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Hearing the word "agent", Mei Ya vaguely understood something, but she still asked carefully: "What do you mean by franchise store?"

"It's very simple. You can understand that my cosmetics store in Los Angeles is the main store. I will provide you with supply and technical guidance, and allow you to use the name of Xia Zhisen to open branches in other places."

Mei Ya rolled her eyes and asked: "You provide me with the source of goods, I will sell them, and you will get the money after selling them?"

"Of course not." Youxia thought for a while, and explained to her more concisely: "This is equivalent to opening a branch of Xiazhisen, and then buying goods from me, and I will give you the lowest wholesale price in the market. Of course, the profits you make from the things you sell belong to you.”

After saying this, Mei Ya immediately understood everything.

She recalled the crowd of guests she saw when she visited the cosmetics store yesterday, and then thought about the prices of those cosmetics. If she could open such a store, wouldn't she be making a lot of money?

She asked in disbelief: "Is there such a good thing?"

"Yes, but of course, since I have given you the right to use Xia Zhisen's trademark, as well as the guidance of the store opening model and makeup techniques, you need to pay the main store a franchise fee in addition to the purchase fee to open a branch store. Metal coins like this."

Metal coins are still a bit expensive for ordinary people, Mei Ya couldn't help but frowned.

But she can also understand You Xia's charging method, which is actually equivalent to exchanging money for a support and guarantee from the main store to the branch.

She frowned in confusion: "But I don't have that much money. Except for the purchase of goods and the franchise fee you mentioned, the rent of the shop is not cheap when I open a shop in other cities. I have been a mercenary for so many years. There are only a dozen gold coins."

"In that case, I can also help you share the rent and decoration of the store, but then, I also have a certain degree of control over your store, and you need to share part of the profits with me."

For the new model proposed by You Xia, Mei Ya did not express her thoughts.

Of course she wants to be a big boss, who would want to work for others for the rest of her life, she didn't have the opportunity before, but now that the opportunities are presented to her, she naturally wants to seize them.

Moreover, judging from the prospects of the cosmetics industry, it is almost a sure-fire business.

It's just that she doesn't have much savings, and she doesn't want to share the control of a store with others, so she gets more and more entangled.

Youxia saw her characteristics, and finally just smiled: "How to choose is up to you, among other things, you have a mercenary team, at least the trouble of transporting goods will be avoided, you can consider how many God, if you want to try joining, come and find me when the time comes."

Mei Ya raised her lips, propped her chin on the table with her right hand, and stared straight at him.

You Xia asked: "What's wrong?"

Mei Ya shook her head and said with a bright smile: "I just suddenly felt that elves are really a powerful and beautiful race. I am a little attracted by you and want to sleep with you."

You Xia's expression froze.

Les glared at the opposite side, pulled up the hood of Yuxia's cloak and helped him put it back on, and said in a cold tone: "Go back when you're done talking, the store is about to close."

Mei Ya noticed the change in the expressions of the two, and she laughed even more happily. When the two got up and left, she waved her hands and said loudly: "I will think about it carefully, and you must wait for my reply, my dear." Lord Elf."

·

At night, when the shops are closed, the house is immersed in an atmosphere of silence.

You Xia was checking the new arrivals on the first floor. The business has been very good in the past two days, so before tonight, the last two cosmetic categories "Makeup Fixing and Moisturizing" and "Makeup Remover and Cleanser" have been unlocked.

So far, the cosmetics store has successfully unlocked a total of eight categories, including the initial three categories, from "beauty tools" to "makeup remover and cleanser".

Of course, all the products have been unlocked, and it will take a long time to wait for all the new ones to be completed.

After counting the goods, Youxia locked the door and went upstairs. On the second floor, Les had already made a bed and was sitting on the sofa idly playing with the leather rope with the brass bell on it.

You Xia poured himself a cup of hot water, and said, "You don't have to wait for me, just go to bed yourself when you're bored."

After a while, there was no expected response.

Youxia felt something was wrong, only to realize that Les had been surprisingly quiet after returning from the tavern, as if something was hidden in his heart, but he couldn't say it out.

Holding the teacup, he walked over and asked, "Why are you in a daze, what are you thinking?"

Les put the string of leather ropes on the table, hesitated for a moment and said, "Meiya... said that to me before."

You Xia quickly realized that he was referring to Mei Ya's words about wanting to sleep with him, and he said with a half-smile: "What do you mean, she shifted the target of the attack, and you are jealous for her?"

"No, I want to remind you that she hangs out with a lot of men, so don't listen to her nonsense."

"You think too much, her tone is obviously a joke, I didn't take it seriously." You Xia chuckled, sat on the sofa, picked up a cup and took a sip of hot water, "Besides, I don't like it... ..."

Halfway through the conversation, he stopped.

Rice asked, "What's not to like?"

You Xia suddenly turned his head, just in time to meet Les's eyes full of doubts.

His eyes unconsciously traced the handsome face of the young man, and he suddenly realized something.

The germination of this kind of consciousness made his heart beat violently. After a long while, You Xia finally found his own voice, and replied vaguely: "It's nothing."

·

Mei Ya came to the door after three full days of consideration, and told You Xia that she decided to follow him.

As for the mode of joining, she still chose the self-financing mode that You Xia mentioned at the beginning.

The reason why she can choose this path is thanks to Mei Ya's loyalty.

As a mercenary leader all these years, she will try her best to help any of the team members who are in trouble. Now I heard that the captain is going to open his own shop and become the boss, and each member of the same team volunteered a few gold coins to help Their captains do big business.

In fact, You Xia originally wanted to fool the other party into choosing the second franchising path, that is, his main store was responsible for subsidizing the rent and decoration of the chain stores, and later made money to share the profits.

