Chapter 351: A Leisurely Life During the Holidays

Harry and his party were led by Lupin to the grave of the Potters.

One of the most excited people in the group was Penny, and when she saw her sister's tombstone, Harry realized that someone could cry more than the weeping Myrtle.

Petunia stood in front of her sister's grave with her husband's support, and Dudley untied the backpack he had been carrying and pulled out a wreath of white flowers from the backpack.

Harry figured that if he was not mistaken, the white lilies that made up the wreath must have been the ones that Aunt Petunia had planted in the garden in a small field of flowers that no one else touched.

Maybe it was because these lilies had been picked for a long time, or maybe Dudley had hugged his backpack a little tightly when he was in the car, and most of the lilies on the whole wreath looked wilted, which made Dudley's face not very good.

Ginny took out her wand and walked in front of Dudley, Dudley's body trembled a little, and he wanted to shrink back, but reason made him stand there motionless, and he handed the wreath forward.

Then Dudley watched his cousin's girlfriend smile at him kindly, chanted a spell, and tapped his wand on the wreath, and the whole wreath became as if it had just been plucked from the ground.

The Dursleys did not notice the scene, and Penny took the wreath from her son's hand and placed it in front of Lily's tombstone with a trembling hand.

Harry stood by, looking at Aunt Penny, and then he suddenly remembered what Zhang Xu had said many years ago when he talked to Zhang Xu about the Dursleys, "On that day, not only did you lose your parents, but one sister lost her sister forever." ”

Next, Harry placed a slightly larger wreath in the middle of his parents' tombstones.

Harry didn't tell anyone why he was coming to pay homage to his parents on his birthday, he just told everyone that he wanted to visit Godric's Hollow during breakfast the other day. At that time, neither the Weasleys nor Hermione reacted to Harry's meaning, and only Blake, who came to breakfast every day, agreed to Harry's plan after a moment of silence.

Harry made this decision with the thought in mind that he wanted to see his parents and his former home before he died.

The incident of Voldemort and the Death Eaters attacking the Hogwarts train gave Harry a lot of excitement, especially when he saw that Zhang Xu, whose fate was unknown, was finally carried away on a stretcher by the people who rushed there, which made him really feel that this was a tragic war, a war that he could sleep underground like his parents at any time.

So he plans to accomplish something while he is still alive, so that he can die as much as possible without regrets when he is going to die.

For some time, Harry, who had fallen into a pessimistic mood, became gloomy, and only forced a smile in front of others.

Harry's changes fell into the eyes of those who cared, but there was no way to help Harry, so he could only do it in a hurry.

While Harry and his party finished their trip to Godric's Hollow, Zhang Xu, thousands of miles away, sat at a desk and wrote a piece of stationery.

When Zhang Xu finished writing the last word, Furong, who was dressed in pajamas, held a wooden cup with wisps of steam and placed it next to the desk.

After Furong put down the cup, she walked behind Zhang Xu to help him rub his temples, and said to him, "Didn't you say that you want to rest early, why did you stay up so late." ”

Zhang Xu leaned back in his chair and felt the pressure of Fleur's fingers around his temples, and said with relief: "I have written a resignation letter to Professor Dumbledore, and I have decided to resign from my position as acting professor at the beginning of the next academic year. I had written to Professor Bubbaji to discuss the matter before, and she agreed to return to Hogwarts early. ”

Fleur was noncommittal on the matter, just a soft "um".

At this moment, Zhang Xu's mobile phone on the desk suddenly rang.

Zhang Xu picked up his mobile phone and looked at the caller number, and immediately took the mobile phone and walked to the balcony.

Seeing Zhang Xu's solemn face, Furong left the room and walked upstairs to the bedroom.

Fleur walks into the bedroom and sees the sleeping Gabrielle kicking a thin blanket to the floor, and then helps her cover it.

Although the temperature is high during the day, it is still very cold at night in the mountains, and if you don't pay attention, you will still catch a cold.

After helping Gabrielle cover the blanket, Fleur went to another bed in the room, took off the wooden shoes on her feet, and sat on the bed against the head of the bed.

At the other end of the bed was a window, on which a curtain made of some kind of herb that Hibiscus did not recognize, and the mosquitoes outside the room did not dare to take a step closer to the window.

The moonlight outside the window spilled into the room through the gaps in the curtains, and Furong quietly looked at the curtains that were sometimes swaying by the evening breeze, and listened to the footsteps of Zhang Xu on the balcony downstairs as he paced while talking on the phone.

Fleur couldn't hear the voice coming from the spell-cast phone, not even the voice of Zhang Xu who was holding the phone.

Coming from the window, there was only the sound of Zhang Xu's footsteps walking on the wooden floor of the balcony.

