Year: I had a good time when I was young

Chapter 868: It was stolen, but I have to thank the other party for showing mercy
At 4 a.m., the sky was already starting to get light, and it would be bright in about an hour at most.

Chu Xiangqian dismounted, took Red Hare into the Novice Village, and then walked or crawled forward alone to avoid the last few sentry posts.

After successfully walking the last few hundred meters and reaching the side door of Rosslyn Chapel, Huang Diao'er had already opened the bolt from the inside and let him enter the church.

He casually threw the Green Mamba wrapped around his arm into the passage leading to the basement.

Seeing that he was about to hit the hard wall of the passage, the Green Mamba arched his body, offsetting most of the impact like a spring, twisted his body, and entered the basement like lightning.

The two guards, who had been on guard all night, had long lost the mood to talk. They were not only exhausted but also mentally tired.

By the time the two felt a flash of green, the Green Mamba had already swung its tail at the nearest guard's head.

The power of 5.1 is like the blow of a giant python, and it can stun the target with just one blow of its tail.

Then, in the blink of an eye, it appeared behind the second person and swung its tail again, knocking the person unconscious.

Chu Xiangqian just came down from the basement at this time. He stretched out his hand and the Green Mamba appeared in front of him, wrapped around his arm.

He touched the green snake's head with satisfaction, and the Green Mamba rubbed it back affectionately.

I walked to the door leading to the second underground floor and saw a steel lock on the door.

He reached out and grabbed the lock on the door and twisted it hard.

He easily broke the steel lock that was as thick as a finger, pushed the door open, went down the passage and entered the secret room on the second floor.

There was no need to turn on the lights. Chu Xiangqian, who had night vision, could easily see the entire secret room.

There were seven or eight oil paintings that I had never seen before, and judging by their style, they were works by Leonardo da Vinci.

As there was not much time left before dawn, Chu Xiangqian did not look at them carefully. He put all the paintings and sketches into the Novice Village warehouse.

The reminder sound of increasing gold coupons kept ringing in my mind, so I didn't have to doubt whether it was real or not.

In the end, not even a piece of paper was left. Chu Xiangqian lifted the carpet on the floor, revealing a secret door leading to the third floor.

I reached out and pulled the bolt, but it didn't budge.

But think about it, since there are treasures and sarcophagus underneath, it is impossible for them to be opened by the protagonist with just a pull like in the movies.

It must be locked, not only to prevent outsiders, but also to prevent someone from stealing the treasures inside.

Chu Xiangqian tried again, with a smile on his face, and suddenly exerted force, and heard a creaking sound from the secret door.

In the end, he used brute force to pull off the stone bars that locked the secret door.

If you can't pull it yourself, the worst that can happen is to release a few giant apes.

These guys are all Hercules now, and they can easily demolish the entire Rosslyn Chapel with their bare hands overnight.

Throwing away the broken secret door in his hand, Chu Xiangqian took out a torch, lit it up, and threw it into the basement.

To avoid being closed all year round and causing people to lack oxygen.

Fortunately, there should be a vent underneath, and the flame of the torch only flickered a few times and showed no sign of going out.

Chu Xiangqian then walked down.

The next thing was simple, since Chu Xiangqian’s target was not the sarcophagus or the remains inside it.

Put all the oil paintings hanging on the wall and the treasure chests on the ground into the warehouse.

In the end, even a golden candlestick in the secret room was taken away by him.

The search was so thorough.

After making sure that nothing useful was left behind, Chu Xiangqian looked at the sarcophagus and hesitated for a moment. In the end, he did not take the sarcophagus away, nor did he push its door open to look inside.

Although it is certain that there are most likely more precious jewels in the sarcophagus, even treasures that he has never seen before.

But Chu Xiangqian still had his bottom line and fear in the end. He saluted the sarcophagus. Finally, after thinking about it, he took out a peach blossom from the Novice Village and placed it on the sarcophagus.

It’s not that Chu Xiangqian didn’t want to put a rose, but there were many fruit trees and lawns in the Novice Village, but no flowers were found.

The only thing it can be replaced by is the most beautiful peach blossom on the peach tree.

Then he turned and left the secret room.

After leaving the church, there was already a hint of light at the end of the sky.

Chu Xiangqian did not hesitate and took advantage of the night to enter the dense forest on the left side of the church again.

It's hard to sneak in, but easy to leave.

Even if someone noticed him, they wouldn't pay much attention to him because of the direction he was walking.

Of course, with the presence of tits, stingrays, and green mambas, infrared rays and sounds cannot escape Chu Xiangqian's eyes and ears.

If you want to avoid people, it is easy.

After leaving the village, we released Red Hare and had it gallop for an hour while it was still slightly light.

