A lot happened in August of 1918. After the failure of the Hundred Days Offensive www.biquge.info Germany was again defeated in the Second Battle of the Marne, and could only retreat sharply and retreat to the Hindenburg line, completely losing the initiative on the battlefield and the hope of victory to the side of the Entente; the epidemic of the disease was under control in some areas, but the overall spread continued to accelerate, and many people even experienced the second and third rounds of infection, the resistance became worse and worse, and the mortality rate became higher and higher, so the Quidditch World Cup was suspended; a guy named Zhao Mai spent the only gold coins he had left, bought a shop in Hogsmeade Village, and began to renovate, and also began plans to open a potion shop.

Passing the ordinary wizard level exam is equivalent to "adulthood" in magic, and Zhao Mai also has some corresponding rights. He can wear a pointed hat like a real wizard, wear a wizard's robe with an official insignia, receive formal services from Gringotts, and purchase his own wizard's house and land. It happened that someone was going to sell the Hogsmeade house, Zhao Mai looked at the price and bought it if he thought it was more suitable.

It was a small, narrow two-story wooden building with a thick chimney on the side and a storage loft about the height of Zhao Mai. The original owner used it as a place to rest in the summer and winter, but was constantly harassed by Hogwarts students, so he came less and less. The house was poorly managed, accumulated a lot of dust, and basically became a shelter for all kinds of small creatures. Before the house collapsed, the original owner decided to sell it casually for a price and move to the Mediterranean coast of Sunny Beach completely.

When Zhao Mai took over, the house was already shaky. Zhao Mai also deliberately pushed the wall with his hand, and his huge power strengthened by his psychic ability pushed the old house, making it constantly scream "stop pushing, I can't stand it, let me die", so as to successfully cut off the price. After he took over the "dilapidated building", he only bought some wooden planks, used wood shaping (wood shaping) to transform them into a soft and permeable state, and drilled through the cracks in the damaged wooden walls to repair the broken places. Some termites who lived in the structure of the house and fed on wood and caused the quality of the house to deteriorate were driven by Zhao Mai to find a new home elsewhere with the force of nature, and never to return to harass the house.

The house is thus clean, sturdy and vibrant.

"Don't you need to chase away those rats and spiders?" Xiaohua flew around the house, looking for the cracks that Zhao Mai might have missed, and naturally she would find some small creatures that did not heed the advice.

"I don't mind if they're here, but they're likely to bite off the herbs we bought and the potions we made. Zhao Mai thought for a while and said to Xiaohua: "You can find a place in the house to place them." It's a safe zone, you can move around freely, and you leave it at your own risk. ”

"I don't want to talk to them. Xiaohua shook her head and said, "I'm a tree of understanding, I'm very clean, not to mention rats and insects, even birds can't come to me." You'll be able to use animal conversation skills yourself, so go on your own. There is a small window in the east corner of the basement that opens outward, leaving it for the animals. ”

Zhao Mai nodded, summoning the Force of Nature to strengthen the ability to understand animals in order to achieve the purpose of communication. Although he is fluent in all languages, the dialogue of animals cannot be translated. It is true that the sounds made by animals can express emotions and different meanings, but they cannot be counted as a language. Most of these sounds are a kind of sound reflex that has been passed down through the reproduction of the population according to the needs of the environment, expressing a response to a specific stimulus. And the most important element of language is to produce abstract concepts, which come from the real thing, and are higher than the real thing.

The same animal, due to the different living environment and ethnic group, will produce completely different sound signals, which requires the natural force to strengthen the ability of "animal understanding and communication" to achieve a conversation-like state. It is necessary to understand both the animals and the animals to understand what the druids mean. Zhao Mai cast a spell, saw the reserve grain on the way to find mice and spiders, and suddenly wondered what it would say.

"Ah Liang, what do you want now?" Zhao Mai squatted down and poked it.

Reserve Grain turned his head, revealing his belly and was about to scream a few times, when he suddenly felt that something was wrong. It looked at Zhao Mai, sniffed with its nose, then opened its mouth and stuck out its tongue, making a "ha...... The sound of ......'s breathing.

"Come, tell me something, like what do you most want to eat?"

Reserve grain rolled his eyes around, got up and licked Zhao Mai's face with his tongue, and wagged his tail vigorously, but he just didn't speak, not even the original "Wang" or "Wang", Zhao Mai couldn't tease it.

I don't know if he's really stupid or too smart, in short, what is in his heart is not revealed to Zhao Mai at all. There was no time to spend a whole day with it here, Zhao Mai shook his head and left. The reserve grain saw the master leave, his eyelids trembled, looked around, and continued to lie down to sleep. It feels that pretending to be stupid without being stupid is the highest creed. For example, in the case of spell dodge training, after hard training, it is not too difficult to dodge all kinds of wand rays, but it is a disadvantage to end the training. Reserve Grain knew that as long as it deliberately made a few mistakes, it would be able to keep Zhao Mai training. And then keep the success rate higher, and it'll always have extra meat to eat! You can't tell anyone about things like that......

Zhao Mai settled the tiny occupants of the house, and then cast a magic spell to get the dust into the trash can, and let the broom and mop work automatically to clean the house. He plans to allocate rooms on the second floor to give everyone space to live, rest and study. The first floor serves as his potions laboratory, which also doubles as a workshop. He had little gold left, and he needed a way to make money in order to do more research. Potions are the direction he is best at present, especially some potions that are used in large quantities, his production efficiency is much higher than that of textbooks, and the cost is lower than that of outside pharmacies, so there should be a good market.

As for sales, using a vending machine is a good option. In terms of automation, or "magicization", the progress and development of the wizarding world far surpasses that of the outside world. Most of the clothes have the function of "folding them themselves" or "automatically climbing on the hanger", and the shoes can "go to the mop and tickle them by themselves". "Autocharms" allow items to judge simple conditions and then do things, just like a programming language. The mechanical vending machine has been invented, and all Zhao Mai needs to do is use the automatic charm to make it more advanced. In an era when computers were still nearly 30 years before they were invented, Zhao Mai was able to try simple programming.

For Zhao Mai, the process will be a lot of fun.

From the outside, the house has been renovated, and there is no intention of opening the door for a while, but inside, in fact, everything is basically ready. Zhao Mai turned all the raw materials into elixirs for colds and packed them in bags. Looking at the cabinet of medicinal materials that was basically empty, Zhao Mai knew that he had to solve the problem of raw materials. The rest of the gold needed to be spent carefully, and he really didn't want to take the gems to the Goblin Bank to be exploited. Just kidding, let the goblins run the banking industry, and I don't know what the wizards think. If they had known about the Destiny Gold, they might have already sighed and would rather start another war with the goblins than take back the bank, right?

By the way, the wizard defeated the elves, so enslaved them into "house-elves". Was there a battle between wizards and goblins?who won and who lost?Zhao Mai thought for a moment, the exam had just passed, and it seemed that the entire history of magic had not written about it, which was a bit intriguing.

The bankers who have mastered the power of money rule everything in the wizard's life, is it that the goblins win and the wizards lose? )