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Chapter 143 The difference between archaeology and tomb robbing

The plane landed safely at the Qingyang Airport in Qingzhou Province. Two police cars and an ambulance drove directly onto the apron. Zhao Yuan, who was still in a coma, was carried into the ambulance, while Teng Peng was escorted in by Wang Jieshu.

Police car, in order to avoid having a negative impact on the team, Wang Jieshu covered Teng Peng's head with clothes when he got off the plane. He Wenning also learned about the incident immediately and issued a hush order in the team, and the matter was treated coldly.

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He Wenwen was the last one to get off the plane. She waited for everyone to get off the plane, then she ran all the way from the stewardess lounge without even touching the ground, and left the plane as if she was running away.

It’s not that she’s timid, she wouldn’t be timid enough to learn the art of digging graves. She’s just been particularly afraid of snakes since she was a child. Ever since she heard the word “snake”, she’s been hiding in the stewardess lounge, dying.

They refused to come out.

After getting off the plane, Miss He Jialiu immediately became energetic. She accompanied Du Lin to the local police to complete the record, and then took Du Lin to the night market.

Since the two of them were unfamiliar with each other in Qingyang City, He Wenwen found a male college classmate who lived in Qingyang City as an undergraduate.

The classmate He Wenwen found is called Zhou Wanchao. He is a rich second generation. His family runs a large local cultural market in Qingyang.

He Wenwen is the princess of Shanhe Industrial. Zhou Wanchao knew that he would definitely not be able to reach such a high level, but now that he had an excellent opportunity to curry favor with He Wenwen and Shanhe Industrial, he would certainly not let it go.

After reporting to his father, he followed his father's instructions and called his cousin Zhou Qianxue to accompany him, and went to his own cultural market with He Wenwen and Du Lin to visit the night market.

Du Lin and He Wenwen both thought that this cultural market should be a modern commercial building, but when they arrived, they realized that the so-called "market" was actually a large open-air courtyard on the outskirts of the city.

According to Zhou Wancao, this place is like a market during the day, with stalls next to each other selling all kinds of real and fake antiques and cultural items.

It becomes a night market at night. Although the items sold are antiques and cultural relics, the origins of the items sold during this period are not necessarily so formal.

As the manager of the market, Zhou Wanchao's company also pretends to be ignorant. Merchants are willing to sell and buyers are willing to buy, as long as the stalls are handed over to management on time.

Fei, they don't want to bother with these bad things.

The market is very large, covering more than 10,000 square meters, almost as big as two football fields.

The market is surrounded by a circle of shops, which mainly deal in antique ornaments, calligraphy, paintings and cultural toys. It is considered a "business". It is basically closed at this time.

A large open space in the middle is filled with various stalls distributed in a checkerboard shape. There are several tall lighting lamps erected around the market and in the middle, but they can only illuminate a few stalls under the lamps, and most of the other stalls are still open.

It's very dim.

A few people walked among the stalls and found that the night market here really sells everything, including antique calligraphy and paintings, ancient coins, old clocks, little people's books, stamp albums, and leaders.

Like Zhang Quotations, there are even several stalls selling stones.

Zhou Wanchao explained, "This is called gambling stone. It looks like an ordinary stone on the outside, but when you open it, it may be precious jade inside.

Don't look at them all claiming that the rough stones were transported from Burma and Ma. But I know that it would be good if five out of a hundred yuan here were actually transported from Burma and Ma.

The remaining ninety-five yuan was probably dug from the nearby mountains or fished from the river.

Are you interested in gambling on stones? If you are interested, I will take you to a stall that actually purchases goods from Burmese horses. I am familiar with the owner and he does not dare to lie to me."

He Wenwen patted Zhou Wanchao on the shoulder, "Look at what you said, which stall in this market would dare to lie to you?"

Zhou Wanchao smiled sheepishly, "Miss He, please stop teasing me. If you come to every stall here during the day, no one will dare to lie to me.

But those who set up stalls here at night come from all walks of life, and our market only charges them a symbolic management fee of 10 yuan per night.

If they want to come, they just pay the 10 yuan. If they don’t want to come, they can just slap their butts and leave. We have no restrictions on them at all. For example, there is that guy squatting over there who looks like an old farmer."

As he spoke, Zhou Wanchao pursed his lips in that direction.

"Despite his short stature and plain appearance, he is a well-known 'digger' in this market."

He Wenwen asked, "What is the purpose of digging a hole in the ground?"

"Actually, they are tomb robbers, who are often referred to as reverse fighters in novels."

He Wenwen asked strangely, "Even you know that he is a tomb robber, so don't your local police know?"

"I know, why don't you know? But as long as the tomb robbers are not caught, the police can't do anything to him. The police can't follow him 24 hours a day."

He Wenwen and Zhou Wanchao both studied archeology and were natural enemies of these tomb robbers, but they had many similarities.

For example, when archaeologists discover an ancient tomb, their first reaction is to keep it secret—never let the tomb robbers know.

If a tomb robber discovers an ancient tomb, his first reaction is to keep it secret - never let his colleagues know.

If archaeologists and tomb robbers discover a robbed ancient tomb, their first reaction will be what else is left inside?

So archeology and tomb robbing have many things in common.

The only difference is that they have different purposes for digging ancient tombs.

Archaeologists dig ancient tombs so that national culture can be passed on, while tomb robbers dig ancient tombs just to steal the cultural relics inside for personal gain.

One is for the public good, the other is for private purposes, one is to inherit the unique knowledge of the past saints, and the other is to disturb the ancestors and raise their corpses.

He Wenwen glanced at the man bitterly and cursed: "The tomb robber who suffered a thousand blows."

The man seemed to have heard something and turned his head to look in this direction. It didn't matter that he turned his head, but it shocked He Wenwen and Zhou Wanchao's sister Zhou Qianxue.

There was nothing unusual about that man's profile before. But when he turned around and saw his face, the other half of his face was covered with a terrible scar, as if it had been corroded by strong acid. Under the dim light,

It looks really scary.

Zhou Qianxue quickly pulled He Wenwen away, and Zhou Wanchao followed closely behind.

Before Du Lin left, he looked at the man carefully. The man also noticed Du Lin's gaze. After the two looked at each other in the air for a few seconds, Du Lin turned around and left.

Zhou Wanchao led everyone to the stall selling rough stones that he just introduced.
Chapter completed!
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