This is a typical residential area of a small farmstead in rural Victorian England, with built groves, gardens, and primitive farmhouses. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Zhang Nan was not ready to come to the UK to farm at all, so he did not buy the few acres of farmland owned by the original owner, but only asked for this farm yard covering an area of about half an acre.

The money was paid off, and the original owner of the yard bought a piece of land at the edge of the village, which will be building a new home, and it is estimated that he can make a lot of money!

However, this yard is not small, half an acre is 2,000 square meters, which is equivalent to three acres of land, and there is already a very nice large garden around it.

There used to be a low house in the yard for raising poultry, which has been demolished and rebuilt into a garage - have you ever seen a Victorian garage?

Now Zhang Nan has one.

"The house was built in 1830 and has undergone several renovations, and is still largely Victorian, although there are a few remnants of an earlier Georgian style..."

John made an introduction, mentioning the situation of the whole village, where the people lived by farming, and the village life was quiet and uneventful.

Although those leaders may not be very enthusiastic, they will definitely not disturb Zhang Nan's life here, and the security here is very good, there have been no thieves visiting this small village for more than 20 years, let alone fights and brawls.

However, although this courtyard is more than a century and a half old, it is not the oldest courtyard in the village, but one of the latest houses to be built.

The oldest of the surviving farmhouses in Hoxerson Village was built in 1430 and still has medieval architecture!

More than 500 years!

Of course, the house should have been maintained and renovated many times, and it was still an old building registered in the local government office - that house was like a "cultural relics protection unit" in China, you can live in it, but any slightly larger renovation needs to be approved.

Walking into this two-storey farmhouse, the masonry structure is very solid and the interior is very well preserved.

It was built by the wealthier farmers of the time: since the rise of the enclosure movement, the people who could build a house of this scale in the countryside must have been relatively wealthy.

There are also some relatively small farmhouses in the village, which are presumably used by hired farmers at the time - the houses in the village are sparse and very widely spaced. This is because in the 19th century, many peasants lost their land and were forced to go to the cities to pan for gold, and one of them became a money-making tool for capitalists without paying attention.

Therefore, there are not many newly built Victorian "luxury farmhouses" in the village, but there are many older farmhouses.

In order to adapt to modern life, in addition to the four bedrooms, there are three bathrooms in the farmhouse, and the kitchen and living room are also fully equipped with modern equipment, but there is no TV in the living room with ordinary old oil paintings.

Do you have a big-headed TV in your Victorian-style living room?

It's not right to think about!

Yes, really good! The living room is very high, and some of the glass inlaid in the middle of the cast iron panes are stained glass, which should be hundreds of years old.

Standing in front of the window, you can see the beautiful view of the English garden, and the privacy is very well protected - and when you sit under the open trellis and drink tea in the living room, you can see the rolling farmland, meadows and woods for a kilometer or two.

Of course, the view from a few bedroom windows on the second floor is even better.

The kitchen of the house is newly renovated and furnished, and there is still a lot of food in the refrigerator, and even the cabinets made on the wall have a lot of canned food and spices......

This is to learn that the owner will live here for a day or two, and the housekeeping company sent it early in the morning, and Zhang Nan and a few people will be able to live here comfortably for a few days.

When it was time to leave, a phone call, and the housekeeping company would naturally send someone to clean up.

There will be three more cars in the garage: not on four wheels, but bicycles, which are common in the English countryside.

Zhang Nan and the three of them don't have a British driver's license, although everyone can drive a right-hand drive car, but they can't get on the road in the UK, and they are not used to driving on the left.

After looking up and down the house, the three of them came to the car parked in the yard and took out four trolley boxes from the car, one of which was very large and quite heavy.

Moving the box into the living room, Zhang Nan said to John: "When I came, I saw that many farmhouse yards have stone walls, can I change them here." ”

John immediately said, "No problem! Your farmhouse is not a listed building, and as long as it does not disrupt the overall feeling of the whole village, it can be built without approval at all." However, it is best to use the antique style of this stone wall, and match the courtyard with the house. ”

"Of course. Mr. John, this will require you to contact the relevant construction company, but we will have to wait a little longer to contact the construction company, and I still have some things to deal with first. ”

"Okay, no problem, Mr. Allen. ”

This is definitely a good thing for John, as a middleman can make a lot of money, this Mr. Allen is quite generous in doing things, but some requirements are very strict: for example, the interior of the house can be decorated, but the garden must not be different from what he requires!

The cost of the project is very large, but the liquidated damages are even more terrifying - if the construction team works beyond the scope of the contract, there is only the slightest hint of liquidated damages, which is 1 million pounds!

The money of the rich is not so easy to make either!

"And Mr. John, it's still the old rule, during the construction process, I hope you can send someone to watch here every day, my requirements are very high. ”

"Understand Mr. Allen, you can rest assured that you will be satisfied, and the error of the construction foundation will definitely not exceed half an inch!"

John, too, has a high standard and strict requirements: if it exceeds an inch, it will kill you!

