The two entered the Hogwarts Bar, only to find that there were not just one or two acquaintances inside, but it was crowded with Hogwarts students. Like a dining table in a separate house, students from different colleges are scattered around. Not everyone wore their school uniforms properly, at least a few of the Gryffindor girls had the audacity to wear miniskirts under their robes.

Where Slytherin and Gryffindor are gathered at the same time, it means that there is a war. The little snakes and the little lions exchanged mouths, and you went back and forth, carrying forward the "taunt curse" to the extreme.

Seeing Xu Jing coming in, the little snakes' waists straightened up a little and they were more confident.

"Hey, Riddle, here!" They beckoned to him.

There was a strong smell of mutton in the bar, and the light from outside was barely visible, and some candles were lit on the rough wooden tables. At first glance, Ji Tang thought that the ground was compacted mud, but when he stepped on it, he found that it was dirt that had accumulated on the ground for centuries.

Malfoy kindly asked, "Did you bring a cup?" ”

Xu Jing said: "No. ”

"Oh my God!" He pointed to the other side and said, "Otherwise, go and sit with Sanny, they don't drink." He lowered his head and rubbed the greasy table with his fingertips in disgust.

"It's a terrible place to go!" Every noble-born Slytherin complained, but no one really got up and left.

The girl named Sanny sat down. Ji Tang noticed that she was wearing makeup, her lips were scarlet, and her eyes were particularly bright. The seat at the pig's head bar was small and narrow, and her thighs were pressed against Xu Jing's.

Ji Tang sighed twice, sat on his lap, fumbled out a mint candy from his robe, and threw one into his mouth.

"Don't eat any more." Xu Jing pressed her hand that reached out again, just under his ribs.

Sanny looked back curiously, "What? ”

"Nothing." Xu Jing smiled at her. Ji Tang swore that she saw the girl's face flushed.

Ji Tang raised his head and said, "It's too stuffy here, I'm going out to take a breath." With that, he slipped off his knees and ran out the door with a puff of smoke.

"Butterbeer, or flame whiskey?" Sanny approached him and asked.

"Sorry, I'll go out for a while." Xu Jing pushed her away without a trace, stood up and walked out the door.

"Hey, Riddle......" Sunny leaned back in her chair and looked at his slender back, her expression slightly frustrated. Malfoy gave her a slap on the shoulder as a gesture of comfort, "He's always been so tough, you know. ”

Sanny shrugged and pretended not to care, "He doesn't like anyone else anyway, I always have a chance, don't I?" ”

Xu Jing walked out of the pig's head bar and saw the small figure, lying outside a floor-to-ceiling shop window on the side of the street, with its little face against the glass, staring at the flying broomstick with a bow tied inside. He slowly approached, leaned over and asked in her ear, "Do you like it?" ”

"Well, but I'm not of legal age to ride a broomstick."

"I'll buy it for you when you're older."

Ji Tang spread out his fleshy little hands and said softly, "Then when will I grow up?" ”

He rubbed her head into his arms and kissed her on the forehead, "Soon." ”

"You'll have your own friends, your own life." Ji Tang wrapped his arms around his waist and said sullenly, "You're walking too fast, I can't keep up." ”

The wizards who came and went all over the street only saw a handsome black-haired young man, standing outside the shiny shop window, his eyes warm and lonely, which made people unconsciously stop and glance at him more. He suddenly squatted down, as if he had surrounded someone, and buried his head in a voice as light as a dream.

"What if I stop?" -

As the summer turned to the cold, it snowed heavily at Hogwarts, the castle was frozen, and the cheers of the students could be heard everywhere.

The fifth-grade flying class had to be temporarily stopped because of the snow.

Malfoy, who had grown quite taller, had his meticulous pale blonde hair tossed from the wind, and he had nearly slipped as he got off his broomstick. Ji Tang could hardly connect this stunned young man with the majestic and cold Uncle Malfoy later. She leaned against the wall, snorting, and waited for Xu Jing to get out of class.

Xu Jing landed steadily, and his posture was so perfect that even the professor exclaimed.

When he stood in front of her, he was as tall as a Roman column. When she tried to tilt her head back and greet him, she could only see a slight outline of his face in the backlight. He easily picked her up and asked her to reach into his robe to keep warm.

"Are the holidays fun?" He asked.

"No, Sirius is so naughty, I can't stand him. Regulus is better, but a boy at this age is naturally annoying. Ji Tang said with a puffed face.

Xu Jing smiled, "Am I too?" ”

"You've always been well-behaved." She clutched her chest, "Back then, little Riddle would still call me sister." ”

She was older than him in the beginning! The results are now ...... Ji Tang buried his face in his robe without love.

