Starting My Treasure Hunting In England

During this five-day data search, Liang En found a note written by Jacob Green in the summer of 1863, less than three years after his death. months.

"It's a pity that I no longer have the energy to sort out the fairy tales that belong to the German nation. I hope that the information I have left behind can help those who come after me to sort out the fairy tales that belong to our nation."

These words were left in Jacob Green's last notebook. Judging from the handwriting, the other party must have been very excited when he wrote these contents.

For the Brothers Grimm, whether they were writing fairy tales or compiling dictionaries, they had one purpose, which was to make their own contribution to the unification of Germany.

It is easy to understand that they have such thoughts, since their youth was spent during Napoleon's occupation of Germany.

At that time, Germany suffered from the double oppression of foreign invasion and powerful feudal forces.

After Napoleon's defeat in 1814, European reactionary forces rose, and Germany was still in a state of fragmentation. After seeing all this, the Brothers Grimm naturally wanted to end this situation.

Because of this idea, they protested against the King of Hanover's violation of the constitution in 1837 when they had become professors at the University of Göttingen. As a result, they were not only expelled from the university but also expelled from the country.

Fortunately, in 1838, the then King of Prussia extended an invitation to them, and from then on, the two of them lived in Berlin until their deaths.

The 1863 notes that Liang En saw were the notes written by the other party in Berlin. Fortunately, they escaped two world wars and have been preserved to this day.

"It seems that I can start to carry out the "Grimm's Fairy Tales" in my mind." After summarizing this pile of content, Liang En made the final decision.

Although it seems a bit strange for Liang En, who is positioned as a historian and explorer, to publish a fairy tale book, if broken down, it is indeed an excavation of ancient history.

And compared with several previous projects, compiling and adapting fairy tale books can obviously gain greater benefits, especially unlike the situation of the Brothers Grimm, the copyright of all stories has now entered the public domain.

In other words, if Liang En edits and adapts the work now, he will own the copyright of the adapted work, and there will be no copyright disputes.

Considering the horribly high sales of "Grimm's Fairy Tales" in another world, Liang En felt that compiling such a fairy tale should be a very valuable thing.

"I think your current idea is more meaningful than the work you did before." After telling Fan Meng his idea, Fan Meng immediately gave a very positive feedback.

"After all, for ordinary people like me, I think fairy tales should be more popular than those papers you wrote before that you can't even read."

"But I also think that your job will not be too easy, because there are too many things to modify." As Fan Meng, who has also been searching for information these days, he naturally discovered that many of the original stories are not suitable for children. s things.

"For example, like Snow White, I think the German fairy tales circulating on the market now describe the queen as a stepmother. It is difficult for people to accept the original biological mother."

Yes, so I don’t plan to write this thing out all at once, but I plan to write it slowly. "Liang En nodded. "It's just right to write these things during the process of writing the paper and relax your brain. "

"Well... that does sound like a good idea." Fan Meng shrugged, "But to be honest, at least I think a glass of beer can relax my nerves more than writing those things."

The next morning after completing the sorting work, they flew back to Dublin because this harvest was so important. So they need to hurry up and hide these precious trophies back home.

On the second day after they arrived home, the real estate businessman Mr. Bruce sent a subordinate to take away the "Book of the Dead" from Liang En's hands and transferred the money directly to his account.

For Liang En, although he was not physically tired after such a trip, mentally it was another matter. Especially after nearly a week of data inquiry, which was like a surprise before the college entrance examination, it really made people feel tired from the bottom of their hearts.

So after getting up at 9 o'clock the next morning, he said hello to his parents and went to Dublin, planning to visit some flea markets there and relax.

It's interesting to say that although Liang En used to go to those flea markets in Dublin with his parents when he was a child, he never went there again after he started working in this field.

Because today happens to be Saturday. So Liang En decided to visit the Halfpenny Retro Market, which is only open every Saturday. Although it is called a Retro Market, there are actually many antiques for sale.

The most important thing is that compared with those real antique markets, this market, which mainly focuses on various antique items, makes it easier to buy some very cost-effective things.

Because he was strolling around, Liang En simply wore casual sportswear. And this outfit is quite in line with the overall style of the flea market.

Because this market mainly sells antique items, the items sold in the market are very miscellaneous. There are retro clothes, retro jewelry, retro furniture, and even some old hardware accessories that look like they have aged well. First-time visitors will definitely be spoiled for choice.

Naturally, you can’t come here with the mentality of picking up leaks, otherwise you will be deceived. Fortunately, Liang En came here mainly to relax and see if there is anything interesting.

For example, he fell in love with a very beautiful black and white two-tone glass vase in this place. The vase looks very delicate and uses carving craftsmanship, but at a glance, he can tell that it is a modern imitation.

Because the entire item is very exquisitely imitated and is purely handmade, the price of the vase is not cheap. Even after haggling several times, the other party refused to give a big discount.

Because she really liked it, Liang En finally bought the vase for 42 euros, originally priced at 47 euros. Compared with those antique stores, the best thing here is that you can bargain.

Except for this vase, Liang En went through several passages but couldn't find anything he wanted to start with. After all, finding good things at street stalls is like digging for gold in the sand. Whether I can come across what I like depends on my luck.

But when he walked around several stalls selling clothes and turned the corner to enter the last two rows of stalls in this antique market, Liang En's eyes were caught by one of the stalls!

The stall owner is a bearded man in his 50s. Most of the stalls are various ancient and modern military items, of course, guns are not among them.

Dublin has the strictest gun control in the whole of Ireland. It is impossible for this kind of street stall to obtain a gun trading license, not even most of the parts of the gun.

But old helmets, binoculars, portable equipment, inert bullets, shell casings, bayonets, daggers... ancient, modern, local and foreign can be said to be all available, but they are not systematic at all.