Merope stumbled to the other end of the room, but before she could raise her wand, Ogden had already pointed at it with his wand and said calmly, "Restore as before!" The jar was repaired immediately. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

For a moment, Gaunt seemed to want to yell at Ogden, but then seemed to change his mind. He sneered at his daughter and said, "It's good to have this great man from the Ministry of Magic here, isn't it?" Maybe he'll get you out of my hands, maybe he doesn't hate filthy Squibs......"

Merope didn't look at anyone, didn't thank Ogden, just picked up the jar and put it back on the shelf with trembling hands.

Then she stood motionless, her back pressed against the wall between the dirty window and the stove, as if wishing she could sink into the stone wall and disappear completely.

"Mr. Gaunt," said Mr. Ogden again, "as I have said, the reason for my visit—"

"I understood it the first time!" Gaunt said angrily, "So what? Morfin taught a Muggle a lesson—so what? ”

"Morfin violated wizarding law." Ogden said solemnly.

Wang Yong stood in front of the wall, listening to the two arguing about Mo Fen's verdict, and he felt as if his self-consciousness was gradually dissolving, turning into a flat plate as stiff as a stone.

Suddenly, Gaunt's roar woke him up.

"That's right!" Gaunt yelled. Gaunt showed off the ugly black gemstone ring he wore on his middle finger. He dangled the ring in front of Ogden.

"See this? See this? Any idea what this is? Any idea where this came from? It's been passed down in our family for centuries, our family history is that long, and it's always been a pureblood! Any idea how much someone will come up with to buy it from me? The gem has Peverell's coat of arms engraved on it! ”

"I really don't know," Ogden said, the ring dangling an inch in front of his nose, and he blinked, "and it has nothing to do with it, Mr. Gaunt." Your son has committed—"

Gaunt roared angrily and rushed at Wang Yong, and then, he grabbed a gold chain around Wang Yong's neck and pulled him in front of Ogden.

"See this?" He roared at Ogden, shaking a heavy gold locket at him, and Wang Yong coughed so hard that he couldn't even breathe.

"I saw it, I saw it!" Ogden said hurriedly.

"Slytherin's!" Gaunt yelled, "Salazar. Slytherin's! We're the last living heirs of him, what do you have to say about that, huh? ”

"Mr. Gaunt, your daughter!" Ogden said in a panic, but Gaunt had already let Wang Yong go. He stumbled away from him and returned to the corner where he had been, rubbing his neck and panting hard.

A feeling of panic and fear crept through his mind, and he wanted to hide between the wall and the stove.

"Who am I? I'm Merope...... No, I'm ...... I'm ......" he was confused, and he felt as if his consciousness was melting.

"How's that!" Gaunt said triumphantly, as if he had just made a complicated issue clear and there would be no more controversy, "So don't talk to us in that tone, don't treat us like mud on the soles of your shoes!" We've been pure-bloods and wizards for generations - I'm sure you don't have that to show off! ”

He spat at Ogden's feet, and Morfin burst into laughter again. Wang Yong curled up by the window, hanging his head, silent, his straight hair covering his face, as if he could only obtain that insignificant sense of security in a shadow.

……

The quarrel between Gaunt and Ogden seemed to come from far away, and Wang Yong's consciousness fell into an irrelevant silence.

Tintin's bells, horses' hooves, and loud laughter drifted in from outside the open window. Obviously, the trail leading to the village was very close to the grove where the house was located.

Wang Yong felt that his consciousness seemed to come to life suddenly, he was very happy, very excited, and his heart involuntarily began to beat wildly, why? What does this have to do with yourself?

Gaunt froze, his eyes widening as he listened. Mofen's mouth hissed, and he turned his eyes to look at where the voice had come from, a greedy expression on his face. Wang Yong felt that his face was terrible, and I was afraid...... What to be afraid of, if they find out......

