828.More than just gold and silver (6/8)

The dinner that Butler took Qin Shiou to eat was a snack street, not a high-end restaurant in a big hotel.

Of course, it's not like St. John's, where the street is full of food stalls, but it's a street full of fine eateries with a variety of flavors.

For lunch and dinner in the next few days, Qin Shiou and the fishermen ate on this street and tasted the delicacies of the world.

At the baleen restaurant, he drank local Miami herb juice and ate Asian-style black bean snapper and coconut rice.

At Pigeon Restaurant, a small restaurant with a focus on Swiss continental cuisine, he tasted Swiss-style lamb chops, Sabina steak and whole duck roasted in orange juice.

When you arrive at the Wishing Restaurant, you will be treated to a mix of Latin American and tropical flavors, such as watermelon, coriander leaves, sesame shrimp and smoked shiitake mushrooms and charcoal-grilled scallops in herb sauce.

But the good times are always short-lived, and after four days ashore, Billy called: "Qin, you have found something useful, come and take a look." ”

Qin Shiou said goodbye to Butler and returned to the Bermuda Sea on the Farewell to see what Billy called 'useful things'.

Billy was resolute, and in just over four days, he had completed the basic salvage of the two wrecks, and almost all the valuable items were salvaged.

As soon as he got on the salvage boat, the first thing Qin Shiou saw was a large pile of gold and silver coins that the staff was processing.

As he feared, the gold and silver coins had rusted to the point of not being in shape, and most of them were several pieces glued together.

Billy came over and hugged Qin Shiou, and Qin Shiou handed him the insulated box. Said: "It's our Chinese roast duck inside, let's heat it up and eat it." I guess you shouldn't be eating well at sea these days. ”

Hearing this, Billy immediately smiled and said, "Good man. I love you so much, you don't know what the hell I'm eating these days! Burgers, sandwiches, pizzas, pastas, damn it, it's all these, it's all that! ”

When he opened the insulated box, Billy didn't heat it, and directly rolled the roast duck into a small cake and dipped it in the sauce. In addition to the roast duck, Qin Shiou also brought flavors such as Sixi meatballs and Mexican grilled steak, which were packed in the snack street. There was also a bunch in the fridge.

These things may be frozen and reheated, and they will taste a little worse, but they are also much better than burgers and pizzas.

Qin Shiou went to look at the gold and silver coins, turned around and shook his head, "It seems that these things can't be sold for much money." ”

Billy's mouth was full of steaks and he scolded vaguely, "Damn the United States, damn the mint, they must have cut corners!" Fack, the copper and iron content in these gold and silver coins is definitely exceeded, otherwise it would not have corroded like this! ”

Qin Shiou said: "How much can gold and silver coins be sold for?" ”

Billy swallows the steak. After thinking for a while, he said, "Twenty million, right?" You have to look at Little Black's channels, if the channels are good, it may double to 40 million, if all of them are auctioned. That's 20 million. ”

"Canadian dollars?"

"Dollars."

Qin Shiou was stunned and said, "Can it be worth so much?" ”

Billy laughed, and he took Qin Shiou to the captain's room and opened a safe. Inside is a neatly arranged stack of gold and silver coins, which are relatively well preserved. Occasionally a little rusty, but the overall condition is good.

"That's what I'm talking about. They've been around for more than 250 years, and one is worth at least $10,000! Billy said smugly.

But then, he was unhappy again: "Fake, if the gold coins salvaged are so well protected, then my good fellow, we have gained more than 500 million dollars this time!" ”

Billy gritted his teeth as he spoke, and spun around and scolded the mint for being too black-hearted, and actually using copper and iron to pretend to be gold and silver to deceive taxpayers.

Qin Shiou was satisfied, and said, "That's not bad, man, isn't twenty million dollars enough?" ”

Billy laughed and said, "Of course it's not enough, Qin, of course it's not enough!" God knows that, too, so He has brought us another nice thing, come, open your eyes with me! ”

Qin Shiou thought that what Billy said was good was gold and silver coins, but now it seems that this is not the case.

The two went to the deck position, and there was a large box five or six meters long, and more than two meters wide and high, which was covered by a tarpaulin, and Billy asked him to pull it apart, and under the tarpaulin was a transparent box, and inside the box was a large wooden carving wrapped in plastic wrap.

The wood carving is pitch black, about four meters long, like a thick python, but it looks very strange, with a crocodile-like head, but with horse-like ears, blade-like teeth, a sharp horn on the head, rough scales on the body, and a circle of lion's mane-like carvings under the chin.

"What is this?" Qin Shiou asked, he looked at this thing as a four-like, black and scary, and he couldn't see where it was valuable.

Billy excitedly stroked the box and said, "You can't believe it, man, it's a rampage!" Know the ramming? Oh, of course, I'm talking nonsense, you must know this thing, yes, it's a ramming, five hundred years ago! ”

It was obvious that this thing should be worth a lot of money, and Billy was so excited that he was talking nonsense when he saw it.

Qin Shiou motioned for him to calm down and asked him to talk about what's so great about a collision angle: "Of course it's amazing!" Man, of course remarkable! Any idea when this ramming angle was last seen? Leonardo da Vinci and Columbus were still alive then! ”

Billy slapped the box, and asked Qin Shiou to come over and look at it in the middle position: "Look, what's engraved on this?" ”

Qin Shiou took a closer look, and there was a line of English letters engraved on the back of the collision horn: Gribshunden.

"What do you mean?" He really didn't know what it meant.

Billy said, "That's the name of the ship where the ram is on!" Gribshunden, the fifteenth century, the name of the flagship of the most famous naval fleet of King John of Norway! ”

"I've checked the information, and there was indeed one such ramming angle on the Gribshunden, which was very famous at the time, and the ramming angle was called 'the king's demon'."

However, in 1495 the ship sank to the bottom of the sea in a fire, and the ramming horn disappeared, and everyone thought it had been burned. It was a turbulent time, with frequent wars, and the ship caught fire in the harbor, a natural and man-made disaster that destroyed all the ships in the harbor, thwarted King John's plan to unite Denmark, Norway and Sweden, and changed the medieval history of Europe! ”

"Now, man, we stand with the witnesses of history! In particular, it witnessed not only the Danish fire, but also the rise of the US Navy! ”

Qin Shiou understood that this ramming horn was fished from the pirate flagship Allah's sword, and it was estimated that the pirates did not know what means to obtain it, and installed it on the flagship to make a ramming horn to scare the enemy, and now it has become their trophy.

"And how much is it worth?" Qin Shiou still pays more attention to this. (To be continued......)