Chapter 106: Diagon Alley

Thanks to "Hiiragi-sama" "Omelette Rice" for the 1oo starting coin.

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Ten minutes later, Zhou Chao stopped in front of an intersection. Then he moved slightly and came to a portal in memory zài at right angles between the roads to the east and south.

The portal was small, about the height and width of an adult, and the surface was pitch black, the same color as the surrounding walls, and if you were not particularly distinguishable, you would not even be able to tell that there was a door.

And this is the entrance to the cauldron bar that Zhou Chao is looking for!

Zhou Chao stepped forward, pushed open the door, and entered the bar.

"Jingle bells."

In an instant, a dilapidated bar hall that looked like a low-class pauper or mercenary in the Middle Ages, as he knew, came into view.

Inside, it is dimly lit by firelight and natural light, and the drinkers are dressed in strange clothes similar to those of medieval Europeans, and the furnishings are ancient and simple, like scenes from a play.

Zhou Chao, who took in the environment in the bar, looked a little dazed, as if he was not adapted to the changes in the environment, and at the same time he was a little unaccustomed to the dim environment and the faint strange smell in the room - too choking, but he didn't speak, just frowned slightly, and then he was obviously just looking at the surrounding drinkers, but there was always a kind of attention and staring in his heart, which made him feel a little uncomfortable, and walked straight towards the other door in the depths of the bar.

There, it was the only way to Diagon Alley, the destination of his trip.

After a while, Zhou Chao walked to the door, stretched out his hand to push the door open, and walked into the small patio exposed behind the door. Then he closed the door with his backhand, walked around the erected tin bin in front of him, and walked to the wall with a gap on the opposite side of the door.

"Jarvis, bring up the relevant footage." Zhou Chao, who was standing in front of the wall, whispered.

Immediately, his vision changed, and a small square window popped out, and the image of Hagrid leading Harry into Diagon Alley for the first time was played.

Zhou Chao carefully watched Hagrid's movements in the video twice, noting down the order in which he struck and the bricks he struck, and then stretched out his hand and tapped it on the wall in front of him in turn.

"Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow."

Then, in the next moment, the bricks on the entire wall moved on their own, and with a strange crackling sound, they retreated to either side, and a stone street paved entirely with long strips of gray masonry appeared in front of him.

The width of the street is about half of the neighborhood street, and there are enough for four or five people to walk side by side. It is very bustling, and there are a large number of men and women dressed in robes, like magicians in a play, walking through the streets to the dense rows on both sides of the street, full of British style and illegal buildings.

"It's a feeling...... It's getting more and more wrong. Looking at the bustling street in front of him, Zhou Chao sighed helplessly.

It can be said that since he entered the cauldron bar, Zhou Chao has a feeling of being out of place with his surroundings, and this feeling is still very sudden and weird, as if everyone in the world is drunk, but he suddenly came to his senses.

But it's normal to think about it carefully, after all, this is a different world, a place that is more different than a foreign country, and the race of the people around you is different from yours, and the environment is not the modern one you are familiar with, but a situation similar to the Middle Ages, there will be a feeling similar to suddenly crossing the general is not unexpected at all, but if there is no feeling, it is abnormal.

That kind of situation is either carried away by some kind of love, or it is a 'floating' itself, and I have traveled to the north and south many times, and I have seen too much, so I will not feel it. Otherwise, the heart still has a certain purpose, and there is no time to feel this loneliness.

Then Zhou Chao took a deep breath, threw away this strange sense of inplace, and walked onto the street, blending in with the crowd, and wandering through Diagon Alley.

"Jarvis, show the scene data."

The next moment, the vision in Zhou Chao's eyes suddenly changed, and a page full of handwriting was revealed.

"The names of all the secretaries are too."

Then, another page full of handwriting came into his sight.

Zhou Chao skimmed through the contents of the two pages, and with a turn of footsteps, he walked towards Gringotts, an all-white two-story building in the style of the Leaning Tower of Pisa in Diagon Alley, which stood right in the center of the street.

Gringotts, the bank of the wizarding world, the only merchant of the golden galleon, the common currency of the wizarding world, has an unshakable position in the entire wizarding world like the Federal Reserve of the United States and the People's Bank of China.

There are three main types of business, first, Muggle coins, which are exchanged for pounds and gold galleons. The main targets are Muggle families who have given birth to children with wizarding qualifications, as well as Muggle-born wizards. The ratio is 5:1.

Second, save business. Both safe deposit box business to help some people save some valuables.

