readx;? These two patterns appeared on this hundred-year-old notebook, which really surprised Hu Lin! This candlestick is clearly the same as the pair of Li Gang's family, and even the lines carved on the top of the cheek kiss are the same!

Hu Lin held his notes and pondered intently, because he didn't know much English, he couldn't read a pen with just a few words! Now he had scolded his high school English teacher 180 times, and in order to cope with the college entrance examination, he taught them a lot of "tricks" for the exam, which was not good at English! Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Hu Lin turned to the butterfly page again, looked at it carefully, and felt that if this butterfly was colored, it would be the same as what he saw on Yang Lan's chest!

Thinking of Yang Lan's chest, Hu Lin felt that his face was hot and his heart beat faster!

"Slap" Hu Lin closed the notebook, gasped for a few breaths, calmed down the commotion, and forced himself not to think about the place where Yang Lan embroidered butterflies!

Hu Lin looked at Wang Yunfei, he was looking at the lighter, and it could be seen from the expression on his face that he got "baby" again!"

I saw him open the lid of the lighter, and his finger swiped on the magic wheel, and with a "click", the lighter rang out!

Wang Yunfei said excitedly: "This may be the oldest kerosene lighter!

Looking at his rich slave appearance, Hu Lin only had a wry smile!

Hu Lin asked, "Isn't it just a lighter! Look at you like that, as if you have some kind of treasure!"

"Brother Hu, you don't understand, this is not an ordinary lighter, this is the predecessor of the zippo lighter! There may not be many in the world, this is purely handmade!"

Wang Yunfei said while showing the lighter like Hu Lin, and said in an introductory manner: "You see, this red copper was a metal in short supply at that time, and it was actually used to make a lighter, you can imagine the value of this lighter at that time! Looking at the pattern engraved on it is the American Statue of Liberty, so there is no doubt that this foreigner must be an American." On the other side of the lighter, in the traditional European-style carved frame pattern, there is a sentence carved in English, ver, although I don't know English well, but I remember that it should mean friendship lasts forever!"

When Hu Lin heard Wang Yunfei translate the English on the lighter, he said, "That's good! I have a notebook here, all in English, you can translate it for me!"

Wang Yunfei hurriedly shook his hand and said: "Don't! My English can't be worse anymore, the font on this lighter is often found on many foreign slogans, and I accidentally remembered it when I was in high school." Don't think I'm a good Englishman!"

Seeing that he was also illiterate in English, Hu Lin did not continue to bother him to explain the lighter, so he asked, "How do you know that this lighter is made by hand?"

Wang Yunfei replied: "I am judged, because the ZIPPO lighter was born in the thirties of the last century, and it became famous all over the world during World War II! It is said that the inventor Georges Blaisdai was inspired to design it after seeing a friend clumsily lighting a cigarette with a cheap Austrian-made lighter! This windproof design was unique in the world at that time! Because of its good performance, it was ordered in large quantities by the United States in the future. ”

Wang Yunfei looked at the lighter and continued: "At the beginning of the design, his lighters were all hand-built by himself, that is, model products, and they were mass-produced in the later stage, making the ZIPPO lighter popular all over the country and favored by the military. ”

Wang Yunfei turned on the lighter again, lit the flame, and closed the lid of the lighter and said: "However, after mass production, copper has not been used in the future, and almost all of them are made of inferior steel." This was because copper was in short supply at that time, and the cost was too high to be suitable for mass consumption. This also makes the surface of the zippo rough, but it doesn't affect people's preference for it. It wasn't until later that all kinds of metals were no longer in short supply, and the zippo became tall!"

Hu Lin saw that he knew a lot about lighters, so he asked casually, "How do you know that this is the predecessor of the zippo lighter?

"It's because of the unique windproof design of this lighter, and the year engraved on it, which is 1932, which is the year when George Bresdale invented this windproof fire core, so I judge that this lighter must have been built by him!" Wang Yunfei finished speaking, and kicked the lighter unceremoniously in his arms.

Hulin agreed, pondered for a moment, and said, "Then this man must be a friend of George Braisdai, but he is not an American!"

Wang Yunfei put the lighter away, and when he heard Hu Lin say that the dried corpse was not an American, he asked suspiciously: "How do you know that he is not an American?"

Wang Yunfei handed him the old black and white photo and said, "Look at it, is this man him?" Look at their clothes again, although I have little knowledge, but I still know some historical clothes, they are wearing the British fashion clothes at that time, and they say that in my judgment, he is British!"

Wang Yunfei took the photo and looked at it, looked at the dried corpse for a while, and said: "This person is him, you look at this beard, it is absolutely not wrong! It seems that this is a family photo, and it must be his wife and children on one side." I pity this orphan and widow, I must not have imagined that his husband died at the foot of a pile of rocks in China!"

