It was obviously hot, but for a moment, the wind seemed to get colder.

Monica and Babu fell silent, and after a few moments, Monica whispered, "You're trying to drive us to a dead end." ”

"How so? You're the benefactors of the town, and I'm not going to push you to the brink. Sherlock said with a smile, "All the beaded fruits are sold, if it goes well, it should be able to sell more than six hundred silver coins, that is, six gold coins, the cost of the fruit is one hundred and sixty silver coins, and the potion is three hundred, you see, you can't accompany too much, at most it is a few months of hard work in vain, and if you are lucky, you may be able to earn a few silver coins of hard money, but if you are unlucky and can't sell it, it is your own problem, hahahaha." ”

"Do you think we'll spend an extra three gold coins on potions for the cost of one hundred and sixty silver coins?" Monica said with a cold face.

"You can also not buy it, hehe, not reluctantly." Sherlock didn't panic at all, and said confidently, "Maybe you can pay back if you buy it, and the cost of not buying one hundred and sixty is a set, hahaha, it's not me who pays anyway, I'm not worried at all." ”

Babu and Monica held hands, their bodies trembling.

"Ah, yes, I forgot to say it." Sherlock felt that it was not enough, his eyes became full of resentment, and he gritted his teeth and said, "Even if you want to buy it, this is not just sold to you casually, you must go to the tavern in front of everyone before buying, and make it clear that you were making up a story to deceive people yesterday, otherwise don't think that I will sell you the potion." Remember, especially in front of Harry, I want you to slap him in the face, if you say it well, maybe I'll soften my heart and give you a cheaper price, hahahahahaha......"

Sherlock laughed triumphantly, as if he had seen Babu and Monica crying for mercy and selling them their potions, and regretted seeing Harry pound his chest in front of him.

However, after laughing a few times, he suddenly noticed one thing, the two losers in front of him seemed to have not spoken for a long time, and when he looked down, he saw that the two were sitting at the back of the caravan quietly without saying a word.

Finding that his gaze was turned, Monica crossed her legs, looked at him with her chin in her hands, and said with a smile: "Director Sherlock, do you think there is a possibility, ah, I just said that it is possible, we don't actually need your frost potion at all?" ”

"What?"

With a snap, Monica knocked off the sinful hand that Babu stretched out to her beautiful handbag, and then put her hand in, took out a string of beads and put it in Babu's hand, and by the way, she also pulled a pill and stuffed it into her mouth, enjoying the sweetness spreading in her mouth, and said leisurely: "Can't you hear clearly? Can't understand? Still don't want to understand? Hehe, your routine is really deep, but unfortunately, we didn't care about the preservation problem from the beginning, we have our own way of preserving. ”

"Desperately asking for ways to keep you fresh, just to make you believe that we will fall into your trap and buy your Frost Potion, and not let you believe it completely, how can you believe that we have taken the bait. And selling the collar in front of you, and deliberately mentioning it repeatedly in front of you afterwards, of course, is to make you angry, if you are not angry, how can you lose your mind and accept the obviously low exaggerated price in order to pit us hard. Ah, by the way, I've been trying to tell you since last night, and I've been forgetting to say, well, thank you, you're such a nice guy. ”

Sherlock shook for a while, barely standing up, and his voice became indescribably dry: "You're lying. ”

"Lying? Hehe. ”

Monica stretched out her long legs and jumped out of the caravan, opening a crack in the caravan's tarpaddle so that Sherlock could see inside. Sherlock looked in expectantly, and there was no rattan box, no beaded fruit, no ice, nothing in the carriage, except for the stranger little girl who had set up an even stranger nest inside.

He snatched a beaded fruit from Babu's hand, pinched it and put it in his mouth, and his white teeth were on the purple-red fruit, which looked like a pleasure. Monica clearly enjoyed it too, licking the beaded juice on her lips with a lazy expression with a hint of urgency.

"We even have other ways to load the goods, and we care about your frost potion?" Monica looked at Babu, tilted her head mischievously, and said, "So, this time our Sherlock director has lost a lot of money." ”

"Yes, I would accept the price of four silver coins a box and sell the beaded fruit." Babu sighed sympathetically, "He won't be old and confused. ”

"And that's not all." Monica also looked pityful, "Twenty bottles of frost potions, I'm afraid I'm going to smash them in my hand." The alchemist is not his subordinate, it is okay to let the alchemist make ice to keep it fresh, and if he lets the alchemist refine the potion, even he has to pay, and the more this period of high consumption, the more expensive it is, guess how much he costs per bottle? Two silver coins or three silver coins? It can't be four. I don't think this batch of potions, no matter how good it is, it won't expire too long, four months or six months? Anyway, it will definitely not be able to support next year's harvest season. ”

"He can secretly sell the potion in a few days." Babu flipped his wrist, took out a silver coin out of nowhere and swirled it on the back of his finger, and his smile looked very sincere, "But this is tantamount to robbing the alchemist's business, I hope the alchemist won't come to him to settle accounts at that time, hehe, I don't think that old man has a very good temper." ”

