Chapter 55: Come on, Brother-in-Law 32

The mother dragon is about to lay an egg, and I will be hatching it, so I am entrusting my daughter to you, and if you die, I will entrust her to your descendants. Anyway, I will be keeping an eye on you. You and your descendants must treat my daughter well, or I will not let you off the hook! Have you heard me clearly? If my daughter suffers even the slightest grievance, I will burn you and your entire estate to ashes. The fire dragon sat there, its two front paws crossed over its chest, threatening with full momentum.

Xining’s lips twitched slightly: "Just like that, you are latching onto me? And for two hundred years at that!"

"More than two hundred years, it takes another three hundred years to raise the little dragon." As soon as the fire dragon spoke, well, it was extended to five hundred years.

"By the way, have someone come over to roast some magical beast meat!" The fire dragon licked its lips: "I still want a whole roasted sheep."

Xining...

Yeyu needed to take care of the new shop in the city, and the mother dragon’s cave was relatively close to the city. Xining simply arranged for Yeyu and the fire dragon to live at the roast meat shop in the city, which now belonged to her. The fire dragon was responsible for catching magical beasts, and the shop was responsible for roasting them. Because of the supply of magical beast meat, many people came to eat by reputation, and the business was even better than before.

The wedding of Slan and Maria took place as scheduled, and it was indeed the grandest wedding in the magical world.

Slan and Maria were both handsome and beautiful, making a very well-matched couple. Seeing them together so happily, countless people were envious enough to bleed from their eyes.

Xining brought Maria’s dowry, a box of land deeds, shop property certificates, and contracts. There was also a small box containing about fifty gold coins of freshly collected rent as a wedding gift.

Maria decided on the spot that her dowry would be managed on her behalf by Xining, and after deducting a thirty percent management fee from the annual rent, the rest could just be handed over to her.

Looking at Maria's belly, it was already slightly bulging; carrying twins made her belly grow remarkably fast.

Xining smilingly teased Slan: "After you pop out a pair, have another one. Keep it up, brother-in-law!"

"Got it!" Slan hugged his pregnant and beautiful wife, his handsome face blooming with a brilliant smile.

The mission should be mostly completed by now. Every day, Xining simply reinforced the family's rules and regulations. When the original body returned, hugging a large pile of land deeds and leases, she would practically be a female tycoon.

The Ponde family was allied through marriage with the Camiou family once more, coupled with the dragon contract, and they would be fine for the next few centuries.

Half a month later, the fire dragon flew back holding an egg in its mouth.

Actually, two!

Looking at the two white eggs the size of washbasins, the fire dragon looked full of pride: "Eat well, drink well, a magical beast roast every three days, and it laid two eggs at once. One for me, one for it, we'll hatch them together. The mountain I live in has a cave, and there are plenty of magical beasts in the forest at the foot of the mountain, so it's moving over."

True to its word, the mother dragon moved over, bringing along its cave full of gold coins and gems. Although there were slightly fewer than the fire dragon's stash, the quantity was still very substantial.

It is said that during the hatching period, hugging the eggs to keep them warm for longer increases the chances of hatching a female dragon. Just like lizards and sea turtles, most dragons are male. To encounter a female dragon, for the sake of the eggs, a male dragon would be willing to give his heart and soul.

The two dragons planned to become neighbors, each hatching one, striving to hatch two daughters.

Since that was the case, Xining simply went to the royal palace to negotiate with the king about purchasing the entire mountain along with the forest.

This mountain and forest were originally places where monsters haunted and belonged to no one. Even if they wanted to sell it, no one would buy it. Who would buy an area haunted by magical beasts and occasionally roamed by fire dragons that turned people into ash with fire?

Only mages or mercenaries would gather there to practice and explore.

Looking at the box of gold coins taken from the fire dragon's cave and the four fist-sized red, yellow, blue, and white gemstones, the king immediately waved his brush on the spot, stamped it with the golden seal, entered it into the archives, and issued the land deeds along with a map marking the corresponding boundaries, selling it all to Xining.

When Xining returned, she teased the fire dragon: "Now you also belong to my tenants, shouldn't you pay some rent?"

The fire dragon coiled inside the cave, with the egg placed right in the middle of its curled body. It snorted a puff of white smoke from its nose and cast a cold, disdainful glance: "How much do you want, medium-rare or well-done?"

Fine, the money used to buy the land was taken from the fire dragon's cave anyway; as a magnanimous person, she wouldn't hold it against it!

Landmarks were erected outside the forest to indicate that it was private territory.

The fire dragon and the mother of its other egg both loved roast meat. Xining simply set up a ranch on the grassland between the forest and the mountains, raised cattle and sheep, and assigned people specifically to guard the territory and feed the two dragons a roasted meal every three days so they could hatch their eggs in peace.

Unable to contain her curiosity, Xining asked the fire dragon what kind of magical beast the cute dragon was born from.

The fire dragon said it didn't know; it was a huge pink magical beast with a long nose and big ears, bigger than cattle, bears, tigers, and leopards. Because of its large size, it caught its eye at first glance. There were very few magical beasts whose physical stature matched that of the dragon race. Although dragons were naturally arrogant and the times they lost their hearts were rarer than rainbows in the sky, they still had their needs.

Xining roughly sketched it on the ground: "Is it this?"

The fire dragon looked at the somewhat crooked elephant on the ground and said it had some resemblance, but wasn't that ugly.

Xining... After all, she wasn't a graduate of an art academy; being able to draw at this level was already pretty good.

No wonder the cute dragon loved eating vegetables. Xining told the fire dragon that this was an elephant, and it was a vegetarian.

"If I had known it was a vegetarian, I wouldn't have gone for it! Who hasn't had their youth..." The fire dragon raised its head to look at a passing white cloud outside the cave, as if reminiscing about the past, with a calm expression carrying a hint of worldly wisdom.

Xining...

They didn't even know what it was, yet they still hooked up with it and made it lay eggs!!! How willful.

After arranging everything, Yeyu came to the Ponde Estate. The shop had already opened, and business was quite good. However, Yeyu had great business acumen: limited supply! And it was only supplied to wealthy men without magic.

On one hand, this prevented those men from indulging without restraint; on the other hand, a smaller quantity commanded a higher price, and the raw materials for the medicine were not easy to acquire.

Knowing she would have to leave at any moment, Xining looked at the increasingly strange look in Yeyu's eyes and simply laid things out in the open. After all, the two of them had cooperated for nearly three months.

"The day I am different, it means I have left."

A trace of slight surprise flashed momentarily in Yeyu's eyes, but he quickly returned to calmness: "Will you still come back?"

"Most likely not." Xining tilted her head slightly and tentatively asked, "Did you know all along?"

"Mhm~" Yeyu was very calm and composed: "We met a few times before, and your original personality wasn't like this."

Xining nodded, turned around, and left.

Despite this conversation, the two of them continued living their lives as usual, eating meals and discussing how to make the various regulations of the Ponde family as complete as possible.

"The task is complete, come back!" Finally, she heard Moyin's impatient voice.

Finally, she didn't have to hear the word "scram"! This time, Xining herself felt that the mission was completed quite perfectly.