Claire's hand slid around the rim of the cup a few times, and decided to cut in from somewhere else, lest the other party immediately know his intentions, and then it would be difficult to talk about later.

"Madam, how about the archmage I introduced to you the other day?"

Sophia picked up the goblet and took a sip of the red wine inside, and said lightly, "Kill." ”

The red wine in Claire's hand rippled, and she was a little shocked in her heart, but she didn't show it, and she also took a sip of red wine, and then asked, "Why did you kill it?" ”

"Isn't that what you meant?" Sophia said with an innocent face, "If it weren't for the special circumstances, would you suddenly introduce me to an archmage?" ”

Sophia's body leaned forward slightly, revealing a large piece of snow white, and Claire's face was close again, and continued: "So I suspect that you may have encountered some danger, so I made this decision to introduce the other party to me, and I naturally want to solve your troubles." ”

Speaking of this, Sophia smiled playfully, "Well, I'm doing well." ”

Claire: "......"

He really didn't mean that, otherwise he would have been noticed by Hughes when he was connected, although he had thought about it later, but more is better than less, Claire's letter of introduction was very serious, and there was absolutely no words with special meaning written in it.

"Kill it, kill it." Claire said lightly.

Anyway, there is no loss for him, but he is a little melancholy, and Sophia's behavior makes him feel that his reputation has been invisibly consumed......

Sophia quietly stretched her hand forward, grabbed Claire's left hand on the table, and said lightly: "Don't talk about this, let's talk about something that adults should talk about." ”

Claire quietly pulled her hand out, "Madam, I'm only sixteen years old this year, and you're breaking the law." ”

Sophia covered her mouth and laughed, "Oh, it's all because you're too mature, I thought you were an adult." ”

"Are you an adult, ma'am?" Claire asked abruptly.

Sophia was slightly stunned, and the hand of the shaking wine glass stopped unconsciously, and glanced at Claire meaningfully.

But after a while, he suddenly straightened his chest and tightened the white sundress he was wearing, and asked with a smile: "Does my viscount want to verify it himself?" ”

Claire scolded in her heart, this woman is really unscrupulous.

Forget it, don't continue to talk to her, the other party has more experience in this area than herself, as long as she doesn't mention it, she can talk to herself until dawn tomorrow.

Claire put her hands together, rested her chin lightly on them, and looked at Sophia with a sense of pressure.

"I have a business I want to talk to you about ...... madam"

Sophia directly ignored Claire's little tricks, and was not affected at all, and continued to maintain a smile on her face: "Lord Viscount said that people have always wanted to do business with you." ”

Claire simply put away her set of tricks and said directly: "Open your chain store and magic shop in Nafu City." ”

Sophia frowned slightly, "This is not a profitable business, the total number of people in the Viscount of Griffin is more than 100,000 people, most of them are civilians, and the things in my two stores are not something they can consume......"

Sophia is telling the truth, otherwise Claire wouldn't have had to fool Shane into opening a tavern and a hotel there before, and opening these two shops in the current Nafu City would not make any money at all, that is, Shane and Claire had a good relationship, so they agreed to open two stores at a loss.

Although the current Nafu City is thriving, but the consumption power still can't keep up, the vast majority of people are still in the stage of just solving the problem of food and clothing, and it is impossible for them to spend money to buy those expensive things as if they were killed. Moreover, there are mages in Nafu City, including Isaac and Claire and ten mages in the Academy below, and this purchasing power has opened a magic shop for them, so let's eat peaches.

This is somewhat similar to Wanda in the previous life, if it were not for the purchasing power of a city, they would not have settled in a city.

"Have you checked me?" Claire's eyes narrowed.

Sophia didn't care, and said with a smile: "Women are always interested in what they are interested in, and people just want to know more about you." ”

"It's not going to be a loss." Claire said lightly.

"Oh, how do you say?"

"Now that you know, you must know that the craftsmen in several nearby territories have been recruited by me, right, and many of them can forge magic artifacts, so if the magic shop is opened there, it won't lose money."

"This reason is not enough, I want to open a store not only without losing money, but also this is just a magic store, and other chain stores will definitely not be able to make ends meet."

Although Sophia is a viscount and a dear, when it comes to interests, she will never let Claire take advantage of it.

Claire's fingertips tapped on the table, a rhythmic tapping sound, and he wondered if he should tell the other party about his plan.

Sophia was not in a hurry, holding her chin and looking at Claire with a smile in her eyes.

After a long time, Claire looked up and met Sophia's eyes.

"Have you heard the story of a mermaid?" Claire asked.

"Huh?" Sophia shook her head slightly.

"Then let me tell you, a long, long time ago, in the depths of the vast sea, there was a mermaid kingdom, the youngest mermaid princess in the kingdom was kind and pure, she lived freely in the sea, her heart was full of longing and longing for the land world, and finally on her fifteenth birthday, she surfaced from the bottom of the sea. It was at this time that the human prince, who happened to meet a boat, was unfortunately caught in a storm and fell into the sea. She desperately rescued the prince, and in the process of getting along with the two, the two fell in love.

But after all, the other party is a human being, and he is not welcomed in the mermaid world, and the two have to be separated on the shore. The prince promised the mermaid princess that he would return to his kingdom and ask his father so that he could marry the mermaid princess in the right name. The mermaid princess sent the prince away with great anticipation, but year after year, the prince never returned......"

Claire has modified the original story, and this is only an abridged version, so that Sophia can quickly understand the story.

Claire asked, "How's the story?" ”

After listening to this, Sophia took out a handkerchief and wiped it a few times from the corner of her eye, "If I were a little girl, I guess I would have been moved by this story." ”

It's just a bit of a pretense of this move.

Claire also looked helpless, he naturally knew that this kind of story Sophia would not have any touch, let alone an abbreviated version.

"Just move the little girl."

"What do you mean?"

"What do you think the merfolk look like inside?"

Sophia thought for a while, she had been the head of the family for so many years, and naturally she had seen more than ordinary people, and after a while, she replied: "It seems to be a merman?" ”

"Yes." Claire nodded, "It's a merman." ”

Sophia asked directly, "Did you catch the merman?" ”

"Not to mention catching, the fishermen who went out to sea carefully caught it, and now it is in the city of Nafu."

Sophia leaned back, "Sell it to me, and I'll give you a million gold coins." ”

"So much money?"

"Rare is expensive, there is no such thing as a merman on land, I have never seen it in so many years, if it is combined with your story, I may be able to sell more than a million gold coins." Sophia didn't hide it either.

And not only that, sharks are different from orcs and half-orcs, and rarely appear on land, and it is estimated that some mages will be willing to spend a lot of money to buy and study this unseen species.

Claire shook her head, "It's not for sale." ”

"The price is negotiable, you raise the price." Sophia didn't give up.

"In my hands, you can create more value than in yours." Claire said lightly.

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