Xiao Nan has never been so exhausted in his life for the so-called financial things.

Even he never thought he was fit for business. If possible, he would definitely try to avoid dealing with financial matters, and today was a breakthrough for him.

He didn't know how much it took him to persuade Brown to be his guarantor, and in Brown's name, he borrowed a sum of money from the "foreign bank" currently run by the Xiao family, which was used as the initial capital to invest in the US stock market.

At this time, communication was extremely underdeveloped, and Brown had to entrust his friends who were about to return to China on Western Street to finally complete the matter.

This is also thanks to Xiao Nan's analysis of the form of the world and the American financial market at this time, and used his highest eloquence to move Brown.

Not only that, but he also gave full play to his "foresight" skills and told Brown the results of several international events that were going to happen recently.

This is also a certain degree of "professional counterpart" for him, who is engaged in historical research.

After negotiating, the two shook hands, and Xiao Nan also signed a contract with Brown and pressed his own handprint.

Wanyue just watched silently, but in fact, she didn't know what the two of them said in English throughout the whole process, but she just felt that Thirteen Shao was doing something terrible.

After Xiao Nan reached an agreement with Brown, he couldn't help but wonder, will his actions revise history? Or will there be retaliation for the timeline restoration?

But now considering that these are secondary, he desperately needs the slightest chance to break the game. Otherwise, he will be buried by the Xiao family with Wanyue in the end.

After that, Brown excitedly showed him the "trophies" of his recent expedition in Chinese mainland, nothing more than some antiques or something, although Brown is an explorer, but his eyesight is not good, China has been rife with counterfeits since ancient times, and the low-priced "collections" he found, in Xiao Nan's view, are all garbage fakes.

It's no wonder that he hasn't made a fortune in China for so many years. And the so-called American magnates he made friends with through his expeditionary activities were only a few small bankers, and at most they could only trust Xiao Nan about $500. According to the fact that the monthly rent in the United States was only ten or twenty dollars at that time, the five hundred dollars was equivalent to 100,000 yuan in modern times, which is not too little.

After looking at these unpopular collections, Xiao Nan was attracted by a piece of embroidered cloth in the style of Yunnan ethnic minorities, and Brown saw that he was interested in this cloth, so he gushed and introduced: "Thirteen Shao, your vision is very good, this cloth has a very magical legend." ”

"The embroidery on this cloth is a very special kind of god in the mythology of the southwestern ethnic minorities, and this kind of totem worship of the gods has disappeared in modern times. The people who worship this god are considered to be the oldest native people in the southwest, and they have their own unique religious system. Unfortunately, there are too few clues and relics about them. The evidence for their existence is not even sufficient.

Archaeology suggests that this extremely sparsely populated ethnic group may have been extinct before the Qing Dynasty. When Xiao Nan talked about his professional knowledge, he began to be unable to keep his mouth shut.

"Thirteen less! You are so knowledgeable! I don't know which ethnicity you're talking about, but the locals who sold me this cloth told me an amazing story. Do you want to listen? Brown said.

"Tell me about it." Xiao Nan leaned back on the back of the wheelchair and said to Wan Yue, who was sitting on the sofa, "Mr. Brown wants to tell us a story." ”

Brown smiled: "Then I will tell you in Chinese, so that this young lady can also understand." ”

So he used broken Chinese, simple words, to describe an incredibly distant legend -

This piece of embroidered cloth comes from a mysterious tribe in the most remote mountainous area of the southwest. The people of that tribe basically have no contact with the outside world, and few people in other villages dare to approach that tribe.

The locals used to call them "aliens", and legend has it that they possess witchcraft and are able to communicate with spirits. The village where they live is called "Yuanxiang".

Objects that have been passed down from foreign tribes, believed to be able to communicate with spirits, are steeped in witchcraft, and are often either worshipped or deeply buried.

The locals revere this tribe as a god.

It is said that if someone is seriously ill and his family has to change his life, they will send the patient to the hillside below the "original village" and pray day and night to pray and pray, perhaps to seek the mercy of the strangers in the original village and use their magic medicine to bring the dead back to life. But the condition is that the patient will be separated from his family forever and can only see his family once every three to five years.

"Has this tribe ever existed until now?" Xiao Nan asked in surprise.

