Chapter 244: Zhang Xu picking mushrooms

In the Forbidden Forest in the middle of the night, it was quiet everywhere, and the leaves no longer rustled.

How nice the night is, fascinating, in this enchanting evening.

While there are many dangers in the Forbidden Forest at night, there are also abundant treasures.

Even Hagrid knew very little about the Forbidden Forest at night.

If it weren't for one night many years ago, when Zhang Xu rescued a young centaur with an injured leg in the Forbidden Forest, and then attended a banquet in the Centaur tribe, he wouldn't have known that the night in the Forbidden Forest was so exciting.

Today is the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the basin-like moon hangs in the sky.

When I called Fleur yesterday, she said that she was going to play with Tonya during the Mid-Autumn Festival, and he stayed at Tonya's house for the past two days, so she didn't call.

The bright moonlight sprinkled on the ground covered with fallen leaves in the Forbidden Forest, and Zhang Xu, who had a lot of time tonight, was slowly looking for something in the Forbidden Forest.

Zhang Xu didn't take out his wand to illuminate today, but took the goggles that he developed to deal with the basilisk back then.

The goggles with the night vision function turned on made Zhang Xu's vision not affected by the night, and under the effect of the goggles, the forbidden forest in front of Zhang Xu's eyes was almost the same as that of the day.

Zhang Xu is going to find some good things in the Forbidden Forest tonight, they only appear at night, they hide under the dirt when there is light during the day, and their taste is best on a full moon night.

Although Zhang Xu can usually trade them with the Centaur tribe, the income from his own labor always has a unique flavor.

Suddenly, Zhang Xu noticed a burst of yellow light coming from behind a large tree.

Zhang Xu immediately rushed over, it was a mushroom with a yellow cap and a white stalk. On its cap, which has some dark round spots, it glows softly yellow.

This mushroom is known as the sunshine mushroom by the centaurs, and because of its ability to glow at night when ripe, the centaurs have been growing it on the side of the road for street lamps for a long, long time.

Until many years ago, two young centaurs made a bet that whoever lost would eat a sunshine mushroom raw.

If it was before going to the centaur tribe to eat, Zhang Xu would not touch this kind of mushroom that looked too gorgeous anyway.

But when he ate the cold sunshine mushrooms that day, he never forgot the crisp and refreshing taste.

It's a pity that their breeding conditions are a bit harsh, and it is difficult to breed them in large quantities.

Professor Sprout has been studying them for some years, but the progress is not ideal, so Zhang Xu can only go to the Forbidden Forest to find a way.

When Zhang Xu picked the sunshine mushroom in front of him and threw it into the bamboo basket he was carrying behind his back, he heard the sound of horses' hooves.

"Good evening, Matosh." Zhang Xu lowered his goggles and greeted the centaurs who came over.

"Good evening, my friend." McTosh said to Zhang Xu, "Under the guidance of fate, we meet again. ”

"Are Granny Smith, Cara, and Lili alright?" Zhang Xu asked.

"They're all very nice and miss you so much." McTosh replied.

Maitosh is a horse man who is about to become an adult, and one night a few years ago, he was accidentally injured when he ran into the Forbidden Forest, and later ran into Zhang Xu, who was adventuring in the Forbidden Forest.

At that time, Zhang Xu treated his wounds and sent him back to the village of the centaurs.

Therefore, the horses were not hostile to Zhang Xu, and welcomed him to the village as a guest.

McTosh took Zhang Xu back to his home and introduced Zhang Xu to his grandmother and sister.

On that day, Metosh's parents had gone to the depths of the Forbidden Forest to hunt the eight-eyed spider, and it would be several days before they returned.

Later, in the chat with other centaurs, the centaurs heard that Zhang Xu had slaughtered the eight-eyed spider's nest alone not long ago, and they didn't believe his words, and some of the centaurs were about to turn their faces.

Later, after Zhang Xu performed a calming fireball on the archery range, the horses believed him.

The centaurs have been fighting the eight-eyed spiders for living space for decades, and Zhang Xu has gained the friendship of the centaurs after helping them deal with the invaders in the Forbidden Forest.

Next was a celebratory banquet in the centaur tribe, and it was at the banquet that Zhang Xu learned that there were such abundant ingredients in the Forbidden Forest.

At the banquet, while eating, Zhang Xu asked about the origin of various ingredients, including many mushrooms that only appear at night.

The banquet was very successful, but some of the customs of the horse people made Zhang Xu very unaccustomed to it.

For example, horses worship nature, so they don't wear clothes for both men and women.

At the banquet sat next to Zhang Xu were Matosh and his two younger sisters, Jia'er and Lili, as well as his grandmother, Granny Smith......

In the Forbidden Forest, Zhang Xu and Maitosh chatted for a while before separating, they both came out to pick mushrooms tonight.

After Zhang Xu destroyed a piece of dragon claw vine, he made a new discovery not far away.

Underneath a large tree that has grown for an unknown number of years is a knotted root of a dragon pan, and on top of the root grow more than 20 puff-shrooms with purple caps.

Puff-shrooms are aggressive mushrooms that spew spores to attack animals when they approach them.

Their spores are poisonous and inedible, but they can be used to make potions, and Snape needs them a lot.

Although their spores are poisonous, their caps and stipes are delicious.

Small puff-shrooms that are less than 10 centimeters tall are suitable for stir-frying, while large puff-shrooms that grow nearly 30 centimeters tall are suitable for chopping and using for meat sauce.

Today, Zhang Xu's main target in the Forbidden Forest is these big puff mushrooms, because Fleur likes spicy big puff mushroom beef sauce, and if it is used to mix pasta, she can eat a big bowl at a time.

Puff-shrooms rely on the vibration of the ground to spot enemies and attack.

If Zhang Xu walked over rashly, he would not please him.

But he can fly.

Zhang Xu, who had been prepared, squatted on the flying sword, flew to the sky above the group of spray-mushrooms, and then opened a small bag and covered the large and small spray-mushrooms from top to bottom.

After the puff mushrooms had finished spraying all the spores, Zhang Xu picked them up, took them out of the bag and put them in the bamboo basket, and the spores in the bag were put away.

Zhang Xu, like the horse people, only picked eighty percent of the puff mushrooms in this place, and did not collect the spores scattered on the ground, so that he could pick them again in the future.

After taking a long turn in the Forbidden Forest, Zhang Xu picked more than a dozen sunshine mushrooms, as well as a basket full of large and small spray mushrooms.

In addition, Zhang Xu's biggest catch was to pick an extremely precious charm mushroom, which is said to have the same function as the Imperius Curse.

And a kind of explosive destruction mushroom that McTosh has always asked him to beware, Zhang Xu has not seen in so many years.

It is said that when this black mushroom matures, it violently explodes when touched by other animals, spreading the spores at the same time.

In the past, once the centaurs found this kind of destruction mushroom in the Forbidden Forest, they transplanted it to the territory of the eight-eyed spider while they were still mature.

A mature Destruction Mushroom explodes with enough power to kill an eight-eyed spider that steps on it.

Zhang Xu estimated that he had not encountered this mushroom because he had been wandering around the territory of the eight-eyed spider before, and this destruction mushroom was trampled on by the eight-eyed spiders.

Otherwise, he would have liked to plant a large patch of this Destruction Mushroom around Malfoy's house.