A comprehensive overview of tombs: starting with the Yellow Weasel's Tomb

Huo Yanran approached Bai Jing, gave him a slight bow, and then smiled, "Sir, may I introduce myself to you?"

To be honest, it wasn't until I saw her up close that I realized Huo Yanran is indeed a stunning beauty who can charm anyone to death.

She possesses a dignified and elegant demeanor that exudes charm, yet also a sense of distance amidst intimacy.

At the same time, his words gave people a feeling of being bathed in a spring breeze.

At this moment, Big Gold Tooth walked over and saw Bai Jing talking to Huo Yanran. He immediately smiled and said, "Second Master Bai, you know Miss Huo?"

Upon hearing Big Gold Tooth's words, Huo Yanran immediately recognized Bai Jing's identity and exclaimed with a smile, "So it's Professor Bai in person! Professor Bai's name is renowned throughout the entire archaeological community."

Upon hearing this, Bai Jing smiled slightly and said, "I dare not accept such praise; it was merely a coincidence."

After some more pleasantries, Bai Jing and Huo Yanran exchanged contact information and then said their goodbyes.

Watching Bai Jing leave the New Moon Hotel, Huo Yanran smiled and murmured, "Bai Jing, Second Master Bai? What an interesting person."

At this moment, Bai Jing was being teased by Da Jin Ya for having a stroke of good luck with women.

Bai Jing simply smiled and shook his head.

How could he not see that Huo Yanran was definitely not a simple character?

He was somewhat familiar with the characters in Tomb Raider Chronicles and The Mystic Nine, but he didn't remember such a person in the original work.

However, since this person's surname is Huo, he should be a member of the Huo family, the head of the lower three gates among the Nine Gates.

Of these nine gates, the upper three gates are for officials, the middle three gates are for thieves, and the lower three gates are for merchants.

The Huo family is the largest in business among the three lower sects.

That's probably why the Huo family is in charge of the Crescent Hotel, the stronghold of the Nine Gates.

How could Huo Yanran, who could be the apparent person in charge of the Crescent Hotel, be a simple character?

Bai Jing, however, did not seem to care much about this.

After leaving the Crescent Moon Hotel, I bought three roast chickens as usual and headed home.

Chapter 140 Archaeological Team

Time flies, and it's now 81.

Hu Bayi and Fatty Wang have stopped dealing in cassette tapes and started dealing in antiques.

They renovated their cassette tape shop in Panjiayuan and turned it into an antique shop.

However, I was recently scammed out of several thousand yuan. The money is a small matter, but it would be bad if I lost money because of this in the future.

So they went to see Big Gold Tooth to see if he was involved in collecting antiques and curios. They wanted to go along, even if it was just to broaden their horizons.

At this moment, Big Gold Tooth also remembered that he had been entrusted to find someone who understood feng shui and geomancy, and was going to accompany him on a trip to the Western Regions.

He then recommended the two of them to him.

Bai Jing, meanwhile, was attending an academic conference and was unaware of this.

Bai Jing only heard about this when he returned to the capital.

When Hu Bayi and Fatty saw that Bai Jing had returned, they suggested that Bai Jing come along, since they didn't know much about the matter and Bai Jing could offer some advice.

Soon, the three arrived at the outside of a courtyard. Bai Jing knew what was going on as soon as he saw the courtyard.

Bai Jing had been here many times because this was the home of his teacher, Professor Chen Jiuren.

"is it here?"

Hu Bayi held the slip of paper in his hand, looked at the address on it, and spoke to the house number.

The fat man also looked at the address and confirmed, "That's right, the address that the big gold tooth gave me says it, number seventeen, this is it."

Then the fat man looked again and saw that there wasn't even a sign on the door. He hesitated and said, "But there isn't even a sign. Could it really be here?"

Upon hearing this, Hu Bayi joked, "That's what you call a true hermit living in the city."

Bai Jing shook his head and said, "Alright, stop joking. This is my teacher's house. Let's go."

Upon hearing Bai Jing's words, Fatty and Hu Bayi didn't react at first, then suddenly looked at Bai Jing and asked, "What do you mean? Is this your teacher's house?"

Bai Jing nodded and then said, "My teacher mainly studies the ancient Western Regions culture. If what you're talking about is an American sponsoring a search for people in the Western Regions, then there's a high probability that he'll find my teacher, Professor Chen."

After all, when it comes to the study of Western Region culture, there's probably no one in the entire country more suitable than my teacher.

After saying this, Bai Jing went into the courtyard first.

Fatty and Hu Bayi exchanged a glance and quickly followed.

Bai Jing was already very familiar with the place, and Hu Bayi quickly grabbed Bai Jing and said, "Old Bai, don't let it slip, don't tell anyone that we've been to a tomb before."

After saying that, Hu Bayi looked at Fatty and said, "Fatty, you too, don't forget."

