The middle-aged man is actually majestic and arrogant. His majesty and arrogance make the tailor feel more and more that the person sitting in front of him is a rich and identifiable person.

The middle-aged man is a leopard.

The third uncle raised his arm and pointed his arm at the leopard. He respectfully said to the tailor: "This is our boss."

The tailor asked respectfully: "What clothes do the boss want to make?"

The leopard raised his eyes and said to the tailor: "Make a satin robe."

The tailor measured the leopard's size. He was very short and tall. He couldn't reach the leopard's neck even when he stood on tiptoe, so he simply took a slap and stood up.

Leopard asked: "I heard that Zhangjiakou has the best craftsmanship?"

The tailor said: "Of course, I only make clothes for nobles like my boss. The poor people want to come to me to do it, but I don't do it for them."

The leopard pointed at the third uncle and said, "Since you have good skills, let's make one for me, this servant."

The tailor asked: "What do you do? What fabric?"

The leopard said: "Same fabric, same robe."

The tailor smiled and said, "You are kidding, where are the servants wearing silk clothes?"

Leopard said, "I am a servant, it's unusual. My ancestors were the Beller of the Yellow Banner. When the Qing Dynasty collapsed, he turned down and went to my house to be a servant. Although he was a servant, I would treat him as a brother."

The tailor quickly nodded and bowed to the third uncle and said, "Since it is Mr. Beile, he must wear silk and satin. The villain is clumsy, so Mr. Beile should not care about it."

The tailor worked hard all night and prepared clothes for the third uncle and the leopard, and delivered them to him in person the next day.

Last night, Uncle Third Division and Leopard slept on the Western-style carved bed of a wood merchant's house. They took the clothes sent by the tailor and put them on, and it was just right.

Leopard praised: "It's indeed the first-class craft in Zhangjiakou, which is good."

The tailor's nose and eyes were filled with satisfying and flattering smiles.

The leopard said again: "It's better to make us a set of short cotton coats according to the size you measured yesterday. After that, I'll send it over and pay you all the time."

The tailor nodded in agreement with a roar, and walked out of the timber merchant's house. He thought that the timber merchant's house would not ow him the money at all.

As soon as the tailor left, the third uncle and the leopard left. They closed the courtyard gate and crossed the wall. As for the tailor's fabric and handicraft money, he would go to whoever he wanted.

Uncle Third Master and Leopard used a little trick and got two clothes made of the best fabric. Now, they are wearing such suitable and valuable clothes, and no one dares to look at them now.

Wearing such clothes, you can walk into the antique shop. This land has always been a place where people respect clothes and disrespect.

He only wore two valuable clothes and had no money in his pocket, so he could only walk around the antique shop and then leave. However, Uncle Third Master and Leopard had no penny in his pocket, so he also asked the antique shop owner to bring the valuable antiques with both hands.

If the third uncle and the leopard cannot do this, they will be no longer old people.

Two days later, two people walked into the antique shop, one was dressed brightly, one was dressed simply, the other was majestic, and the other was looking down. When anyone saw it, he knew that one of them was the shopkeeper and the other was a servant.

In fact, the shopkeeper is the third uncle.

When the antique shop saw a customer coming, he looked at the third uncle, and decided that he was a rich man, so he hurriedly came out of the counter, made tea and asked the third uncle to sit down.

After the third uncle sat down, he said, "My old man came from the capital the day before yesterday and has been living in my elder brother's house. My elder brother is an official in the capital. The old man has no other hobbies in his life, so he likes to play with paper and stones. He also knows some stone gangs in the capital. The stones in the house, whether they are old or new, have set up a room."

When the man heard the third uncle say this, he was solemn and knew that he had met a big buyer, so he hurried to the backyard and called the boss.

Uncle Sanshi said the jargon of the antique industry. Playing with paper and stones refers to collecting calligraphy, paintings and jade; Stone Gang refers to the inverted jade; old type refers to jade made very early; new type refers to newly made jade. Jade is a special stone, generally green, growing in ordinary stones, mixed in a large pile of stones on the river beach. From the appearance, jade stones are exactly the same as ordinary stones, but yes

Through extremely subtle differences such as light, color observation, and feel, home can tell whether there is jade in the stone and how large it is. This kind of stone with jade is called raw stone. Some people specialize in this kind of business, open a shop, and a bunch of stones are pulled in the store. If you buy it, they can cut and dissect it on the spot. Some people bought a large piece of jade for very little money, while others bought a rotten stone at an extremely high price. This is called gambling stones.

After the boss came over, he talked with the third uncle and was humble. However, the third uncle did not talk to the boss about stones and papers because he only knew a little about this industry and was afraid of showing his flaws. The third uncle talked about his experience in the capital. He said that he had had dinner at Prince Gong's Mansion, watched operas at the Huguang Guild Hall, and followed the old man in the embassy area and saw the Russians with high noses and blue eyes.

The third uncle said verbally, and the antique owner listened with respect. The person who accompanied the third uncle stood behind his hands without saying a word.

