Drinking black tea calmly at Hogwarts

The reading room brought by Zhang Xu was an independent institution in Hogwarts, and now it can be described as impressive.The weekly salons and debates spontaneously organized by the students are full of vitality. The book purchasing business that made Zhang Xu his first pot of gold at Hogwarts has now brought a lot of private wealth to Zhang Qiu who inherited this business. money.At the time when the prospects were unclear, this place, one of the escape routes, had some functions including but not limited to ultra-long-distance teleportation, self-destruction, etc. Fortunately, it was not discovered by Dumbledore and other Hogwarts staff.

Although Zhang Xu has spent less time here than in the kitchen in the past few years, this place is still one of Zhang's private plots.

At eleven o'clock in the evening, Malfoy carefully pushed open the door of the reading room, and then made a gesture of sticking his head in to see what was going on.

Almost all the lights in the reading room went out, leaving only a few lights from the door to Zhang Xu's special seat still on.

Malfoy walked cautiously into the reading room with the door open, and fled the door as soon as he noticed something was wrong.

Be careful, Malfoy knew what he was doing enough to die several times at Hogwarts.If things were leaked, Dumbledore couldn't keep him.

Malfoy checked to see if there was anyone hiding around as he walked. If a group of Gryffindors jumped out from behind the bookshelf after the teacup in Zhang Xu's hand fell to the ground and shattered, Malfoy would not be surprised at all.

"Very good, very cautious. Although being cautious does not necessarily bring success, it can avoid failure." Zhang Xu poured a cup of hot tea for Malfoy who was sitting opposite him and said, "This is the only place in Hogwarts where you are not afraid A place where people overheard."

Malfoy learned the oriental etiquette that his father had said, and tapped the table with the index finger and middle finger of his right hand a few times.

It's just that because he was too nervous, he went a little too hard, and Zhang Xu was afraid that he would break the table.

Malfoy didn't notice this, and Zhang Xu subconsciously glanced at the door.A mouse came in after Malfoy, but was immediately chased away by the automatic defense magic here.

Then Zhang Xu asked Malfoy, "One thing first, did you go home during the Christmas holiday?"

Malfoy shook his head and said, "No."

Zhang Xu turned his head to look out of the window, and then said nonchalantly: "I don't care what you are going to do next, as long as you only go for Dumbledore and don't drag the people around me into the water, I can do whatever you want." turn a blind eye to things."

Zhang Xu's words were like dropping a bomb in Malfoy's mind. Although he guessed that Zhang Xu saw what he was doing in Hogsmeade that time, he didn't think Zhang Xu would know who his target was.

Malfoy subconsciously stood up and drew out his wand, pointing at Zhang Xu to silence him, but at the next moment, his movements stopped.

Zhang Xu was still looking out of the window, but at some point a black sign appeared on his hand, and the sign was tumbling between his fingers as he shook his fingers.On the front of the sign was the Death Eater's Dark Mark imprinted impressively.

Malfoy was stunned. He looked at Zhang Xu as if he saw Snape who was washing his hair standing with his head covered in foam.

Normal in front of myself.

"Why?" Malfoy asked in horror.

He naturally recognized the black plaque in Zhang Xu's hand, because it was proposed by his father, and his father also had one in his hand.Now that the Death Eaters are considered a big family, it is impossible for Voldemort to personally manage the people and affairs at the grassroots level, so the old horse didn't know where he made a mistake, so he suggested to Voldemort that "seeing things as you see people", and then Voldemort also Mistakenly agreed.This brand is no joke among grassroots Death Eaters these days.

It's just that Malfoy never expected that Zhang Xu would have such a thing in his hand.Although I heard at home that the Death Eaters had been planning to instigate rebellion or control Zhang Xu, everyone knew how low the success rate was.

After turning his head and seeing Malfoy's reaction, Zhang Xu also complained fiercely in his heart, saying that when the old horse was planting sugarcane, he must have been learning Chinese while holding martial arts novels.When he saw Voldemort put the "Dark Token" in the middle of the table in the cafe that day, he almost choked to death on a cappuccino.

"Don't ask what you shouldn't ask, and don't say what you shouldn't say in the future, you know?" Zhang Xu said to Malfoy.

Malfoy nodded subconsciously.

Zhang Xu naturally wouldn't tell Malfoy that the sign Voldemort gave him as a reward could only save his own life, and it couldn't be used to order other Death Eaters to do things like the old horse, otherwise he would have ordered Snape to be exonerated. I have done all the homework for my Defense Against the Dark Arts class.

"Let me tell you something first, are you going to give that opal necklace to me?" Zhang Xu asked while playing with the sign.

Cold sweat broke out on Malfoy's forehead and back, and pills popped out of his mind.

"Let's forget about this matter, just express your apology casually." Zhang Xu said generously.

Malfoy naturally knew what Zhang Xu meant by "expressing my apologies". There was no other option other than gold coins. Zhang Xu's greed for money was known to the higher-ups of the Death Eaters, and they also deeply understood it. .

"I have no money, and my family has no money." Malfoy managed to escape the words through his teeth.

After so many years of claiming to be the eldest son of a rich family in the British magic world, the current liquidity of the family is almost exhausted, and the old house that accounts for the largest proportion of real estate has been burned down and has to be rebuilt. Now the Malfoy family can be said to be on the verge of bankruptcy. This contrast is not insignificant. big.Not to mention that half of the family's liquidity was cheated by the person sitting opposite.

"Then make an IOU first, and I won't count your interest for the sake of my classmates for many years." Zhang Xu said, "By the way, the burning of your house was not done by us, but by Russian wizards."

Faced with the current situation where the enemy is strong and we are weak, Xiao Ma had to bow his head and write an IOU on the parchment provided by Zhang Xu and then stamp his fingerprints. Zhang Xu nodded in satisfaction after seeing the number on the IOU.

Malfoy thought that Zhang Xu was looking for him tonight for this matter, but just as he was about to find an excuse to leave, Zhang Xu said, "Okay, let's get down to business next."

Malfoy looked at Zhang Xu with a pale face, not knowing what he was talking about, but what Malfoy could be sure of was that he was definitely not here to help him complete the task.