Chapter 52 They Gave Too Much (Please Collect and Recommend)
The next day, at the same time, in the same Hufflepuff common room, Kyle, Cedric, and Connor sat together again.
Only this time, there was a pile of golden Galleons on the table in front of them.
"One, two, three..."
"No need to count..." Kyle glanced at Cedric, raised his eyebrows and said, "No more, no less, exactly 60 Galleons."
"So many..." Cedric opened his mouth, feeling dizzy and dreaming.
...
In fact, it was really like a dream. Today's plan was surprisingly smooth.
Although Connor completely forgot the specific process because of nervousness, she took out the map as soon as she met like a salesman.
No, a salesman would at least say hello and be polite, instead of going straight to the point like Connor did.
This scene made Kyle and Cedric stand there, hesitating whether to continue acting.
But soon they had the answer.
Because the reactions of Rowle and Yaxley were equally surprising.
Without even waiting for Kanna to speak, they eagerly asked about the origin of the map after seeing the gold border on it.
After learning that it was limited to ten copies, they changed their previous arrogant attitude and chatted with Kanna eagerly.
They held Kanna's arm, talking and laughing as they recalled the fun things at the banquet a few years ago, looking like close friends for many years.
Kanna accompanied them all the way in a daze. When she returned to the Hufflepuff table, she had ten more galleons in her hand.
As for when these galleons came into her hands, Kanna had a vague impression.
It might be in the corridor, or it might be at the entrance of the auditorium.
Because Rawl and Yaxley were very good at chatting, on the way, they naturally shifted the topic from the banquet to the complex castle structure of Hogwarts, and then naturally asked Kanna to help buy the map. After she agreed, the topic turned back without a trace.
The whole process was very smooth, without any abrupt feeling.
Although Connor's goal was the same as theirs, the two sides cooperated with each other, so things went so smoothly.
But even so, Kyle had to admit that Slytherin did have a unique talent in socializing.
So at the dinner table, the first thing he said to Connor was, "Remember to stay away from Slytherin in the future, otherwise you won't know if they sold you out."
Cedric next to him also nodded in agreement.
In order to avoid more trouble, after lunch, the two gold-edged maps were delivered to Roll and Yaxley.
After that, under their "propaganda", it took less than two hours to sell all the remaining nine maps except the sample in Connor's hand.
Some of the little snakes wanted to print the family emblem on them.
Kyle didn't agree at first, but they gave too much.
The price doubled... Who can resist this?
So in the end it became sixty Galleons.
"Divide the spoils... ahem, divide the Galleons."
Under everyone's expectant gaze, Kyle pushed half of the Galleons directly in front of Kanna: "We agreed before, split it equally."
"No, you counted wrong." Kanna shook her head, counted out ten Galleons from it and put them back, then looked at Kyle in confusion.
"It should be twenty Galleons for three people to split equally. Are you so bad at math?"
"I..." Kyle opened his mouth and felt a blockage in his chest.
"Please wait, as long as you are happy."
Cedric was almost laughing to death beside him.
Kyle, bad at math?
He could laugh about this for a whole school year.
Kyle pushed the twenty Galleons over unhappily. He didn't understand why Cedric, who used to be such a good person, became like this now.
Good guy, he doesn't even take pleasure in other people's misfortunes?
Cedric didn't care about Kyle's bad attitude at all. He picked up a Galleon and rubbed it carefully in his hand.
"So many Galleons, enough for me to buy ten Hufflepuff feather pens."
"Hufflepuff feather pens?" Kyle frowned and said, "What's so good about that thing? It's so expensive."
"It looks good." Cedric said as a matter of course, "I've had my eye on the yellow one for a long time. That color goes well with Hufflepuff."
Kyle thought of something, grinned, and then quickly returned to normal, saying calmly, "Then you have to buy a few more so that you can change them in the future."
"No, just buy one first." Cedric thought for a while and said, "I'm going to give the rest to my father."
Hearing this, Kyle couldn't help but look at him. Just when he was about to say something, he heard Cedric continue, "Maybe if he's happy, he'll change the broom he gave me from the Seven Stars to the Nimbus 1700."
Kyle swallowed the words that were just on the tip of his tongue again.
The Nimbus is 1700, 200 Galleons more expensive than the Seven Stars Sweep. Twenty becomes two hundred. Cedric's abacus beads are about to fall on his face.
But don't say it, with Mr. Diggory's character, after learning that Cedric has joined the college team and earned a full twenty Galleons, he might really buy him a Nimbus.
Kyle's eyes flashed, and he suddenly had an idea in his mind, but it's too late now, so he can only wait until tomorrow.
…
After distributing the Galleons, Cedric went to the kitchen and brought back some cookies, desserts and other snacks, as well as a large pot of pumpkin juice.
The three of them held a small celebration in the common room.
Kyle picked up a glass of pumpkin juice and just took a sip when he saw Kanna across from him take out seven or eight small bags and put two Galleons in each bag.
"???"
In Kyle's puzzled eyes, Kanna explained: "I'm afraid I'll lose it again, so it's better to keep it separate."
Cedric was surprised: "Kanna, did you lose a Galleon?"
"Yeah." Kanna nodded and briefly recounted what happened.
After listening, Cedric also put away his smile, thought seriously and said: "There shouldn't be any on the Quidditch field. After each flying class, Mrs. Hodge will check the field. If someone drops something, it will be found soon.
And I didn't hear anyone picked up 20 Galleons during training yesterday.
How about this, I'll ask other people for you tomorrow to see if anyone has seen Galleons."
"It doesn't matter, I don't care anymore." Connor pointed to a pile of small bags in front of her, smiled with curved eyebrows, "These are enough for me to use for a long time."
"Uh..."
"Just because 20 Galleons were lost, you don't care?"
Cedric didn't say anything. Somehow, the pumpkin juice in his hand seemed to suddenly turn into lemonade.