Chapter 5 The calm before the start of school
Ollivander stopped his movements, he slowly turned around, looked at Zhang Chengdao, and said solemnly
"Not every tree or wand core can be used to make a wand, and it was believed that monster hair and whiskers were the best wand materials.
But Ollivander proved that they weren't. ”
Zhang Chengdao did not refute, but seemed to take out a delicate wooden box from a Qiankun bag, put it in front of the table, and made a gesture of please gracefully.
Zhang Xiao is already stunned at the moment, is the Daomen so particular?
Even the wand had to be customized, but at this moment, his heart was also full of curiosity, and he couldn't help but lean forward to see what materials his father had taken out.
Ollivander looked at the wooden box with a scrutinizing gaze, then gently opened it, only glanced at it, and could not take his eyes off it again.
He lowered his head, as if he was about to stick to the wood, his expression became focused and fanatical, and he said softly
"O Merlin! What do I see? Beautiful, elegant, mysterious... Unbelievable, I saw a rampaging bolt of lightning in a piece of wood!
I remember, yes..... I remember writing in my grandfather's notes, 'Although we have tried most of the wood in the world, there are still some that are rare and impossible to find.' (Note 1)
For example, he had heard that in ancient China, there was a kind of wood that was very precious and very rare, and it was called.... Jujube wood struck by lightning. ”
Ollivander looked up, his eyes filled with anticipation, as a pure wand master, nothing thrilled him more than the rare wood and rod core.
Zhang Chengdao gave a thumbs up and exclaimed
"You are indeed a master, you are right, this is a lightning strike jujube wood, and it is a thousand-year-old lightning strike jujube wood! Well... The kind that grows in a specific place and sprouts after a lightning strike. ”
Damn! Millennial lightning strikes sour jujube wood? Or is it the kind of feng shui treasure land with dead wood in spring? The buffs are all stacked!
Zhang Xiao was speechless, in his previous life, because of his wife, he had contact with Buddhism and Taoism, and the thousand-year-old lightning strike jujube wood sold on the market was basically fake, and it was made by soaking it with high-voltage electricity.
Just this string of small bracelets can be sold for thousands, and the real magic weapon-level thousand-year-old lightning strike dates will not be sold at all, and it is too late to use them as heirlooms!
Not to mention the lightning strike jujube wood that satisfies the three elements at the same time! Just this small piece of wood, when I meet someone who knows how to change it for a Cullinan, it is easy to exchange it, and I feel that it has been earned.
"Where's the rod core? What rod core is used? "For Ollivander, the wand has nothing to do with life and death, but it is higher than life and death.
After confirming that the wood was the material that the family had been thinking about for generations, he impatiently asked about the material of the core of the cane.
Zhang Chengdao took out a small jade bottle, shook it gently, and placed it in front of Ollivanders.
"Kirin's beard." (Note 2)
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Ollivander took over the business with an extremely solemn attitude, and as for the problem of the compatibility of the wand and the owner that he was worried about, Zhang Chengdao also said that he didn't need to care, the Daomen had its own way.
Based on the novels he read in his previous life, Zhang Xiao guessed that it was similar to practicing with the master's blood, or making it every day, until the plate was pulped, and the wand would accept his fate?
In the following days, they visited Madame Morkin's ready-to-wear store and other shops where they bought essential goods.
In the evening, when the family set out on their way back to Diagon Alley, the sun was almost setting. They walked through the wall, past the empty Leaky Cauldron Bar, and returned to the car.
Just like going out to travel, no matter how much enthusiasm will be dragged down by exhaustion, at this moment Zhang Xiao just wants to hurry home, lie on that soft and comfortable bed, and sleep beautifully.
When Zhang Xiao woke up again, her mother had already put the steamed buns, fritters and soy milk on the table, and Zhang Chengdao was also sitting on the side, holding a newspaper in his hand, casually flipping through it.
Zhang Xiao noticed that the people in this newspaper would move around, and when she looked at the headline, it was "The Prophet Daily".
"Dad, why did you start reading the wizard newspaper? Is there any interesting news on it? ”
Zhang Xiao picked up the fritters and soaked them in soy milk, waited until the fritters were full of soy milk, then took them out and stuffed them into his mouth, and asked vaguely.
Zhang Chengdao put down the newspaper, picked up the soy milk and took a sip slightly:
"It's not because you're going to Hogwarts that I don't have to learn more about the wizarding world, and if you get into trouble one day, your dad and I need to know who to find or who to kill to get things done, right?
There was no news either, the headline was that 'the legendary savior Harry Potter' was suspected of entering Hogwarts this school year, and it should be your classmate. ”
Uh, is Harry Potter making headlines now? It is worthy of the iron triangle that must be on the front page once a year to form the head, Zhang Xiao complained silently in her heart, and then asked curiously:
"Dad, do you know what this legendary savior is?"
Zhang Chengdao frowned and recalled, and said with some uncertainty:
"I seem to have heard that it has something to do with a rogue organization called Voldemort, and I heard that it was very violent in England, when I was traveling with my mother in other countries, and by the time he was in England, he had already fallen, and it had something to do with this child."
In the end, Zhang Chengdao also expressed his opinion:
"If you want me to say, Britain should strike hard, you see what the chaos has become, I heard that there has been a strike hard in the country, and the order is much better."
Well, the Death Eaters directly became a gangster gang, and Voldemort became a gangster, and it's almost the same as saying that it was a terrorist organization, but it was no wonder that my parents didn't understand the situation.
Li Qingshu slapped her husband in disgust:
"Don't listen to your dad's nonsense, we don't make trouble and are not afraid, if you really want to be bullied, you will be beaten, if you can't beat it, come back and tell your parents, your parents can't beat your uncle, and there is a master behind your uncle, if you can't do it, please ask the heavenly master!"
Zhang Xiao gave a thumbs up to her parents while eating tea eggs, and the family finished breakfast lively.
Zhang Chengdao wiped his mouth and patted Zhang Xiao's shoulder:
"I'll go to the balcony with me later, I'll explain to you the entry of the Dao Gate and some basic knowledge, and I'll have a morning class with me starting tomorrow."
Zhang Xiao seemed to understand whether he understood or not, and under the earnest teaching of his parents, he gradually mastered some of the most basic things.
The days passed like this, Zhang Xiao's daily life was very regular, getting up in the morning to follow her parents to do morning classes, after breakfast to tutor some Taoist knowledge, and her parents went out to work (Zhang Xiao felt that they were just going to play) after picking up her first-grade textbooks and looking back and forth.
Among them, "Standard Spells, Elementary", "Theory of Magic", and "Beginner's Guide to Transfiguration" are the books I have read the most, although there is no practical operation, but with excellent memory, Zhang Xiao feels that it should not be a problem to mix "Mr. Know-it-all" and Hermione to form a cp called "Know-it-all combination" in the new semester.
By the way, maybe Daomen's genes are really good, even if Zhang Xiaochang is handsome in this life, his brain is good enough, comparable to the brain that won the first prize in the provincial mathematics competition in his previous life. (Note 3)
This routine was finally broken one day in late August, when an owl sent in a delicate velvet box.
His extravagant custom wand has arrived.
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Note 1: The Ollivanders family has their own notes, and they will record some of their thoughts on the notes, the official set.
Note 2: God 3's unicorn is hard to say, and I don't want to admit that it is a unicorn, it's like making Fenrir a husky, it's too nonsense.
Note 3: Zhang Xiao is not based on the author, but there must be the shadow of the author, I really won the award, although it is the primary school group....