1435. Pirate Box (5/5)

Back at the hotel, Winnie was playing with her daughter on the bed. When she saw Qin Shiou come back, she gave him a sideways glance and asked in a drawn-out voice, "Why did you come back? Do you still want our mother and daughter?"

As soon as she turned her head, Melon seized the opportunity to stretch out the chubby hand and scratched her chest, then giggled as if she had gotten cheap.

Qin Shiou pinched Wei Ni's pretty face from the other side, and was about to speak, but Wei Ni quickly backed away, covered her face and said in horror: "God, why are your hands so cold? Like a ghost! Don't touch me, I'm afraid of the cold..."

"Warm my hands." Qin Shiou chased after him.

Without hesitation, Winnie immediately grabbed the daughter behind her, and said to him, "I'll give you a baby warmer. She's very hot, even hotter than me. Use her to warm your hands."

Qin Shiou rolled his eyes for this bastard daughter-in-law, and ran to the desk to study the box.

Winnie asked curiously, "What is this?"

"I don't know either. Someone in the bar lost a bet to me, saying that it was a treasure caught from the sea." Qin Shiou said casually, and Wei Ni laughed that he was cheated, and then stopped paying attention and concentrated on playing with her daughter stand up.

This box is simple in style, and the whole is wrapped in whale oil, so I can't see the details inside, but I can vaguely see there seem to be many complicated patterns on it. The whale oil had solidified after being in the cold seabed for hundreds of years. He tapped it with his hand and there was a bang bang.

Putting the box on the radiator, Qin Shiou didn't bother with it, let's bake it first.

There was no problem all night, and he got up at six o'clock as usual. When he looked outside, it was still dark and dark. It was probably not nine o'clock or ten o'clock, and the sun would not come out.

Nothing to do, he went to study the box again. It may be due to too long time, high pressure of deep sea water, low temperature and other reasons. The whale oil seemed to have deteriorated, and it was still as hard as a rock after being baked overnight.

In order not to disturb the sleep of Winnie and Melon, he went to the living room downstairs. The old couple also got up and were busy cleaning. Xiong Da had a pile of biscuits in his arms. I am happy to eat.

Seeing Qin Shiou, the old lady smiled and said, "Young man, you wake up really early. Except for the elderly, we probably won't get up before ten o'clock."

Qin Shiou shrugged and said, "I'm used to getting up early. If you are busy, don't worry about me. I will find something to do by myself."

The boss brought him a plate of delicious chocolate chip cookies and a cup of hot coffee,

Xiong Da smelled the sweetness of chocolate. He got up flexibly, and sat beside Qin Shiou with the biscuit in his arms.

Seeing this scene, the old lady's face was full of joy. She came up and stroked the bear's big round ears and said, "Young man, your bear is really wonderful. Do you know that it is very smart? It is a cunning bear. Cute little guy."

Qin Shiou looked at Xiong Da's stupid and fat face, and then at his mound-like physique, he couldn't tell where it was cunning or what a little guy it was.

He ate the biscuits in his arms in two or three bites. Xiong Da stood up and shook his fur to scatter the biscuit crumbs off, then grabbed Qin Shiou's shoulders and stood up. He stared at the biscuit helplessly.

Qin Shiou took two plugs for it to sit quietly, then asked the boss for a hammer, a knife and an awl, and carefully opened the frozen whale oil outside the box.

When the boss came to deliver tools, his eyes lit up when he saw the box in his hand, and said, "Hey, young man, where did you get the pirate box?"

"Pirate box?" Qin Shiou asked strangely.

The boss smiled and nodded. Said: "Yes, Pirate's Box, you know the origin of the name Greenland, right? It was named by the pirates. It used to be a paradise for pirates, fugitives, and villains, you know?"

Of course Qin Shiou knew this. The English name of Greenland is 'greeland', which means the Green Continent. It was named by a great pirate named Eric. He explained the reason for this in his diary: "If there is a moving The name will definitely attract many people to come here, so I can do a lot of business."

Qin Shiou said what he knew, the boss nodded, and said, "Then do you know where Eric's diary was found?" He pointed to the box on the table, "The pirate's magic box, this is an important record for pirates. Boxes for things like logbooks, robbery logs, etc."

"How do you know this is a pirate's magic box?" Qin Shiou asked enthusiastically.

The boss smiled and said: "It's very simple, the Vikings know it. The pirate magic box is usually sealed with animal fat or whale oil, so that it can be waterproof and antifreeze, so as to ensure that the contents inside are not corroded by sea water, humid air, etc. That's what your box is."

After the explanation, the boss left and went to pack up again. Qin Shiou asked, "Aren't you curious about what's inside?"

The boss turned back and said: "No, I'm not curious. To be honest, young man, don't have too much hope for it. First of all, this may not be a real pirate's magic box. In fact, many of our fishermen here will use this method to seal it." box; secondly, even if it is a real pirate's magic box, it is likely that these guys wrote some mysterious things."

Qin Shiou opened it patiently, he didn't hold out much hope, he just used this thing to pass the time.

Whale oil solidified together is very hard, but also very brittle. Qin Shiou tapped it for a while, and the block of whale oil shattered, revealing a brown-black box. He opened the box carefully, and there was indeed a booklet inside. And a circle of gold coins.

Because of the high pressure and high cold environment, and the sea water and whale oil to isolate the air, these gold coins are different from those found by Qin Shiou on the bottom of the sea in the past, without any rust, and exuding a golden light.

Qin Shiou took a look, then closed the box calmly. At this time, the fishermen also got up, and there were more people in the hall. It was not good for these gold coins to be found.

Putting away the box, he opened the booklet and looked at it. The paper of the booklet should also be tanned lambskin, soft and tough, and it was not oxidized and shattered when it encountered air suddenly. If it was ordinary paper, it would be over if it was suddenly exposed to the air after being isolated for hundreds of years.

But to his disappointment, the pamphlet was written in a Latin script, which he could not understand, not a word of it, which greatly disappointed him.

Fortunately, he had someone he could turn to for help. After taking detailed photos of each page of the booklet, plus photos of the gold coins, he sent them to Billy and Little Black for help with the translation.

Neither of them was online. Qin Shiou waited for a while and no one replied, and left the hotel when he saw dawn. (To be continued..)

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