After afternoon tea, Audrey once again chose to go with Valeela.
She planned to find out Valeela's attitude towards the honorable name of "The Fool" during the ten minutes or so that the carriage was traveling——
This is her unfinished, additional plan.
In the previous small meeting in the study, Forsi and Xio had already borrowed the books she had arranged according to her arrangement. They expected that they would soon discover Mr. Fool's honorable name.
It can be said that Audrey's main plan is almost completed.
What she wants to do now is to make additional plans on the sidelines.
She could no longer reveal Mr. Fool's current honorary name, but if she was trying to get Valeela to be interested in the old honorary name that was already in the notebook, wouldn't this be considered against Mr. "Fool"'s wishes?
In the carriage, the two sat side by side, and neither of them spoke for a while.
Audrey was thinking about how to carry out her unfinished plan. What she didn't know was that Valeera beside her was actually thinking about her completed plan.
In the previous small meeting in the study, Valeela convinced Audrey and Grelint to get a good opportunity for Mary to attract investment.
Mary also lived up to Valeera's expectations.
Although she worked as a stay-at-home wife for a period of time, this did not greatly diminish her own business abilities.
After being invited to the study, she quickly persuaded Audrey based on the foundation laid by Valeela, and Grelint also made up her mind to participate in the investment.
After discussion, they reached a preliminary consensus.
Cowim's company is now valued at about £100,000.
They agreed that Valeela would invest 24,000 pounds, Audrey would invest 16,000 pounds, and Grelinte would invest 8,000 pounds. After completing the investment, their shareholdings would be 15%, 10%, and 5% respectively.
Of course, this is a draft, and the proposed investment amount is an approximation.
In order to make up for the reduction in shares caused by financing, Mary also needs to make additional investments. She plans to increase her original 20% shareholding to 21%, which will cost about 14,000 pounds.
They will also sign a looser "persons acting in concert" agreement to ensure the consortium's absolute control of Coyom.
In addition, Mary will coordinate and resolve any resistance to share changes.
After reviewing it again, Valeela confirmed that there was no problem with the previous agreement. If she had to find a problem, it would be that she did not have enough funds——
The original funds in her hand were mainly the savings left by Qili. During this period, there was a lot of progress. The current total is more than 10,000, but there is still a big gap between it and 20,000.
If she can't find a way to make up the difference of several thousand in the near future, she will need to get a loan from the bank.
This is not difficult, Valeela is mainly worried about the interest.
When it comes to making money, the most recent short-term and quick money-making projects... all Valeela can think of is assassinating Ambassador Intis, a task personally issued by the "Fool".
She instead began to consider the possibility of taking on and completing the task herself.
"Valila, is your investment strategy a little too radical? Can you tell me what you think?" Audrey thought for a while and decided to start the topic from investment.
Valeera wasn't quite sure what Audrey's purpose was in asking, but that didn't stop her from answering the question.
She smiled bitterly and replied:
"Because our family is short of money, Audrey."
"If you just want to maintain your current life, then of course the existing assets are completely enough, but Kiri also wants to restore the family title."
"As you know, the first difficulty is that the minimum area of land required for the title is fixed, and our family doesn't even have an acre of land now. To make up for it, it will cost at least hundreds of thousands of pounds."
At this point, Valeera showed a somewhat worried look and added, "Alas, Kiri went on an adventure at sea again."
Audrey felt slightly embarrassed when she heard her good friend say this.
Different from Valeera's embarrassment, even if she cannot inherit the title and main property, she still has properties, fields, pastures, mineral deposits, jewelry, stocks, shares and bonds worth at least 300,000 pounds in her name.
Although she only owns these in name only, she has never had any worries about money.
As a qualified and promoted "audience", Audrey quickly adjusted her emotions and continued to guide the topic in the expected direction.
"It seems that this is your brother's biggest wish at the moment." She sighed.
After hearing these words, especially the word "desire", Valeera vaguely guessed what Audrey was thinking.
"Well, that's right." She nodded and took over the conversation, "I also want to try my best to help him realize this wish."
"What about yourself?"
After the question, Audrey smiled and added:
"Excluding the answer of helping your brother, what is your own wish?"
"For example," she took herself as an example, "what I want most is to experience all kinds of magic in the extraordinary world. You helped me open this door."
After saying that, Audrey looked at Valeela with her green eyes, waiting for the answer with a smile.
"Well..." Valeera blinked and thought about how to answer for a moment, "I want to become a demigod."
"If you put it this way, our desires are actually quite close. We both want to delve into the mysterious side of the world."
"But this is too difficult," Audrey pretended to be depressed, "It would be great if the goddess could answer my prayer."
She planned to go around a few more sentences, then took the initiative to mention the honorable name of the "Lord of Miracles" on the note and asked about the origin of the "verification invalid" comment.
As a new Beyonder who is full of curiosity, it is reasonable to have such questions... Audrey thought so, but what she didn't expect was that Valeera was much more sensitive than she expected, and he directly told her off idea.
"Do you want to ask about the honorable name in the notebook that is related to wishes?"
Valeela's face became quite serious and she said in a solemn tone:
"Audrey, listen to me, don't be curious about unfamiliar names. The mysterious world does not give you names for nothing."
"Those secretive beings like evil gods and demons like to make up some novel honorable names to disguise themselves, tricking ignorant people into establishing contact with her and harvesting their souls."
"Okay, I know." Audrey raised her hands in surrender, "I promise that I will only perform rituals to the seven righteous gods and friendly beings I know for sure."
Seeing Valeera's expression softening, she continued to ask:
"What if, I mean what if, without knowing the existence to which the name refers, would it be possible for you to perform a ceremony to her? If possible, under what circumstances would it be?"
"Also, I'm just discussing the occult with you."
Faced with such a question, Valeera hesitated for a while, then reluctantly thought and answered:
"That must be an extreme situation, like I'm crazy."
"Haha, seriously, if there is no other way and I want to achieve something, such as survival in a desperate situation, then I might give it a try."
Audrey was not surprised at this answer. After all, this was the most correct approach, but she still felt a little disappointed because it meant that it would be difficult for Valeera to join the "Tarot Society".
After a while, she quickly regained her composure, changed the subject, and sent Valeera to Williams Street while chatting.
