Chapter 407: The Pepper Shaker 1600 Years Ago

At least archaeologically: Zhang Nan remembers that after the "original" treasure was dug up, the farmer was rewarded with 1.25 million pounds in cash according to the British regulations for underground treasures. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

If the farmer loses money, if he finds the treasure after '96, he will receive a cash prize far more than that: under the British Treasure Act of 1996, any other object found at the site of the treasure - regardless of the material from which it was made - can be classified as "treasure".

Often, these treasures end up in the British Museum or a local museum, as long as the museum buys them from the finder and landowner at market prices.

Market price!

But even if he loses, the discoverer of Eric Rolls is still an overnight rich.

In November 1992, Rouse, an ordinary farmer in Hocson, planned to renovate his house and repair the garden, and many of his close friends and neighbors rushed to help.

The popularity is good.

More than ten days later, the renovation of the house and garden was completed, but a friend told Rouse that his hammer was missing.

Rouse was a good man, and never wanted to take advantage of others, so he searched the yard for a whole day, but still did not find his friend's hammer.

Because the earth had been moved during the work, Rouse thought that the hammer might have been accidentally buried in the garden while working, so he went to buy a metal detector and used his high technology to continue searching in the yard.

It's interesting that an honest Englishman with a tendon, and it was this tendon brain that quickly made him rich: it's cheaper to buy a new hammer for a friend than a metal detector, right?

Besides, even if the detector is used, it is not enough to say whether the hammer can be found or not.

So, doing things one by one sometimes has its benefits.

It was busy until noon, when the metal detector suddenly siren, and Rouse, thinking that the thing under the ground was a friend's hammer, began to dig in the yard.

The deeper he dug it went, it had already exceeded the depth of the ground for the renovation garden, but the tendoned Rouse continued to dig down, and after each probe, the metal detector's reaction became bigger and bigger.

When digging to a depth of almost 1.5 meters, Rouse was stunned: what appeared in front of him was a pile of gold and silver treasures of ancient Rome!

The Avenue of Numbers will never be forgotten for the rest of his life!

Rouse, a good man and an honest man, stopped digging and reported his findings in his yard to the local heritage board.

The clerks rushed to Rolls' house at once, and after a day of digging, all the treasures were revealed.

On the third day after their discovery, the treasure was transported to the National Museum of England, the "British Museum" – said to be the largest concentration of Roman coins in the history of the world, and the most important discovery in the history of England.

At this time, British law required that underground treasures must be sold to museums, and only in percentage of the reward, as for what percentage is not said: the British Museum ended up giving Rouse £1.25 million.

The £1,250,000 was not at all comparable to the century value of the treasure, but Rouse was content because he was a good, honest man.

The discovery of this treasure also brought a windfall to the small village called Hoxen, which flocked to the village in search of treasure, and metal detectors became the best-selling item.

The land is private, and treasure hunters need permission from the landowner to explore, which will generate income.

There are also tourists who come to spend money in the small village, and this originally unknown ordinary village in England has become a well-known attraction, and even Zhang Nan in the previous life has come to visit.

However, such a situation will not happen again, because Zhang Nan is not a good person, let alone an honest person!

As for the good guy Law, he will live at the entrance of the village, and when Zhang Nan went to the trunk market yesterday, he met and chatted twice: Laws wants to buy a new saw.

The money given by Zhang Nan to buy a house is enough for Rouse to build two or three new houses, so the economic conditions of Rouse are very good, and it is quite polite to meet Zhang Nan, a rich man, and even invite Zhang Nan and others to his new home as guests.

Zhang Nan declined: This side digs the treasures under the old house that originally belonged to him, and the other side goes to the other party's house as a guest?

Forget it, Zhang Nan is not a good person, but he is not a bastard either, so he still can't do such a dirty scoundrel, otherwise he will be in his heart.

After sorting out here, Zhang Nan gave everyone a gold Honorius coin as labor expenses, even Jenny and Guan Xingquan.

Holding the golden gold coins in her hand, as if they had just left the factory yesterday, Jenny smiled and said, "Alan, this is 'the one who sees it'?"

"My dear, what we did just now was digging up, which is similar to robbing a tomb. The rules of the trade, so auspicious. ”

"Oh. ”

Westerners are also superstitious, and as soon as they hear auspiciousness, they use a set of small sealed bags and stuff them into their pockets.

Others follow suit, stuffing leather armor in wallets and putting pockets in pockets, probably wanting to be collected as "things to ward off evil spirits".

Nowadays, there are Honorius gold coins on the market, although there are not many, but putting one in a wallet will not cause others to be surprised, and it is not afraid of wearing and tearing to hinder the quality.

