Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 419 Handover and Search

After coming out of the wine cellar, Butler Robson took his leave, and before leaving, he invited Liang En and the others to meet at the earl's mansion in Paris when they were free.

Then Liang En's lawyer also left here. After all, the current contract work has ended, and he can finally take a good vacation after a busy few months.

However, Liang En and Joan of Arc plan to stay here for two days. After all, this place is their most valuable property now, so it is necessary to spend a few days to understand it.

Different from what I imagined before, there are only five or six staff members in this manor, and there are more than 50 people even including those who work on the grassland.

However, during the busy farming period, for example, because the principle of manual picking is adopted when picking grapes, it is necessary to hire some additional temporary staff, otherwise it will be too busy.

However, this does not mean that River Castle Manor is the most traditional winery. For example, the brewery is very modern, using computer-controlled stainless steel tanks as fermentation equipment.

However, in addition to this modern wine production plant, there is also a small plant that adopts the most traditional method of fermenting in large ceramic vats, mainly for winemaker Gero to conduct brewing experiments.

Because the value of the manor was less than the money that should be paid to Liang En, the housekeeper Lubzon simply put the money in the manor's account as operating funds.

With the operating capital of 85 euros, the entire manor will naturally be able to operate smoothly without requiring additional capital injection in a short period of time.

Although it is not far from the seaside and the manor does not freeze due to the relatively low latitude, there are not many things to see around in winter, so Liang En quickly put his interest in researching the manor and the wine cellar.

As he had guessed before, the manor's history is indeed not that long, and the facilities and furniture inside are mixed with old and new, and there is not much that deserves careful study.

So after wasting a day on the ground, Liang En took the metal detector he brought with him into the wine cellar and started searching.

This kind of behavior is really weird, but considering Liang En's identity as a historian, it is normal, so after running for a few days, both the workers in the wine cellar and the winemaker Mr. Liang En, who was running in the cellar, was no stranger to it.

At most, when meeting them in the wine cellar to remind him or Joan of Arc who followed, to remind him of the precautions such as those wine barrels are best not to touch or be careful of those high shelves and stacked wine barrels.

Through inquiry, Liang En learned that this wine cellar is one of the largest in the local area, so not the entire wine cellar is currently in use, and even a section of the wine cellar may not have been cleaned much.

This is mainly because the entire wine cellar is built on the basis of a quarry, so it is normal that some roadways have not been put into use.

And this is a very good investigation target for Liang En, especially for those laneways that have not been used for a long time, there is a high possibility of hiding some things that have been forgotten by history.

The wine cellar requires constant temperature and humidity, but because the humidity of the wine cellar is kept at a high level all year round, and to ensure the safety of the staff, the wine cellar is not only ventilated, but also disinfected twice a year.

This is naturally a good thing for Liang En, and it means that he does not need to be fully armed when conducting search work, which saves a lot of things.

Moreover, unlike the imaginary layout of a wine cellar with a road leading to the bottom, this wine cellar is distributed in a tree shape, so those closed areas are basically distributed around the currently used wine cellar.

At the beginning, the few branch roadways closest to the entrance and exit were all empty and not large in scale, so basically the inspection could be completed with just a glance.

However, as we gradually deepened, some interesting things began to appear in the closed lanes, such as some half-carved stones, and some damaged tools and daily necessities.

Of course, these things are not very high in terms of archaeological value or economic value, but they support the history and inheritance of this manor from the side.

At the same time, as he gradually penetrated into the depths of the cellar, what Liang En found became more and more interesting. He also realized that although theoretically, the deeper you go, the newer the alleyways, but because those places are relatively remote, later generations will clean them up. relatively few.

However, the old alleys near the entrance and exit were cleaned relatively clean by the later people as the first batch of backup wine cellars. Even the first few alleys can be said to be no different from the active wine cellars except that there are no shelves and barrels.

"We can now clear an empty room to make a small exhibition room." As a winemaker and the manager of the estate when Liang En was away, Gero was very interested in Liang En's finding of these things.

In particular, a bronze-colored copper wax seal attracted his attention. According to him, this copper seal should be the seal used by the manor in the 18th century to wax the wine bottle.

In fact, there is a similar existence in the wine cellar of the manor. For example, the bottling of wine is actually carried out in a special room in the wine cellar, which contains various tools, including With such a copper seal.

Considering that this type of winery was basically hit during the French Revolution, it is normal for things like seals to be forgotten in the wine cellar.

Of course, this seal was still covered with patina when it was found in a pile of broken wooden barrels yesterday, but after consuming a piece of [Repair (N)] a little copper wire and charcoal, he repaired this thing .

I have to say that this copper seal is very valuable, that's why Liang En consumed cards to restore the copper seal. Unfortunately, the historical value of this item is so small that no card was ever issued.

But for Gero, this brass seal is very valuable, because this thing is a good thing that can show the history of the winery.

So he plans to use this seal on some fine wines produced in small batches by the winery to add more added value to the wines.

As for the other things, although they looked more like a pile of rubbish, after Liang En arranged them according to the time, it was just right to set up a small exhibition room telling the history of the manor.

You must know that the manor is open to tourists and sells a little wine by the way, so having such a showroom is obviously more conducive to the promotion of this aspect.

And just when Gero was looking for someone to set up the display, Liang En and Joan of Arc came to the wine cellar again. Although they had detected all the closed lanes, they still had some doubts about some places.

For example, during the search in the past few days, they saw several Lorraine crosses engraved on the wall, but these crosses were not engraved in the normal engraving places, such as intersections or the entrance of a certain wine cellar, but carved in the Some hidden places.

Being different is actually the biggest doubt, so Liang En quickly counted the locations of the found crosses and marked them on the map of the wine cellar, only to find that a roughly semicircle was formed on the map.

So today Liang En and the others came to the center of the semicircle, ready to check what was going on in this suspicious place.

(End of this chapter)