I opened a shopping mall in Xihuan

Until she returned to the City Lord's Mansion, Regina's mind would still appear from time to time her brother's rare sweet smile, as well as a pair of soft eyes that seemed to be glued to the Elf Boss.

Although she told herself in her heart that this was just friendship and brotherhood. After all, Les had been isolated for more than ten years in the city lord's mansion. His parents were not close, and his brother took the lead in bullying him. It is normal for a friend who is a descendant of the family to cling to a friend.

But whenever Regina recalled the pictures she saw in the store, she always felt that the atmosphere was too weird to describe.

With this thoughtful expression she walked across the garden path to her lodgings, so absorbed in her thoughts that she did not notice that Herro was coming face to face.

"Regina, my precious daughter," Herro stood in front of her, forcing her to stop, "what are you thinking, so serious?"

"Father!" Regina came back to her senses, she looked up at the sun hanging high in the sky, and asked, "Why are you in the garden at this hour?"

"Oh, I feel that my waist has grown a lot recently, so I go out for a walk when I have time." Herro replied.

Regina couldn't help but look down at his swollen stomach, and then look up at his rounded cheeks, feeling a little complicated.

Since when did her handsome and extraordinary father start to gain weight?

Moreover, she was so fat that she realized something was wrong. Was it because she met her father every day, and the daily changes were too small, so she couldn't tell?

"Just came back from shopping?"

"Yes."

Hero glanced at the two large gift boxes with the Xia Zhisen logo in the hands of the servant behind him, and sighed: "I bought so many more, you and your mother ran to that store every three days , haven’t you emptied the warehouse?”

"It's not so exaggerated. I don't buy much. Like Mrs. Lucia and Mrs. Wendy, they have to go to the store to carry a big box every day."

Regina defended herself: "Besides, things are not expensive. A series of 24 lipsticks only costs one gold coin, so why don't I buy a set for my collection?"

One gold coin is not considered a small amount of money, it is worth half a year's expenses of a poor family - the city lord who has just finished dealing with the resettlement of migrants in the slums is so emotional in his heart.

But thinking about it, Regina has never had any hobbies to spend money since she was a child, and now she finally has something she likes. If it can make her daughter happy, it's okay to spend some money.

"Father," just as Hero was considering whether to increase her daughter's pocket money, Regina suddenly asked tentatively, "Don't you want to know how third brother is doing now?"

When Les was mentioned, Herro's originally smiling face suddenly turned expressionless. He followed her words as if to make his daughter happy: "How is he?"

"He seems to be living with elves, although he looks happy, but I think..."

"What do you think?"

Regina frowned, and thought about it: "I don't know if it's a good description, but I always feel that his soul is about to be taken away by Mr. Youxia."

"Oh?" Hero raised his tone slightly, and then laughed loudly: "This is normal, when I first met that lord, I thought he was too dazzling, and I wanted to marry you to him! "

Regina raised her eyebrows: "You haven't mentioned this to me, does it mean that your idea has failed?"

"Yes."

Regina smiled slightly: "It's a good thing you didn't succeed."

Herolo was a little surprised: "Why, don't you like that type?"

"That's not true, who doesn't like a good-looking face?" Regina said, "It's just that he is too shining, standing next to him, I'm afraid others will make fun of me behind my back and say that I am not good enough for him."

"Don't think so, dear, you are the most beautiful in my heart."

"That's just what you think," Regina retorted shamelessly. "Besides, elves are a long-lived race. I don't want to experience the pain of being watched by my lover."

Herro said: "You have to believe that there is more than one medicine in this world that can keep you young."

"But it doesn't save me from death."

"Well, you are right, then we should not choose the longevity race. As long as you are happy and happy, there is nothing wrong with marrying an ordinary human nobleman." The city lord, who is in charge of a daughter, quickly expressed his submission.

Regina had a triumphant smile on her face, but she was thinking in her heart that she was a pure-bred human and could not be with elves, but her brother who had a part of demon blood did not have any troubles in this regard.

I heard from my tutor that demons all have a long lifespan, so Les, who is a hybrid of humans and demons, should have inherited this ability...

Just as this thought flashed through her mind, a thought burst into her mind, and then, an indescribable sadness and panic hit her chest.

It seemed that at this moment, she realized so clearly that everyone in the City Lord's Mansion, including herself, was different from Rice.

All of them, even the elder brother with a bit of magic talent, can live no longer than 300 years at most, and her third brother Les, after all his relatives passed away, he can still live in full bloom.

No wonder everyone rejected him so much. Apart from the difference in blood, the most fundamental reason might be that they were not of the same kind at all.

The fact is that in this mansion, there is no one who can accompany her lonely brother all the way.

·

After Mei Ya set off for Kurt, You Xia investigated and signed two more agents, the first of which was a human businessman named Lin Nuo.

Lin Nuo originally owned his own spice shop in Bayswater, the capital of Sealand, and this time he came to Rose City to buy goods.

As a result, the spices didn't come in. He walked into Xia Zhisen's cosmetics store with his friends by chance, and was amazed by the store's unique decoration style and its dazzling array of exquisite products.

In the next few days, he didn't even bother to go to the spice market. He indulged in browsing the cosmetics cabinet every day and didn't buy anything. He just followed the shopping guides of other customers and enjoyed the high-end and elegant atmosphere inside.

