After stabbing my ex-boyfriend, I went traveling

But until Yang Mei confirmed the size with the female boss, she didn't see Draco coming out of the room.

"What's going on? Is that room eating people?" Yang Mei crossed her arms and raised a tiny arc at the corner of her eyes.

The female boss was beaming with joy because she had just closed a deal: "Ah, how can there be a room in my ordinary little shop that can eat people? It must be that the young master hasn't chosen yet."

"I'll go take a look." Yang Mei said and walked into the room again.

Draco inside had his back to the door, muttering something to himself.

"Little dragon?"

Draco turned his head and said, "Phil, you're just in time. Help me see which one of these two is better."

Yang Mei walked towards him and said, "Why bother? Why not just buy both?"

Draco: "...Okay, I admit that what you said makes sense. But it makes me look stupid for being so confused."

Yang Mei walked over to Draco and saw two rolls of cloth floating low in front of him.

One roll is sapphire blue, and the other roll is also sapphire blue.

Yang Mei: “…”

"Why aren't you talking?" Draco gave Yang Mei a strange look. "Although these two rolls of cloth appear to be the same color, they are very different."

"This one," he pointed to the roll on the left, "is made of shark silk, just like the two rolls you just took out. It's very expensive, and it has a star pattern on it."

"As for this," Draco pointed to the scroll on the right again, "This scroll is made of ice silk. It is warm in winter and cool in summer. It has a high tolerance for magic arrays."

Yang Mei was really surprised: "This store is pretty good, there are so many high-quality fabrics."

Draco waved his hand: "Not a lot, probably only the few rolls of fabric we picked out.

Come on, get out of here. We've been here long enough."

The two rolls of cloth floated behind them.

"Oh, young man, have you chosen yet?" The female boss was standing by the door. "Then please come over here and measure your size."

Ten minutes later, Yang Mei and Draco left the clothing store.

"It's already noon." Yang Mei took a look at the sky, then looked at the surrounding shops, "Then the problem is, Hogsmeade doesn't even have a proper restaurant, but there is a teahouse and two bars."

Can we expect teahouses and bars to sell food?

The two bars are closer, just diagonally across from the clothing store.

Generally speaking, competing stores should not be located next to each other.

But the Three Broomsticks and the Hog's Head are two shops right next to each other.

"These two bars really have very different styles," Yang Mei said. "Perhaps the prices of their products are also very different, which differentiates their target audiences and makes them not care about the tiny competition."

The Three Broomsticks Bar has a fresh and pastoral style, with many flowers and plants decorated inside and outside the house. It can be seen that the owner of the bar is very romantic.

"The Three Broomsticks has been in business since our parents were in school. The owner of the bar is Madam Rosmerta. This lady has a wide range of interpersonal relationships and is very good at brewing wine. It is said that every wizard who comes to Hogsmeade will come here to sit and have a drink." Draco introduced to Yang Mei.

"I also heard that their butterbeer is very famous, but our Lady Florence said she prefers hot mead." Yang Mei didn't know much about the Three Broomsticks Pub. At most, she knew about butterbeer and hot mead.

Draco smiled: "What a coincidence, our Lady Narcissa also said that she prefers hot mead."

"It's just the one next door..." Although Yang Mei knew that places like bars were basically associated with chaos even in the Muggle world, and there was no telling how many frustrated people got drunk in bars, and how many people liberated their nature here, a bar like the Three Broomsticks was already a breath of fresh air among bars, but the Pig's Head Bar did not look like a serious place.

The bar is clearly located at a unique location at a road intersection, but it doesn't seem to want to take advantage of this at all.

A chopped-off pig's head was painted on the tattered wooden sign, and blood had seeped through the white cloth wrapped around the head.

Through the open door, Yang Mei and Draco could see that the room of the Hog's Head Inn was small and dark, with a faint smell of disgusting sheep emanating from it.

The windows were covered with thick grime, and little light from outside could penetrate.

