Chapter 51: The holidays are coming
The Christmas holidays have finally arrived, and Hogwarts students are leaving school to go home with their families.
Zhang Xu ran to France early in the morning through the portkey, where he will spend the Christmas break at Fleur's house, and in the last two days of the holiday he will go to Beauxbatons School of Witchcraft and Wizardry with Fleur to meet up with old friends.
At Furong's house, Zhang Xu was once again warmly welcomed.
As soon as she arrived at the gate of the courtyard, Gabrielle was the first to rush out to greet Zhang Xu.
Rubbing Gabrielle's little face, Zhang Xu pulled the little girl who kept babbling and came to the door.
After hugging Fleur for a while, the three of them entered the house together.
After greeting the Delacour couple, everyone sat down together and chatted.
At the beginning, it was Gabrielle who kept asking Zhang Xu this and that, and Zhang Xu also picked up interesting things and told her.
After Zhang Xu told him about his performance in the dueling club as if he were telling a story, Madame Delacour got up to make lunch, and called Fleur and Gabrielle to help, leaving the living room to Zhang Xu and Mr. Delacour.
"Hogwarts, there's no problem with safety, right?" Mr. Delacour asked.
Since the Hogwarts Chamber of Secrets incident was leaked out of the parental circle, it immediately attracted the attention of the European wizarding community. Dumbledore is under a lot of pressure right now, and he receives many letters of accountability from all walks of life every day. Fortunately, the media did not report it publicly, coupled with Dumbledore's gold signboard, and he still had an economic card in his hand to play, so all parties did not dare to push him too much. Even Lucius Malfoy, who was the most active in the past, did not dare to jump out easily now. But another student was attacked just before Christmas, and this was already the second Muggle student to be attacked this semester, after a pure-blood student and a Muggle-born student, and it was like putting a fuse in a powder keg, just a spark that lit the fuse.
"My safety is fine, I want to run away and no one can stop me." Zhang Xu replied, "Now that our own investigation has reached the final stage, as long as we confirm the identity of that heir and find the location of the secret room, this matter will be resolved." ”
Then, Zhang Xu briefly talked about the whole incident, and said a little bit about everyone's speculation about this matter.
After hearing this, Mr. Delacour nodded, and said, "Your own safety comes first, and if I find that something is wrong, I can ask Beauxbatons to let you go and avoid it in the name of inviting you." ”
Zhang Xu nodded, and then politely declined Mr. Delacour's kindness, it was impossible to be a deserter at this time.
After talking about Hogwarts, Zhang Xu told Mr. Dracule about his recent work.
Mr. Delacour is now the Director of the Department of International Affairs at the French Ministry of Magic, and in the Muggle world he holds the title of Counsellor of the Embassy in China, in charge of diplomatic liaison between the French and Chinese wizarding communities.
The Delacours now spend half of their time in France and half of their time taking Gabrielle to work in China.
Now that Mr. Delacour's official job and his own foreign trade business, the Delacour family can be said to be living a prosperous life.
During the time they worked in Huaxia, all aspects of Huaxia had a huge impact on the Delacours. Originally, there were some things that I couldn't understand, but after asking Zhang Xu, I also suffered a second impact while figuring it out.
The scene of the Chinese magical society and the ordinary society promoting and developing together after the integration brought a torrent of ideas to the wizards of the closed French magical world.
Then Mr. Dracul asked Zhang Xu if he could let Fleur go to the University of Magic in Huaxia after graduating from Beauxbatons School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and Zhang Xu said that he would be very much in favor and would be responsible for handling this matter.
The two chatted for a while about the news and anecdotes of the French wizarding world, and it was time for lunch.
After everyone has had a good lunch, it's time for the young people.
Throughout the afternoon, Zhang Xu was playing in the snow in the yard with Gabrielle, while Fleur was on the sidelines.
Zhang Xu made a snow slide for Gabrielle, and she couldn't stop playing.
After a sumptuous dinner, Zhang Xu hugged Gabrielle and read a fairy tale to her.
For a whole day, Fleur didn't ask Zhang Xu about Hogwarts, and Zhang Xu didn't take the initiative to say it. They only talked about Fleur's affairs in Beauxbatons, as well as the recent situation of some of Zhang Xu's old friends.
That night, Zhang Xu spent the night in the guest room of Delacul's house.
Early the next morning, Zhang Xu, who hadn't eaten breakfast, slipped away with Furong, and when Gabrielle woke up to find that the two of them were gone, Zhang Xu and Furong were already in the Finnish Lapland region.
For this Christmas holiday, Zhang Xu used the welfare benefits given to him by China, not only used the door keys of the embassies of various countries, but also asked the embassy staff to help book a room in the local resort hotel. The country also takes great care of him as a child who is thousands of miles away from home, and tries to meet some reasonable requirements. Anyway, Zhang Xu is a small trench, and he will not lose a penny of his own money.
After a day of dog sledding, Zhang Xu and Fleur tasted local delicacies such as reindeer, a local specialty, before returning to their booked room.
Zhang Xu booked a small wooden house with a glass dome.
Zhang Xu, who had taken a bath, lay on the bed in the glass-dome room, watching the unpredictable Northern Lights in the sky.
Fleur came out of the bathroom with a bath towel, she had been in the sauna for a while, and her whole body was still red.
Furong sat at the head of the bed, moved Zhang Xu's head to her lap and pillowed it, and gently massaged his temples with both hands.
"Tired at Hogwarts, aren't you?"
This is the first time in the past two days that Fleur has mentioned Hogwarts to Zhang Xu.
"Hmm."
For the first time, Zhang Xu said that he was tired in front of people.
Feeling the massage of Hibiscus's slender fingers and the elastic touch on the back of his head, Zhang Xu rarely relaxed.
"Is it dangerous?"
"It's okay, I can still handle it."
"If you really can't ......"
"There's nothing that can't be done, it has to be done."
Away from Hogwarts, away from the secret room, away from the basilisk, Zhang Xu's tense nerves for days were completely relaxed at this moment, and he fell asleep unconsciously.
Fleur looked at the sleeping Zhang Xu, and her intuition told her that the situation her little boyfriend faced at school was by no means as easy as he said in his letter. She had looked up information about the basilisk and understood how terrible the basilisk was.
Fleur used a levitation charm to float the sleeping Zhang Xu up and put him on the bed in the cabin. She changed into pajamas and fell asleep with the sleeping Zhang Xu.
Lying beside Zhang Xu, Furong found that the original frowning brow on Zhang Xu's face had unfolded.