Demons Beside You (The Demons Beside Me)

Chapter 372 The story begins with an impotent king (eighth update, please vote for me)

"Hi Chen, have you eaten?"

Chen Zhao felt that Pierce Nan had gone out of his way to understand the Chinese way of greeting, but this way of greeting was really awkward coming from a foreigner.

"Mr. Pierce, if you have any questions, just tell me directly. My time is precious."

"Chen, don't be so hostile. We have experienced adventures and tribulations together. I thought we were friends now."

"Friend, please tell me what you have to say." Chen Zhao responded impatiently.

friend? Chen Zhao really didn't dare to be friends with an old fox like Pierce Nan.

"I want to buy a few things you have."

"what?"

"The Chinese ink painting, the voyage diary, the copper smoker."

Chen Zhao was a little surprised. The copper smoker had been sold a long time ago, and the price was not low.

The ink painting and the voyage diary are still lying in the space ring. Is there anything special about the ink painting and the diary?

The ink painting was originally intended to be hung in the bedroom of the new home, while the diary was appraised by Mr. Dorman and concluded to be worthless.

It has no artistic value and no historical value.

Suddenly, Chen Zhao thought of something. At that time, he had not even opened the ink painting Pierce Nan.

Since I am Chinese, I naturally chose ink painting.

So in fact, Pierce Nan does not know the content of ink painting, so there is no need for ink painting at all.

It is not a secret that the copper smoker was purchased through formal channels and from Mr. Dorman’s company’s auction.

Therefore, what Pierce Nan wanted was not the ink painting or the copper incense burner, but the diary that Mr. Dorman once judged to be worthless.

The reason why he proposed these three things was to confuse himself and avoid raising the price.

The owner of the diary is a Spanish sailor named Bella Cambris in the 17th century, and the voyage diary on the ship.

"Sorry, I have already sold these three items." Chen Zhao said.

It seems that I need to find someone to re-evaluate the diary and translate its contents.

"Chen, I'm willing to pay a high price."

"Oh, what price do you want to offer?" Chen Zhao asked.

"How about four hundred thousand dollars?"

Chen Zhao kept rolling his eyes on the other end of the phone. Was he pretending to be stupid or was he really stupid?

When Mr. Dorman purchased the smoker, the price was $350,000.

He asked for $400,000, which meant that he only offered $50,000 for the voyage diary he really needed.

This can certainly confuse the other party, but once the other party sees through his true intentions, it will only create resistance to him.

To put it bluntly, this old fox not only wants to get what he wants, but also doesn't forget to take advantage.

"Sorry, bye."

"Wait...Chen, we have something to talk about."

"Okay old fox, if your next words don't impress me, then I will blacklist your phone number."

"Don't be like this, wasn't our last cooperation very pleasant?"

"goodbye."

"Do you want the royal treasure?"

"In the movie?"

"Please, this is a real royal treasure. Do you know about the Spanish succession wars in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries?"

"have no idea."

"To put it simply, it was a war in which Britain, France, the Netherlands and Austria were involved."

"Isn't it a fight for the Spanish throne? Is it related to several other countries?"

"Anyway, the impotent king named Carlos II had no descendants, and he planned to give the throne to the grandson of Maria Theresa, the sister of the French king. However, the will stipulated that France and Spain should never be merged. Then Britain felt that France wanted to dominate Europe, so it quit and started to cause trouble."

“Leopold I, who was also the Holy Roman Emperor, Archduke of Austria, King of Bohemia and King of Hungary, attempted to let his son Archduke Charles inherit the throne of Spain. He believed that the Spanish Princess Maria Theresa was marrying When he gave it to King Louis XIV of France, he promised himself and his descendants to forever renounce the Spanish throne.”

"Tell the important point."

Chen Zhao was confused after hearing this. Anyway, the royal families in Europe like to marry, and after the marriage, there are all sorts of problems.

"Anyway, the Spanish and French coalition forces lost to the anti-French alliance in the end. The Philip family was worried that they would be liquidated and annihilated, so they asked one of their sons to escape Spain at the time and start a life of escape at sea. This son's pseudonym was Bella Can. Brees.”

"Then what?"

"Bella Cambris was an ordinary sailor on the surface, but in fact he was the leader of a pirate fleet. Between 1714 and 1740, he attacked more than a hundred merchant ships in Spanish waters."

"In other words, does this diary record not a royal treasure, but a pirate treasure?" Chen Zhao asked.

Pierce Nan was silent for a while and replied: "Yes."

Chen Zhao felt that Piersnan was hiding something from him, and asked: "So on the run, did Bella Cambris bring any tokens? Something that can prove her identity?"

If a royal family is on the run, they should take some royal things with them to prove their identity when necessary. This is in line with the normal plot.

Moreover, since Pierce Nankou keeps saying, royal treasure.

If this treasure had nothing to do with the royal family, Chen Zhao would not believe it to his death.

Piersnan finally spoke: "Philip, as the grandson of King Louis XIV of the Bourbon Dynasty, arranged for his son to flee, and also handed over the Sun King's Gold Cup given to him by Louis XIV to his fleeing son."

Chen Zhao did know that there was such a French king, Louis XIV, who called himself the Sun King. Anyway, when he was in power, he did all kinds of things.

"Sun King's Gold Cup?" Chen Zhao touched his chin: "In other words, the most valuable thing is this Sun King's Gold Cup?"

"No, although the Sun King's Golden Cup is precious, it cannot be sold for money."

"Why?"

"Because it is a magic prop. It was made with the blood of a hundred of the most powerful witches at that time. Anyone who takes a sip of the wine contained in the Sun King's golden cup can obtain all the magic power of a witch, and the Sun King's golden cup It is possible to create a hundred powerful magic warriors. Of course, if this magic warrior dies, the magic power will return to the Sun King's Gold Cup."

"You want to get the Sun King's Gold Cup?"

"Yes, of course, we can share."

"But this voyage diary was burned because it was appraised once and the appraiser said it was useless, so I didn't keep it carefully. Last time my house was set on fire, you must have heard about it. That voyage diary is Placed in a home and destroyed in an explosion.”

"What? How could you be so careless with such a precious voyage diary?"

"I didn't know that at the time." Chen Zhao said helplessly.