Chapter 35: Nautical Charts
"Hey, didn't you say that you would definitely be buried in this direction?" Emma squatted aside, looked at Bai Yujing who was sweating in the dusk, and said jokingly.
Bai Yujing felt a little embarrassed, what he said at the time was so gold-cut, and at this time he was a little slapped in the face, "You know, there will always be a little mistake in the plan, but this does not affect the final outcome, maybe we should move in this direction." β
As the sky got darker, Bai Yujing dug a big circle on the ground, digging a large pit in the ground, and finally when night fell, the shovel suddenly shoveled on a hard object, making a sound of gold and iron.
"It's not going to be another stone!" said Emma, looking down.
Bai Yujing immediately said: "No, this time it will definitely be." β
"You just said that. β
Bai Yujing dug up the soil in three or two times, and immediately couldn't wait to brush away the layers of soil with his hands, leaking out an iron box that looked a little old, the box had been seriously corroded, but the whole was sealed with wax, and it looked sealed and preserved well.
Bai Yujing threw the box on the top of the pit, and then climbed up under Emma's pull, at this time Bai Yujing's image was a little embarrassed, his back was sad, his cow trouser legs were rolled up high, and his shoes were full of mud.
Seeing that the sun had set, Bai Yujing suddenly sounded: "It's not good, the proprietress said that she was waiting for us to eat at night, and we had to rush back immediately." β
The two hurriedly lifted the box into the trunk of the car, and then drove back. At the door of Hotel B, the proprietress was looking under the lights, and when she saw Emma and Bai Yujing's car coming back, she immediately stepped forward.
"Oh, why did you come back, it's already time to eat. Before the proprietress finished speaking, she immediately saw Bai Yujing, who was covered in dirt, "My God, what's wrong with you?" Hurry in and clean it, hurry up, come in quickly!"
Bai Yujing apologized as he walked: "I'm really sorry, I accidentally slipped down the hillside just now, that's why I came back so late!"
The proprietress held her mouth, "My God, you didn't fall and hurt yourself!"
Bai Yujing immediately said: "No, no, it's just that the body is dirty, just clean it up." β
"God forbid, you hurry in and take a shower, we are all waiting for you!"
The boss and the proprietress are very good, which makes Bai Yujing who is out of the house very moved, both of them are Catholic, before dinner, they must pray, Bai Yujing changed his clothes and sat on the rectangular dining table refreshingly, and prayed with the three of them, as if falling into some kind of mysterious silence.
"Alright, it's time to go!"
The dinner was very hearty, the main food was pasta, but the thick fragrant seafood soup placed in the center was Bai Yujing's favorite, which can be regarded as Bai Yujing's favorite food here, Bai Yujing has eaten it several times, and each time it has a different taste.
It can be seen that the boss is very careful when he makes it, the portion is very large, and the ingredients are also sufficient, several large shrimp are floating in the soup noodles, the light red soup, the tender meat of the fried and grilled silver cod is tumbling, and there are clams, mussels, with onions, garlic and coriander, the fragrance is fragrant, and it feels more authentic than what Bai Yujing ate in the restaurant before.
"Try it, I made it myself!" the proprietress said to Bai Yujing.
Bai Yujing nodded, and immediately couldn't wait to fill a bowl, silver cod is full of rich fish oil, when eating, there is no faint white taste of home-cooked fish, and the fat content is high, so it tastes like a kind of meat, but it does not lose the freshness of the fish, and the two flavors are fused together, which can give others a different experience.
After a busy afternoon, Bai Yujing took a big sip of the seafood soup very atmospherically, the hot and warm soup with a little hot mouth, spicy taste, integrated into the body, that taste, it felt like the whole body was ignited, sour, spicy, fresh, fragrant several flavors were integrated into the thick soup.
This kind of multiple, complex seafood soup is difficult to make, because once it is not processed well, the taste is easy to conflict, and this pot of seafood soup is cut to the benefit, and the flavors that should be conflicting are fused together and become a taste, that is, seafood soup, a large bowl into the stomach, a layer of fine sweat all over the body, making people feel very comfortable.
"Well, it's really delicious. Bai Yujing stretched out a thumbs up to the proprietress this is a real master in the folk! This craft can definitely be called a chef.
Bai Yujing's various words of praise were added to the proprietress and made the proprietress smile from ear to ear, but it can be seen that the proprietress is still very proud of this craft.
