175 episodes. No, this time on a treasure hunt.
“Edward, what’s there for you to keep digging?”
At Jackie’s words, he leaned back and took a deep breath.
– Kwok.
When I put the shovel on the floor, Jackie came up to me and handed me a bottle of water and a towel.
“Wow, thank you.”
“What are you looking for?”
“Wait a minute. I’m almost done.”
After quenching my thirst, I started shoveling again.
Would that have been enough?
I threw the shovel away and ran my hand along one side of the pit to shake off the dirt.
‘Bingo, I found it.’
A turquoise rough stone the size of a thumb.
Even though it looked like a mere stone, it contained tremendous value.
“Is that sapphire?”
Jackie looked at the rough seat and asked for his identity.
Madagascar is a famous sapphire production area, so it seems to be presumed that way.
Well, the color is turquoise.
“Ding!”
“Then is it an emerald?”
“No, this time, Ding!”
“Give me a moment.”
She took the rough seat and looked through a magnifying glass, but tilted her head.
“Jackie, to give you a hint, it’s a rare precious metal first discovered in Madagascar.”
“……!”
Whoops, I think the hint was too straight forward.
It’s easy to find out right away.
“I know?”
“Grandie Light! Right?”
“Ding dong ding! Ha ha ha.”
“It’s my first time seeing you. Wow…”
“It’s Jackie’s, so take it.”
“Is it mine?”
“I told you before. Let’s go find the jewelry for that necklace together. Until now, I couldn’t keep my promise because I couldn’t go to a proper precious metal mine, but now I can keep it.”
Jackie took out the heart necklace that was hanging around his neck and looked at the rough stone of the Gladidia Light.
“It would be perfect if processed. But I think this is too expensive to receive as a gift…”
Her reaction is not unreasonable.
Grandi Deerite boasts of such a high value that it ranks in the top 3 among colored gems discovered so far.
In other words, it is more expensive than a diamond.
“You saw what you just picked up from the ground. Don’t be afraid to take it. I’ll find the other gems for the rest of the heart later.”
“……”
Jackie pursed his lips and silently shoved the rough seat into his pocket.
“It’s here.”
“yes.”
“There is a vein of Grandi Deerite in the ground. It’s not a lot, but in terms of the value of a gem, it’s as large as any other gold mine.”
“Really? No Grandi Deerite veins have been discovered yet. So, this will be the world’s first mine, right?”
I nodded and said.
“Perhaps if this is developed, the price of Grandi Deerite will drop slightly.”
“Still, it’s a huge thing for Madagascar, because it monopolizes the supply of one rare gem.”
There is a supply chain that is not discovered by chance, as it has been until now.
That means Grandi Deerite can become a specialty.
Although Madagascar is a rare deposit of precious metals in the world, such as sapphires, emeralds, garnets, and aquamarines, the world’s top 10 rare gems had a special meaning.
“Shall we go to the next course?”
“Where are you going this time?”
“The sea.”
“Sea? Is it an undersea oil field?”
I grinned and shook my head.
“No, this time it’s a treasure hunt.”
***
It was when I went to find oil fields in Nova Scotia, Canada.
I was busy, but I made time to visit the tourist spots in the area for a while.
That’s Oak Island.
It was not because there was a unique secret, but because there was a legend that the treasure of the pirate William Kidd was buried there.
Out of curiosity, I looked through a pit called the Money pit with clairvoyance.
But there were no treasures there, and there was a time when I left thinking that a legend is just a legend.
And now I have found the island of St. Marie.
It is located in the northeast of Madagascar, and it was an island I visited once when I was searching for a well a while ago.
At that time, as I was flying in the sky on a helicopter, I saw a shipwreck buried in the sea.
When I asked the villagers, they were told that the area around St. Marie was the den where the most pirates in Madagascar were in the past.
And here too, legends like Oak Island have been passed down through oral tradition.
A world-famous pirate, William Kidd, a pirate I heard from Oak Island, hid an enormous amount of gold and silver treasures.
“You’re going to find Captain Kidd’s treasure?”
“yes.”
At my answer without hesitation, Jackie couldn’t hide his absurd expression.
“Edward, of course, it is a famous anecdote that Captain Kidd hid treasures all over the world. It was also the motif of the novel Treasure Island. Until now, many people have tried to find it. ?Captain Kidd’s base was here.”
But they didn’t have clairvoyance.
“Follow me for now. I’ll show you proof that I can find it. There’s a place I’ve noticed when I’ve been here before.”
“Where are you?”
“Porvans. Did you see it when you came before?”
“A grave?”
“yes.”
I took Jackie to the place where the world’s only pirate tomb is located.
There were old tombstones with the names of the pirates.
“Would you mind holding my bag for a second?”
I left my backpack with Jackie, picked one of the monuments, and walked over to it.
Then he kicked it and knocked it down.
“What are you doing?”
“It’s a treasure hunt.”
Then, holding a jjang stone, he took a picture of the underside of the fallen tombstone.
– Thump thump, thump thump.
As the broken stones fell, a small wooden box was found inside.
“Voah! This is one of the proofs of the treasure on this island.”
Originally, I was going to sneak in later and try to find it.
That way, there will be no troublesome disputes with the government over the ownership of the treasure.
– Kick.
When you open the old lid, it is full of silver coins.
A silver coin with the seal of the British royal family in the 17th century.
It has historical value not only as silver, but also as an antique.
“Wow! Is this Captain Kidd’s treasure?”
“no.”
I continued, pointing to the name of the tombstone.
