Chapter 30: Rove's Greenhouse
Ron's suffering made the little wizards completely wilted, and they didn't dare to be naughty anymore, and everyone seriously loosened the ground.
But digging is a manual job, and it can be torture for young wizards who have never been exposed to this kind of work, and by the end of the lesson, they leave the greenhouse sweating.
Rove didn't leave, but volunteered to stay and help Professor Sprout clean the greenhouse.
Seeing that Rove didn't leave, Neville stayed behind to help.
Hermione, carrying a heavy school bag, hesitantly left the greenhouse with the Gryffindor students, but it didn't take long for her to bounce back again.
"I dropped something!"
She poked her little furry head like an old hen pecked at it, and looked down there, and soon joined the cleaning team.
Then Rove had to think that the "things" she landed on were probably him and Neville.
In fact, there is no place to be cleaned, except for putting the shovel and wooden stick back in place, the biggest job is to check the rhizome of the pitcher plant and whether it is injured.
It was the first time Professor Sprout had met her, and she was somewhat relieved and moved to have a little wizard who was willing to stay and help after class.
Professor Sprout looked up at the blonde boy and asked with a smile, "Off, how is your grandfather, Mr. Scamander?" ”
"It's good, he found a cat and fox in the depths of the Albanian forest, which was already considered extinct." Rove looked up as he inspected the pitcher plant and said:
"He's busy all day helping this group thrive and grow all day long."
"Worthy of Mr. Scamander!" Professor Sprout showed the look of the older student looking forward to the elderly senior, and said with admiration:
"I've always thought he was the greatest magnical zoologist in the world."
"My grandfather won't admit it, Professor." Rove took out a wooden stick stuck in a pitcher plant cylinder and grinned:
"He'll tell you...... He just did some tiny work. ”
"Mr. Scamander is always so humble, but that's exactly what makes us Hufflepuffs the most outstanding!" Professor Sprout sighed:
"Although the gentleman was expelled back then, in my heart, this is not his loss, but the loss of Hufflepuff House!"
Professor Sprout was probably a professional Newt blow, and Rove blushed a little when he heard it, was this still the weird old man he saw every day, who liked to tell bad jokes, and always had some wonderful tropes?
Professor Sprout walked over to a pitcher plant, looked down and saw that the juice was gone, and she muttered in a low voice:
"Which guy got it? It can't be our Hufflepuff students, right? No way, my students are honest and loyal, they can't do such a thing......"
“……”
Hermione and Neville, who were picking up sticks on the side, glanced at Rov, Hermione held back her laughter even more, and she opened her mouth and said silently:
"Professor Sprout says you're not honest......"
Rove glanced at her, and hurriedly changed the topic: "Professor, what just happened outside, I see you running out in a hurry?" ”
At the mention of this, Professor Sprout was a little annoyed, and she said irritably: "Recently, there has been a group of monkeys in the Forbidden Forest to harass my greenhouse and steal some herbs! ”
"It can't be Hagrid's raiser, right?" Rove was skeptical.
"I thought so at first, but when I asked Hagrid, he said he didn't have it, and he didn't know why." Professor Sprout shook his head and said, "Those beasts probably came out of the depths of the Forbidden Forest. ”
The witch apparently hated the magical creatures of the Forbidden Forest, as it threatened her weak herbs, and Professor Sprout insisted that Hogwarts should build a wall to cut it off from the Forbidden Forest.
Rove thought about it, he hadn't seen such an arrogant Ru yet, and he could lure it into his box.
"By the way, I see that your rock love grass seems to have withered a lot?"
"Since the summer vacation, those rock love grasses have been infected with a type of anthrax blight, and I have tried all kinds of methods, but I can't kill them." Professor Sprout grimaced.
Rock love grass is a perennial herb magic plant native to Greece, which can be used to treat wound healing, and the effect is several points better than that of white fresh, which is very valuable.
Sprout paused for a moment and sighed, "Professor Snape is not an expert in herbs, and I haven't found a good solution yet, if I can't find a cure, these we'll probably all die." ”
Plant diseases are like this, and they can easily lead to the extinction of a certain species.
Just like bananas, a few decades ago, the world basically ate the banana variety called Big Mike, not the current banana plantain.
The Big Mac banana is much larger, sweeter and more delicious than the Chinese banana, but with the infection of Fusarium oxysporum, the Big Mac banana has basically disappeared.
