The main building of the Gotham School of Magic is a Gothic manor castle, with a long row of Gothic spires on the left and back of the main castle, the Great Hall in front, and a corridor with arches and supporting columns on the left, and a very large garden through the corridor.

The floor-to-ceiling windows of the floating spire of the Rodriguez College overlook the entire large garden, and at sunrise, Schiller, standing in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows of the dean's office, saw three small figures carrying cleaning tools into the large garden.

Last night's cold rain, but the rain made the plants in the garden more green, the rich green like oil paint smeared by a brush, when the dew dripped from the tip of the leaf, and reluctantly pulled a long green dress full of fresh vitality, when it dripped to the ground, the blooming water splashed like a skirt on the dance floor.

The earthy, moist air crept in from the tip of his nose, and Barry couldn't help but inhale hard, revealing an intoxicated look, and then exhaled slowly, feeling that his body and mind were purified.

Bruce glanced at him, showed a disdainful expression, and walked forward with some difficulty carrying the bucket of cleaning tools.

Harley only took two brooms, and as she went, she explained what Kane had said: "We're going to clean up in the greenhouse on the east side of the big garden, there are no fallen leaves this season, but there is rainwater that has been hoarded during the rain yesterday, and we have to sweep it all down the drain." ”

"There are also some plants that have withered during the experiment that need to be dug up from the pots and thrown away, and the planting tools in the warehouse need to be cleaned, and when we get there, you must not mess with our magical botany professor, or she will whip you with a plant whip."

"If it weren't for you, we wouldn't have used it." Barry looked at Bruce Jr. and said as he walked briskly ahead with a bucket full of shovels without even looking back at Bruce Jr.

"Why do you think I'm here with you today?" Bruce sneered, his blue eyes full of sarcasm, and he continued, "Do you really think I'm scared of those seniors?" What can they do with me? ”

"Then why are you here? Gentleman. ”

"Have you heard about the room on the fourth floor of the main castle? I'm going to check it out there. ”

"Oh my God!" Barry stopped, turned his head to look at little Bruce helplessly, and said, "Haven't you caused enough trouble?" Why do you have to go because you want to trespass on the forbidden land, where all the teachers and professors say it's dangerous? ”

"How do you know they say that there is danger to warn us, not to have a monopoly on the mighty treasure?"

Barry was speechless, but Bruce stepped forward and said, "What a fool, you don't know anything about the situation, and you don't know anything about the current situation, it's just a headache." ”

Barry took two quick steps to stop Bruce, he looked at little Bruce with a very serious look and said, "You can't go, I won't let you go, even if you don't care if you're dangerous, if you trespass and violate the school rules, you're dishonoring our house, I won't allow you to do this." ”

"You can't stop me, so you have to go with me, because if you know in advance that I'm going and don't stop me, and I'm in any danger there, you're responsible." Bruce raised an eyebrow at Barry defiantly and said, "In that case, you won't be able to be a prefect." ”

"You ......"

Barry's face flushed with anger, but he was really not a person who was good at reasoning with his fists, Harley just smiled with great interest and said, "Actually, I'm also a little interested in that room, but it's not because of any powerful power, I just think it's too boring to read and go to class every day, we should find some excitement at our age, right?" ”

"God, you two madmen!" Barry raised his voice and shouted, "I'm going to tell Professor Rodriguez!" ”

Bruce, who was walking fast, stopped, he turned his head to look at Barry and said, "Do you really think that professor is a good person?" ”

Barry opened his mouth, instinctively wanting to say yes, but he didn't really know the professor named Rodriguez, and Bruce Jr. walked back forward, and said as he went, "He doesn't look like a good guy, you'd better not point at him." ”

Barry turned his head to look at Hallie next to him, who shrugged his shoulders and said, "It's not so much that Professor Rodriguez isn't a good guy in the traditional sense, but rather that he's a pretty trendy bad guy." ”

"How much do you know about him?" Bruce Jr. asked, looking back.

"It's not much." Hallie sighed and said, "I've only heard most of the things, but he does have a lot of secrets. ”

"But I don't think you really can ......"

"Oh, here we are." Hallie ran a few steps to a small building on the east side of a large garden, with a stone building on the left and a glass flower house and greenhouse on the right.

