You Must Keep it a Secret from Miss Evil Dragon.

Long Ling could only use her dragon claws to grab the ground firmly to buffer the shock wave she brought.

Even so, her huge body was still like a bulldozer, pushing many large pieces of rock a long distance away.

Fortunately, her dragon scales were very hard, like armor.

Even if she hit the sharp edges of the rocks, there would only be a few shallow scratches.

It was a thrilling but safe experience.

Long Ling shook off the mud on her chubby dragon tail and patted her snow-white belly so that no dirt would be visible.

Only two scales on her belly were scratched.

Although it didn’t hurt and there was no bleeding, her original skin must have been left with red marks.

If Violet saw it, how should she explain that a dragon can’t fly and is a little afraid of heights?

It was best not to let Miss Evil Dragon know.

These dragon scales were equivalent to soft armor protecting her, indestructible.

Without dragon scales, she would definitely be injured and bleeding if she crashed into a big rock like that just now.

Long Ling wiped it with her claws, but the scratches on the dragon scales did not disappear.

She breathed into her palm and rubbed it twice, but the scratches became more obvious.

Aowu, it looks like it won’t work.

The road she had just cleared was now completely exposed, the loess-colored ground was pitted and uneven, and some areas had been rained on for a long time, forming dirty puddles.

If the carriage passed over it, the wheels would sink in, and then she would need to rescue the carriage.

In other words, she could either choose to fly or walk over there.

Long Ling looked at the setting sun in the distance, where the afterglow of the sunset fell, at a brick-red roof before the forest, which was the tavern that would soon belong to her.

If she walked over there, it would take her a long time, and it would be dark when she returned to Ilidari Manor.

Miss Evil Dragon might get angry if she didn’t see her when she got home.

“Yuer, take care of the carriage, I’ll go check the tavern alone first.”

“Miss Long Ling, are you okay? Was the fall just now alright?”

Yuer was shocked when he first saw the giant dragon falling from the sky, but he didn’t dare to approach rashly.

He had also served in other noble families before.

One young lady was a very cruel dragon.

He went to help her, but the young lady dragon whipped him over the head with a riding crop.

But Miss Long Ling gave humans the feeling of a gentle spring breeze in March, not like those dragons with bad tempers.

So he hesitated for a moment, picked up the sheepskin hat that had flown away, put it on his head, and ran over against the cold wind in the canyon.

“It’s okay, just take care of the carriage.”

The huge dragon lowered its head and glanced at him, then flapped its dragon wings and flew away.

Long Ling tried to keep her eyes from looking at the ground.

After flying for a while, she finally arrived at the entrance of the tavern.

Just like the owner of the tavern and the general store said, it looked like it had been abandoned for many years from the outside and was surrounded by a kind of green and verdant plant.

The side walls were all covered with this plant, and the crowded vines grew vigorously, with some vines climbing recklessly onto the rusty lock.

These green plants presented a vivid and eye-catching green color after being washed by the spring rain.

No matter how beautiful it was, if she couldn’t open the door, it could only become an abandoned tavern.

Long Ling was not wearing protective leather gloves, so she could only turn her hands into sharp dragon claws and first peel off the obstructive plants on the door.

A large patch of vines was cut off by the sharp dragon claws, and tiny creatures jumped frantically between her dragon claws.

Accompanied by rustling sounds, it sounded a bit like small insects such as crickets.

Plant green juice slowly flowed into her claw crevices along the broken stems.

Long Ling felt a little wet and sticky and carefully wiped her dragon claws clean with a handkerchief, but there was still a strong smell of grass and trees.

She wiped her dragon claws several times to make sure they were clean before finding the tavern key from her skirt pocket.

Long Ling used her dragon claws to clean the rusty keyhole, using the tip of her claw to poke off the hard yellow mud on it.

The soil slag rustled down so that the key could be inserted into the keyhole tightly.

It was a bit difficult to twist, but fortunately she was a dragon now, and her body was strong enough.

After competing with the rusty iron lock for a while, she finally heard a click.

The key broke.

Long Ling was holding the twisted key that was broken in half, lost in thought.

After two seconds, she sighed and used the sharp tip of her claw to poke at the rusty iron lock, with the other claw tip placed at the lower end of the iron lock.

With two clicks, the solid iron lock was like a fragile piece of paper in front of the powerful dragon claws and was twisted off at once.

She knew she shouldn’t have struggled, at least she could have kept a complete key.

But there were never so many “if onlys”…

The iron lock fell on the grass, making a dull sound.

Long Ling bent down, picked up the iron lock and the key, and put them on the dusty windowsill next to the tavern.

If nothing unexpected happened, they would not be used again in the future.

The door of the tavern was opened a crack.

Long Ling pushed it open with force, and the creaking sound of the door became even more intense.

The spider web that had existed in the crack for an unknown period of time was torn apart by her, scaring away several small spiders that had settled down, and the moldy and rotten smell came from the dust in the air.

The tables and chairs in the lobby were placed in a mess, covered with thick dust.

She stood at the door, and her mood had dropped from the initial expectation to infinitely low.

As expected, this was a business that was even worse than bankruptcy.

Long Ling stepped inside, glanced around, checked the damage to the tables and chairs, and looked to see if there was anything that could be recycled and used.

She wiped the dust off one of the tables, tapped it with her finger, and a crisp dong dong sound came from the table top.

Fortunately, these tables and chairs were made of good oak when they were made, and were coated with tung oil and varnish to prevent insects from biting.

