In modern society, the power of money was now well known amongst ordinary Chinese people. No matter if a Chinese person was as young as six years old or as old as 80+, they would all know the importance of money. Not to mention, in China, you would have to first pay money in order to receive hospital treatment.
The ski place's boss had no chance to even try and run. The nomads he had hired were no idiots. They would immediately call the police if the boss tried to run. It would be quite simple to arrest him as he had no proper documents or licenses for the entire ski place.