Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 199 The Ohrenburg Manuscript

In the next 5 minutes, Liang En quickly expressed his findings and judgments in English with an Irish accent, and finally sent the portrait to the other party via email.

"—Thank you very much for your cooperation in our work. What you have done today is very important to us." After Liang En finished all this, Officer Burke thanked him very seriously.

"Although I can't tell you the specifics, what I can tell you is that with your help, we have now avoided the traps set by those criminals and successfully found an important clue—"

Because he had obtained enough information from Liang En, the police officer Burke obviously had a lot of things to do, so he quickly ended the call.

"Finally, an important thing has been completed." After hanging up the phone, Liang En let out a long sigh of relief, and then walked towards the hotel.Because he still remembered that he bought two interesting things at the auction this time.

After taking the things out of the safe and bringing them back to his room, Liang En began to examine the two items. Among them, the first "Book of the Dead" was known to be the best of its kind in ancient Egypt.

Although there are many ugly black and yellow spots on the papyrus due to thousands of years of time, the lines on it are beautiful, the colors are bright, and the overall preservation is also very good.

"A piece of [Legendary Power (R)] and a piece of [Appraisal (N)]. It seems that this item does have historical value." After counting his gains this time, Liang En nodded in satisfaction.

It is definitely an unexpected surprise to be able to get two cards from this thing that I have passed through at most. Unfortunately, considering the current character design and force, such a good thing will not be encountered in the future. too much.

Another wooden box filled with half a box of German mails can be said to be an important material for studying the life history of Germany more than 100 years ago. Through these mails, Liang En was able to glimpse a corner of German life for a century.

Of course, this thing is only meaningful to scholars who study folklore history, and for ordinary people, these letters can even be said to be worthless.

"If I remember correctly, I seem to have heard the name of this monastery somewhere in my previous life." Liang En flipped through the letters while thinking. "Damn, I just can't remember now—"

In addition to those letters, Liang En also found more than a dozen notebooks of various kinds from the bottom of these boxes, some of which were empty, but some of which contained a lot of interesting information.

For example, one of them is the purchase list of various materials in the monastery for eight months after the monastery was requisitioned by the German military as a field hospital in 1915.

Ordinary people may only feel bored after reading this information, but for those who study the history of the Western Front in World War I, these materials can help them analyze a lot of information about the German army on the Western Front.

It can even be said that the contents of this notebook can be regarded as military secrets at the time of World War I, and it is basically impossible for outsiders to know.

It's a pity that these things don't mean much to Liang En.However, he felt that he could keep this thing and give it to museums or other scholars he was familiar with in exchange for favors or other things.

Because there is always something interesting to be found in these letters and notebooks, in the process of flipping through and recording, it is night before I know it.

"After reading this book, I'll order room service." When he opened a black leather book, muttering, a piece of yellowed letter paper fell out of it.

"This is—" After quickly translating the recipient's name at the top of the letter, Liang En became a little interested, because the recipient of this letter was Brentano, a poet of the Heidelberg School of Poetry.

According to the information he just saw, there was once a dean of this Orenburg Monastery who was a relative of Brentano, so he kept his relics after his death.

Considering the poet's fame, Liang En felt that these relics probably contained manuscripts of his exchanges with some famous people at that time, so he continued to translate.

"We will keep our promise and send you all the collected oral folk culture, please use it. In the future, when the time is right, please return these original manuscripts to us—Jacob Green."

"This person's name looks so familiar." After translating the contents of the entire letter, Liang En immediately searched in his memory, and soon he remembered who this person was.

"This person should be the older brother of the Brothers Grimm." Soon, he searched for information about this person from his mind. "One of the authors of Grimm's Fairy Tales!"

After realizing this, Liang En immediately flipped through the black leather book, only to find that this book was not a ready-made book, but a book formed by binding some manuscripts together.

Considering that the upcoming work will require a lot of energy, Liang En first went to order a room service to barely fill his stomach, and then flipped through this precious notebook.

A total of 53 fairy tales were recorded in the notebook, judging from the handwriting, 27 of them were written by Jacob Green and 14 by William Green.The rest come from someone whose history leaves no record.

It was at this time that Liang En searched his memory for memories related to this note. If he remembered correctly, these things were called the Ohrenburg manuscripts in the last world. The earliest prototype of Fairy Tale.

It's just that the difference may be caused by different worlds, so the manuscript in Liang En's hand now contains five more stories than the manuscript in memory, and it is closer to the original world that the Brothers Grimm left for him. that manuscript.

After briefly flipping through the manuscript, Liang En found that as the earliest beginning of "The Grimm's Fairy Tales", the fairy tales in this manuscript are quite different.

For example, there are quite a few articles in it that are unfinished drafts, and there is only one fragment or fragment.For example, the eighth story entitled "The Poor Girl" has only one beginning:
A folk tale of a poor girl who, though she has no dinner, no parents, not even a bed and a roof, does nothing wrong.However, when the meteor falls, she finds a Thaler's beautiful gold coin on the ground...  
The story in the manuscript has ended here. According to Liang En's memory, if he guessed correctly, this article should be the "Star Silver Coin" in the finalized version.

Similar situations abound in this manuscript, even with various low-level problems with numbering and titles.For example, the titles of the 13th and 18th articles are both "Fool".

On the whole, these things should be a true record of the most primitive oral fairy tales, without any embellishments, and even the handwriting left by the Brothers Grimm can be seen in some places: "The meaning here is unknown."

"This should be a very valuable thing." Liang En muttered after checking the manuscript, "A manuscript of a world-renowned fairy tale should have very high historical and economic value!"

(End of this chapter)