Chapter 162 Little Smart

"What a nostalgic necklace!"

"..."

"Miss Greengrass, don't worry. Since I gave you something, you won't want it back. Just wear it."

"You have something to say, don't talk about these useless things." Lu Yunkai glanced at Daphne, who was embarrassed by Mrs. Zabini's two words as soon as they met. He stood up to block the muzzle of the gun, and then looked at Bray who was aside. Secretary, "Is Padma coming?"

During the first Hogsmeade weekend in fourth grade, Lu Yunkai took Daphne and followed Blaise to the Three Broomsticks bar.

Compared to the messy Pig's Head pub and Mrs. Puddieff's teahouse, which is more suitable for romance, this is indeed the best place in Hogsmeade for business.

"...I didn't call her." Blaise's face turned slightly red again.

"...Silly boy." Mrs. Zabini sighed.

Forget it, this precious son of his was really manipulated by Lu Yunkai. He had finally tried to gain some bargaining advantage over Daphne, but now he had lost everything.

"The cooperation method is still as agreed upon before. Is there anything else to discuss?" Seeing that he had the upper hand, Lu Yunkai changed the topic to business matters.

"About maintenance." Mrs. Zabini took a deep breath and continued: "I think it is very difficult for those who bought the mirror to pay every year or even every month. And The workload is also very huge..."

"So?" Lu Yunkai nodded.

This is a fact, and it is impossible for him to open a business office in England.

"So I suggest simply setting a service life of the communication mirror, such as fifty or one hundred years, and then adding this part of the money directly to the selling price." Mrs. Zabini continued, "I thought about it, one month One gold galleung should be more appropriate, so in one hundred years it will only be one thousand two hundred gold galleons..."

"See, you have to be like your mother when talking about business! Your method of handing over all your cards to me without saying anything can really ruin the family fortune that your mother has saved for you with so much effort!" Lu Yun spoke earnestly. Said to Blaise who was standing aside.

"...What do you mean?" It was Daphne who asked.

She didn’t hear anything wrong with Mrs. Zabini’s suggestion!

And not only is it not inappropriate, it is also very reasonable. To be fair, who is willing to go to Diagon Alley every month for a galleons? Floo fans are almost worth half a round trip...

"I am fully responsible for the magical maintenance of the communication mirror. Whether and how much of the income will be divided... Who can say clearly in the future?" Lu Yun smiled and said to Daphne: "What if this mirror is sold for two years? Now that I have money, I decided to avoid Blaise completely. There is nothing he can do about it. But if I had included all the money when selling the mirrors, wouldn’t I have to worry so much? "

"Oh..." Daphne nodded.

"That's what I mean." Mrs. Zabini did not refute Lu Yunkai, and nodded in approval, "It's better for everyone to settle the accounts first."

"But if we suddenly increase the price of this mirror by more than a thousand gold galleons, will it not be sold?" Blaise muttered next to him.

Quiet.

Lu Yunkai had a weird smile on his face.

Mrs. Zabini's face was full of embarrassment.

"Of course, there are other ways." Mrs. Zabini coughed lightly, breaking the awkwardness: "I thought about the advertising issue you mentioned before, and I can completely eliminate this cost."

"Yes, yes." Lu Yunkai nodded, "But I want to take more of this part of the commission. After all, maintaining these magics also requires labor."

"Just leave it to the one named Irene." Mrs. Zabini didn't want to give in.

"Even if Irene is asked to do it, her salary should not be less." Lu Yunkai did not want to give in.

"In the contract you signed with her, you originally had to go to the store to take care of the business. Now just replace it with this part of equal value." Mrs. Zabini insisted.

"Then her salary must be deducted from the sales before sharing." Lu Yunkai also insisted.

"impossible."

"There's no need to talk about that."

At a stalemate.

Although both Lu Yunkai and Mrs. Zabini were smiling, they refused to give in.

"Is it necessary to argue like this?" Daphne muttered next to her.

"It's tens of thousands of gold galleons a year, what do you think?" Mrs. Zabini snorted.

"Mom!!" Blais couldn't stand it anymore.

Quiet.

"You silly boy, who do you think I am fighting for!" Mrs. Zabini lost her temper completely.

"You had to reach an agreement with Lu Yunkai here a year earlier, and the extra money you would earn would be more than these tens of thousands of gold galleons, right?" Blais muttered, "Whoever earns and who loses, you can't figure it out clearly?"

