Getting the best from Tarkov

Chapter 227 Yellow Monkey

"By the way, Liao, where does this Cretia come from? Why is his background so strong? Could his ancestors have been part of the Eight-Nation Alliance?"

Hearing Tang Zhenguo's question, Liao Fan put down the teacup in his hand, sorted out his thoughts and said, "Before Yang Xue came back, she told me about the Cretia family.

They are not descendants of the Napo coalition forces, but descendants of a group of missionaries.

It was the end of the Qing Dynasty. They followed the Italian coalition forces to China and began to preach in China.

You should also understand that during that special period, people's lives were very hard, and this situation was the most likely to breed faith.

Therefore, their efforts to recruit followers went smoothly at first, but at that time, due to internal and external troubles, Buddhism was in retreat, while Taoism was fighting against invasion. This made it difficult for them to gain attention as the vanguard of foreign sects.

But although it was okay at the beginning, there were only so many people in total, and they were all being pulled to believe in God, so naturally no one believed in Buddhism or the Three Pure Ones.

Later, the local sect came to its senses and began to hunt down and intercept these missionaries.

And this Cretia's ancestor was obviously the smarter one among that group of missionaries.

As soon as he saw that something was wrong, he immediately hid himself, thus avoiding the initial crackdown.

Later, when the storm had passed, Cretia's ancestors planned to return to their country. After all, they were not just preaching in China, but also making a lot of money.

But this is when the wisdom of Cretia's ancestors was revealed.

Other missionaries returned home with gold, silver, and jewelry. Those things were large and heavy, and one person could not carry much with him.

Cretia's ancestors did not bring the gold and silver directly, but contacted a warlord near their place of residence through their believers.

They also used gold, silver and treasures to exchange for many antiques they brought out of the tomb from the warlord.

Among these antiques, calligraphy and paintings are the most traded.

I guess what Cretia's ancestors thought at the time was that since these things could make the previous rulers unwilling to throw them away even at death, they must have their own unique features. In addition, calligraphy and paintings take up the least space, and warlords also value these flowery things the least.

So he really changed a lot on that trip.

I guess what Cretia brought this time might not even be one-tenth or one-twelfth of their family collection.

After looting from the warlords, Cretia's ancestors collected some from the local wealthy people, and finally returned home with a large number of antiques.

As Cretia's ancestors declined over the years, they also sold many of the treasures handed down from their ancestors. However, Chinese antiques were only collected overseas in recent years.

Therefore, most of the things left in their home are probably Chinese antiques."

After telling this information, Liao Fan ignored the two people who were still immersed in that tragic history, and got up and returned to the study alone.

After opening the secret room and logging into Tarkov, Liao Fan looked at the pile of antique books in the trash can and finally decided to sell them to the old lady in batches.

Finally, when Liao Fan quit the game, he took out a total of 12 items from the conversion space.

Four of them are ancient books left over from the European Middle Ages. Liao Fan checked them online and found that they are basically books about religious beliefs.

It is a bit like a collection of Chinese myths. This kind of children's book naturally has no appeal to Liao Fan, but don't forget that European history is short. Just like the United States never conducts archaeological excavations in its own country, they are also afraid that they will dig up a lot of dark history.

In addition to these four collections of mythological stories, there are five other ancient Chinese thread-bound books, but after he opened them and studied the contents, he immediately lost interest.

Most of these five books are novels-like reading materials from ancient China.

Liao Fan understood this point. The Four Great Classics were all reading materials in ancient times, but this does not mean that there were only these four entertainment books in ancient times.

However, one of them still surprised Liao Fan.

Because the content of that book is not a story, or it does not look like a story, but rather a record that is somewhat similar to unofficial history.

There is no signature on the entire book, and the cover only has the three words "Daily Record".

At first, Liao Fan thought that this was a record of the daily life of an emperor, but later he found out that it was not, or not entirely, because the protagonist of this book was not an emperor, but someone like a princess or concubine.

Liao Fan, who had extremely little knowledge of history, was unable to figure out who it was for a moment, so he put it aside and planned to let the two guys outside take a look at it when he had time, or give it to Mr. Qian to take a look.

Apart from these nine books, the remaining three items are three oil paintings.

The three paintings depict several women surrounding a beautiful woman on a swing, a baby waiting to be blessed by an angel, and a dead dove.

Looking at the three oil paintings in front of him, Liao Fan looked left and right, and finally sighed, unable to appreciate them.

At this time, in the hotel room, Cretia was lying on the bed answering the phone.

"Yes sir, I saw them."

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"Um, sir, wouldn't that be too obvious?"

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"Okay, I understand, sir, I'll see to it."

After hanging up the phone, Cretia curled her lips and muttered softly, "Lucky yellow monkey, I'll play with you for two more days."

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The next day, Liao Fan came to the hotel early after breakfast. As usual, he first chatted with Wang Sizhe. After showing him the photos of the three paintings, Wang Sizhe was stunned at first, and then he understood what Liao Fan meant.

Look at Ye Zi, as the temporary owner, he plans to leave all the calligraphy and paintings in Hong Kong.

After chatting with Wang Sizhe for a while, Wilson sent a message saying that he had picked up Tang Zhenguo and would arrive at the airport soon. Liao Fan then got up and accompanied Wang Siqi to the hotel restaurant.

To be honest, although it is a five-star hotel, Liao Fan was really disappointed with the breakfast at the Ritz-Carlton.

In addition to the same old ham, there are various kinds of bread, rice rolls and some fried snacks.

To be honest, these things are basically the same for a hotel with a restaurant, and they don't reflect the difference of a five-star hotel at all. After all, you spend thousands of dollars a night!

As Liao Fan was grumbling and munching on a small cake with his coffee, Wang Sizhe, who was enjoying his meal beside him, suddenly approached Liao Fan mysteriously and asked, "Mr. Liao, can I ask you a question? Something about Mr. Tang Zhenguo yesterday?"

Just as he was about to swallow the cheesecake in his mouth, he suddenly heard Wang Sizhe asking this. Liao Fan was slightly stunned, but quickly swallowed the food in his mouth and said, "Sure, but there are some things I can't say. After all, it's not good for us to talk about others behind their backs."

"Yeah, I see. I'm just curious about the direction. Actually, I want to ask, is this Mr. Tang a native of Hong Kong?"

Liao Fan thought for a moment and said, "No, I remember Mr. Tang came to Hong Kong from the inland, but he has been here for a long time."

"Oh, I see. Then do you know if Mr. Tang has been back to the inland area recently?"

This reassured Liao Fan. He turned around with some doubt and asked, "How long is the period you are talking about?"

Wang Sizhe thought about it and said uncertainly: "It should be in the past five years, around this time period, no more than five years."

After hearing this, Liao Fan rolled his eyes. The time span is 5 years, and you have the nerve to say it is in recent times?