"It's quite amazing. In just a few days, I have captured little Irene's heart."
Claire spread his hands helplessly and said, "Do you believe me when I say I didn't do anything? I don't know why Irene fell in love with me."
He really didn't do anything. He didn't even have that idea in the beginning, he just made fun of the other person. Who would have thought that Irene was really interested in him.
This is unreasonable. I am just a viscount. She Princess will not really believe in any beautiful love story, right? Or is it that King has used her too well?
"You little fox, do you think I can believe what you say?" Sophia looked distrustful.
Then he put on the look of a resentful woman, looked at Claire and said, "The Viscount has a new person and has forgotten the old one. I wonder if the Viscount will be able to remember her in the future?"
"How about you lend me tens of millions, so that I can always remember you." Claire didn't like her either.
This immediately confused Sophia. He put his hands on his hips angrily and asked, "Is there anything else like this?"
In the next second, Claire's attitude changed and he said politely, "No more trouble, but I do have something to ask my wife for help."
"What's going on? There's no need to talk about borrowing money. I lost more than 20 million this month."
"Madam, the industries you run can still make losses?" Claire was a little surprised. In his opinion, even if the national economy collapsed, the industries under Sophia would not be able to lose money. This woman is very shrewd and losing money will never happen to her.
"I originally planned to earn 200 million, but in the end I only earned 180 million. Isn't that a loss of 20 million?" Sophia said as a matter of course.
After hearing what the other party said, Claire immediately wanted to slap her. Damn it, how could such words come out of your mouth.
Now I only earn about 10 million in a whole year, while the other person earns more than ten times more than me in a month. Sure enough, you can't compare people with each other.
Claire sighed and said, "If I don't want to borrow money, I just want to get some news from you."
"Well, what's the news?" Sophia smiled brightly without mentioning money.
"Madam, do you know where there are treasures with a lot of life or potions that can replenish life force?"
Sophia looked Claire up and down suspiciously and said, "Aren't you only sixteen now? Why do you want this? And don't you still have plenty of vitality?"
"Needed for experiments." Claire made an excuse at random. Anyway, the experiments required by the mage were very complicated, and it was normal to need things with abundant vitality.
Sophia nodded without delving into it and continued, "This thing exists, but you probably can't get it."
"How to say?"
"Potions that can replenish vitality are in short supply in the royal capital. Only a few masters can refine them, and the number of potions they can produce every year is pitiful, only about three or four doses per year..."
Sophia After saying this, Claire understood, and then continued, "I understand, once those potions come out, they will be snapped up by the nobles in the capital, right?"
Sophia nodded, "Yes..."
Generally speaking, a noble family that can be passed down for a long time has a strong backbone, such as the ancestor behind Sophia's family - one of the kingdom's Six Archmages, who is also the vice-president of the Royal Capital Magic Academy... This is the key reason why their family can always survive, and these strong people generally don't take care of things, and have not even appeared once after changing the heads of the family several times.
But such a large family definitely needs a person who calls the shots, and that is the head of each noble family. Therefore, most heads of noble families will focus on running the family. Even if they choose the mage path that can extend their lives, they will not be able to go very far. At most, they can reach the junior mage stage.
The life span of mages at this stage is only 150 years, which is several decades longer than ordinary people. Therefore, after many of them reach a certain age, they will pursue means that can extend their life span.
Some directly hand over the family property to their younger generations and turn around to practice magic wholeheartedly. However, not everyone can learn magic. It is common for them to stay as mage apprentices after fifty or sixty years. Academy of Sciences and the white-haired Magic Apprentice who worked under Isaac are living examples.
And giving up the power in their hands is something that most people cannot do, so many nobles will take another path, which is to pursue potions or other methods that can extend their lifespan. Therefore, the price of medicines that can extend life span has always been high in the royal capital.
"The current price on the market is about five million pieces of Gold Coins per dose, and sometimes the price is even higher."
"And your needs are different. For those nobles who are about to die, the medicine is their life. You just bought it for experiments. You may not be willing to pay the price they are willing to pay."
Claire thought about it and felt that what Sophia said made sense, so he said, "Then Madam, you'd better lend me some money, I don't have enough money now."
Sophia: "..."
"Okay, let's stop making trouble." Claire said, "Madam, do you have any news about these potions?"
"It's a coincidence that you asked. There will be an auction in the capital in the next few days, and there will be exactly what you need."
"Is the news reliable?"
Sophia looked at Claire with a puzzled look on his face. He didn't understand what he was doing, so he could only respond, "It's reliable. The information the auction house gave me should be correct."
"Then the auction house is also your property? Then just sell the things to me."
"Do you really think I am involved in all the properties? This is a duke's property. If the news hasn't spread yet, I can help you. But now at least the nobles in the royal capital know that there are life-extending potions for auction. For the reputation of the auction house, even if I want it, he can't give it to me."
"It's okay. You can find a way to give me the entire ticket to go in. I will fight with them myself when the time comes."
"Can you rob it? You have a cash flow of five million, how about I lend you some money?" Sophia took the initiative.
Claire looked over with a suspicious look on his face. He looked unhappy when he mentioned money just now. Now he brought it up on his own initiative. How can this bitch be so kind?
As soon as he looked over, he saw Sophia holding up five fingers and said with a smile, "I will lend you as much as you want. The interest is five points. Others' interest is about ten points. I have already given you a very good discount."
Claire twitched the corners of his mouth and waved his hands. "No, I'd better borrow Shane's money. At least he doesn't have interest."
"Your words make me sad and make me feel like I am a woman who loves money."
Claire secretly complained: Isn't it?
It's easy to talk about other things, but when it comes to money, Sophia immediately turns her back on the person. I don't know if she was a piggy bank in her previous life, but she could only get in and out.
After his pretense failed to get any feedback from Claire, Sophia was too lazy to continue pretending and said directly, "I have the invitation for that auction. I happened to be busy at that time. You can just go in with my post and I won't take you there."
"Thank you, madam." Claire thanked her.
"You're welcome, how about you take me to ride on that airship? I'm quite interested." Sophia said with a smile.
"Uh... I took it for repairs. It won't be able to take off for the next few days."
"You hesitated, you were lying to me."
Claire: "..." Do you have to talk about some things? This is not good for both of us, right?
"It seems that I didn't get the same treatment as little Irene." Sophia sighed, picked up his folding fan and stood up, "Then I'd better leave this place that makes me sad."
"Madam, go slowly!" Claire was sitting on the sofa with no intention of getting up to greet her.
"Hmph!" Sophia stamped his feet cutely.