Chapter 128: A camp with a strange painting style
A dinner party was a great feast for both guests and hosts.
After dinner, everyone was rushed to bed by Mrs. Weasley, as most of them would be up early tomorrow morning to head to the Quidditch World Cup venue.
Zhang Xu and Fleur's tickets were obtained by Fleur's father, and Zhang Xu and Mr. Weasley checked the seat number and found that they were all in the same box.
Unlike the Weasleys, who need to leave tomorrow morning, Zhang Xu and Fleur have their own portkey, which is in Zhang Xu's treasure bag, and they will use the portkey to go to the game venue at ten o'clock tonight.
After Zhang Xu and Fleur helped Mrs. Weasley clean up the dishes tonight, the time was already ten minutes and ten o'clock.
Saying goodbye to Mrs. Weasley, Zhang Xu and Fleur use the portkey in the open space in front of the Burrow.
After a suffocating teleportation, Zhang Xu and Furong landed safely.
A moment after landing, Zhang Xu, who had a firm foothold, reached out to help Furong.
"Ten o'clock sharp, from the village of Auteri St. Cachpole."
Two people with strange costumes stood in front of Zhang Xu and them, and at a glance they knew that they were staff members of the Ministry of Magic.
One of them was wearing a tweed suit and a pair of thigh-length high-rise galoshes underneath. The other wore a pleated skirt and a South American cape of the kind worn by Scottish Highland men.
If these two were students in Zhang Xu's Muggle Studies class, Zhang Xu would not hesitate to let them fail.
"Good evening, sir." Zhang Xu said.
At the same time, he picked up the badly wounded soccer ball that was the key to the port, and handed it to the wizard in the pleated skirt.
The man threw it into a large box beside him, full of used portkeys, and thought it was a garbage bin if he didn't know.
"Good evening, sir." The wizard who took the portkey said, "Welcome, wizard from Huaxia. Poor Mr. Roberts, finally waiting for a wizard who can communicate again. ”
In the wizard's tone, Zhang Xu heard a thick sense of exhaustion and helplessness.
Just looking at the dressing styles of these two, Zhang Xu has only seen it in the collocation of "Miracle Nuan Nuan", which disregards beauty for the sake of scoring. From this alone, Zhang Xu knew how much trouble he would have as a Muggle camp administrator.
Bidding farewell to the two Ministry of Magic staff, Zhang Xu pulled Fleur through the deserted swamp, where the dense fog with obvious traces of magic made it almost impossible to see anything.
The two of them walked for about twenty minutes, and gradually a door appeared in front of them, and then a small stone house.
Behind the stone huts were a large group of oddly shaped tents that went up the gentle slope of the large field that jutted out into a dark grove on the horizon.
Zhang Xu took out the map and looked at it, the camps of the wizards from Huaxia were all concentrated next to the woods, and Zhang Xu and the others had to walk through the entire camp to reach it.
With the promotion of Quidditch in China in the past two years, the sport has gained popularity from many people. With the national team reaching the semi-finals of the World Cup, many fans also came to the UK to watch the game. Although the national team stopped in the semi-finals, the enthusiasm of the fans for the final was still high.
Zhang Xu and Fleur commented on the strange tents as they laboriously walked across the misty camp, passing between two long rows of tents.
The tents in the camp are quirky, with chimneys, bell ropes or weather vanes everywhere.
The most exaggerated are the two tents in the camp.
In the center of the camp was a very extravagant tent made of a large amount of striped silk, almost like a small palace, with a few live peacocks tied to the entrance.
Next to the camp sat another five-story tent, made of black silk with silver patterns.
When passing by the door of the black five-story tent, Zhang Xu saw an acquaintance.
"Good evening, Professor Lupin, Mr. Black." Zhang Xu greeted Lupin and Blake as they walked out of the tent.
When the two saw Zhang Xu, Lupin greeted Zhang Xu with a smile, and Blake nodded to Zhang Xu with a straight face.
After Zhang Xu introduced Fleur to the two of them, Blake's face improved when he heard that Fleur was Zhang Xu's girlfriend.
"Where is your tent? If you don't mind, come and stay together. Tomorrow Harry and the Weasleys will be here too. Blake said to Zhang Xu.
Zhang Xu shook his head, pointed to a large yurt not far away and said, "Thank you, but don't use it." We've booked our tents. ”
The neat yurts were the camp of the Chinese wizards, and the yurts were sponsored by a company.
At this moment, a Russian chorus sang on the other side of the yurt community, although Zhang Xu did not understand Russian, but he could know the meaning of the lyrics just by listening to the melody.
Just as the pear blossoms are blooming all over the world,
There is a soft light veil floating on the river!
Katyusha stood on the steep shore,
The song is like a bright spring light.
The only one who can sing "Katyusha" with murderous spirit is undoubtedly an authentic hairy bear.
Looking at Zhang Xu with a bewildered face, Lu Ping explained to him: "It's the Russian wizard and your Chinese wizard who are competing, and whoever wins will sing and celebrate." ”
Zhang Xu, who has a black line, doesn't need to think about it to know that where there are hairy bears, there is only one competition item.
At the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, the Soviet Union lost a large part of the country, and the Soviet wizards were also resisting the attack of the dark wizards led by Gellert Grindelwald, so many Soviet wizards also entered the world to help Stalin resist the German invasion.
During the "Big Brother" period of the Soviet Union, the wizards of the two countries also had a honeymoon period, so it is not surprising that the wizards of the two countries can play together.
It was only after Khrushchev completely repudiated Stalin that the wizards who had originally cooperated with Stalin gradually broke off contact with the Soviet government.
Saying goodbye to Lupin and Blake, Zhang Xu pulled Fleur to the yurt.
Approaching the yurt community, Zhang Xu found that it had been surrounded by a one-meter-high fence.
In the guard room at the entrance of the community, Zhang Xu saw an acquaintance.
"Brother Ye, why are you working as a doorman?" Zhang Xu greeted.
"Everyone went over there to fight with the old Maozi, and everyone else was there to maintain order, so I came to see the door." Ye Lingyan pointed to the other end of the commotion in the community, and said to Zhang Xu.
At this time, the chorus of "Unity is Strength" came from there.
Ye Lingyi is a staff member of the Embassy in the UK, and he used to help Zhang Xu record AC Milan's game, so he is very familiar with Zhang Xu.
Ye Lingyan took out a card from a box and handed it to Zhang Xu.
"This is your yurt room card, No. 233, you can take the room card, and if you lose it, the deposit will be 200 yuan." Ye Lingyan said to Zhang Xu.
"How's the surroundings going?" Zhang Xu, who took the room card, asked Ye Ling.
"There's no problem, it's just that there are a lot of foreigners who come to watch." Ye Lingyi replied.
"You mention to the leader that there is no big problem before the game, but I am afraid that something will happen after the game. You know the football hooligans in England, and I'm afraid there will be Quidditch hooligans making trouble. Let the Taoist take note of the time when the defense force is arranged. Zhang Xu said.
Ye Lingyan nodded in agreement.
After taking the room card, Zhang Xu and Furong came to the No. 233 yurt assigned to them.
The yurt doesn't look big from the outside, but inside it is a one-bedroom layout with a kitchen and bathroom.
Gabrielle is going to school in Beauxbatons this year, and the Delacours are going to help prepare things for her. And Zhang Xu's family couldn't leave and couldn't come to watch the game. So this time it's the two-person world of Zhang Xu and Furong again.
After recognizing the door, the two decided to go to the wine scene to watch the excitement.