Later, when I heard that You Xia wanted to recruit agents from other cities, he acted decisively. Relying on years of experience and the knowledge and understanding of cosmetics acquired during this period, he successfully squeezed out other competing human race businessmen and became Xia Xia. Zhisen's first agent in Bayswater!

Another agent is the female leader of a leonine caravan, a leonine orc named Staci.

Unlike Lin Nuo, Staci wanted to start the cosmetics business not because she loved cosmetics so much, but purely because she and her caravan thought it was a business that could make a lot of money.

Through the Orc Chamber of Commerce, Youxia learned that Staci's reputation was very good, and it was not much worse than that of the dwarves. It happened that he also wanted to open a trade route to the Beastman Kingdom, so after some discussions, Youxia and the other party Signed the franchise contract.

For these two franchising contracts, Youxia gave the same conditions as Meiya's - the purchase channel with the lowest wholesale price in the market, the franchise fee of hardware coins, and certain technical support.

It is said to be the lowest wholesale price in the market, but in fact Youxia still earned a 20.00% profit from it.

Therefore, even though these two agents had a cautious attitude of not having done similar business before, and purchased goods in a small amount like Mei Ya, they were relatively conservative in purchasing. You Xia signed these two orders, and still received 35 gold coins in one go. profit.

This afternoon, after Staci paid the final payment and left with her caravan with the goods, Youxia checked her information panel.

Some time ago, the number of gold coins was hovering around one or two hundred, but now it has successfully exceeded four hundred. As long as he asks the adult elf to borrow another hundred gold coins, he can buy a winery with an area of ​​220 acres!

However, at this time, two weeks have passed since the date of negotiating the price with Elgin.

Not sure if the wine merchant had sold the winery to someone else, Youxia had no choice but to go to No. 12 Gulmarg Road in Wickenberg District to greet Mr. Mr. Erkin went out a few days ago, and he will not be back until tomorrow at the earliest.

"The master left a message before he left, saying that if a wood elf comes to him, let me tell you that he still has the winery for you. When he comes back, he will send someone to the cosmetics store to notify you." The concierge Passed on respectfully.

When Youxia heard that the winery hadn't been sold yet, she didn't feel anxious, and went home and waited for Elgin to come to find her with peace of mind.

But what he didn't expect was that the next morning, he didn't wait for anyone from Ergin, but instead waited for Diss.

In fact, since more than half a month ago, Youxia asked Diss to help him pay attention to the shops on Schlevoger Street that have the intention of renting out, but after more than ten days, there was no news. It was not until two days ago that Diss came. I found him and said that there are indeed no vacant stores on Schlevog Street at present, let alone the central area, even the small shops in the cracks at the corners of the streets have been rented out at high prices.

Diess said bluntly: "If you really want to open a restaurant in the city center, you either have to pay a lot of money to buy a house, or you can only rent a shop on the second or third floor, but if the restaurant is opened on the second floor, the business will definitely be affected. affected."

You Xia was also very conflicted when he heard the words. It was his dream to open a hot pot restaurant in Schlevoge, but it was impossible for him to put the original plan on hold just to wait for the store to become available.

So after hesitating for a few minutes, he still had to lower the standard and said, "Well, if you know that there are restaurants suitable for rent in the central streets of the nearby urban area, you can also come to me."

As soon as the requirements were lowered, as expected, within two days, Diss, who had a good network, found a suitable store for him.

·

"The store I found for you is a two-story tavern. The tavern has just been refurbished. The location is not bad. It is on the street of Schumbrunn Street, next to the branch of the Mage Union and the Pharmacist Union. The flow of people is still there. Quite impressive."

While introducing him, Diss led the elves through the traffic-heavy streets.

Different from the peace and stability of Nightingale Street and the luxury and prosperity of Schlevoger Street full of money, the most intuitive feeling that Xiong Brun Street brings to Youxia is that this place is really a magical world!

Because of the gathering of the four major alliance branches and the chambers of commerce of various races, Kumbrun Street is the street with the most people of other races and special professions.

You can see novice mages in gray mage robes, pharmacists in black cloaks, caravans from the dwarf kingdom, alchemists and treasure hunters from the dungeon, and caravans and mercenaries from the orc kingdom.

The number of human races is significantly less than that of other urban areas and streets. Walking on the street, apart from merchants and waiters, the human races that can be seen are either people from the four major alliances, or opera singers and work in the red light district. By.

You Xia avoided a carriage, followed Diss onto the sidewalk across the street, and asked, "Since there are so many people, why is this tavern still not open?"

"Because there are many chambers of commerce on Xiongbrun Street, and there are branches of the Mercenary Alliance. People who accept tasks to discuss business like to find a tavern to sit down and have a drink. This leads to the tavern on Xiongbrun Street. Flooded, without any features and methods, how can ordinary taverns survive..."

Diss murmured and explained, because there were too many people on the street and the voices were too noisy, Yuxia didn't listen at all.

About five or six minutes later, the two arrived in front of a squat two-storey building on the street of Schonbrunn Street.

Diss pointed to the wooden sign hanging under the corridor of the tavern, and read aloud the content on it: "The Pine Cone Tavern at No. [-], Kumbrun Street, this is it!"