Chapter 29 New Uses of Nepenthes

The little wizards originally thought that the pitcher plant was cute and suitable for planting at the head of the bed, and when they were thirsty, there was also a natural self-service sweet drink......

But after being reminded by Professor Sprout, the more I look at it, the more it looks like a toilet, and with the floating animal droppings, it looks even more like a clogged toilet!

Harry and Ron bent over and retched, tasting not only the sweet juice, but also the fox's droppings.

A good brother like Ron even collected some in his pocket and sent them home for his sister Ginny to try......

Wait, Ron remembered in a trance that when the twins left home for school, they came home with a lot of "jelly beans" at Christmas, and asked him not to let his mother see it, couldn't it be this thing?!

These two bastards!!

Retching is contagious like yawning, and soon the sound is one after another, and many young wizards have more or less "tasted" it.

Neville looked at Rove gratefully, and Hermione patted her chest with apprehension, then glared at Rove in annoyance.

You remind Neville, but you don't remind me? The two of us met first!

Luckily, I have a lot of eyes!!

Rove is also very innocent, heaven and earth conscience, he really thought that Hermione knew that it was fox feces, how could he think that she also had a blind spot in knowledge.

"Why is fox droppings sweet?" Neville was curious, and he saw that everyone was eating deliciously.

"The juice of the scarlet pitcher plant is very sweet, it is one of the raw materials for nourishing bee candy, and the feces have been soaked for a long time, and they are pickled and flavored, of course they are sweet." Rove explained in a whisper.

"Also, some animals have very poor digestion, and the feces excreted are rich in nutrients, which are edible and not harmful to the body, but they are just a little disgusting......"

"That's right, Mr. Scamander, if I were your professor of protecting magical beasts, I'd give you two points."

Professor Sprout walked over, with a stack of small sticks in her hand, and placed it on the table, and she looked at the retching students, and said calmly:

"Do you hear that? Kitsune's feces are harmless, so you don't have to worry about your body.

But before I entered the greenhouse, I told you not to touch magical plants unless I allowed them, remember? ”

Many students lowered their heads in shame, after all, it had not been five minutes, and they had promised so well that they had forgotten it in the blink of an eye.

"Knowledge is not written down on paper, but in the heart." Professor Sprout looked at everyone, and she tapped her head and said:

"For everyone's safety, I stress once again that you don't touch magical plants, especially those you don't know.

This is the first and most important knowledge of herbalism that I want to teach you.

Even if you give me back everything I taught after you graduate in the future, just remember that. ”

Rove looked at Professor Sprout in admiration, not to mention the fact that she was always wearing a thick hat full of patches, covered in earth, and dressed in an earthy manner......

There is no comparison with the divination professor next door, who is always bejeweled, foreign, and full of alcohol...... But she's actually a very wise witch.

Our Hufflepuff graduated wizards are excellent!

Of course, unemployed Hufflepuff wizards are even better!!

Professor Sprout clapped his hands and said, "Alright, kids, we're going to start class, can anyone tell me what the pitcher plant rhizome does?" ”

Rove only felt a gust of wind blow in his ears, and one hand was quickly raised.

"Miss Granger......"

Hermione looked up and replied, "The rhizome of the pitcher plant is the main ingredient for boiling the water of forgetfulness, and drinking it can make one forget all sorrows. ”

"Very good, add five points to Gryffindor!" Professor Sprout nodded, and was a little melancholy, what about the students in his own college, they were all stunned?

Alas, if she had such a student who could earn house points, why wouldn't Hufflepuff be able to win the House Cup?!

Hermione grinned, revealing her two front teeth, and when she saw Rove glancing over, she immediately pursed her lips, and glared at the boy, raising her eyebrows slightly, as if she was defiant, wanting to compete with him to see who earned more house points.

Ignoring the childish girl, Rove quietly observed the greenhouse to see what he lacked, after all, he couldn't go home empty-handed.

He's here to buy goods, and by the way, take a lesson!

"Teaching you how to boil the water of forgetfulness, that's Professor Snape's job." Professor Sprout pointed to the distance, where there was a row of shovels, and she said softly:

"Your task is to learn how to loosen the soil for pitcher plants, but be careful, their rhizomes are fragile and will attack wizards in a furious manner if they are slightly damaged."

