Kapitel 5: Snooper

Javed had long watched this strange foreigner. He was different from other visiting merchants in that he walked purposefully but without a guide through an unfamiliar city.

The foreigner is not something that would wander, but looked around too many times, the shadow of anxiety or joy continually appeared on his face.

The stranger walked along the landmarks, not finding the next one, he was worried, and when he stumbled upon him, he involuntarily rejoiced. He is certainly not a novice, he knows how to hide his feelings, but the long transition, the fatigue associated with him did not allow him to conceal his anxiety from an experienced gaze.

Javed realized that this was his chance, with deliberate indifference passing by Li-Ban talking to Dara, following the rich Sogdian merchant, asking him for handouts. Javed did not look at them directly but saw what he could not forget ...

It's like a fish in the muddy duck-covered water of a city pond that accidentally got there from the canal, what it did here ... he had never seen this tamga, heard only from the stories of the Chief Minister, but now he was sure that she was.

Only one thought stuck in his head: they can not be missed. With such feelings, Javed persistently played his role as a beggar, and he even managed to get a copper coin out of the mean Sogdian's wallet. He seemed to be moving away from his victims, but in fact he was approaching them. He knew all the places where he could lead Dara his guest.

In a narrow street near a number of usurers and money changers, a dust column suddenly rose. Street beggars have a dispute, a fight. Then they seemed to have come to their senses, began to put up with each other. The main beggar ...