Chapter 16: A castle was given as soon as it was struck
After the four of them finished greetings, Madame Maxime and Fleur took Professor McGonagall and Zhang Xu, who had come over from the hotel, and walked towards Beauxbatons Castle together.
Beauxbatons Castle is supposed to be surrounded by a beautiful garden, but it has now been buried by a thick layer of snow.
The magic fountain in front of the castle is still working despite the snow.
The four of them walked into Beauxbatons' cafeteria, and when Madame Maxime entered the cafeteria, Beauxbatons' students quickly stood up when they saw their headmaster appear.
Madame Maxime brought Professor McGonagall to the faculty's chair, and Fleur took Zhang Xu to her place, and after Madame Maxim sat down, Beauxbatons students sat down together.
Zhang Xu nodded straight at this scene, the discipline of the students here can throw off a Champs-Élysées avenue at Hogwarts. If the two schools don't count the headmasters, Hogwarts will definitely lose more and win less. Of course, Beauxbatons' large population is also an important factor.
Although it's the Christmas holidays, Beauxbatons seems to have a lot of students staying on campus this year. Later, Zhang Xu learned from Fleur that many students in the school chose to stay in the school to watch this rare guest after knowing that Chinese students from Hogwarts would come to Beauxbatons for Christmas.
After the Beauxbatons students had all sat down, Madame Maxime stood up again.
"Hello ladies and gentlemen, and distinguished guests," said Madame Maxime, "I would like to introduce Professor McGonagall and Mr. Zhang from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry to welcome you to Beauxbatons. I hope and believe that you will feel comfortable and happy here. ”
When Madame Maxime introduced Professor McGonagall and Zhang Xu, both stood up to greet Beauxbatons and the faculty and students.
Madame Maxime spoke briefly, and after introducing the two of them, she sat down, and the students of Beauxbatons began to eat as if they had been signaled.
At this time, Zhang Xu was having a brief conversation in French with several Beauxbatons students around him while eating.
Zhang Xu's time to learn French on his own is too short, and he intelligently does not have too complex conversations, and he also specifically avoids the number part. Beauxbatons' students saw this, and put it more simply. Some students who can speak English talk to Zhang Xu directly in English, and some students really don't understand what Zhang Xu says, so Furong is on the side to translate.
French cuisine is worthy of being one of the world's famous cuisines, even if it is Beauxbatons's canteen cuisine, it also throws off the Hogwarts canteen and an Eiffel Tower, which makes Zhang Xu look forward to tonight's Christmas dinner.
At the dinner table, Zhang Xu was full of praise for Beauxbatons' food, and at the same time pretended to be afraid that Professor McGonagall would find out, and pretended to whisper about the Hogwarts food from the perspective of the Chinese. At the same time, Zhang Xu also invited the students of Beauxbatons to have the opportunity to come to China as guests, and invited everyone to eat various delicacies at that time, and then briefly introduced a large number of special dishes that are generally acceptable to Westerners, and the students around him ate a little faster.
What is the most convenient way to bring a group of young people closer together, is to first find common hobbies, then fight common enemies together, and finally establish a common desire. Zhang Xu had a reunion of junior high school classmates in high school in his last life, and the boyfriend brought by a female classmate couldn't fit into everyone's topic circle at first, when Zhang Xu and a few friends talked about StarCraft, the boyfriend of the female classmate came over to chat together, and the more we talked, the more energetic we became, so we went to the Internet café together after the party. Many years later, the boy had already broken up with Zhang Xu's female classmate, but he still had contact with Zhang Xu and several of the boys who played games together, and everyone went through the era of StarCraft, Chenghai 3c, and WOW together, until Zhang Xu graduated from college because of the nature of his work, he lost contact with everyone.
Zhang Xu started from the dining table and quickly narrowed the relationship with the students around him through his praise of French cuisine. Then the connection was further deepened by a complaint about British food, after all, Britain and France have historically been at odds, which also affected the wizarding world. Finally, through the introduction of Chinese cuisine that everyone is not familiar with, everyone has further missed. This was later analyzed by Flem to Flax when she reported Zhang Xu's movements to Lady Maxim. Many years later, Fleur asked Zhang Xu about this and asked Zhang Xu if he deliberately led the topic, Zhang Xu pinched Fleur's nose after "hehe", and then turned around to continue the code.
Lunch was soon over, and after greeting the Beauxbatons students, Zhang Xu followed Furong to the room prepared for Zhang Xu in the boys' dormitory.
Beauxbatons seems to have invested a lot of money this time, Zhang Xu's room is a one-bedroom room with an independent bathroom, the furniture is exquisite and complete, and the window is Beauxbatons' square, which should be one of the rooms with the best scenery in summer.