After many years, you can still see the beautiful and smooth texture of the wood, delicate and soft, and the overall structure is hard and strong.

Long Ling’s mood improved a little, and at least she didn’t have to continue putting money into it.

She counted all the intact tables and chairs.

There were almost forty, which was more than enough to entertain guests.

A small piece of happiness flashed in Long Ling’s heart.

She turned around and suddenly saw a huge wine cabinet in the corner.

Long Ling’s eyes lit up at once and she immediately walked over quickly.

If there were still some well-preserved vintage wines inside, she could sell them to make money.

Whether it was in her previous world or the current world, the texture and taste brought by wine that had been precipitated over the years were completely different from ordinary wine.

Wealthy people were willing to spend money to buy it, and she could also obtain initial start-up funds.

This tavern was now in her hands with the land deed, which meant that it was completely hers, and she had the right to freely dispose of it.

This large wine cabinet was sealed with transparent glass, and you could see everything at a glance.

The wine cabinet had a total of ten floors.

The top three floors had no bottles of wine, only the middle two floors had a few scattered bottles inside, and the bottom wine was neatly stacked in two rows.

Long Ling quickly opened the wine cabinet and first went to get the wine stored on the middle floor.

The label on the bottle was for wine, but the cork on the bottle mouth was missing, and the liquid in the bottle emitted a spoiled smell.

It seemed that it could no longer be drunk.

Long Ling felt a little regret in her heart, but could only put it aside.

After checking the wine bottles on the middle floor one by one, only two bottles of wine were good.

None of the bottles of wine at the bottom of the wine cabinet had their corks opened, and all were well preserved.

The years marked on the bottles were not as old as the bottles on the middle floor, but they were still almost decades old.

Long Ling’s eyes suddenly curved into crescents, and she took all the intact wine bottles out of the wine cabinet.

Next, Long Ling went to the counter, opened the long-sealed drawer, and several shiny gold coins suddenly shone into her pupils.

Long Ling took them out in surprise, wiped the dust off the gold coins, wrapped each gold coin in a handkerchief, and put them in her skirt pocket.

She pulled out the entire drawer and poured it out a couple of times.

Sure enough, she found a few silver coins in the cracks.

Long Ling’s heart was filled with happiness.

Look, this was the power of wisdom.

If she hadn’t moved the drawer, she would definitely not have been able to find these scattered silver coins.

Although silver coins were not as precious as gold coins, they were still money.

Long Ling felt that she had a very good obligation to find a home for every silver coin.

That home was her pocket.

Very good, now her initial funds had increased again, and her days were becoming more and more hopeful.

After searching the money cabinet, Long Ling went to the second floor to search and successfully found some silver coins scattered in the cracks in the floor, and some small, polished gemstones.

Perhaps it was because the original owner of the tavern was ill or had other reasons and fled in a hurry, so these things were left here.

Although there were not many, collecting them could still fill her small treasury.

If she sold these few small gemstones in her hand, she might be able to increase more gold coins.

Long Ling put away the gemstones, put them in a fine flannel bag, wrapped them in a cloth, and put them in a place close to her body.

She hadn’t figured out what to do with this messy tavern for a while.

She hadn’t lived there for more than ten years.

She had just glanced at the roof on the second floor and saw that there were many places that were damaged.

The red tiles had fallen to the ground and were broken into pieces.

Or should she just search for the gold coins and leave it to rot here?

Anyway, it wasn’t a very good asset, and it would definitely require a large expenditure for her to renovate it.

How could she suddenly give up?

She had already come, and she had nothing else to do anyway.

Did she want to be a kept dragon at Miss Evil Dragon’s house all the time?

Long Ling bit her fair knuckles, lost in difficult thought.

She glanced at the darkening sky outside and quickly made a decision that she should go back to the manor first.

The most important thing now was not the tavern, but her fiancée – Miss Evil Dragon.

She would not upset her fiancée for the sake of an uncertain future.

Long Ling found a wooden box, put all the intact wine in it, found some wooden vines to tie the tavern door tightly, and after tying it several times, she picked up the vines that had been thrown on the ground as a cover.

This was not a long-term solution, and she still had to go to the general store to buy a lock, but that was something for later.

Long Ling patted the dead grass leaves on her hands, transformed into a giant dragon, and used her dragon claws to hold two stacks of wine boxes, and flew back to the road where the coachman was.

It was still more comfortable to sit in a carriage than to fly herself.

Although it was not as fast, she could lean back in the warm and comfortable carriage and take a nap.

The two boxes of wine were not very heavy and made a clanging collision sound at her feet.

After listening to it for a long time, it was like a lullaby, making Long Ling a little sleepy.

Her eyes gradually sank, and she didn’t know how long she had been sleeping when she woke up to the coachman’s voice.

“Miss Long Ling, we’ve arrived at the manor, you can get off the carriage.”

Long Ling rubbed her eyes to wake herself up.

“Yuer, put the wine boxes with you first, and help me take care of them. I’ll come to you to get them when I need them.”

The coachman immediately responded, lowered his head and trembled as he helped Long Ling get off the carriage.

Long Ling was still in a dazed state after waking up from sleep and didn’t notice the coachman’s strangeness. She crawled out of the carriage and slowly stretched.

A slight sound came from in front of her.

Long Ling raised her head in confusion and suddenly saw Violet sitting in a wheelchair opposite her.

Violet was staring at her, her narrow eyelashes lowered, shadows fell deep into her eyelids, and her delicate features looked deep and cold, with a hint of frost.