After settling the wagon's carriage and horses in the backyard stable, Steward Wang instructed the caravan men to rearrange and tie the goods on the wagon, and then went to the inn lobby himself, ready to learn a few tricks from the old horse who was talking to the shopkeeper.

However, as soon as Steward Wang entered the lobby of the inn, he was stunned, and saw dozens of tiger skin spotted cats standing or lying on the tables and chairs in the hall, while Ma Laoke and a middle-aged innkeeper were chatting happily among the cats.

Seeing Steward Wang enter the door, Ma Laoke immediately raised his hand and greeted: "Zhong Li, come on, let me introduce to you, this is the second master of the inn, Le Tongle!" ”

After meeting Wang Zhongli (Wang Steward) in a ceremonial meeting, the second master Le, who was quite a man from all over the world, smiled and pointed to the cats in the room, nodded at the former, and said, "What's the matter?" You can't see this formation anywhere else, right? I, ah, will count on these tiger cats for the rest of my life. If only they could give me another 'Scorched Tiger' cub, then I could close my eyes. ”

It turned out that this Le Er Ye was Li Zheng from a nearby town store, and he had a two-year-old tiger skin cat at home earlier.

However, this seemingly majestic tiger cat is a lazy cat that loves the stove, and has never hunted mice at night, and only knows to sleep lazily at the stove all day long.

The cat that can't catch mice is naturally useless, if it weren't for the fact that Le Erye had some feelings for this flower cat that he had raised since he was a child, he would have blasted it out of the door with a broom.

One day, a passing merchant who knocked on the door to ask for water only held the water on his cheek and deliberately did not drink it after receiving the water bowl handed by Le Erye, staring at the flower cat snoring on the stove with good eyes.

After looking at the cat twice from beginning to end, the vendor insisted that the owner of the house give the cat away, and the opening was fifty taels of silver!

Hearing that the merchant was willing to exchange the high price of fifty taels of silver for his lazy cat who was afraid of the cold, Le Erye thought that he had heard evil ears.

It is only because of the sparsely populated and inconvenient transportation outside the customs area, and the oil, salt, and cloth needed by the people in their daily lives need to be trafficked by traders in large carts from the customs for thousands of miles.

After these merchants sell out their goods in the mountain goods market, they often like to buy precious mountain goods such as mountain ginseng, deer antler velvet, muntjac and sand gold and bring them back to the customs, so that they can get a hundred times the profit and live up to the hardships and hardships experienced along the way.

However, the problem is that ginseng and deer antler velvet are not rare mountain goods that can be seen in the market all the time, and whether or not the merchants who come from the customs to sell the goods can buy the goods they want depends on their personal luck.

If the goods are not available for a while, those merchants in the customs would rather exchange all the proceeds from this trip into silver in the bazaar and carry them in their arms, rather than have to go all the way to catch a few carts of pecans back.

The key is that the green forest heroes who set up cards to collect money along the way are charged according to the number of cars, and people don't care if your car is loaded with mountain ginseng or walnuts, if you want to pass safely, you have to pay for a car to buy the road!

As time went by, the amount of silver circulating in the mountain market outside the Guanwai became less and less, and the exchange price between it and copper coins became higher and higher...... In ordinary years, it is also three or four percent higher than that of the Guannai, and if you catch up with the time when the war is scarce, the price will be doubled, and some people are willing to admit it!

The loss is that the sand gold is produced outside the customs, so that a part of the silver can be returned, otherwise the silver price would have collapsed long ago.

The fifty taels of silver in the merchant's mouth were uncompromisingly high, and he could buy four or five medium-sized mountain ginseng for about ten years...... Is a lazy cat worth so much money?

Seeing that the second master of Le was suspicious, he refused to answer the phone all the time, and the businessman who claimed to buy a cat at a high price couldn't help but be a little discouraged: "The villain knows that the master's family must be unwilling to cut love, but the villain only has fifty taels of silver around at the moment; If the host wants more, he will allow me to prepare the silver for four or five days. ”

With that, the merchant raised his head and drank the water from the well in the bowl, thanked the second master, and put the pottery bowl back on the table, ready to say goodbye and leave.

Seeing that the other party put down the water bowl and was about to leave, Le Erye couldn't hold back.

After all, no one can see the sky squatting in the room staring at the lazy cat nestled in the stove to keep warm, in case this guest can't buy a cat and get a bad intention, turn around to get a fresh fish, lure the cat out of the room and cover it in his pocket to catch it, wouldn't he pay fifty taels of silver to the second master?

