I opened a shopping mall in Xihuan

"In the barracks." Rice replied flatly.

"Why don't you go home and live?"

As soon as the question came out, Les suddenly fell silent.

Seeing the distressing silence in his expression again, You Xia quickly said: "It's fine if you don't want to say it, I'll just ask."

"No, I just don't want to go back."

You Xia: "..." A bit rebellious, Sao Nian.

Seeing that the other party didn't want to linger on this topic, You Xia changed the subject and asked, "By the way, have you recovered from your injury?"

Les nodded obediently.

You Xia: "It's fine. I'd better pay attention to myself in the future. No matter how strong the healing ability is, accidents will still happen if it exceeds the tolerance of the body."

Rice nodded again.

Then, the two looked at each other and fell silent again.

You Xia searched and searched, but couldn't find anything to talk about, so he said, "Then if you have nothing else to do, I'll hang up."

Les: "Hang up?"

"It means the end, by the way, how to close it?"

Les pursed his lips, stared at You Xia for a while before replying, "Call me again, my name."

"Les Hodges."

Immediately, Les responded softly, and the picture in the mirror was like a stone thrown into the water. After a burst of ripples, it quickly returned to the original blurred state.

You Xia knocked on the mirror, it was completely metallic.

"interesting!"

First came medicine, then magic, and now he has come into contact with magical alchemy. This world is more interesting than he imagined.

But as a businessman, he is most interested in money, and that will never change.

The fried chicken restaurant is about to open, You Xia is going to make a rough capital plan first, and then the ruthless businessman puts the magical bronze mirror into the game backpack.

·

At night, the dim light of the kerosene lamp lights up the small room, and the weak light sets off the bed covered with white sheets.

Les took off his shirt in front of the mirror, and the dim firelight illuminated his blood-stained back. In the place where the blood was most concentrated, the scratches and tooth marks of the beast could still be vaguely seen, but now, those wounds have healed up.

In the afternoon, he went to pick up a task.The requirement is to hunt and kill a few forest demon wolves hovering around the manor outside the city.

The mission was a complete success, and of course he was injured, but such an injury was completely innocuous to him.

It's just a little blood, and it will recover soon.

Les went to the bathroom to take a cold shower to wash off the blood on his body, and it didn't take long before he returned to the room with wet hair.

He activated his magic power, skillfully dried the water droplets on his body and hair, then put on his clothes and sat on the bed, staring at the bronze mirror on the bedside.

In fact, he told a little lie today, the spell that opened the mirror was not his name, to be precise, it was the name of the holder of the opposite mirror.

If one day, the bronze mirror in his hand falls into someone else's hands, then even if You Xia calls his name, the mirror cannot be opened. This may be a little selfishness of his.

Les was lying on the head of the bed, picking up the bronze mirror and playing with it boredly. With half-closed eyes, the picture he saw in the mirror at noon appeared involuntarily in front of his eyes. Looking out of the window, the beautiful and slender neck line will be revealed.

His drooping eyelids were slightly red, and he endured it for a long time, but finally couldn't hold it back, and called out "You Xia" in a low voice to the mirror.

Then, a vortex appeared on the mirror surface, looming, as if a picture would be formed in the next moment.

Rice's heart suddenly beat violently, expecting to see the other party, but also afraid that the other party would show puzzled eyes when he found him.

He thought, if Youxia didn't want to chat with him, then just take a look at it, and it will be over soon.

However, when the picture in the mirror became clear, Les was at a loss. What appeared in front of him was not the bright and beautiful room he imagined, but a cold and green closed space.

He could see a set of folded clothes, a few brown paper bags, a pair of bows and arrows, and a small brass potion around him. It was as deserted as a forgotten utility room.

So did You Xia throw the mirror she gave him into the pile of debris?

Is it a lie to say that you like the gift he gave you at noon?

As soon as this thought popped up, he couldn't take it back, and Rice's eyes suddenly darkened.

He really didn't deserve anyone's attention.

·

However, the fact is the opposite. Youxia put it in the game backpack precisely because he valued the bronze mirror.

He firmly believes that even if he loses himself one day, the system must still be there.

But Les didn't know this, and Yuxia didn't expect that the other party would want to start the video again at night after chatting only at noon.

At this time, he had just taken a shower and lay down on the bed with a lot of worries on his mind. On the one hand, he was worried about the threats he received, and on the other hand, he was worrying about whether the rent of the fried chicken shop would be enough to pay. All the troubles seemed to be negotiated All of a sudden they gathered together, so that he didn't even bother to practice his favorite magic.

Youxia stared at the ceiling with nothing fixed eyes, sighed a long time, and then opened the game menu to check his character stats.

