Chapter 106：Dreams and Reality

The driver carefully examined the cellar, while Dara sat on the surface on the foundation stones and took a breath. He was not as athletic as a driver. Carrying a heavy boiler deprived him of strength. Temporarily of course. He wanted to catch his breath. Entrusting the cellar check into the hands of a professional.

The driver carefully examined the walls, corners, the floor was raised before this Dara. Having picked up the metal detector, the driver checked everything again, signals 47, 38 came from the floor. In different places.

Searching in them, he found a silver coin, big, old, the beginning of the first empire of 1648, it was a very good find! He did not know yet, but at an auction, it could be sold easily for $ 760! And the signal 38, he was somewhat dumbfounded. There was an iron chest. Small, 8 kg. Rather, an iron casket. True, it was deeper than the cauldron that found Dara. 1 meter deeper. Had to sweat. But skillful and inflated muscles coped with this task in about 20 minutes. Special forces soldiers were trained to dig quickly with sapper shovels! They knew how to kill people with them. But in this case, it was not useful.

Having taken out the box and laid it out on the floor of the cellar, the Driver began to further check the floor with a metal detector. But there were no more signals. Then, picking up the probe, he began to check further. In two places at the corners of a small cellar, he stumbled a probe with something solid at 40 cm in the north corner and 80 cm in the south. Carefully working with a shovel, the Driver began to dig up the sand floor.

After a while, in one corner he found old china, apparently Chinese, he was not a specialist. But it looks like it was the time of the Qing Dynasty and also three lacquered bowls. Probably ceremonial. And so who knows. It was a northern corner.

In the second southern corner, the Driver found, only a leather binding and some pieces of paper that had collapsed under his fingers and turned into dust. These were probably old manuscripts. Picking up the leather binding, under it he found three light green stone circles with holes. Some Chinese characters were written on them. There was nothing more in the cellar.

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Barno's findings were more modest - two copper Pula, pieces of broken ceramics, which was very difficult to date. especially not to a specialist. And also three arrowheads.

Fang was boring since Baraz forced him to make an electronic map of the tunnels they had to pretty walk around. Along the steppe, in the mountains, he breathed in the dust, tired, rubbed corns on his feet, thirsty. And did not find anything interesting. He was disappointed this afternoon. In contrast, Baraz glowed, smiled, tried to joke, but Fang stubbornly remained silent. Even his passionate politeness was all over.

It was quickly getting dark. Barno with a tired look looked out the window of the jeep at the same type of landscape that had not yet had time to wake up the slopes of the mountains. They were gray.

Fang was sleeping in the backseat. Baraz spoke cheerfully on the radio with the colonel. Dara, however, pretended to be asleep, too, and he thought how they would share with the driver. I wonder what he found there?

The driver was glad that he was appointed to take care of the grandson of the general, he learned a lot about treasure hunting. Then you need to go yourself to the mountains, see if he can find something? It was entertaining, and sometimes very profitable. Dara promised to share what he found with him. There was a lot of gold and silver, but also a casket ?! Although he wanted to open the box, Dara stopped him. Having said that if the three of them see the box, they will have to divide by 5 instead of 2. Upon reflection, the driver agreed with him and quickly hid the box under the seat of the jeep.

Already in the evening, they are in silence, at night they will see what they found and honestly share. Extra money would not hurt the driver. He could buy cheap small cars, about 5 pieces and rent them out. Every month, he would receive 300 dollars from each car and so on for 2 years. Very good investment. Or maybe it was worth buying in the center two 3-4-room apartments of 90 square meters. meters and rent them to foreigners. They would pay 700-1000 dollars a month. So many lived from the elite. They had access to foreigners who came to work for them in the capital but did not want to live in hotels. Foreigners paid immediately in advance for the year. So it was very profitable, and a good investment.