So Le Erye stretched out his hand to stop the merchant before he went out: "Guest, please stay first." It's not that the villain refuses to give it away, but this tiger cat was raised by the clumsy old milking cat, and it has some feelings over the years. Since the guest is willing to pay a high price of fifty taels, how can the villain brush off your good intentions? It's just that the villain still hopes that Brother Tai will teach us a good word, and tell the villain where the cat is expensive, and the villain can talk to the clumsy Jing when he turns around, isn't it? ”

Seeing that Le Erye took the initiative to step forward to talk, the vendor pinched the sparse goatee on his chin, smashed his mouth hard, and then turned his head to look at the flower cat lying on the stove and snoring, hesitated for a moment, and finally nodded ruthlessly.

"You must follow the rules of the trade, and the inside story must not be told to outsiders...... Anyway, who made us fall in love with this cat from the bottom of our hearts? To be honest, we are a Xiangbao person who came from the South Road! ”

It turned out that this trader who was willing to buy cats at a high price was the "Yi Demon" lineage handed down by Jingfang back then, of course, and now his name has been changed to 'Xiangbao' Warlock.

Although the name has changed, the spiritual connotation of "finding strange phenomena and extraordinary luck" upheld by "Yi Demon" has not changed, and these Xiangbao warlocks have been running around the country for many years, staring wide-eyed to find those magical things recorded in "Yi Demon".

But then again, although the world is big, there are few ownerless things.

Often, the treasure warlock went through a lot of trouble to find a thing he liked, and it turned out that the object had an owner early on...... You can see the whole dish but you can't eat it, doesn't this cost your own life?

In view of the fact that the patriarch Jingfang of the founding mountain angered the powerful because of the Xiangbao liberation of the fortune, and finally ended up with a tragic end of beheading and abandoning the city, in order to protect the inheritance of incense, Xiangbao specially formulated a rule.

If the object you look at has an owner, then you must find a way to make the owner of the object let go.

You can get the master to get rid of it at a low price, that's your ability; But if the owner insists on not selling, he must not snatch it, lest he cause death.

The Xiangbao warlock who pretended to be a merchant told Le Er Ye that there were three ink-colored horizontal stripes on the forehead of the tiger cat raised by his family, and the single vertical stripe missing was the 'king character' on the tiger's forehead.

In addition, this cat is dressed in a striped tiger skin, but the four-legged and watery pure black, it is by no means an ordinary tiger skin, but the strange cat 'Jiaozu Tiger' recorded in the book "Yi Demon".

This kind of cat is born with the style of a king, and it is the king of cats.

Second Master Le only knew that this 'Jiaozu Tiger' was lazy to sleep on the stove every day, but he didn't know that it was the exposure of the domineering aura on the tiger cat, which made the rats flee far away, and they didn't dare to enter and intrude...... This tiger cat has no mice to catch, so he has to sleep lazily every day.

"It is good to teach the master's family to know that if it can only deter the rats, this 'scorched foot tiger' is not worth fifty taels of silver...... Two hundred miles away from this, there is a big mountain called Xing'an Mountains, the mountain produces a kind of strange rat called 'fire dragon horse', its skin is isolated from the wind and cold, it is the treasure that the nobles in Beijing are vying to buy, a collar of skin is not to say that it is also exchanged for hundreds of gold. It's just that this fire dragon foal is convenient, and it is no less than a flying dragon to go up the trees and through the forest, so the average hunter is looking at it and sighing. Now in the hands of his brother, he bought this 'Jiaozu Tiger' at a high price, just to borrow the tiger spirit on the cat's body, and go up the mountain to deter the fire dragon foal that came and went without a trace...... Leave. ”

After that, the Xiangbao warlock took out a large bag of silver from his arms and threw it heavily on the table, and then gently arched his hand at the second master, stepped forward and grabbed the skin on the back of the neck of the 'scorched tiger' who was snoring by the stove, hugged the sleeping tiger cat in his arms, and strode out of the house.

Hearing that this 'Jiaozu Tiger' actually has the power to block the entry of rats and breed, Le Erye suddenly felt remorseful, but he is a man who is a righteous party and often boasts of spitting a pit, how can he do such a backshit?

On that day, Le Erye watched the Xiangbao Warlock take the 'Jiaozu Tiger' away, and then the whole person was like a lost soul, and asked people to buy high-grade tiger skin cats to come back and pair and hold cubs.

After a long time, Le Erye raised a room of tiger cats, but there was never the kind of 'scorched tiger' in these flower cats.

After saying goodbye to Second Master Le, Steward Wang took Ma Wuye back to the room to rest.

As soon as he entered the door of the bedroom, Ma Wuye couldn't help but look up and sigh, and said to Wang Zhongli behind him with regret: "You see how good a second master Le is, just because of his superstitious belief in the art of easy demons, he tried in vain to raise another 'Jiaozu Tiger' from a room of cats; But he is not the material for this line of food, and he loses money almost every day, and he is about to destroy a good family! ”