Chapter 52 The ancestors of the pit descendants
The British countryside, with a certain unique temperament, shows all the nobility and eternity of the country. The children of some hereditary aristocrats spent almost all their childhoods in their own country estates or castles. The Windsor family represented by the Queen is a typical English rural aristocrat.
"The real British are country people. This is true. The richer and more powerful, the more traditionally educated British people will be proud of it."
On Sunday morning, when Arthur and Emilia, who were driving the car in Dunsford Village, heard Paul, the butler driving the car, let them look at each other, and could only shake their heads and laugh with a smug words.
However, it has to be said that the scenery along the way is indeed beautiful. Dunsford Village is 6.5 kilometers away from Boling Manor, and is a typical ancient countryside in England. It is full of green fields in spring, summer, autumn and winter.
The antique towns and villages are like a group of paradise landscape paintings. The sight is covered by a piece of green shade. The quiet town of Dunsford is like a emerald that God sprinkles on the earth, crystal clear and shining.
“Lord, the church is here.”
The car drove along the stone road in the town for about three minutes, stopped in front of a Tudor-style church, and the butler Paul stopped the car and turned to Arthur in the back seat.
"Well, go down and take a look." Arthur nodded and said to Emilia, who was wearing a white shirt, gray-blue baseball uniform, white tight pencil pants, and a pair of high heels, said: "This church was built by the Bolin family, let's take a look."
"Okay." Emilia nodded with a sweet smile. After baptism, she seemed to look more beautiful, showing the style of a "woman".
The three of them got out of the car and looked at the church in front of them several times after several maintenance. They could still see the old appearance. The architectural style was very old. The flowers bloomed in the garden in front of them, and the fragrance of soil and plants was wafting in the air.
"It's the first time I've been to this church..." Arthur looked at Emilia and explained with a smile.
Emilia looked slightly surprised, but she did not ask curiously, because she saw an elegant and calm butler Paul's face, and she sighed: "It makes people feel peaceful and solemn."
"Lord, Miss Emilia, please"
The housekeeper Paul smiled and reached out to invite him.
Arthur pulled Emilia's hand and walked into the main entrance of the church together. It seemed that he knew that Arthur and the others were coming. An old pastor of the church was standing at the door with a smile on his face.
Paul, the butler who had been following Arthur half a seat behind, took two steps quickly, walked forward with a smile on his face, shook hands with the old pastor, and then hugged him gently.
"Earl, this is Father Stephen, the pastor of this parish." The housekeeper Paul introduced to Arthur, and then turned to Pastor Stephen: "This is Arthur Boling, the contemporary Earl of Boling..."
"Hello, Father, I am Arthur Bolin, I'm very happy to see you." Arthur reached out and shook hands with the other party with a serious attitude.
"Hello, Earl, I'm glad to do your part, Earl, your arrival is really a big surprise, and it's of great significance. This is." The smile on Pastor Stephen's face was very bright, his sparse hair, and the brightness of the Mediterranean head in the sun.
"Thank you, this is my girlfriend, Emilia." Arthur introduced with a smile. Although the British were reluctant to be asked about their names or introduced themselves when they first met, this was not a problem when facing a clergy.
"Hello, beautiful lady, I'm glad to meet you."
"Hello, Father..."
After a brief introduction and greeting, Father Stephen led Arthur and the other two to visit the country church built by the Bolin family.
“…Since entering this century, in the past nine years, about 25% of British people have admitted that they are not religious, and this proportion has continued to expand. Fewer and fewer people come to church.”
As Father Stephen walked, he spoke in a helpless tone of the church. He knew the elegance when he heard the song. Arthur naturally heard the priest's deep feelings. There were fewer people coming to the church, which meant that there were fewer donors. What was the meaning of what he meant to tell him about these things? He looked at the butler Paul with a calm face. The butler Paul looked at Arthur, blinked his eyes lightly, shook his head slightly, and showed off his expression without caring.
Arthur raised his eyebrows and no longer cared, but listened to the priest chattering with a smile on his face, not responding at all, but nodding from time to time with interest to echo.
"Earl, this is the coffin of Thomas Bolin, the 13th Earl of Bolin and his wife."
Walking into the memorial hall of the church, the housekeeper Paul introduced Arthur to two giant sarcophagus carved with figures of people above and said, "This church was built by Earl Thomas. It was in the era of the Invincible Armada. Every time he went to sea, he would bring back a large amount of gold, silver and jewelry. Legend has it that the countess' hair was filled with various jewelry, but later, these jewelry disappeared..."
Arthur's eyes lit up, and he immediately thought of the word 'treasure'. However, the butler Paul seemed to guess what he was thinking and said with a smile: "In 1865, Baldwin, the contemporary earl, was in debt of 700,000 pounds and fled to France..."
Without saying anything, this sentence awakened Arthur's treasure dream. Arthur couldn't help but laugh and shook his head, complaining that he was crazy about money. After all, his generation has been 30 generations. If there was really a treasure, it would have been dug out, so where would it be his turn? Sure enough, not only did he cheat his son, but his ancestors also cheated his descendants!
The disappointed Arthur was no longer interested in listening to the priest's chatter. Now this church has no longer had much to do with the Bolin family. I am afraid that he would think too much about trying to dig out money from his contemporary earl.
Therefore, in the priest's regretful and disappointed eyes, Arthur got into the car with Emilia with a smile on his face, and the housekeeper Paul started the car without hesitation and drove away from the church.
“Geeh…”
As soon as he left the church area, Emilia in the car couldn't help laughing. Looking at Emilia, who was so beautiful that she was so beautiful, Arthur couldn't help but pull the corners of her mouth, and said with a laugh and cry: "Dear, please be serious, your smile is so magical!"
"Hate!" Emilia beat Arthur upset. She heard Arthur complaining about her smile a lot. After restraining her smile a little, she said, "That priest is so interesting. She just wants to hold you and ask you to donate."
Arthur also shook his head and laughed, and Paul, the housekeeper who was driving, also looked at the two people in the rearview mirror with a smile, and said, "Earl, do you want to go to the old house to take a look?"
"Forget it, I won't go, let's go directly to the event venue." Arthur was no longer interested in continuing to visit. He looked at the image of the butler Paul in the rearview mirror and asked unwillingly: "Is there any treasure record or map in the family's historical records?"
"Haha, yes, when your father was alive, he also made this idea, searched for all the family notes, and really found some sketches of treasures from the notes, but he had not even dug a single gold coin, so he gave up in the end." The housekeeper Paul said with a smile.
The smile that had just appeared on Arthur's face froze completely. Before he could ask again, the housekeeper Paul inserted his knife and said, "Actually, Earl Thomas also left a treasure map, but you should imagine that no one would let go of this treasure map, so I would talk about Earl Baldwin, and your father called Earl Baldwin the biggest bad guy in the history of the Bolin family..."
Chapter completed!