"My father and my godfather have been here before." Draco grinned, "You know, my father is a severe mysophobia patient, if it is not absolutely necessary, he will never take a step.

I remember him telling me that when he first went to the Hog's Head he thought the floor was compacted dirt, but when he stepped on it he realised it was centuries of grime on top of stone!"

"Uh..." Yang Mei couldn't believe it and was already thinking about it.

I don’t know if Celeste and Floris were ever forced to go in... Anyway, I sympathize with everyone who was forced to enter the Hog’s Head Bar.

"This place is very suitable for doing some shameful things." Yang Mei said seriously, "As far as I know, two years ago Quirrell got Hagrid drunk here to get him to tell him how to deal with the three-headed dog, and deliberately lost the Norwegian Ridgeback dragon egg to Hagrid.

And if you think about it, not all the people in the magic world are clean and decent, so we have to give them a place to drink."

"Do you know who the owner of the Hog's Head Inn is?" Draco suddenly asked.

"who is it?"

"It's Dumbledore's younger brother, Aberforth Dumbledore." Draco spread his hands. "I don't know much about the messy things about the Dumbledore family. I only know that they have a sister who died many years ago. It seems that the two brothers broke up because of this sister."

"That's really a pity." Yang Mei said. Judging from the expression on his face and the tone of his voice, he had very few regrets.

Obviously, the two of them would never go to the Hog's Head, so the only place left for them to go is the Three Broomsticks.

"I hope they don't just sell alcohol there." Yang Mei said before going in.

The main product sold in the Three Broomsticks Bar is naturally alcohol. In addition to the butterbeer and hot mead that Yang Mei already knows, there are also lemonade, red wine, cherry juice, soda water with ice and small umbrellas, etc.

As for food, there are several desserts to choose from.

There is only one staple food - pork chop rice.

As far as Yang Mei could see, she didn't see anyone ordering the pork chop rice.

great.

"I'll have a pork chop with rice and a glass of hot mead."

After all, it was personally tested and recommended by Ms. Fres, so it’s worth a try.

As for the pork chop rice, I ordered it out of curiosity.

"I'm just like him," Draco said to Madam Rosmerta.

"Oh, no problem, young gentlemen. Our pork chop rice will not disappoint you. Please wait a moment." Ms. Rosmerta showed excitement that someone finally appreciated their pork chop rice.

"To be honest, I didn't hold out much hope," Yang Mei said after Ms. Rosmerta left.

Draco shrugged: "At worst, if you can't eat it, just don't eat it." If the food he cooked was really bad, how could he have the nerve to force the guests to eat it?

……

The facts did not exceed Yang Mei and Draco's expectations.

The advantage of this pork chop rice is that the pork chop is made from real pork and is very fresh.

But at the same time, its shortcomings are also prominent.

The shortcoming of this plate of pork chop rice is that it is a bit too fresh. You can see with the naked eye that the pork chop on top is oozing blood onto the rice underneath!

The food was very rich in pork flavor. It was as if the food on the table was not a cooked pork chop rice, but a pig jumping around in the pigpen.

Yang Mei and Draco: "..."

"The appearance of this plate of pork chop rice made me feel as if I was sticking out a pig's head bar instead of three broomsticks." The smile on Yang Mei's face was very stiff.

Draco pushed the two plates of pork chop rice far away with a look of disgust.

"I'm afraid the chef himself wouldn't even eat this kind of thing, yet he has the nerve to sell it!"

Yang Mei picked up the wine glass and took a sip of the hot mead.

Hmm... it was a little too sweet for him, but fortunately the capacity of this cup was just at the upper limit of what he could accept.

But for Draco, who has always liked sweets, this wine is quite to his taste.

"The more I drink, the hungrier I get." Draco touched his empty stomach and said, "I've decided. I want to open a restaurant in Hogsmeade! Phil, do you want to invest?"

Yang Mei understood immediately: "You want me to invest in your technology?"

