Chapter 115 Goodbye Flanders
"Renovation doesn't cost much; the key is the location."
Tang Chuan turned around and looked at the main commercial street directly opposite the shop: "Look, most people coming from the city will pass through here to enter the commercial street. It's an excellent location."
"Moreover, there were quite a few people coming out of the commercial street."
"The customer traffic is quite good, with both coming and going."
"Most importantly, it's relatively more spacious here, with well-connected roads, making food delivery extremely convenient..."
Tang Chuan and Dugu Yan analyzed the pros and cons of the shop.
"So that's how it is!"
Dugu Yan suddenly realized and clapped her hands: "Tang Chuan, you know so much. Should we go to the exchange to complete the leasing procedures now?"
"No rush."
Tang Chuan shook his head: "Since we're already at the commercial street, let's go in and have a look around first."
"Good!"
Upon hearing this, Dugu Yan's expression brightened.
As the two walked along the main street, a sweet, caramelized aroma wafted towards them. A sugar painting stall was set up on the side of the street, and the stall owner was using golden sugar syrup to draw patterns on the stone slab.
The sugar threads were as thin as gold threads, shimmering in the sunlight.
Several children, clutching copper soul coins, surrounded the sugar painting, their eyes fixed on the nearly finished piece, occasionally letting out a gasp of surprise.
"Wow, it's the sugar painting that Yiran mentioned!"
Dugu Yan's eyes lit up, and she tugged at Tang Chuan's sleeve, pulling him closer to the stall: "It's a painting of a phoenix!"
"I've only ever seen paintings of swans in Heaven Dou City, never of phoenixes!"
"Tang Chuan, shall we buy one too?"
Tang Chuan was pulled to the stall by her, and he took out a gold soul coin and handed it over: "Boss, I'd like a phoenix sugar painting!"
"Please wait a moment, guest."
The stall owner gave the finished sugar painting to a child nearby, which drew envious applause and cheers from the other children.
The stall owner then took the money and began to paint skillfully.
Before long, a lifelike phoenix sugar painting appeared on the stone slab, the syrup still steaming. The stall owner stuck it on a bamboo stick and handed it to Tang Chuan.
"So sweet!"
Dugu Yan took a bite of the phoenix wing: "It's even sweeter than the sugar paintings from Heaven Dou City!"
As she spoke, Dugu Yan held the sugar painting to Tang Chuan's lips: "Tang Chuan, you should try it too, it's really delicious!"
"You can eat it yourself."
Tang Chuan shook his head, but Dugu Yan stuffed the sugar painting into Tang Chuan's mouth while he was speaking, and the sweetness spread along the tip of his tongue.
"It is quite sweet."
Tang Chuan made a comment without thinking, but then saw Dugu Yan walk away with the sugar painting and stop in front of a jewelry stall.
With his excellent eyesight, he could see that the roots of Dugu Yan's ears had turned red.
"Tang Chuan, look at this!"
To hide her shyness, Dugu Yan picked up a silver goose-shaped hairpin from the stall covered with red cloth and twirled it in the sunlight.
"Does this look good?"
"I think we're a good match."
The silver hairpin reflected light into Dugu Yan's eyes, sparkling as if a galaxy were shimmering within them.
"Nice."
Tang Chuan leaned closer to take a look and added, "The style suits you perfectly; it would look great on you if you wore it on your head."
Hearing him say that, Dugu Yan laughed even more happily.
She paid readily, put the hairpin in her hair, looked at herself in the bronze mirror on the stall, and couldn't help but ask, "Does it really look good?"
"It's really beautiful."
Although Dugu Yan has short hair, the hairpin inserted on it surprisingly suits her perfectly.
The two continued walking, watching the flow of people. Suddenly, Dugu Yan said, "Tang Chuan, I think Soto City is much more fun than Heaven Dou City."
Tang Chuan turned his head to look at her, wondering what had suddenly gotten into her.
"Because the streets of Heaven Dou City are too wide, and the people are too polite, there's always a distance between them when they speak..."
Dugu Yan, biting into a sugar painting, swayed her head and said, "But it's different here. It feels more lively and comfortable."
Tang Chuan didn't realize what was going on, assuming it was just Dugu Yan expressing her feelings.
As the two were talking, Tang Chuan's gaze suddenly stopped on the signboard of a shop in front of them.
The shopfront was small and looked a bit old, but there were a few special symbols on the hanging sign.
A sword, a hammer, and a Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon.
The three marks, when put together, are exactly the same as the marks on the Spirit Hall token required to enter the Soul Hunting Forest in Notting City.
It was Flander's shop, the dean of Shrek Academy.
To his surprise, the door was open.
Tang Chuan smiled nostalgically as he recalled how Flander had sent three different kinds of ten-thousand-year-old soul beasts to Notting Academy every week for him to collect as ingredients over the past three months.
"Let's go check this one out!"
Tang Chuan tugged at Dugu Yan's sleeve and pointed to Flander's shop, saying, "I know the owner of this shop; he's a particularly shrewd old man."
"With his help, we won't have to worry about renting a place!"
"That shop?"
Dugu Yan looked in the direction Tang Chuan pointed and also noticed the strange sign: "What does this sign mean?"
"Are the three stores marked with their logos a joint venture?"
Dugu Yan could recognize the marks of the three upper sects, but she didn't know that the marks on the signboard meant a soul tool specialty store.
Of course, the vast majority of people don't know this.
Soul tools were extremely rare in the timeline of Douluo Continent I, so rare that they could only be obtained by exploring ruins, which is completely different from the widespread availability of soul tools in Douluo Continent II.
"No."
"You'll know once you go in and take a look."
As he spoke, Tang Chuan pulled Dugu Yan toward the shop.
The shop door was open, and the inside appeared somewhat dim. As the two walked in, a slightly hoarse voice came from within: "Tang Chuan?"
"What brings you to Soto?"
Flander abruptly sat up from the wooden chaise lounge, pushed up his crystal glasses, and asked with surprise and his signature sly smile, "Where's your dad?"
As he spoke, Flander glanced behind Tang Chuan.
He didn't see Tang Hao, but he saw a little girl, and he immediately understood.
Tang Chuan stepped forward with a smile: "Uncle Flander, it's been a long time."
"My dad is here too, he's in the city."
"We came to Soto City this time to expand Tang's Iced Tea and delivery business here, and we're looking for a suitable shop!"
As he spoke, Tang Chuan pointed to Dugu Yan beside him and introduced her, "This is Dugu Yan, the granddaughter of Senior Dugu Bo."
"Expanding business?"
"You want to expand your business to Soto City?"
Flander's eyes lit up, he rubbed his hands together, his mind racing with calculations, and then he changed the subject to his own academy.
"No problem, no problem, leave it to me!"
"But before that, you have to come back to Shrek Academy with me first."
Before Tang Chuan could ask a question, Flander continued, "A while ago, Lao Zhao and I went to the Star Dou Great Forest to catch a few ten-thousand-year-old soul beasts. We only found out that you and your brother had gone home when we delivered them to Notting Academy."
"I went to the address Wang Sheng gave me in the west of Nottingham, but there was no one there."
"So we brought a few ten-thousand-year-old soul beasts back to Shrek Academy and left them there. If you hadn't come soon, they would probably have gone bad in a few days."
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