It is troublesome to dig a pit, and it takes some effort to backfill, and because it is a void after backfilling, there is a lot of extra topsoil.

Transporting the soil to the corner of the wall with a wheelbarrow from the garden, planting some flowers and plants.

Move everything into the fully enclosed basement, which is about the size of the vault, and lock it up. As soon as Zhang Nan saw the time, he asked everyone to hurry up and wash up, and then go out to eat.

"Where are you going?"

Jenny asked.

"There's a nice tavern not far from here, it's actually a restaurant, I went there last year and I kind of missed the fish and chips. ”

The crowd was stunned.

I've seen people talking nonsense, but I've never seen such nonsense: miss British fish and chips?

Unless the brain is pumped!

But what the boss said was what it was, a group of people got on the car and set off, the bike is 20 minutes by car, and the car is 5 minutes away.

"It's a bit of a taste. ”

As soon as she arrived, Jenny immediately fell in love with this English rustic tavern.

"It's good, change the environment. ”

As he spoke, he found a place to sit by himself, and the boss immediately came up to greet him.

The people in the tavern were a little strange at first for the sudden appearance of such a large group of people, but when they saw the few oriental faces in the middle, they knew that it was the rich Oriental man from Hoxerson Village who came to vacation.

Fish, chips, I haven't eaten for a long time, and the boss introduced that there was a good steak today.

There are not many tables in the tavern, there are already guests, and more than a dozen people can't sit together.

This Xia Mili, Liu Wendong and Karimi sat by the door, and there was a small window here to see the situation outside. And Zhang Nan and the others sat on the inside of the tavern against the wall--this is all exquisite.

Control the entrances and exits so that the boss sits in a place where there is no threat from behind as much as possible.

I heard from the owner that the house in this tavern was built in the late 17th century, and it is more than 300 years old, and the wall is so thick that it is estimated that it can be gnawed by rockets!

There are all kinds of spices on the table, and everyone can add some condiments according to their habits as soon as the food comes up. However, Zhang Nan didn't take it from the table, and then did something that made Jenny and the others a little speechless.

Out of his pocket was a small silver-gilt bust of a figure, gilded with hair, eyes, mouth, collar, and robe, and a cartoonish-looking bust.

It's a bust of an ancient Roman nobleman, hollow.

"Come on, let's try how the ancient Romans used pepper, which is not available to ordinary people, and only the top nobles have treatment. ”

Jenny really wanted to cover her eyes, and by the way, tell everyone: Who is this person, I don't know him well.

This small bust was dug up in the morning, and the shape was particularly cute, and no one knew what this thing was doing except Zhang Nan at first.

is not only cute, if it is placed in Huaxia more than 20 years later, many young people will think that he is familiar if they see this gadget: he looks really similar to a very famous and luxurious car king in Huaxia at that time.

It's still cartoonish and super cute!

Zhang Nan told everyone in the morning that this was a pepper shaker, and then cleaned it himself after speaking, and found that even the lid at the bottom could be easily removed, and the preservation state was very good.

The inside has been filled with earth, carefully washed with water, and the inside of the jar has been thoroughly brushed with a small brush.

After that, I ran to the kitchen and threw the little things into boiling water and boiled them for more than half an hour.

The jar is boiled in boiling water, then soaked in spirits, and finally rinsed with water, then dried inside and out with a hair dryer, and then pepper poured into it.

Try it upside down: Roman craftsmen are so skilled that the pepper will pour out after a shake.

It's itchy with my hands, and it's rare to put it back, so I kicked it in my pocket with a pack of two large napkins.

At that time, everyone was busy, who still paid attention to the boss and that gadget, I didn't think that the boss would really use it to fill pepper and use it!

Pepper is on the table in taverns, fried and baked food with a little pepper tastes good, and in Western countries, it is served in almost all homes and restaurants.

However, the tavern is equipped with a pepper grinder on the table: lazy people can buy processed pepper and salt and pepper powder on the market, but many people think that it is a factory-processed product, which may be mixed with other miscellaneous things, so the average Westerner prefers to use a pepper grinder.

As a result, the people from the housekeeping company here don't know whether they are lazy or careful consideration for the Oriental customers, and the pepper prepared in the farm is in the grinder, and the finished pepper is also available.

This will sit in the corner, and others don't know what Zhang Nan uses to pour pepper, even if he sees it?

Traditionally, British people like to bring their own pepper cans with them when they go out, which is also considered British.

Even if someone who knows knows finds that the pepper shaker in Zhang Nan's hand is an old Roman antique, they will only think that people are rich and No. 10 is special.

The watches are multi-million dollar antique Patek Philippe, and it's not surprising to use an ancient Roman pepper shaker.