Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 9 Cleanup
In the Victorian era, rooms and kitchens for servants in aristocratic manors were often designed in semi-basements, because it was easier to obtain water in such places when there was no running water and it was necessary to rely on various wells for water.

But as times changed, this dark, damp room was either repurposed for other functions or abandoned.

And the semi-basement in this manor should have been abandoned for a long time. When Liang En walked through the corridor, he could see a series of clear footprints on the ground.

After opening the kitchen door.With the sunlight projected from the glass window above the room, Liang En could see the specific situation in this room clearly.

It may be because the room has been sealed for a long time, so although there is dust inside, it is not very thick.

A large number of things that have been placed for an unknown number of years are piled up in various places in this kitchen, some of which are placed in cabinets, and more things are thrown everywhere.

"This is simply too unkind." After standing at the door and turning on the flashlight to look around the entire kitchen, Liang En subconsciously cursed.

Because he saw a dozen or so fresh-looking footprints on the kitchen floor, and the tables and cabinets also showed signs of being opened.

Apparently, the tycoon who hired them today had already inspected these houses roughly. Naturally, if he found anything valuable during this process, he would naturally not be able to keep it.

What's even more disgusting is that the Russian tycoon did everything right.Although the labor fee of 600 pounds a day is a bit lower than the current situation, it is also within a reasonable range.

But for people like Liang En and Pierce who came from London, if the accommodation and gas expenses were taken into account, they would not make much money at all.

From a certain point of view, this kind of behavior is as wicked as the merchants dismantling all the blind boxes before selling them, then picking out the valuable figures inside, sealing the other boxes and selling them.

But the problem is that some tacit understandings are just unspoken rules. If the other party is rich and powerful and doesn't mix in this line of business, they will indeed have the capital to do whatever they want.

For example, in Liang En's previous life, the antique store had rules such as "there is no counterfeiting in the antique market."

But he also heard that a certain big man bought an antique at a high price for a gift, but lost face after being directly recognized as a fake at his birthday banquet.

After going back, I went directly to the court to sue the seller, and the well-known boss in the city's antique industry was sentenced to nearly ten years of fraud for defrauding a huge amount of money.

So after complaining a few words, Liang En, who knew that he couldn't change the status quo, could only accept this reality.

After a general inspection of the room, he returned to the back seat of the van and took out some pulleys and ropes to make a simple lifting tool.Then, together with Pierce, they moved the heavy objects out of the semi-basement windows.

After all, whether it is the servant's room or the servant's kitchen, there are many heavy things in it, such as tables, cabinets, beds, cast iron stoves, etc., which need to be cleaned out.

If you just rely on the narrow stairs outside the basement, you will definitely not be able to clean the four rooms in three days, so using tools is an inevitable thing.

On the way to pick up the tools, they also met several other second-hand dealers who also came from other places to clean the room.From their expressions, it can be seen that the Russian tycoon is really good at doing things. He should have checked all the rooms in advance.

After the lifting tool is ready, the cleaning begins.The first ones to be cleaned up were naturally the three servants' rooms on Pierce's side, because the three rooms were simple in structure and small in size, so they were easier to clean up.

The things left in the maid's room are things like beds, cabinets or chairs.

Although these things seem to have a history of 80 to [-] years, they are not very valuable in terms of materials and preservation.

So the two of them simply used axes and saws on the spot to disassemble the obviously damaged furniture into planks or strips, and then bundled them into bundles and sent them to the ground.

Compared with discarding the whole piece of furniture, these disassembled wooden furniture not only take up less space, but also can be directly donated to churches or charities as firewood for free, saving a waste disposal fee.

When the furniture was disassembled, some small surprises were discovered one after another.For example, coins that fall into the crevices of furniture or small gadgets such as hairpins.

Although these things are relatively common varieties, the price is not high.But it belongs to the more popular varieties in the market and can be easily realized.

Considering the cost of crossing half of the UK to come here, they naturally hope to find enough things to make up for the loss after being scammed by the Russian tycoon this time.

It only took one day and one morning to clean up the three servant rooms.

They cleared out a total of nearly 30 antique coins, two brass lanterns, a gilded silver brooch and several pieces of furniture that seemed to be in good condition.

"If I'm lucky, the things I find can probably be sold for more than 200 pounds." Pierce said as he walked towards the kitchen with various tools on his back. "Now it's up to you how things are going."

According to the prior agreement between the two, Liang En and Pierce will cooperate with each other to clean those rooms during this operation.The harvest comes from the room they are assigned respectively.

In other words, any gains in the kitchen belonged to Liang En himself, just like everything found in the servant's room before belonged to Pierce.

"The group of guys cleaned up too cleanly."

After entering the kitchen, Pierce strode to the cabinet closest to him and opened the cabinet door. He clearly saw round or square marks left on the layer of dust on the partitions in these cabinets.

Apparently, there were a lot of things in these cabinets before, but they are all gone now.

"No, it's not as clean as it was cleaned." Liang En opened another cabinet, only to see a stack of pottery bowls and several pottery plates still placed there.

"But they took almost everything that looked valuable, and to us it was no different than taking out the whole room."

Pierce shook his head, and then cleaned up the room with Liang En.Compared with those servants' rooms, there are more and more miscellaneous things in the kitchen.Sadly, most of them are just clutter.

Fortunately, the business that Liang En and the others are doing now belongs to the low-end business, so they also need things like oil lamps, oil lamp shades, horse lamps, and candlesticks.It's just that the cleaning and renovation work may be busy for a while.

After working overtime until noon the next day, the two of them emptied out everything in the kitchen.

What's interesting is that, compared to what could be carried away in a suitcase the day before, Liang En's and his kitchen's items were piled up to about half a person's height, just piled up in the center of the kitchen.

"Now it's time to try my card." Looking at the cleaned kitchen, Liang En suddenly thought of something.

"It's just a good time to check whether there are any missing treasures in this room, and by the way, see which of the found items is the most valuable."

　Starting tomorrow, there will be two changes a day, regularly
　　
　
(End of this chapter)