【Name: You Xia

Race: Old wood elves

Age: 25

Rating: 3

Experience: 85590/100000

Coins: 5 gold, 71 silver and 75 copper

Unlock stores: first-level store milk tea shop; second-level store fried chicken shop; third-level store grocery store

Backpack: Wood Elf's Bow and Arrow x1, Butterfly Seed x100, Magic Potion x1, Lantern Tree Seed x100, Dress Set x1, Vine Clothes Rose x100, April Bronze Mirror x1. 】

So far, he only has a deposit of 5 gold, 70 silver and 75 copper. Diss said that the annual rent of the shop is set at 6 gold coins, which is obviously not close.

It seems that we can only negotiate the price when we see the landlord tomorrow. If it doesn’t work, we can take something as collateral first, two days’ rent in arrears, and make up when we earn enough money.

But it's kind of embarrassing to do so.

You Xia was conflicted in his heart, but intellectually he had already agreed with the idea of ​​mortgage.

He raised his eyes and glanced at the items in the game backpack. First of all, seeds and the like must not work, and dress suits should not work either. No one can use dresses to pay off debts.

Speaking of which, this is the reward he got when he upgraded the third-level shop, including the seeds of the rattan rose, which were put in the backpack because they were not needed for the time being.

The rest are magic potions, elven bows, and...

"April Bronze Mirror?" Youxia read its name, and it took two seconds to realize that it refers to the magical item that can make video calls. The game named it "April Bronze Mirror" .

Unexpectedly, a mirror had such a long name, You Xia felt a little funny.

He took out the mirror from his backpack, and for some reason, he called "Les Hodge" to the mirror.

The moment he saw the vortex appearing in the mirror, an idea suddenly popped up in You Xia's mind - Les is the son of the city lord, isn't that the rich second generation?

I don't know if I can ask him to borrow some money...

This thought only flashed by, and was quickly forgotten by him, because the scene at the other end had already appeared on the mirror at this time, but because the light was too dim, the picture was not very clear, and he could only vaguely see a person lying on his side. Human silhouette sleeping in bed.

It turned out that she had already fallen asleep... You Xia felt a little regretful that she couldn't borrow money anymore.

Peeping at other people's sleep is too weird, and there is a suspicion of peeping into other people's privacy, so he whispered a spell, ready to close the bronze mirror.

And just when the picture was about to melt into the mirror, You Xia saw the person in the mirror suddenly open his eyes, the eyes are vertical pupils that radiate red light!

When she woke up the next morning, You Xia still couldn't get rid of those blood-red vertical pupils.

I'm so curious, what kind of strange ethnic origin does Les have, why did he suddenly turn into red eyes, it sounds like a madman!

After turning off the mirror last night, he waited in front of the mirror for a while, thinking that since Les woke up, he should send a video to ask him or explain the reason for the vertical pupil, but he never waited.

In the end, Youxia still decided to pretend that nothing happened, as long as Rice didn't mention it, what happened last night wouldn't exist.

In the morning, Youxia was open at the milk tea shop as usual, until Diss came with a tall lady in a dark dress and a blue hat. Diss introduced her as Ms. Erica, the wife of an official from the Finance Department. He is also the landlord of the shop he is about to visit.

Ms. Erica is not very talkative, and her words and deeds are a bit upright, but she always smiles when facing Yusha, giving him a sense of elegance and kindness.

After that, Diss took him to see the shop with an annual rent of six gold coins.

It was a shop in the middle of Nightingale Street.

According to Ms. Erica, the original tenant here was a handicraft maker. Some time ago, her son started a business and made a fortune. The family moved to Wickenburg City, and the handicraft store also moved to Schlevog Street. The shop was empty.

"The neighborhood here is either a watch shop or a fabric shop. It will definitely not affect your business." Diess said with a smile on his face.

You Xia went in for a stroll, and found that the interior of the house was much more exquisitely decorated than the original house of the milk tea shop, and the area was relatively large, about fifty or sixty square meters.

The house has three floors, two bedrooms on the second floor, and a loft and a balcony on the third floor. The layout fits You Xia's requirements very well.

There are also two small flower beds at the entrance of this shop. There are shrubs full of small flowers planted in the flower beds, surrounded by wooden fences - the soil of the flower beds is normal, which makes You Xia feel particularly relieved.

Although the flower bed in front of his milk tea shop was almost purified, it took a lot of time after all.

In addition, the two tall and lush elm trees facing the main entrance of this house also made Youxia very satisfied.

He couldn't help but imagine the scene here in autumn, sitting in the store eating fried chicken and drinking beer, watching the golden elm leaves fluttering outside, it must feel very pleasant.

Everything is fine, the only difference is money.

Youxia looked hesitantly at Mrs. Erica who was smiling quietly in the light and shadow under the tree. It would be better if he was facing a man, but he really couldn't open his mouth to this quiet and beautiful lady.