Hu Lin said: "What did he come all the way to China? If this lighter is a zippo, then he must have entered China during the Manchurian period, so what is he doing here in the chaotic era?"

Wang Yunfei said with a grin: "What do you care what it is for, we are here today to find scales to make a fortune, what do you want him to do!"

Seeing Wang Yunfei like this, Hu Lin remembered his calmness after being slightly frightened in the face of the dried corpses, so he asked: "Da Fei, can you tell me what you do? Why are you not afraid of these corpses, and you seem to be particularly interested in things like antiques, which has gone beyond the realm of collecting old goods for money?"

Wang Yunfei looked at Hu Lin with some embarrassment, his eyes were dodgy, and said: "I just love these, I know a little more, as for not being afraid of corpses, maybe I'm a little bolder!"

Hu Lin said: "I know you don't want to say it, but it's okay. But I'm here to look for scales in exchange for money for Li Na's medical treatment, and I hope we can have a harvest today!"

Wang Yunfei saw that Hu Lin no longer questioned himself, so he said steadily: "Brother Hu, it's okay, even if you can't find the scales, this lighter can be sold for some money, if there is a way to go to the United States for auction, your sister Li Na's medical expenses are nothing!"

Hu Lin thought that Li Na was like a stone in his mind, looked down at the nail bracelet on his wrist, and thought, "This Wanwan is the biological daughter of Li Gang and his wife, but she died unexpectedly." Although Li Na is an adopted daughter, Li Gang and his wife regard her as their own, and they have been cared for for for more than ten years, and now they are about to grow up, but they also have to ......"

Hu Lin didn't dare to think about it, tears had moistened his eyes. He took a deep breath, held back his tears, and said to Wang Yunfei: "Da Fei, put this foreigner's satchel on your back! Time is pressing, bring his things back and study them slowly!"

Wang Yunfei couldn't wait for a long time, put all the things poured out into his leather bag, carried them on his shoulders obliquely, and wanted to go in again when he got up.

Hu Lin said, "Wait a minute, he still has a big backpack, let's see if there is anything we can use!"

Only then did Wang Yunfei notice the corner of a raised rock, where an old-fashioned hiking bag was lying.

When the two approached, Wang Yunfei picked up the kettle on the bag and shook it, and there was still half a pot of water in it. Put the kettle aside, open the backpack, and take the things out of the inside.

There was a bundle of rope in the bag, which was made of military fiber at that time, and it was the thickness of a thumb, and it was very soft and strong. It's so well preserved in this dry cave that it's like it was put here yesterday!

Removing the rope, he found a kettle in his bag, and when he opened the kettle, he smelled of kerosene. This should be the foreigner's backup fuel. Further inside, there were some clothes, and at the bottom of the backpack were found several silver dollars that were in circulation in the north and south of China at the time, and there was nothing in the other bags.

Wang Yunfei said: "It seems that this is also a poor traveler, and there are only a few silver dollars on him." As he spoke, he put the silver dollar in the satchel he had just carried on his back!

Hu Lin asked Wang Yunfei: "Are we still going to the cave? If we don't go, we will go back the same way, I always feel that this cave is strange! There always seems to be a pair of eyes watching us in the cave!"

"Brother Hu, you're a dark phobia, it's okay! We've all come here, let's go in and have a look! Maybe there's something we want!"

After Wang Yunfei finished speaking, he picked up the bottle of kerosene and said, "This may be useful in it, let's take it!"

The kerosene kettle was a military kettle with a strap hanging from it. When Wang Yunfei picked it up, the strap hung on the hollowed-out backpack. was dragged by Wang Yunfei like this, and the backpack was also moved.

Only then did the two realize that there were still things pressed under the backpack, which was a small shovel with a wooden handle and a dagger with a hard leather case. There was something next to them that made their eyes light up!

It turned out that on the edge of the shovel and dagger, there was a palm-sized stone chip, lying there quietly! This stone chip was no thicker than the thickness of the mobile phone, with a slight curvature, and the top was full of stone mud formed by sedimentary soil. Like a piece of a plate, more like a slice of pizza sprinkled with ingredients made from stone ashes!

Wang Yunfei opened his mouth for a long time and said in surprise: "Dragon scales, this is the scale we are looking for!"

After speaking, he carefully picked it up, handed it to Hu Lin and said, "What is wrapped in this dry lime is bone scales, we found it......!"

Hu Lin looked at it, and through the lime mud precipitated on it, he could see that it was really a piece of bone inside, and there seemed to be a lot of symbols and lines carved on it, just like Wang Yunfei described.