Then, the leopard appeared.

The well-dressed leopard walked into the antique shop. After walking for two steps, he suddenly saw the third uncle sitting in the lobby, chatting with the third uncle. He hurriedly ran over and stretched out his arm to shake hands with the third uncle. The third uncle stretched out his arm politely and asked blankly: "Are you?"

Leopard said: "You are so noble, you are so noble. Last month, my brother had a bad business in Beijing. I asked your old servant to go to Beijing with me, and the matter was resolved. I have been wanting to come to the door to thank you all these days, but I didn't expect to meet you here."

The third uncle suddenly realized: "Oh, are you from Manager Yao?"

Leopard smiled all over his face: "Yes, yes, you, Manager Gao, remember. Brother, I prepared a small gift and showed my concerns. I will deliver it to the mansion one day."

The third uncle waved his arm and said, "A small matter, a small matter, a small matter, a matter of the capital, for me, is just a matter of one sentence. I just have a second brother who is a minister in the capital. Without my second brother, I am a commoner. What else do you have to do next time? Even if you say, my second brother recognizes the villagers the most."

When the antique shop owner heard Leopard and Uncle Third were talking about private matters, he stood at the window and looked out, as if he had not listened to their conversation. In fact, he pricked up his ears and kept eavesdropping on their conversations. He wanted to judge from their conversation how much purchasing ability "Shopkeeper Gao" had.

The third uncle and the leopard continued to perform double acts.

Leopard said that winter was coming, and he saw a business, but unfortunately he didn't have enough money. Uncle Third Division asked what business he could reveal. Leopard said that he would not disclose it to others, but he could not disclose it to the third Division because Uncle Third Division helped him a lot. He said that he was going to pull the fur on the grassland to the Beijing-Tianjin area, and one hand was a lot of money.

Leopard tried his best to suppress the sound very low, but in fact his bass was thick and powerful, and every word was accurately transmitted to the ears of the antique shop owner.

Uncle Third Master said: "This is indeed a good business."

Leopard said: "It's a pity that I don't have enough capital. If Zhangguan Gao is willing to do business together, it would be better. If you make money, you will get more money."

Uncle Third Master asked: "How much does it cost?"

Leopard said: "It takes two thousand Yuan Datou."

The third uncle said, "Shopkeeper Yao is not that I don't want to do business with you. To me, the 2,000 Yuan Datou is just two hairs. My family can earn 2,000 Yuan Datou in just a few days. I don't care about the profits of this business. The problem is that since you are short of money, come to me and I will pay the capital. Once I make money, I can't add 5 yuan."

The antique shop owner was eavesdropping on the side, and he was shocked. Two thousand Yuan Datou was a lot of money at that time, and many families who claimed to be rich could not afford so much money. And this Gao Zhangguan actually said that two thousand Yuan Datou was just two hairs.

The antique shop owner continued to listen down, and he heard the two people having a disagreement for dividends. The third uncle raised his voice and said, "This business is the way I want to buy antiques here. You can come to the humble house another day, can you tell me?"

The leopard said in a Beijing-Tianjin accent: "Then the relationship is good."

The leopard walked out of the antique shop, and the third uncle walked into the backyard, and the servant stayed in the shop. The antique shop owner judged that the third uncle was a wealthy boss. He was rich and noble, not only very rich, but his relatives also worked as a high-ranking official in the capital. Such a customer is a money tree that fell from the sky.

The backyard of the antique shop contains precious jade and calligraphy and paintings. The antique shop owner opened the cabinet and took out a few yellowed calligraphy and paintings from it, saying that this was from the Song Dynasty.

The third uncle carefully picked up a calligraphy and painting, walked to the sunlight of the window, looked carefully, and said, "The boss bullied me, this is obviously a play today."

The antique shop owner said: "Shopkeeper is kidding. This is obviously a painting from the Song Dynasty. Look at the inscription and then look at the paper."

The third uncle glanced at the antique shop owner and said, "The boss is bullying me as an amateur. This is obviously a coffin."

Putting a coffin is a jargon in the antique industry, which refers to making a painting made by today's people into old paintings according to the old method. As for how to make it old, I wrote a lot in front.

In order to make people believe this fake, I took out a truly valuable old painting with inferior skills, dug out the heart of the painting, put it on the original edge, and made it into a fake that is enough to make a fake.

The antique shop owner repeatedly proved that his paintings were genuine, and the third uncle repeatedly said that his paintings were fakes. The two sides were in stalemate. The third uncle said, "My old man is a master of painting, so I'd just take them over and let him take a look. If he says it's genuine, I'll buy them all and never bargain."

The antique shop owner carefully packed the most valuable paintings he thought and handed them to the third uncle. He carefully said to the third uncle: "You can go, boss, but please ask your servants to have tea here. Let's wait for you to come back together."

The third uncle said, "Then the relationship is good."

The third uncle walked out of the antique shop with a few precious calligraphy and paintings, without looking back. At the intersection, the leopard led a horse to wait for him. After they met, they rode on the horse, walked out of the city gate, and ran away.

