And Zhao Lin got the permission of the enthusiastic antique shop owner to take pictures at will in the store.

The owner of the antique shop is a native of Yanjing, whose ancestors came here around 1870, and was one of the first Chinese to come to Manhattan's Chinatown, following the example of Ahken (believed to be the first Chinese to settle here permanently) to sell a three-cent cigarette, providing cigarette paper and oil lamps for customers to use.

Gradually, he had some savings, and he started his old business, opening an antique shop on Maubilly Street, which was passed down to him for the third generation.

Chen Rui suddenly found some books in a corner of the antique shop.

Books are stacked haphazardly, and the covers are covered in dust.

Chen Rui walked over, picked up a book at random, and looked at it.

"The Red and the Black", the German edition, the book looks a little shabby, some years old.

Pick up a few more copies at random, "Notre-Dame de Paris", "Fanina Fanini", "Carmen", "Racine and Shakespeare", these are some of the works of 18th century Europe, all of which were translated into German.

Chen Rui didn't have much interest in these, and put these books back into the pile at random.

Suddenly, Chen Rui turned around and wanted to go somewhere else to take a look, and when he left, he swept the 3↘ books stacked with his eyes, and suddenly he stopped, turned around, squatted down again, and picked up the book "Fanina Fanini" that he had just picked up.

When he turned around, he spotted a corner of a piece of paper peeking out of the book "Fanina Fanini".

Chen Rui held the book "Fanina Fanini" in his hand, and gently opened it, and it was a slightly yellowed folder. The paper quality is very good though. Drawing maps with paper. The clips are artificially glued to the pages. Because it may be a long time ago, the glue is a little lost, and when Chen Rui picked up the book and shook it, the corner of the clip page was exposed, and Chen Rui found it.

It's a five-line sheet music, with some tadpole-like notes and some special symbols.

There is a string of German above the staff and a string of German below. And then there's a person's name.

Chen Rui put down the book, turned on his mobile phone, and first translated the name of the person at the bottom of the five-line score through the guò translation software.

Martin. Bowman.

As soon as he saw this name, Chen Rui couldn't help but be very surprised.

The name is too famous.

Anyone familiar with World War II knows this man.

The Nazi's 'second war criminal', the secretary general of the Nazi Party, Hitler's private secretary, he held the Nazi Party's purse strings, known as the "Führer's shadow". Baumann became the second most important man after Hitler. Director of the headquarters of the Nazi Party.

Martin. Bowman was in the hands of the Nazi Party's purse strings, reminiscent of the Nazis' 1945 hiding, on the eve of the end of World War II, a large amount of gold treasure and looted art.

This treasure. The number of artworks is huge.

Counts have been made on the looting of the occupying powers by Nazi Germany during World War II, as well as works of art.

Before the start of the war, the leaders of Nazi Germany were fond of grabbing art through guò state power, Hitler dreamed of becoming an artist, and Goering, the second man of the Nazi Party, called himself a "Renaissance", he was fond of collecting, and his interests were wide-ranging, including paintings, jewelry, handicrafts, furniture and even rare animals, long before the outbreak of the war, Goering's collection had reached '8 rooms', and by the beginning of 1938, Göring's collection had far exceeded that of the leader Hitler.

In Vienna, in addition to the blatant looting of Jewish shops and personal property by Himmler's SS and the Nazi Chens of Neo-Austria, the vast collections of Jewish magnates were the first targets.

The year that followed, the SS set their sights on 32 boxes of jewels hidden in Vienna after the fall of the Holy Roman Empire: Charlemagne's jeweled prayer book, several scepters, globes, swords, and other coronation ritual items.

Works by modern and Jewish artists like Picasso, Gauguin, Chagall and Condes were confiscated under the label of "degenerate art".

Half a year after the German blitzkrieg conquest of Poland, "all the cultural relics of this country have been received." ”

This number is 137 railroad wagons, a total of 4,174 boxes, 20,973 pieces, and 10,890 paintings alone, the vast majority of which are masterpieces by famous artists, and in modern times, any painting can fetch millions of dollars.

After invading France, the Netherlands, and other Western European countries, the Nazis drew up a 300-page catalogue of "protected" objects.

In the USSR, the Germans looted 400 museums, 2,000 churches and 43,000 libraries.

In order to frantically plunder the world, Hitler carefully organized a special force, whose task was to carry out large-scale looting of precious cultural relics, gold and silver treasures of various countries in a special and planned manner

From the outbreak of the war to the eve of the end of the war in 1945, almost all of Europe's wealth was plundered, not only gold, foreign securities, foreign exchange, etc., but also cultural relics, treasures, and famous calligraphy and paintings of the whole of Europe, including the works of Hutrillo, Manet, Degas, Barak, Picasso and other famous artists.

Most of this huge amount of treasures and works of art was hidden by the Nazis with the defeat of the Nazis in 1945.

And so far, at most, only a third of the Nazi treasure has been recovered, and the rest are still hidden somewhere.

It is quite possible that in this stave sheet music lies the buried secrets of a part of the Nazi treasure.

Or buried in an abandoned mine, or in the Alps, or in the basement of some mansion.

Chen Rui also translated the German on the five-line sheet music.

The top row reads: Home of Zit and Brass Music.

The next line is: Holy and colorful place.

These two strings of German are said to be somewhere in Germany and Austria, and the notation on the staff that distinguishes the notes is supposed to be some other cue.

Due to the lack of some geographical information about Germany and Austria, Chen Rui was temporarily unable to decipher the burial location of the Nazi treasure marked in the five-line score.

Perhaps, there are other books in this pile of books with some hints about Nazi treasures similar to the stave scores.

Chen Rui closed Fanina Fanini, folded the exposed corners of the books back into the pages, and decided to buy all the books.

Chen Rui opened his mouth and said, "Boss, how much is this pile of books, I want to buy some books and go back to decorate the study." ”

The boss said, "A copy is $140, and if you want it all, a copy can cost you $10 less." (To be continued......)