They found him in a nursing home. He had a tick after a stroke. He spoke poorly. historians took him home. Issued custody. He is alive, but very disappointed in people. Now he lives at home with one of his students. Since his house, apartment, car, his second wife sold. And the first wife refused him. An unenviable fate. The local historian was sent to retire, how can he teach at the university? The pension is small, only 130 dollars.

Dara remembered his fate, looking unkindly at the back of an unsuspecting Barno. Dara did not believe people. Love? No, no, he didn't know what it is ?! Money? Oh yeah, baby! Money, they will always help! Only need more of them and keep away from everyone! Therefore, Dara hoped to get as much as possible from this trip. When else will he be able to travel so far from the city! And this young lioness, from a wealthy family, he does not need! For example, a local history professor was in front of his eyes!

Museum of the history of the city ... the idea was stolen, someone else received funding, began to create it almost one-on-one with the project of the old local historian. But he did not get a broken cent from his idea.

Such crazy thoughts flashed through Dara's head.

Digging a hole, Dara found that it turns out he found the entrance to the cellar. It was already something interesting! Usually in the cellars, one could profit from interesting finds!

Picking up a metal detector, Dara began to check the walls. but everything was empty there. The corners are empty too. There are not always finds. Almost all the bricks on the floor were broken. And on them there was no mark about the manufacturer, it was some kind of incorrect bricks.

Dara was already desperate to find something, wasted time in vain, but decided to raise the floor of the cellar. I had to tinker. Another 1 hour time. But it seems it was worth it, under the bricks of the floor, Dara immediately discovered a gold cover from under a pocket watch. Only the cover, the mechanism itself was not. It was curious afterward that the clock was at least the 19th century. So, there was already someone here before him? Probably some European researchers and maybe officers. Since each officer was instructed to rob the ruins seen before him and the treasures received, they were to be handed over to a special commission for the study of archeology under the governor-general of the new colonies.

Maybe this is his watch? Some kind of officer? Who knows ... there are practically no materials left. A lot of archival data was exported to the metropolis; some of the archival data in Small An were burned with the independence to end the colonial past. So what the hell do you find ?! One can only build hypotheses and assumptions. But how true are they? This is a completely different question ?!

Dara picked up a metal detector, and very encouraging signals 98, 87, 88 were sent. It was something good, precious metals!

Dara took out a cast-iron pot from the ground, with a cast-iron lid. usually, the covers were wooden, but here it was cast iron. He saw such bowlers very rarely. They were used only by senior officers in the first empire. The lid served as a frying pan. The boiler itself was heavy.

Grunting, Dara picked it up with difficulty. I had to tie a rope and ask the driver to help him pull the boiler to the surface. In appearance, the boiler would be 20 liters. Having barely opened the lid, both were only able to grasp.

Inside were silver and gold coins, interspersed with a lot of them. Do not even count at first glance, here and there, crosses peeking out of coins. These were the medals of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The dates were indicated there - "For the conquest of Small-An, the White Fortress, 1898", "For the suppression of the uprising in the Red Fort in 1904", "For the suppression of the rebellion in the Dragon Fortress in 1889". And also crosses - medals for the first world war. Some were white, others yellow, some red with swords. Medals were also made from gems, rubies, diamonds, emeralds, pearls. And the metal was silver and gold.

With trembling hands, Dara took out a backpack, a canvas tent - 4 square meters. meter. With the driver, they turned the cauldron over, a lot of coins spilled onto the tarpaulin. Amazingly, there was jewelry at the bottom. But from silver. Obviously they were taken from the locals, probably these mountains. Since there was mostly cheap turquoise, rough diamonds, garnets, rhinestone, and silver coin pendants.

The boiler itself contained a stigma, it was written - Lankoshire, Thomas Plant beyond the letter is not very legible and the date is 1908. It can be seen that the boiler is also not simple, with a history, which means that it could be sold for a lot of money. But I still had to clarify the data on the Internet

Without a word, Dara and the Driver silently tied money into a knot and carried it to a jeep, followed by a cauldron with a lid. Since there is a lot of money, someone will see, there will be many problems. Since envy pushes people to many rash acts. They covered everything they found with a spare, old rags. To disassemble what they found is better in the capital, and not at the base. Since obviously, the treasure was pulling a couple of hundred thousand dollars.

Dara said in a half-whisper to the driver:

"Dear, we are counted, I will not forget your share!"

What the driver just nodded! All is fair! Who will refuse money is obviously a good jackpot. He will not be out of place with him.

They returned to the place, the driver also jumped int,o the cellar, of course it's twice difficult in one place, something valuable to find, but who knows? Maybe something is? Check does not interfere ?!!