(a)

"Uh...... Hmmm......"

Orange, as usual, took a nap on the roof of a relatively intact dilapidated house in an abandoned village in the mountains. Today is a sunny day for a long time, it is a good time to dry the belly, and the orange should have had a good night's sleep, however......

"Good...... It's so heavy......"

She was wrinkling her wrinkled face and humming unconsciously, as if she had been in a nightmare. Actually, it wasn't a nightmare at all, just a very strange and uncomfortable dream.

In that dream, she was lying in the warm embrace of Lord Lan, while Lord Purple was pressing on top of her, and the servants were playing a game of overlapping music for unknown reasons. The two thick pads squeezed her in the middle, clamping her tighter and tighter, so that she couldn't breathe. She tried to escape, but she couldn't break free from the four soft mountains of the two adults.

"Purple ...... Purple Adult...... You're too heavy!"

She couldn't help it, and with a loud yell, she woke herself up. When she opened her eyes, what she saw was, of course, the big cat lying motionless on her belly - Sir Chakolos.

It's only been a few days since they've met, and Orange already has a pretty crucial piece of information about him - this guy is incredibly heavy.

Cats are creatures that look very small, but they are often unexpectedly heavy when they are picked up. What's more, the master in front of her is still a strange cat who has lived for an unknown number of years, and he is a little bigger than an ordinary Persian cat in terms of appearance alone, not to mention his weight. Fortunately, this product is relatively old, and he has no special hobbies, if he is like those naughty kittens who can't move at every turn, he will take advantage of her inattention to her belly to make a "high platform dive", then she is sitting on the ground and will explain here.

"Yo, girl, are you awake?"

Sir Chakolos looked at her with a half-squinted gaze. His long, pure white hair fluttered gently in the breeze, and his red and blue eyes were as clear as crystal. This handsome cat face, strong and powerful cat's claws, slender cat body, pure and noble bloodline, elegant and majestic temperament, every feature is enough to fascinate thousands of little female cats, so that they line up to give birth to litters of three-flowered cats or raccoon cats, or little white cats, little black cats, and big orange cats for him.

Woohoo, Lord Sir really deserves to be the hero of cats, a generation of tomcats.

Off topic.

"Ye is hungry," Orange said in a natural tone when he heard the white cat, "Let's find something to eat for Ye!"

"Uh......"

Orange sat up, and Sir Charkolos jumped to the side and sat upright.

"...... around here," said Orange, scratching her head, "I remember there were some sparrow's nests, and voles' burrows...... In addition, cicada larvae can be dug up under the roots of trees. ”

"Birds, rats, insects," said Sir Sciakros, "are the food of your wild cats." ”

"Instead of eating these fishy, smelly stuff, you might as well be hungry. As he spoke, he raised one of his front paws and licked his little ball with his tongue, "You want to eat delicious food, preferably salmon sushi, or roast chicken." ”

"That...... It's a bit expensive...... "Orange hugged his arms, looking a little embarrassed, "It might be a shame to say, but ...... I don't have any money!"

Even though she is the leader of the wildcats, the shikigami of the famous youkai sage, she also has a certain reputation among the small youkai in this neighborhood. But...... This does not mean that she can eat well in human society.

To walk the rivers and lakes is to be rich, and most of the monsters are penniless. They are accustomed to a primitive life, and they do not understand the benefits of the commodity economy at all, and even if they do, they cannot find a few ideas to make money in their barren little brains, so they can only continue to eat soil in the wild, or quietly sneak into human homes to steal chickens and dogs.

Or, for those youkai who are born cute, there are other, better, easier ways to get something for nothing.

"If we must eat it, we can try our luck at the butcher's shop. "Take the form of a cat and roll in front of the butcher shopkeeper, and he will willingly offer the meat to both hands...... Probably!hehehe......"

With that, a sweet smile bloomed on Orange's face. However, Sir Chakolos's expression did not look very good.

"Little girl......" His voice was much deeper than the others, quite serious, even stern, "you are just like this, selling your hue cheaply, just to get a bite to eat from humans?"

"Uh...... Well...... this."

Orange's eyes unconsciously glanced away.

Sir Shakoros's words really left her speechless, but when she thought about it, she felt that something was wrong. It's just begging for food, isn't ......it?

"I would not do that," continued Sir Sciacolos, "and I will never do it for the rest of my life, except to wag my tail at a man and beg for food." If I live, I must live a kind. When I am dead, and I am drifting to the other side in the Styx Ferryman's boat, my cat will spread out before my eyes—not a single stain on it, like my white hair. ”

"Say...... That's right......"

Orange bowed her head in shame, as if the person she was teaching her in front of her was not a cat, but a golden lion.

"So ......"

Sir Shakolos suddenly changed his words, smiled mysteriously, and said to Orange:

"Next, the master will teach you how to make money for a real noble cat. You have to watch well and study hard. ”

(b)

The downtown of the people, people come and go, and the traffic is busy. A little girl with a white cat in her arms gets into it, and in an instant she will be overwhelmed by the crowd and disappear without a trace, although the cat is handsome.

"Alright, this is it. ”

Sir Charkoros, who had been in his arms, said this, and the orange holding him stopped and stood in front of a carriage parked on the side of the road.

"I'll go down first. ”

With that, Sir Chakolos leaped lightly, leaped silently to the ground, and then slipped into the carriage in a puff of smoke. After a while, Orange saw him come out from under the cart with a copper plate in his mouth.

Sir Shakolos climbed up to Orange's body with a swift and swift step, returned to her bosom, his seat, and pressed the brass plate into Orange's hand.

"Good luck. He smiled.

"A penny...... Orange sighed lightly and said with a wry smile, "It's not like you can't buy anything!"

After all, it's a coin that's too small to even bother to pick up if it falls on the ground!

"You are very wrong, little girl. Sir Charkolos raised his head and looked straight into Orange's eyes, his long beard shaking up and down as his mouth opened and closed, "It doesn't matter if it's a penny, a ton of gold, the amount or whatever. The important thing is that now, we have the capital. ”

"The so-called 'making money', to put it bluntly, is an activity that invests capital and collects returns. Those who have money invest money, and those who don't have money invest time and energy. Now, we have a penny in our hands, that is, after this threshold, we can start to make money with money. ”

"Make money out of money?" Orange looked at the copper plate in his hand suspiciously, and asked, "What should I do with this money?"

"A piece of capital, a piece of labor, in exchange for two profits, that is called trading. Sir Shakolos said, "One capital, no labour, in exchange for two profits, that is called speculation." ”

"A piece of capital, a piece of labor, in exchange for ten profits, that is called robbery. ”

"All of the above methods are not applicable to us. The reason is very simple, the capital we have at hand is too small, so small that it can be ignored. If you want to make a fortune with such a small capital, you must have a profitable way. And there is only one way to make a profit. ”

"Gollum ......"

Orange swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and then, quite hurriedly, asked in a low voice:

"What's that way around?"

"Bet. ”

Sir Sciakros said only one word.