Zhang Xu and Fleur chatted in the room for a while, and Zhang Xu offered to let Fleur take him on a tour of Beauxbatons' campus.
The first stop for the two was the Magic Fountain, named by the alchemists Nicole Lemay and Perenal Lemay.
At the fountain, Fleur introduced Zhang Xu to the history of Beauxbatons.
Then, Zhang Xu's wish to visit Beauxbatons was disappointed.
On the snow not far from the fountain, several junior students were using magic to have a snowball fight, but there were several snowballs that they couldn't control and flew towards Zhang Xu and Furong by the fountain.
Zhang Xu saw the flying snowball, waved his hand and popped out his wand, and then cast a spell to make the flying snowball gather in the air, and then let the pattern snow turn into a snow eagle, flying towards several students opposite, when the snow eagle flew above the students' heads, it suddenly exploded, scattering them with snow powder.
Several of the students who were sprinkled with snow powder were stunned for a moment, then applauded. Wizards in the lower grades are at a time when they are full of great magic and a magic that works well is more attractive to them than a powerful one.
Fleur also applauded on the side, she was different from those opposite who thought that Zhang Xu, who was not short, was a senior student, she knew that Zhang Xu was only in the first grade this year, so she was surprised by Zhang Xu's strength.
Zhang Xu's hand was practiced a while ago when he had a snowball fight in the whole school at Hogwarts, in fact, the principle is very simple, that is, to manipulate the wind to pinch the flying snowballs together, and then use transfiguration to turn the snowballs into the pattern they want, because the nature of the material has not changed but has changed the shape, so the difficulty is very small, and then continue to blow the deformed snowball back with the wind, and finally blow it up with a little means.
This set of magic is not difficult, but it is a bit of a test of the control of magic, and during the snowball fight in Hogwarts, many students learned this hand from Zhang Xu, and the professors have no objection to this kind of entertaining snowball fight.
Several students on the opposite side also got excited, and simply made snowballs together and threw them at Zhang Xu, and Zhang Xu was also addicted to playing, turning the flying snowballs into various things and smashing them back, such as a huge wedding cake and a small car.
The other Beauxbatons students saw it and joined in the fun.
Some students threw snowballs at Zhang Xu opposite Zhang Xu, and some students smashed the flying snowballs into various things with Zhang Xu.
Even Fleur, who had been watching from the sidelines, joined in at some point, turning the flying snowball into the shape of a coin and smashing it back, while the students on the other side had a soft spot for the coin-shaped snowball and begged to be smashed.
At this time, in a living room on the top floor of Beauxbatons Castle, Professor McGonagall, Madame Maxim and other Beauxbatons professors were drinking afternoon tea, watching the students playing in the snow, and commenting on the students' performance from time to time, and the whole meeting room was full of cheerful laughter.
Suddenly, Madame Maxim and several professors squirted out a sip of black tea.
Because they saw that Zhang Xu turned a flying snowball into more than a dozen giant swords with red flames, and the students on the opposite side were hit by the giant swords, and red flames erupted all over their bodies.
Madame Maxim and several professors thought that their students had angered Zhang Xu and were burned by Zhang Xu with magic, and hurried over to rescue them.
Professor McGonagall stopped them with a smile and took out her wand and cast a false fire spell on a plate of macarons on the table, and the different colored macarons in the dish ignited flames of the same color as herself, and then Professor McGonagall picked up a piece of "burning" macarons and ate them.
Ever since the twins had turned the entire common room of the Lion House into a sea of fire with a false fire charm, Professor McGonagall had given the twins a lecture, then deducted points from his own house, and then added points to the Lion House and Eagle House for having done well in inventing spells. At the same time, she also became interested in this spell, and now she plays with a pseudo-fire spell more slippery than Zhang Xu, and can even turn into a flame cat when she transforms.
When Madame Maxim and the professors saw that this was just a light and shadow magic and that it would not cause harm to people, they put their hearts back up, and then they studied the fiery macarons in front of them.
The students on the snow were shocked at first when they saw the flames of their classmates who were hit by the "Joy of Fire" created by Zhang Xu, and several students were even ready to attack Zhang Xu to avenge their classmates.
At that moment, the students who found themselves in the flames but were not harmed in the slightest burst into laughter, and the other students were relieved to find out that it was a false alarm.
After such an episode, everyone also found that their magic had bottomed out, so some students would join the castle, and some students walked over to chat with Zhang Xu.
Today, Zhang Xu is also out of the way, because today his identity represents Huaxia and Hogwarts, in order not to let Beauxbatons underestimate himself, so he no longer pretends to be low-key, and decides to be high-profile. In addition, Zhang Xu and Zhao Lao both thought that Beauxbatons' invitation this time did not seem to be so simple, so they showed their strength and showed off their muscles.
