Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 39 The treasure is in hand
After carefully looking at the chess piece, Liang En began to take out all the things in the secret room, and put them into the storage box he had prepared when he came here.

However, as he kept taking out and counting the chess pieces one by one from the secret room, he gradually changed from excitement at the beginning to surprise.

Because in the first Harry Potter movie, the wizard chess played by Harry and Ron was based on the Isle of Lewis chess pieces, so Liang En specifically inquired about this thing out of curiosity.

According to data, a total of 93 cultural relics were unearthed from this treasure.Includes 78 chess pieces, 14 round chips and a belt buckle.But the number of things that Liang En has extracted from this secret room has obviously exceeded this number.

In the end, Liang En took out a total of 149 things from it.It includes 128 chess pieces, 20 round chips and a belt buckle, all of which appear to be made from animal bones or teeth.

Although it can be seen that the 128 chess pieces are not from the same source, they can make up four complete sets of chess.This is obviously much bigger than the treasure in Liang En's impression.

As for the reason for this error, it is also very simple. After all, Liang En's treasure discoverer in the last world was a farmer, and the first chess piece was discovered by the cow while grazing the cow.

In addition, more than 100 years after this discovery, an ordinary British man found a chess piece from his home and auctioned it for a sky-high price of tens of thousands of pounds.

These two incidents illustrate one thing from the side, that is, in Liang En's previous world, the secret room built in the sand dunes should have been destroyed for some reason at that time, so some of the original stored items were also lost.

But in this world now, the secret room in the dunes is completely sealed.In other words, the preservation of the items here is more complete than that of the other world.

As for the price of a complete set of chess pieces, he didn't think about it at all, because in the last world, this was the national treasure of Britain, and there was no price at all.

After cleaning up all the things in the cave and putting them in the bag, the excavation work is over, and the next thing he has to do is to deal with these excavated things.

Liang En studied archeology in college before, so he brought a lot of professional tools and medicines before he came here.Therefore, after a simple treatment, there is no need to worry about unnecessary damage to these chess pieces.

But on the other hand, it is more complicated. At least from a legal point of view, this thing cannot be said to completely belong to him now.There are a few other things to do to really get your hands on this thing.

There is a slight difference in law between this world and the previous world. For example, both worlds have laws in the Scottish region, and after excavating treasures, they need to be sold to designated museums.

However, from a legal point of view, items identified as "treasure" must be at least 300 years old and must contain 10% gold or silver.

At the same time, any other item found at the site where the treasure was found, no matter what material it is made of, can be classified as a "treasure".

But now the treasure spot that Liang En found doesn't even contain metal, so it won't even be recognized as a treasure from a purely legal point of view.

More importantly, there is still an exception to British law in this world, that is, territories purchased by nobles before 1900 and belonging to nobles from 1900 until now are still implemented in accordance with the ancient "Treasure Law".

That is to say, people who discover treasures in this area do not need to force the sale of the treasures they find, but decide on the distribution of these treasures between the two parties after discussing with the owners of those territories.

According to this law, these small sculptures acquired by Liang En belonged to him naturally.After all, this island is an aristocratic territory that complies with the additional conditions stipulated by the law, and the contract signed before also guarantees this.

After all, if it wasn't for this, it would be impossible for everyone to pay £120 for two days and bring a metal detector plus £60 to go treasure hunting on the island.

Of course, not all places on the island can dig.For example, the stonehenge on the island, the city and its surrounding areas, and several ancient residential areas, which add up to more than 1/10 of the area, are prohibited from excavation.

This is why he was given a small GPS locator when signing the agreement in the city before. As long as he enters the prohibited excavation area, the locator will vibrate and beep to remind the wearer to leave.

After spending more than ten minutes driving back to Stornoway, Liang En went straight to the building where he applied for the excavation permit to apply for the certificates for his treasures.

This is a semi-open room with several staff members sitting there chatting.When Liang En put his bag on the counter, the few people just glanced at him and continued chatting.

"Gentlemen and ladies. I found something, please register it for me." After waiting for several minutes without seeing any response from these people, Liang En could only remind him aloud.

"Wait a minute, Asian." A slightly bloated middle-aged man turned his head and said to Liang En, "It's just a little bit of scrap metal, so wait until we finish talking?"

"Please hurry up—" After hearing this person's answer, Liang En could only sigh helplessly, and sat back in his seat.Obviously, these guys are a bunch of racists.

As an Asian, it is not uncommon to meet such people in Europe and the United States, and it can even be said to be commonplace.

Of course, there are not many racists who actually resort to violent attacks or insults in person, because it is easy to be directly accused of doing such things, but it is a very common behavior to use one's own rights to create some obstacles .

Although it may be more enjoyable to directly confront people face to face at this time, it is not worth the loss to have conflicts with these people while pregnant with a huge treasure.So Liang En simply sat down on the stool next to him and swiped his phone.

Discrimination by this group of office staff is discrimination, but they dare not go too far due to regulations.So after hanging him out for seven or eight minutes, someone still stood up and processed the documents for Liang En to take these things away.

Because of the island's regulations, the staff here do not need to master the skills of identifying antiques.In addition, there were no precious metals or gems in this batch of treasures, and there was no racial discrimination by the staff, so they quickly registered these items routinely, and then returned the documents and those items to Liang En.

"Some crude chess pieces that Asian dude dug out of some junkyard for someone else's discarded plastic toys and used as a treasure—"

Just as Liang En walked out of the room, he heard a slightly sarcastic voice behind him and ironic laughter from several people.

"This is the upper beam is not straight and the lower beam is crooked." Liang En said in Chinese in a low voice when he went out, with a contemptuous smile on his face.

After all, this territory has belonged to Sir Matheson since the end of the 19th century, a notorious drug dealer who smuggled opium to China.From this perspective, it is understandable that those staff are also rubbish.

After completing the formalities, Liang En took the latest barge back to Ullapool.Because the sky had already darkened, he decided to stay here for one night and wait until the next day before leaving.

Because of the huge harvest this time, Liang En simply spent a bit of extravagance and went to a restaurant in the town to have a good meal for fifteen pounds.

Unfortunately, because I can't get used to the famous Scottish "haggis", that is, the famous stuffed haggis, the only diet for this meal is the usual steak and pasta.

After dinner, Liang En returned to his residence, and at this time, he had time to observe the cards he had obtained before.

(End of this chapter)