Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 201 Decision and wandering

During this five-day search for materials, Liang En found a note written by Jacopo Green in the summer of 1863, less than three years after his death. It's been a month.

"It's a pity that I don't have the energy to sort out the fairy tales that belong to the German nation. I hope that the materials I have left now can help those who come later to sort out the collection of fairy tales that belong to our nation."

These words were left in Jacob Green's last notebook. Judging from the handwriting, the other party must have been very excited when he wrote these contents.

For the Brothers Grimm, both writing fairy tales and compiling dictionaries have one purpose, that is to make their own contribution to the unification of Germany.

It is easy to understand that they have such people with such ideas, since their youth was spent during Napoleon's occupation of Germany.

At that time, Germany was oppressed by foreign aggression and powerful feudal forces.

And when Napoleon was defeated in 1814, European reactionary forces rose up, and Germany was still in a state of fragmentation. After seeing all this, the Brothers Grimm naturally hoped to end this situation.

Because of this idea, they protested against the violation of the constitution by the King of Hanover when they had already become professors at the University of Göttingen in 1837. As a result, they were not only expelled from the university, but also expelled from the country.

Fortunately, in 1838, the then King of Prussia extended an invitation to them, and since then, the two of them have lived in Berlin until their death.

The 1863 note that Liang En saw was the note written by the other party in Berlin. Fortunately, he escaped the two world wars and has been preserved until today.

"It seems that I can start to carry out the "Grimm's Fairy Tales" in my mind." After summarizing the contents, Liang En made the final decision.

Although it seems strange for Liang En, who is a historian and explorer, to publish a book of fairy tales, if it is subdivided, it is indeed a kind of excavation of ancient history.

And compared to the previous projects, sorting out and adapting fairy tale books can obviously gain greater benefits, especially unlike the situation of the Brothers Grimm, the copyright of all stories has now entered the public domain.

In other words, if Liang En organizes and adapts it now, he will own the copyright of the adapted work, and there will be no copyright disputes.

Considering the frighteningly high sales volume of "Grimm's Fairy Tales" in another world, Liang En felt that compiling such a fairy tale should be a very valuable thing.

"I think your current idea is more meaningful than the work you did before." After telling Fan Meng about his idea, Fan Meng immediately gave a very positive feedback.

"After all, for ordinary people like me, I think fairy tales should be more popular than those unreadable papers you wrote before."

"However, I also think that your work will not be too simple, because there are too many things to be modified." As Fan Meng, who has been searching for information these days, he has naturally discovered that many of the original stories are not suitable for children. s things.

"For example, like Snow White, I think it is more appropriate to describe the queen as a stepmother in the German fairy tales circulating on the market. It is difficult for people to accept the original mother."

Yes, so I didn't plan to take out this thing in one go, but planned to write it slowly. "Liang En nodded." It's just a matter of writing these things in the process of writing the thesis, so as to relax the brain. "

"Uh... this sounds like a good idea." Fan Meng shrugged, "But to be honest, at least I think a glass of beer can relax my nerves more than writing those things."

The next morning after finishing the sorting work, they flew back to Dublin because the harvest was so important.So they need to hurry and hide these precious loot back home.

On the second day after they arrived home, the real estate businessman, Mr. Bruce, sent a subordinate to take away the "Book of the Dead" from Liang En's hands, and transferred the money directly to his account.

For Liang En, although he was not physically tired after running such a trip, it was another matter mentally.Especially for nearly a week, the data inquiry like a surprise before the college entrance examination really makes people feel a kind of exhaustion from the bottom of their hearts.

So after waking up at 9 o'clock the next morning, he said hello to his parents and went to Dublin, planning to go to some flea markets there to relax.

It's also interesting to say that although Liang En used to go to those flea markets in Dublin with his parents when he was a child, he never went there again after he started working in this field.

Because today happens to be Saturday.So Liang En decided to visit the Halfpenny Vintage Market, which was only held every Saturday. Although it was called a Vintage Market, there were actually quite a few antiques for sale.

The most important thing is that compared with those real antique markets, it is easier to buy some things with high cost performance in this market, which mainly focuses on various antique items.

Because it was for hanging out, Liang En simply wore a casual sportswear.And this suit is quite in line with the overall style of the flea market.

Because this market is mainly based on antique items, the things on the market are very miscellaneous.Vintage clothing, vintage jewelry, vintage furniture, and even some old hardware accessories that look old, will definitely make you picky for first-time visitors.

Naturally, you can't come here with the mentality of picking up leaks, or you will be deceived.Fortunately, Liang En came here mainly to relax and see if there is anything interesting.

For example, he fell in love with a very beautiful black and white two-color glass vase in this place. The vase looks very delicate and uses carving techniques, but it can be seen at a glance that it is a modern imitation.

Because the entire item is very delicately imitated and because it is purely handmade, the price of the vase is not cheap.Even after bargaining several times, the other party refused to give too much discount.

Because he really liked it, Liang En finally bought the vase with the original price of 42 Euros at a price of 47 Euros.Compared with those antique stores, the best thing here is that you can bargain.

Except for this vase, Liang En turned around several passages but couldn't find what he wanted to do.After all, looking for good things in the street stalls is like panning for gold in the sand. Whether I can meet my favorite things depends on my luck.

But when he bypassed several stalls selling clothes and turned a corner into the last two rows of stalls in this antique market, Liang En's eyes were attracted by one of the stalls!
The stall owner is a bearded uncle in his 50s. Most of the stalls are filled with various ancient and modern military items, of course, guns are not among them.

Dublin is the place with the strictest gun control in Ireland. It is impossible for this kind of stall to obtain a gun trading license, not even most of the parts on the gun.

But what old helmets, binoculars, portable gear, inert bullets, shell casings, bayonets, daggers... ancient, modern, local, foreign can be said to be all available, but they are not systematic at all.

(End of this chapter)