Ning An and Pani paid and got on the bus, there were no seats on the bus, and there were six beds with brass pillars on each floor, and next to someone's bed, candles would be lit on the brackets, and the candles would illuminate the surrounding wainscoting.

Ning An counted, there were three candles lit on this floor, and Stan muttered and took the two of them to the second floor

"You might have to be late, we need to get to Petworth first-"

Shrugging, Ning An didn't care when it would arrive, he would rather sleep here a little longer, he was a little too tired for the past two days, and when Stan brought him to a brass pillar bed, he couldn't wait to lie down.

"I'll bring you chocolates later." Stan says as he leaves the second floor.

Pani sat on another bed next to Ning An, Ning An took off his mask, his bed was just against the car window, slightly lifted the curtain, it was pitch black outside the window, and nothing could be seen.

Immediately after that, a bright light flashed, and it seemed that the lights of the bus were lit, and Ning An heard a loud "bang" again.

The bus started again, and when I looked out of the window, I saw it driving straight into the trees ahead, and the trees were scrambling to jump aside to make way for the passing buses.

Sitting on the bed and jolting, Ning An found that the idea of wanting to sleep well was too naïve, and falling asleep in this thumping, jumping car was like a fantasy.

He turned around

"Hey, what are you doing, Pani?"

Pani? Starr didn't know when he had changed into his pajamas and folded his brown trench coat neatly and laid it flat next to the pillow at the head of the bed.

"If you're asking where this pajama came from, then he's next to the bed—isn't it in your bed?"

Pani rightfully pointed to the feather bed under him, and looked curiously at Ning An'an.

"No, I'm asking why you changed into your pajamas." Ning An said weakly, he was really a little tired.

"I think it's because I'm sleeping?" Pani's face was full of doubt, as if he didn't understand Ning An's question.

Ning An didn't have the strength to continue arguing with him, he fell headlong on his bed, put the mask on his face and said sullenly:

"One of us has to be awake, and when the conductor brings me chocolates and a toothbrush, you wake me up and go to sleep for you-"

As soon as he finished speaking, he couldn't wait to close his eyes, his eyelids were heavy as if they had been filled with lead, no matter how bumpy the carriage was, there was a constant call downstairs called Stan? The conductor of Sampak shouted, and Ning An quickly fell asleep.

"Okay—"

Pani muttered as he pulled his wand from under his trench coat, tucked it under his pillow, and sat down close to it, leaning his back against the window, his eyes staring unblinkingly at the staircase that came up.

There were only two of them on the entire second floor.

"I hope the conductor remembers that I ordered chocolate."

Stan hadn't forgotten that he had just remembered a little late, and it wasn't until half an hour after the car had rumbled that footsteps rang out on the stairs.

The conductor, with a pair of ringing ears and a few small pimples on his face, came up from below with two cups of chocolate trembling and swaying with a leisurely pace that made Pani's heart tremble.

"He shouldn't have spilled it." Parney muttered to himself, and soon his thoughts came true.

There was a sudden strong jolt on the bus, and it seemed that it had jumped over something, and Stan slipped under his feet, and two teacups filled with hot chocolate flew out of his hands, like wild horses, and went straight to the face of Ning An, who was lying on his side on the other bed.

Pani's face was almost green, and the blood on her rosy cheeks faded at a rate visible to the naked eye.

Fortunately, he was quick with his eyes, and almost instinctively, he drew his wand from under his pillow and pointed to the two teacups that were still gliding in the air and chanted the incantation.

"Yugadim Leviosa-"

There was a soft "buzz", and the cup and the hot chocolate contained in it hovered in the air, so that no one could spill a brain on Ning An's face, and Stan next to him also let out a long breath.

"Whew...... Thank...... Thanks, hmm, wand in hand at all times...... Right...... That's what makes a good wizard......"

He took a few steps forward, reaching for the two teacups that were still floating in the air, and Parney controlled the small amount of chocolate that had splashed back into the cups.

