Chapter 320: Nicol Lemay's last little gift
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At the table, twin brother Yamada Hiromitsu, who sat next to Yamada Guinon, watched as the Hogwarts students sitting across from them skillfully turned the knives and forks on the table into a pair of chopsticks with a Transfiguration Charm, and then swept away the Japanese dishes such as sushi, tempura, and oden in front of them.
Yamada Hakamitsu, who is not used to eating Western food, originally thought that no one would rob him of today's meal, but who knew that as soon as he got himself a bowl of udon, the Japanese food on the table was cleaned up by more than a dozen pairs of chopsticks and only a few dumplings remained.
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Why are you so skilled? How many times have you used chopsticks!? Are you going to starve me to death before you are willing!?
If Zhang Xu could know his inner thoughts, he would tell him that it would not be a matter of a year or two for these guys to grab meat in the hot pot with themselves in the name of "training finger dexterity".
Not to mention that the Quidditch team stepped up their training a while ago, and every night after training, a group of people would go to the kitchen to add food.
Especially Harry Potter, Tian shamelessly snatched a lot of meatballs from Zhang Xu's hot pot on the grounds that "Seekers need to practice finger dexterity".
Time goes back to twenty minutes ago.
As the leaders took their seats, the welcome banquet officially began.
First of all, the leader's speech was conducted.
Zhang Xu's worst concern for the eight headmasters to speak in turn did not happen, and after Madame Maxim welcomed the guests as the host, and Dumbledore thanked the host for his hospitality as the representative of the guests, the leader's speech ended, which lasted less than ten minutes.
Like the Hogwarts table, Beauxbatons' table is filled with a variety of delicacies in an instant.
As today's guests come from five continents, the food on the table is also in line with the preferences of the guests.
In addition to the common European cuisines, foods from Africa are also present on the table today.
is different from the boiled monkey and grilled crocodile in Zhang Xu's impression, there are still a lot of good things on the African border.
Kusali mixed bean rice with rice, macaroni, chickpeas, lentils and onions in tomato chili, chicken muamba stir-fried with palm oil with garlic, okra and chilli peppers, and birtong with black on the outside and red on the inside.
Although these don't look exquisite, they have a unique flavor when they are occasionally tasted, but they are a bit reluctant to be used as a staple food, and even African friends don't look at them with their eyes.
And a group of foodies at Hogwarts learned Zhang Xu's "eat first" eating method and launched a sweep of Japanese cuisine.
A welcome dinner was a great meal, and then everyone was gone.
Zhang Xu told the Hogwarts players about tomorrow's activities, visiting Beauxbatons in the morning, going to the stadium in the afternoon to familiarize themselves with the venue, and then asked Juster Fontaine for the location of his dormitory, and finally handed the players to Juster Fontaine and Isabelle Adjani to take back to the dormitory, and he left the cafeteria with Gabrielle, who was waiting on the side.
Without further ado, Zhang Xu handed over all the snacks he brought to Gabrielle, and after walking around the garden with her, he returned to the boys' dormitory in Beauxbatons.
As soon as he walked into the public hall of the dormitory, a loud noise mixed with the smell of alcohol rushed towards Zhang Xu like a huge wave in a tsunami.
(◎′▽◎)を🍺 Cheers to the Golden Snitch!
('∀ ́)つ🍻o( ́Д')Cheers to the wand!
(‵dish′)つ▍For Quidditch, blow to a bottle!
Zhang Xu didn't expect that he had just accompanied Gabrielle outside for more than an hour, and he had already drunk it in the dormitory.
At this time, the boys from the eight schools were already drunk, and the language barrier could no longer stop the guys, so they only needed to raise their glasses or bottles and touch them, and then shout all kinds of toasts in their native languages, and take the last sip.
(ºoº)つ[]To Mio Akiyama[]o( ̄ ̄)
Yamada Boguang, who was already drunk, found Zhang Xu with a glass of wine, and Zhang Xu picked up a glass of wine from the table next to him and took a sip with him.
It's just that Zhang Xu looked at the badge of A Zimeow pinned to Yamada Boguang's robe...... It seems that this thing's position is not firm.
(๑ ́)'๑)つ🍺: "Professor Dumbledore, you can have a drink too." ”
Ron's voice startled Zhang Xu, who had just drunk Drogba.
Following the prestige, I saw that Dumbledore had walked into the common room at some point.
Zhang Xu hurriedly ran over and asked, "Professor, is there something wrong?" ”
Dumbledore speechlessly glanced around the "corpse-strewn" common room hall, and then said to Zhang Xu, "Can you come with me, Zhang?" ”
Zhang Xu hadn't drunk enough to answer "no", and followed Dumbledore out of the boys' dormitory after dissipating his alcohol.
Zhang Xu followed Dumbledore down the stairs in Beauxbatons' castle until he finally came to a large door in the basement.
Standing in front of the gate, Zhang Xu could feel the magic fluctuations on the gate that can be described as "surging".
Seeing Zhang Xu's surprised expression, Dumbledore smiled, and then said, "This is my old friend's laboratory, if the defense is insufficient, sometimes some small accidents will blow up Beauxbatons Castle." ”
Zhang Xu wanted to ask what would happen if it was a "big accident", but at this time Dumbledore began to lift the curfew on the door.
To be fortunate enough to see Nicol Lemay's laboratory before his death, for Zhang Xu, it is no less meaningful than bragging and rubbing tea in the elder's study.
Nicol Lemay sent a letter to Zhang Xu a few days before his death, in which he mentioned that he was actually caught by Dumbledore in the last days of his life, working overtime to help old Deng Bai work, and also said that if Zhang Xu had the opportunity to come to Beauxbatons with Dumbledore in the future, he would leave a small gift for Zhang Xu in his laboratory.
After a few minutes, Dumbledore opened the door, and Zhang Xu followed him into Nicol Lemay's laboratory.
Nicol Lemay had apparently taken good care of the laboratory before leaving, and all the equipment and utensils were neatly packed, as if the owner would continue to use them the next day.
On a long table in the lab were two large wooden boxes, one of which had a label "For Dumbledore" and the other a label that read "For Zhang Xu".
Zhang Xu and Dumbledore walked to their respective boxes.
Zhang Xu saw that there was a large set of keys in front of the box given to him, and this box was opened with different keys, and there would be a corresponding space that had been magically expanded inside.
After Zhang Xu checked all the spaces in the box, he found that except for one space that contained some precious alchemy books, all the other spaces contained antique furniture, utensils, and works of art from the Bourbon period in France.
At this time, Zhang Xu had mixed feelings in his heart, for ordinary people, these are priceless antiques, and for wizards, the most valuable are those books. But fortunately, Zhang Xu's head is a little more inclined to ordinary people, so he laughed at the gift given to him by Nicol Lemay.
At this time, Dumbledore also checked the box left by Nicol Lemay, and then beckoned Zhang Xu to leave the laboratory.
When the two of them left the lab with their things, the door to the lab closed automatically, and then a burst of colored light lit up.
"From now on, only those who meet the conditions approved by Nicol Lemay will be allowed to enter this laboratory."
Dumbledore sighed deeply.
After listening to this, Zhang Xu had a black line, and he couldn't imagine that Nicol Lemay would leave such an "adventure" in Beauxbatons Castle before leaving.
But it's no wonder why Nicol Lemay said in his letter to Zhang Xu that those antiques were just "small gifts", and in the wizarding world, compared to the knowledge left in the laboratory, giving these antiques to Zhang Xu is similar to finding someone to collect the old ones.