Although Han Bingbing released this news last night.

By noon today, it had already attracted considerable attention online.

Many people even suspect that the discovered tomb might be the burial site of the so-called 'Last Prince of Persia, Bilus'.

Bilus was a descendant of the last emperor of the Persian Sassanid Dynasty. Later, when Persia was conquered by the Arab Empire, Bilus fled to the West Capital.

He even became one of the Great Tang Sixteen Guards Generals, and there is a statue of him in Tang Gaozong's Qianling.

So, although Han Bingbing only posted a short piece of news, the matter still caught quite a bit of attention.

After all, the possibility of the last Prince of Persia's tomb being in the West Capital is quite a sensational topic.

Most people know about the Prince of Persia from that game made by Ubisoft in France.

Now, upon suddenly hearing that the Prince of Persia might be in the West Capital, many people are intrigued.

Seeing the news was generating good engagement, Chen Yiyang spent money manually buying a few heat packages for Han Bingbing, pushing this issue onto the platform's trending list to attract more attention.

Once this matter was taken care of.

Chen Yiyang drove to the 100 acres of woodland he had purchased two days ago.

This woodland is not far from the Changling where Liu Bang and Lv Zhi are buried in West Capital City.

But for some reason, the surrounding area is quite desolate and hasn't been much developed.

Possibly because it's too close to a few emperor's mausoleums, in case a tomb is uncovered during construction, that would be troublesome.

Chen Yiyang inspected the land and found the soil to be dry, which explains why the previous contractor went bankrupt trying to plant there.

However, this also gave Chen Yiyang an excuse.

So, Chen Yiyang brought the land's contract to the local village committee.

"You young fellow don't look like you can farm, what's the point of contracting that land?" The village committee's secretary is a typical Guanzhong old man. He didn't really understand why Chen Yiyang wanted to contract over a hundred acres.

The previous contractor was an experienced farmer. Even he couldn't manage the land, yet a young man like Chen Yiyang bought the contract.

Isn't this just wasting money for fun?

"Just because he can't, doesn't mean I can't." Chen Yiyang portrayed himself as an overly confident young man, thinking he could make a name for himself here.

The secretary didn't have much to say seeing this, so he just asked what Chen Yiyang came to the village committee for.

"The land here is too dry, so it's difficult to grow fruit. I'm planning to dig a large water pond to store water and came to seek your permission."

"Oh, I see why you came here." The secretary pondered a bit, then said, "You can dig, but you need to hire locals for the work. Outsiders can't earn this money."

"Does the village have excavators?" Chen Yiyang asked.

"Yes, my son operates an excavator." The secretary puffed out a smoke ring and said, "Don't think I'm trying to swindle you, young outsider. My son's price will definitely be cheaper than outside."

If not, you can first survey the outside price for excavators, if my son's price is higher, I'll let you bring outsiders' excavators in."

"No problem, I'm not fussed about that."

Chen Yiyang implied he wasn't short of money. Then he got the phone number of the secretary's son and called him, telling him he wanted to dig a water pond.

The secretary's son soon arrived.

"Where to dig, how deep?" The old secretary's son, now in his 30s, looked honest and straightforward, and got straight to the point asking how to do the work.

Chen Yiyang recalled the map from earlier intelligence.

He quickly confirmed the location.

"Here, dig a pit 8 meters long and wide, and dig 4 meters deep."

After listening to Chen Yiyang's description.

The secretary's son furrowed his brows tightly.

"Digging a water pond here is inconvenient for water access, and digging 4 meters deep is a bit excessive."

"Don't worry, I'm a university student. I assure you it's okay." Chen Yiyang couldn't explain honestly, so he made up a reason.

"I'm an agricultural master's graduate." The secretary's son replied slowly after hearing Chen Yiyang.

"Really?"

"After graduating, couldn't find a job, girlfriend left. Later found out driving an excavator earns well, so now I specialize in that."

"Uh." Chen Yiyang didn't expect his made-up reason to run into a professional.

But fortunately, he had thick enough skin.

"No problem, just dig as I instructed. I'll still pay you."

"Alright then." The secretary's son saw Chen Yiyang was insistent, so he stopped arguing.

After all, the land belonged to Chen Yiyang, his digging, his choice.

Under Chen Yiyang's supervision, they dug until evening, and finally, a peculiar-shaped pond was completed.

Chen Yiyang sent the secretary's son home, while he returned to his apartment to sleep.

The next morning, Han Bingbing called him.

"The police made some inquiries, the news hasn't been published yet, so I'm giving you an early heads-up."

"Hurry up and tell me, what's going on?" Chen Yiyang was also curious about where those Middle Eastern antiques came from.

"You were right before, these antiques were indeed dug out from a tomb.

