Chapter 14: Diagon Alley
Following the attendant's prompts, Alina led Jason and them to the pits. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 infoThe messy workbench is full of electrical parts, and a middle-aged man with glasses and somewhat thinning hair is intently fiddling with the electrical appliance in his hand.
"Excuse me. Are you Mr. Weasley? Alina stepped forward and softly interrupted the worker.
Arthur from a wizarding family? Weasley's favorite thing in his life was to study the utensils of ordinary people, and the technology of the Muggle world made him marvel at the wonders beyond magic, so he opened an electrical appliance shop after retirement. Today he was working on a scrapped computer, and his mind was a little swollen from the continuous work, when he suddenly heard someone calling him.
Looking at the group of people in front of him, Arthur quickly put down the tools in his hand.
"I'm Arthur? Weasley, what can help you, ma'am. ”
"Do you know how to get into Diagon Alley, please? The Leaky Cauldron was closed, and the people there told me to come here to find you. I used to enter Diagon Alley from the Leaky Cauldron Bar. ”
With such a group of families with children, and having heard them mention Diagon Alley, Arthur knew that this group of people was not the usual Muggles who came to the store to buy appliances. It's definitely a freshman this year.
"Poor Tom, I thought he would be able to continue working, for many years we have been used to passing by his pub." Arthur said with emotion, "Come on, I'll take you to Diagon Alley." The channel that was only opened for convenience before, who knew it would be used so quickly. ”
Following Mr. Weasley, Ye Chen's group walked through the hall on the first floor, followed the stairs directly to the second floor, and after passing through a few rooms, they stopped in front of a doorway with a sign that said "No Entry". Mr. Weasley opened the door, and instead of a room, there was another passageway, and the staircase at the end of the passage led down.
"Go down the stairs in front of you to Diagon Alley, you can pass through here when you come back, remember to close the door."
Could it be that this Diagon Alley is separated from the ordinary world by a door, Ye Chen's heart was full of doubts, when he passed through this door, he suddenly felt the fluctuation of the energy around him, it seemed to be some kind of magic change. It seems that this door must have cast a spell to achieve the effect of spatial transfer, because it is similar to the magic fluctuations when you teleport. And if there was only one door between the real world and Diagon Alley, it wouldn't have been discovered long ago.
Walking down the stairs from the other side of the corridor, there is a lively shop, with more people than in the previous electronics store, many wearing various cloaks, shuttling in front of different shelves, but there are still more young children.
"Long-tongued toffee"
"The Wand of Mischief"
Ye Chen looked at it at a glance, there were small props used to play tricks and pranks everywhere, full of imaginative introductions, but I don't know what the effect is, but looking at Alina, it seems that he is very familiar with these.
"I said that the surname Weasley is so familiar, I finally remembered this store, it turned out to be the Weasley brothers' store." Alina shrugged and smiled.
Jason and Kreese had wanted to stay in the store a little longer, and the props were an eye-opener for them, especially the various pranks. But Alina didn't give them a chance, and pulled them out.
Passing in front of these peculiar goods, Ye Chen also had to admire the shopkeeper's whimsy for being able to create so many funny products.
Walking out of the merchandise store, Ye Chen looked back at the signboard, the Weasley Trick Store. It seems that this store has something to do with the previous Mr. Weasley. However, under the greeting of Alina, Ye Chen and the others did not stay here for long.
"We'll have to go to Gringotts Wizarding Bank for some wizarding currency, we can't use pounds here." Alina said truthfully, but more often than not, she didn't want Jason to stay here longer.
From a long distance, Ye Chen saw the Gringotts that Alina was talking about. It is located at the intersection of another alley, and the towering white marble carved signboard makes it easy to find it from a long distance.
Beneath the white walls is a shiny bronze gate, and the first thing you feel is safe is the thick gate. In the doorway stood several strange creatures dressed in scarlet and gold uniforms, whom Alina called elves, and they bowed to every pedestrian who passed. Their exposed skin is gray and wrinkled, like a monkey without long hair, and its eyes protrude from its tiny heads.
The strange creature, not only Ye Chen, but everyone else was also startled by such a creature, and kept muttering.
Passing through the bronze gate, there was a silver door in the porch, and the door was engraved with the language of warning:
Please come in, stranger, but watch out
What will happen to insatiable greed,
Blindly ask for it, get it for nothing
will be punished most severely,
So if you want to take it from our underground vault
A wealth that never belonged to you,
Thou hast been warned, O thief,
Beware that it is not a treasure that is invited, but a bad retribution.
Passing through the second silver door and into the spacious marble hall, about a hundred or so elves sat behind the long counter and scribbled into the large ledger. Some weigh coins with a scale, while others use eyepieces to inspect gemstones. It's like a normal bank. The entire hall is enclosed in this large white marble building, and the empty hall resembles a church.
Alina took Jason to the counter to exchange money, while Ye Chen wandered alone in the hall, bored observing the furnishings of the wizard bank, after some counter styles, the goblins looked up at the bored person in front of them, and seemed to have a feeling of disgust staring for a while before lowering their heads and continuing to work.
Unlike ordinary human banks, there are no electronic devices such as computers here, and the goblins still record data by handwriting, looking at the mountains of gold coins stacked in front of a goblin, but it is still counting one by one, which makes Ye Chen feel the backwardness of the wizarding world.
Alina returned with a small bag in her hand, which, according to her, contained the golden Galleons used by the wizards. took out a few and distributed them to everyone, holding them in his hands, Ye Chen found that these gold coins were completely minted from ordinary gold, without any other additional effects, which made Ye Chen look forward to it in vain. However, this may also explain how to exchange the pound with the pound on the basis of the ratio.
"Alright, now that you have the money, you can go and buy something for Jason."
"Mom, you said you'd buy me an owl." Jason is still the owl who never forgets to deliver the letter.
"Got it, I'll take you there when I've got all the items ready for you later."