One of the guests looked at the guest with an even more startled look and hurried to settle his bill.

The drinker was a man of the Persian merchant Haritza.

He knew that the Hariza had spent three months tracking down the young men and women, and that he had walked almost fifty miles around the town until the mountains and villages did not find them, as if they had come from the air.

Hariza is a shrewd businessman, and he concludes that Leopard and Cui Cui will not be able to travel fifty miles, mainly judging by what Leopard and Cui Cui have bought.

They buy food and daily necessities.

They don't buy and sell, and they don't look like people who buy things from their neighbors.

They don't live too far from Wangjiaqiao, they don't come to Wangjiaqiao to buy a house, but they live in nearby towns.

When he came back to report that all the nearby villages and villages were not so real young men and women, Hariza began to wonder: weren't they from the neighborhood?

Wrong!

So, must they be the sons and daughters of lonely hunters in the mountains and forests, cut off from the world?

Occasionally go out grocery shopping on behalf of your parents, every day?

Hariza then said to his men: "It is better for you to run through the mountains and valleys of this place, and look for them in the ancient forests and deep valleys, and see if there is any sign of them." Whoever finds it will be rewarded with three hundred taels of silver!"

Three hundred taels is not a small amount of money, for people in the mountains, they can be a little rich man, they can live a peaceful life, and they don't have to worry about food and clothing.

When his people heard that money could make the devil grind, they went to the mountains and forests to find it.

Hariza never imagined that Leopard and Cuicui would run out of the mountains and forests around the small town of more than 80 miles......

During these days, the fairy in white appears in these places with her iron sister-in-law and a maid.

They were also looking for the whereabouts of Leopard and Xiaocui, but unfortunately they didn't, so they hurried north to Sichuan and went to ......

When the idler found the leopard and the cuicui in the inn, he was overjoyed, and hastily paid the bill, reported it to Hariza, and received three hundred taels of silver.

Unfortunately, this idleness was too late, as Leopard and Cuicui entered the town and were spotted by Halliza, who was eating porridge, at a porridge shop at the town entrance.

He didn't even finish his porridge, so he ran to Hariza and woke him up from his morning dream.

And this idler has just reported the inn where Leopard and Cui Cui live.

But Hariza did not treat him badly, and gave him a hundred taels of silver.

This is where the talent of the Hariza merchant comes in.

The leopard had just finished drinking two bowls of wine, and Cuicui had not finished eating a bowl of noodles, when Hariza came with two servants.

The landlord and shopkeeper saw that the first-class richest man in the town also came to visit the hotel, and they were a little surprised and surprised, and hurriedly greeted them.

Hariza smiled and said, "I'm here to meet two friends. ”

The shopkeeper asked, "Who is your friend in the store?"

Hariza pointed to the leopard and Cuicui in the corner of the store: "They are friends of the old man, haven't you ignored them?"

When they heard that these young men and women were friends with the great Persian merchants, they were surprised.

The shopkeeper was amazed and thought to himself: these two teenagers are friends of the owner, no wonder they are so generous and talk so differently.

Cuicui glanced at the leopard and said softly: "This time, the trouble can be found, not by me." ”

At the same time, Harissa approached them and asked with a smile, "Why don't these two children come to my humble house to talk?

Cuicui also smiled and said, "We don't dare!"

"Don't be angry. ”

Hariza laughed.

"That girl was joking!"

Then he sat down casually and said, "We haven't seen each other in three months." Are you both alright?"

Cuicui said, "Okay. ”

Hariza was stunned: "How can this girl say that?"

"Because someone on the road robbed us and almost killed us!"

Hariza was stunned for a moment.

"Really?"

Cuicui looked at him and thought, "Is he pretending?" or really not knowing? Okay! I'll ask him again to see what he has to say.

"Don't you know?" he asked.

Hariza didn't know.

"Then how does the old man know? The old man has never heard of this! Woman! Who robbed you?"

"A cloud. ”

Hariza was stunned.

"This is him!?"

"Do you know the robber?"

"The old man didn't know this man, but he had business dealings with him. ”

"Aren't you afraid of dealing with this robber?"

"The old man runs his business all over the world. If someone sells me a rare treasure, I will buy it.

I have nothing to fear. ”

The old man's eyes only recognize the goods, not the people, and the old man never asks whether he has stolen the goods. If it is sold, the old man will buy it. ”

"What would you do if the government chased you?"