The vendor is a migrant worker. Two weeks ago, while their construction site was working, they dug up a tomb from the ground.

The boss was worried that reporting it to the police would delay the construction schedule. So, he told the migrant workers present to take the antiques from the tomb and then directly used construction machinery to level the tomb.

The boss told those migrant workers to dispose of the items they found themselves, but instructed them to wait a few years before selling them.

However, the migrant worker who sold me the stuff was short of money recently, so he came to sell the items at the Ghost Market at night.

Now, this migrant worker has confessed everything, and the police have taken control of the construction site's boss overnight.

This is big news!"

Han Bingbing couldn't hide her excitement in her tone.

It's not unusual to dig up antiques in West Capital City.

Digging up Middle Eastern antiques only attracts some curious looks.

It's not a big deal for the construction boss to cover up the tomb discovery; he's not the only boss who does that.

But combining all these factors, the impact becomes extremely negative.

Especially since the boss didn't choose to re-bury the tomb, but directly leveled it.

Moreover, among those who reported to the police this time, there is a foreigner named Isis.

Once this news is exposed, it's imaginable how big a sensation it'll cause.

"The police aren't letting me report it right now; I guess I'll have to wait a few days before I can report the whole story." Although Han Bingbing was eager to post this on her personal account immediately.

Her superior temporarily prohibited her from exposing the news, for the sake of the bigger picture.

Han Bingbing also understood, as the attitude from above is very important in such matters.

After hanging up the phone with Han Bingbing, Chen Yiyang glanced at today's intelligence.

Today's intelligence, the porcelain bottle engraved by elderly Banding: Inside the tea set shop at 782 Nanyang Road, Weiyang District, West Capital City, there is a Taibai Drunkard Porcelain Bottle engraved by elderly Banding on sale. Purchase for five thousand yuan or less to succeed in snapping up a bargain.

Elderly Banding?

After reading the intelligence, Chen Yiyang looked up this name.

Elderly Banding, also known as Chen Banding, also known as Chen Nian. His teacher was none other than Wu Changshuo, the original owner of the inkstone Chen Yiyang bought earlier.

Although Elderly Banding came from a poor family, he studied literature and culture from a young age and was proficient in painting, calligraphy, and seal carving.

Although he was a modern figure who died in 1970, his representative works are prohibited from being sold abroad.

Chen Yiyang looked up the masterpiece prices under this master's name.

He found that his paintings and calligraphy were relatively more valuable, while porcelain bottles, if authenticated, are generally worth between fifty thousand to one hundred thousand.

Last time Mr. Yu helped him out, so this teapot could be purchased to thank him.

Thinking of this, Chen Yiyang went to the place mentioned in the intelligence after finishing his meal.

This was a typical tea set shop, mainly selling various eye-catching tea sets, such as purple clay teapots made by renowned artists, which were casually worth tens of thousands in this shop.

On the contrary, some tea sets made of ordinary materials turned out to be relatively cheap items here.

Chen Yiyang found the tea set painted with the Taibai Drunkard pattern in a section marked with antique tea sets.

"Boss, how much is this?" Chen Yiyang asked.

The tea set shop's boss took a look at the tea set Chen Yiyang was pointing at and thought for a moment, then said, "This is also an antique tea set I collected from the outside. If you want to buy it, just give me some profit. How about eight thousand and you take it?"

"Boss," Chen Yiyang listened to the boss's offer, pointed out the material and style of the porcelain bottle, and said, "This is obviously an industrial product made after the founding of the nation, how can it still count as an antique?"

"This." The boss took a careful look.

He found that this porcelain bottle was indeed an industrial artwork.

"How did it get placed in the antique tea set section?" The boss slapped his forehead.

It's quite normal for many tea sets bought here to not sell for years.

So, the boss had forgotten when he bought this porcelain bottle.

But since it's clearly a modern item, the boss couldn't quote a random high price, so he had to find an excuse and said, "Look at the pattern on it, isn't it hand-engraved?"

"The material is modern, it can't possibly be engraved by an ancient person who time-traveled here. Boss, isn't it excessive to sell this as an antique?"

"Alright, alright." The tea set shop boss was thoroughly confused by Chen Yiyang.

"Take it for a thousand." The boss said.

"Eight hundred." Chen Yiyang replied.

"Eight hundred eighty, just treat it as a lucky number." The boss completely gave up bargaining with Chen Yiyang and casually raised the price by eighty yuan.

"Deal." Chen Yiyang didn't expect to buy the Taibai Drunkard Porcelain Bottle engraved by Elderly Banding for such a low price.

The main reason was that the style of this porcelain bottle was indeed an industrial product made after the founding of the country.

So the boss got confused and thought he had put things in the wrong section.

Taibai Drunkard Porcelain Bottle.

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