Seeing that there were many Beauxbatons students who came over to greet Zhang Xu, Fleur on the side suggested that everyone go to the castle to talk again.
Seeing such a situation, Zhang Xu decided to make another big news.
"Miss Delacour, to thank you for your help today, allow me to give you a Christmas present." Zhang Xu said to Furong with a smile.
Amid the question marks on the faces of Fleur and the students who could understand English, Zhang Xu waved his wand at the snow in front of him, which was originally a lawn.
Seeing that more and more snow was gathering from all sides, the mouths of the onlookers on the side opened wider and wider in surprise, and Fleur was even more surprised to cover her mouth with her hands.
In less than half an hour, a beautiful ice castle with a garden was in front of everyone.
The castle is not big, just a two-storey castle covering an area of more than 100 square meters, and there is a one-meter-wide garden full of ice crystal vetiver irises around the castle.
Not long ago, Zhang Xu was pulled together by several classmates from the Eagle Academy to build an ice castle by the lake in Hogwarts for snowball fights, and Zhang Xu also found a time to start researching. The result of the research is that as long as the brain hole is big enough and the magic power is enough, it is not a big problem to build such an ice castle in the ice and snow. Confirming this conclusion is that the other three academies soon followed the ice castle of their own academies.
In Zhang Xu's mind, he gave an ice castle to Furong, just like gifts between diplomats in the ordinary world, called private gifts, which were actually made for the above, in order to deepen the friendship between the two sides at a higher level. It seems like a good choice to send an ice castle to Beauxbatons students for a snowball fight, but it doesn't seem reasonable to send a big toy in the name of the school, so long to give it away as a private person. And for Zhang Xu, the cost of this ice castle is just his own magic, and he will recover after a long rest, which belongs to the kind that looks very powerful but is actually worthless.
But the onlookers and Fleur didn't think so, a bunch of adolescent kids you tell them they don't understand diplomacy, they just know that a man gave a castle to a lady. O castle, dear! No matter how small the area is, no matter how short the shelf life is, the land certificate and real estate certificate are not in your hands, but it is still a castle! Throw off the other gifts at once, not to mention the ten incense elysées. Just listening to the name, there are five Eiffel Towers rising in momentum.
This made the Beauxbatons students cry and fall silent. The boys who have a girl find that the carefully selected Christmas gifts to be given out tonight suddenly can't be taken out.,The girl took her own gift and compared it to this castle.,People are more popular than death.。 The girls were wondering why the principal didn't choose me when arranging the reception task, otherwise this gift would be the old lady's, enough for the old lady to brag about her life in front of her sisters.
A beautiful misunderstanding arose when the two sides did not agree on the same ideas.
And Fleur didn't know what she was thinking at this time, and her mind was like a confusion spell.
Just when Zhang Xu turned around and asked, "Do you like this gift?" At that time, Furong suddenly went up and hugged Zhang Xu and kissed him on the face, and then fled amid the coaxing of the students, leaving Zhang Xu standing in the ice and snow.
In the living room on the top floor of Beauxbatons Castle, a group of principals and professors sighed about how good it was to be young while drinking tea.
After the Christmas dinner, Furong, who didn't say a word to Zhang Xu during the whole dinner time and just lowered her head to eat, ran away after the dinner, and Zhang Xu received a note from a girl who kept snickering on the way back to the room, which said that Furong asked Zhang Xu to meet in front of the ice castle now.
So Zhang Xu turned around and walked outside Beauxbatons Castle, thinking as he seemed to have forgotten something in the afternoon.
In the moonlight, which had begun to dim, Zhang Xu came to the ice castle, and he saw a worried Furong standing in front of the ice castle.
Before Zhang Xu could speak, Furong suddenly asked with a serious face: "Zhang, I have a quarter of Meiwa blood, and the people around me will be tempted by the magic brought by my bloodline. What I want to know is, did you give me this castle because you were tempted by magic? “
Zhang Xu didn't expect Furong to ask this question, so he replied without thinking about it: "Didn't you notice it in the first place, the temptation in you didn't work for me in the first place......"
Before Zhang Xu finished speaking, Furong hugged Zhang Xu again and kissed him.
At this time, the light and shadow effects on the ice castle were activated on time, and the entire castle emitted a blue-white light, and the ice crystal veveter irises around the castle also bloomed with purple light.
At this time, the light of the ice castle reflected a pair of kissing figures.
In the distance, a large crowd of onlookers, who had been hidden by various methods, appeared, applauded, and heckled, and some people set off fireworks into the sky.
Fleur fled again amid the heckling of the crowd.
But Zhang Xu continued to stand in front of the ice and snow castle in a daze, and a few thoughts in his head kept looping like a marquee.
"I've opened the Hibiscus Line?"
"I treat you as a friend, and you actually want to soak me."
"Does she count as giving me a three-year start?"