Chapter 501 [It is important to know a foreign language]
Walking around the black market, Yang Yong suddenly stopped in front of a stall. The pen and fun www.biquge.info made Smith, who was following behind, almost knock him down, and he was surprised to look at this stall selling some African antiques.
How to say that it is an African antique, because the stalls are selling some strange-looking things. It's also been a few years, and there are a lot of masks and statues, and some metal products are very wild and very African.
But it's not these things that are weird, it's a copper cylinder that resembles a barrel made of closed brass that was used to place maps hundreds of years ago. There are twenty centimeters with a diameter of five centimeters, and something is carved on it that is a bit like Catholicism. This includes angels, musical instruments, auspicious clouds, or crosses.
The cylinder looks a little old, and it looks very strange with some speckled rust on it. This thing should not appear on the black market in Africa, it should appear in museums in Europe, seeing this cylinder, Yang Yong became interested, squatted on the ground and picked up this copper cylinder and put it in his hand to weigh it, it is not light, at least it can weigh more than a kilogram.
When Yang Yong was looking obsessed, he didn't expect the black stall owner to speak fluent American English, and introduced Yang Yong with a smile. "Sir, good eyesight, this copper map barrel has been around for some time. It is conservatively estimated that it can be about three hundred years, which is very rare, and if you are interested, we can discuss. ”
If the time of three hundred years is conservatively estimated, because Yang Yong has too many antiques in his hands. The more you see, the more knowledge you have, and Yang Yong estimates that this map bucket will definitely be more than three hundred years old. It is a rare good thing, and the carving on it has a bit of religious color, and it seems that it is not from Spain, or from a Catholic country like Portugal.
However, there is nothing to praise just by looking at the appearance of the map barrel, the important thing is whether there is a complete map inside, which is the most important point. It was very difficult to open the opening of the map barrel, and inside was a nautical chart made of sheepskin, how to say that the nautical chart, because the map was actually a topographic map of the Caribbean Sea.
The positive map of the islands is relatively close today, barely 30 per cent. At least more than 300 years ago, the map was not as detailed and accurate as it is now, so only 70% of the map was similar.
The map depicts the islands and oceans very accurately, but in the upper right corner of the parchment map there is a map description written in European characters. The text is very weird, a bit like Spanish, but some of the letters are different.
Yang Yong didn't know and asked Scott Butler, who was a well-educated person behind him. I didn't get an exact answer, I don't know what was written on it, I don't know what kind of writing it was written in.
Just when Yang Yong was squatting on the ground holding this sheepskin map at a loss, a very cautious inquiry suddenly came from behind him.
"Sir, I know, this is the text on the map, it is written in Portuguese. However, because of the long time, the ink on the map is a little blurry and can be translated by 80%. If figuring out what is written above requires checking with scientific equipment, you can also get a complete answer. ”
Yang Yong looked back in surprise and saw that it was actually a bodyguard of a retired Navy SEAL officer newly hired by his family. His name was Sebastian, Gertus, and he said something that he felt very incredible. If I'm not mistaken, Sebastian is supposed to be a Spaniard, how can he know Portuguese on the map?
But Yang Yong didn't come up with a reason for Sebastian to deceive himself, but he asked incredulously. "Mr. Sebastian, if I'm not mistaken, it should be of Hispanic descent. He immigrated to the United States with his parents at the age of 10 before joining the Navy SEALs and retiring a year and a half ago. Three months ago, you came to our Yang family as a bodyguard, I don't know if what I said is right. ”
Sebastian thought that Yang Yong had actually written down all his information in detail in his mind, and he came when he saw Yang Yong open his mouth. Sebastian was not only not nervous, but also felt very honored, Yang Yong, a billionaire who has a lot of opportunities, actually remembered the details of a very ordinary bodyguard in his family. How rare this is, Sebastian found a sense of identity in Yang Yong, and said very movingly.
"I didn't expect you, sir, to remember my details, and I was touched. Yes, I'm Spanish, my father is Spanish, but my mother is Portuguese. So I grew up speaking two languages, after all, there was only a false border between Spain and Portugal, I was a primitive inhabitant of the Villa Peninsula, and there are many places where the two cultures mingle. ”
Oh, what a talent! Even though my father is Spanish and my mother is Portuguese. But whether it's Spanish, or Portuguese, the grammar and the literal meaning are very different. Only the indigenous people of Iberia can do it. In particular, there are a lot of Portuguese words that also express the meaning of ten Chinese characters, so you can imagine how difficult Portuguese is to understand.
Since Sebastian was so confident, Yang Yong didn't care that a language expert appeared among his bodyguards, handed the map to the other party and asked with a smile. "So Mr. Sebastian, what exactly does it mean on the map in Portugal. What exactly is this nautical chart for? What is the exact time point of the year? ”
To make Yang Yong, a billionaire, call him a gentleman, but great respect. The bodyguards around him are very like being able to solve the problems raised by Yang Yong, what Sebastian, an ordinary bodyguard like them, can ascend to the sky in one step. can be on the rise, you can get the attention of the boss, and if you perform well, you can enter the inner circle of the Yang family, then it is really the ancestral tomb that is smoking.
Due to the long time of the parchment map, coupled with the erosion of water vapor over the years. Many of the ink on it will be blurry and illegible, but Sebastia took a closer look and slowly said the introduction on this sheepskin, what people didn't expect was that this sheepskin map had such a big origin.
Like the Spencey treasure map where Yang Yong found the Golden Cannon, this parchment map actually depicts a treasure map. Some information about the location of the treasure is marked on it in Portuguese, because the description on the map is so mysterious that there are many owners who have obtained this map for hundreds of years. No one would be foolish enough to believe any of the information drawn on this exaggerated treasure map, because it is too exaggerated and incredible, and no one will believe it.
Yang Yong, who got the accurate answer, rewarded Mr. Sebastian on the spot, regardless of whether he believed what was said on the map or not. Becoming the new personal bodyguard can be said to make Sebastian ascend to the sky in one step, and when several bodyguards came forward to congratulate, Sebastian actually came to say this.
After the sentence "Learning a foreign language is very important, the boss needs to remember it well" slipped out, and several bodyguards were almost not intimidated.