At least 150 kilometers away from Edinburgh, he put away his Red Hare, drove a motorcycle, and slowly headed towards London.

But the speed of a motorcycle is much slower than that of Red Hare.

It was after 11 o'clock in the morning when we returned to the northern suburbs of London.

Now you don't have to worry about your Rolls-Royce being seen by people in Edinburgh or on the roads not far from Edinburgh and causing suspicion on you.

Before returning to London, Chu Xiangqian went into the Novice Village, took a bath in the fountain, and changed his clothes.

Then he drove to find Nata.

The chick was not at home in London at the moment, but was working at the Oxford Street Opera House.

When they met, Nata was stunned at first, and then happily threw herself into his arms.

He didn't care at all that there were secretaries and theater managers in his office.

Fortunately, these two people knew that Chu Xiangqian was the boss behind the cinema.

Seeing that Nata was already hanging on Chu Xiangqian, the two of them stood up and left with a smile, closing the door behind them.

Chu Xiangqian was already in an excited state, and now without hesitation, he held Nata and played poker in her office.

And because Chu Xiangqian was a little impulsive at the time and the singing was a little loud, many passers-by on the road vaguely heard it and looked over here.

Fortunately, Nata's office is on the fourth floor, and you can't see any picture from the bottom up.

It didn't take long for this girl's secret meeting with someone to be discovered by her newlywed husband.

When I called to ask about it, Nata just said, "If you want to be unfaithful, you are the one who wronged me first, and then you can't say anything to the other party."

After playing cards, Nata was too full this time and naturally didn't want to accompany Chu Xiangqian back to the suburban manor.

After Chu Xiangqian returned home, Margaret didn't say anything, but her nose still twitched when she leaned against him.

When she smelled the familiar scent of Nata's perfume, she felt relieved and didn't ask Chu Xiangqian what he had done last night and that day.

However, while Chu Xiangqian's wife and concubines lived in harmony, things were in chaos at Rosslyn Chapel in Edinburgh.

Chu Xiangqian did not kill the two basement guards. He stole the treasure and killed people. The former just hated the treasure thieves.

The latter is a feud that will never end.

Moreover, Chu Xiangqian did not move the sarcophagus, but placed many beautiful peach blossoms on it, which gave him room for maneuver.

However, that peach blossom made the old guys in the high-ranking members of the Knights Templar rack their brains but they still couldn't figure out what this peach blossom meant.

However, Chu Xiangqian did not move the coffin, showing goodwill, which the Knights could still understand. In the end, they could only move the sarcophagus urgently while sending people to track down the clues of the treasure thieves. In secret, they also began to investigate themselves.

There are so many treasure chests, and since they know where the treasure and the sarcophagus are, but they still left the sarcophagus behind, it means they must have been specifically eyeing the treasure and the masters' oil paintings.

The Knights themselves didn't believe that there was no traitor involved and that more than a dozen boxes of treasures and dozens of paintings were transported away quietly.

But after much investigation, there was no clue as to how the treasure, which required at least two trucks to transport, was transported, let alone the traitor.

There were no truck tire marks on the roads leading in and out, and no helicopters were heard around midnight.

Helicopters these days have poor load-carrying capacity. It would be impossible to transport those treasures and paintings without at least three or five helicopters, let alone one.

The sound of the propeller can be heard one or two kilometers away.

Now, let alone tracking down the treasure thieves, many middle and high-level members of the Knights Templar began to say that this was a punishment from God.

Otherwise, many things cannot be explained clearly.

Since the explanation is unclear, let's speculate on miracles and mysterious areas.

After arguing for a while, a few days passed.

In the end, the only decision that the top leaders of the Knights Templar reached unanimously was that they must build a permanent storage place for the sarcophagus that would be protected from theft.

Otherwise, you may not be so lucky next time, because people will just come to steal the treasure, not destroy the sarcophagus.

These days, Chu Xiangqian accompanied Margaret in horse riding practice while taking care of Chu Jingxing, but secretly let Shanque return to Rosslyn Chapel.

Among the knights who appeared in the church, there appeared two middle-aged couple who looked similar to those in the TV series.

The titmouse began to stare at the two men.

Moreover, a few days would be enough time for the tit to find time to fly back to the manor and bring the marten back with him to monitor the couple at night.

Sure enough, these two people in the movie are already elderly people, and they are also core members of the Knights.

Now, although my status is not as high as it will be in the future, I can still get in touch with the high-level people of this era.

Shantiao and Huangdiaoer changed people to monitor, and after a few days, they actually found out the identities of all the elders of the Knights' Council.

Chu Xiangqian even knew that the wife of the previous couple was the descendant of Maria of Lamoda.

At the same time, the middle-aged woman was a descendant of a branch of the French royal family hundreds of years ago.