"Not really." Brown lit his pipe and spat out a smoke ring before saying, "According to the locals, that tribe suddenly disappeared decades ago." It is said that it was the people of civilized society who looted their treasures in savage ways and then burned down the villages. It is a great irony that an ancient civilization that has existed for an unknown amount of time has been destroyed by a group of robbers who claim to be civilized. ”

"Isn't this the characteristic of capitalist brutal accumulation?" Xiao Nan said.

"Haha, your argument is very similar to the communists in Europe and the United States." "But the story is not over, it is said that after the burning of that tribe, there were serious natural disasters in the area for three consecutive years, and the other tribes believed that it was because the burning of the original village angered the gods, so they gathered a group of 'death squads', and they took themselves as sacrifices to go to the original tribe that had been sealed off due to the disaster."

Most of these people died in the treacherous journey in the primeval forest, and only one of them came back in death. But he died soon after he returned, and he brought back the cloth and said, 'The god there is no more.'

After his death, his body underwent an extremely terrible change, his body became more and more terrifying, not like a human, and the internal organs also escaped from his mouth, as if they were all alive. It is said that his body was quickly burned, but the cloth was kept as a holy relic.

When I went there, the village was already in a state of decay, and there were only a few old people in the original village, and they were so poor that they sold me this cloth for food. ”

After he finished speaking, Wanyue looked at Xiao Nan in surprise. Xiao Nan also glanced at her, and both of them thought of it - something suspected to be internal organs spewed out of their mouths, and the internal organs turned into flying monsters, which was the female ghost they saw after the electric bell rang!

Xiao Nan then said: "Mr. Brown, your story is very exciting, but I want to remind you that this story is very dangerous, and you had better not tell anyone in Xiao City." Otherwise you'll die. ”

"Why?" Brown wondered.

"Because the eldest master of the Xiao family may be one of the people who destroyed the original tribe in the first place. The starting point of his fortune was a trip to Yunnan, which was probably the last thing he wanted to mention in his life. You know who the real masters of this land are. I think you've heard of the Xiao family's rules. Xiao Nan said, "This place will never allow anyone who knows any of his past to continue to live." ”

“oh！ mygod！ I'm glad you reminded me. I also plan to share my saga at the next party! Brown exclaimed, "Thank you! Thirteen less! How are you going to let me thank you?! ”

"Thank me, keep this cloth so that no one can see it. Because anyone who sees this cloth will probably betray you. ”

"So be it! This piece of cloth does not look very old, and it is very worn, and even in the United States, it will not be able to sell for a price. Why don't I send it to you! Whatever you want with it! "Brown is a smart guy and immediately changed his mind.

Xiao Nan smiled, and finally accepted the embroidered cloth, Wanyue carefully wrapped the cloth with the oil paper provided by Brown, and asked Xiao Nan: "What's the use of us keeping this cloth?" ”

"Maybe it will work." Xiao Nan said.

"Thirteen young people, my legend is not finished yet, although you said not to tell anyone, but I have told half of it, so I will tell you everything." "It's so strange that the locals in that remote southwest have a saying that aliens are a bit of alchemy, like the alchemy in our Western legends," Brown said. ”

"I don't know if there is a bit of alchemy, but I know that the village that was brought to this world by the savage civilized people is definitely Pandora's box." Xiao Nan said.

"Then you say, what am I going to give to the eldest master as a birthday gift?" Brown asked.

"Cuban tobacco cigars. You should have that. This kind of addictive thing that men can't refuse should be a good birthday gift. Xiao Nan said, "This thing has not become popular in China yet, and now it is just a thing of the rich aristocracy in Shanghai." ”

"Oh! You're so smart! I will definitely do what you entrust me to do as soon as possible. Brown smiled knowingly. It seems that he should have it in stock.

When I came back from Brown's house, it was almost late at night outside, and there were a lot fewer people on the street. Many shops in the city are still open, because many of them are the property of the Xiao family, and the local local snakes will never dare to make a mistake.

Many of these shops imitated European style windows, hung neon signs, and looked golden when they were electrified, so that Wanyue couldn't help but take a few more glances while walking. She couldn't have imagined that the city was completely different at night during the day, and some shops were only open at night.

When passing by a jewelry store, the Western model in the window was wearing a fashionable fur coat and combing the classic trendy hairstyle of the 20s, and she was like a modern girl who came out of the European celebrity circle.