"Just give it to me—"

He stretched out his hand to Stan and asked for two cups of chocolate, put them on the tray next to him, and then used a fixation charm to fix the cups, but he didn't dare to let this unreliable conductor take anything again, in case the chocolate spilled on Ning An's face just now-

Pani shuddered, he couldn't even imagine it.

"Oh, you know, it's not easy to get stuff in this car......," Stan said to himself, excused himself.

"Thank you, though, but remember to remove the magic when you leave...... Otherwise, these two cups won't be easy to take......"

"Alright, alright, I see-" Parney had to nudge Stan gently from behind, telling him to get down from here.

"Well, goodnight—I'll call you when I'm done—"

"I almost got you in big trouble...... You're still happy......"

Pani muttered as he turned around and walked, only to see that Ning An, who was originally lying on the bed, had already sat up, his mask was placed on the pillow, leaning against the window, his feet were empty on the edge of the bed, dangling back and forth, holding a cup of hot chocolate in his hand and looking out of the car window.

"If that guy spills chocolate, I'm going to give him a curse he'll never forget." Ning An stared at the dark night outside and said lightly.

He put down the chocolate cup, looked at Pani and pointed to his bed and said, "Okay, now it's time for you to rest, to be honest I thought he would forget about giving chocolate." ”

Pani threw himself on the bed, hugging the soft feather pillow, pretending to be too much and ignoring what Ning An was saying, he was so sleepy, in fact, he was as tired as Ning An, and he even forgot to drink his own chocolate.

"Good night," Parney muttered, turning, and in a moment fell asleep.

"Good night—"

Ning An said in a low voice that only he could hear, he looked out the window at the scenery that was rapidly receding, the street lamps on both sides of the street were out of the way to the sides, a garbage can accidentally spilled the garbage when it jumped sideways, and the bus quickly left the community and jumped into the woods.

After a while, with the sound of hard braking, Stan below shouted, "Lady Julie—Bragan has arrived, thank you for the ride!" ”

By the light of the headlights in front of her, Ning An saw a chubby witch, wearing a dressing gown and slippers, jumping out of the car, she stood on the road with a suitcase, breathed a long sigh of relief, and seemed to sigh that a difficult journey had finally ended.

Then the knight's bus made another "bang" and flew into the dark night sky.

Ning An bumped up and down with the body, and also felt that he had been in a daze, I don't know how long it took, how many shouts from Stan sounded in his ears, he finally heard it

"Next stop - I'll see, oh - Tumbledown Alley! I'm going to have to wake them up. Soon the staircase made a "bang" sound.

Ning An picked up the mask on the pillow and put it on his head, and at the same time gently poked Pani, who was next to his bed, with his wand, who immediately came to his senses-

"Whew—look refreshed."

Parney rubbed his eyes and muttered as Stan walked up.

"Hey friends, you're almost there!"

"Oh, thank you—thank you very much, the knight's bus was a great help—when we were in awkward—" Parney snapped.

He kept touting Stan and the Knight bus, making the boy, who was no more than eighteen or nineteen, flutter in a moment, rubbing his head and giggling.

He also asked for the names of Pani and Ning'an, who naturally reported the pseudonyms of the brothers Peter and Philip, and lied that the two were wizards who traveled the world, so that Stan reluctantly reminded them that they would be able to take the bus next time when he got off the bus.

Ning An was not interested, he jumped down the steps of the car and looked at the street with a frown.

The street lights were dimly on, there was no one on the street, and in front of him was a small and dilapidated bar, Ning An was quite familiar with this place, he had lived here for two years before the start of school.

The Leaky Cauldron, a bar that only wizards can see, is far more sophisticated than Hogsmeade's three broomsticks, and there are people of all kinds.

Ning An tidied up his clothes a little, and two whistles sounded behind him, and the knight bus seemed to start again, and Stan's slightly crying voice came from the night sky

"Peter—it's good to know you, don't give up on your brother, I know a lot of withdrawn little wizards who have achieved great things in the end......"

The corners of Ning An's eyes jumped twice, but quickly calmed down again, he snorted, and said to Pani behind him without looking back:

"Sooner or later, I'm going to have to put a curse on this open-mouthed guy."