3. Normal savings business. It's the storage of the Golden Galleon, and there's not much to say about that.

Therefore, the purpose of the Zhou Dynasty going to Gringotts was very simple, that is, to exchange the pounds in his hand for gold galleons.

After some movement, the Zhou Dynasty came to Gringotts,

The first thing that caught his eye was a wide hall comparable to the business hall of the central bank, with an all-marble floor, all-crystal chandeliers, and the entire hall was decorated with gold and brilliance, and the atmosphere was incomparable. One by one, the small counters were neatly arranged in two vertical rows, extending to the innermost end of the hall, all of them were short, with pointed ears, long noses, some green skin, and long fingertips on their hands.

Don't be surprised, this attitude is normal, because the relationship between the elves and the wizards is not good, and it can even be said that they are hostile, so you can't expect a guy who has a hatred for you to greet you with a smile, which may not only not make you comfortable, but may also cause you to be nervous and wonder if the other person is going to do something to you.

Zhou Chao simply glanced around and walked towards a counter where no one was around.

"I'm going to exchange huàn gold gallons." Zhou Chao, who came to the counter, said while looking at the goblin behind the counter with a slightly novel gaze.

"Yes, how much do you want to redeem." The goblin on the counter said with a cold expression.

"£90,000." As Zhou Chao spoke, he took out the oilskin paper bag containing the money, opened it, took out a dozen pounds from it, and then counted out ten thousand points, and handed the rest to the goblin.

The goblin took the pounds, and seriously confirmed the authenticity of each pound with a special tool, and then put his fingers on and put them aside, and asked again, "Are you going to take all the gold gallons at once?" ”

According to the exchange rate between the pound sterling and the gold galleon, 90,000 pounds can be exchanged for 18,000 gold galleons, even if the size of each gold galleon is like a dollar of steel, 18,000 is a lot of quantity and weight, according to normal circumstances, it is not something that an ordinary person can hold.

"Do you have a checking business here?" Zhou Chao thought for a moment and asked rhetorically.

"Yes, you want to handle it?"

"Yes, handle it. In addition, he is giving me three hundred gold galleons in cash. Zhou Chao said.

"Fill in the information." The goblin, who received an affirmative answer, didn't say anything, just turned around and made a form and handed it to Zhou Chao. Zhou Chaoxin took it, and after a brief glance, he wrote with the quill pen on the counter.

The style of the form is similar to the information sheet when handling business at the bank, but it is simpler, just write down general information such as your name and leave your own certified signature, so in less than a minute, Zhou Chao got the information and handed it back to the goblin.

The goblin took the information and checked it carefully, and after making sure that there was no problem, he stamped it on the information with a large metal seal that should be an official certificate, and then divided it into two copies, put them on the counter and handed them back to the Zhou Dynasty.

Then, the goblin handed Zhou Chao a small silver key and something similar to the outside check department, and said coldly, "This is your proof key and check book, take it well, if you lose it, you will not be responsible." ”

Zhou Chao took the things, pursed his lips secretly, and didn't bother to pay attention to these non-human goblins, so he directly picked up the bag containing the gold galleons handed by the other party again and left Gringotts, moving towards another destination this time-the Blotted Bookstore.

The Blotted Bookstore, the largest bookstore in Diagon Alley, is also the designated place for new Hogwarts students to buy instructional books before they enter the school, so there are always a lot of young wizards and their Muggle parents who don't know anything when Hogwarts starts.

The location of the Blotte bookstore was next door to Lady Morkin's robes shop, not far from Gringotts, so it didn't take long for the Zhou Dynasty to come to the Blotte bookstore.

"Jingle bells."

Zhou Chao opened the door and walked into the bookstore.

"Welcome." Immediately after, a slightly pleasant greeting came from the mouth of the old man who was standing up in the bookstore.

"Hello." Zhou Chao said politely.

"Is there anything I can do to help you?" The old man asked kindly.

"I'd like to buy some books, the ones that the Hogwarts students use in school." Zhou Chaodao.

"Oh, it looks like there's a little wizard in your house, too." The old man laughed.

"Yes, yes." Zhou Chao laughed dryly and said uncertainly.

"Wait a minute, I'll go to the back and help you get the book." Seeing that Zhou Chao didn't talk much, the old man smiled, shook his body and turned around and walked towards the inside of the bookstore.

"Okay." Zhou Chao agreed, and then his eyes wandered, casually looking at the environment in front of him

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