"Oh my God, what a sight to behold!" A girl's crisp voice floated in through the open window, and they heard it clearly, as if she were standing in the room, standing beside them, "Tom, can't your father tear down that little broken shed?" ”

"That's not ours." A young man's voice said, "Everything on the other side of the valley belongs to our family, but that little cabin belongs to an old homeless man named Gaunt and his children. That son is crazy, you ought to hear what the people of the village have to say about him-"

The girl laughed. Tintin's bells and horses' hooves grew louder and louder. Morfin wanted to jump out of the armchair.

"Sit still and don't move!" His father warned him in a parseltongue.

"Tom," the girl's voice rang out again, and now it was nearer, apparently they were next to the house, "I can't be mistaken—did someone nail a snake to that door?" ”

"yes, you read that right!" The man's voice said, "That son must have done it, I told you he wasn't in his right mind." Don't look at it, Cecilia, dear. ”

The sound of Tintin's bells and horses' hooves faded away again.

"'Honey,'" said Morfin, looking at his sister and whispering in a parseltongue, "he calls her 'darling,' and it seems he won't want you." ”

Wang Yong's face turned pale.

"What's going on?" Gaunt asked sharply, also in a parseltongue accent, his eyes looking at his son and then at his daughter, "What did you say, Morfin?" ”

"She loves to look at that Muggle," Morfin said, staring at his sister with a vicious expression on her face.

Wang Yong's face was very frightened, "Every time that Muggle passed by, she looked at him through the fence in the garden, didn't she?" Last night—"

Wang Yong shook his head pleadingly, but Morfin said mercilessly, "She's wandering outside the window, waiting to see that Muggle ride home, isn't she?" ”

"Wandering outside the window, waiting to see a Muggle?" Gaunt asked in a whisper.

All three of the Gaunt family seem to have forgotten about Ogden's existence. Ogden looked bewildered and annoyed by the incomprehensible hiss and roars of this new outburst.

"Is this true?" Gaunt asked in a gloomy voice, taking a step or two closer to the terrified girl, "My daughter, Salazar." A pure-blood Slytherin descendant - after a dirty, dirty Muggle? ”

Wang Yong shook his head frantically, desperately squeezing his body into the corner, obviously unable to say a word. A great fear gripped his mind.

"But I taught that guy a lesson, Daddy!" "I lectured him when he walked by, and he was covered with hives and didn't look so pretty, didn't he, Merope?" ”

"You hateful little squib, you filthy little scum!" Gaunt yelled, losing control and holding his daughter's throat with both hands.

Wang Yong felt everything around him disappear suddenly, leaving only two big hands around his neck, and he soon became unable to breathe.

"Giggle......" He just struggled, not daring to resist.

His consciousness seemed to be pressed into the deepest part by these hands, getting darker and darker, more and more quiet, until there was a dead silence.

"Who am I? Why didn't I dare to resist? I'm Merope, and it's Gaunt, my father, who is holding me by the throat. ”

Wang Yong felt that his thinking was getting slower and slower.

"I'm ...... I'm Mei ...... I'm Wang Yong! ”

It was only at the moment when he was under the water that he suddenly came back to his senses.

Wang Yong opened his eyes suddenly, and found that he was in a state of slumber just now.

I opened my mouth wide to grab oxygen, but I got nothing.

A large blue-gray hand grabbed his throat fiercely, his brain had begun to lack oxygen, and his throat bone was close to shattering.

It was a yin corpse, with a miserable white face, two eyeballs hanging from the sockets, and the body was covered with congealed dark red bloodstains, only the big blue-gray hand was pinching tighter and tighter.

"The flames are blazing!" Wang Yong meditated.

"Boom!" The fire erupted from the tip of Wang Yong's staff, and the yin corpse let go of the hands that were holding Wang Yong's throat.

Wang Yong took two steps back, knelt on the floor, gasping and coughing.

The corpse quickly turned into a mass of charcoal.