Chen Jing walked up to Professor Chen who was resting next to him wearing a safety helmet and holding a thermos teacup in his hand, and shouted: "Professor Chen."

Professor Chen saw Chen Jing with a smile on his face: "Xiao Chen is here. How about it? This is the archaeological excavation site. Is it different from what you imagined?"

When Chen Jing heard this, he looked at the entire sunken tomb, which was not small in size. He nodded and said, "It's different. It feels quite boring." He was telling the truth.

The entire process of archaeological excavation requires extreme meticulousness. Some key places may even take several days or even longer. It is not boring to excavate carefully bit by bit.

But after telling the truth, Chen Jing added: "But if we can find some important cultural relics or some records that can support history, then all this boring work will be worth it. It will definitely feel good."

When Professor Chen heard his first sentence, he just nodded slightly. When he heard the second sentence, he couldn't help laughing: "Haha, yes, Xiao Chen, you really hit the point, that feeling

That’s the real high-level happiness.”

Chen Jing smiled and said yes, but in his heart he definitely couldn't understand it. At least at this stage, he couldn't understand the so-called "high-level happiness" that Professor Chen said.

"Come on, I'll take you down to have a look. This ancient tomb is very interesting."

Professor Chen asked someone to get a safety helmet for Chen Jing, and then carefully descended into the tomb.

"Xiao Chen, look at the layout design of the main tomb and several side tombs, which have a very obvious Han style. But in other places, the style of this ancient tomb is a typical Mongolian tomb style, especially the main tomb, which looks like a yurt.

There are also Mongolian-style murals at the top and entrance..."

Professor Chen patiently explained to Chen Jing the situation of this Yuan Dynasty tomb while walking.

Although Chen Jing said that the purpose of coming here was to confirm whether the Yuan Dynasty sheepskin was still in the tomb, he himself was a studious person, and since Professor Chen was explaining, he naturally listened very carefully.

However, Professor Chen's words confirmed Uncle Zhao's original guess that this ancient tomb was indeed the tomb of the Mongols of the Yuan Dynasty, but it was built with the Han tomb construction style in mind.

Walking into the main tomb chamber, which looked like a yurt, Chen Jing's eyes immediately fell on a hole on the top. He frowned and asked, "Professor Chen, is that a robbery hole?"

Professor Chen sighed: "Well, hole robbers, this group of tomb robbers are very professional. They directly found the location of the main tomb chamber and dug the hole in from above. They must be an old tomb robber gang."

Very professional, old tomb robber gang...

Chen Jing's eyes flickered, and then he scanned the entire main tomb chamber. It was obviously a place where funerary objects were placed, but it was now empty.

Immediately, Chen Jing looked at the huge coffin located in the center of the tomb. The lid of the coffin had been violently opened long ago. He walked over carefully and looked inside. It was also empty. The bones should have been transported away by the relevant departments.

Already.

"Professor Chen, have all the funerary objects inside been stolen?" Chen Jing returned to Professor Chen and asked pretending to be curious.

Professor Chen responded: "Well, everything in the main tomb chamber is gone. There are still some in the other side tomb chambers, but they are all ordinary things and have little research value."

As he spoke, Professor Chen sighed, and looked at the murals on the walls of the main tomb with some luck, and said: "Fortunately, these precious murals are still there. Look, Xiao Chen, these murals tell the story of the tomb owner.

story."

"He is a descendant of the heroes who invaded the Central Plains in the Yuan Dynasty. He was a member of the aristocratic class at that time, and he was a member of the provincial government..." Professor Chen pointed to the mural and explained to Chen Jing the identity of the tomb owner in sequence.

Chen Jing still listened extremely carefully.

Seeing that he was so serious, Professor Chen couldn't help but show a hint of appreciation in his eyes, and his attitude towards him became a little more friendly.

After Professor Chen looked around in the rather large tomb, Chen Jing pretended to be casual and expressed that he was also curious about the funerary objects found in the side tomb and wanted to take a look.

Professor Chen knew that he was in the antique business, so he was not too surprised by this. He took him to the tent where the funerary objects were temporarily placed and took a look. They were indeed ordinary things that were used by the owner of the tomb.

Some daily necessities.

Among them, there was no trace of another sheepskin.

"It seems that it fell into the hands of that group of tomb robbers." Chen Jing's eyes became a little more solemn, but fortunately he determined the direction of the search, and then he had to find a way to find the group of tomb robbers.

This is a troublesome matter, but fortunately, Chen Jing has a clue at the moment.

…………

Chen Jing stayed at the Xiaonanshan Ancient Tomb until the evening, and was even dragged away by Professor Chen for dinner before leaving.

Professor Chen finally found a young man who was interested in archaeological excavation. He really explained some professional knowledge to him. This was the excuse Chen Jing made. He couldn't show that he was in a hurry, so he could only say

I listened obediently all afternoon.

Driving back to Changcheng, Chen Jing did not go directly back to Tianxueshan Community, but went straight to the antique street and walked around, using up today's appraisal times while looking for someone.

Soon after, Chen Jing found the person he was looking for.

"Hou Si?" Chen Jing squatted down in front of a street stall and looked at the stall owner who had a sharp mouth and a monkey's face.

The stall owner was slightly startled and nodded: "It's me, are you?"

It's him, Chen Jing thought to himself. This Hou Si is also a celebrity on the antique street. It's not that he has a great eye for appraisal, but that he is well-informed and knows a lot of people from all walks of life.

, he knows people from all walks of life.

Zhao Zheng and Chen Jing had mentioned Hou Si before, saying that sometimes he might be able to find a buyer for some extremely unpopular items that were difficult to sell.

To put it bluntly, Sipo now looks a bit like the brokers of the early years. In today's terms, they are intermediaries.

But in fact, the brokers in the early years were more than just intermediaries. They also sold news and intelligence. Many of these people were active during the Anti-Japanese War.

In modern times, brokers have almost disappeared and only exist in some special industries and regions, and they are not so pure.

Chen Jing could remember this Hou Si because he wanted to find him if he could get some particularly unpopular antiques in the future. However, he was looking for him now because of something else.

"I heard that you are very well-informed. How much do you know about the Xiaonanshan Ancient Tomb?" Chen Jing didn't waste any time. Seeing that there was no one around, he lowered his voice and asked.

When Hou Si heard this, he narrowed his eyes and said with a smile: "Sir, I don't understand what you are talking about."

Chen Jing chuckled lightly and picked up an extremely fake object from Hou Si's stall: "How do you sell this thing?"

"Sir, I think you look familiar." Hou Si did not respond to Chen Jing's words. Instead, he looked at him carefully and asked.
Chapter completed!