Drinking black tea calmly at Hogwarts

In the stove made of clay, the charcoal is burning quietly, only a little spark pops out occasionally, and a copper pot is placed on the stove to isolate the two incompatible existences of water and fire.

At this moment, gold, wood, water, fire, and earth gathered together to form an unprecedented harmony.

Mutton, lamb leg bones, fragrant leaves, star anise, pepper, amomum, cinnamon, grass fruit, fennel, ginger and other materials have been worked together for more than two hours, exuding a strong aroma.

After adding sliced ​​sun mushrooms, small puff mushrooms and walking mushrooms, the aroma in the air suddenly changed, and the original strong aroma immediately became a little more fresh from the night.

The Scottish Highlands are still cold at the end of January, and mushroom and lamb hot pot is the best choice nowadays.

The moment when the lid of the pot is lifted is the best way to understand the beauty of the slow-simmering cauldron emitting white smoke and bursts of fragrance. It truly understands the liquid that enters people's mouths, the feeling of fascination and blurred will. A magical power.

Zhang Xu filled a large bowl with soup and meat, and respectfully placed it in front of Scarlet who was sitting across the table.

Scarlett, who was still angry with Zhang Xu, just glared at him, pushed the bowl of mutton in front of him, took the copper pot off the charcoal stove and put it in front of him, and started to eat by himself.

Zhang Xu scratched the back of his head helplessly, and could only pick up the spoon and silently start a war with the bowl of mutton in front of him.

During the period, Zhang Xu wanted to stir up the topic several times, but Scarlet didn't care what he said, he just regarded him as air, and just concentrated on eating the mutton and mushrooms in the pot.

When the three of Harry walked into the kitchen, they saw that Scarlet was holding up the copper pot and drinking all the soup in it, then put the empty copper pot on the table and wiped it. Wipe your mouth and get up to leave.

The Harry trio standing by the door immediately stepped aside consciously, making way for Professor Scarlett.

As the trio who are very familiar with Zhang Xu and Scarlett, they noticed the abnormality between the two of them early on. Not long after the end of the Christmas holiday, the two of them have never been in private again. Talked on the occasion.

To be precise, Professor Scarlet didn't want to talk to Professor Zhang.

Many students who love gossip have also discovered this, but they didn't go to the parties to ask what happened to them.

When Harry's trio walked to Zhang Xu's table, he found that the cloaks of Harry and the three of them were a bit dirty, and they all seemed to be shivering with cold.

"You just came back from outside" Zhang Xu asked curiously.

"Not long ago we found Gropp a cave to live in, and tonight we're going to see how he's doing there." Harry replied.

From the messy hair on their heads and the cold faces, it can be seen that the three of them passed by on broomsticks, and it is not a comfortable thing to fly in the sky at this time of year.

Zhang Xu nodded. He already knew about Gropp living in a cave from the centaur, and the centaur tribe was quite satisfied with this solution.

"I heard from the horse people about this." Zhang Xu said to them, "They are very satisfied with it."

"Hagrid also wants us to teach Grapp English," said Hermione. "Thank you, Ellen."

The house-elf who had just brought hot drinks and cakes to Harry's trio was startled out of habit when Hermione thanked her, and then ran away.

"Alan is a bit shy," Hermione said, "but he is a good brother, and he loves his sister as much as Ron."

"By the way, his sister's name is Annie."

Zhang Xu, Harry, and Ron looked at each other, and while picking up a piece of cake, they pretended to be very interested and listened to Hermione introducing them to the house elves in the Hogwarts kitchen.

Harry didn't know until now that Hermione knew all the Hogwarts

House-elves, Ron knew that house-elves also have brothers and sisters, and Zhang Xu knew that house-elves also have sister-controlling and brother-controlling.

At this time, a house elf brought a bowl of mutton noodles to Zhang Xu, and then ran away like Alan.

Most of the pot of mutton just now went into Scarlet's stomach, and the bowl of Zhang Xu's filling was not full at all.

"That was Jason just now." Hermione continued excitedly, "He and Lee are the best house elves in Hogwarts. Jason and Lee can cook dishes from many places."

"They also have a good friend named Strange, but he has been a little bit wrong. He has been talking about the trolley on platform 9 of King's Cross Station. He said that he seems to have accidentally entered the platform and came by train. Hogwarts."

Then Hermione suddenly turned to look at Harry and Ron, making them both startle.

Hermione said to the two of them: "As the secretary and treasurer of the House-Elf Rights Promotion Association, you should also pay more attention to and learn more about house-elves."

Next, when Hermione filed a complaint against Harry and Ron Cope against house elf slavery that was dismissed by the Ministry of Magic in 1973, Zhang Xu ate noodles silently, and he didn't want to be involved at this time.

Zhang Xu had learned from Dobby a long time ago that after Hermione was taught a class by Zhang Xu, she conducted a comprehensive investigation of the house-elves in Hogwarts.

Through Dobby's narration, Zhang Xu brain made up the picture of Hermione with a notebook and a quill in one hand, and then catching a house elf in the kitchen and asking various questions.

And the first house-elf to be caught was the Alan just now, and he was also the house-elf who was caught the most times by Hermione.

It has to be said that Hermione's investigation work is very effective.

Just getting to know all the house-elves at Hogwarts is pretty amazing.

Zhang Xu himself is blind to house-elves. Except for Dobby, Winky, and Kreacher, who have more contact with each other and have distinct characteristics, the other house-elves look similar to him.

Hermione not only knew all of them, but also established a set of files for them, recording their names, genders, ages, relatives, specialties, personalities and hobbies.

Now the house elves are afraid of being asked all kinds of questions by Hermione, and everyone keeps her away.

When Zhang Xu finished eating the mutton noodles, Hermione was discussing with Harry and Ron about making new pillowcases for the house elves.

Zhang Xu, who finished the last sip of soup, was a little surprised, so he put down the bowl and asked, "It's just a pillowcase. I thought you would make clothes, hats, etc. for them."

"That's for the future." Hermione said seriously, "It's too early to give them clothes now, the current task is to improve their working environment, first let them know how normal workers should be treated, Then I plan to improve the house-elves' accommodation."

Zhang Xu was relieved to see that Hermione didn't throw clothes at the house elves blindly and impulsively.

Hermione's thoughts Zhang Xu also guessed a general idea, that is, he didn't know whether the house-elves said it was easy to go from frugality to extravagance, but difficult to go from extravagance to frugality.

"I'm going to give a lesson to the house-elves next," said Hermione.

"As long as a small number of house-elfs can accept my education, then I have succeeded in the first step."

Zhang Xu, Harry, and Ron were all startled by Hermione's next plan.

Zhang Xu glanced at Hermione. She is planning to start a house elf rights promotion workshop. Does she want the kitchen to surround the living room?

Tonight, Hermione suddenly interrupted the topic on the house-elf. Harry originally wanted to ask Zhang Xu some questions, but he couldn’t ask. Hermione, who is talking non-stop, is not easy to interrupt. .

But Zhang Xu didn't mind Hermione turning the topic on the house elves, after all, this matter sounded much more interesting than Harry's matter.