Hariza smiled again.

"If it is investigated, the government will confiscate it, and the old man will feel that he is unlucky and will not be able to do business well. Nothing serious. But this doesn't seem to happen to old men very often. ”

"Why?"

"Because there is often no sufferer, no one complains to the government, and there is no evidence, how dare the government say that the old man bought stolen goods?"

Hearing this, Leopard couldn't help frowning, and thought to himself: Such a big businessman turned out to be a big profiteer who sold stolen goods for lawless people to make huge profits, which is tantamount to instigating and instigating the big thief to kill people even more brutally, why didn't the palace arrest him in prison?

So he asked, "Do you deal with thieves and are afraid that they will kill you when they see his money?"

Hariza laughed.

"They killed the old man so that they wouldn't lose their money? In addition, the old man had learned some kung fu and had a few servants by his side. They didn't dare to touch the old man. ”

Cuicui asked: "So, your kung fu is very good, and even foreign thieves don't dare to fight you?"

"Miss, if the old man doesn't dare to speak well, that's okay. That's right! A cloud can be said to be a great demon king, with superb martial arts, how did you escape the disaster?"

Cui Cui said, "Let's hand over that bead and don't run away?"

Hariza said, "What? Did he snatch your beads?"

"Or are we still alive?"

Hariza looked at Cuicui, then at the leopard, and asked, "Really?"

"Why should we lie to you? If we had known about it, we would have sold you that bead! It's too late to regret it!"

Hariza thought to himself: Why is this great thief robbing the treasure and not selling it to me?

Where did he go?

Good!

I had to find him.

He still didn't believe it, so he tentatively said, "You two, this old man has always been fair in business. Never try to force sell. ”

"You don't believe us. We were even beaten up for losing the beads! Why did we take this bead out of the house? This made my parents sick for a month. ”

"Your mom and dad are right," Hariza said as he spoke to the door.

"Don't expose your money to people's eyes. Two of them were so lucky to survive!"

Later, my parents said the same thing. They also say that money can make people happy, and they will no longer need to guard against theft and robbery. ”

"Your father and mother are honorable people. Would you like to sit in your husband's humble house?"

The leopard was scared, agreed to sit, and hurriedly said: "Thank you, we have something to do, I dare not sit, please forgive me." ”

Cuicui also said, "Yes! After buying food, we must rush back." ”

Hariza said, "Since this is the case, my husband does not dare to ask for it, please come to my humble house and rest when he has time." ”

"Thank you very much!"

Hariza turned to the boss and said, "I'll pay for these two clothes!"

"Yes!" said the boss hurriedly. "Huh. ”

The leopard hurriedly said, "How dare we let the old man spend money?"

"You're welcome, little brother. The old man is going on a business trip. With that, Harissa departed with her two servants.

Leopard thought for a while: Is this big businessman a good guy or a bad guy?

After eating, Boa and Cuicui leave the hotel.

On the street, the leopard couldn't help but ask Cuicui, "What happened to this Persian merchant?"

"What do you think?"

"I don't know if he's a good guy or a bad guy. ”

"He's a good guy in the underworld. At least he didn't hurt, kill, or rob. He only buys the stolen goods of thieves and makes a profit from them. From the point of view of the white way, it is not flattering at all. At least one businessman who is in the company of a thief is not a decent person. ”

"Didn't he, then, stir up a cloud to rob us?"

"It doesn't seem to be. ”

"How does a cloud know that we have beads? He's a thief outside the walls. How did he get to Yunnan?"

"The only explanation is that the robber recently stole a shipment of jewelry and came to Yunnan to get rid of Hariza. He happened to talk to us about beads and heard about it. The thief was happy to see him. ”

The leopard nodded.

"It's possible," he said.

"What can we do with Hariza?"

"What do you want him to do?"

"I don't know, that's why I asked you. ”

"You don't want to kill him, do you?"

"How can I kill him? I just want to tell him not to do this. ”

"Will he listen to you?"

"Cuicui, can we try to get him to listen to us?"

After understanding the meaning of the leopard, in addition to teaching Hariza an unusual way to make him afraid of committing such a crime against the thief, she shook her head and said: "Brother Leopard, it is useless, even if we kill him, there are others to do." It was not he who was killed, but bandits, who were going to kill and rob. In addition, his business is not illegal. ”

"He didn't break the law!"

