Chapter 151: Take a chestnut
For the first time, the students of Hogwarts see their headmaster angry and disciplined.
The Hogwarts man of the year, Zhang Xu, is nodding his head uncontrollably by the headmaster. At the same time, he also held a long iron rod in his hand, and the top of the iron rod was connected by two strings of flesh and bone tied with iron wire.
An hour later, Zhang Xu took Fleur, Gabrielle and Tonya, who had finished breakfast, to the chestnut forest on the edge of the Forbidden Forest.
Autumn and October are the ripening seasons for wild chestnuts in the UK. Hogwarts is located in the north, and chestnuts ripen later than in the south, around Halloween.
This chestnut forest on the edge of the forbidden forest covers a very large area, whenever the chestnut matures and lands, many animals in the forbidden forest will come here to eat chestnuts, and the horse people living in the forbidden forest will also come to pick up chestnuts and eat them back.
If you're lucky, you might even meet unicorns that come to eat chestnuts.
However, for safety reasons, students will only be active on the fringes.
When Zhang Xu and his entourage came to the chestnut forest, there were no other students here.
There are two main types of chestnuts in the wild in the UK, one is the wild chestnut and the other is the horse chestnut.
Wild chestnuts are like the chestnuts we often eat, and the outside is covered with fine spikes.
The outer skin of the horse chestnut is smoother, the spines on it are thin and thick, and it is poisonous and cannot be eaten.
In the chestnut forest, Zhang Xu gave everyone a canvas bag, and gave Gabrielle a long clip for her to clip the chestnuts on the ground.
"Hey guys, what are you doing?" A person on the edge of the Forbidden Forest greeted Zhang Xu and them in non-standard English.
"Hello, Krum." Zhang Xu greeted, "We're picking chestnuts." β
"Where do we seem to have met?" Krum said.
"Yes. I received you at the lake last night. There was also a Quidditch World Cup match, which ended up in a box on the top floor of the stadium, and we were in it at the time. "My name is Zhang Xu, a student from Huaxia, a student at Hogwarts, and an acting professor of Muggle studies. He is also the goalkeeper of the Ravenclaw House Quidditch team. β
Zhang Xu then introduced several others to Krum, "This is my girlfriend, Fleur Delacour of Beauxbatons, who is also Beauxbatons' chaser. The little girl was Fleur's sister, Gabrielle Delacour, who was also a student of Beauxbatons. It was Tonya Tumanova, and she was Beauxbatons' Seeker. β
Hearing that Tonya was also a Seeker, Krum's eyes lit up.
Zhang Xu saw Krum's expression and knew why this guy came to greet them.
I hope you have a good stomach and a good liver, Zhang Xu thought silently.
"What are you picking up these for? Refining potions? Krum asked.
"Haha, this isn't for refining potions." Zhang Xu said with a smile, "This is ready to be eaten." β
"Do Hogwarts students have to cook for themselves?" Krum asked, confused.
"For some Hogwarts students, cooking is our passion." "It's a wonderful experience to turn ingredients into delicious dishes with your own hands. β
"Once you've spent some time at Hogwarts, you'll get a sense of Hogwarts." Looking at Krum, who was stunned, Zhang Xu smiled.
"I'll help you too." Krum said, pulling out his wand.
"Be careful!"
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As soon as he saw Krum waving his wand, Zhang Xu immediately jumped in front of Gabrielle and used his wand to conjure an ice shield to block chestnuts flying from all directions.
After hearing Zhang Xu's warning, Fleur and Tonya also immediately put a shield on themselves.
Zhang Xu, as a wizard, did not use magic spells such as the Flying Charm to collect all the chestnuts, but used a magic wand to pick up the chestnuts one by one into the bag like now, for a reason.
The crux of the matter is that the chestnut skin is covered with small sharp thorns, if you use the Flying Charm rashly......
Just like Krum now, he wears a red robe full of chestnuts.
In the face of the thorny chestnuts flying from all directions just now, Krum panicked all of a sudden, but fortunately he opened the shield at the last moment, otherwise his face would have turned pockmarked.
However, in this way, Krum also collected enough chestnuts.
Next, everyone sat around the chestnut pile, peeling the chestnuts and chatting.
Now that Krum was known to everyone about Sima Zhao's heart, he had sat next to Tonya all morning, talking about Quidditch.
Tonya, on the other hand, behaved decently.
Zhang Xu and Sister Furong were talking about themselves on the side.
After a busy morning, Zhang Xu led his friends from Beauxbatons and Durmstrang to the site of the Lakeside Food Association.
It's Halloween and it's the weekend, and there are already quite a few students from the three schools gathered here.
Not far away, on the flight track of the Flying Club, there is an air race going on. Looking at the costumes, the two people in the game are from Hogwarts and Beauxbatons.
Zhang Xu brought an oven and various foods from the Food Association, and everyone had a BBQ at noon today.
Faced with this relaxed and cheerful atmosphere, Krum was a little uncomfortable at first.
But all the Quidditch players were present, and under the common topic, Krum quickly chatted with Zhang Xu and them.
Tonya pulls out a bottle filled with water, and throws a stone the size of a disposable lighter into the bottle.
Zhang Xu recognized that it was her work, a vodka stone that could turn clear water into vodka. At that time, Zhang Xu bought a dozen of these vodka stones in her store and took them home to give away.
It was impossible for Beauxbatons and Hogwarts to provide vodka to their students, so Tonya used this method to solve the problem of vodka demand.
Under Zhang Xu's persuasion, Tonya didn't drink much, and everyone ended up focusing on butterbeer.
After chatting about Quidditch for a while, Krum changed the subject.
"Zhang, is the basilisk in front of Hogwarts Castle real?" Krum asked a question that many Durmstrand wanted to ask.
The fact that the students of Hogwarts killed a thousand-year-old basilisk is known throughout Europe, but the specific details are only circulated in England, and foreign countries only know that there is such a thing, and they don't know anything about the details, and Beauxbatons knows more.
"Of course it's true." Zhang Xu took a sip of butterbeer and said, "After we killed the basilisk, we peeled off its skin and made that specimen. β
After speaking, Zhang Xu took out a photo of him with the basilisk's corpse in the foyer and handed it to Krum.
Krum took the picture and his eyes widened when he saw it.
"You killed the basilisk?" Krum said incredulously.
"Of course I didn't kill it alone, it's a collective credit to our Hogwarts students, and I only played a small part in it." Zhang Xu said, "And at the end of the day, I left, and by the time I caught the murderer who released the basilisk, the basilisk had already been killed." β
"That's pretty remarkable, too." Krum sighed, "Can you tell me what happened?" β
"We've made a movie of what happened to this fight, and it's going to premiere this afternoon, so let's go to the movies together in the afternoon." Zhang Xu said.