If the engineering team doesn't want to, then you can not take this job, but then you can't make double the profit: there are still many engineering team owners who want to do this job.

As long as you are careful and careful, in fact, this is one of the most important requirements in the project.

As for why Zhang Nan set such strict standards, he would not need to explain at all -- if he were in China, he would say that it was because of Feng Shui.

For the British, forget it, you just carry it out.

Actually?

Because there is an amazing fortune buried under this land!

can all be called earth-shattering treasures!

At least for the British, these treasures, which have been buried for more than 1,500 years, will definitely cause a sensation in the entire British Isles if they are made public!

The so-called "ninth treasure in the world" will be at Zhang Nan's feet!

The monastery wall, to put it bluntly, is to block the view of the outside world, and it will not work to rely on that low fence wall.

However, the engineering team was not in a hurry to start work in advance, and first had to determine the location of the treasure - Zhang Nan knew that those treasures were at least one and a half meters deep from the surface, but it was difficult to say which part of the yard they were in.

If it is too close to the courtyard wall, then start the construction first, and then think of other ways, at most, the fence is temporarily raised, and when it is really time to work, it is fenced with plastic sheeting.

Before John left, he left a phone number for the taxi company, and if Zhang Nan wanted to use the car in the past two days, a phone call would come as quickly as possible.

Waiting for John to leave, Zhang Nan and the three began to pack their luggage.

After putting away your personal belongings in their respective rooms, go to the living room to deal with the big box.

As soon as he opened it, two sets of equipment were revealed: one was the underground metal detector he bought a few days ago, and the other was larger, and there were a lot of small things.

This is a ground penetrating radar, which can display the general shape and nature of metal objects below 3 meters above the surface on the display screen, which can be described as extremely professional equipment!

However, unlike metal detectors that can be carried on people's bodies and easily moved, this set of underground radars is "fixed", which means that after detecting an area, it is necessary to move the position before continuing to work.

"Anan, when are we going to do it?" Xiang Weirong walked to the courtyard with Zhang Nan, while Guan Xingquan ran to the kitchen to prepare Chinese food.

"Let's talk about it in the evening, it's not good to be seen during the day. ”

It's also a problem that the security in this part of the English countryside is too good: for Zhang Nan, the vast majority of the houses in this village are undefended!

Even if some courtyards are surrounded by stone walls, you can climb up the potholes casually, and the height is just over two meters. There are also walls that are more than a meter high, and you can step over the hurdles!

And those old houses inside, this anti-theft measure is equal to nothing!

After a while, Guan Xingquan came to call someone for dinner.

As soon as he saw the Chinese food he prepared, Zhang Nan said directly: "Brother Guan, I think it's better to let my brother-in-law come for dinner, your craft..."

Guan Xingquan scratched his scalp embarrassedly - who said that everyone who has been a soldier for ten years will be a good cook?

In the seventies and eighties, the average infantry often needed to go to the cooking class to help cook. But Guan Xingquan is different, except for the 3-month recruit period, he is trained according to special soldiers, and he doesn't need to help cook at all.

A big bowl of noodles for one person, the raw materials prepared by the housekeeping company, it is not particularly difficult to buy Chinese-style noodles in the UK, and there are Chinese people where there are them.

Noodles were often eaten in Yan County, but the housekeeping company did not prepare vegetables, so Guan Xingquan boiled a pot with tomatoes, eggs and shredded pork.

It seems to be a little overcooked, and it is all swollen, and Zhang Nan doesn't like the smell of tomatoes.

But now that it's been made, let's eat it!

What else can you expect in the UK?

A 20-minute bike ride away from an English bistro is more like a tavern, John says it's a common country pub in England, and if you're bored, you can go there at night.

Unlike American bars, the country bars here may not be overly welcoming to strangers at first, but they are not xenophobic.

But don't expect anything good in a British restaurant!

What else can you expect but fish and chips?

But it's good that this is not Scotland, otherwise the kind of haggis cooked with sheep's braised liver, offal, oatmeal and onions in a bag made of sheep's stomach will definitely make Zhang Nan and the three of them run away!

"Hulala" eating noodles, Guan Xingquan also asked: "When the wall is built, we will dig it?"

"Early, you can't dig it yet. Determine the location first, things can't run under the ground. ”

As he spoke, he threw a tomato into the trash can, "It's estimated that there will be a lot of things, and the weight may be counted in tons, so we won't be able to take it all at once, so let's figure it out slowly." ”

I have already passed the gas with Guan Xingquan and the two before, and the thing may be a huge amount of precious metals, so it is extremely troublesome to bring it back to China or the United States.

Of course, there is a way to take a few hundred grams at a time, but what if it is a few hundred kilograms or tons?

British Customs is not a paper agency either, and it will be as ferocious as a hungry wolf when you see those things!

Xiang Weirong and the two didn't ask Zhang Nan how he knew that there was a treasure here, and there were too many magical things, so it was no wonder! Moreover, Britain had robbed and robbed from China at the beginning, and this time they came to Britain to find treasures, Xiang Weirong and the two were extremely enthusiastic!