"Professor Sprout, I actually have a way to cure Rock Loveweed." Rove chuckled softly: "This plant disease first appeared in Central Asia and then spread to Europe. ”
"They have been working on a solution for a long time, and my grandfather and I have discovered a potion made from Hoklap's juice that can be used to kill this germ."
Not far away, Hermione, who was listening to the conversation between the two with her ears pricked up, raised her eyebrows, and she remembered that on the train, she had argued with Rove about the purpose of Hoklap!
"Has it been verified?" Professor Sprout asked hurriedly.
"Yes, we also submitted to the International Journal of Wizarding Potions, but it's still in the review stage, and you know, a top journal of this calibre is very slow." Rove laughed.
"I can make some for you recently, can you try it first?"
"Okay!" Professor Sprout folded his hands on his sleeves and smiled, and asked, "Do you have enough raw materials?" What is lacking can be taken from me, not to mention anything else, just a lot of herbs! ”
"I don't need herbs, but I'm missing some seeds, Professor." Rove went around and around and finally told the true purpose of his trip.
"I want some herb seeds, is that okay?"
"No problem, you tell me which seeds, and I'll get them for you."
Professor Sprout thought there were only a few seeds, a dozen at most, but he didn't know that Rove pulled out a piece of parchment fifteen or six inches long from his bosom.
“……”
Rove handed over the A3-sized piece of parchment, not to mention the dense names written on it, but in fact, many of the seeds he had collected when he was in Romania.
What Rove needs are some seeds that are not easy to buy outside, many of them are contraband, and buying them requires the formalities of the Ministry of Magic!
Professor Sprout looked at the list on the parchment, sketched it with his wand, and said, "Some can't be given to you, it's like a devil's net, it's too dangerous for you." ”
All right...... Rove collected the devil's net, and it was indeed used to fight.
He can give birth to plants and control them, and the general vines are too weak to attack, how can there be devil nets and beating willows.
But it doesn't matter, Rove remembers that there is a devil's net in the forbidden area on the fourth floor, and if he goes to take a trip one day, won't he have it?
After tidying up the greenhouse, the few men said goodbye to Professor Sprout and walked towards the auditorium.
"Do you want seeds?" Hermione asked curiously.
"A lot of herbs can cure magical animals, but if you buy them yourself, it's too expensive, so it's better to grow them yourself." Rove explained.
Like cedar and stone pine, it can treat bacillary dysentery and acute enteritis; Long-stemmed stone can treat acute and chronic nephritis, pyelonephritis, etc.; Woolly fern and many of its close relatives can cure leech disease......
If he kept going to the store to buy finished herbs, Rove's small net worth couldn't afford to spend it, so he had to learn from Professor Sprout and build his own greenhouse to cultivate herbs.
"And where do you plant it?" Hermione glanced at him suspiciously, she had been curious about the question for a long time.
It can't be in his precious little suitcase, right?
Instead of answering, Rove looked at the round-faced boy and asked, "What's wrong, Neville?" ”
Neville stopped talking, stammering, "Rov, can you give me some seeds?" ”
"What do you want seeds for?" Hermione was surprised.
Neville blushed a little, and for a moment he snorted, and finally scratched his hair and said, "I like those magical plants a lot, I just want to ...... I want to plant it in my yard in the future, and I can see it every day. ”
"Absolutely!" Rove patted Neville on the shoulder and encouraged, "If you like herbs, you can grow them, it's good to be interested."
But the seeds won't last long, and you won't have a place to plant them now, so when you come home at Christmas, I'll have the owl give it to you. ”
"Great." Neville looked grateful.
"So, Neville doesn't have a place to plant, so you have a place?!" Hermione leaned over to Rove, stared him in the eye and said, "You haven't answered my question yet." ”
Rove smiled and said mysteriously, "You'll know later." ”
"Hmph, if you don't tell me, I don't want to hear it yet!"
As she walked up the steps of the Great Hall, Hermione stomped a few hard times and glared at Rove, which was just a habitual little gesture that was not lethal at all.
"I'm going to find Shirley! Don't bother with the two of you anymore!! ”
She waved her hands like a big white goose, fluttering and fluttering, running up the steps in three or two, and soon disappeared.
Rove sighed.
This little girl's skin......
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