I am a nobleman in England
Chapter 78 Background and Inheritance
"Boom boom——"
There was a rush of footsteps in the corridor behind him, and Arthur with a smile on his face looked back at the butler Paul and Emilia, who was walking quickly, and smiled: "Paul, I seem to have found something. Haha."
As he said, he put the metal detector on the wall again, and "dididi----" a hurried prompt sounded, which made Paul, who had been skeptical, also show a surprised expression.
Paul did not expect that the young earl really found something. He seemed to have seen his earl scanning around the castle with a metal detector, and he thought of the terrible sight of pits dug in the entire manor. He couldn't help but think of this. He gave a chill, and said with a smile on his face: "Congratulations, Lord."
"Hehe, don't rush to congratulate, let's see what's in it..."
Hearing Arthur’s intention to demolish the wall, Paul the butler hurriedly said: "If it is really a treasure, it should be left by your ancestors. It should be hidden and will never be stuck in the cracks of the wall. This is not in line with common sense."
With that said, the butler Paul walked to the wall, reached out and knocked, looked around, and turned to Arthur and said, "Lord, this should be near the load-bearing wall between the studio and the smoking room, so the mezzanine inside the wall is excluded. It's possible that there should be a hidden grid."
"Haha, are you? What are you waiting for, let's go, let's find the hidden grid!" Arthur really wanted to find a hammer to smash the wall, but when he heard the housekeeper Paul's very reasonable words, he temporarily suppressed Got this idea.
"Crack—"
Butler Paul opened the door of the smoking room. Since the smoking room is no longer a fire, there is no smoky atmosphere as imagined, but it has long been changed into a collection of famous paintings that make people shine.
But to be honest, Arthur didn’t know much about these so-called famous paintings hanging on the wall, and he didn’t know how much they were worth. He had never heard of European painters such as the Dutch painter Jan Vinix. What is certain is that all of them are genuine products. After all, the accumulation and inheritance of time is nothing new in front of this castle.
Time is the thing that catches the most people off guard. The paintings of unfamous painters may now be famous paintings, but these paintings are an orderly collection of family inheritance, and he is not good to use them casually.
"Lord, if there is no guess, it should be the wall behind this cabinet." Paul the butler stood at the door, contrasted, and walked to a closet in the corner.
"Come on, let's remove it!"
Without saying anything, Arthur walked forward and carefully removed the one-person tall cabinet from the corner with Paul the butler, revealing the green patterned wallpaper at the back. Arthur picked up the metal detector and monitored it again.
"Didi di----"
"Papa--"
"That's right, it's here. Listen, it's empty inside—" Arthur stretched out his hand and patted, hearing the sound, his eyes glowing brightly, and he said with some excitement.
"But what about this wallpaper? These are all Victorian wallpapers, with a history of more than a hundred years." Butler Paul said with a tangled expression on his face.
"Hehe, I think many heirs before, including my father, did not find the hidden frame inside because of these precious wallpapers. Some people may know, but they couldn't bear to destroy it and chose to ignore it."
Arthur smiled and analyzed, then reached out and took a paper knife without hesitation and cut a cut, followed the cut with his fingers, untied the wallpaper on both sides, revealing the white wall under the wallpaper.
"Haha, it really is a secret!"
A gap in the white wall made Arthur laugh happily, and it also made Paul, the housekeeper who loves the cut wallpaper, feel much better in his heart. Emilia, who has been silent on the side, has a pair of beautiful eyes shining brightly, looking at Ya Se wanted to destroy the wallpaper and hurriedly stopped it and said: "My dear, you just need to open a skylight for the wallpaper along the gap, there is no need to do so."
"Okay, okay, I'm a little excited." Arthur didn't rudely continue to destroy. Only then did I know that it split up and down along the gap, and then split left and right along the gap. One is more than 40 cm long and more than 20 cm high. On the surface, a white dark grid appeared in front of the three.
"Lord, you stand back and let me come..."
Seeing Arthur excitedly tried to pry open the hidden compartment with a paper knife, Paul the butler hurriedly reached out to stop him, took the paper knife, took out a handkerchief, covered his mouth and nose, and then used the paper knife to pry strongly Secret grid.
Both Arthur and Emilia watched intently, until the sound of "pop!", the secretly closed wooden door was pried open, and the faces of the three were excited, curious and expectant.
Paul, the housekeeper, who covered his mouth and nose with a handkerchief, reached out and opened the wooden door. A musty smell of wood products and dust drifted away. The three of them covered their mouths and noses with handkerchiefs, and fanned the dust away with their hand fans, with piercing eyes. Staring at the things in the secret compartment.
"Good fellow, there are so many things!" Arthur exclaimed with bright eyes.
Paul reached out and took out the hidden items one by one. Every time he took out one, Arthur and the three were excited. There were 13 small antiques in total. Among them were the carefully carved tobacco leaf boxes and the goddess. Like a jewelry box, exquisite gold jewelry and three ancient Egyptian gold coins.
"These are Egyptian antiques." Arthur picked up a small gold hollowed-out gold medal. The image of a character with Egyptian characteristics can be distinguished at a glance.
"If it is an Egyptian treasure, they should come from your great-great-grandfather, Major Julian, the 26th Earl of Bolin, who had been stationed in Egypt for two years. When he was 57 years old, Died of typhoid fever.
Unexpectedly, he still left so many treasures, they lie quietly in this corner that no one knows, and stay for more than 100 years.Unexpectedly, it will finally be seen again today. Congratulations, Lord, you have added new members to the heritage collection of the Boleyn family!"
The butler Paul looked at the exquisitely carved tobacco leaf box in his hand, and immediately made a judgment of the age like a few treasures, and congratulated Arthur with great relief.
Arthur naturally heard the subtext in the words of the butler Paul, because he was afraid that he would go out for auction again.
"Paul, look at these things, do you know what I'm thinking?"
Butler Paul was taken aback for a moment, looked at the smiling young earl, and asked curiously: "What is their value?"
"No." Arthur shook his head and smiled and denied. "Seeing them makes me more convinced here..." He stamped his feet and continued with a bright smile: "There must be none in Bolin Manor. I firmly believe in the treasure found!"
Emilia, who was holding a golden ring of cobra hovering and admiring, heard Arthur's words, raised her head, her eyes flickered, and she looked at Arthur and the pensive butler Paul, feeling the family heritage of the nobles in her heart.
It is said that the aristocracy of England is gradually declining. Except for a few aristocrats and rich people, most of the aristocratic class has faded out of people's sight, but to say that the foundation and inheritance are not imaginable and understandable by other classes.
Take a look at these antique treasures of Egypt. No matter what the ideas of the ancestors a hundred years ago, they are considered to have left a valuable legacy to future generations, so that future generations can use this to overcome difficulties. This kind of precautionary inheritance really made Emilia, a child from a middle-class family in the UK, sighed and admired at the same time!