Chapter 19: Holy Gold Coins and Choices
readx; Peter cautiously walked through the door, holding his breath and then looking around until nothing unusual happened. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 There were several oil lamps burning on the walls on both sides behind the huge metal door, he walked up to the oil lamp and looked at it, and guessed a little more in his heart, maybe after pushing open the metal door, he touched the machine, and the oil flowed in down the pipe, and it burned all at once.
Eva walked behind Peter, and when she came in, she looked back at Fernandez and saw that he was just standing outside the door with no intention of coming in, and she was very confused and uneasy.
Just as Peter and Eva were thinking about their thoughts, they heard Wren's voice full of surprise.
"Peter, Eva come and have a look. Oh my God, there's a lot of stuff in there. Wren said as he stood in front of a large wooden box. The wooden box had been violently lifted open by him, revealing what was hidden inside.
Peter and Eva stepped forward curiously, gasping when they looked down at the crate.
I saw that there were countless gold coins piled up in the wooden box, and each one was so exquisitely preserved and intact. Peter grabbed a handful of them and let go of them and threw them down, only the crisp sound of a collision could be heard for a moment. The voice was so deceptive that Peter felt pleasing and beautiful from the heart.
He made up his mind and resisted the temptation to avoid losing his temper, and Peter put the last gold coin in his hand in front of his eyes and examined it carefully.
The coin has a cross engraved on the obverse and a statue of a man wearing a crown on the reverse, and Peter is no longer the ignorant child who didn't know anything back then. Recently, he has learned systematic theoretical knowledge and some common knowledge in the Shenwei Continent in the monastery. So he recognized this man at a glance as the former Pope Benedict XII. Sure enough, there is a line of very small font engraved below the avatar, which reads 328 years in the Divine Calendar.
"Antiques from more than a hundred years ago, but unfortunately Benedict XII's long reign has resulted in a huge stock of this holy gold coin, so it is not worth much money. Peter muttered to himself.
As for what is a holy gold coin, it is the Holy See, and whenever a pope or pope is in power, the gold coin is the holy gold coin.
The Holy Gold Coin was once the common currency of the Shenwei Continent, and it was accepted by people with the strength and wealth of the Holy See at that time. Of course, the Holy Gold Coin is still the common currency, but people are more accustomed to collecting it. Due to the decline of the power of the Holy See and the rise of the two empires, the gold coins issued by the two empires gradually have a tendency to replace the holy gold coins. Of course, at least not yet, don't worry about the future......
Peter looked at the huge wooden boxes in the room and thought to himself, "If I'm not mistaken, those wooden boxes should be the holy gold coins issued by the popes of the past." I didn't expect the Holy See to store such a precious treasure in such an inconspicuous place. ”
Before he could finish his thoughts, he heard Eva exclaim.
"Peter, look at us getting rich. She shook a cloth bag that was not too big in her hand, and the sound of some crisp gold coins colliding was clearly audible. Peter smiled, thinking that Eva was making a bit of a fuss. He walked listlessly to her, and before she could speak, Eva opened her other tightly clasped hand, and a holy gold coin lay there quietly.
Peter glanced at Eva, then took the holy gold coin in his hand and looked at it carefully.
Looking at him with a shocked face and his mouth gradually opened, Peter only felt a huge shock in his heart. The head on the coin was a young-looking boy with the year 276 of the Divine Calendar engraved underneath. Peter and Eva, however, knew each other, and they had heard Ratfar talk about the Pope being Benedict V, who had died tragically at the hands of his father, and had been pope for only three years at the age of twelve. His father murdered the poor pope for unknown reasons, and his successor was his younger brother, Benedict VI, a cruel and shameless pope.
Benedict V is the shortest reigning pope in the history of the Holy See, and there are no holy gold coins belonging to this period, not to mention that people have never seen them, and even the Holy See only has such a pitiful few in such a small bag of cloth.
"Oh my God, do Peter know, if I take out this holy gold coin, I estimate that one can be exchanged for a few hundred now. Eva muttered excitedly.
Peter agreed with Eva in his heart, but he put the holy gold coins back in the sack and said to Eva, "All right, Eva put them back." We don't need that, let's leave it to the Holy See, maybe someone will use it later. He patted Eva on the shoulder as he spoke.
Eva nodded in frustration and carefully put the bag back in its place. She crossed her mouth and muttered, her hands trembling, and she stared at the cloth bag reluctantly.
Peter looked at Eva's distressed look amusedly, and kept comforting her. Eva finally nodded and left there, and he breathed a sigh of sadness for Eva's past.
The three of them looked back and forth in the huge room, where the priest and Fernández stood outside the metal door, not knowing what they were doing.
Peter found only rudimentary maps, intact or dilapidated weapons, huge holdings of holy gold coins, and some yellowed parchment with the scriptures of the Holy See written on them, some of which contained commentaries on the Bible, some of which contained a large number of historical records, some of the diaries of priests, some of the biographies of many popes, and some illustrations that Peter himself could not read. He guessed that there might have been drawings about military technology.
Of course, in addition to the above, there are more pictures that are sealed and preserved, which at a glance can be known to be valuable cultural relics or other things, as well as the noble medals that can cover the entire room.
Peter looked at Eva and Wren suspiciously, hesitated for a moment and asked, "Wren, do you know what Fernandez means?" There's no way he brought us here for no reason, let us choose whatever we want. ”
Wren thought about it seriously when he heard Peter's question, and he seemed uncertain and said, "I heard Morientes whisper to me last time, and it seems that there is some test or something. It's just that he doesn't quite know what it is, and he says that we are the Redemption House and different from others. As he spoke, Wren thought back to the image of Morientes jumping up and down in his mind.
Peter didn't have time to care what Wren was thinking, he looked around and thought carefully about what Fernandez had said when he was at the door.
Before he could understand Eva, she walked impatiently to the weapon rack, and she said as she picked out the weapon, "Since it's a test, what do you want to do so much." I don't know how to use anything else, so I'd better just get my weapon. It can also protect you. With that, she picked a one-handed rapier and a huge shield from the weapon rack.
Wren's eyes lit up when he saw Eva's choice, and before Peter could speak, he pounced on the wooden boxes stacked with holy gold coins, and said as he looked at them one by one, "Then I'll take the holy gold coins." Let me think that it can be universal, and there must be the Pope's holy gold coins now. Found the gold coin of Paul VI. After saying that, he took a glittering holy gold coin and smiled.
Seeing that they had all finished choosing, Peter reluctantly turned his gaze to the yellowed parchments, and walked aside to pick them up.