The Treasure Hunt of an Antique Dealer

"Valentin, go see if you can open it."

Everyone is curious, and the Red Devils are no exception. Andrei gave orders to the major comrade who is good at unlocking.

Open, not pry open, technology is alive.

After gnawing on the last bite of the apple, he swallowed it three times without saying a word. He got up and took the small bag he had just put there, and Valentin walked over to look at the safe.

He untied the curtain cloth he was holding and threw it aside, feeling squatted with sore feet, and simply sat cross-legged on the clean floor of the lounge, and then began to study the target.

The 100-pound safe is not big, and there are keyholes, handles and cipher discs on the door. You can tell that this thing is a little old when you look at it.

Looking around, the original production nameplate has disappeared.

"At the latest, British products at the beginning of the century, the brand is not easy to say, old antique, it is not a big problem to open, it takes time."

After reading it, Valentin spoke confidently.

"how long?"

"At most one hour."

The colonel was silent after listening. Valian Kyoto didn't need to turn his head to see what Andre meant: one hour?

What kind of music are you putting on!

Let's work.

Talk more about being disliked, so let's get started.

As long as you have the right tools, opening an old-fashioned safe is not super difficult for a real master of unlocking. Valentin thinks that he is a master, and the tools are also carried with him. An hour is a conservative estimate in the world: the keyhole and the password disk are all because of the length. Time gets damp and rusts. Time has to be said longer so that the guys don’t make fun of the ship overturning in the gutter.

He got up and went to the small kitchen to get some olive oil, and then took out a small tool bag from the bag: the colonel wanted him to open the safe, not to pry the safe, technical work and technical work, can not be too violent!

Remove the rust first, and then deal with the cipher plate. Olive oil is used as a keyhole lubricant...

This is on a ship, and the use of a special stethoscope is gone. The high-speed diesel engine roars, the ship speed is over 20 knots, the noise of the engine and the propeller, and the sound of the hull beating, and a hairy stethoscope is used!

A master sat cross-legged and opened the box. A group of people in the sunrise didn't watch. What should they do? They basically closed their eyes and rested.

I have all learned to deal with such a simple safe. Anyone with tools can deal with it, but Valentin has studied it a little bit more carefully, and there is nothing good.

Suddenly, Andre, who had fallen asleep leaning on the back of the sofa, heard a voice: "It's on!

Let me just say, no safe in this world can hardly hold me! "

It's Valentin, who is blowing hard and slightly arrogantly. The problem is that he said this before?

Andrea didn't bother to care, got up and saw the safe with the door ajar.

This is a safe, not a bomb box. Andre glanced forward and opened the door of the iron cabinet.

There is no gold, no confidential documents...

Uh…

Speaking of secrets, this is a box that has been closed for more than forty years. Except for a few types of secrets, other secrets have long since been scumbed with the retirement of the world!

Inside the safe is a large, flat wooden box, with ordinary style and thick, nothing else.

Andre took out the wooden box, placed it on the table in the lounge, and studied the clasp of the wooden box for a while before opening the wooden box.

After seeing the contents of the box clearly, Brother Cucumber who joined the excitement on the side called out, "Oh!

Colonel, we seem to be rich again! "

Ignoring to get rich, Andre narrowed his eyes and said, "I seem to have seen it somewhere."

Valentin on the side heard this and said, "Well, I also seem to be impressed, let me think about it."

...

One day in 1928, a group of visitors from abroad came to the Place Vendôme, the luxury center of Paris: a nobleman from India walked into Cartier's shop with a few wives and more than a dozen entourages.

This Indian nobleman came to order some jewellery: in front of these Indian visitors, Cartier's clerk opened six boxes that the visitors carried with them.

Although these shop assistants saw a lot of the precious treasures worn by the store and the previous customers, they were still stunned by the sight in front of them: a total of 1432 emeralds, 7571 diamonds and countless numbers were contained in the six boxes. Ruby Sapphire!

Who is this Indian nobleman?

Parisians are not familiar with this Indian nobleman. In fact, his name was like a legend in India at the time: Bupindar Singh, the king of Patiala, the largest state in Punjab, India.

In India, King Singh Tu has a great say in politics, business and even religion. In addition to being worshipped as the spiritual leader of Sikhism in India, his extravagant living habits are basically known to all high-level Indians. .

This guy is even quite avant-garde!

As early as in 1911, the king of the land bought an airplane made by the Wright brothers and played with the big toy of a private jet. At the same time, he was also an avid jewelry lover.

Mr. Tuwang went to Paris this time to set up a large-scale celebration for his good friend Caputara Tubang.

It's a good face.

In India, low-status and poor people do not live as well as pigs and dogs; high-status and wealthy prominent figures are desperate for extravagance, and jewelry is one of the symbols of the status and status of these prominent figures.

The more prominent the status, the more, the bigger and the more high-end jewellery you have to wear: this time Mr. Tuwang plans to play a big deal, and he must not lose his position and face at the important celebrations of his friends.

Customer customization, Cartier went all out at the time, and other jewelry was not counted. It designed and manufactured a necklace for Mr. Tuwang that will still be jaw-dropping: the Patiala necklace, with a total of 2930 diamonds inlaid, and the total diamond weight reaches a carat !

The necklace consists of 5 white gold chains with diamonds connected to different levels, especially one of the giant diamonds. The smallest one has 18 carats and the heaviest one reaches 73 carats.

The diamond pendant of the necklace is dominated by a giant yellow diamond weighing up to a carat. It was the seventh largest diamond in the world at that time: this is a well-known named diamond called "De Beers."

It is the De Beers. This diamond is named after its company: It was discovered in the De Beers diamond mine in the Kimberley area of ​​South Africa in 1888. At that time, this huge rough stone was a relatively regular octahedron, light yellow and transparent. through.

The rough diamond weighs about 47.6 mm in length and is the largest diamond found in the Kimberley area at that time~www.readwn.com~ The huge "Star of Africa" ​​will not be discovered until seventeen years later.

De Beers immediately named it after the company. The rough stone was sent to the World Diamond Cutting Center at the time, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, for cutting, and the weight of the finished product after cushion cutting was still carats.

This huge diamond was exhibited at the Paris Exposition in 1889, and after it was exhibited, it was bought by the Tubang king of the Indian state of Patiala.

Later...it was once again brought to Paris by the Tubang King of Bupindar Singh, and became the center diamond of the stunning Patiala necklace carefully designed by Cartier.

After the death of King Bupindar, this huge diamond necklace was tossed around several times, and finally it evaporated from the world in 1947, and no one has seen it again!

And now...

After thinking for two seconds, Valentin said, "This is the big necklace of the Indian king of the earth!"

"What big necklace? How did you pass the jewelry appreciation appraisal course?

This is a Patiala necklace, and the one hanging is a De Beers diamond. "

Well, I was despised by the colonel!

At this point, Andre smiled again, and said: "Interesting, really interesting, that Zhang Nan just let us blow up the headquarters of De Beers and its parent company, and killed other major shareholders.

The diamond named by the De Beers company has disappeared for decades and reappeared. A few days later, this thing will also be his. It's really interesting! "

Sunshine Star Group and Anglo American Resources Group are in full-scale war. This will "De Beers drill" into the hands of the Red Devil. Andre believes that Mr. Zhang Nan will surely get it in his pocket. This time he can sell one hundred percent. good price.

It is unlikely that it will be half price, it should be purchased at market price, because this exaggerated necklace can be seen without modification: no one knows that it is the stolen property of a robbery and murder case, and its whereabouts in the previous 44 years has been the same. A hardened mystery!