Chapter 180, Buy a Camel
After lunch, Maihemuti asked his son Maimaimuti to drive a truck and took Lin Wuwu to Liushui Town, a town more than ten miles away from the village.
Most of the people in Liushui Town have already lived in buildings, and it is much more prosperous than the village of Maihemuti, there is a large street market on the east side of the town, where merchants gather on odd-numbered days every month, and farmers from nearby villages will bring their belongings here to sell and buy daily necessities from the town.
Because it is close to the desert and there are few people, the road in the market is very wide, and he has to drive Lin Wuwu to the north of the market, where camels are sold.
"It's so lively, the people here feel like they're full of fire*." Lin Wuwu browsed the crowds of hawkers on both sides of the road on the truck, full of novelty.
Maihemuti stroked his beard and said with a smile, "This place is close to the desert, our bones and blood flow with the blood of our ancestors to fight against the desert, and in the process of evolution, we have unconsciously absorbed the enthusiasm of the desert. ”
It was evident that Maihemuti was proud when he said these words, and he did not feel the slightest disgust for the desert on his face wrinkled by the wind and sand.
Lin Wuwu will stop the car when he encounters something he is interested in along the way, he will jump down to take a look, and then choose the right thing to buy, buy Hemuti reminded him many times that the most important thing to go to the desert is to bring enough water and food, and the extra things will only increase the unnecessary burden, but Lin Wuwu just smiled and agreed, and the other side still went his own way.
I didn't know that Lin Wuwu had a space ring.
Seeing that Lin Wuwu had unknowingly bought a large bag of things, Mai Hemuti hurriedly urged his son to speed up, so as not to give Lin Wuwu another chance to buy those "cumbersome" things.
Watching the scenery on both sides of the street flow quickly, Lin Wuwu also knew that he bought Hemuti out of kindness, so he sat in the car and didn't go down anymore. Soon, the car came to the north side of the street.
There were more than a dozen camel sellers here, and when they saw Lin Wuwu get off the truck, several merchants immediately rushed over.
"Are you going to buy camels? I've got some good camels here at a great price, so let's take a look. ”
"My camels here are the best, and you won't lose."
Lin Wuwu was surrounded by a noisy crowd, and just when he didn't know how to respond, Maihemuti jumped out of the car, and he shouted at the crowd, "Don't fight." Paletahun, your camels have all been handed over from others, and they have never been good, Shamushak, your camels have dyed their hair again, do you want to hide this little trick from me?"
Next, he pointed at the camel merchant who was gathering around, and for each person, the merchant immediately retreated in shame.
These guys are used to deceiving guests from other places on weekdays, and when they saw that Lin Wuwu's clothes were not locals, they immediately thought about deceiving him, but they didn't expect to be broken by buying Hemuti.
Seeing that his trick could not succeed, several merchants no longer surrounded Lin Wuwu and dispersed. At this moment, a man of medium stature wrapped in a turban walked over with a smile, "Uncle Maihemuti, why do you have the time to personally bring guests over to pick camels today?" On weekdays, those guys are used to deceiving people's business, and when they meet you, they will be embarrassed, and your pair of fiery eyes can be seen at a glance by good and bad camels. ”
Lin Wuwu noticed that the man was missing two fingers on his left hand, and he seemed to be familiar with Maihemuti.
Seeing this man, Maihemuti immediately smiled and said to Lin Wuwu, "This is Shalamati, he is the most honest businessman among these merchants, if you want to buy camels, you will come to him." He then introduced to Shalamat, "This is my honored guest, and Shalamat you must choose the best camel for him, because he will ride your camel to the Hotan Oasis." ”
"He's going to Hotan Oasis?"
Shalamat didn't care about Lin Wuwu, his gaze just swept over Lin Wuwu's body, but after hearing Maihemuti's words, he immediately looked at Lin Wuwu's body again in surprise, "Young man, since you are going to Hotan Oasis, then I will definitely pick the best camel for you." Come with me. ”
Shalamat led the way, and a few people walked towards a simple camel shed.
On the way, Lin Wuwu asked Maimaimuti curiously, "Why did he hear that I was going to Hotan Oasis and his whole person changed, I feel that he seems to be very cautious about Hotan Oasis." ”
Lin Wuwu thought of a few words, and felt that "cautious" was most in line with the mood of Shalamat just now.
Maimaimuti whispered, "Shalamati's finger was bitten off by a desert wolf on the way to Hotan Oasis, so he is very attentive to the guests who are going to Hotan Oasis and will definitely choose the best camel for them." ”
Lin Wuwu nodded, "No wonder." ”
Soon, the group came to the camel shed, and Shalamat ran directly to one of the camels that looked inconspicuous, but if you looked closely, you could find that the camel with a very well-proportioned body walked over, he patted the camel's head with a little reluctance, and then turned to Lin Wuwu and said, "This camel is the best one I have here, even if there are guests who pay a high price on weekdays, I will not sell it to them, but since you are going to Hotan Oasis, then only this camel can take you there." ”
Maihemuti next to him smiled and nodded at Lin Wuwu, "That's right, don't look at it as not tall, but it is indeed the most suitable camel for long-distance travel." However, I was a little surprised that Salamati was willing to sell it to you. ”
"Don't make fun of me when you buy Uncle Hemuti, it's not that I didn't want to sell it to you before, but I don't want its talent to be buried." Shalamuti stroked the camel's head as if he were his own child.
