Chapter 69 I’m Afraid of Knowing the Goods

"You really don't want to put away this ring?"

Daphne took a look at Lu Yunkai's outfit.

Student robes, nothing to pick.

His hair was clean and tidy, and he had a faint fragrance on his body, which was fine.

The only thing that caught her eye was a gold ring hanging on a thin chain of unknown material around his neck.

After this summer vacation, she saw Lu Yunkai wearing it a few times in school. At that time, she thought that the ring was simple in shape, or rustic in appearance.

"This is what I brought with me when I came to England from the East." Lu Yunkai said with a hint of meaning.

"...Okay." Daphne glanced at the people who had almost left the carriage and could only nod, "Just don't talk for a while, leave everything to me."

"No need? Isn't that too embarrassing..."

"Oh! I know my father better than you do. I have controlled him since he was a child. Leave it to me!"

"Oh."

Lu Yunkai smiled, carrying his backpack, and got off the special express with Daphne.

There were not many people on the nine and three quarters platform, just like on the train just now. Except for the Slytherin students, there were almost no people from other colleges.

After all, today is a working day.

Daphne saw her parents at a glance, and pulled Lu Yunkai over.

Without saying a word, she gave a big hug to the blond, elegant, but dark-skinned man.

"My dear daughter! Daddy misses you so much!" The man's face was also filled with a happy smile.

"If you miss me, you should come back to see me! You ran to a place where no one lives and dug a hole every day and didn't want to go home!" Daphne complained.

"Okay! Okay! I was wrong!!"

"You know you are wrong but you don't change!" Daphne snorted, and hugged her smiling mother Hailin gently, and then pulled Lu Yunkai who was standing beside her to her side, "Dad, this is Lu Yunkai."

"Oh." The smile on the man's face disappeared almost instantly, and he looked at him with a scrutinizing look.

Lu Yunkai was a little embarrassed by being looked at, but he still tried to smile.

"Dad! What are you doing!!" Seeing that Lu Yunkai was uncomfortable being looked at, Daphne was a little angry.

"Nothing..." The man's eyes were fixed on the ring hanging on Lu Yunkai's chest, staring at the pattern for a full twenty seconds, "I am Baron Greengrass, Daphne's father."

"Hello, uncle." Lu Yunkai greeted quickly.

"Daphne, didn't you bring your luggage back?" Hailin changed the subject.

"Here!" Daphne patted a small exquisite leather shoulder bag on her body.

"This shoulder bag... Is it a space bag?? You can use the space spell?" Hailin was a little surprised.

"It's not me! It's Yunkai. I told him that it's troublesome to drag a suitcase and a bag home, so he gave me this." Daphne returned to Lu Yunkai with a smile and held Lu Yunkai's hand.

Very natural.

"Oh? This space bag is quite beautiful." Hailin looked at the small bag Daphne was carrying and nodded seriously.

"Mother, if you like it..."

"I'll give you another one later!" Lu Yunkai replied at the right time.

"No need! I can make a space bag myself..."

"Mother! Yunkai's is different! The space inside is so big!" Daphne wanted to take the opportunity to show off to Lu Yunkai, so she interrupted and said: "I tested it, and it's no problem to put more than 20 of my suitcases in it."

"... Can your suitcase fit in?" Baron looked surprised.

"Yeah! What's wrong?" Daphne looked confused.

"Okay, let's go, let's talk about it at home." Baron's eyes stayed on Lu Yunkai's ring for two more seconds, then he smiled and nodded at his wife.

The four of them walked out of the platform and came to a corner of King's Cross Station where there were few people. A somewhat worn-out armchair was placed there a little abruptly, but people who occasionally passed by didn't feel anything strange.

"Go and hold the chair." Daphne gently reminded Lu Yunkai in his ear.

Lu Yunkai nodded slightly, and like Daphne, he held the back of the chair.

In an instant, Lu Yunkai felt as if his body was being pulled by something and flew into the sky, and then fell to the ground.

That kind of comfortable feeling was even better than a roller coaster, so he couldn't even open his eyes.

When he came to his senses, he found himself outside the gate of the Greengrass manor.

He came here almost every day for a month this summer. He was already familiar with the garden and the huge fountain in front of the castle that looked like a blooming rose.

Entering the courtyard, it was still a short distance from the castle, but the courtyard was full of beautiful scenery at noon in autumn, and walking in it was not boring.

"Daphne! Go and pack up and get ready for lunch!"

Seeing that they had entered the castle covered with ivy, in the huge hall, Baron, who had been leading the way but had not spoken, smiled and said to his daughter.

"Ah? Then Yunkai..."

"I'll take him to the study first."

"This..." Daphne looked at Lu Yunkai a little at a loss.

"You go." Lu Yunkai smiled at Daphne.

"Well, I'll be quick." Daphne seemed a little worried, nodded, and ran up the stairs.

"I'll go see Astoria." Helin also understood that her husband probably had something to say to Lu Yunkai alone, so she could only smile and pat Lu Yunkai on the shoulder and choose to leave: "If she knew you were here, she would definitely be very happy."