The antique shop owner was waiting for the third uncle in the store. He couldn't wait or wait on the right, so he asked the servant: "Where is your master living?"

The servant shook his hand and pointed at his mouth, and then people realized that he was a mute.

But where did the third uncle find this mute? Why did this mute follow the third uncle to the antique shop?

The mute is not a servant of the third uncle, and the third uncle is not the shopkeeper. The mute has only known each other for a few days.

There is a church outside Zhangjiakou City. There are several foreigners in the church. The church is magnificent and magnificent, with various patterns and brightly colored pictures on the inner wall. Outside the church door is a square. Every night, a large pot is set up on the square, with porridge in it, sweet potatoes, vegetable leaves and other things in it. Anyone can come here to drink a bowl.

This kind of porridge is called shelter. Those who come here to drink porridge are all homeless homeless people.

When the third uncle and the leopard passed by, they happened to meet the church's sacrificial rice. The dense tramps were wearing tattered clothes and holding dirty and broken bowls, and they all surrounded the rice cooker. There was an old man outside the crowd, with his body covered and empty hands, looking at the rice cooker and swallowing saliva. He had no bowl to serve rice.

The third uncle said to the leopard: "We want our plan to succeed, it all depends on this person."

The old man was about fifty or sixty years old, his dirty and messy beard floated on his chest, and his expression was dull. The third uncle walked over to talk to him, and he opened his mouth and screamed, waving his arms.

He is a mute.

The third uncle made an invitation gesture, and the old man who was so hungry that he was close to his back left with the third uncle and the leopard.

In a restaurant, the mute old man ate five bowls of buckwheat noodles in a row, burping comfortably, gestured to the third uncle with gestures, and then put it in his heart. This body language says: You are my caring person.

Since he has determined that the Third Master is his caring person, the mute old man will follow wherever the Third Master goes. The mute old man will do whatever the Third Master asks him to do.

At night, they lived in the same inn, and the leopards used their tricks and got a piece of clothing for the mute old man. I wrote earlier that there are many types of people in the theft industry. Some thieves specialize in stealing pigs, horses, cattle and sheep, and some thieves specialize in stealing clothes and shoes. This kind of thieves are the lowest-class thieves in the theft industry. Because they have the lowest technical content, they are looked down upon by the general thieves. However, there are many thieves with inferior methods. Now, every city has a ghost market. The thieves have opened at the fourth and ended at the fifth. Almost all the clothes and shoes sold in the ghost market are stolen by such inferior thieves. In the past, there were no ghost markets in the city, but there were clothes estimators, which specialize in various clothes. After this thieves with inferior methods stole clothes, they would sell them to clothes estimators and resold them to customers. In the city, the inferior people in the city wanted to buy clothes, so they went to clothes estimators.

The mute old man was wearing the clothes stole by the leopard and was led to the shaving shop by the third uncle. He shaved his beard and shaved his head. The mute old man seemed to have changed his body, and looked like a servant of the rich third uncle. He matched clothes with horses with saddles. This sentence is correct.

In the next few days, the mute old man followed the gorgeously dressed third master to go to the restaurant and tea shop, eating and drinking. He became dependent on the third master and also had a deep proletarian relationship with the third master. In fact, the mute old man was a penniless proletariat.

Then, the third uncle took him into the antique shop.

Night came, and at the last moment when the city gate was closed, the third uncle and the leopard sneaked back to Zhangjiakou city.

The night became thicker and darker, and the lights gradually went out, and Zhangjiakou fell into darkness and silence. The third uncle and the leopard came to the antique shop again. This time, they came to rescue the mute old man.

Originally, according to the rules of the world, the drama and scam had ended here. The third uncle and the leopard should have gone far away and would not come to Zhangjiakou again. Even if they come to Zhangjiakou, don’t rush around the antique shop. China is so big that they can go, so why bother to wander at this intersection in Zhangjiakou? However, the leopard and the third uncle were not assured that the mute old man was mute, and they were worried that the antique shop would make things difficult for the mute old man.

In the rules of play, the characters of mute old men usually use beggars or abandoned babies you meet on the road, tricking the shop to say that the beggar is his servant or relative, tricking the shop to say that the abandoned babies are his own children, and walking away with money. The shop not only can't find you, but the beggars and abandoned babies you leave will also become their burdens. This is how the big book Jianghu is about play.

However, Leopard and the third uncle were worried about the mute old man, and they wanted to take the mute old man with them.

In the past, rich families had guards and guards, commonly known as servants, and those who opened antique shops at their own homes were no exception.

The leopard untied the soft rod from his waist - I have introduced this kind of wall-surfing tool many times before. He put it on the top of the wall and climbed up the high wall. He saw a corner of the front yard with lights exposed and someone was shaking. The leopard pulled a lump of soil from the wall and threw it into the yard. The door of the house opened, and three people ran out with bright blades in their hands.

These three people are servants.
To be continued...