The reading room brought by Zhang Xu back then, as an independent institution in Hogwarts, has now developed impressively. The weekly salons and debates organized by the students were full of energy, and the book purchasing business that made Zhang Xu earn his first pot of gold at Hogwarts now brings a lot of private money to Zhang Qiu, who inherited the business. At that time, when the future was unknown, some functions of this place, which was one of the last ways to escape, including but not limited to ultra-long-distance teleportation and self-explosion, were fortunately not discovered by Dumbledore and other Hogwarts staff.

Although Zhang Xu has spent less time here than in the kitchen in recent years, this is still one of his personal places.

At eleven o'clock in the evening, Malfoy cautiously pushed open the door to the reading room, and made a gesture of sticking his head in to see what was going on.

The lights in the reading room were almost all gone, leaving only a few lights that were still on from the door to Zhang Xu's dedicated seat.

Malfoy cautiously walked into the reading room without the door closed, and if he noticed something was wrong, he would immediately run through it.

Be careful, Malfoy knew that what he was doing was enough to die at Hogwarts several times. If it leaked, Dumbledore wouldn't be able to save him.

Malfoy checked to see if there were people hiding around as he walked, and he wouldn't be surprised if a group of Gryffindors jumped out from behind the bookshelf after the teacup in Zhang Xu's hand fell to the ground and shattered.

"Very nice and discreet. Prudence does not necessarily lead to success, but it can avoid failure. Zhang Xu poured a cup of hot tea for Malfoy, who was sitting across from him, and said, "This is the only place in Hogwarts that is not afraid of being overheard." ”

Following his father's Oriental etiquette, Malfoy tapped the index and middle fingers of his right hand together and tapped them on the table.

It's just that he was too nervous, and his strength was a little too strong, and Zhang Xu was afraid that he would break the table.

This was something Malfoy didn't notice, and Zhang Xu subconsciously glanced at the door. A rat came in after Malfoy, but was immediately chased away by the auto-defense magic.

Then Zhang Xu asked Malfoy: "First of all, do you go home for the Christmas holiday?" ”

Malfoy shook his head and said, "No." ”

Zhang Xu turned his head to look out the window, and then said casually: "I don't care what you want to do next, as long as you only go to Dumbledore and don't pull the people around me into the water, I can turn a blind eye to what you do." ”

Zhang Xu's words were like dropping a bomb in Malfoy's head, and although Hogsmeade guessed that Zhang Xu saw that he was doing something, he didn't think that Zhang Xu would know who he was targeting.

Malfoy subconsciously stood up and drew his wand and pointed at Zhang Xu to kill him, but in the next moment, his movements stopped.

Zhang Xu was still looking out the window, but a black sign appeared in his hand at some point, and the sign was churning between his fingers with the shaking of his fingers. On the front of the sign, the Death Eater's Dark Mark was prominently emblazoned.

Malfoy was stunned, he looked at Zhang Xu as if he saw Snape washing his hair standing in front of him with a head of foam.

"Why?!" Malfoy asked, horrified.

He naturally recognized the black brand in Zhang Xu's hand, because this thing was proposed by his father, and his father also had a piece in his hand. Now that the Death Eaters are also a big family, it is impossible for Voldemort to personally manage people and things at the grassroots level, so Lao Ma didn't know which tendon to tie wrong, so he proposed to Voldemort to "see things as if they were people", and then Voldemort also agreed to the wrong line. Now this kind of brand is no joke among the grassroots Death Eaters.

It's just that Malfoy never thought that Zhang Xu would have this thing in his hands. Although I had heard at home that the Death Eaters had been planning to rebel or control Zhang Xu, everyone knew how low the success rate was.

After turning his head and seeing Malfoy's reaction, Zhang Xu also complained fiercely in his heart, saying that the old horse should not be holding the Chinese that martial arts was learning in addition to planting sugar cane. When he saw Voldemort in the café with this "Dark Magic Token" in the middle of the table, he almost choked on Cappuccino.

"Don't ask what you shouldn't ask, don't say what you shouldn't say in the future, you know?" Zhang Xu said to Malfoy.

Malfoy nodded subconsciously.

Zhang Xu naturally wouldn't tell Malfoy that the brand that Voldemort gave him as a reward could only save his own life, and he couldn't use it to order other Death Eaters to do things like Lao Ma, otherwise he would have ordered Snape to skip all his Defence Against the Dark Arts class.

"By the way, you were going to give me that opal necklace, right?" Zhang Xu asked while playing with the signs.

The cold sweat on Malfoy's head and back suddenly popped up, and pills popped up in his mind.

"That's it, just apologize casually." Zhang Xu said magnanimously.

Malfoy naturally knew what Zhang Xu meant by "apologize", there was no second choice other than gold coins, Zhang Xu's greed for money was known to the Death Eaters higher-ups, and they also deeply understood it.

"I don't have any money, and I don't have any money in my family." Malfoy managed to get the sentence out of his teeth.

After so many years of being the eldest young master of a wealthy family in the British wizarding world, now the family's liquidity has almost dried up, and the old mansion, which accounts for the largest proportion of real estate, has been burned down and has to be rebuilt, and now the Malfoy family can be said to be on the verge of bankruptcy, which is not a small contrast. Not to mention that half of their liquidity is taken away by the person sitting opposite.

"Then let's make an IOU first, and I won't count your interest for the sake of my classmates for many years." Zhang Xu said, "By the way, the burning of your house was not done by us, it was done by a Russian wizard." ”

Faced with the current situation of strong enemy and weak enemy, Xiaoma had to bow his head and write an IOU on the parchment provided by Zhang Xu and then pressed his handprint, Zhang Xu nodded with satisfaction after seeing the number on the IOU.

Malfoy thought that Zhang Xu was looking for him tonight for this matter, but just as he was about to find an excuse to leave, Zhang Xu said, "Okay, let's get down to business." ”

Malfoy looked at Zhang Xu with a pale face, not knowing what he was talking about, but Malfoy was sure that he was definitely not here to help him complete the task.