Chapter 126 Winter Solstice Spring Is Not Far Away

Lu Yunkai and Daphne sat in the Hog's Head Bar for most of the day, but he still didn't sell a single bottle of potion.

No one even cared about what potions he was selling.

Lu Yunkai didn't understand why at first, until a few days later after the potion class, he plucked up the courage to ask Snape.

"Potion makers are a very high-ranking profession. Do you know how many people ask us to help make potions? How can we have the time to squat on the roadside and sell the potions we have worked hard to make? And those who sell their own potions everywhere will add some weird things to the potions they sell. Who can say for sure?"

Snape's answer left Lu Yunkai speechless.

Well, he forgot one thing: if he didn't have someone who could help him identify it by asking for prices, he wouldn't dare to use the potions prepared according to the recipes in the book Daphne gave him!

So, Lu Yunkai completely gave up the idea of ​​selling potions in the Hog's Head Bar.

But it didn't matter to him. The next Hogsmeade weekend would be in February. By then, he should have herbs to sell...

And after selling the rose, Lu Yunkai had more liquid funds on hand.

Apart from paying Irene's salary, Lu Yunkai didn't seem to need money for anything else, so naturally, he was not in a hurry.

The day after returning from Hogsmeade, Slytherin lost the Quidditch game again.

Lu Yunkai, who had not missed any training sessions this year but did not work hard, witnessed this game on the Quidditch field.

A 30-point "narrow defeat" without any surprise.

After the game, Flint, who was frustrated because he had completely lost the idea of ​​winning the Quidditch Cup this year, finally handed over his captain's position to Lu Yunkai, who kept cheering and comforting everyone beside him.

It seemed that no one was dissatisfied with the fact that things had been agreed upon long ago and came six months in advance.

With the earnest request of "I hope you can lead Slytherin to win the Quidditch Cup again one day", Lu Yunkai began the reconstruction of the team.

This is not easy.

Because there is a "emperor"-like character next to him: Draco Malfoy.

As the sponsor and regular seeker of the college Quidditch team, Malfoy can play.

So compared with Lu Yunkai who "finds players for the team", Malfoy who "finds assistants for himself" has a much stronger sense of responsibility for the team.

But.

Lu Yunkai really doesn't want to say it directly. With Malfoy's current state, if the team is really rebuilt around him, it is better to disband it directly.

Because he didn't say it directly, the team's formation work was a mess.

Malfoy has been trying to find people who listen to him. In this reconstruction work, all the third-year male students joined the Quidditch team. He also asked Lu Yunkai to promote two second-year juniors who were said to have performed well in the flying class.

As for whether he is really good at flying or just has a good relationship with Malfoy... Lu Yunkai is too lazy to worry about it.

Seeing that even two second-year "little brats" were walking around the lounge with brooms every day to show off, some fourth- and fifth-year students who were originally too lazy to participate in Quidditch training could no longer sit still.

We are still several years away from graduation! When will it be your turn to show off here?

In addition, Lu Yunkai, who was sitting in the lounge every day with a smile on his face and making potions, looked much more pleasing to the eye than Flint, who always had a stern face and was extremely serious. It was estimated that if he couldn't stand it and asked for leave in the future training, this kid would not be unkind to refuse, so they all gathered at Lu Yunkai to sign up.

Lu Yunkai of course accepted it with a smile.

Anyway, there was no limit on the number of players, so he would first recruit them into the team and then select the seven players to play.

And Flint saw that he had just handed over the captain to Lu Yunkai, and all the boys in Slytherin from the third grade and above became players of the Quidditch team, and there were even two people among them who he had tried to persuade several times before, which surprised him a little.

What surprised him even more was Lu Yunkai's first training session as captain.

Lu Yunkai completely inherited his training method, and the intensity of the training was no less than when he was captain, but Lu Yunkai was different from him. As a captain who couldn't play, Lu Yunkai's "lecture" to the new and old players was also quite different from Flint's.

Because he couldn't play and didn't plan to play, he naturally couldn't "lead by example" like Flint. The style of training hard in the wind and rain, even asking Lu Yunkai to help make healing medicine because he didn't want to go to the infirmary all the time, was obviously not in tune with Lu Yunkai.

And compared to those players who didn't want to train too hard, Lu Yunkai himself hated Quidditch training more.

Therefore, Lu Yunkai's speech at the first training session, which was pushed up by everyone, seemed a little casual.

To use the version that Blaise summarized to the curious Daphne and Pansy, "Anyway, our honor belongs to our family and parents. We all participate in Quidditch just for fun. Training is up to everyone's self-awareness. And I believe that with the talent flowing in our noble Slytherin blood, training once a week is enough."

Then Daphne, who had heard this version, translated it: Train once a week. If you can't even beat Gryffindor, then forget about bloodline and talent.

Of course, this is the conclusion that Daphne, who knows Lu Yunkai very well, can guess. Even Blaise thought that Lu Yunkai was confident in the talent of Slytherin students.