Lin Wuwu didn't expect that he had also wanted to buy this camel before, and Shalamati hadn't sold it to him yet, he didn't suspect that this was a string between the two, but he glanced at the camels around him with a peep, and the camel that Shalamati introduced to him had the most vitality.
"Okay, I'll buy it"
Lin Wuwu was about to settle on this camel, when suddenly, a lean man who walked over next to him directly stuffed Salad Maiti with 30,000 yuan, "I want this camel." He reached out to snatch the reins of the camel from Shalamat's hand, but Shalamat refused.
"This guest, I'm sorry, I can't sell you this camel? If you want to buy them, you can check out the other camels, and I have a lot of good boys here. ”
The lean man's face sank, "What? You don't have much money. He shook his hand and took out another 20,000.
"No, no, it's not because of the price, I sold the camel to this guest because he was going to Hotan Oasis, if ordinary people came to buy it, I wouldn't sell it at all."
Shalamat rejected the temptation of money, which made Lin Wuwu impressed, but what made Lin Wuwu more concerned was the lean man who suddenly broke in, although he tried his best to hide his breath, Lin Wuwu still smelled death.
"This is a high-level killer! It's strange, how could a killer of his level run to such a remote place? I'm afraid there's no one here who deserves his help. Could it be that Lin Wuwu's eyes flashed, "He's coming for me?" ”
Lin Wuwu's heart suddenly rose vigilant thoughts, he pretended to inadvertently look at the thin man with the corner of his eye, and soon, he found some clues, although the thin man was talking to Salad, but more than half of his attention was on him.
"Sure enough, they came for me!" Lin Wuwu took a step back without a trace, and happened to be in the weak field of vision of the lean man's attack.
The thin man's eyes, which had been inserted into his arms, flashed away, and he took out his right hand again, pointed at Salamati's nose and shouted, "What nonsense, I'm also going to Hotan Oasis, hurry up, sell the camel to me." ”
"You're going to Hotan Oasis too?"
Shalamat took the camel's hand for a while, Maihemuti and Maimaimuti were also surprised, it is rare to see a person who goes to Hotan Oasis alone in adulthood on weekdays, but I didn't expect to meet two people who are going to go at once today.
Since the lean man was also going to Hotan Oasis, Shalamat naturally had no reason to stop him from buying camels, and he glanced at Lin Wuwu in embarrassment, after all, Lin Wuwu was the first guest.
Lin Wuwu smiled slightly, "Since this guest is so bold, uncle, you can sell it to him, I will pay 20,000 yuan, and you can choose a better camel for me." ”
Since he knew that the lean man was running for him, Lin Wuwu knew that he would definitely attack him after entering the desert, and as long as he killed him at that time, then this good camel would be his again.
Why not pay for two camels?
Since Lin Wuwu didn't care about it, Shalamat naturally no longer stopped the lean man from buying camels, he accepted 50,000 yuan, and then took Lin Wuwu's 20,000 yuan, and picked another camel for Lin Wuwu.
This camel, although not as good as the previous one, is also the best of the remaining camels. According to normal times, it can be sold for at least about 24,000, but since the camel made a lot of money before, Salamati is naturally embarrassed to ask Lin Wuwu for more money.
Soon, Lin Wuwu, who had bought the camel, drove the camel into the car, and he left in the car, while the lean man glanced in the direction they were leaving, and led the camel along that direction.
Not long after the two groups of people left, Lian Bi, the killer sent by Cang Zifeng, also came to Shalamat, looking at the direction of Lin Wuwu's departure, a sneer appeared at the corner of his mouth, "I really didn't expect that besides me, there would be someone who wanted to kill him, interesting." Anyway, I'm going to have to go along and see, and if that guy misses, I'll be able to make up for it. He tightened his travel backpack and bought a camel from Salmat.
Lian Bi had already overheard where Lin Wuwu was going to be by hiding in the shadows before, and he asked Shalamat about the situation of the Hotan Oasis in addition to buying camels, and then he took the camels to prepare travel supplies.
Lian Bi didn't know that less than a minute after he left, a group of three strangers also came to Shalamat, they didn't buy camels, because there were no good camels here in Shalamat, they just asked Lin Wuwu's whereabouts. Shalamat made a lot of money today, and he was in a good mood, so he didn't think much about it, so he told them without reservation.
"Hotan Oasis, that sounds good, let's go join in the fun." Among the three, a rickety, scrawny man licked his tongue, his eyes glowing with bloodlust.
Soon, they bought a few camels from other merchants and drove south as well