Almighty Appraiser

Chapter 561 I Want to Hear Your Opinion
The archaeology was over that day, and it was time to return to the hotel. Mr. Qi and Mr. Wang from the Cultural Protection Bureau came over to "disturb" Wu Yanan's desire to share a car with Shen Yunfeng.

Two old foxes with a combined age of over 130 sat in the back seat of the Q8 and said that they would go to Director Qiu at night and ask Shen Yunfeng to attend the opening ceremony tomorrow.

Because of that dream, Shen Yunfeng really wanted to see right away, the moment the coffin was opened, whether the male corpse lying inside was wearing a fox hood, and he must have been very upset when he heard that two old foxes wanted to recommend him. I am very happy and grateful to the two of you.

I never thought that during dinner, some experts and bosses in the archaeological team somehow made a fuss, overturned the previous conclusion, and doubted the identity of the owner of the tomb, thinking that it was not a military officer. It should be civil servants, or local tyrants and landlords.

Those who hold this view are mainly Professor Yang, an authority in archeology at Han University.

However, Mr. Qi, Mr. Wang and others from the Bureau of Cultural Protection still insisted on their original point of view, believing that the owner of the ancient tomb was a general.

For this reason, the two groups quarreled endlessly, and finally went to Director Qiu, but there was still no conclusion.

Shen Yunfeng didn't sleep well either, because the two people in the next room had exactly opposite views, and they didn't stop lying on the bed, arguing over their respective positions with red faces.

In the early morning of the next day, Shen Yunfeng rushed to the restaurant early, wanting to take advantage of the lack of people and sneak away after breakfast, so as not to be disturbed.

However, after finishing the meal and looking for a secluded place to sit down and prepare to eat, I saw a few bosses of the archaeological team and a group of team members, surrounded by Director Qiu with a tired face, walking in.

Because this is the restaurant of the hotel, there were other guests who got up early and came to have breakfast, so the few bosses who had been arguing for most of the night last night restrained a little, did not continue to argue, and each found a place to eat first.

Shen Yunfeng took a few glances and saw that Mr. Qi and Mr. Wang didn't notice him, so he immersed himself in eating quickly and prepared to run away.

While he was eating, he felt his eyes darken. When he looked up, Director Qiu was standing in front of him holding a dinner plate.

Just when Shen Yunfeng was about to stand up, Director Qiu raised his hand and pressed it down, and said with a smile: "It doesn't matter, you eat your food. I saw you sitting here alone, so I came over."

"Not bothering you, right?"

Shen Yunfeng couldn't figure out the purpose of Director Qiu's coming, so he smiled and said, "Don't bother me, Director Qiu, please sit down."

Director Qiu put down the plate, sat across from Shen Yunfeng, and looked at Shen Yunfeng while eating.

In the distance, Professor Yang and others prepared food and when they looked for Director Qiu, they found that he and Shen Yunfeng were sitting at the same table.

Director Qiu ate slowly. Judging from his expression, it seemed that he had not yet recovered from being "disturbed" by several big bosses last night.

Shen Yunfeng finished the last bit of food, lifted his buttocks to say goodbye to Director Qiu, when he saw a pair of chopsticks in Director Qiu's hands pressed down.

"Xiao Shen, don't leave in a hurry, talk to me."

In Director Qiu's voice, there was a sense of tiredness and helplessness.

The top leader at the excavation site of the ancient tomb spoke, and Shen Yunfeng couldn't find a reason to refuse, so he put his butt back on the stool again.

"Director Qiu, tell me."

As Shen Yunfeng spoke, he glanced at Professor Yang, Xiao Xie from the Cultural Protection Bureau and others who were looking at him.

Director Qiu took a sip of milk, picked up a chopstick-tipped pickle, and brought it to his mouth. He stopped and looked at Shen Yunfeng, and said seriously: "Xiao Shen, the ancient tomb we are excavating now, Qi Lao, Yang The professor and others have already concluded that it is a large tomb from the early Ming Dynasty, and as of yesterday, 90.00% of the work has been completed."

"As you saw yesterday, the cleaning work of the main tomb has also been completed, and now the wooden coffin is left to be opened."

"What I want to ask you is, what do you think about the identity of the owner of this tomb?"

Shen Yunfeng looked into Director Qiu's eyes, and he really saw a glimmer of expectation in the other's eyes.

"Director Qiu, regarding the identity of the owner of the tomb, Mr. Wang and the others."

"Let's not talk about them, I just want to hear your opinion now."

Director Qiu raised his hand to interrupt Shen Yunfeng.

After giving a wry smile, he lowered his voice slightly and said, "Everyone was arguing about this issue all night last night. I know that if the wooden coffin is not opened for a day, the big guys will continue to argue."

"Xiao Shen, to tell you the truth, in the past few days, I have got a general understanding of you through some channels."

"Don't have any other worries, I just want to hear your opinion."

Now that people have talked about it for this kind of sake, Shen Yunfeng felt that it seemed inappropriate if he continued to carry it.

After thinking about it, he said: "I am inclined to the views of Mr. Qi, Mr. Wang and others. The identity of the tomb owner should be a high-ranking military general in the early Ming Dynasty."

"Oh?"

After listening to Shen Yunfeng, Director Qiu put down his chopsticks, wiped his mouth, and looked at Shen Yunfeng with a faint smile.

After a long while, he slowly said: "Tell me your basis."

Shen Yunfeng hesitated and said calmly: "Director Qiu, since you know that I am a treasure appraiser, I will tell the truth."

Director Qiu showed a friendly smile on his face, and nodded to indicate to Shen Yunfeng that he could speak freely.

"Beginning yesterday, I participated in the cleaning of cultural relics unearthed in the main tomb. I found that although the ages of the cultural relics were different, and there were even two pieces of jade from the end of the Tang Dynasty, most of the cultural relics were dated to the end of the Yuan Dynasty. In the early Ming Dynasty, combined with the characteristics of the tomb, I concluded that this is an ancient tomb of a military officer in the early Ming Dynasty."

Director Qiu nodded slightly and smiled lightly: "Xiao Shen, you just said that the tomb owner's rank is not low. How did you determine this?"

Shen Yunfeng first smiled a little embarrassedly, and then continued to answer: "Director Qiu, you should know that when I first came to the scene, I was arranged to transfer the residual soil. Some of the cultural relics, and found a few of them, which are more suitable for the identity characteristics of the chief soldier or the lieutenant general."

"According to the official positions of the military generals in the Ming Dynasty, the commanders guarding the border area in the early Ming Dynasty included the Chief Soldier and the Deputy Chief Soldier. Their grades were the second-rank and the second-rank respectively. From this, I conclude that the tomb owner's rank is relatively high."

After Shen Yunfeng finished speaking, he saw Director Qiu staring at the plate thoughtfully and said, "Director Qiu, this is just my superficial personal understanding. If I am wrong, you can't laugh at me."

Director Qiu looked up at Shen Yunfeng, and smiled slowly: "Whether it is a fallacy or a true insight, at least I think that you have told me the truth, and this is actually enough."

"As for the true identity of the owner of the tomb, it's actually easy to determine. You can tell if you open the coffin."

(End of this chapter)