Chapter 132 Relaxing Holiday

But it turns out that Chris's worries were a bit unnecessary.

Even if Lu Yunkai didn't give orders to the big snake, it still inherited the snake's original nature.

They don't like people to begin with.

So I haven't seen any news about "a giant snake passing through the city" in the Muggle world.

This made Lu Yunkai, who was so distraught, finally feel a little better.

And when the giant snake finally arrived in the backyard of Lu Yunkai's house the next day, Lu Yunkai was not the only one to greet it.

"This snake is really weird!"

Looking at the giant snake coiled up and sleeping in the middle of a large piece of grass, Irene's expression was more excited than curious.

She came to work overtime voluntarily because she had nothing to do at home and couldn't find the interest to go somewhere to play (Lu Yunkai didn't intend to pay her overtime). After Lu Yunkai saw her when he got up early in the morning, he also Then I asked her if she knew how to let a snake live peacefully in this home...

As a top student with excellent NEWTS in both herbalism and conservation of magical biology, Irene brought Lu Yunkai to a ridge of herbs she planted with a confident look on her face.

Lu Yunkai reached out and touched the leaves, and he knew that these herbs were called Cnidium...

Just because of this name, Lu Yunkai understood why Aileen brought him here.

Now, this big snake, which has been traveling for two days, is coiled in the grass, sleeping peacefully.

"It won't affect the quality and price of this batch of grass because of this guy, right?" Lu Yunkai was worried about other issues.

"No! Although snakes inhabit the cnidium, although the grass itself is useless, the fruit it produces will have more snake properties, and it is a very good herbal medicine!" Irene said with all her treasures.

"Well, that's good." Lu Yunkai sighed.

"Where did you get this snake? I seem to have never seen a snake of this size that is actually venomous." Eileen continued her previous question.

"My classmate's family thinks it is a nuisance...is it poisonous?"

"Look, the leaves of the Cnidium over there have started to turn red. It's because there are highly venomous snakes nearby." Eileen pointed to a piece of grass. It should have an extremely powerful poison, or a particularly rare poison."

"... Herbology is really profound and profound!" Lu Yunkai sighed, "But it may be more than just a snake."

"Oh? What is it?"

"It's just...well, Chris thinks it might...be a person once." Lu Yunkai said carefully, thinking about the words.

"Once a human? Agmanis?? Impossible!" Irene shook her head, "Agymanis can't make the Cnidium turn red!"

"So I don't know either!" Lu Yunkai shook his head, "Yesterday afternoon I wanted to go to the Magic Zoo to ask the boss, but she went on a trip. I can only wait until summer vacation to ask her again."

"I'll go back and check it for you!" Erin thought for a moment and said, "I haven't had anything to do recently anyway."

"Then I'm sorry to trouble you."

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After finishing the matters entrusted by Trelawney, Lu Yunkai had no other plans for his Christmas vacation.

The Ministry of Magic released a piece of news through the Daily Prophet that someone had sighted Sirius near the Czech Republic, which also made this holiday that would have been somewhat clouded by the escaped Death Eaters become sunny.

It also made Lu Yunkai, who was still a little worried about Sirius's whereabouts, completely relieved.

The Czech Republic is still far away from the Balkan Peninsula. Even if the Ministry of Magic is very responsible and sends Aurors to trace it, it will not be found.

After Blake sent a message to Lu Yun that day, he also lost contact again. Thinking about it, even if Voldemort was to be found, it would be a long time later. Although he wanted to ask Hermione why she told the twin sisters about the secret room, Lu Yunkai did not directly ask the owl to deliver the message.

Some things must be explained clearly face to face. After all, he has extremely high expectations and expectations for Hermione...

Therefore, the snake became the only problem that Lu Yunkai needed to solve at the moment.

There is a soul but no consciousness. This strange state is almost exactly the same as Lu Yunkai's suspicion about Chris last year.

Although Chris didn't really lose consciousness and memory at that time, this snake really did!

This made Lu Yunkai, who had studied many related topics last year, extremely enthusiastic about research.

Anyway, this snake's problem is not as urgent as Chris's problem last year, and even whether it is solved or not is not a big problem for Lu Yunkai: after the snake came to Lu Yunkai's house, it seemed to like it more than the twins' house.

Even after Lu Yunkai lifted the Imperius Curse on it, it still stayed near the Cnidium every day.

And after learning that this snake could double the output value of Cnidium nidus, Lu Yunkai had no interest in driving it away. He just asked Xue Li to feed it something to eat every day! Well worth it!

Then study it slowly! !

Because he was not in a hurry, Lu Yunkai still had time to do other things even while reading and looking for relevant information.

After the Daily Prophet's report, Malfoy, who had been grounded for the summer, finally got his father's permission so that he wouldn't have to sit at home for the entire Christmas holiday.

Then he fulfilled the promise he had arranged half a year ago.

He took Lu Yunkai to visit the potion master.

An old man who looked very old.

Lu Yunkai also brought a bottle of potion he prepared to ask the master for help and comments.

As for the results and gains...

