Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 77

After getting off the car, Liang En and the others quickly found the auction organizer surrounded by a group of treasure hunters.After waiting here for more than half an hour, the auction will start soon.

Because this is not a formal auction, the various procedures are naturally not very formal. The other party announced the rules of the auction after almost all the people arrived.

Perhaps the auction party hoped to make more money in this auction, so this auction chose a hidden bid instead of an open bid.

According to the rules, the organizer will lead them to walk through those houses in turn and stop at the door of each house for 5 minutes, and then everyone bids for the hidden bid together, and the one with the highest bid wins.

"What can you tell from this!" After listening to the organizer's announcement of the rules, Fan Meng looked at the row of small buildings in front of him with a puzzled expression. Which one is more valuable.

"Of course we can see a lot." Because the two parties may have to work together for a long time in the future, Liang En whispered some knowledge about this to Fan Meng.

"You see, these houses are all single-family houses with garden rooms, so compared with the townhouses that are common in urban areas, these places are often populated by senior white-collar workers or small businessmen."

"Understood, that is to say, because the people in this place are relatively rich, it is easy to find valuable things in the room." Fan Meng is just not familiar with these aspects, so Liang En understood what was going on as soon as he explained. What is the situation.

"That's right, although expensive boxes may not contain valuable things, the probability of valuable things being contained in those expensive boxes is always much greater than that in broken boxes."

Now that we've mentioned this, Liang En doesn't mind saying a little more. "But the problem is, what you can see a lot of the time other people can see too."

These small buildings all look similar, with mottled paint and broken glass looking a bit miserable.However, the state of preservation is much better than those buildings that Liang En saw before even the roofs collapsed.

If there is no accident, there will be many things in this room that can be preserved to this day. For treasure hunters like Liang En, they are just like treasures.

However, today these treasures have attracted a lot of people, and there are even several bigwigs who are famous in the treasure hunting world and own companies or clubs.

So even though Liang En took advantage of his abundant liquidity and bid for all 16 houses in this row, he still only won one house in the end.

"The eyes of those veterans are really sharp. They took down the three houses I was most optimistic about." After paying the money and getting the keys, Liang En said to Fan Meng as he walked towards the room.

"Fortunately, this guaranteed house did not miss, so I won't go back empty-handed."

"Then why don't we add a little more money and focus on bidding for the rooms you are optimistic about?" Fan Meng asked a little puzzled. "If we continue to increase the price, I think we should be able to win one or two of those three rooms."

"This may be because everyone has different habits." Liang En walked to the door of the room and said.

"I don't like to take too much risk, so I will set a maximum line every time I bid, and I will choose to give up even if it is more attractive than the maximum line."

With that said, Liang En used the old bronze key to unscrew the door of the room, then pushed the door and walked in.Just as the two of them opened the door, a gust of wind blew in, stirring up the dust in the corridor.

"Okay, where do we start looking?" Fan Meng glanced at the completely rotten furniture placed next to the broken glass window, and turned to ask Liang En beside him. "Also—what are we looking for?"

"There are so many things we are looking for, and all valuable things are our search targets." Liang En scanned the living room, and then said. "However, in terms of specific goals, it can range from various small decorations to furniture."

"Understood." Fan Meng nodded, and then he and Liang En began to search for the living room as the starting point.Soon, Liang En focused his attention on the coffee table in the living room covered by the tattered tablecloth.

"Is there anything wrong with this tea table?" After removing the rag covering it, Fan Meng looked at the tea table with drawers with a puzzled look on his face.

Because in his eyes, this coffee table is dusty, without any decoration on it, and the copper handle and pull ring are also covered with a layer of green rust, which looks inconspicuous at all.

"This coffee table should be an oak coffee table that has survived from the Victorian era to this day, and it is very well preserved." Liang En said after tapping the table top lightly, "If you clean this thing up, you can sell it for [-] yuan. It won't be too difficult to get around the pound."

"Just such a coffee table is worth 1000 pounds!" Fan Mengzhan stared at the unremarkable coffee table in front of him with wide eyes. If he was allowed to come alone, he would definitely not realize that this coffee table is worth so much money.

"Don't forget, I paid 2150 pounds to buy this room, so there is a coffee table worth 1000 pounds in the room. It's not a strange thing." Liang En looked around the living room and said.

"But it seems that this living room is the only thing that is valuable. As for the other furniture, I don't think it's even suitable for burning a fireplace."

The reason why he said this was because the rest of the furniture in this room was either pine or plywood, and after such a long time, they were all cracked, and some were even moldy.

Originally, Liang En thought the wool carpet pattern near the house looked interesting, so he planned to roll up that thing and go back to clean it, maybe it could be sold for dozens or hundreds of pounds.

As a result, after lifting it up with his hands, a palm-sized carpet was directly torn off from the main body of the carpet.After taking a closer look, Liang En realized that although the carpet looked good, it was basically rotten and could not even be peeled off.

After checking the living room, there is the kitchen and dining room. Unfortunately, this house has been used until the 70s and [-]s, so all the things inside have been replaced with items from that era, so there is not much value.

But just when Liang En finished looking at the mess in the kitchen and was about to leave, he found that Fan Meng had been standing at the door of the kitchen staring at the top of the door, as if he had found something.

"What did you find?" Liang En walked up to Fan Meng and asked.

"I think there might be something hidden in the center." Fan Meng said after looking at it on tiptoe. "Because the beam of the door frame was pressed down a bit severely, the entire beam was bent into an arc, which should not be the case under normal circumstances."

"That's true." After looking around in the kitchen, Liang En also realized that there was something wrong with the door beam.

So he asked Fan Meng to go out and get the hand saw on the car, while he himself found a relatively strong wooden stool in the room to try it out, and then climbed up to saw the beam with the hand saw.

Soon, he discovered that the middle of the beam was actually empty, and the space inside was filled with nearly square newspaper bags wrapped in yellowed newspaper one after another.

"This thing is quite heavy, it should be hard currency." After Liang En jumped off the chair, Fan Meng pointed to the six small square paper bags on the table with a smile on his face. "I don't think anyone is bored enough to put weights of lead on a doorjamb."

(End of this chapter)