Master Yao refers to Yao Yuzhong.
Because of his miraculous tomb-robbing skills, Yao Yuzhong is honored as the "Grand Master" and "the No. 1 Master Outside the Customs" by the tomb-robbing community. He was sentenced to death with a two-year suspended sentence for the crime of robbing ancient cultural sites, ancient tombs, robbery, and reselling cultural relics.
When arresting Yao Yuzhong, the police found many cultural relics in his mansion. Later, when they searched Yao Yuzhong's son's home, they found something strange about the partitions filled with daily necessities, so they opened the partitions and found There is a safe hidden in it, which contains valuable bronzes, wrenches and other cultural relics.
Introduction to Yao Yuzhong’s character traits:
Yao Yuzhong doesn’t talk much on weekdays, he is cautious and loves reading. The unique skills of reading Feng Shui and tombs were passed down to him from his father, who has been robbing tombs for 30 years. Yao Yuzhong visited the site alone during the day and led his gang members to carry out excavations at night.
As long as Yao Yuzhong is looking for a place, he will not stop digging until he finds something. If he didn't dig it once, he would dig it again the next time, so he often dug at the same spot multiple times.
As his fame grew, people in the circle also spread rumors about his miraculous abilities: he could read the sky and could determine the location of a tomb within a hundred miles based on the position of the stars and the compass in his hand. Yao Yuzhong is respectfully known as the "Grand Master" and "the number one master outside the customs" in the tomb robbing community because of his magical skills in tomb robbing.