Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 103 The Secret in the Book
In the living room of the room, Liang En took out tools and began to dismantle the cover of the book in front of him.Soon, the leather cover was slowly lifted.

For the Lewises, a copy of "Alice in Wonderland" released in the 30s is indeed precious to some extent, but they have the capital to take the risk of being damaged to open the book.

Compared with such an old book that may be worth hundreds of pounds, it is obviously more attractive for the Lewis couple to find out what is hidden behind the book, so Liang En quickly got permission to open the book cover .

Just as he opened the cover, Liang En realized that this book was different from those under normal circumstances.For example, the cover is not glued to the cardboard of the cover like a normal book, but only glued around it.

"There are words here." Because the center of the book was not glued, Liang En quickly removed the outermost layer of leather.And at this moment, Mrs. Lewis, who was sitting on the side, was the first to shout out.

It turned out that after the outermost layer of leather was removed, a line of blackened blue ink handwriting appeared on the place where the cardboard cover was just covered by the leather cover.

Soon, the small space originally hidden between the leather cover and the cardboard cover was cleaned up, and then all five people present focused on the few lines of text on the cardboard.

"Another fiasco, can Britain really win the war? I hope that if the war is lost, my money can still be withdrawn. Remember, the money is under the bushes behind the park bench I used to sit on."

"What did this nonsense say?" After reading the words clearly, Mrs. Lewis showed a confused look on her face.

And this is everyone's first reaction after seeing this pile of words, because these words have no beginning and no end, it is really hard for people to understand what these lines of words mean.

"This should be the content written during World War II. After all, the book is from the 30s, and the continuous disastrous defeat of Britain since then is the time when World War II began."

At this time, Liang En felt the bonus of the [Logic Enhancement (R)] card, so he quickly deciphered some content that was not described in the text on the book cover.

"Obviously, the people who wrote these words were somewhat pessimistic about the outcome of the war, so they made the decision to hide their wealth, hoping to keep their property during the war."

"I remember that at the beginning of World War II, the British army was really ugly." Fan Meng said at this time, "Especially after the Dunkirk retreat, many people thought that Britain might fall."

"That's right, that's right." Mr. Lewis nodded and said, "My grandfather left England for Canada at that time. He once told me that many people lost their confidence at that time."

"That is to say, it was a relatively common behavior for someone to hide their money because of this at that time?" After listening to several men express their judgments, Mrs. Lewis put forward her own point of view.

"Yes, at least judging from this note, this is the case." Liang En nodded and said. "And the money hidden by the other party is likely to be something like precious metals or jewelry, and it is unlikely to be banknotes."

After all, once Britain falls, the Germans will certainly not recognize British banknotes.In this case, the only thing that can preserve value is the most primitive hard currency of human beings such as gold, silver and jewelry.

"That is to say, the content of this book records a treasure of precious metals?" Pierce frowned and said, "But we don't know where these things are hidden."

"AMT" Liang En looked at the initials written on the title page of the book and fell into contemplation, because there are not many records in this book, and the [Logic Enhancement (R)] card made him feel This initial will be the key to unraveling the problem.

The Lewis and his wife were not idle at this time, they activated their laptops excitedly and began to ask the real estate agent about the content of this room.

Soon, the couple gets a very valuable piece of information. "The real estate agent told us just now that a professor lived in this house from the 50s to the early 70s, and the books on the cabinet should have been left by him."

After reading an email, Mr. Lewis looked up and said. "Do you have any detailed information about this professor?" After hearing what Mr. Lewis said, Liang En immediately stopped looking through the books and raised his head to ask.

"There is—" Mr. Lewis said, looking at the back of the e-mail. "This professor is from King's College, Cambridge, and has always liked reading."

"So before the other party retired to New Zealand for the elderly, he specifically told the real estate agent that the next resident must be willing to keep his book before he will sell the room."

"Then where did these books come from?" Fan Meng asked loudly to the Lewis couple sitting opposite with an excited face.

But at this time, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis, who were already addicted to the treasure hunt game, didn't care about his impoliteness, but replied. "The origin of these books is very complicated, and now no one knows exactly what happened."

"However, it can be confirmed that the sources of these books basically come from the region, and it can even be said that most of them come from books eliminated by some libraries of Cambridge University and some second-hand book markets on campus."

"Is there a second-hand book market in Cambridge University?" Liang En asked a little puzzled.

Books here in the UK are not cheap, so it is indeed more popular among college students.Therefore, there are often many second-hand bookstores around the school, but it is obviously strange to say that this type of commercial organization has opened in the school.

"Actually, this second-hand book market is not a real market." Mr. Lewis immediately added after realizing that there were some problems with what he just said.

"This is just an exchange of items among teachers and students in Cambridge. Those who have extra items will write a note and stick it on the notice board. Those who need these items will buy them face to face according to the information left on the notice board. "

"Of course, with the development of technology in recent years, people have gradually chosen to post these information online instead of those bulletin boards in schools."

"So that's how it is—" Liang En nodded, because some books in the bookcase just now looked rather old, presumably the library eliminated old books.

After realizing this, Liang En and the others immediately went to the bookcase in the study on the second floor to check the books, and sure enough, they found the stamps of some libraries of Cambridge University among many books.

After simple statistics, Liang En and the others found that these seals mainly came from King's College of Cambridge University.One of the most famous schools in Cambridge University.

This college was founded by Henry VI in 1441. It is mainly used to accept graduates of Eton College, which was also created by Henry VI. For a long time, it only accepted students who graduated from Eton College.

At the same time, this college has a special library with a collection of 13 books, and the hard stamps on the books in front of Liang En and the others prove that most of these books originally belonged to this library, but later flowed out legally.

(End of this chapter)