Starting My Treasure Hunting In England

It took more than an hour for Liang En and the others to search all the containers in the attic. But except for two wooden boxes that were probably from the Victorian era and were worth some money, the rest of the items were hard to make them want to buy them.

"I can only give you 80 pounds at most for these two boxes, because even if I sell them for 150 pounds, it would be too much." Liang En explained to Miss Black after taking the two boxes down from the attic.

"Reasonable price." As an archeology student, Miss Black also understood this kind of thing, so she nodded. "Besides this, what else do you have your eye on?"

"Everything else is just rubbish." Liang En said bluntly, "If you pack it up and sell it to a scrap collection station, it might fetch fifty or sixty pounds, but it's not worth buying for us."

"Okay!" Miss Black sighed, then raised her head and looked at Liang En, "Have you completely searched the attic?"

"No, not really." Liang En shook his head, and then told Miss Black exactly what he had discovered about the abnormality on the roof.

"I understand." As a smart person, Miss Black understood what Liang En wanted to express, so she said, "You can remove those boards in the attic, but I hope I can follow you."

Soon, the three people returned to the attic together, then took out the metal detector and started searching. When they searched the inner wall of the roof without windows, the metal detector soon had a clear response.

"Pry this open-" Liang En turned to Fan Meng and said. Fan Meng nodded immediately, and then started working on the wooden wall with a hand saw and a crowbar. Five minutes later, a cabinet door appeared. In front of everyone's eyes.

After using the carpentry screwdriver he brought with him to remove the locking hinge of the cabinet door, several canvas bags of different lengths placed on the cabinet block immediately attracted the attention of everyone present.

"This is definitely a good thing." Seeing the outline of these packages, Fan Meng suddenly became excited, and then carefully stretched out his hand to move the canvas bags out.

Liang En and Miss Black next to him nodded in agreement with his statement, because the outlines of these packages were so obvious that they could be seen as firearms at a glance.

"Congratulations, I think your property tax is now settled." Liang En said with a smile to Miss Black next to him, and then he used the rope he carried to hang the bags from the attic entrance.

After emptying out the firearms hidden in the secret cabinet, Liang En habitually checked the secret cabinet itself to see if there was anything like a mezzanine.

Sure enough, as he suspected, after checking the whole thing, he found a movable partition at the back of the cabinet, and then took out a small box from behind the partition.

After spending another half an hour thoroughly checking the attic, Liang En and the others took the pile of things they had just found to the living room on the first floor, and then used the sunlight coming in from the window to inspect the trophies they had just found.

The first canvas bags to be opened were those that were completely white, and after untying the rope on the first canvas bag, a single-barreled smoothbore sporting rifle with a traditional shape and a hexagonal barrel and a flash cap was revealed inside.

The gun is an old muzzleloader that uses black powder as the propellant. It also has a huge diameter of 0.67 inches.

There is an inscription engraved on the metal below the gun, indicating that the gun came from the Currimola Company, the official manufacturer of the Rambo monarch in India, and was intended to be presented to a British Army major named Porter.

"Now we can match up." Miss Black clapped her hands and said. "This fits perfectly with the information my grandfather told me that the entire house formerly belonged to an Indian Army officer and his descendants."

This gun has never been cheap due to production issues. Even with this average level of preservation, it can be sold for around 3,500 pounds on the market.

In addition, they also found an 1870 Wilkinson centerfire sporting rifle and an 1872 Richards centerfire rifle.

Because these two guns are produced in larger quantities, the price is about 1,500 pounds. Compared to the canvas bags containing the long guns, the three small canvas bags brought them a bigger surprise.

Two of the canvas bags each contain a double-barreled breech-loading pistol with precious metal wire inlay patterns and bas-relief on the bolt cover and grip. Just from the appearance of the decoration, you can tell that these pistols will not be too cheap. .

"This shouldn't be a pistol for shooting people, right? Even though the caliber of firearms in the black powder era was generally large, this one is clearly over the standard." After confirming that the firearm was not loaded, Fan Meng turned the muzzle of the gun and looked at it carefully before saying.

"And the whole gun is a bit too big. I think it would be difficult for normal humans to carry such a large gun like an ordinary pistol."

"But if it is used as a shotgun, this thing is obviously not qualified. Because its barrel is too short and the range is too close. If you really encounter a wild beast, shooting with it is no different from gambling your life."

"Could it be a self-defense pistol?" Miss Black asked. "My grandfather and father both liked to go hunting in Canada. They would often carry a large-caliber pistol to avoid encountering some large-sized guns at close range. Predators.”

"What you said sounds reasonable, but in fact it is not." Liang En pointed to the exquisite relief on the pistol and said with a smile, "The people who use this kind of gun are people with status, so they tend to There are enough guards to handle the situation."

"Okay, don't be too pretentious." Fan Meng carefully inspected the beautifully carved wooden grip of the pistol and said, "Tell me what is this double-barreled pistol used for?"

"This is an elephant sedan pistol. Users often ride on the back of an elephant to use them." Liang En said as he picked up another pistol. "When the British hunted in India, the hunter would often sit in a box on the back of an elephant. This box was called an elephant palanquin."

"This is actually a traditional hunting habit of Indian nobles, and the British carried this habit forward after they arrived. Especially hunting some large and ferocious animals."

"The hunters tended to be British military officers and administrators serving in India, who had high-quality military-grade weapons and were skilled in their use."

"The reason why we sit on the back of an elephant for hunting is because trained elephants can drive prey from hiding places to open areas, which brings a huge advantage to hunting. And when standing on the back of an elephant, these hunters And be safe.”

“Hunters can completely shoot at those beasts at close range when a tiger attacks an elephant with sufficient safety, and in this case, this kind of double-barreled large-caliber pistol will naturally be of sufficient use. "

"If that's the case, this kind of firearm is indeed suitable for use in that situation." After listening to Liang En's explanation, Fan Meng showed a clear expression.

"Although it is difficult to aim a large-caliber pistol, I think there should be no problem if you use this gun to shoot a target as big as a tiger that is barely moving one or two meters away."