The night in Batavia is very deserted, and in the afterglow of the moon, there are still people wandering carelessly, and the shops are not closed, and the lights inside light up the streets.

Gu Dajiu came out to familiarize himself with the surrounding environment of the hotel, they walked around the street, and saw a pawnshop that had not yet closed, and was about to go inside.

"Three guest officers, the store is about to close, if you have something, you will take it early, and if you are not a thing, you will come back tomorrow." A young man walked out of the door, about to open the door panel.

Gu Dajiu didn't know what he was talking about, and after Miao Lun's translation, Gu Dajiu said to Miao Lun: "You tell him that we have something to do, let him not close the door first." ”

After Miao Lun relayed the words, the young man ran inside, shouting something in his mouth, and after Miao Lun's translation, Gu Dajiu understood that the little man went back to call the shopkeeper.

Gu Dajiu strode into this pawnshop, on the high counter, the shopkeeper opened the wooden window above the counter again, poked his head out and asked, "What do you want to be?" ”

Gu Dajiu took out a delicate glass ball from his arms, handed it to the shopkeeper behind the wooden window, and asked, "How much is this worth?" ”

Miao Lun acted as a translator from it.

The shopkeeper took the glass ball and leaned under the lamp to watch it very carefully, and was amazed as he watched.

This glass ball is the size of a ping-pong ball, and the sphere is colorful, and it is even more gorgeous under the glow of the lights.

"How much is this worth?" Gu Dajiu asked again.

The shopkeeper seemed to have just come back to his senses, he coughed, and said, "This is a rare thing, you are from Huaxia Kingdom, right?" ”

Gu Dajiu said: "We are from Songzhou. ”

The shopkeeper insisted: "Then this thing must have come from Huaxia, only Huaxia has these good things!" ”

"How much is this thing worth?" Gu Dajiu asked again.

"Uh-huh——, shopkeeper smacked twice, squinting at the glass ball, and he held out a slap, "This number." ”

Gu Dajiu is not a businessman, who knows what your slap is, he is going to go back to the glass ball and leave, the purpose of his coming here is to ask the price, and he is not ready to go out at all, so he stretched out his hand and said coldly: "It's not right." ”

After listening to Miao Lun's translation, the shopkeeper hurriedly said, "Six hundred, I will give six hundred silver coins." ”

Really? A glass ball of six hundred silver coins, after Gu Dajiu verified with Miao Lun, he happily gave the glass ball to the shopkeeper on the spot.

The shopkeeper came out from behind the counter, asked the young man to light the wick, make a pot of tea, and said politely to the three of them, "You sit down for a while, and the bookkeeper will give you six hundred silver coins at once." ”

Gu Dajiu and the three of them waited while drinking tea, and after a while, sure enough, a person in a long robe walked out with a rattan woven box, he handed the rattan box to the shopkeeper, and the shopkeeper put the box on a low table, he opened the box, and said: "Three guest officers, please take a look, this is six hundred silver coins, one is not much, one is not much, you can count a little!" ”

Gu Dajiu said: "No need to count, we believe in you." But we came empty-handed, this box ......."

The shopkeeper smiled and said, "This box is for you, you can refine the box and take it away with the money." ”

After listening to Miao Lun's translation, Gu Dajiu stood up and said, "Then thank you!" ”

The three of them got up, and Gu Dajiu picked up the box and left the pawnshop.

A glass ball is worth six hundred silver coins, and among the more than ten boxes they brought, six boxes are glass balls, and there are twelve glass balls in each box, according to this calculation, the glass balls alone are worth more than 40,000 silver coins, which is a lot of wealth.

Returned to the hotel, had no words that night, and slept in various ways.

After breakfast the next day, Gu Dajiu left Gan Yong and Wu Guojin to guard the goods, and told them to keep them safe, not to go anywhere, and to wait until they came back.

After the explanation, Gu Dajiu led Li Guo and Miao Lun out of the house. As soon as you go out, you go straight to Dongsi Street.

Yesterday, I had asked the "thin old Gu" for the way, Gu Dajiu's destination was Dongsi Street, not the so-called Fenglai Cloth Shop, Fenglai Cloth Store was what he said casually, and he didn't know if there was such a store in Batavia, his purpose was to know how to go to Dongsi Street, so he made up Fenglai Cloth Shop.

The three of them came to Dongsi Street, which was very lively, with many cloth shops on the street and many other shops.

Gu Dajiu said to Li Guo and Miao Lun: "Your eyes are a little brighter, find a grocery store called 'Longchang'." ”

Before he could take two steps, Li Guo shouted, "There! Look, Longchang grocery store. ”

Gu Dajiu said: "Quietly, are you afraid that others won't know that we are going to Longchang?" ”

Gu Dajiu also saw this store, because this store had a big signboard on the arcade facing the street, and he knew the location of this store from a distance.

The three of them walked into the Longchang grocery store, and after communicating with the owner, they were invited to the back building, which was a liaison station established by the General Affairs Bureau in Batavia.

The shopkeeper's surname is Hou, and he is also a man in his thirties, a Chinese businessman, Gu Dajiu has no obstacles to talking to him, everyone is Han.

Gu Dajiu said: "The purpose of our visit is to find out the Dutch East India Company, and your task is to cooperate with our team to work." ”

The owner asked, "What exactly do we do?" ”

Gu Dajiu asked, "How many of you are there?" ”

The shopkeeper said, "There are fifty-two people in our grocery store, all of whom are our own people. ”

Li Guo asked, "There are so many people in one grocery store?" ”

The shopkeeper replied, "We have a very large shop, which you saw when you came in, and we have a large warehouse and a sea ship to transport goods. ”

Gu Dajiu said: "This is exactly what we need. First of all, you must not let the Dutch know of our coming, but you must arrange a stable place for us. ”

"How many of you are there?" The shopkeeper asked.

Gu Dajiu said: "There are five of us, and two of us are at the Aston Hotel, and there is a batch of goods and a transmitter we brought in the hotel. ”

The shopkeeper said: "There are only five of you, just stay in our store, there are not many people, no one will pay attention, you can live upstairs." ”

Gu Dajiu said: "Now you send a few people with our people to the Aston Hotel, and bring those two people, as well as the goods and the transmitter over." ”

The shopkeeper said, "No problem, I'll arrange it right away." ”

After he finished speaking, he shouted to the store: "Ah San, come here!" ”