Bai Jing found it somewhat amusing upon hearing this, but he also understood Hu Bayi's concerns.

Upon entering the courtyard, Bai Jing saw several young people tidying up their belongings.

Bai Jing didn't recognize the three people, but if he remembered correctly, they should be Sa Dipeng, Chu Jian, and Ye Yixin from the original novel.

Bai Jing didn't know these three people, but some of these three people did know Bai Jing.

One of the boys saw Bai Jing and immediately ran over excitedly.

"Teacher Bai, are you here to participate as well?"

Bai Jing was completely stunned; he didn't recognize the man in front of him at all.

This person also noticed Bai Jing's confusion and immediately said, "I forgot to introduce myself, Professor Bai. My name is Sa Dipeng, and I am also a student at Peking University. Last year, Peking University's archaeology program opened a graduate program, so I applied to be Professor Hao's graduate student."

Upon hearing this, Bai Jing understood.

He will know about this; last year, the first batch of graduate students majoring in archaeology were admitted.

Presumably, this Sadi Peng must be among the first batch.

If that's the case, the other two young men should also be in the same batch of graduate students as him.

Seemingly noticing Bai Jing's gaze, Sadi Peng quickly pulled over the other two young people, a man and a woman, and introduced them: "Teacher Bai, these two are also Teacher Hao's students, Chu Jian and Ye Yixin."

As Sa Dipeng explained, Bai Jing learned that Sa Dipeng was an undergraduate at Peking University and then became Hao Aiguo's graduate student. The other two, Chu Jian and Ye Yixin, were undergraduates at Tsinghua University and then went on to become graduate students at Peking University.

However, it seems that none of the three of them knew about the relationship between Bai Jing and Chen Jiuren.

Bai Jing walked to the door and saw Hao Aiguo talking to two young men inside. He didn't disturb them but waited outside.

Not long after, Hao Aiguo stood up and said to the two men, "I'm afraid your level is not up to our standards, so we won't waste any more time. Please leave."

As he spoke, Hao Aiguo saw the two people off.

When Hu Bayi saw Hao Aiguo arrive at the door, he stepped forward and said, "Hello, comrade. The three of us are..."

Before Hu Bayi could finish speaking, Hao Aiguo walked up to Bai Jing, patted him on the shoulder, and said with a smile, "Junior Brother Bai, when did you get back?"

Seeing this, Bai Jing smiled and said, "Senior brother, you just got back yesterday."

As he spoke, Hao Aiguo pulled Bai Jing into the room, while Hu Bayi and Fatty looked at each other in surprise, but quickly followed them into the room.

As soon as he entered the room, Hao Aiguo called out, "Teacher Chen, come and see who's here."

Hearing Hao Aiguo's shout, Chen Jiuren came out of the inner room. When he saw Bai Jing, he was overjoyed and immediately laughed loudly, "Hahaha, Xiao Bai, I thought you would take more than a month to finish. If I had known you were back, there would have been no need to recruit anyone."

Upon hearing Professor Chen's words, Bai Jing quickly waved his hand, indicating that he was unworthy of such praise.

After Bai Jing and Professor Chen chatted, Hu Bayi learned what Bai Jing had gone to see earlier.

It turned out that Bai Jing was invited to Shaanxi Province after the New Year.

It is said that the second phase of archaeological work on the Terracotta Army of Qin Shi Huang's Mausoleum is about to begin, and Bai Jing has been invited to go and provide guidance.

Hearing this, Hu Bayi and Fatty Wang were secretly astonished.

It's no exaggeration to say that Qin Shi Huang's mausoleum is the premier mausoleum in all of China. The fact that such a large project required Bai Jing's guidance demonstrates his significant standing in the archaeological community.

After some casual conversation, Bai Jing introduced Hu Bayi and Fatty Wang.

However, it's clear that Hao Aiguo doesn't think much of the two of them.

Seeing this, Bai Jing spoke up: "Teacher, senior brother, I just overheard you talking to those two people. You're looking for someone familiar with celestial feng shui to be the team leader, right?"

Chapter 141 Celestial Feng Shui Technique

Chen Jiuren then realized what was happening and looked at Hu Bayi and Wang Pangzi, asking, "You two must be Comrade Hu and Comrade Wang, right?"

Hu Bayi nodded upon hearing this and said, "That's right, it's us. And you are?"

Professor Chen then laughed and said, "My surname is Chen, Chen Jiuren."

As he spoke, Professor Chen pointed to Hao Aiguo and introduced him, "This is Professor Hao Aiguo, my student and an archaeology expert."

Hao Aiguo nodded in agreement.

Although he didn't know how skilled Hu Bayi and Fatty Wang were, since they came with Bai Jing, he had to give them some face.

Professor Chen then invited the group to sit down.

At that moment, Bai Jing saw through the glass that there was a slender woman in the inner room, but the woman had her back to everyone, so he didn't know what she looked like.