Chapter 6: The Coiling Dragon Ring (I)
As the sun set, the reddish fiery clouds filled nearly half of the sky, and even the whole earth turned red.
"It's easy enough to clean the hall. β
Lin Lei walked out of the sect hall and had to admit that he had prepared too much, and the work that he was originally going to do in an hour was completed in only fifteen minutes.
On the Magnolia continent, a year is 12 months, 30 days a month, 24 hours a day, 60 minutes per hour. Most aristocrats had grandfather clocks that could tell the exact time, and those of great wealth or high status even had very elaborate pocket watches.
"The sect hall is cleaned every month, in fact, in just one month, there is no dirt on the hall at all, just wipe it casually. There is still nearly an hour to go before evening training, what should I do?" the bored Lin Lei looked around.
The old mansion of Baruch has a history of more than 5,000 years.
The front yard is cleaned and tidyed up every day, but in the wider part of the back garden, except for the sect hall, the other houses and courtyards are covered with dust, and there are even cracks. Messy weeds and turquoise moss covered the corners of the walls and stone paths.
"Huh. Looking at these ancient and decaying buildings, Lin Lei's eyes gradually lit up, "There are so many places in the back garden that have not been cleaned for more than a hundred years, will there be some ancient and valuable things in them?"
Thinking of this, Lin Lei's heart couldn't help but jump.
"If I can find something of value and give it to my father, he will be very happy. Lin Lei took a deep breath and immediately began to walk towards the decaying house next to the sect hall, walking cautiously step by step, picking up a sturdy wooden pole in his hand, so as to wave away the cobwebs and carefully observe if there were any items.
Walking into the ancient house, Lin Lei smelled a smell of **, there were dense cobwebs in the corner, and spiders could be seen climbing on it.
A lot of cobwebs cover the surface of some of the decorations, and if you look closely, the decorations on the walls of the old house are still extremely old. But the ornaments had long since rotted, and they barely made out a model.
"If these ornaments are not rotten and are new, they should be worth a lot of money. Lin Lei shook his head helplessly, and then continued to observe other things, the wooden pole in his hand disposed of the layers of cobwebs, and Lin Lei carefully observed any item.
On the ground, on wooden shelves, or check the walls for hidden mechanisms.
"According to the books, it is very normal for walls to make mechanisms. Lin Lei carefully tapped on the wall, listening to the sound.
Lin Lei enjoyed this feeling of 'ancient house treasure hunting', but Lin Lei forgot, he could think of the ancient house treasure hunt, his father, even his grandfather, and the older elders of the Baruch family would not have imagined?
The things in these ancient houses have long been searched for by the ancestors of the Baruch family.
After all, Lin Lei is only eight years old, although the family textbook reprinted from a young age 16knet6kcn education made Lin Lei more precocious, but after all, there is a big gap with adults, and the thinking problem is still not comprehensive enough.
"This one doesn't have one, the next oneβ" Lin Lei stepped out of the first ancient house, and then walked towards the second ancient house.
There are still a lot of buildings in the back garden, after all, the front yard mansion where Lin Lei and the others live now is only one-third of the entire mansion. The area at the back is much larger. If the search was to be completed, Lin Lei estimated that it would take a whole day.
"Every ornament is going to rot, and none of it is worth it. Lin Lei walked out of another ancient house again.
Look at the sky.
"Well, it is estimated that there are still fifteen minutes before the evening training. Lin Lei turned around and looked at an extremely large ancient house in the distance, "That's it, the largest ancient house." It takes ten minutes to search, and if you can't find it, you immediately go to training. β
Lin Lei made a decision, and ran towards the largest set of ancient houses.
This set of ancient houses covers an area much larger than the living room of the mansion in the front yard, and when he stepped into it, Lin Lei carefully observed: "It is estimated that hundreds of years ago, this was the place where our Baruch family had dinner." From the decoration layout of the ancient house, Lin Lei can also see that this is the living room.
And it's a very large, atmospheric living room.
"Search the ground first. β
The old rule, Lin Lei lowered his head and opened his eyes wide, carefully searched every place, and when he saw something, he would smash the wooden pole twice and identify it carefully. If it's a stone, just give it up. Because the training was fast in the evening, the speed of Lin Lei's search was also much faster.
"Began to search the walls, as well as various ornaments, whew, the last hope. Lin Lei puffed out his mouth and looked around, "Ancestors of the family, you can leave one or two things for me, even if it is a gadget." β
Lin Lei carefully observed everywhere, even behind the rotten ornaments on the wall.
There is a wooden frame on the wall of this ancient house, and there are drawers on the wooden shelf, Lin Lei immediately opened the drawers one by one to look closely, but the drawers are very clean, and the inside is empty. If there is something, there is only - dust.
"Alas!"
After inspecting the last drawer of the wooden frame, Lin Lei couldn't help but feel disappointed.
"After searching for so long, I didn't even have anything of value, and I was tired and sweaty, and there was a layer of ash on my body. Lin Lei looked at his body, it was indeed dirty. This made Lin Lei feel a little uneasy.
Lin Lei's eyes swept over the ancient house.
"Hmph, go back. Lin Lei angrily threw the wooden pole in his hand at the wooden frame next to him, as if Lin Lei wanted to vent his anger and resentment that had been useless for nearly an hour in this throw.
"Smack!" the wooden pole smashed into the wooden frame.
This wooden frame has a long history, and with the corrosion of more than 100 years, it has long been overwhelmed, and the wooden pole smashed hard, which can't help but make the wooden frame 'creak'.
Hearing the sound, Lin Lei couldn't help but look behind him, and couldn't help but be shocked: "It's not good, it's going to collapse." "When Lin Lei searched the first few ancient houses, he also broke some decorations on the ground, and he was already very experienced.
I saw Lin Lei hurriedly retreat to the side.
The wooden frame with Lin Lei's height of two people finally fell, and with a "boom", the wooden frame smashed on the ground, and the wooden frame shattered into seven or eight parts, which raised a layer of dust in the ancient house. In the dust raised, Lin Lei didn't notice-
As the wooden frame shattered, a black ring that had been hidden in the mezzanine of the wooden frame for an unknown amount of time also fell, and finally rolled to the ground.
"Poof, poof. Lin Lei spit out two or three times in a row, and waved his sleeves to fan the dust away.
"It's really unlucky, I'm covered in ash, and I guess I'm going to train in a while, so I'd better go and rinse my body and change my clothes immediately. Lin Lei waved his hand and walked towards the door of the ancient house.