Chapter 24 Pest Control Plan
The two of them had not been able to go through all the books on the shelves, and after only looking at the two rows of bookshelf, the night had completely fallen, and when the scattered candlelight in the room could no longer support Brandy to recognize the words on the spine, Anna naturally pulled him by the arm and hurriedly dragged him out of the room.
Her instincts were surprisingly accurate, and as Brandi grinned down the stairs from the third floor, the hour hand of the table clock standing at the top of the staircase was exactly two-thirds of the way to the dial.
"Whew, escape from death, escape from death. Audrey must have just arrived in the foyer by this time, and it should be too late to walk down. Anna breathed a sigh of relief, and finally slowed down to save Brandi's life, which was suffering from blisters. Don't look at Audrey's usual harmless appearance, she is more serious about time, if you go on a date for two minutes, she can stare at you for half an hour. Alas, if it weren't for the fact that Old Centipede Dekkon was really bad this time, I wouldn't have called Audrey over to accompany me......"
"Hey, your mentality is very problematic, why did you ask me to come over to accompany you when you were sinned...... "Brandi immediately became angry, he was already walking slowly, and now he had to rely on Anna to drag forward hard." Besides, since it's a confinement, how do you think it's all going alone, right? You pull us all up, you Professor Dekken really don't lose his temper? ”
"So this old centipede is deliberately trying to make things difficult for me......," Anna gritted her teeth angrily, "such a large pumpkin field, and I don't know how to drive away creatures, so I can't clean it up with three or four people in one night." ”
"But there's no way he will allow you to ask for help from the audience outside the stadium."
"Hmph, you don't have to worry about this, just follow me."
They staggered downstairs toward the foyer. Beauxbatons' class time is basically the same as that of Hogwarts, with evening classes mostly starting at seven o'clock and ending at nine o'clock, which is the time for most of the students. So when they hurried to the foyer, there weren't as many people as they had imagined, except for the occasional pair of men and women heading out towards the lawn outside the castle, and the only ones left were the top students who believed that the scented magic carpet would bring good luck to their revisions - Brandi was pretty sure they were, because there was still a lot of time left before the final exams, and only a guy of Hermione's level would waste his rest time in this place.
Audrey seemed to have been waiting here for a while, and when she saw Anna and Brandi arrive on time, and didn't know what to say to Anna, she quietly walked over to her and took her hand, and began to smile at Brandi.
For the past week, Brandi has spent most of his evenings in his dorm room. As soon as it got dark, apart from the brightly lit castle across the window, I hardly saw what Beauxbatons Manor looked like at night. But today he saw it as he wished, and it wasn't like Hogwarts at night, except for the castle, Hagrid's hut was still lit. As soon as the moon jumped out of the black clouds, the ground in front of Beauxbatons Castle was faintly painted with a layer of pale silver paint, as if the whole lawn was glowing, and it was no wonder that the mountain fairies liked to dance and sing on this meadow; The magic fountain directly opposite the castle gate stops working at night, and the thirty-six inconspicuous gems around the spout will pocket the small piece of moonlight as a source of energy for the fountain's operation, so that the fountain and the glimmering gems look like a miniature version of the tranquil Pyrenees and the full moon above it.
The pumpkin patch Anna was talking about was in the northeast corner of the castle, just a short distance below the observation deck, in the direction of the cantilevered tower on the other side of the hill. The field didn't look very big, and rows of uneven low crops could be faintly seen in the moonlight on the dark earth.
It was empty, and it looked like Professor Dekken hadn't arrived yet.
"Don't go over yet, maybe the old centipede is hiding in that place and is going to catch us." As soon as she vaguely saw the fields over there, Anna pulled them to a halt, and she raised her eyebrows triumphantly, looking very experienced in this kind of thing. "I've already discussed with Audrey, you two should find a place to wait for me now, I'll have to fool him over first - he doesn't know what he's been busy with at night these days, and he's almost always staying in his magic lab to tinker with something, so he won't be here for long. When the time comes, I'll chant a fluorescent spell as soon as he's gone, and you two will come over to help when you see it light up. ”
With that, she waved her hand and pushed Brandi and Audrey aside.
This can make Brandi worried, and it is a trivial matter for him to find a place to hide himself, although the nearby environment seems to be unable to hide people, but the flower arrangement spell on his head that he has practiced is not vegetarian, and he can just conjure up a dog tail flower and just find a corner to lie down in a daze.