“Probably one of the treasures of a pirate named John Fro, who owns this tombstone. We must find the treasure of Captain Kidd now.”
The treasure hunt is only a matter of time.
I slowly toured Porbans Island with Jackie and crossed over to St. Marie Island.
Suddenly, the setting sun was over the coastline, creating a fantastic atmosphere along with the untouched nature.
“There might be Australia over there.”
I nodded at Jackie’s words.
As she said, if you cross the Indian Ocean, Madagascar and Australia are at the same latitude.
“I’m going back to Australia when I’m done. Be patient.”
“I’m sorry. It’s a pity that this expedition ends like this. Hoho.”
I smiled and said to her.
“I haven’t been to Europe or Russia on this expedition, so I’ll go there together later.”
At my words, Jackie looked at me with her back to the crimson sunset.
With a smile, she burst into my mind with the atmosphere of the background.
‘Wow······’
I wonder if this is a heart attack.
It was as if a scene in a movie was unfolding in front of me, to the point of not having a sense of reality.
“Edward.”
“……Yes Yes.”
“You have nothing to say to me?”
She asked, fiddling with the necklace she was wearing around her neck.
“……!”
I was confused as if the sense of reality that had already disappeared had crossed a river of no return.
‘Are you sure you like me? really?’
Henry and Helen were trying so hard to put them together, so I thought Jackie would have the same idea as me.
After we got to know each other, we exchanged text messages almost every day, but the content and frequency were at a level that we could just come and go between friends.
But when I think about it, I thought that putting aside my doctoral program for a long time of a year and doing an expedition together to help me just couldn’t be with friends.
Now that I think about it, I think I pushed it one-sidedly.
On the surface, I used Henry’s excuses, but on the inside, there were many walls that I had built myself.
From the narrow view that she is a Westerner and I am an Asian, I compared her pretty face as an actress with my ordinary appearance, as well as having a nonsensical delusion that the pretext for breaking up with Jessica in the past was the beginning of a text message with Jackie. will be built
‘It’s like such an idiot…’
If you like it, you like it, and if you don’t like it, you don’t like it.
I don’t know what the East and the West are like, how they look, or why they paid attention to useless and unimportant things.
If you answered that you have nothing to say here, you would be a real idiot.
“I have, I have something to say.”
In response to my answer, Jackie walked over to me, stepping on the sand.
It seemed that he could not hear the sound of the waves getting stronger.
“Jackie, what do you want to say…”
She came closer and silently embraced her neck with her slender arms.
yes, what needs to be said?
I slowly licked her lips.
The purple beach seemed to bless the two of us.
***
In the Pirate Island, St. Marie, I got a lot more than I thought.
It’s because I got Jackie’s heart that won’t change even if I give him a hundred or a thousand times the treasure of Captain Kidd’s hidden treasure.
From that day on, we quickly grew closer and continued our treasure hunt around the islands off the coast of Madagascar.
I found it, what else are you looking for?
Captain Kidd’s treasure was a map, and it marked the hidden locations of the treasures of the pirates Robert Culford, Olivier Löbasseur, and Adam Baldridge before and after Captain Kidd.
“It’s not like there was Treasure Island in the novel.”
I checked the last location with my eyes and folded the map and put it in my arms.
In the past, there was no Suez Canal, so the route connecting Europe and India had to pass through Madagascar, but it seems that pirates really turned the trade ships a lot.
Seeing that there are still so many treasures left.
“Edward, the treasures you found. Are you going to give them to the government?”
“That will be decided after meeting with President Andrea. Will you give it all or just a portion?”
The revival of Madagascar should be worth the investment if you can get something bigger.
If it’s not a big bowl, I’m just going to loosen a small amount for the purpose of obtaining the Ammatovy Mine.
I smiled and hugged her shoulder and continued.
“Jackie, shall we live while digging or something?”
“Ho-ho, maybe that’s more helpful for human history than mines.”
Heh, like Indiana Jones.
There may still be hidden treasures or unknown remains in the world, but my heart is pounding.
“Then let’s study little by little from now on.”
“Yes? Study? What?”
“Archaeology. How can the excavation be as fast as this time? You need to know the history and culture of the excavation site, as well as be able to decipher texts.”
“……Uh…Umm, wife, take it slow. Slowly. I’m busy with mines right now.”
What are you studying again?
There’s no end to this guy’s studies!
“Of course, you have to do it slowly. How difficult is archeology. Let’s learn together at university. If you ask Professor Coober, he will introduce you.”
Jackie smiled bashfully and expressed his enthusiasm that he would also learn archeology this time.
I dug up my grave by making a silly noise.
Archeology, that’s in English.
– Jiying. Jiying.
Then I received a call from salvation to save me.
“Jackie, wait a minute.”
I checked the caller and it was Park Sung-chan, the president.
“Yes, Doctor. What are you doing?”
– CEO Jin, where are you now? I met Miss Rose, and she said that she did not know the whereabouts of the representative Jin.
“I’m on the south side for work, what are you doing?”
– It’s no different, you know what I was talking about at the time, right?
“Are you talking about Ammatovy?”
-yes.
“You seem to have changed your mind.”
– I’m begging you regardless. Please join us too.
“What do you think of the stake?”
– I’ll pass it on to All Mining. Bake or boil, you can do whatever you want.
The corners of the lips rise by themselves.
As expected, Park Sung-chan brought the stake as a gift.
“I will leave immediately. It will take a day, so come to the de Goldie Hotel at this time tomorrow.”
-Thank you, CEO Jin. for giving me this chance
“A few words, between us.”
I’m more grateful to you for giving me a heavy gift.