When night fell completely, Joel and Sergey finally saw the lights of the village in the distance.

The two of them breathed a sigh of relief, and the cold wind seemed to know that it could not stop their progress, and the sound of the whistling wind decreased a lot, and the snow particles that had been wrapped in their faces became straight down.

Joel twisted his stiff neck and grinned at the appearance of Sergei beside him.

"Laughing at what?" Sergei touched his face and cried softly.

"You look like Santa Claus......" Joel couldn't even laugh evenly, Sergei's eyebrows, lips were covered with snowflakes, and even his originally brilliant blonde hair was wrapped in snowflakes, looking no different from Santa Claus.

"Don't talk about me," Sergei said with a hint of depression, "Look at your own appearance, it's not much different from me!" ”

Joel pulled out a pocket bag from his robe, unzipped it, and then reached in and pulled out two bottles of Polyjuice Potion, which were placed under the Traceless Stretching Charm, a type of storage item that was strictly controlled by the British Ministry of Magic, and which he had purchased from the Borgin Burke store in the same way as potions.

He took out a rectangular wooden box from his bosom and opened it to contain two strands of hair tied with string.

By the light of the village not far away, Joel put a strand of hair in the polyjuice potion, sealed the bottle and shook it up and down.

"The plan is this, the two of us drink the polyjuice potion, I pretend to be a merchant who wants to buy gold, and you pretend to be a Russian-speaking British translator," Joel explained to Sergey, "and the current international gold price is $360 per ounce, and we are negotiating a floor price of $200 per ounce." ”

"We have a total of 21,000 dollars on hand, enough to buy 105 ounces of gold, and after getting the gold, we will flee the Soviet Union depending on the situation."

"How do you know that the people in this village are selling gold?" Sergei was a little suspicious after all, and took the polyjuice potion handed by Joel, the potion had turned dark brown, bubbling and bubbling, and looked similar to Coke.

Joel just smiled and did not answer, when the Soviet Union collapsed in the previous life, the officials of the Soviet government were afraid that they would not be able to get oil and water after changing the government, so they desperately poured gold and ammunition outward, and many villages near the border line had special personnel responsible for transporting gold to the outside world.

"I have one more question." Sergei glanced at Joel.

"Whatever you ask," Joel pulled out the holly wand from his pocket, "but I don't necessarily answer. ”

"If we buy at the price you said, our income will only be 16,800 US dollars," Sergei's mind was still spinning fast in the ice and snow, "not to the extent that you said that you would have no worries about food and clothing in the second half of your life......

The Polyjuice Potion and the Pack with the Traceless Stretch Spell cost a total of 380 Galleons, or $3,572 at the exchange rate of £1 to $1.88.

"You're right," Joel exhaled a hot breath that condensed into droplets of water in the air, "but I didn't say we came all the way here just to make a difference as middlemen. ”

Sergey raised an eyebrow.

There are hundreds of inhabitants of this village, each with candles, the bright light of which is particularly warm on the desolate and lonely plains, and two middle-aged men step on the thick snow one after the other and make a creaking sound as they step into the village.

As soon as the snow stopped, many villagers were walking out of the room with cleaning tools to clean the floating snow on the ground, otherwise with the local temperature, the snow would all freeze early tomorrow morning, causing a lot of trouble to travel.

The villagers were very sensitive to strangers in the village, and when they saw two middle-aged men walking into the village with one foot deep and one foot shallow, the look of vigilance in their eyes became stronger.

They clenched the shovels and shovels in their hands, and pretended to be casual and buried their heads in the snow, but their bodies invariably surrounded the two uninvited guests.

This intention was not hidden, and the two middle-aged men reacted immediately, and both of them reached for the wand in their trouser pockets at the same time.

"We are Englishmen who have come to buy gold, and we will take me to the seller." Sergei spoke as a middle-aged man disguised.

Russian is quite proficient, but there is a British accent, which doesn't sound so authentic, but it fits his character as a Russian translator very well.

Joel plays the role of a buyer and merchant, based on Borgin Burke, who picks up the owner's own hair from the shop counter while buying the Polyjuice Potion in Tumbledown Alley, when Mr. Borgin Burck scratches his head with a little excitement after hearing their needs, and a small handful of hair falls off his already hairless head, and Joel steals a strand while the shopkeeper is getting the Polyjuice Potion.

The villagers glanced at each other meaningfully, and one of the villagers behind Joel suddenly raised his shovel and attacked.

Joel raised the corners of his mouth slightly when he heard the sound of the air tearing, and quickly turned his body, the black robe flew up, and he pulled out the hammer of repentance in his pocket pouch at an extremely hidden angle.

Nor swinging it too hard, Joel just held the hammer in front of him, allowing the hammer and shovel to collide in the air, the shovel was no match for the purple equipped "Hammer of Repentance", and when touched, it shattered into pieces of iron and slashed through the air and finally embedded in the snow.

Undiminished, the hammer of repentance struck the attacker's arm.

He lay on the ground clutching his broken arm and wailed in a low voice.

The sneak attack failed and was injured by others, and the air was instantly filled with an aura of embarrassment, and the villagers were stunned in place and at a loss.

"Can you take us to the seller now?" Sergei glanced at the hammer of repentance in Joel's hand, and his tone became even harsher and colder.

The villagers looked at the two with a little fear on their faces, and they reluctantly moved forward to show Joel and the others the way.

"Vasily Ivanovich is in the highest house in the very center of the village, and the place can be seen at a glance, so go for yourselves." The villagers said no more, picking up their tools to sweep the snow from the ground, as if the previous attack had never happened.

Sergei looked at Joel, apparently asking for his opinion.

Joel put the hammer in his pocket bag, put his two hands in his pockets to keep warm, and walked forward step by step, Sergei hurriedly followed, and the two headed towards the center of the village.

The villagers hurriedly put down their tools and helped their companions lying on the ground.

"You're too impulsive......"

"Just the two of them come to buy gold, they must have a lot of money in their hands, won't they get rich if they grab a penny?"

"You didn't see the hammer in his hand? It's not a good ......."

The villagers were gossiping, and Joel and the others on the other side had already arrived in the center of the village, and there was a small two-story building in front of them, and the house also had a garden, but it was overgrown with weeds, and it was obvious that they had not taken care of it.

There were still two strong men standing at the door, and when they saw Joel and Sergey approaching here, they immediately stepped forward to interrogate them.

"Let's buy gold," Sergei whispered into the strong man's ear, "are you talking?" ”

The two brawny men looked at each other, leaving one to watch them while the other ran into the house to report.

After a while, the strong man ran back.

"People can enter, but they have to be searched." After listening to the strong man's words, Sergey translated it to Joel.

"No problem." Jolpin raised his hands.