Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 855 Check

The things Liang En and the others found this time were not as many as they had imagined before. This happened because they thought that the two carriages referred to the two freight carriages.

It turned out that the number was not correct when they called Mary to confirm that they were sure that these things were only filled with the carriages of two passenger carriages.

"Actually, we also hoped to be able to pull things with freight carriages, but the problem is that only passenger carriages can approach the Palace of Versailles, especially the main building, otherwise it will arouse suspicion." Mary said on the phone.

"So for us, after weighing the pros and cons, we can only select those treasures, and then use the only two passenger carriages that still have a certain degree of concealment to transport them away."

"I understand, but do you still remember what are those treasures?" After listening to Mary's narration, Liang En asked what he cared about.

"This may require you to count it yourself." Mary said with some embarrassment. "I just gave a general order to hide the precious things in several warehouses, and I didn't even know what was hidden."

"Hey, a rich man." Liang En complained while hanging up the phone, and then began to take out things from the space to start the inspection.

The first thing to check was a few small things, which were wrapped in very luxurious clothes, but it was a pity that after all these years, the textiles had become a pile of garbage that was worthless.

"This is my favorite dress at the prom." Watching the real-time video, Mary said in a tone full of memories, and then reminded Liang En.

"Although the clothes are useless, the pearls and gold threads inlaid on them are genuine. No matter how you look at it, the recycling value is not small. Especially the corsage is inlaid with real rubies."

"Don't worry, I'm sure I won't miss these things." Liang En said, carefully taking off the corsage inlaid with a ruby ​​the size of a little finger and more than a dozen broken diamonds, and put away the clothes set aside.

There is a large pile of clothes half a person's height piled up in that place, and each piece has traces of being dismantled and recycled.Beside the pile of clothes, there are some cleared-out belongings.

After completing the search work just now, Liang En and the others came to the top-level guest room reserved before and began to clean up and classify the things they found this time.

At the same time, they also connected with Mary, and asked her to guide the next clean-up work through a remote connection. After all, these things belonged to Marie Antoinette.

With Mary's help, Liang En and the others successfully completed the cleaning and sorting of more than a dozen pieces of clothing, and recovered a large amount of precious metals and gemstones used for clothing decoration.

At the beginning, Liang En thought that this part was just high-end clothing itself, but after carefully unfolding the bundled textiles, he realized that this thing was used as something for shock absorption, and the real valuable things were inside.

"—Six crowns, all of which are gold crowns. There are those inlaid with rubies and sapphires, those inlaid with diamonds, and those inlaid with emeralds." After opening more than 30 packages, Liang En counted them.

"There is also a silver and gold-plated crown, which looks only half of the official crown, and it is also inlaid with gemstones. Is this for any princess?"

"No, this is the crown Louis wore when he was 16 years old." After asking Liang En to move the camera lens closer, Mary said after a few careful glances, "I don't know where those people found this thing from. .”

"I thought it was your crown." Joan looked at Mary on the screen and smiled, "Because the style of this thing is not at all the luxurious style of the Palace of Versailles."

"Because according to the tradition of the French royal family, the decorations on the things used by their members before they reached adulthood will be much simpler, this is to avoid complicated decorations from hurting them."

"As for why it's not my crown, the reason is very simple. People like us who married into the French royal family can't bring anything that belongs to our original country after crossing the border. Naturally, it is impossible to have a crown."

"So that's how it is." After grouping this small crown with those large crowns found in the clothing, as well as rings, brooches, hair combs and a series of jewels, Liang En began to examine the large and small crowns. of boxes.

There is no doubt that these boxes should contain valuable things. For example, when they opened the first box, they found that it was a beautifully decorated oak box with dozens of small drawers inside.

"What's this?" After gently opening a drawer, Liang En found that there were dozens of thumb-sized, fired clay blocks in the drawer, each of which was carved with human portraits or other things.

"Ah, this is my baby." Mary looked a little excited after seeing this thing. "It is a gemstone-carved replica, of the highest quality, molded from the original, by James Tass."

Creating on stone is one of the oldest artistic endeavors of mankind.In the long Paleolithic Age, human beings were in awe of all unknown forces in nature, and in order to have enough food and clothing, they unconsciously developed some primitive religious views.

At that time, the carvings on these colorful stones always had sacred meanings, and only people of high status could own them in the name of themselves or gods.

Because of this ancient memory that belongs to human beings, many people hope to obtain these gems when time goes to modern times, but it is not easy to collect these things.

So some people began to make replicas of them—the top-notch ones were the casts of the originals, while the more popular ones were mainly replicas of the replicas. For example, Goethe had a popular collection of ancient intaglios.

Especially in the 18th century, the collection of gem carvings became very popular and became a landscape to show their knowledge and taste.So James Tass began to use artificial materials to make replicas for ancient gemstone carvings, and launched them in sets.

No matter dignitaries, scholars, or artists are proud to own a set of this exquisite and beautiful artwork, Mary's set is even more exquisite: the set specially customized for Russian Tsar Ekaterina.

This set of carved gemstone models is housed in an oak box, the exterior is decorated with homage bas-reliefs and jewels with a strong Russian style, and the interior is full of 60 small drawers.

"This thing is very valuable, especially in terms of academics." After putting on his gloves and taking out one of the impressions and looking at it in front of his eyes, Liang En said seriously.

"I have to say that those people were quite discerning back then, and they would choose to take away this thing that looks cheap compared to other things, but is actually very valuable."

"Of course." Mary raised her head slightly on the screen, and then said proudly. "I still have a good eye for people. From this incident, it shows their bravery and loyalty."

(End of this chapter)