Hearing Harley's shout, a young woman wearing a smart dark green mage robe and a pointed mage hat on her head walked out of it, and Harley rushed up and hugged her, and then said, "Pamela, long time no see, has the experiment been going well recently?" ”

"Don't mention it, I have a headache when I mention it, come in, you haven't had breakfast yet, have you? I'm going to get you cookies for you. ”

Pamela took the hat off her head, revealing a young and beautiful face, and Bruce poked Barry with his elbow and said, "This is our magical botany professor, why is she so young?" ”

Barry didn't seem to be deflated and didn't want to talk to Bruce at all, but he muttered anyway, "The magicians are quite young." ”

"It's like you've seen a few magicians."

The three children walked into the small building, where the first floor was a living room with a fireplace, which was very typical of the decoration style of an American country cottage, with brown-red wooden floors and dark gray carpets, and a fireplace on the opposite side of the semicircular leather sofa, but it was somewhat surprising that the large window facing the door was covered by emerald green climbing plants almost covering the entire window, so the light in the room was a little dim.

Pamela brought a plate of emerald green cookies from the kitchen, and Bruce's face was crumpled into a bun that Barry was afraid to reach, as the cookies and bread that would be painted green in the storybooks he had read were usually poisoned.

But Harley picked up a cookie and threw it into her mouth and munched on it without hesitation, and Pamela went to the couch and sat down, and said, "It's okay, eat it, it's just some natural plant dye." ”

Bruce was still inextricably appreciative, but Barry plucked up the courage to take a piece and taste it, then let out an exclamation.

"Oh, it's delicious, oh my gosh, it has a hint of botanicals, it tastes really good, thank you, Professor."

Pamela smiled, her gaze lingered on Bruce's face for a moment, then she looked away, and said, "Thank you for coming over today to help me clean up, yesterday Sergei knocked over a few pots of plants in the greenhouse when he left, and I may have to trouble you before I have time to clean up." ”

"If you let me take a whole box of these cookies with me when I leave, I'll make sure you'll clean them clean." Hallie gave a sweet smile and made an OK gesture to Pamelabi.

"Don't worry, you can take a bucket by yourself, I have nothing to do while I wait for the results of the experiment, so I can only do this."

Pamela stood up, and as soon as she reached out, the only large window in the living room slammed open, and Bruce and Barry were startled, and they all turned their heads to look over there.

Then they watched as the two vines of the creeper quickly crawled through the window, crawling along the walls and floor of the house to their cleaning tools, and then wrapped more vines around the cleaning tools, and quickly took them out of the window.

Barry and Bruce were watching plant magic up close for the first time, and their eyes widened in unison, but then Pamela stood by the door and beckoned to them, saying, "Hurry up, it's time to get hot in the greenhouse, and while it's still cool in the morning, I'll treat you to the watermelon that I just researched recently." ”

Pamela and her three children walked towards the greenhouse, first around the side of the house, under the pergola decorated with wisteria flowers, Pamela held the edge of her hat and walked briskly forward, through which the scenery suddenly opened up.

This is a small open-air garden, a small space, surrounded by all kinds of flower stands, on which are small pots of plants, the structure is similar to ordinary plants, but the color is very gorgeous, the leaves are red, green and purple, there are some spiral plants, and plants that exude magical light.

Turning from this small garden, he came to the door of the greenhouse, in front of which was a large tree, and little Bruce walked to the tree with some curiosity and began to check the lines on the tree, but suddenly he felt that his right shoulder was touched.

As soon as he turned around and saw that Barry and Hallie were still in the distance, he turned left and right in confusion, but then he felt a touch on the other shoulder.

"Pato, don't make a fuss, come on, come with me." Pamela shouted.

Then, under the stunned gaze of little Bruce, the big tree he was watching slowly pulled itself out of the soil, its slender roots tangled into four legs, its thick branches turned into two arms, and the big tree became the image of a tree man that can only be seen in fairy tale books.

Then Bruce knew why so much earth had been turned out of the flowerbed opposite the tree, but the tree was gone, and it was probably the other tree man who had left early.

"This is Pato, a dryad, Sergei was supposed to be here, but he was borrowed to work, so you won't see him today."

Pamela handed the cleaning tools that the vines were holding to the three of them, and said, "Okay, just help me clean up the flower pots that Sergei knocked over when he left, and then put the warehouse in order." ”

Hallie and Barry both took the tools and got to work, but Bruce turned his head with a broom and stared at the flowerbed that was surrounded by soil that had been turned out.

(End of chapter)