Chapter 4: Gringotts
Gringotts Wizards' Bank, the Bank of Wizards, is a tall white marble building located in the middle of Diagon Alley, near the intersection with Tumbledown Lane.
Because Morgan and the others came early, the dim yellow light shone on the entire hall, and there were not many people who came to do business, basically all of them were staff.
They could see this at a glance, after all, most of the people who came and went in the bank were goblins, they were short, with sparse hair, pointed ears and a long hooked nose, and the whole bank seemed to be a fantasy world.
But the working elves don't talk to each other, not even their own kind.
Looking at these goblins, Mr. Potts's face changed, he thought about the dreams of his own Skywalker bloodline, and now looking at these goblins, he felt that his dreams might be yellow.
Mrs. Potts, on the other hand, was focused on the gems in the goblins' hands, and she felt that the glittering things were so beautiful.
Only Professor Flitwick led Morgan to an idle elf, pointed at Morgan and said, "This is Mr. Morgan Potts, and he wants to come in exchange for some gold Galleons." ”
The goblin looked up, pushed the frame of his glasses on his pointed nose, and screamed, "I smell rich, my friend, how many gold galleons do you want in exchange." ”
"What's the current exchange rate?" Morgan didn't say how much he wanted to exchange, but asked about the exchange ratio of British pounds to gold galleons.
"5 pounds for 1 gold Galleon, Mr. Galleon, we also have to earn a little." The elf's voice was shrill and urgent.
As soon as the goblin's words were finished, Morgan had already converted everything, and his current Shenhao system used RMB to calculate, and the exchange rate between RMB and British pound was about 11, and sometimes even more than 12, that is to say, about 11 yuan could be exchanged for 1 pound.
If 5 pounds can be exchanged for 1 gold galleon, then the money he earns through the Shenhao system in a day can only be exchanged for about 20 gold gallons.
In this case, it should be regarded as a relatively small income in the wizarding world, you must know that a wand is only worth about 5 Galleons, the Triwizard Tournament cost a life, and the champion only got 1000 gold Galleons, which is placed here by Morgan, that is, less than two months of waiting time.
Morgan's eyes lit up at the thought of this, and he looked at the goblin with a look that I was very rich.
The goblin is the most sensitive to money, and when he saw Morgan's eyes, he knew that the man in front of him was a small rich man in the Muggle world, so he said more politely: "May I ask this gentleman, how many gold galleons are you going to exchange?" ”
Morgan didn't say anything, and took out all the pocket money he found, the pounds given by Mr. and Mrs. Potts, and the money sent by the Shenhao system from yesterday to now.
The goblin didn't say anything, he counted them there carefully, and finally looked up at Morgan and said, "It's 317 Galleons and 16 Galleons and 3 Nats, do you need me to prepare a bag for you?" ”
"Okay, thanks." Morgan said politely, after all, those gold coins didn't look like small gold coins, and he really didn't know how to take them away if he didn't have a bag.
While the goblin was helping Morgan prepare the gold coins, Morgan saw an adult wizard walk in with a young wizard.
He walked over to the workbench closer to Morgan and took out a key and placed it on the table, "Vault 299." ”
The goblin who received them picked up the key and held it up and looked at it, "Okay, please come with me, Lasso, you can take this guest to Vault 299." ”
And it was this that allowed Morgan to see the appearance of the key, and he felt that the key seemed to be somewhat familiar, as if he had seen it somewhere.
"Isn't that the key?" Morgan's eyes lit up, and he pulled out his mother's great-grandmother's music box from his pocket and pulled out the key from it.
At the moment of pulling out the key, Morgan noticed that a small line was engraved on the handle of the key, "317. ”
Putting the key on the table, Morgan said in the same tone as the father and son just now, "317 Vault, thank you." ”
The goblin who was putting gold coins in his pocket was stunned for a moment, he picked up the key and looked at the light, "Okay, pull the strip, you can come and take this guest to the 317 vault." ”
At this time, Professor Flitwick and Mr. and Mrs. Potts also gathered around, and Professor Flitwick asked, "What happened?" ”
Morgan turned to Mrs. Potts and said, "Mom, the key left by your great-grandmother is the key to the vault here, do you want to go with you?" ”
Mrs. Potts was stunned when she heard this, she did not expect her great-grandmother to leave such a thing.
Professor Flitwick also smiled and said, "It seems that you still have wizard blood in you, let's go and take a look, maybe there is something left over from your family." ”
When Mr. Potts heard this, he said, "Yes, go and see, maybe there will be some memories of your great-grandmother." ”
Mrs. Potts' eyes were slightly red, and she touched Morgan's head and said, "Okay, let's go and have a look." ”
Professor Flitwick, of course, wouldn't follow, so he offered to say, "I'll wait for you at the Blotts, you can go buy the books first." ”
Morgan nodded, and at this time a goblin had also come over, he should be a goblin named Pull, and after taking the key from the goblin in charge of Morgan, he said politely: "Please come with me, we still have some way to go." ”
Mr. and Mrs. Potts looked at each other, not knowing what the puller meant by having to travel some way.
Professor Flitwick helped explain, "Their vaults are all hidden underground, and they need to go down through a minecart. ”
Mr. and Mrs. Potts reacted, but they didn't pay much attention to the minecart as a roller coaster, until they followed the strip to the starting point of the minecart, and they asked with some concern.
"Can this really sit?"
"Of course, whoever comes here is from this minecart." As he spoke, he pushed out a real minecart with traces of soot and dirt.
They can see that there is only one handle on the minecart, and that should be the brake.
Carefully climbing onto the minecart, Mr. and Mrs. Potts began to look for the seat belt, and Morgan turned his head and asked, "Where's the seat belt?" ”
"There's no such thing, sit down."
Before the Potts could say anything, Pullbar pushed the handle forward, and the minecart seemed to be pushed by gravity, and it rushed forward.