"Of course, I'm not short of money. But your chefs must have learned most of the recipes of the Eastern country, right?" Draco rubbed his hands, "Such good skills must be tasted by more people so that it won't be a waste! According to the operating model of the Muggle World Company, we each have half of the shares.

This is the first time for both of us to start a business, and it will definitely surprise everyone!"

Yang Mei watched Draco become more and more excited and almost jumped up from his chair, so she quickly reached out and held him down.

"Okay, okay, I agree." Yang Mei said quickly, "As long as your store and everything are ready, my chef can be there at any time."

Draco snapped his fingers with his eyes shining: "Then it's settled!"

The two boys, who were still in the third grade, decided on their first entrepreneurial project while drinking a cup of hot mead.

When the wine in the glass was finished, the presence of the two intact pork chop rice on the table became more and more obvious.

"Pack it up and take it away." Yang Mei knocked on the table.

Draco was suspicious: "What's the point of taking it away?"

"I just saw a stray dog ​​outside. It's worth taking it out and feeding it to the dog."

"……Fine."

……

Yang Mei was not making up the story about the stray dog. He actually saw it just when he came out of the Fengya Wizard Clothing Store.

But don't treat stray dogs as dogs.

It is a living creature that can run and jump, not a toy dog ​​that will stay in one place without moving.

The fallen leaves on the ground were picked up by the wind, swirling and falling back to the ground.

"So, where is the stray dog?" Draco looked around but didn't see a single dog hair.

"Go this way." Yang Mei pointed in a direction. "The stray dog ​​just ran this way."

"Although I think it's a bit ridiculous for us to chase a stray dog, time is meant to be used to do boring and meaningless things." Draco muttered, but his pace was not slow.

Following the path they were on, they reached the outskirts of Hogsmeade.

You will first pass the Hogsmeade Post Office and Hogsmeade Station.

The former is an owl post office in Hogsmeade, where there are two or three hundred owls of different species, from great gray owls to horned owls, all squatting on the shelves, each marked with a color code to distinguish their delivery speed.

The latter is a very important transportation hub for the villagers of Hogsmeade and the teachers and students of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The station is located near the Black Lake, and there is a road along the lake leading to Hogwarts Castle.

The Hogwarts Express stops here after departing from King's Cross Station. At the beginning of each school year, Hagrid would wait for the first-year students at the platform with a lantern, and then take them on a boat across the Black Lake to the castle. On the road outside the station, there would be about a hundred carriages pulled by the Thestrals. The young wizards in their second year and above would take these carriages to the castle.

When we got here, there were very few other people around.

It is early autumn now, and the grass in the suburbs is still green, but it will gradually turn golden in a few days.

The terrain ahead is not flat, and the undulating hills have an inexplicable rhythmic beauty.

"Is that the Screaming Shack over there?" Yang Mei leaned over to look at the nearby hillside.

Draco also looked over there: "That should be it, let's go and take a look!"

The Shrieking Shack is actually an abandoned house on the outskirts of Hogsmeade, but it has taken on some supernatural elements due to rumors.

After Yang Mei and Draco walked in, they found that calling it a house was an exaggeration. In fact, it was just a frame that looked like a house. It didn't even have a door, and the roof was full of holes.

The room was full of dust, the walls were peeling and all the furniture was in tatters.

If there is anything worth mentioning about the Shrieking Shack, it is probably that it is only about fifty meters away from the Whomping Willow as the crow flies.

"Phil, was that the dog you saw before?" Draco said to Yang Mei while standing at the door of the Shrieking Shack.

Yang Mei was still looking at the Whomping Willow, and walked over to Draco after hearing what he said.

Inside the Screaming Shack, there was a black stray dog ​​curled up under a chair with a missing leg.

The dog was skinny and had dirty, tangled black fur.

As we all know, if a person's hair is greasy and tangled, his or her hair volume will also appear to be much less than usual.

The dog now looks like it not only has sparse hair, but also has bald spots.

All in all, an ugly dog.