With that, he stepped into the Leaky Cauldron, and Parney followed behind him with a wry smile.

There were a few candles burning out in the bar, wax tears flowed down the table, a few drunken wizards fell asleep on the table, snoring loudly, and Tom, the owner of the bar, was quietly wiping his glass behind the bar, and his eyes lit up when he saw Ning An and Pani come in.

Ning An wore a mask, Pani covered half of his face with the stand-up collar of his trench coat, and the two of them didn't look at Tom, and walked straight around the bar and towards the patio behind the bar.

"Okay...... It's rare to go to Diagon Alley so late......" Tom said to himself.

Ning An and Pani couldn't hear anymore, they went to the patio behind the Leaky Cauldron Bar, counted the wall tiles on the garbage can up to three, then two horizontally, and finally tapped three times with their wands, and the bricks on the entire wall began to shake, and a small opening appeared in the middle, and finally formed an archway to Diagon Alley.

"What are we going to buy?" Parney felt in his pocket, he had to bend down a little to get through the archway.

"We don't have to be able to use our money—"

The financial situation of the two can be said to be very embarrassing, and Pani's worries can be said to be reasonable.

"I'm going to think about it—" Ning An touched his chin and said as he walked

"Lacewings, maybe a little more, 8 leeches, no mouthparts - and two-horned horn powder, two-eared grass leaf powder, ......"

The two had already walked out of the archway and stepped on the cobblestone Diagon Alley path, Ning An patted his head and continued:

"By the way, we have to find a good quality crucible."

Pani looked at the night sky, looked at the closed shops around him, and whispered in confusion:

"Polyjuice decoction?"

Ning An nodded, but did not speak, the two of them were too conspicuous everywhere they went now, he himself had to wear a mask, and Pani was in danger of being discovered at any time, especially after returning to London.

Previously, after killing Alan and Martin, Ning An obtained their hair, which was enough for him to make a large amount of compound potion.

But of course, the raw materials for making potions are not bought in Diagon Alley, which is not open at night, and Ning An doesn't want to go shopping here in broad daylight when the two of them are so conspicuously swaggering, they are going to the street next door, which is more hidden and darker.

Walking along the gravel path, the two walked past the Quidditch boutique, the Lady Morkin robes store, and the Blotted bookstore......

The silent streets were deserted, and at last they took their feet in front of a towering white building.

Gringotts, the bank opened by the goblins, even at night you can see the lights inside are busy, I don't know what these goblins are doing, maybe the banks of the wizarding world are so busy.

But this wasn't Ning'an's destination, they turned around, and just across from Gringotts, a dark alleyway zigzagged in the other direction.

A dilapidated wooden sign was nailed to the damp brick wall at the entrance of the alleyway, and the worn-out text could still be seen reading: Tumbling Alley.

"Alright, Tumbledown Alley—hopefully there are a few more shops open." Ning An muttered quietly into this alley filled with dampness and decay.

As soon as you walk in, it seems that the whole sky has darkened a little, and bursts of hazy fog surround you, giving people a completely different feeling from Diagon Alley.

Through the alleyway, the two come to a dirty, narrow alley flanked by spooky dark magic shops.

There were still wizards wandering the streets, and Ning An could hear the whispers of a few wizards crouching in the dark doorways.

Most of the shops were closed, and the occasional few were still lit, and Ning An overlooked a shop with a dusty window and huge spider legs displayed in it.

"Let's go there."

With his voice down, he walked through the dirty path and with Parney to the dimly lit door.

"Crunch-" Ning An stretched out his hand to push open the old wooden door, and a hoarse voice sounded in his ears.

"Welcome...... Ahem...... It's so late...... It's a rare ......."

A pungent stench and the smell of medicine penetrated into Ning An's nostrils, and under the dim yellow light, the shelves of this cramped hut were full of all kinds of medicinal powders and disgusting insect corpses.

Hiding behind the counter was a hunched old wizard who smiled what he thought was charming, but his blackened teeth made him look disgusting.

"So, what do you want to buy?" The old wizard asked with a smile.