His muffled mockery sounded overhead-

After the lunch break, Xu Jing was going to take a transformation class. Ji Tang was greedy for the quilt and couldn't get up, so he scratched her nose, tucked the quilt for her, and said a good dream. She drooled and mumbled in response.

When she woke up, Xu Jing hadn't come back yet. She sat there for a moment, a little bored and went through his textbook. There were more than a thousand pages of paper in the gilded cover, a large thick book, heavier than a brick, and she pushed it aside. Where the textbook had been moved, a piece of parchment was pressed, and she pulled it out and read word by word: "Beyond life...... Most importantly, horror, magic. ”

A few fragmented words are followed by a string of characters, like someone's name.

Ji Tang spelled it out with difficulty—"Horace Slughorn." ”

Head of Slytherin, Professor of Potions.

"Tang Tang, what are you doing?"

A voice suddenly came from behind her, startling her, and she hurriedly opened his textbook, hid the parchment, and pretended to be reading. Xu Jing walked over, saw the textbooks spread out on the table, pinched her pink cheeks that were red from sleep, and said, "It's not time for you to learn this." ”

"Do you understand the preview?" She rolled her eyes at him.

Xu Jing hugged her down with a smile and wiped her face with a handkerchief, "Let's go eat, eldest miss." ”

Ji Tang stared at his smiling face, a sense of uneasiness surged in his heart, he held his hand instead, and asked, "Did anything happen in the school when I was away?" ”

"Does Malfoy have a girlfriend?" Xu Jing said, "You always care about him so much, I will be angry." ”

- He had something to hide from her.

Ji Tang's heart was pounding, his palms were sweating, and his throat was dry: "I remembered one thing." Aunt Black asked me to come to her house for dinner and would pick me up shortly...... I thought, I'll have to go back first. If you miss it, it's over. ”

Xu Jing's smile suddenly cooled, and the hand he placed on top of her head slowly drooped, and he was silent for a long time before he asked, "How long will it take?" ”

"Two ...... Two or three days. She swallowed.

"I'll send you." He picked up the scarf that hung on the wall.

Ji Tang subconsciously said: "No! It was so loud that it scared the hell out of her. Raising her head, she met Xu Jing's stunned and hurt eyes, and her heart was almost overwhelmed with guilt and remorse.

"No need. The passage is in Dumbledore's office, don't you dislike him? She explained weakly.

Xu Jing looked at her fixedly and said, "Okay, I'll see you go out." ”

"Hmm."

Ji Tang walked far away, and she could still feel the excessively hot gaze behind her, which made her heart throb.

- Please, please, don't!

Ji Tang did not go directly to Dumbledore's office, but came to the bathroom on the second floor.

The already dilapidated bathroom was even less popular at this time, and there was a faint cry of a girl from inside.

She went through the crack in the door, and saw a young girl crouching in the corner and crying, her long hair scattered and her mouth cursing. Ji Tang was scared and sad, and tried to call her: "Myrtle." ”

The dead ghost turned around, saw her, wiped her tears, and asked, "Are you dead too?" ”

Ji Tang was so nervous that he almost suffocated, took a deep breath, and only found his voice after a while, "Who killed you?" ”

Myrtle sobbed and cried, "I don't know, I don't know." ”

"Do you see a pair of eyes...... Very big eyes, like snakes? ”

Myrtle screamed, "Ah! No! Don't say it! Wrapping her ears and passing through her body, she floated straight out.

Ji Tang already had an answer, she covered her face, and tears came out of her eyes.

- Sure enough, he opened the Slytherin Chamber -

The study in the old mansion of Oslanch is almost as old as the library at Hogwarts. It is said that all questions related to magic can be answered here. As far as the people of the Oslanch family are concerned, the phrase "Come on, let's go to the study and talk" is the greatest trust given to a friend.

Ji Tang rummaged in the study for two days and two nights, didn't close his eyes for a minute, and finally found the book - "Cutting-edge Black Magic Decryption", the old and inconspicuous cover was full of dust, and no one had read it for about half a century.

It contains detailed instructions on how to make Horcruxes.

"Beyond Life...... Most importantly, horror, magic. ”

These four unrelated Latin words can spell out a whole word - Horcrux!

Ji Tang spread out his limbs exhausted and collapsed into the pile of books. The chandelier hanging from the ceiling flickered in front of her eyes, as if seventeen or eighteen shadows had been conjured. The world is spinning. A gust of wind blew, and a room of open pages was blown to the ground, and she closed her eyes and recalled what he had said countless times.

"What if I stop?"

"What if I stop?"

"What if I stop?"

……

If he gains immortality, will the thirty-two-year gap be crossed by manpower?