About half an hour later, Zhang Xu's footsteps walked back to the room, followed by the exaggerated sound of "coodong, coodong" drinking water.

It wasn't until Zhang Xu's footsteps came from the side of the stairs and walked into the room next to him that Furong was relieved, not worrying that he would go to the distance immediately after receiving the call.

Early the next morning, Fleur was woken up by the sound of Gabrielle and Zhang Xu fighting in Zhang Xu's room next door.

After changing her clothes, Fleur grabbed Gabrielle, who was urging Zhang Xu to get up quickly, from Zhang Xu's room, and asked her to wait in the hall downstairs.

After Zhang Xu changed his clothes and washed up and went downstairs, Gabrielle, who couldn't wait, pulled him to the place where he got off the bamboo basket last night by the river.

The valley was misty in the early morning, and people were already working in the medicine fields.

Gabrielle trotted all the way on the riverside path, leaving Fleur and Zhang Xu behind.

"What happened to last night's phone call?" Fleur asked, feigning distraction.

"There was a problem on the British side, and the relevant department in charge of dealing with it just came to ask me about something." Zhang Xu pretended to be casual and replied, "They know that I'm recuperating, so I don't have to go over together." ”

Zhang Xu didn't know that Furong was worried about her safety, and at the same time, she was worried that she was suddenly called away by a phone call, and she might have to wait another year for her next return.

Now Zhang Xu doesn't have to appear in person, so he simply called a report to ask for sick leave, and then spent this vacation in this indisputable place.

Walking to the place where the basket had been put down yesterday, Gabrielle had already picked it up with a levitation charm.

Zhang Xu walked over to take a look at the harvest in a few bamboo baskets and found that today's breakfast had been settled.

After pouring the fish caught in a few bamboo baskets into a bamboo basket, he put them all back into the river, and then let the elated Gabrielle run back to the stilted building with a bamboo basket of fish by herself, while Zhang Xu and Furong slowly walked back while picking the dewy bracken on the side of the road.

When Zhang Xu and Fleur returned to the stilted building with a body of dew, Scarlet had already processed all the yellow eels he caught this morning and used them to cook porridge, and was now frying lotus fish.

Today's breakfast was yellow eel porridge, pan-fried lotus fish and cold bracken. Perhaps the fish were brought back by Gabrielle herself, and she ate a very fragrant breakfast today.

After breakfast, Scarlett went to the village to treat the after-effects of the Horcrux effects some time ago.

Gabrielle was free-range by Fleur and Zhang Xu, and after her first encounter with such an environment, she had gone crazy, running around the river in the fields every day, sometimes watching the villagers working in the medicine fields, sometimes learning to fish by others by the river, and occasionally fighting with the geese raised in the village.

Everyone in the village knew that she was Zhang Xu's future sister-in-law, so everyone didn't stop her, but tricked her into filming a set of advertising videos, and the reward was a basket of herbs that could be used as snacks and snacks made by the village elders in their spare time.

It's just that Zhang Xu looked at Gabrielle, who was having more and more fun, and was afraid that her painting style would become like a bear child in the future.

In addition to accompanying Zhang Xu, Furong is often taken away by the seven aunts and eight aunts. Sometimes they sit together under the trees at the head of the village, making sachets to repel mosquitoes and insects with medicinal herbs, while chatting about homely things. Sometimes I was called to my house by the aunt to help make some local snacks. Occasionally, Eminem would be called by Eminem to help take care of the herbs in the medicine field.

Later, Zhang Xu severely condemned the bad behavior of the elders who treated their daughters-in-law as free laborers, and said that if there was good food and good food as a reward, then he would turn a blind eye and forget it.

As a result, Zhang Xu's attempt did not succeed, and everyone in the village knew that he was recuperating from illness and had to avoid food, so there was only food for the Furong sisters, and even Scarlet also had a share, Zhang Xu could only continue to eat coarse tea and light rice.

And now Zhang Xu has entered the mode of retired old cadres, and sometimes a pot of tea on the balcony can pass the time for half a day.

If you want to move, go to the small square by the river and play a few games of chess with tourists who come for a summer vacation.

Or go to the lake at the head of the village and listen to the old people over 90 years old in the village bragging and pouring chicken soup for the soul to the tourists.

Sometimes, when they were really greedy, they secretly ran into the mountains to catch pheasants and make tooth sacrifices.

Later, Zhang Xu simply set up a painting stall in a corner of the small square, painted a few landscape paintings and hung them there, and the tourists took advantage of them and threw money in the cash box next to them and then took the paintings away.

Zhang Xu's ink paintings have now reached the level of entering the house, and many tourists buy his paintings as souvenirs.

When the tourists took Zhang Xu's painting home, they found that the mosquitoes in the room where the painting was hung did not enter, and when they tried to find Zhang Xu again, they found that he had long disappeared into the sea of people.