But now that the other party had collected the money, he had nothing to say, and directly discussed the location of the store with Mei Ya.

Considering what Mei Ya said before, that pirated and counterfeit goods are widely popular among the nobles of the Ilan Kingdom, the first location Youxia considered for the new store was the capital of the Ilan Kingdom, the holy city of Romster.

"The holy city of Yilan Kingdom is very prosperous, but the cosmetics store may not be able to open." Mei Ya vetoed this proposal.

"why?"

"You may not have been aware of the fact that you have been staying in Rose City. The entire country of Yilan is a fanatical believer in the God of Light, especially the holy city of Romsster, which is even the birthplace of the Church of Light!" Meiya shrugged. Shoulder said, "Some leaders of the Holy See believe that women's use of cosmetics is against ethics and morality, and they have always strictly prohibited women from wearing makeup. Of course, some noble women who love beauty still secretly use cosmetics behind their backs, but it is absolutely impossible to spread them on a large scale. of."

When Mei Ya talked about the Holy See's constraints on women, her tone was obviously mocking.

Youxia can fully understand her anger, and he also thinks it is outrageous to associate women's makeup with ethics.

A woman with makeup is beautiful, and being beautiful will cause men to commit crimes. What kind of nonsense is this?

Selling cosmetics also has to consider whether the Holy See will allow it. Does the God of Light know that you are so nosy?

Youxia complained in his heart, and it was at this time that he realized so deeply how free Los Angeles is without any church stationed there!

"So," Meiya continued, "Romster is definitely not good, but the Cote City I mentioned to you before is fine."

"Is that the port city?"

"Yes." Mei Ya explained: "I just came back from Kote, because that place is far away from the holy city of Ilan, and it is also a port city with well-developed trade routes, and merchants from various countries and races can flow freely. , so the influence of the church is much less, almost negligible. Cosmetics are there, and they can definitely sell at a good price and sales volume. If the goods are sufficient, they may be able to go out to sea with the big ship, and flow to the dwarf kingdom and the orc kingdom in the middle mainland. , and even the Ole Yede Gate Country in the Eastern Continent."

Youxia was moved by what she said, and asked, "Is Kurt close to Ross?"

"From Ross, if there is a horse convoy, it will take about a month to go back and forth, and the waterway will be closer. The goods in Ross City can be transported to Cote in ten days, but you need to pay some shipping fees."

"What about the rent there?"

"The bustling area will be a little more expensive, but it's definitely not as good as the rent on Schlevoger Street. The rent of an ordinary shop in the center of Kote City is only about ten gold coins."

You Xia pondered for a moment, nodded and said: "Okay, if you think there is no problem, we will sign the contract, first ship a small batch of goods, rent a shop for trial sales, and wait for the market to open, and then it will not be too late to buy in large quantities."

Mei Ya raised the corners of her lips: "Then do as you said."

·

In the next few days, Mei Ya was busy with purchasing. Due to the limited funds, when she selected the products to purchase, she chose the popular color numbers of each product, and the purchase volume was not much. There are only three or five color numbers, and only [-] pieces for each color number, which is very conservative.

In addition to purchasing goods, she also learned makeup from Jasmine and Love at the same time. Of course, it was free. After all, the franchise fee of the hardware coins was paid, and the main store should give some technical guidance.

After such a busy week, on a sunny morning, Mei Ya finally brought her mercenary team to pay the first batch of purchase price and loaded the boxes of goods on the car.

"Such a big boss." After loading the goods, Mei Ya sat on the front seat of the cart and waved to You Xia who was standing at the door of the shop, "I'll see you in a month. I wish you and I a prosperous business!"

You Xia waved to her, watched the motorcade leave and disappeared into the crowd of people on the street, then turned and went back to the shop.

As soon as he entered the door, he saw Les standing by the cash register, chatting with a lady wearing a white lace cap.

The lady stood with her back to the door, Youxia couldn't see her face, only her fluffy white dress and flaxen curly hair hanging down.

Just looking at the back, it should be a beautiful girl.

You Xia walked over with a little interest in probing, but before he actually saw the woman's face, he guessed her identity from their conversation.

"You should go back and have a look. Although your father doesn't pay much attention to you on the surface, he still cares about you in his heart. Before the second brother told him that you were a model in this shop, the father was not only not angry, but also secretly let you go. Let me tell you, if you are really short of money, you can go back and ask him for it."

The woman crackled, and Les simply replied flatly: "I'm not short of money, and I won't go back."

"I know that the eldest brother and the second brother are not dealing with you, but they are not the only ones in the family. Shouldn't you come back to see me occasionally?"

At this time, Les found Yuxia coming in, and naturally set his sights on him.

The lady in the white skirt turned around, and as expected, it was Regina Hodge who came.

You Xia pretended not to hear the conversation, and greeted casually: "Good morning, Miss Hodge."

Regina immediately came back to her senses, saluted and said, "Good morning, Your Excellency the Elf."

"Come to buy something?"

"Yes."

You Xia glanced at Mamuer who was idle, and said, "If you need a shopping guide, you can call her to help you."

"Thank you, but I still want to go shopping alone for the time being." Regina politely declined, "Thank you for your kindness."

After that, she carried a shopping basket and walked into the eye makeup area.

You Xia looked at Rice, raised his eyebrows at him, and said softly: "It's okay if you don't want to go back, even if you live here, as long as you promise to be my free model."

Les curled his lips into a smile and nodded slightly.

On the other side, Regina was wandering around picking out products, and when she walked between the two containers, she happened to see her brother who never smiled turned his head and showed a gentle and sweet smile to the elf.

She frowned, a strange emotion suddenly rose in her heart, and she smelled an unusual breath sensitively.