The young man said, “My father told me that he’d been robbing tombs for years. That bead was part of the wealth he had accumulated over the years. He left home that year to seek for it.”

I was confused. Robbing tombs wasn’t the right way to become rich. Yet, it was enough to help someone have a middle-class life. But if his father had been working like that for years, how could he end up in such an impoverished state? What he had saved was just a plain-looking bead.

I had a feeling that the bead must be priceless.

I asked the young man, “Could you get some expert to check the bead? I’m not familiar with tomb-robbing, but I think that bead has something to do with this.”

The young man hesitated for a while...