But maybe Lu Yunkai's complaints about this talent and bloodline were too deep (it may also be because Slytherins really think that their talents are far higher than those of students from other colleges in Hogwarts, and they don't think in that direction at all), so that no one except Daphne understood Lu Yunkai's idea of ​​​​passing the buck. Even some people who are full of confidence in their own bloodline have some strange ideas...

Well, it's Malfoy.

He found Lu Yunkai privately and wanted Goyle and Crabbe to play as the main force directly...

Of course, this request was rejected by Lu Yunkai.

"Next year. They are different from you, Draco. They can't keep a calm and proud heart when facing defeat. They can't win the championship this year, so there is no need to let them go through the test."

Lu Yunkai's words sounded like a compliment, but in fact, it was not a good excuse. Malfoy couldn't hear that Lu Yunkai was not actually praising him.

He just agreed in a daze.

As for the former captain of the team, it can't be said that Lu Yunkai's hope for Slytherin's talent is problematic, but he always feels that something is wrong...

Although Lu Yunkai was delayed by the Quidditch team's affairs, it was not even a fraction of the time compared to the potion making he had always been accustomed to.

Anyway, there is no place to sell potions now, so Lu Yunkai doesn't even have to pretend in front of his classmates. In addition to dealing with the affairs of the Quidditch team, there is still a lot of time left for potion making, which is just right for research on communication mirrors.

However, in the eyes of other Slytherins, Lu Yunkai, who has always been obsessed with potions, "delayed his research on potions for the affairs of the college Quidditch team", which made the whole college feel close to him.

No one would ever mention the question of whether he, an oriental-looking man, was worthy of being a Slytherin...

And this was also the original intention of Lu Yunkai to agree to Flint to become the captain of the Quidditch team.

In this way, time continued to run, and soon it was the Christmas holiday.

Unlike previous years, Hogwarts this year had a long Halloween holiday because of Sirius's visit, so although two months had passed, most students did not seem to have left home for a long time, and it was the end of the first half of the school year.

So much so that Pansy actually said "Why is it a holiday again?" when the class leader counted the list of people going home.

Of course, she just couldn't bear to see Malfoy after returning home.

After Lu Yunkai became the captain of the Slytherin team, he also changed his previous iron-blooded management of the team.

Very humane.

For example, during training, other Slytherin students (actually female students) were allowed to watch at the training ground.

And Pansy naturally attended all three Slytherin Quidditch training sessions in December.

She handed him a towel to wipe his sweat and prepared hot tea to keep him warm. Even if Malfoy was a piece of wood, he would understand that Pansy was definitely not treating him well because of the power of the Malfoy family...

After a little bit of entanglement (mainly because he had laughed at Lu Yunkai for always hanging out with Daphne and ignoring male students, and now it was his turn, which was a bit embarrassing), he accepted Pansy as his girlfriend.

The way they went out together made Blaise very emotional. Another boy fell into the claws of the dragon...

"Have you ever thought about finding a girlfriend?"

While packing his luggage for the Christmas holiday, Lu Yunkai complained about his roommate.

"Who is it? Millicent? Or your sister-in-law who plays with snakes?"

"To be honest, Astoria is pretty. If you are interested, I can help you..."

"You have the guts to say this to Daphne! Believe it or not, I will tell her!"

"Hehe, she doesn't believe what you said! Who told you to spread rumors to her last week that I was dating Professor Trelawney with Padma Patil from Ravenclaw?" Lu Yunkai glared at Blaise.

"Obviously!"

"Hehe." Lu Yunkai ignored his bad friend.

The last piece of luggage that needed to be packed had been packed by him, and now he just had to wait for the arrival of the Christmas holiday with no plans.

"To be honest, I don't think you are good at divination class. Why does Trelawney always like to keep you for tutoring?" Seeing that Lu Yunkai didn't respond to his words, Blaise started another topic.

Silence.

Lu Yunkai seemed to realize something, turned his head sharply, and looked at Blaise.

Blaise was startled by Lu Yunkai's sudden action.

He lowered his head and continued to organize.

Lu Yunkai showed a strange smile on his face.

"Blaise..."

"...What are you doing?" Lu Yunkai's voice, which was three parts of realization, three parts of testing, and four parts of teasing, made Blaise tremble all over.

"During dinner today, Padma Patil informed me that we should go to see Professor Trelawney together before the train leaves tomorrow morning. She seems to have something to ask us."

"..." Blaise's movements slowed down.

"Padma... is indeed very pretty. Although her twin sister Parvati is prettier..." Lu Yunkai's words were already 70% teasing.

"I think Padma is prettier."

"..." Lu Yunkai was stunned.

"..." Blaise lowered his head.

"Your mother would be very happy to know this..." Lu Yunkai's playful smile was already 100%.

"If you dare to tell her, I will never let you go!!!"

"Okay! Okay!"

Lu Yunkai laughed happily.

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