In the world of life, if the white dragon passes through the gap, it is all of a sudden. ----- Book of Genesis-—— Rowling

On Saturday morning, only the second sister, who had already gotten up, said goodbye to them. She accepted forty-five pounds from Drinkward and insisted on writing a receipt to him. The receipt is written on the back of an expired soft drink discount coupon in large letters and crooked letters. In the morning sun, she looked a little like a doll, her old face was covered with delicate makeup, and her blonde hair was hanging high on her head.

Drinkward kissed her hand and said goodbye to her. "Thank you for your hospitality, dear lady. He said sweetly, "You and your beautiful and charming sisters shine as brightly as the sky." ”

"You're such a bad old man. She shook her finger at him, then hugged him again. "Take care," she told him, "I don't want to hear that you're leaving us. ”

"That news will grieve me too, my dear. ”

She shook hands with Ah Xiu and said goodbye. "Little sister thinks very highly of you," she said, "and so do I." ”

"Thank you. Ah Xiu said politely, "Thank you for that dinner too." ”

She raised an eyebrow in surprise. "Do you like to eat? ”

Drinkward and Asho walk down the stairs. Ah Xiu reached into the pocket of his jacket and pulled it out. A penny lay cold in the palm of his hand, bigger and heavier than any coin he had ever used. He holds it in the traditional gesture of juggling, with the edge of his palm naturally relaxed, then straightens his hand and allows the coin to slide to the front of his palm, gently pressing the coin with his index and little fingers in a natural and fluid motion.

"Well done. Drinkward said.

"I'm learning, but I haven't started yet. Ah Xiu said, "I have learned a lot of purely technical techniques, but the most difficult thing is to guide the audience to stare at the wrong hand." ”

"Really?"

"Yes," said Asho, "it's called 'misleading.'" He put his middle finger under the coin, pushed it lightly, pushed it to the back of his palm, and fumbled there to hold it gently. But the coin slipped out of his hand and fell down the stairs with a click. Drinkward bent down and picked it up.

"You can't do that to a gift that someone gives you. Drinkward said dissatisfiedly, "You have to hold it tightly in the palm of your hand for something like this." Stop throwing it around. He examined the coin, first at the side with the King's medal, then at the side with the Queen's face. "Ah, Queen, she's beautiful, isn't she?" he tossed the coin back to Asho, who caught it from the air and turned it away. It looks like it's in the left hand, but it's actually in the right hand, and then it turns it back and reappears in the left hand. Finally, the coin lay quietly in the palm of his right hand. It's very comfortable to be there.

"Queen," said Drinkward, "how many people know the true secrets of that old queen, how many know her connection to the ancient magical family, and of course, I don't mean the current one, she is still a child. He wrinkled his nose at the cigarette butt on the steps below the staircase, and with a look of disgust, kicked it to the edge of the staircase on his toes, and pushed open the door and walked outside, the sun shining on them. "The Queen, or the powers of power," they said as they walked towards the car, Drinkward continued to comment aloud, "they are all liars, not only fooling stupid Muggles, but also trying to fool wizards. ”

"What are you talking about, I don't understand at all?" Ah Xiu asked, confused.

"You don't understand now, of course," said Drinkward, "and soon you will understand, because soon you will see something that you have never seen before, and you have in you what I need." He unlocked the car and sat in the assistant's seat.

"Well, she's a queen anyway, and she's beautiful. Ah Xiu said, taking the silver coin closer and looking at it. The Queen's face on the silver coin made him feel a bit like the younger of the three sisters.

"Beauty, skin.... People see the skin," said Drinkward as he drove, "and it is the stupidity of men from ancient times to the present day. Chasing sweet flesh, completely unaware that it is nothing more than the skin of white bones and red face, the food of maggots. No offense, but what you're doing at night is just food for a bunch of maggots. ”

Ashu had never seen Drinkward so talkative. He felt that his new boss's personality had changed from introverted to extroverted. "Aren't men? I don't mean to be offended, aren't men food for maggots?" or rather, men don't die?"