"He said he only took the goods and never asked where they came from. For example, if we go to buy rice, can we ask how the rice came from somebody else? Who is the person who sells the rice?"

The leopard was stunned.

Yes, how can you ask a person who does business with him?

Are you happy to hear this?

If that doesn't scare people away, what's the business?

Cuicui said: "If he colludes with big bandits and thieves to kill people for money, that's another matter. If so, why did he enter the industry? Why didn't he become a robber himself? Banks, jewelry stores, and antique dealers everywhere were buying stolen goods. Just not as blatant as Hariza. The government's job is to search for and inspect stolen goods. We have nothing to do with it, except when our friends and relatives are killed or when we see them killing and robbing.

This means that only the murderer should be punished, not his business, unless he is the instigator. ”

Leopard didn't expect things to be so complicated, not as simple as he thought.

Things from all over the world, Cuicui knows more Cui than she knows!

From now on, if you see anything unjust, you should make it clear before stepping in.

Otherwise, it's easy to get a mess.

They went to the rice shop to buy rice.

In order to spend the winter in Leopard Valley, Leopard bought 500 catties of rice as soon as he opened his mouth, which not only made the rice shop owner stunned, but even Cuicui was stunned, and asked, "Why do you buy so much at one time?"

"Eat!"

"Brother Leopard, do you know how many days you eat 500 catties of rice?"

"How many days?"

"We can eat for six whole months. ”

"Isn't that bad?"

"It's good for your head! I'm afraid we haven't finished eating yet, and the rice is already moldy and can't be eaten!"

"How much should we buy?"

"Up to 200 catties, we'll buy it after it's used up. ”

"Isn't the rice in the rice shop moldy?"

"Ah! How can rice in a rice shop be moldy! They sell so much and make so much money. ”

Leopard still doesn't seem to understand that in business, his IQ may not be as good as that of a little girl in the countryside.

Leopard has been following Master since she was a child, so she doesn't have to worry about buying rice.

His master, Zen Master Fang Wu, was a great man.

It was easy to buy rice, and soon he bought it back (some of which he had begged for).

The leopard only knows how to measure rice in a bowl to cook rice, but the bowl is often full of rice, and he doesn't know how many catties he eats in a day.

Cuicui is different.

Although she has been a sword swordsman since elementary school, she often goes to the kitchen to help, and often sees Tie Sister-in-law hiring someone to pick rice to take home.

She is also very good at learning how to ask questions, so she knows some everyday objects.

Later, the fairy in white took the fairy in white to walk on the rivers and lakes, so she knew a lot, unlike the leopard in the mountains who were ignorant in the ancient temple.

Of course, in the deep mountains and dense forests of knowledge, Cuicui is not as rich as a leopard.

Therefore, a person's wisdom and wisdom are often those who have been in contact with his living environment and contact, except for talent, are not innate, they are developed later, only some people understand quickly, and some people understand slowly.

I bought 200 catties of rice, wine, oil, salt and other daily necessities, as well as a few cotton clothes, furs and a large barrel of oil.

These add up to four or five hundred kilograms.

Except for the cotton fur coat, which is carried by Cuicui, the others are loaded by the leopard.

After lunch in the city, they left Wangjiaqiao and walked back along the mountain road.

Cui Cuiren was alert, and in the town, he had secretly discovered that someone was secretly following him.

But she still put on a face, pretending to be nonchalant, and wondered: Who are these people who are spying on her?

Hariza's?

If so, the big businessmen are going to suffer!

After walking a mountain road, Cuicui whispered to Leopard, "Brother Leopard, have you noticed that someone is following us?"

"No? Maybe they're going home from this road too. ”

The strength of the leopard's heart, in which no one has yet been found to be tailing in the distance.

"Brother Leopard, don't be careless. ”

"What are they following us for?"

"Why not? malicious, of course!"

"It can't be Hariza's man, right?"

"Who knows?"

"So what do we do?"

"Let's be quiet and see what they're doing. ”

About ten miles from Wangjiaqiao Town, at a mountain pass, two men followed quickly, and one voice shouted like a duck: "Little brother in front! Take your time and wait for us." ”

At this time, two more people came on the hillside.