"You..." Mrs. Zabini was angry.

This obsessed, silly boy! !

"Originally, in our agreement, the employee expenses were included in your share, and you were responsible for it yourself." Lu Yunkai had no intention of giving in on this matter, because he knew that as long as he made a small concession, he would probably end up with more in the future. Concession: "Now it is settled before the share, which means I also contributed a large part. If you think it is unreasonable, then I can allow Irene to be transferred to do the maintenance of this full-time, and then her salary will have to come from your share. No more deductions will be made.”

"Then she can't get such a high salary."

"The income from maintaining such a magic system is not as good as growing herbs? Don't you feel ashamed to tell others about it?" Lu Yunkai asked with a smile, "If you can find a wizard as capable as Irene, who is responsible and serious in his work, and is absolutely reliable and will not be poached by others, then go find him. Of course, I must be responsible for the review, otherwise, the same thing as the clerk before will happen again..."

"Just do as you say!" Mrs. Zabini glared at her son and sighed.

"Don't be so helpless!" Lu Yunkai smiled and shook his head, "How about this, the person who pulls in the promotion advertising fee will first take 10% as a bonus, and then we will settle the account."

"Okay." Mrs. Zabini agreed to Lu Yunkai's proposal without blinking an eye.

"Will the entire mirror be covered with your advertisements?" Blaise continued to interrupt.

Mrs. Zabini glanced over, and her son was so scared that he lowered his head quickly.

"Don't worry about that." Lu Yunkai shook his head. "You always asked me why the background of this mirror is some pictures when it is not in use and only displays text information! Then there will be some advertisements there."

"Oh! I understand!" Blaise suddenly realized, "So you have already started preparing?"

"Tell me about the price of the mirror! How much do you plan to sell it for?" Mrs. Zabini interrupted Blaise's flattery of Lu Yunkai.

She really regretted talking to Lu Yunkai about business in front of her son.

"How much do you think is appropriate?" Lu Yunkai asked back.

"One thousand gold galleons?" Mrs. Zabini thought about it and said tentatively.

"Is it cheap?"

"Is it expensive?"

Daphne and Lu Yunkai said two completely opposite sentences almost in unison.

"Is this expensive?" Daphne shook her head firmly, "Such a useful thing is definitely worth more than a thousand gold Galleons! The mirror you gave my father that can only be used for two people to talk can be sold for tens of thousands of gold Galleons!"

"How much this thing can be sold for does not depend on how much it is worth, but on how much the buyer can afford." Lu Yunkai explained with a smile, "According to me, I can accept 500 gold Galleons. As long as every British wizard can have one, why should I worry about not making money in the future?"

"Well, it's good that you think so. I originally wanted to make it as cheap as possible, but I was worried that you would not be able to accept the price I said was too low." Mrs. Zabini said with a little appreciation on her face.

"This is Lu Yunkai's research, and you didn't contribute, so of course you think the cheaper the better." Blaise muttered again.

"Who are you from?" Mrs. Zabini finally couldn't control her emotions and exploded.

"But this is a long-term consideration. But if it is a buyout price, more than a thousand gold Galleons is too cheap." Lu Yunkai added, "Those who mind receiving some advertisements that do not affect the use may not mind spending more money at all."

"Yeah. That's right. Then accept the version of the advertisement, 500 gold Galleons per side, and those who don't accept it, 3,000..."

"What do you mean by three thousand? Be generous and start at 10,000." Lu Yunkai smiled and shook his head, "This is not a question of whether the price is reasonable or not, but what kind of mirror do you want to sell?"

"Okay." Mrs. Zabini nodded with a smile. Indeed, for them, the income from advertising may be the biggest part, "Then what do you want to sell?" Can you supply me with it when the time comes?"

"I have a batch of about 1,000 faces." Lu Yunkai weighed it and reported a number, "but they are all the versions that cannot accept advertisements. After all, I didn't think of doing this at the beginning."

"This... if you want to change it, how long will it take to change it?"

"It can't be changed. My designs are all locked with magic and magic circles. If anyone can change it, then you are digging a hole for yourself if you sell it cheaply, right?"

"That's right." Mrs. Zabini nodded, then thought for a while and said, "I want 5,000 faces that can accept advertisements. How long will it take you to make it?"

"Five thousand? So many?" Daphne looked surprised.

She calculated in her mind that according to the price of 500 faces, this is 2.5 million gold galleons!!

