Struggle in the Steam Age
Chapter 227: Zhu Yan's home
"My house is very close to here. It only takes a little time to ride a carriage." At the gate of the horse-drawn carriage, Zhu Yan directly hired a carriage and drove to the edge of the city. At this time, it was completely dark, but the street lights on the street illuminate the road.
"I think we are coming soon." After the carriage left the city for about five minutes, Zhu Yan looked at a road sign on the side of the road through the glass of the carriage and said, "In three or four minutes, I think we will be at my door. Up."
At this time the moon had already risen. After hearing Zhu Yan say that it was coming soon, Lawrence also looked out of the car window curiously, only to see that the carriage passed under a stone archway across the street and then appeared outside the car window. Rows of neatly arranged two-story buildings are interspersed with three or four-story buildings that look relatively tall. Lawrence recognized hospitals and sports venues from the logos on these large buildings.
"This piece of land was developed by my family little by little. Now the entire community is considered one of the richest satellite towns on the edge of New Kuaiji." After discovering that his guests were curious about everything around him, Zhu Yan used In a slightly proud tone, he said, "Before, there was still a distance from the city. It's just that the speed of urban development has accelerated in the past few decades, so that it is now almost connected to the city—"
Just when Zhu Yan introduced, the carriage stopped at the door of a two-story building. After getting off the bus, Lawrence looked at the Zhu Yan's house in front of him at first glance.
This house is consistent with the residential style of the whole street. It is a small two-story building with diwa, white walls, and horse head walls. It looks like the traditional building in the south of Aurora. However, after approaching, Lawrence discovered that the windows of the room were not traditional window paper but glass. At the same time, the pillars that were previously thought to be made of wood were only found to be reinforced concrete after approaching.
"Maybe this house is a little strange in your eyes." Zhu Yan said as he opened the door. "However, these houses were built uniformly more than 20 years ago, because the traditional brick and wood structure rooms are too easy to catch fire and not so safe. But in order to maintain certain traditions, we use the latest reinforced concrete to build in traditional styles. The house."
"We think it's good." Lawrence said with a smile. After all, compared to the most economical cement matchboxes built in many places after the birth of reinforced concrete, this kind of cultural house is more in line with Lawrence's aesthetics.
After entering the room is a corridor separated by a screen, and on the left hand side of the corridor with the screen is a small living room. In the living room, there is a beige fabric sofa that looks a bit old, but it gives a sense of comfort, and a wooden coffee table surrounded by the sofa that also looks old.
"These furniture are a bit old. In fact, they are my parents who bought a new set of furniture and gave me the old furniture from the past." Zhu Yan shrugged when he said that, guiding Lawrence and the others to sit down on the sofa. Shrug. "But I personally feel that this is better than the new furniture. Although it may not look that high-end, it can make people feel more at home."
"You're right. After the furniture is used for a long time, it will naturally give people a very warm feeling." Lawrence's words are not very polite, for example, after he moved into a new house, he still used his university. Four-year bedding and some daily necessities were brought into the new house for use.
After drinking some tea from the Old Continent to the New Continent, from the East Coast to the West Coast of the New Continent, the brewing method and taste are not much different, and after eating some local special refreshments. They hurriedly emptied the coffee table and placed the stone stele that was placed on the side of the wall by Syfel as soon as they entered the door.
"What is written on this?" Zhu Yan frowned as he looked at the words on the steles. "I have seen the words of the Peacock Empire, but they are not like this."
"This is a kind of ancient script of the Peacock Empire, which is known as the inscriptions of the Lutti script. It has disappeared more than two thousand years ago." Lawrence found it in the knowledge given to him by the **** of knowledge in Lawrence's mind. Something related to the text in front of you. "However, unlike the standard Guludi script, the extraordinary group of people used this ancient script to further compile it so that it hides the information to be expressed in the text like a password."
"Ah, it's troublesome now." Zhu Yan said, leaning back on the sofa. "There are indeed people in my family who can use certain magic props to cast magic to obtain the secrets of this stone tablet, but the price paid will greatly reduce our gain this time."
Before getting the wealth, Zhu Yan thought that he would earn as much as he could harvest, so he would use the power of the family to help salvage those wealth. However, spending a large portion of the spoils obtained from this adventure makes people feel very painful. After all, the expected reduction in income and the withdrawal of money from your own pocket are two concepts.
"I don't think I need to use your power for the time being." Lawrence looked at the text in front of him and said, "I know the scriptures, and it's easy to restore the situation before the text was compiled by some simple means. "
After obtaining Shang Boliang’s language and writing talent from Jianmu Space before, Lawrence has reached a very high level in deciphering ancient characters. After observing these characters, he found that he may only need a few days to do it. Can translate these things.
Lawrence felt that this might be because the scriptures of the Peacock Empire belonged to a dead script and very few people knew them. Coupled with the terrible illiteracy rate of the Peacock Empire until today. So that group of extraordinary people back then simply compiled it as insurance, and did not use too complicated encryption.
"It would be great if this is the case." Zhu Yan said happily, because he knew that these kinds of things were often prepared to prevent the magic of prophecy from working, and the cost would be high if they wanted to crack it forcibly.
In the next three days, Lawrence tried his best to decipher the words on the stele in Zhu Yan's study. And Syfiel is beside him with the little doll Nara.
When Lawrence and the others got together to decipher the stele, Zhu Yan also fell into extreme busyness. On the one hand, it was because he wanted to count and appraise a large amount of wealth that he had previously caught from the sea, so as to calculate the value of this wealth as soon as possible. UU reading www.uukanshu. com
On the other hand, Okita Sakura's previous training on the astral plane and the battle with the bone naga brought her previous accumulation to a limit. At the same time, she used her own skills in the battle [Lakura. Infinite]. Let her have quite a sense of swordsmanship. After combining these reasons, Okita Sakura came back and rested for a night before retreating and trying to break through to become a full-scale swordsman.
Therefore, Zhu Yan was exhausted physically and mentally in the past two days. On the one hand, he was worried about his lover's breakthrough, on the other hand, he had to check the salvaged wealth, and finally he had to care about the progress of cracking the content on the stone tablet.
What surprised him was that on the third afternoon after everyone returned to the city, Zhu Yan dragged his tired body into the house after serving Okita Sakura, and found Lawrence and his female companion from the study. Came out and sat in the living room playing some kind of board game.
"Tell you good news." After seeing Zhu Yan walk into the door, Lawrence took out a notebook from his side and stood up. "I have translated the things on this stone tablet, which is really a big gain."
"What? Is it true?" Zhu Yan, who was tired from the toss of the past few days, immediately became energetic. "Quick! Hurry up and tell me what are the contents recorded above?"