Let him and Audrey hang out... How can two guys who can't communicate at all hang out?
"This way." Audrey tugged at his sleeve and a short phrase popped out of her mouth.
Hey!!!
As a result, Brandi followed her for a long time before she realized that she could understand the phrase she said. Although it is also limited to a few phrases...... Audrey seems to have learned English from Anna as these geniuses, and maybe she did it specifically to communicate with herself. The thought of this possibility made Brandi grin happily on the back of his head.
So under the leadership of Audrey, the two of them walked in the direction of the castle along the way back while playing with each other, and walked in the direction of the castle - after walking for a while, they saw a man and a woman standing not far in front of them talking.
They looked like they were arguing.
"Calm down, we should ...... first"
"You don't understand...... It's better than yours... More importantly......"
At this time, it was not uncommon for young couples to gossip on the side of the road, so they didn't take it seriously at first, but when they got closer, the woman over there seemed to have spotted Brandi and Audrey, so she quickly muttered a few words, and the man turned his head and glared at Brandi, and the two hurriedly put on their hoods and quickly returned to the castle.
It was too dark for Brandi to see the woman's appearance, but the tall back made Brandi a little inexplicably familiar. And that male......
Audrey looked back, a hint of confusion in her eyes.
"That's it, Professor Deken. Britney. ”
It wasn't clear what had caused Professor Deakon to hurry back to the castle without even thinking about checking it out, but at least it meant that they could get to work as soon as possible - the lawns and fields outside Beauxbatons Castle were created by magic, and the fields reclaimed near them were naturally more or less contaminated with magic. Brandi thought that deworming pumpkin seedlings was as simple as spraying insecticides on pumpkin seedlings, and at that time he thought about why he said that he couldn't finish it overnight after working so easily, but when he and Audrey personally participated, they realized that this insect deworming does not just refer to insects.
He knew how much work the confinement had taken when he saw Anna use a clever expulsion charm to separate a dirt marten that was being torn together with the goblins so that they wouldn't break the pumpkin seedlings during the fight.
"Anna, we're not going to get rid of all the magical creatures here...... he glared in amazement at the overbearing goblin running around the pumpkin patch to gather people, its mouth whistling something, its paws waving vigorously with a handful of gray hair pulled from the dirt mink. In a few moments, under the glow of the fluorescent spell, one after another, ugly heads the size of potatoes emerged from all corners of their sight, clutching twigs they had picked up from nowhere, and a small section of Hoklap's tentacles in their mouths.
Oh, even the natural enemies dare to fight when they are crazy, are these goblins going against the sky......
"The students who came to get rid of the insects two days ago must not have done a serious job...... Even Hoklap hadn't been cleared, and it only took a few days for them to breed to fill the vegetable patch, so it was no wonder that the goblins who had been driven into the woods only a few months earlier had run in desperately. This is what they like to eat the most. ”
As she spoke, she expertly used a petrification charm to bring down one of the most vicious-looking goblins to the ground. Strangely, the other goblins didn't seem to want to run, but instead stared at them with ugly eyes and a pair of big feet with protruding bones and chattered around to watch the excitement. It wasn't until another flash of silver light flashed by that they seemed to realize that something was wrong, and they scattered in a hurry.
Anna spread her hands helplessly.
"How many times have these goblins been thrown out, but they still don't have a long memory - it's not a good habit to always think of petrification spells as fireworks. Except for this sable, which was placed here by the professor of our magical biology class to watch the yard. We need to get all the goblins out first, or the goblins might think we're fighting them for food when we pull out Hoklap...... Remember to go to the fence to get a stick when you go into the field, and if you see a red hat, you will knock it to death, of course, if you have enough magic you can pretend not to hear it. ”
Brandi was stunned for a moment, and waited until Anna walked to the fence to find a stick, and then he hurriedly said, "Anna? I remember banishing the goblins, wouldn't that be fine? ”
He held out his hand and gestured in a rotating motion.
Anna gave Anna a look of disdain, and she glanced at Brandy as if she were looking at a vulgar country woman, and then she snorted and turned her head and walked into the vegetable patch.
Beneath her feet, the plucked marten stood up and gave Anna the best answer in short, stiff English like a cannon.
"Shut up! Man's wife! ”