Of course, Lu Yunkai planned to sell 10,000 gold galleons for the 1,000 faces he said. She didn't think Lu Yunkai could sell it.

That's 10,000!! Although there are many rich wizards, it doesn't mean that there are many people willing to be suckers.

"Before Christmas." Lu Yunkai casually said a time.

"Okay." Mrs. Zabini nodded, "Give me your 1,000 mirrors first, I'll think about the sales strategy, otherwise I'm afraid I can't sell them..."

"There's no good sales strategy." Lu Yunkai smiled and shook his head, "You can just sell this batch as a VIP limited edition. It just so happens that my system number is from one to one thousand... To be honest, if I have time, I also know some rich people..."

"What's there to not know? Just the parents of these classmates at school! Have you forgotten that Pansy came to ask you if you have any mirrors to sell?" Blaise interrupted from the side.

Then he was glared at by his mother again.

"... Well, actually, if I were to sell it, I would sell this 1,000 mirrors for at least 50 million gold galleons." Lu Yunkai interrupted the scene of motherly love and filial piety and said with a smile.

"50 million??" Daphne was shocked by this number.

"If your father didn't have the pair of mirrors I gave you, would you mind spending 100,000 gold Galleons to buy a mirror with your mother's birthday number for her?" Lu Yunkai asked Daphne, "And what about your mother? Would she also want to buy one for your father?"

"... Terrible." Daphne weighed it for a moment, and when she looked at Lu Yunkai again, her eyes were full of awe.

Not to mention, 200,000 gold Galleons, it would not be a problem for her parents to buy a pair as a gift to each other.

And they might also buy her and Astoria with birthday numbers... This is when her grandparents have passed away. For families like Pansy and Millicent who have three or four generations living together, it may be possible to buy ten or eight mirrors at once.

After all, Lu Yunkai claims that this mirror can be used for a hundred years! This is rounded to a lifetime! For families like theirs, it is not a loss to buy something that can be used for a lifetime with 100,000 gold Galleons.

"Besides, among those who want to please the Minister of Magic, maybe someone would want to buy a mirror with number one..." Lu Yunkai said with a sly smile on his face, "I'll bid one million gold Galleons for this mirror, and I think it can be sold. Of course, if I'm more ambitious, I'll just hold an anonymous auction..."

"Will so many people recognize your thing?" Daphne was rebellious to Lu Yunkai, and said something a little bit arrogant, as if she had forgotten that she just complained that Lu Yunkai sold it cheaply: "It doesn't matter if you don't have this thing."

"If only a few people around you need it, and everyone still uses Owl Communication, then it's okay. But if you and Pansy both use it, and Millicent doesn't...will you two still take her to play?" Lu Yunkai asked with a smile.

"This..." Daphne couldn't refute it for a while.

It seems true...

"Maybe one day, every wizard will need a mirror like this, just like they need a wand. The wand can only indicate that you can use magic, but the friends stored in this mirror can prove that you are really a wizard." Lu Yunkai said the advertising slogan he had thought of for a year with confidence.

"You! Learn from him!" Mrs. Zabini heard this and sighed softly, saying to Blaise, "Don't be stupid all day long. If you had half of his brain, I wouldn't be bothered to run around at this age!"

"Okay, that's it." Lu Yunkai once again interrupted his roommate's pitiful experience of being taught a lesson by his mother with other people's children, "I will sort out the mirrors for you after I go back, and you can sell them as you like. As for the part of maintaining the communication magic, I put it at my home before. If you think it's necessary, I can let Irene take it and put it in your store."

"I'd better find a way to deal with the store first. "Let's talk about the protective magic first." Madam Zabini shook her head, "This must be guaranteed to be safe."

"Okay."

"Then it's settled!" Madam Zabini let out a long sigh, "Don't forget to stock up on the regular version of the mirror."

"I know. And I have to test the magic of sending the advertisement again. After all, I have only tested point-to-point single-shot with Blaise before, and I have to test the mass-sending."

"Yes." Madam Zabini nodded, "You can handle these yourself, I just want the things."

"Then I'll leave first, you and Blaise chat here first?" Lu Yunkai stood up with a smile.

Daphne also stood up quickly.

"I also..." Blaise also stood up.

"Sit down! !" Madam Zabini glared at Blaise fiercely.

"...You guys go slowly."

Blaise sat down with a bitter face.

Lu Yunkai and Daphne looked at each other and smiled helplessly, and ran out of the Three Broomsticks hand in hand.

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