"That's different," said Drinkward, who was slightly stunned, "men are different, males will fight and die, that's different." That's how I see it. He looked at the table and said, "Okay, let's not talk about it." We had a few hours left before the banks closed. By the way, you did a pretty good job with Norberg last night. Although I would have pulled him in anyway, you made him join willingly, much to my surprise. ”

"Just because he wanted to kill me when it was done. Ah Xiu could see that the old man didn't want to continue the topic of maggots just now, so he gave up asking.

"No, it won't. As you have cleverly pointed out, he is already old, and that fatal blow may only make you, at any point the other, paralyzed for life, a cripple without any hope. So, even if Norberg gets out of the big trouble that is coming, you still have a lot of hope. ”

"Is there anything else we have to do here?" Ah Xiu imitated Derynward's tone--- he couldn't hold back---- and wished he hadn't done that--- shouldn't have treated an old man like this.

"Absolutely. "Drinkward parked his car in the parking lot in front of the bank," he said, "and here," he said, "the bank I was going to rob." It will be a few hours before the banks close. Let's go in and say hello. "Drinkward didn't care about his offense.

He gestured at Ashu. Ah Xiu reluctantly followed and got out of the car. If the old man really planned to do something stupid, Ah Xiu didn't see any reason to let the camera camera take a picture of his face. But curiosity led him to the bank. He kept looking down at the floor all the way, rubbing his nose with his hands, trying to make as few small movements as possible to cover his face.

"Ma'am, please give me a few deposit slips. Drinkward asked the lonely bank clerk.

"Over there. ”

"Thank you. ...... if I need to make a deposit overnight?"

"It's the same form. She smiled kindly, "Do you know where it's stored at night?" ”

"Thank you very much. ”

Drinkward took some deposit slips, smiled goodbye to the bank clerk, and left the bank with Asho.

Drinkward stood on the sidewalk for a moment, scratching his beard in deep thought. He went to the ATM and the night vault mounted on the wall and took a closer look. After that, he led Ah Xiu across the street to the supermarket opposite, where he bought himself a chocolate cream fudge ice cream and a cup of hot chocolate for Ah Xiu. A coin-operated telephone is mounted on the wall at the entrance to the supermarket, and below it is an advertising poster for renting out a house and adopting a cat or dog. Drinkward wrote down the number of the coin-operated phone. The two men crossed the road again. "What we need most right now," Drinkward said suddenly, "is a snow." An irritating snowfall. 'Imagine' a snow for me, okay?"

"What did you say?"

"Focus on the clouds, on the western sky. Make the clouds thicker and darker. Imagine a gray sky with a cold wind howling from the North Pole. Imagine snow. ”

"I don't think it's going to make a difference. ”

"Don't be too confident and think you know everything--- you have abilities that you don't know yourself, and it just so happens that I'm familiar with this ability. You may think I'm old, but at least I can give your brain something to do. Drinkward said and opened the car door, "Let's go to the Deli Stationery Fast Printing Chain Store, hurry up." ”

Snow. Ah Xiu sat in the assistant's seat, sipping hot chocolate as he imagined it in his mind. Vast expanses of snowflakes, dazzling, drifted down from the sky, looking so pure and snow-white under the gray canopy. With a light lick on the tip of your tongue, it seems that you can taste the taste of winter from the icy touch of snowflakes. Snowflakes kiss you softly on the cheek, but they have the power to freeze to death. Twelve-inch marshmallow-like snow can turn the whole world into a fairytale kingdom and make everything so beautiful......

Drinkward seemed to be speaking to him.

"What? I didn't hear that. Ah Xiu asked.

"I said we're there. "What's going on in your head?"

"I'm imagining a heavy snowfall. Ah Xiu said.

At the Deli Express Printing chain, Drinkward began to make copies of the deposit slips he had just taken from the bank. He asked the staff in the store to give him two sets of 10 quick prints of business cards. Ashu's head began to hurt, and he felt very uncomfortable between his shoulder blades. I don't know if it's because I didn't sleep comfortably last night, and the headache may be the result of sleeping on the couch.

Drinward sat in front of a computer screen, writing a letter and, with the help of the store staff, printing out a few signs in capital letters.