Cuicui said softly: "Brother Leopard, they act! But don't move, don't make a sound, let me take a look at them and see what they are. ”

In fact, with Leopard and Cuicui, it can be said that it is an easy task to get rid of these four people.

But Cuicui was reluctant to do so.

She wanted to find out if the team had been sent by the Hariza, so she took the leopard with her, and deliberately walked at the speed of a mountain man, and it was not easy.

The sound of the duck came.

Cuicui and Leopard stopped and put down their burdens.

Cuicui raised her eyebrows and asked, "Are you calling us?"

She looked at the man.

The sound of a mallard is usually groomed in the mountains.

His companion was a well-proportioned man, with a swarthy face and a white cloth wrapped around his head, like a Yi man with a scimitar on his back.

Cuicui glared at the two men in blue who were grabbing something on the hillside in front of her.

They look strong and fast, but are dressed like hunters.

The duck man's voice was a little breathless and said, "Okay!

We shouted, "You're going too fast!"

I saw him running a few steps out of breath, thinking: Such a person, whether to see if his martial arts are good or not to go anywhere, but he replied: "I'm sorry, we have to hurry home." Big brothers, what do you want us to do?"

However, the eyes of the Yi people are looking at the burden on the leopard's shoulders.

The duck master asked in a voice: "Are you out to make New Year's goods?"

Cuicui replied, "yes! What about you?"

"We also wanted to buy some New Year's gifts, but we didn't bring much silver. You seem to have a lot of money on you, my little sisters. Can you lend us some?"

The leopard was stunned: "Are you here to borrow money from us?"

"Brother, everyone can use it if you have money!"

Cuicui said: "Big brother, we have bought everything with silver, but we don't have any silver on us. ”

"It doesn't matter. Carry it yourself. ”

"How is that possible?"

The duck's voice giggled and said, "If you don't have it, you have to have it." ”

"Didn't you get in the way?"

"Sister, that's what you said, not us, we just borrowed it. ”

"Have you borrowed that?"

The man who ran down the hill asked, "Do you borrow money or not?"

Cui Cui deliberately asked in fear: "You, you, who are you?"

The man dressed as a hunter said: "Lao Tzu is a mountain tiger in this area! Now Lao Tzu not only wants to borrow money and things, but also borrows money!"

Another hunter dressed as a black man also smiled wickedly and said, "Big brother, this girl is the most beautiful, and in two years, she can sell it at a high price." Yes, it was the person who borrowed it. ”

Cuicui further confessed to this group of people, saying: "You, you, you, you don't, don't mess around, we are friends of Master Wang Jiaqiao." ”

The four thieves were not stunned by one of them: "Are you friends with Ha Ye?"

"Yes! If you don't believe me, you can ask him!"

The four thieves looked at each other, and then all three of them had their eyes fixed on the mountain tiger.

Old Master Duck asked in a voice, "Big brother, what should we do?"

Looking at the scene in front of her, Cuicui knew in her heart that these four thieves were not Hariza's people, and she thought: they are not Hariza's people, where did they come from?

It can't be a bunch of thieves, right?

But think about it, don't be like a cloud and be a lone robber, how can there be an accomplice?

Isn't it strange that the accomplice of the big thief doesn't ask for the jewel, but asks for something like this grain of rice?

Good!

Looks like a bunch of thieves with eyes and no beads.

Killing the thief disgraced my sword.

When the mountain tiger asked what to do, he hesitated for a moment, and suddenly a sinister light flashed in his eyes: "Kill them!"

"Kill them?" what if they are discovered, and can we still find food in these places?"

"Kill them, bury them. If you didn't say it, and I didn't say it, how do you know? If you want to get rich, risk your life!"

Cui Cui deliberately frightened: "Do you really want to kill us?"

Shanhu said hesitantly: "Sister, even if you are unlucky, you just don't say me, say it, we don't dare to let you go." Accept your fate!"

"No, no! I'll give you this shipment. Please don't kill us, let's go. ”

A well-dressed man said, "Brother, what do you think of bringing this little girl to the village and selling it to our village chief?"

"Sell, if she runs away, will we still be alive? Kill it, lest others find out later." ”

The leopard then said, "Don't talk nonsense, you'd better get out of here quickly." ”

Shan Hu was stunned: "What? You told me to leave?"

"Yes!