The Real Heiress Has an Appraisal System

’I must be overthinking things,’ she mused. ’What if it wasn’t dug up there?’

With that thought, Gu Shengsheng stopped agonizing over it and headed back.

She pulled out her phone to check her social media messages and saw a ton of DMs. It was only then that she realized how completely absorbed she’d been in her work these past few days.

She’d just vanished, making her fans wonder what had happened to her after she suddenly went silent.

Restoring those artifacts wasn’t something suitable for her fans to watch, so Gu Shengsheng hadn’t been streaming.

Now, she was just buying land for her house, so sharing a bit of her life with everyone was fine.

She started her live stream, and a flood of fans who had been waiting for her poured in. A large group of fellow antique enthusiasts were also waiting for her appraisals.

Gu Shengsheng apologized, "I’ve been busy at home restoring artifacts these past few days, so I forgot to update everyone. Today, I’m looking at a plot of land. I plan on building my own house."

Her words clued the viewers in to her location:

"Streamer, are you buying a plot to build on near the siheyuan area?"

"Is it next to the one you bought before? That plot has been empty ever since the treasure was dug up!"

"Holy crap, that’s amazing! This is the first time I’ve seen a streamer who’s been live for less than three months already building their own house."

"You have to stream it when the time comes! I want to watch the whole process online!"

Gu Shengsheng smiled. "Okay."

"I’m coming here tomorrow to sign the contract. Oh, by the way, I just bought three copper coins."

"I just bought them from a street vendor for a hundred yuan. Not too bad."

The antique enthusiasts in the chat knew a thing or two:

"I don’t know about that. Most copper coins aren’t worth much."

"But since it’s you who bought them, we can’t be so sure. As long as you’re happy."

Gu Shengsheng’s eyes curved into crescents. "I thought they looked like they were from the Chu Country, so I bought them. They seem a bit larger than typical copper coins, so they might have been made by a Great Witch of the Chu Country for sacrificial rites."

"But I’ll only know for sure after I have someone look at them. Even if they’re not real, it’s not a big loss."

As she was chatting, Gu Shengsheng felt a tug on her sleeve.

She turned to look and was stopped by an old fortune-telling woman.

"Little girl, come have your fortune told!"

"...No, thank you," she politely declined. She didn’t know how to explain it. Sometimes she was a firm believer in metaphysics, and other times, not so much.

"I see the space between your eyebrows is dark. Haven’t you been sleeping well these past few days?"

"I’ve been sleeping very well," Gu Shengsheng said earnestly.

"Then you’re facing impending jail time. You must be careful to avoid disaster in the near future. Don’t start any new ventures. Just stay at home for a few days."

Gu Shengsheng was taken aback for a moment.

Then, she took a ten-yuan bill from her wallet, intending to give it to the old woman.

Unexpectedly, the old woman’s eyes locked onto the fifty-yuan bill she had also pulled out. "I told you about such a major disaster! You should at least give me fifty yuan for it!"

Then she snatched the money and left with a flourish.

Gu Shengsheng: "..."

The viewers were dying of laughter:

"Did the streamer just get mugged on the street??"

"Don’t be silly. At least she swindled the streamer with a few lines about going to jail!"

"Fortune tellers these days are scary. Speaking of which, this one was obviously fake, but you never know if you run into a real one. After the Ghost Festival one year, I kept getting stomachaches in the middle of the night. No matter how many times I went to the hospital, they couldn’t fix it. I couldn’t eat normally for a month, just living on congee and IV drips. Then I went to see a master, and I was cured in an instant!"

"Metaphysics, man. It’s hard to say. Best to be skeptical but keep an open mind!"

"..."

At that moment, Gu Shengsheng was completely silent.

It wasn’t because she was stunned about being swindled out of a little extra money. It was because she had just seen a message from that construction worker.

He said they had one more "big item in stock" and wanted her to come take a look tomorrow.

Curious, she couldn’t help but ask, "What kind of item?"

He immediately sent a photo of a ritual vessel. It looked like the "Four Sheep Square Vase."

Gu Shengsheng knew what this was. ’This is a one-way ticket to jail!’

For something like this to be circulating among the public... getting ahold of it wasn’t a good thing. It couldn’t make you rich. The only life-changing thing it would do was get you a meal plan courtesy of the state.

’It’s an iron rice bowl, all right,’ she thought. ’Except you’d be singing the jailhouse blues...’

Huaxia had explicit regulations concerning cultural relics. Bronze artifacts could not be traded. Any such transaction was illegal.

But that wasn’t even the most damning part.

The existence of this bronze vessel would prove that the two construction worker brothers had really unearthed an ancient tomb on that plot of land.

Ancient tombs were incredibly hard to find. It wouldn’t be unusual to go more than a decade before discovering one.

Of all the luck... she just had to stumble right into it. She didn’t know if she was just dense or what.

And it just so happened that she found all this out right after buying the copper coins.

The land was hers. The ancient tomb was potentially on the property she was buying.

And now, they were directly trying to trade this bronze vessel with her.

If she ended up at the police station, no explanation would be good enough.

’That fortune teller was surprisingly good.’ If Gu Shengsheng didn’t handle this situation properly, she could really be in trouble.

So, instead of going home, she first made a call to Zhao Dehai.

To find a way to fix this mess, she had to contact Zhao Dehai. After all, he was with the Bureau of Cultural Relics, and this involved the discovery of artifacts and an ancient tomb.

Such discoveries were supposed to be reported to the relevant authorities anyway, so contacting him was the right move.

After Gu Shengsheng called Zhao Dehai and explained the situation, he said, "Don’t panic just yet. I’ll get in touch with a professor from Qing University, and we’ll make an appointment to go check it out together."

"The earliest we can go is tomorrow morning."

Gu Shengsheng nodded. "Okay. The two of them don’t know any better. I’ll go talk to them right now. I need to quickly explain the stakes. Otherwise, if a transaction happens, they’ll end up in jail."

Not every family was well-off, especially not theirs. They worked themselves to the bone on construction sites—it was such hard labor. To find something like this only to end up in prison... how incredibly unfair would that be?

After getting the address from the man, Gu Shengsheng rushed over by herself.

She arrived at a rundown alley.

It took her a while to find their place. They lived in a basement apartment that was damp and a bit cold.

Just as she was about to speak, a woman wearing an apron came out. "Oh, so this is the guest you were talking about! She’s so pretty. What a lovely young lady."

"Hello, Ma’am." Gu Shengsheng greeted her politely, looking just like a student from her school days.

The woman smiled. "Come on in. The place is tiny, so please bear with us."

"I’ll go to the kitchen and cook. There are still a few more dishes to make. You can talk business with my husband!"

The place was indeed small, crammed with things everywhere. What they called a kitchen was just a tiny space where one person could barely stand.

The worker, covered in dirt and dust, saw Gu Shengsheng arrive. "Miss, I didn’t expect you to come see it in person. I was just thinking I’d bring it to you tomorrow!"

He spoke with an accent that sounded like it was from the southwest region—very straightforward and hearty.

Gu Shengsheng was blunt. "Tomorrow will be too late."

"Uncle, be honest with me. Did you two dig up a tomb?"

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