The staple food pasta is cheese and bacon, with a special sauce and just the right amount of saltiness, Bai Yujing feels that every bite is particularly strong, especially appetizing, Bai Yujing, who originally ate an average amount of food, has now turned into a pot-bellied man, and he is tornadoes at the dinner table, eating Sven, but the speed is very fast, a large pot of seafood soup, almost all of them are under Bai Yujing's stomach.
After eating, Bai Yujing and Emma couldn't wait to return to the room, and the boss and the proprietress smiled knowingly, but unlike what they imagined, Bai Yujing and Emma wanted to see the results of today's harvest.
The lock on the box was rotten, Bai Yujing shoveled it twice with a shovel and opened it, the box was placed on the car, and the things were taken back to the house by the two of them, although the box was big, there were not many things inside, Bai Yujing didn't have time to take a closer look, so he took it to the room and put it on the table, and after eating, he finally had time to sort out the loot.
A book, a cylinder, a dead wood, a disc branded with mysterious runes.
"Oh, I thought there would be some gold and silver treasure or something. Bai Yujing was disappointed, the only thing that seemed to be worth some money was the disc with mysterious runes on it.
Bai Yujing picked it up, the disc was the size of a palm, and the whole body was golden, Emma also looked at it and held it in her hand: "This is not gold, but it looks like it has been around for some years, and it may be related to Sky Island." β
Bai Yujing sighed: "Okay, then it means that this is not worth much, by the way, how can there be a piece of rotten wood." β
Bai Yujing took the dead branch in his hand, the dead branch was a little thick, straight throughout, heavy in his hand, much heavier than ordinary wood, but it was still far from the weight of iron, the wood had a thick pulp, and it was slippery to the touch, and it looked as if someone often used him in his hand.
"Fireball Technique!" Bai Yujing took the rotten wood and stretched it out twice, and found that there was nothing, it turned out that Bai Yujing felt that this thing was shaped, and he thought about the staff!
Emma immediately held her mouth and laughed, "This should be a staff, not a staff, and you're not a wizard!"
Emma also took it and looked at it, "This is a walking stick, I can't tell what kind of wood it is, it's too old." β
The two of them focused their attention on the book together, could this be another notebook? After Bai Yujing and Emma opened it together, they found that it was a manuscript original novel, Gulliver's Travels!
"This one is quite in line with the characteristics of a relic, a novel story with himself as the protagonist, and it has been handed down in a box. Emma flipped through it, and the handwriting was beautiful, but it didn't record what Bai Yujing wanted.
Emma noticed something different, pointing to the first page behind the cover of the tree: "This is the important thing!"
"To my most important friend
ββββJonathan Swift 1725.11.26"
Bai Yujing immediately understood: "This is the manuscript of a handwritten novel by Jonathan Swift, the author of Gulliver's Travels? It must be true, there is still his signature on it, this can't be fake!"
Emma was also excited: "This is very memorable, Gulliver's Travels was first published in England in 1726, when the first edition was 30,000 copies, and the current stock is now extremely rare, and this first printed novel is also very valuable in the market, not to mention that this is still a manuscript by Jonathan Swift." β
Jonathan Swift is a famous British writer, political commentator, and master of satirical literature, and has a very great influence all over the world.
Emma took the manuscript and looked through it carefully: "This should be very valuable, I know someone from the auction house, I can arrange an auction with them, I think it may be sold for a million euros, what do you think, we divided it together, one and a half, unfortunately, this is a very precious souvenir, I really want to collect it." β
Of course, Bai Yujing was not unhappy, he was unexpected, he originally thought that it would be good to get two souvenirs enough to go back and show off himself, "Listen to you, if you want to collect it, I don't have any opinion!"
Emma stuck out her tongue: "Forget it, such a valuable thing, I'm afraid I won't be able to sleep at home, so it's better to exchange it for money, and then I will have enough money to travel the world and realize my dreams." β
Bai Yujing immediately asked curiously, "What is your dream?"
Emma immediately said: "I wasn't sure yet, but after this time with you Ian, I was sure that my dream was to be an adventurer and a writer, to travel the world, and then share my experiences with others, I used to tell my friends about this, but everyone thought I was just dreaming, but now I feel as if it's just right around the corner." β
Bai Yujing immediately nodded in agreement: "I'm happy for you, Emma!"
Nothing else was found in the notes that Remel Gulliver said, so only the last one remained, and when he opened the cylinder, Bai Yujing found that there was a scroll of paper and a manual inside.
"Wow!"
When I spread it out, I realized that the paper scroll was a nautical chart, and the wide nautical chart was very finely made, and the bits and pieces of the route and the road map were displayed, and there were a lot of notes and annotations on it.
The manual was not by Remel Gulliver, but by someone else, and it was a logbook.