration is not completed, and the last text has always been three words of inactive.
"That is to say, my act of finding these books was actually a recognized exploration, and neither reading the books nor finding the silver lighter before was counted." Liang En, who calmed down, quickly summed up a rule.
According to his guess, these books can barely be regarded as items of historical value, so finding these books is considered an exploration approved by Goldfinger, and the previous lighter is obviously not as historically valuable as this one.
"Okay, let me see what you are—" After taking a deep breath, Liang En clicked on this card with his own consciousness.
Old salted fish new book, I hope everyone will join in.Readership 697984254
(End of this chapter)
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