In other words, this woman is actually a princess.

But unfortunately, France had overthrown the royal family long ago, and the poor princes and princesses were worthless.

There are actually many people with this identity throughout Europe.

Even Philip, if he was not favored by Eliza, would have to worry about his life as an ordinary person.
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In mid-September, Chu Xiangqian had to return to Beijing to accompany Xue Jinglan, Gangsheng and his eldest son Chu Jingrong in order to accompany Margaret to Neon to participate in the equestrian event of this Olympic Games in October.

However, the plane will fly to Hong Kong Island first, taking Feifei and Aiyuan back to Beijing.

In early August, when Chu Xiangqian returned, Ai Min and Qin Jingru's child was born safely.

As the eldest uncle, he is also the most promising and capable head of the Chu family in the past two generations.

Uncle San directly gave the right to name his grandson to Chu Xiangqian.

Ai Min and Qin Jingru naturally had no objection, and even hoped that Chu Xiangqian would name the child.

In the future, I will be naturally closer to him.

Chu Xiangqian did not refuse this time. After thinking about it, he named the child Chu Jingye.

I secretly hope that this child will have a successful career in the future.

As for Chu Jingrong and Chu Jingxing, their parents were so rich and the family businesses were too numerous to manage, so Chu Xiangqian had no career expectations for the two brothers.

He just hopes that when the two little ones grow up, they can take over the family business so that he, as a father, can worry less about the company.

This time, the second room's Aiguo and Yushui's baby is due at the end of September, so of course they have to bring Eyuan back in advance.

Take Feifei with you.

After getting off the plane, my second uncle Xue Jianguo and Zhang Haiyang drove to pick me up.

When he got home, as soon as Chu Xiangqian saw Chu Jingrong, he took him from Xue Jinglan's arms and kissed him a few times.

This made Chu Jingrong very disgusted, and he kept wiping his little face with his little hands.

But when Chu Xiangqian looked at him unhappily, the little guy immediately smiled and called out "Dad" in a flattering manner.

Chu Xiangqian was immediately amused by this boy. He bent down and kissed him a few more times. Then, like a magic trick, he took out a wooden sculpture of a mortar that had been improved by the dwarves of Middle-earth themselves.

Chu Jingrong was immediately attracted and reached out to grab it.

Chu Xiangqian didn't continue teasing the boy. He let him take the wood carving and turned his attention to Xue Jinglan.

Sure enough, although Xue Jinglan had been married to him for several years, she would still show a shy expression when facing his eager eyes.

Her face flushed slightly, and she said with a hint of coquettishness in her tone, "Don't just stand there. Master, Master's Wife, and Master's Uncle are all waiting for you in the main hall."

Chu nodded forward, then smiled at Gangsheng.

Gangsheng is not like Xue Jinglan, who acts like a mistress and greets Xue Jinglan, Feifei and Aiyuan.

He walked over immediately and held Chu Xiangqian's arm tightly.

Chu Xiangqian smiled, hugged Chu Jingrong, and took Hongsheng to the Central Court.

As she walked, she kept muttering about what gift she had brought back from London this time.

After meeting his master, his mistress, and his uncle, Chu Xiangqian first chatted with his elders for a while, and then took out a Dunhuang silk painting that he had brought back this time.

Master Gong Changqing became excited when he saw the Buddha painting on silk.

With a trembling voice, he asked incredulously, "Xiang Qian, is this a Dunhuang silk manuscript?"

Chu Xiangqian smiled and nodded. This was a painting of national treasure level. Just the fact that it returned to the Celestial Empire was already a remarkable event.

Not to mention that Chu Xiangqian planned to find an expert to repair the silk painting.

As for donating it to the higher authorities, we will have to wait at least twenty years.

Otherwise, who knows if it will become someone's private collection in a few years.

Or it was destroyed by some ignorant guy.

When Old Man Gong saw Chu nod forward, he immediately lowered his head and looked at the silk book without moving, as if he was looking at a rare treasure.

Chu Xiangqian could naturally understand how excited a collector or appraiser would be when seeing a national treasure.

If the remaining nine national treasures were also taken out, Chu Xiangqian was worried that his master would get so excited that he would have a heart attack.

Then they started distributing the gifts they brought back.

After get off work in the evening, Sha Zhu brought Aiguo and Aimin to cook as usual.

When he saw Chu Xiangqian, Sha Zhu smiled like a fool, and talked about rain and the baby in Yu Shui's belly every other sentence.

After this kid was born, Sha Zhu became his biological uncle, so it would be strange if he was unhappy.

He even pulled Chu Xiangqian aside and talked about some names he had thought of while looking through the dictionary during this period.

(End of this chapter)