"Maybe!" Lu Yunkai smiled.

Happy? How could it be possible! That girl would like me to stay away from her sister!

After Daphne and her mother left, Lu Yunkai followed Baron into the study on the first floor.

"Please sit down. I heard from Astoria that you tutored Daphne in potion lessons here this summer? You should be familiar with this place, right?" Baron's words didn't sound too polite, but there was nothing rude about it.

"Well, it's okay." Lu Yunkai smiled and sat on a chair in the room.

Baron sat opposite him and looked at him for a while.

"Uncle, if you have anything to ask, just ask." Lu Yunkai really didn't like being scrutinized like this, especially by using Legilimency.

"I heard from my wife that you practiced brain occlusion, and it seems to be true."

Baron retracted his gaze, waved his hand, took out a pipe, held it in the corner of his mouth, lit it, and took a puff, looking natural and relaxed, as if he wanted to put more psychological pressure on Lu Yunkai.

But Lu Yunkai didn't buy it.

She smiled and watched him do all this, unmoved.

"How did you get familiar with Daphne?"

"Once we bumped into each other while sleepwalking..."

Lu Yunkai told the story of the time he met Daphne while monitoring Quirrell in the middle of the night.

"Yeah." After listening to the story, Baron didn't comment, "I also heard that you often help her study?"

"I usually make potions in the lounge. She would come to ask me some questions from time to time, and I would answer them. It can't be said that I help her. Anyway, I'm waiting for the potion to be boiled, and I'm idle anyway." Lu Yunkai smiled.

"Potion? Oh, by the way, I remember Daphne told me that you helped your roommate get Phoenix Tears? That's not something that can be easily obtained!"

Baron asked with a smile.

He glanced at the ring that Lu Yunkai was holding.

"I don't know the details. Blaise's mother exchanged some things with my friend. I just introduced them to each other."

"I am also interested in meeting your friend."

"I will introduce you to each other if there is a chance."

Lu Yunkai answered without any leaks.

"Also, you are Professor Slughorn's adopted son? Professor Slughorn?"

"Professor Snape told me this, I don't remember it. Until I accidentally drank the antidote potion last year..."

"Forget-me-not is no easier to get than Phoenix tears. And you actually have the guts to drink it? When Daphne wrote to me about this, she praised you." Baron interrupted Lu Yunkai, "But it's better not to do such reckless things like a Gryffindor."

"If the words of Professors Sprout and Snape are still unreliable, then there is no need for me to stay in Hogwarts." Lu Yunkai retorted indifferently.

Baron was stunned and smiled.

"So, where did you get this ring you are wearing? Did that friend give it to you?"

"No, it's a family heirloom."

"Professor Slughorn..."

"I brought it from the East." Lu Yunkai explained.

"The East?" Baron's eyes narrowed.

"What? Is there something wrong?" Lu Yunkai raised his eyelids, but still asked with a smile.

"Can you let me see your ring?"

"Oh! Of course!" Lu Yunkai quickly took the ring off his neck.

"Ah!!" Baron exclaimed when he got the necklace with the ring.

Lu Yunkai smiled.

Sure enough, this "future father-in-law" is a man with vision! Not only did he notice his ring, but he also noticed the necklace that looked ordinary and nothing special.

That necklace is sold for more than 10,000 gold galleons in the system! Who knows what price it can be sold for in Knockturn Alley.

But Baron may really be knowledgeable, and soon shifted his attention from the necklace back to the ring.

"Can I try with a spell?"

"Of course. Just don't break it for me."

"I definitely won't." Baron drew out his wand and waved it at the ring, "Time Pursuit!"

A red light shot out from the top of his wand.

However, before it touched the ring, it was bounced off by an invisible barrier.

"This necklace..." Baron was shocked, "Can I take the ring off the necklace?"

"Oh! Please." Lu Yunkai still smiled and watched Baron perform.

Finally, the spell he tried again landed on the ring.

After being hit by the red light, the ring emitted a light blue to purple light, but it did not last long and the color faded away.

Baron seemed to have been touched by something and used five or six spells on the ring in a row.

Each spell had a different color, and the light emitted after hitting the ring was also different.

Finally, the last color faded, and the ring returned to its original old appearance that was not very bright.

"...What's wrong, uncle?" Although Lu Yunkai laughed in his heart, his tone was full of worry when he asked.

"Your ring...you...it's nothing." Baron finally recovered from his loss of composure and shook his head, "Your family in the East...Oh, yes, you are an orphan."

"Yeah." Lu Yunkai nodded, "What's the origin of this ring?"

"Ahem, nothing, oh! By the way!" Baron looked out the window, "Let's go to lunch! Let's talk after lunch!"

"Oh! Okay."

Lu Yunkai smiled and took back the ring, strung it on the necklace, and hung it back around his neck.

"Your necklace...is it with the ring?"

"Yeah. What's wrong?"

"Nothing."

Baron shook his head.

His expression was indescribably strange.

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