Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 593 The Wine Cellar
The information currently provided by the Nelson family is mainly a series of agricultural materials. Obviously, the Nelson family also tried to manage this manor in history, but they were unable to achieve their goals due to various reasons.

Although the goal of the Nelson family to manage the manor was not achieved, and later donated most of the manor to avoid massive property taxes and turned it into a national nature reserve, these materials are still preserved.

These materials are very important to Liang En, because the documents they obtained before indicate that the contents of the 50 wooden barrels are stored in the wine cellar, and the wine cellar cannot be excavated anywhere.

Considering that this is England rather than Scotland, the wine cellar here refers to the wine cellar for wine, and such a facility obviously cannot solve the problem by digging a hole.

Because Liang En himself owns a winery, he certainly knows that a good wine cellar design must meet some basic conditions.

For example, there is enough storage space and activity space, good ventilation performance, easy to keep the environment dry, isolated from natural light, anti-vibration, anti-loud noise interference, and relatively constant temperature conditions.

Although the ancients hundreds of years ago may not have known these details, their experience is enough to allow them to subconsciously conform to the basic principles summed up today when building wine cellars.

So with this geological survey report on the manor, as long as we comprehensively review the historical background at that time, we can confirm that many places can be directly ruled out.

For example, places with high groundwater levels are not suitable for wine cellars. Although this is more suitable for planting crops, there is not much difference between digging wine cellars and water wells in such places.

For another example, a hill not far from the manor building is quite suitable for storing wine, and it is definitely suitable for building a wine cellar today.But considering that it is a whole stone mountain, it is unlikely that humans hundreds of years ago dug wine cellars on it.

Although it is said that the wine cellar of Liang En's manor was dug out of stone, it is actually a relic of a quarry that was used, which is completely different from the situation here.

In addition to passing documents, they can also screen for various other reasons. For example, it is impossible for a normal wine cellar to be too far away from the main building, or there will be roads for convenient transportation in the wine cellar.

After screening layer by layer, Liang En and the others immediately circled three suspicious locations and started searching.Fortunately, in the afternoon, Professor Alexander called his students, and Nelson also called a few people who could help, and the work efficiency naturally went up.

In less than an hour after starting work, the team of Joan of Arc and Liang En found half a broken horseshoe, several copper buttons and iron nails, and traces of the road.

Although this kind of road is different from the road on the street, it is not paved with stones or bricks, but after digging out a layer of floating soil on the surface, the traces of rammed earth below can be clearly separated.

As for the exploration results of the other two locations, they came out almost at the same time. One of them contained nothing, and the other was the stables of the manor a long time ago.

"Yes, there is an underground structure here, and it has been reinforced with stones or bricks." After pushing the ground-penetrating radar the size of a lawn mower to search, Professor Alexander gave a preliminary judgment on the ruins Liang En and the others found.

This place is located on a high platform two or three meters higher than the surrounding area. Standing here, you can easily see the main building of the manor that has almost become ruins. The straight-line distance between the two will not exceed 20m.

According to a series of clues they found before, especially the architectural layout plan produced by the Nelson family, this place is indeed located within the enclosure of the manor building in the past.

Unlike most manors in the UK that use electronic fences, simple barbed wire or directly divide the manor by plants, at least before World War I, the British preferred to build stone walls on the manor.

This is mainly because Britain was not a peaceful place in the past, and whether wild animals or robbers may cause serious security problems, the owners of these manors are more accustomed to building a solid wall to separate the manor from the outside.

So under normal circumstances, those important facilities will naturally be built inside the yard that can be protected by walls, such as the residence of the manor owner, or a cellar for storing food and beverages.

"Let's start digging first." After clearing the accumulation on the ground, they quickly found the remains of a stone arch, so under Liang En's command, they quickly started digging.

Because of the large number of people, and the guidance of two professionals, Professor Liang En and Professor Alexander, when it got dark, they had already dug up the piles that had been blocked by hand. level and found the entrance to the wine cellar.

There are no treasure hunting movies that describe the horror traps, deep and complicated underground passages, or three-headed dogs or acromants that guard the gates in various treasure locations.

This place looks like an ordinary cellar. If there is anything different, it can only be said that the cellar is very well built, and it can even be said that no expense was spared.

"It was actually built with polished stones. It seems that a lot of money and energy were spent on the construction of this cellar." Looking at the well-preserved wine cellar in front of him except for the incomplete entrance, Liang En subconsciously sighed. road.

Liang En carefully inspected the entrance of the cellar while it was ventilating, and it was confirmed that the missing part of the cellar entrance was artificially damaged, that is to say, the wine cellar was deliberately destroyed and hidden back then.

If the situation is combined with the contents of the previous document, it becomes a high probability event that something important XZ is in the wine cellar, so after half an hour of ventilation, Liang En and the others brought a small support The equipment went into the wine cellar.

The area inside the wine cellar is not large, but a stone on the side wall of the wine cellar fell off and attracted everyone's attention. After approaching the breach, everyone found that there was an underground space larger than the wine cellar. There were also some shiny silver things scattered on the ground.

"This should be a secret room in the wine cellar. It was not discovered because of a wall." After turning on the flashlight and looking inside, Liang En quickly came to a conclusion.

"It's just that after a long time, the wall fell down because there was not enough support behind it, so we are now able to discover this secret room and the things inside it."

For the sake of privacy, the wall was built the same as the surrounding area, but it collapsed because the back of the wall was empty, leaving behind the hidden space.Now it seems that this point is indeed somewhat ironic.

After confirming that everything inside was normal, they quickly entered the secret room and began to search. Soon Liang En and the others found traces of wooden barrels in the corner.

"Maybe this is the place we're looking for." After turning on the low-light flashlight in his hand and carefully taking a look around, Professor Alexander said a little excitedly, "Let's see what's inside."

(End of this chapter)