"That's no way, in business, everyone relies on their own abilities, who makes themselves not capable." Monica spread her hands, and her tone was quite leisurely, "You can't lose a lot of money on the price of the beaded fruit, and even the dozens of silver coins of the frost potion are also lost, so even if you are settled, you can only admit it, otherwise what else can you do?" But, heck, that way, everyone will know about the stupid things he's done. ”

"Stupid, tsk." Babu shook his head and smacked his tongue, "I want to play tricks and tricks to harm the businessmen who are kind to the town, but they have long been on guard, but they are kind by nature and want to leave him some dignity, so not only did they not expose him to his face, but they planned to leave early." Who knew that he had to bring humiliation on himself, catch up with him to show off his might, and finally was slapped in the face on the spot, and he lost a lot of money, the key is that this money is equivalent to the town's public funds. If this kind of stupidity is spread out, this person will definitely become a laughing stock among the middle and high-level people in the town, and it will be impossible to raise his head again, it's really pitiful, it really makes people laugh out loud sympathetically. ”

"Actually, it doesn't have to get out." Monica said with a smile.

"Oh? What else is possible? Babu made a surprised face.

"Yes, why not, for example, admit defeat and surrender, apologize, maybe we will be soft-hearted, and we will help him hide it in another way, for example, he just forgot to tell us how to keep it fresh, and now he has made up for it, so that although he still lost a lot of money, including the potion, he still lost a lot of money, but at least he saved face, and he can still raise his head and be a man in the future." Monica winked at Babu, "As for how to make amends......"

"I think the beaded fruit stuff is good, and it's not worth much, at most it's just a few dozen silver coins, just a trophy to admit defeat." "Don't give more, twenty barrels is enough, well, we won't be able to fit more." ”

The two sang and talked lively, Sherlock was already pale when he heard it, and his eyes were bloodshot, and now the offense and defense were reversed, he no longer had the previous arrogant posture, and lowered his voice in frustration and said, "Are you serious? Really don't you want to spread the word about it? ”

"We are businessmen, not liars, well, not now, we have the most valuable character and reputation of businessmen, and we will not deliberately break our promises." The silver coin danced at Báb's fingertips, and he said solemnly, "So, as long as the compensation is in place, we will do what we say." ”

"Okay, I hope you do what you say."

Sherlock had no room for disbelief, and wanted to hide his humiliating defeat, and now he could only admit defeat and surrender, so he took Babu and Monica, ran to the mayor to explain a few words, and hurriedly brought twenty small wooden barrels, filled with beaded fruit brew. Fortunately, every household had this thing in stock, and soon twenty wooden barrels were filled to half of the carriage.

Sherlock was full of apprehension at this time, lest Babu and Monica would regret it, but fortunately, neither of them had any intention of changing their words, and parted with everyone on the spot under the pretext that they needed to minimize the storage time. Finally saved the lost face, which made Sherlock breathe a sigh of relief, and wiped the cold sweat from his head with palpitations.

"I said we'll do what we say." Babu was still playing with the silver coin, and said with a smile, "In our business, as long as there is no deep hatred, there will always be a little leeway for people to do things, and it will not drive people to a corner, so you don't need to worry at all." ”

"There is no deep hatred...... Leave room ......" Sherlock felt that there was nothing more ironic than hearing this sentence now.

"Heh, you're still dissatisfied? Still feel aggrieved? The silver coin on the tip of Báb's finger stopped, and sneered, "Don't forget, you provoked the contradiction, we were full of good intentions, it was you who deliberately deceived us on the issue of the retention period and wanted to trap us, and it was you who were easily provoked by me because of arrogance and greed, and swallowed the bait I threw in one gulp, you induced the war, and now what is there to be dissatisfied with?" Oh, come, pick a side. ”

As he spoke, Babu held the silver coin from the back of his hand in front of Sherlock.

"Positive." Sherlock snorted, staring at the dangling silver coin in front of him.

"Since you have taken the initiative to sit at the gambling table, no matter whether you win or lose, you are not qualified to complain anymore, this is the so-called willingness to gamble and lose, right?"

As he spoke, Babu flicked his thumb to send the silver coin flying into the sky, but when Sherlock looked up, he saw that there was nothing in the air. Lowering his head again, Babu was already pointing to Sherlock's breast pocket empty-handed, and turned his head away with a smile.

"Thank you for the beaded fruit and the beaded fruit stuffed, it's so cheap, it's almost like giving it away for free, it's so touching. Then let's go first, as for the various deficits in the accounts, just bother you to fill it yourself, hehe, goodbye, ah, no, it should be said, never again. ”

Watching as Barb and Monica high-five hard in celebration before jumping onto the back of the caravan, Sherlock hurriedly flipped open his breast pocket.

Inside was a silver coin with two sides, but it was drawn on a piece of torn paper, and it was drawn with no sincerity.