Anyway, Lu Yunkai didn't tell Daphne or Chris anything about the master after he came back.

Even Malfoy, who always liked to brag, kept his mouth shut afterwards, and didn't mention what happened there in the correspondence between Goyle and Crabbe.

If there is only one clue to guess what happened there, it is that after returning from there, all the commonly used potions in the Malfoy family no longer spent a lot of money to ask the master to help make, but turned to ask Lu Yunkai for help through Draco...

Ahem.

"That man is not even as good as Lu Yunkai!!"

This is what Draco, who felt embarrassed, said when he was angry with his father at home that night.

Of course, this is actually a bit of bullying. The potion that Lu Yunkai took to the master for evaluation was the explosive corrosion potion that was put into his precious crystal bottle. It was not easy for the master to prepare a bottle on the spot. As for the fact that the quality was not as good as Lu Yunkai's... it was not his fault!

Lu Yunkai's dissatisfaction with the master was not the explosive corrosion potion, but when he was making potions, Lu Yunkai asked him which potions might be used to deal with the basilisk.

He originally wanted to find out Snape's answer from the master, but this master was not even as good as Snape.

Malfoy was not so angry at first. The reason why he felt ashamed was mainly because the master realized that the potion he prepared on the spot was not as good as Lu Yunkai's, and drove them out of the house in anger...

But this is definitely a good thing for Lu Yunkai.

The Malfoy family spends at least 20,000 to 30,000 gold Galleons on various daily potions every year. Although Lu Yunkai does not have the "master" brand and cannot sell at such a high price, he still has 10,000 gold Galleons, which is not a small amount of money.

Moreover, after the Malfoy family took the lead, the Goyle and Crabbe families, who were originally very close to them, seemed to have the same idea...

So, the face problem of being kicked out... does not exist!

As a thank you, Lu Yunkai gave a copy of the beauty potion cream with whitening and anti-aging effects that he had given to Irene before to Malfoy's mother.

"Although my mother has that necklace and does not need this, she still expresses her gratitude to you. It's just that she hopes to buy some more from you to give to her friends. How much do you think is appropriate?"

The feeling of Malfoy's gratitude to Lu Yunkai for letting him show his face in front of his mother in this message is simply bursting out...

Then Lu Yunkai was nagged by Daphne.

"You gave one to Mrs. Malfoy, but not to my mother?"

"I've already left one at your house! It's just that you went on vacation across the ocean!" Lu Yunkai answered without any stuttering.

"That's about right."

Daphne nodded with satisfaction.

Then Lu Yunkai had to run to the empty Greengrass Castle overnight and put a copy in the living room.

...

Just like that, the not-too-long Christmas vacation came to an end.

After looking up the book for a long time, Irene didn't find any way to explain the weirdness of the snake. She also promised Lu Yunkai that she would help him ask the owner of the magic zoo and tell him the result through the communication mirror.

But Lu Yunkai felt that Irene didn't seem to be in a hurry to help Lu Yunkai find the answer.

In addition to helping the snake bed grass grow more and more decent, the snake also helped a lot in maintaining some herbs in the field that might attract mice. Now, she was much more active than Shirley in feeding the snake...

On the day before the end of the Christmas holiday, Daphne, who had been playing the role of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl with Lu Yunkai for a while, finally returned to Greengrass Castle.

Then she kept pulling Lu Yunkai to talk about how she and her sister followed her father to explore the ancient magic ruins he found during this holiday, and were almost attacked by a huge four-winged bird. In the end, it was found that the bird, which looked fierce and could attract rain, snow and even lightning wherever it flew, seemed to be quite docile...

It seemed that she was very satisfied with this holiday.

However, in the words of Astoria, who was stroking the snake and adding details of the story, "She would definitely prefer to stay by your side and spend this holiday doing nothing."

Daphne did not refute this.

"Of course, it would be better if you could take me with you."

She said so.

This made Lu Yunkai suddenly feel that if he didn't give Daphne a little surprise for the Christmas holiday, he would be a little embarrassed.

Fortunately, he really did.

Pulling Daphne and Astoria, who had to follow him this time, Lu Yunkai returned to his home through the Floo powder.

Ignoring Astoria's exclamation that Lu Yunkai actually had such a house, he took Daphne to see the big snake that he had studied for almost the entire Christmas holiday.

After this period of time, the big snake no longer had any hostility towards Lu Yunkai, and even rubbed Lu Yunkai's head with its snake head, which made Astoria, whose golden python had been so nervous since arriving at this house that it almost suffocated her, almost jump up with envy.

Her golden python was even more afraid of this big snake than Chris...

Daphne straightened her back even more in front of her sister.

"You bastard snake, apart from being pretty, you are nothing but trash."

"...That snake is not yours, why are you so stubborn?"

"What Yunkai owns, isn't it mine?"

"……snort!"

On the train back to Hogwarts, the sisters' bickering made everyone else sitting next to them laugh.

Except for Brace.

He chose to look at the white snowy scene outside the window instead of seeing Lu Yunkai and Daphne showing off their affection there.

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