Chapter 171: Conspiracy and Chance Encounter (Asking for Subscriptions, Asking for Votes)
After the exchange, the owner and Ryan returned to the store together. Ryan didn't dare to stay here any longer, so he and Hermione hurriedly settled the bill together and left the store. As they walked out of the store, two more people came from the backyard, one was Principal Fernando and the other was a middle-aged wizard with a modest appearance. If Ryan were still here, he would recognize the middle-aged wizard who had led them to the shop when he had just asked for directions.
"Frank, is that little guy reliable?" the middle-aged wizard asked the shopkeeper.
"He's even better than we thought, I just heard that one of the British students could enter the Emerald Dream Realm, and I thought I might be able to give it a try. But in the conflict caused by a misunderstanding just now, I found that his strength was far beyond my imagination. Frank said.
"But I don't think it's safe, I got the information that the kid was from a pure Muggle family. But just now, whether it was the several powerful spells released without a wand or the magic weapon in his hand, they all revealed a strong sense of weirdness. Those things aren't what a hemp wizard should have. What if he's a spy of the Chimera Society?" said the middle-aged wizard with some skepticism.
"Oh, Hans, you've been the Auror Captain for too long, and sometimes too suspicious. You must know that those who can enter the Emerald Dream Realm will definitely not be mixed with those Chimera Society guys who have transformed their natural lives with evil methods. At least with all my years of experience watching people, that little guy wouldn't be a bad guy. Principal Fernando refuted the middle-aged man's argument.
"That's what I thought, Hans. At this time, the shopkeeper Frank also interjected, "He didn't run away but followed me when he mistakenly thought that I was going to kill him, which shows that he has some confidence in his own strength (Ryan: No, it's just that the grocery store has recently launched an escape system, so it's safe to run away. On the other hand, also because he has companions here, he wants to protect his companions. So he's a good guy from that point of view. We don't need to doubt him like that. ”
"Well, you may be right. I guess I'm suspicious. This should be the middle-aged man of the Auror said. "I really hope that I can wipe out all those guys from the Chimera Society this time, after all, the thing that the defected saints brought over has been in their hands for too long, even if Grindelwald set up enough seals on it back then, I am worried that they will find a way to break the seal after such a long time. If you look at it this way, it is also a good thing that the little guy just now is stronger. Hopefully he'll be able to hold the other guy back a little longer so we can catch the tail of the Chimera. ”
"Yes, I think so too. Principal Fernando said. "That thing is still too dangerous to be in the hands of a bunch of lunatics and terrorists anyway. If it weren't for the fact that most of our Chimera Club knew each other, I wouldn't have made this decision to find a little British guy who was not familiar with it at all. Seriously, it goes against my philosophy as a principal, after all, we still involve someone who is not related to each other. ”
"yes, I hope everything goes well this time. But you don't have to feel guilty for taking advantage of that little guy, and I'm sure I'll pay him enough in the end. Besides, we are doing something good and not something evil. Kind lies are also acceptable at this time. Frank concluded.
Of course, Ryan didn't know about the conversation between these people in the store, otherwise he would never have taken on this task with his heartfelt habits, after all, this task might still involve the important legacy of the Saints and Grindelwald. It doesn't look like an easy thing to do.
Unaware of the impending trouble, Ryan and Hermione are now back on the street, after procuring a whole bag of potion ingredients and mailing them to the Weasley twins at the Owl Post Office. The three of them found a local restaurant for lunch.
That's right, three people. Because Ryan and they met Zhang Qiu who was writing a letter to Cedric in the Owl Post Office, after all, Halloween is coming, and everyone is preparing for the holiday. After chatting in the hall for a while, they decided to go to lunch together.
Because it is a local restaurant, it is natural for everyone to eat food with an aboriginal style. Ryan ordered a grilled Arowana for his lunch.
"Why would you eat this freshwater fish with spines everywhere? Hermione asked curiously, as she ate her portion of the barbecue rice.
"You know, this fish is used as an ornamental fish in the East, and it can cost tens of thousands of pounds a fish in good condition. I chose this fish to feel the feeling of enjoying luxury. Ryan said as he used his knife and fork to break down a piece of fish.
During this lunch, they also slowly became familiar with Zhang Qiu, as an honor student of Ravenclaw. It was clear that she and Hermione had a lot of language in common, and Ryan had learned a lot of things that she hadn't known before.
For example, Zhang Qiu's appearance is the best-looking girl Lane knows, rather than the ordinary kind of movie version, which is more in line with Aunt Rowling's original description. Another point is that Zhang Qiu herself is a half-blood wizard, her mother works in the Ministry of Magic, and her father is a Muggle who runs a restaurant in London's Chinatown. After revealing her magical abilities as a child, she began to slowly get into the wizarding world.
At the dinner table, for example, he told Ryan and Hermione that she had supported the Tathill Tornadoes since she was six years old, and decided to become a player.
Ryan was a little surprised by Zhang Qiu's half-blood wizard, after all, she had been exposed to the wizarding world since she was a child, so Ryan had always thought she was a pure-blood. But think about it, after all, there are so few people in the British wizarding world, and the possibility of having a boy and a woman of Chinese descent is too small, so as a witch, it is normal for Zhang Qiu's mother to find a Muggle of the same race.
However, what made Ryan a little frustrated was that perhaps because his parents belonged to the group of immigrants very early, although Zhang Qiu could speak Chinese, he could only speak Cantonese in Chinese, and could not speak Mandarin. This made Ryan and Zhang Qiu only communicate in English.
Hermione was a little surprised that she couldn't communicate even though she had the same mother tongue, but it wasn't incomprehensible to consider that the Celestial Empire outnumbered the population of all of Europe.
The most surprising thing was that Zhang Qiu actually knew Ryan's grandfather. It's no wonder, after all, Ryan's grandfather first ran a restaurant in London's Chinatown. Chinatown is so big, and it's not surprising that there are restaurants on the street.
It's just that in Zhang Qiu's narration, Ryan found an interesting thing, that is, when Zhang Qiu was five or six years old, Ryan's grandfather once visited her house, and saw her use magic to levitate a cup at the dinner table. It's just that at that time, Ryan's grandfather was still calmly drinking tea with Zhang Qiu's grandfather. So to this day, Zhang Qiu can't be sure whether Lane's grandfather saw it at that time or not, and saw the cup hanging in the air.
It seems that there may be some stories about this grandfather who returned to the Celestial Empire to retire. Ryan thought so.
After lunch, Zhang Qiu said goodbye to them and prepared to go to other places, while Ryan and Hermione prepared to take advantage of the noon heat when no one came out to visit the bookstores that had just been crowded.