Ning An's prayers seemed to have an effect, and he pulled out a map that looked very old. The map only briefly marked some of the surrounding places, and on a large red dot in the center of the map, Ning An looked carefully and found that it was marked with the "Count of Shafiq's Mansion" (dangerous!). ）

With the word "danger" written in a big red pen next to it, and the red circle was scribbled over and over again, Ning An could see that the owner of this map was really afraid of Count Shafiq's mansion.

But Ning An had nothing to fear, he looked closely, and found that the old mansion was also in this valley, and his current location was near the western edge of the valley, and if he wanted to get to Calidora's house, he would have to go deeper to the east, where there would be a large lake, and the mansion of Count Shafiq was marked by the lake.

"Looks like I'm going to have to borrow this map." Ning An glanced at the fainted old man and muttered, "But if I have the chance, I will return it." ”

Ning An left the cabin and plunged headlong into the dense oak forest. Tall trees cover the sky, and the sound of birdsong from time to time in the forest makes it even more silent.

Ning An dragged his luggage and climbed hard, the path in the mountains and forests was not easy to walk, and there were often dead branches and vines in the lower places that tripped him, making Ning An's shirt dirty.

Fortunately, the terrain here is not complicated, after walking for a while, he finally saw a lake, and when he sensed the black snake mark on his right arm, he finally sensed the magic of Daphne and Calidora, and after a burst of scorching heat, it seemed to be called from the other end.

Ning An waited in place, and after a while, two flying broomsticks swept over the lake, splashing silver-white water, and then slowed down, and finally stopped in front of Ning An.

"You're finally here, Ning'an!" Daphne happily jumped off the broomstick, and she still had another one in her hand, which seemed to be for Ning An.

At this point she dropped her broom and pounced.

"Oh my god, you have no idea how hard this place is." Ning An smiled bitterly and hugged her.

"I'm sorry, I forgot you live in a Muggle house and can't use Floo.com." Calidora also stepped forward and hugged Ning An gently, and then said embarrassedly.

"Don't mind, Carly." Ning An waved his hand and said indifferently:

"But what's the matter with that drunken old man at the station? Why did I scare Count Shafiq enough at the mention of him? ”

Ning An said as he stepped on the flying broomstick and hung his luggage on the end of the broomstick.

Caridora and Daphne also got on their broomsticks, and the two of them looked at Ning An in confusion and said, "What old man? Are Muggles living there? ”

"Whew—I'll talk about it later—"

Ning An had already activated the broomstick, and flying was also one of his worst sports, he was a little afraid of flying at high altitude, so he could only cling to the surface of the lake, and the wind pressure brought up bigger waves, splashing Ning An's pants.

A moment later, the three of them flew across the lake and saw an ancient mansion in Ning An's eyes.

The black-lacquered Dashilar Iron Gate, with a badge engraved on it that Ning An did not recognize, is a deep path inside, which leads directly to the mansion.

There are some lush trees planted on the side of the road, there are willows, poplars, sycamores and some that Ning'an can't name. Under the trees is a green meadow, which is very clean and looks like it is often cleaned.

Walking all the way through the path, a house of about three or four floors appeared in front of Ning An, this should be the main residence of the Shafiq family, and there are some other houses, large and small, around the house, but they are all built around this house.

At the door of the house, a humanoid creature with wrinkled skin, big ears and big eyes was standing in front of the door with an apron.

As soon as he saw Calydora and her party coming, the little monster had a look of extreme respect on his face, stumbled up to meet him, wrapped his hands around his apron and wiped them clean repeatedly, raised his thin and wrinkled face with a pointed nose, and said happily:

"You're back! Little master, Sarah has already cooked and is waiting for the little master to come back! ”

This crumpled little man, with a pair of bat-like ears, shook and shook at this time, and looked very happy.

"This is the house-elf of the Caridora family, her name is Sarah." Daphne was afraid that Ning An wouldn't understand, so she specially told him.

Caridora nodded and didn't speak, and went into the house with Ning An and Daphne, and the elf named Sarah followed Carly excitedly, as if her master had come home and made her feel very happy.

The room was a little dark, and when you entered, there was a long hallway, and there were things hanging on the walls on either side of the corridor, but they were all covered with cloth.

"What are those?" Ning An asked inexplicably.

"They are all Carly's ancestors, and some of them are very vicious, and Carly was afraid that she would frighten you, so she was blindsided with me." Daphne whispered in Ning An's ear, as if she was afraid that the noise would be too loud to alarm the pictures.