Everyone turned their heads to look at the row of shovels shining with cold light, and said okay, don't you need to farm?

"A shovel and a stick for each of them, and watch how I loosen the soil."

Professor Sprout picked up a stick and gently stuck it in the "toilet" cylinder of the pitcher plant, put on her dragonskin gloves, grabbed a shovel, and began to loosen the soil under the pitcher plant.

Professor Sprout is definitely an old farmer, and he has a good technique, and he loosens the soil so that it does not hurt the rhizomes of the pitcher plant at all.

"Okay, let's all follow this step, and be careful that the stick must be stuck in the pitcher plant's cylinder."

The young wizards began to pick up sticks and shovels, as well as their favorite pitcher plants.

Rove chose a large pitcher plant, and after jamming the stick, he took a colored ball from the middle of his robe and threw it into the juice.

The ballfish is a small, spherical fish with two long legs and webbed feet on its legs, which lives in deep lakes and feeds on water snails.

The belly of the colored ball fish is like a sponge, which can absorb a lot of water, but the body shape does not change much, and then pinch its belly vigorously to spit it out.

Colored ball fish are very small in size and do not take up space, and wizards walking in the desert will generally bring a colored ball fish out, which can effectively solve the problem of water sources.

Therefore, a large amount of the juice of the pitcher plant was absorbed by the colored ball fish in an instant, and the wooden stick effectively prevented the pitcher plant from swallowing the color ball fish.

Rove doesn't drink juice, but the cuties in his box love it!

Removing the juice will not cause any damage to the pitcher plant, and it will recover in a maximum of two nights.

Hermione and Neville were stunned, what was this?

Just then, there was another strange noise outside the greenhouse, and Professor Sprout picked up her fork and muttered, "Another troublemaker has come to make trouble......

After Professor Sprout left, the whole greenhouse burst into an uproar.

Hannah and Bones have wooden sticks and fight, and Hannah is still asking for her Garens.

Taking advantage of the fact that no one was paying attention, Justin quietly picked up some fox droppings, put them in his mouth, and chewed them.

He just liked the taste...... Strong!

Ron was chatting with Harry about how to trick the twins into eating fox droppings, and as soon as he was distracted, the stick didn't get stuck in the pitcher plant's "toilet-shaped" cylinder.

"I put it in the bread, and then you hand it to George and Fred, and they will certainly not be defensive......"

Ron imagined the success of his revenge, he picked up a shovel and shoveled it directly on the rhizome of the pitcher plant, and the pitcher plant was furious, and the toilet bowl rolled up and swallowed him in one gulp.

Harry turned his head to see that the Ron was gone.

Nepenthes is not only a feces eater, it is also an insectivorous plant, and the animals it swallows will drown in the liquid secreted by the bottom of the bottle, and decompose into nutrients, which will be gradually digested and absorbed.

"Ron......" Harry shouted, grabbing Ron's legs and pulling them out like a turnip.

A group of students lined up at the back, pulling Harry backwards as the pitcher plant sucked in.

For a moment, the scene was like a tug-of-war, with half of Ron's body going in and out of the pitcher plant.

Many students who no longer want to plant pitcher plants are shining again, as if they have discovered a new use of pitcher plants, which is a good thing!

The two sides were at a stalemate, and Rove walked over and reached out and scratched the underside of the pitcher plant leaves, as if scratching the armpits.

Nepenthes' body immediately trembled and spat Ron out directly, he was covered in viscous liquid, lying on the ground and spitting bubbles.

"Ron, are you alright?" Harry asked.

Ron belched.

"It's so sweet."

Professor Sprout, who heard the movement, had already hurried back, and when she saw this scene, she breathed a sigh of relief and said:

"The cage of the pitcher plant is its sensitive area and its weak point, and Mr. Scamander saved his classmates, which is good...... Hufflepuff plus fifteen points! ”

The students applauded desperately.

Rove glanced at Hermione and raised his eyebrows, as if to say:

Your answer to the question is just hard work, not worth much, you see I suddenly have more points than you added in half a class.

Hermione rubbed her chest, so angry!

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(Well, it involved a certain word, and the chapter was blocked just now, so I had to modify it, alas.) )