The Day of the Draw at Hogwarts

Tom looked at the dark sky outside and the boss with a standard Nubian appearance, and decided that this store was the place he was looking for.

"Nubian black tea, please!" Just as Tom was thinking, the shop owner took out a teapot from somewhere and poured two cups of black tea for Tom and Hermione.

Tom waved his hand to refuse, but the boss laughed and said, "It's free!"

But Tom kept waving his hands and refusing. Sometimes it was not so easy to bargain after drinking someone else's tea.

"Are you really not going to have some tea? We are all friends, and friends always have to give them a cup of tea when they visit."

When did we become friends? Tom grumbled in his heart, knowing that he had short hands when taking others, and a short mouth when eating others, so he naturally refused to accept it. Seeing Tom's resolute attitude, the boss had no choice but to wave his hand with regret and put the Anubis statue in his hand on the table.

"The statue just now was too small. I have a bigger one here." He even brought a ladder and leaned on it to try to pick up the goods from the top of the shelf.

Seeing this posture, Tom's face turned green. Being treated overly enthusiastically by a store owner at a tourist attraction is not necessarily a good thing.

The boss took out an old statue that was as short as a forearm with floating soil on it, but his action of holding the statue seemed to disturb a creature on the top of the shelf.

A black cat with no trace of fur jumped down from the top of the cabinet, bringing up a large amount of dust and almost knocking the store owner off the ladder. In a hurry, the boss swept down a lot of things from the top of the shelf.

The dust was thick, and Tom saw that there seemed to be a slate among the things that had been swept down. He moved slightly closer, pretending to care about his boss, and at the same time glanced at the slate without leaving a trace, making sure that it was really what their expedition team was looking for. The fourth piece of pattern.

"Are you okay?" Tom held on to the boss's ladder and secretly kept the graphics on the slate firmly in his mind.

"It's okay," the boss said, brushing off the dust on his body, "It's just a kitten. What bad thoughts can a cat have? In Egypt, cats will be forgiven for anything they do."

He pulled up a small stool, sat on it, and began to collect the goods that fell on the floor.

Tom noticed that he put the intact statue aside and moved the two broken statues into the corner. As for the stone slab, it was put aside together with a cat statue the size of a shoe box.

These two things are completely different from those statues that look inferior at first glance. They look like old objects at first glance.

"What is this?" Tom asked, pointing to the stone slabs and stone carvings.

"I don't know, it was left by the old man in the family - now we can discuss business." He picked up the statue with long arms, and took out a pink towel to dust off the loose soil. He had absolutely no intention of selling those two items. As for whether his behavior was fake, Tom couldn't tell.

While he was cleaning the statue, his son came in, silently put away the two antiques, and cleaned up the statue fragments on the ground.

"My friend, let's sit down and talk slowly." He led Tom and Hermione to his shop, found a small table to sit on, and moved two chairs for Tom and Hermione.

"A very nice statue."

The purpose of Tom's trip has been achieved, and he no longer wants to continue shopping. Now he just wants to return to Cairo, join Dr. Hunter and the others, and then head towards the desert.

But it would be nice to buy a souvenir, so Tom was willing to have a little chat with the shop owner.

"How much?"

The shopkeeper paused. At this time, he had wiped off all the loose soil on the wood carving, revealing the dark reddish-brown wood inside. "280 US dollars."

Tom:!

"Dollar?"

"Yes, sword music, not Egyptian pounds."

In Tom's opinion, this price is completely unacceptable: This statue was probably not from last week, it was just dug out of the backyard, and you actually dare to ask for $280!

"280, Egyptian pounds." Tom directly changed the currency unit.

"Eighteen hundred Egyptian pounds."

"200 Egyptian pounds."

Both fell into silence.

"Let's do this," the shopkeeper took out a small book, "800, how about it?"

He directly erased a "1"

Seeing how painfully the shopkeeper lowered the price, Hermione put her wallet back silently - she almost paid just now.

Tom still shook his head.

"Are you still students? That's better, it's not 200 pounds, it's not 800 pounds, it's 500 pounds, the student price."

Tom shook his head, "250 pounds."

"400 pounds!"

Tom:…

Boss: (￣ー￣)

"Then how much can you tell me?"

"Two hundred and fifty pounds."

"Look at the entire Aswan, there is no more authentic statue of Anubis than mine!" The boss was also anxious, "It's 350 pounds, will you buy it?"

"I only have 250 pounds." Tom looked like a dead pig who was not afraid of boiling water. Anyway, he was not afraid of forced buying and selling. If he was really pushed into a hurry, he would just give these Muggles some color.

The boss gave in and waved his hand, "Okay, okay, because we are friends." He quickly took out a black plastic bag and put the statue in it, so fast that Tom felt as if he still paid the higher price. .

1,800 Egyptian pounds, but the counter-offer was reduced to 250 pounds, which simply refreshed Hermione's outlook. In fact, the price is quite good. Some stalls that carve seals from the hometowns of saints can bargain up to 10%. I wonder what the saints in the hall would think if they had spirits.

You may think that if you have such a disciple when you travel around the world, you will definitely save a lot of money.

Hermione opened her wallet and took out three hundred dollar bills.

boss:……

The promised price is only 250 pounds! You're looking for trouble on horseback, right?

But he didn't say much. After all, he had made a lot of money from this order just now.

"Are you here for tourism?" The boss, who had made a business deal after a lot of quarrels, was in a good mood. He was folding clothes and chatting with Tom.

"Actually, we want to explore the desert." Tom is not afraid of leaking any news. It is very common to explore the Sahara these days.

However, the boss was stunned and the movements in his hands stopped. He said to Tom seriously: "Friends, I suggest you postpone it for a few days. Now is not a good time to enter the desert."

Tom:?

"You can't enter the desert these days. To be on the safe side, I suggest you postpone it until August. This is the wisdom left to my ancestors by this land."

Tom felt that his current boss was telling the truth.

"The arrow is already on the bowstring. I have no choice."

The boss sighed, lost in thought, and then asked his son to bring over the cat statue.