All the way forward, out of the corridor, the three of them came to the spacious living room, Caridora looked at the salute in Ning An's hand, and casually instructed Sarah:

"Sarah, go and move the guest's salute to the guest room on the second floor."

"Yes, little master." Sarah, who was short and thin, bowed happily, and then came to Ning An

"Honored guest—" she saluted again, "Please ask Sarah to carry the salute for you."

Although Ning An was still a little unaccustomed to Sarah's humble attitude, he had no choice but to nod and thank him for following the local customs.

"Ahh Her ugly little face and her big bulb-like eyes widened and rounded

"That's what Sarah should do—the little master's command—"

Ning An nodded helplessly, didn't dare to say anything more, and followed Daphne and Caridora to the restaurant.

It was like another living room, and from the outside it was impossible for this house to have two living rooms this size, but on the inside it was as spacious as a castle.

Several tables of different sizes were idle, and Ning An even saw a few super long tables for banquets.

They sat down at a small square table, which was filled with steaming meals, including ham, steak, grilled potatoes, roast beef, all sorts of gravies, pies, cakes, and even doughnuts.

"Well, I'm really hungry." Ning An's stomach growled.

"Let's eat first." Calydora chuckled, and then the three of them sat down, Ning An couldn't wait to pick up a steak and eat it, dragging his heavy luggage over the mountains, which really exhausted him.

"So, Ning'an? What did you just say about Muggles? Daphne asked, picking up a piece of potato.

"Uh-huh...... It was where I got off the bus, there was a hut where an old man lived, and when I told him that I was looking for the house of Count Shafiq, he was stunned...... "Ning An hurriedly ate a steak, and finally relieved his hunger.

"This house is known to Muggles as a haunted house...... Count Shafiq...... I guess that's my great-grandfather from an unknown number of generations. Caridora took a sip of lemon juice, she was by far the most cultured person at the table.

She put down her cup slowly and methodically, and whispered:

"It must have been hundreds of years ago, Count Shafiq was a notoriously brutal nobleman, and he would bring the peasants and slaves in his realm here under various names, and then no one would see them back......"

"Shhhh

Daphne gasped in fear, and said exaggeratedly, "Well, the ghost I saw in the attic last night is the slave of the past!" Oh my God, it's horrible. ”

Calydora ignored Daphne, but looked at Ning An and smiled: "But the family says that Count Shafiq is experimenting with dark magic with those slaves, and there was no Ministry of Magic at that time - so, you know, wizards were indeed a symbol of evil at that time." ”

"Especially a family like ours—" Daphne interjected, muttering the word "we" heavily.

"Carly means to tell you that if you see a wandering ghost at night, or hear a miserable howl, just ignore it." Daphne smiled playfully

"I've learned a lot about this these days."

"Daphne!" Caridora finally couldn't help it and yelled at her.

"Okay, okay, I won't say it......" Daphne raised her hand and made a gesture of surrender, but as soon as she put down her hands, Ning An heard her mutter: "At least my house doesn't have such a haunting ghost all night." ”

Ning An guessed that this guy must have not slept soundly last night.

"But speaking of magic—" Ning An listened to Daphne talk about Count Shafiq's experiments with black magic with serfs, and suddenly remembered that he was here for business.

"I remember we said we were going to make this place undiscoverable, right?" He said excitedly to the two.

"What, you're going to use that spell now?" Daphne looked a little unconvinced

"The Loyalty Spell is a very complicated spell, don't you need to prepare?"

"I've prepared enough, I've been preparing all summer." Ning An couldn't wait to take out his wand, he was so eager to use magic again, no matter what magic it was, he just wanted to use his wand to cast spells again.

When the wand made of ebony wood was held in Ning An's hand, it seemed to let out a cheer of joy, and a bright black light flashed from the body of the wand.

"Look, my partner is getting impatient." Ning An laughed.

"Need us out?" Daphne asked, a little nervous.

"No, no, no, of course not, you just have to watch...... Ning An shook his head and said:

"This spell needs a secret person, the location of this house will be a secret buried forever in the soul of the secret person, I will be a secret person, what do you think?"

"It's very reasonable, you built the Snake Letter, and since this is going to be the headquarters of the Snake Letter,...... Daphne nodded.

Ning An cares a lot about Kalidora's attitude, after all, this is the ancestral home of the Shafiq family.

"I'd love to." Seeing Ning An looking at her, Calidora also nodded happily.