When Joshua walked out of the theater, it was close to dusk.
Before leaving, Marina gave Joshua a hand-painted map, and on the basis of this map Joshua spent more than half an hour along Nolan's commercial street to find Marina's temporary residence.
Coincidentally, Marina's residence is only two blocks away from Nolan National Theater. Josh standing here can see the light emanating from Nolan's nominal first theater.
There is a performance by the Black Swan Troupe at the Nolan National Theatre tonight. Just like the name of the troupe, today the Nolan National Theatre will surely be the most eye-catching black swan on this lake in Nolan.
"Herland... the ticket is already in my hand..."
Sansa holds two grand-seat tickets to Black Swan's latest show, "The World of Laughs."
These two tickets were also extorted by Sansa from a male classmate named Ricard, who extorted them with the promise of "I will definitely bring Hurland here."
Now that the time is approaching the start of the performance, the tickets for the special seats that were originally only worth more than 500 gold coins may have soared to thousands of gold coins.
It stands to reason that Sansa should have felt excited because she could meet the legendary "Flower of Pharossi", but after watching "Beauty and the Devil", Sansa could finally feel the kind of Helland. I have completely lost interest in stage plays.
"You don't need to care about me and Ciri, after all, the only chance to see the legendary Fallowsy Flower is this time, isn't it?" Joshua said.
"Well... Hurland only has more than an hour anyway, let's go and have a look."
Sansa didn't want to waste the two tickets worth more than 2,000 gold coins in her hand. Quan should just pay for the tickets to meet the most beautiful girl in the world, and she was not the one who bought the tickets.
With three votes passed, Hurland finally agreed to Sansa's proposal and went to the Nolan National Theater with Sansa.
"Don't you want to see that flower of Pharos?"
Ciri took the bread she bought from the street shop for dinner, and she asked Joshua while nibbling on the bread.
"Personal aesthetics are different. Compared to those girls with heavy makeup and gorgeous looks, I prefer to be able to cook."
Liking beautiful girls is a common hobby of every man, but if he had to choose between beauty and housekeeping, Joshua would rather choose the latter. Of course, a full-time wife with both would be perfect.
But Qiao Xiu has no energy to take care of emotional affairs at all now, and there is no such thing to take care of.
"That's right, after all, those noble women are all Bi Chi."
Ciri is full of hostility towards the noble women who live in the greenhouse and walk in the ballroom every day, because Ciri used to be one of them, and Ciri also enjoyed this kind of aristocracy when Ciri's mother was alive. Treatment, unfortunately, Ciri didn't like this kind of life that was restricted by rules and regulations.
So compared to being a flower in the greenhouse before, Ciri was more satisfied with what she is now, and it would be better if her mother was still alive.
"… "
Qiao Xiu didn't answer, this female magician who dared to fight face to face with a brown bear is indeed not suitable for dancing in a dance dress in a ball, it is too subservient.
Qiao Xiu's gaze turned to the hand-painted map given by Marina. This map brought Qiao Xiu to the most inconspicuous part of the commercial street, and it was the only building in the entire commercial street without the light from the inscription as a sign. .
The scale of the building looks quite large on the surface, with three floors. Just as Qiao Xiu stretched out his hand and had no time to knock on the door, someone opened the door for Qiao Xiu.
"Your Highness... Your Highness."
The moment Qiao Xiu approached here, Ino felt Qiao Xiu's breath, and the succubus immediately ran over and opened the door with awe and unease.
"Where's your mother?"
Joshua didn't say "Ms. Merchant Marlina". After Marlina accepted Ino as her, Ino was willing to follow this human woman.
"Here, Mr. Qiao Xiu, I thought you would come back to me after a while."
Marina hurriedly walked down from the second floor, and Qiao Xiu also walked into the building. The space on the first floor was very empty, with a few display cabinets scattered around. Unfortunately, the goods in the display cabinets had already been stored. turned into ashes.
"You are the only businessman I know in this city, Miss Marina, I'm just a layman about business matters. Of course, I can only come to you for consultation as soon as possible."
Qiao Xiu found a table in the hall on the first floor and sat down. Ciri also sat directly next to Qiao Xiu, and Ino, under Qiao Xiu's gesture, sat on Qiao Xiu's seat tremblingly. opposite.
"Then what kind of business is Mr. Joshua going to do? If it is within my power, I will definitely help."
Marina took out a teapot from the cabinet in the hall, and then took out an item similar to an alcohol lamp, except that the burning medium changed from alcohol to magic. Merchant Malina will also do this little trick to make a fire.
"I'm going to build a tavern on the first floor."
Joshua looked around again at the area of the first floor, and it was more than enough to transform it into a tavern.
"Tavern, but Mr. Joshua... There are not many taverns in Nolan's place."
As a qualified businessman, Malina has a keen sense of business. The city of Nolan is strictly a city where humans and dwarves live together. During the day, the dwarves love to work after finishing their underground work. The only thing is to come to the tavern on the ground and have a good drink.
This has also caused many businessmen to come to these stupid and rich dwarves, emptying their wallets with wine and barbecue brewed by humans, but the dwarves are not really stupid, their stubborn character makes them generally Only look for a few pubs that I frequent.
And most of the human magicians stay away from things like alcohol that confuse the brain.
This also caused Nolan's pub business to be very profitable, but it was also one of the most profitable.
"What I want to build is a special tavern, which has enough features to attract those underground friends to visit, even the magicians of this city will be interested in it, and about the construction of this tavern , I will provide the funds, all you need to do is to contact a few merchants who can provide drinks and the interior decoration and construction of the tavern, Miss Marina, the estimated time is about half a year."
Joshua intends to take the construction of the Hearthstone Tavern as a long-term plan, and the money made by "Beauty and the Devil" also plays a role. After all, Joshua needs very little money to make the next movie.
"Then... Mr. Qiao Xiu, what do you plan to invest in the second and third floors?"
Marina is just a poor businessman now, and Joshua's investment is very important to her.