#320 - Foreign aid (asking for monthly ticket recommendation ticket)

Anduin targeted Aselia because, during their previous conversation, he sensed a trace of malice towards him using Legilimency.

Although Aselia hid it well, it was still caught by his 'instinctive' Legilimency.

This malice appeared when Anduin said that the Anti-Apparition Jammers were not for sale. Before that, Aselia had been acting quite normal and had shown considerable restraint in her attitude towards him.

Coupled with the fact that she had been intentionally or unintentionally inquiring about the details of his shop, her intentions were obvious.

Aselia was extremely interested in the jammers in his possession, even to the point of being ready to use violence.

Since that was the case, Anduin had nothing to be polite about. He wasn't particularly curious about other people's secrets, but now that the other party was curious and wanted to touch his secrets, he couldn't be blamed for being ruthless.

After instructing Qi Qi to track the other party, Anduin went back to minding the store. He was addicted to playing the role of the boss. When he got tired of it one day, he would let Qi Qi take over.

After spending a long time in the store, he gradually discovered the tendencies of his customers. The younger wizards ignored the powerful alchemical items and were more interested in the shimmering sign, the mysterious seats, and the raven that spat out small orbs of light.

The older underage wizards were very interested in communication amulets, which allowed for convenient communication. Sure enough, teenagers liked to pass notes, but they were deterred by the price of the communication amulets, let alone the other, more expensive items.

Adult wizards had different interests than young wizards, and there were also differences in preferences between men and women. Adult male wizards were more interested in self-testing pocket watches, which were beautifully designed, internally complex, and powerful.

Adult female wizards basically took a quick look around his store and left, obviously not interested in these alchemical items at all.

And they all had one thing in common: they only looked and didn't buy. In one afternoon, Anduin only sold one self-testing pocket watch.

Faced with this situation, Anduin finally understood how the shop owner felt when he only looked and didn't buy at the alchemical item shop in Hogsmeade.

Although his products were highly targeted and not entirely aimed at ordinary wizards, the taste of poor business still made Anduin very uncomfortable.

Moreover, these people not only didn't buy anything, but also often ran over to ask him if he sold Wizard's Chess, Quidditch equipment, and so on, making him extremely embarrassed.

"It seems that these ordinary wizards are more interested in the appearance and entertainment value of products, and they prefer inexpensive items. Often, they are deterred just by seeing the price list."

Anduin was really a novice in the business world, but he learned quickly and immediately extracted the key points.

After closing the store that night, Anduin silently walked into the alchemy laboratory to make some preparations.

First, targeting Aselia, he installed a set of sensor locator runes in the defense core of his home, so that as long as those three pairs of tactical boots approached within a certain range, he would be able to sense them in advance.

Aselia obviously had ideas about the alchemical items in his hands, so he couldn't rule out the possibility of her breaking in to steal them.

Therefore, in addition to the sensor locator, he also specifically took out several jammers and modified them on the spot.

Anduin prepared to make two preparations. On the one hand, he strengthened the protection of his home to prevent the other party from making small moves in secret.

On the other hand, Anduin was very concerned about Aselia asking when he would return to school. It was possible that the other party would take the opportunity to steal something while he was away from Diagon Alley.

So he prepared to turn the tables. If the other party really wanted to play dirty and sneak in while he was away, he would let them steal these few modified jammers.

Anduin added backdoors to all of these devices, which would not only allow him to know the other party's location, but also ignore the effects of the shielding charms and Anti-Apparition magic on them.

After modifying the jammers, Anduin stored them in a cabinet in the testing room on the first floor. To show his vigilance, he also specially made a safe and stored the equipment inside.

Only after doing all this did Anduin have the mind to think about the store's affairs. After Joey and his sister, and his own summary, his company also had ideas for new products.

The first was to divide the human-shaped targets into levels and versions, creating junior, youth, adult, and professional versions. These changes were very simple for Anduin, after all, he only needed to subtract from the existing products.

The second was the research and development of new products, especially civilian products, such as the magical decorative lights that Gemma was very interested in. These things were not expensive to produce and could be mass-produced and sold.

Finally, he also planned to upgrade the appearance of existing products. When he used equipment in the past, he basically only considered durability, low failure rate, concealment, and other factors, so the shape was quite rough and the color scheme was basically the original color of the materials. Sometimes he would even make them matte or paint them black.

But now that he was doing business, he had to consider more.

But Anduin really had no clue about this. He was good at fighting, but he didn't know how to make things beautiful. According to his aesthetic standards, he wished everything was simple and durable.

However, although Anduin was not good at this, he had outside help. He knew someone who could definitely help with this.

So Anduin quickly wrote a letter, then slapped Shunfeng, who was waiting for death, awake and told it to send it out overnight.

And the next day, an old acquaintance appeared in his fireplace through the Floo Network.

"Anduin, you're really something. You don't even let people rest during the summer vacation. Don't you know that I haven't touched mahjong in almost a year? I was planning to take the opportunity to play enough during the vacation, otherwise, once I return to Hogwarts, I'll be watched by you again,"

Vivian, with a constipated face, complained as she walked out, clutching a large chicken leg in her hand.

"I'll pay!" Anduin, holding a money bag, handed it directly to the plump girl.

Having been in contact for so many years, Anduin had long been accustomed to her personality. He knew that if Vivian was in a bad mood, she could scold you for an hour even if you didn't do anything.

So Anduin never responded to Vivian's words. He chose to smash her face directly with gold galleons.