Chapter 77: Heritage and Inheritance
"Knock-"
There was a rush of footsteps in the corridor behind him, and the smiling Arthur looked back at Paul, the butler who was walking quickly, and Emilia who was full of excitement, and said with a smile: "Paul, I seem to have found something." Ha ha. β
As he spoke, he placed the metal detector on the wall again, "Didi-di-" A rapid prompt sounded, making Paul, the butler who was originally a little skeptical, also show a surprised expression.
Paul didn't expect that the young earl had really found something, he seemed to see the terrible sight of his own earl scanning the castle with a metal detector and digging the whole manor full of pits, thinking of this, he couldn't help but shudder, and squeezed out a smile on his face: "Congratulations, Lord." β
"Hehe, don't rush to congratulate, let's see what's in here... β
Hearing that Arthur was about to tear down the wall, the butler Paul hurriedly said: "If it is really a treasure, it should be left by your ancestors, it should be a hidden grid, and it will never be stuffed in the cracks of the wall, which is not reasonable." β
As he spoke, the butler Paul walked to the wall, stretched out his hand and knocked on it, looked left and right, turned back to Arthur and said, "Lord, this should be near the load-bearing wall between the studio and the smoking room, then the possibility of a mezzanine in the wall is ruled out, and there should be a hidden grid." β
"Hehe, yes, then what are you waiting for, let's go, let's go find the dark grid!" Arthur really wanted to find a hammer to smash the wall, but hearing the butler Paul's very reasonable words, temporarily suppressed the idea.
"Click-"
The housekeeper Paul opened the door of the smoking room, because the smoking room no longer has a fire, there is no such black miasma as imagined, but has long been changed into a dazzling collection of famous paintings.
But to be honest, Arthur doesn't know much about these so-called famous paintings hanging on the wall, and he doesn't know how much they are worth, like the Dutch painter Yanvitix and other European painters, he has never heard of it, but it is certain that these are all genuine, after all, the accumulation and inheritance of time in front of this castle is nothing new.
Time is the thing that catches people off guard, and the paintings of painters who were not famous back then may now be famous paintings, but these paintings are a collection of family inheritance and order, and he is not good at casually hitting their crooked ideas.
"Lord, if you don't guess, it's the wall behind this cabinet. Paul, the butler, stood at the doorway, looked at it, and then walked to a cabinet in the corner and said.
"Here, let's move it!"
Arthur didn't say a word, but stepped forward and carefully removed the one-man tall cabinet from the corner with the butler Paul, revealing the green patterned wallpaper behind it, and Arthur picked up the metal detector to monitor it again.
"Didi-Di-"
"Bang Bangβ"
"That's right, this is it, you listen, it's emptyβ" Arthur said with some excitement as he reached out and patted his voice, his eyes shining brightly.
"But what about this wallpaper? It's all Victorian wallpaper, more than 100 years old. The housekeeper Paul said reluctantly with a tangled face.
"Hehe, I think there were many heirs before, including my father, who didn't find the secret grid in it because of these precious wallpapers, maybe someone knew, but couldn't bear to destroy it and chose to ignore it. β
Arthur analyzed with a smile, then reached out and took a paper cutter without hesitation to cut a hole, and used his fingers along the opening to unravel the wallpaper on both sides, revealing the white wall under the wallpaper.
"Haha, it's really a dark grid!"
A crack in the white wall made Arthur laugh happily, and also made Paul, the housekeeper who felt sorry for the torn wallpaper, feel a lot better, and Amilia, who had not spoken on the side, had a pair of beautiful eyes flashing with brilliance, watching Arthur tear the wallpaper to destroy Xing, and hurriedly stopped: "Honey, you just open a skylight along the gap to the wallpaper, there is no need to destroy it like this." β
"Okay, okay, a little excited. Arthur did not rudely continue to destroy, only to know that it was cut up and down along the gap, and then along the left and right sides of the gap, and a surface of more than forty centimeters long and more than twenty centimeters high appeared in front of the three of them.
"Lord, stand back and let me come... β
Seeing Arthur excitedly using a paper cutter to pry open the dark grid, the housekeeper Paul hurriedly reached out to stop it, took the paper cutter, took out a handkerchief, covered his mouth and nose, and then used the paper cutter to pry the dark grid hard.
Arthur and Emilia watched intently, until the sound of "pop!", the wooden door was pried open, and the faces of all three showed excitement, curiosity and antiquity.
Paul, the butler who covered his mouth and nose with a handkerchief, stretched out his hand to open the wooden door, and a smell of moldy wood products and dust wafted out.
"Good fellow, that's a lot!" exclaimed Arthur, his eyes lit up.
Paul stretched out his hand and took out one by one the things in the dark compartment, and each one of them excited the three Arthurs, a total of thirteen small antiques, including an intricately carved box of tobacco leaves, a jewelry box with a picture of a goddess, exquisite gold ornaments, and three ancient Egyptian gold coins.
"These are Egyptian antiques. Arthur picked up a small gold medal with a gold cutout, a very Egyptian character that people could distinguish at a glance.
"If they are Egyptian treasures, they must be from your great-great-grandfather, Major Julian, the twenty-sixth Earl of Boleyn, who was stationed in Egypt for two years. At the age of fifty-seven, he died of typhoid fever.
Unexpectedly, he also left behind such treasures, which lie quietly in this unknown corner for more than a hundred years. I didn't expect to see the light of day again today, congratulations, Lord, for adding a new member to the Boleyn family's legacy collection!"
The butler Paul looked at the exquisitely carved tobacco box in his hand, and immediately made a judgment like a few family treasures, and congratulated Arthur with great satisfaction.
Arthur naturally heard the subtext of the butler Paul's words, which was afraid that he would take it out for auction again.
"Paul, look at these things, do you know what I'm thinking?"
The butler Paul was slightly stunned, looked at the young earl with a smile on his face, and asked curiously, "Their value?"
"Nope. Arthur shook his head and denied with a smile, "Seeing them makes me even more convinced of this place... As he spoke, he stomped his foot and continued with a bright smile: "There must be undiscovered treasures in Bolin Manor, I firmly believe it!"
Emilia, who was holding a golden ring of a cobra circling and couldn't put it down, heard Arthur's words, raised her head, her eyes flashed, looking at Arthur and the contemplative butler Paul, and sighed in her heart about the family heritage of the nobles.
It is said that the British aristocracy is gradually declining, except for a very few aristocratic riches, most of the aristocracy has faded out of people's sight, but if you really want to talk about heritage and inheritance, it is not at all something that other classes can imagine and understand.
Take a look at these Egyptian antique treasures, no matter what kind of idea the ancestors of a hundred years ago, they can be regarded as leaving a valuable legacy to future generations, in case future generations can survive the difficulties.