Snow. Ah Xiu continued to think, high in the atmosphere, surrounded by a tiny speck of dust, condensed into perfect little water crystals, each lace was an irregular hexagon, and the snow crystals were combined to form snowflakes that fell from high in the sky. Countless tiny white snowflakes covered the entire Coventry, and the snow on the ground thickened inch by inch......

"Take it," Drinkward said, handing Ah Xiu a cup of free coffee from the Dynamo Shop, a cloud of instant fat foam floating on the surface of the coffee that hadn't melted. "I think it's pretty much there. What do you think?"

"What is almost?"

"It's almost snowing. We don't want the whole city to be completely paralyzed, do we?"

The sky is now the gray of a warship. Snowflakes are falling. That's right, it's really snowing.

"I didn't do it, did I?" Ah Xiu was a little confused, "I mean, it doesn't matter to me whether it snows or not, right?"

"Let's have coffee. "Your potential is even better than I thought." With a flash of laughter, Drinkward looked appreciatively at the lead-gray sky outside, "Good job!"

Delinward paid the staff at the Deli Graphic Print shop and came out with signs, letterheads, and business cards. He opened the trunk of the car and placed the paper in a large black iron box, much like the one carried by the guards who deliver money at the bank. Drinkward closed the trunk and handed a business card to Ashur.

"That's right. ”

"What is Haydock's abbreviation?"

"Whatever you want. ”

"Oh, I see. ”

"My name is Jamie," said Drinkward, "and my friends call me Jamie." Lo and behold, I got a business card too. ”

They went back to the car. "If you could imagine a 'Haydock' as hard as you could imagine snow, we'd soon get a lot of lovely bills, enough to treat my friends to dinner tonight," said Drinkward. ”

"I don't want to be taken back to prison again. ”

"You won't get caught. ”

"We've made an agreement not to let me do anything illegal. ”

"Won't let you do it. As long as you do me a little favor and get involved in a little bit of criminal activity, I can get a share of the stolen money. Just trust me, I promise you that you will be like a pure rose, without the slightest problem. ”

"No problem, do you mean before or after your old Slavic friend knocked me in the head?"

"His eyesight is no longer good. "Maybe he'll not hit you at all." It's a Saturday, the banks are not closed until noon, and we still have a little time to spare. Would you like to have lunch?"

"Think," said Ashu, "they're dying of hunger." ”

"I know a good place. Drinkward said. He was driving and humming a minor tune, which was very light, but Ah Xiu couldn't make out what it was. The snowflakes were falling, exactly as Ah Xiu had just imagined, giving him a strange sense of pride. From an intellectual point of view, of course he knew that there was absolutely no way he could control the snow, just as he knew that the silver coin in his pocket was definitely not made of the moon. But that being said......

They stopped in front of a large, shack-like structure. A sign says it clearly, as long as £4.99, you can eat as much as you want. "I love this place. Drinkward said.

"The food is delicious?" Ashu asked.

"It's not. "But the atmosphere is so good that you can't miss it." ”

Ah Xiu ordered fried chicken and thought it tasted very good. After eating, he realized that the so-called atmosphere that Drinkward liked was originally referring to the business that occupied the back side of the building. Judging by the large poster that runs through the room, it is a treasury that sells collateral for bankruptcy liquidation.

Drinkward returned to the car and returned with a suitcase. He carried his suitcase into the men's restroom. Ah Xiu thought to himself, whether he wanted it or not, he would soon know what Drinkward had in mind.

So, instead of following the bathroom, he wandered around the liquidation shelves, looking at the goods on sale: it was written "for use on the plane only" boxes of coffee, a model of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles toy and battle princess Sheila, a teddy bear that plays a patriotic song when you turn on the switch, canned meat, rubber galoshes and other assorted galoshes, fruit juice gummies, a watch with the head of a bespectacled, goofy-looking boy with a scar on his forehead, a miniature Christmas tree with decorations, a pepper shaker and salt shaker in the shape of an animal, a vampire model, fruits, a werewolf figure, and Asho's favorite snowman outfit," All you need to do is add a real carrot", and it even included a strange 20-centimeter-old wooden stick made of real wood, a corn cob pipe, and a torn pointed hat.