Drinking black tea calmly at Hogwarts

After leaving the training ground, Xu Jian patted Zhang Xu on the shoulder and said to him: "Come on, follow me to the kitchen, I'll treat you to something good, tell me about your time in England."

Zhang Xu replied: "Teacher Xu, let me invite you."

Unexpectedly, Xu Jian's face changed, and he said seriously: "You are hanging me on the high-voltage line! The school stipulates that the faculty and staff cannot accept any gifts or treats from students, otherwise they will all be expelled. Even if they invite a braised egg."

Hearing what Xu Jian said, Zhang Xu gave up the idea of ​​entertaining guests.

Since unexpected situations such as explosions, big explosions, and violent explosions often occur on the training ground, it is a little far away from the main building complex of the school.

On the way from the training ground to the cafeteria, we passed a large farmland, and the straight ridges divided the field into neat squares like a chessboard.

It is the turn of late spring and early summer, and the plants planted in the farmland are in a period of vigorous growth.

Looking into the field from the road that is much higher than the farmland, colorful plants are distributed in small farmlands, like a bunch of pixels of different colors squeezed together.

When he reached the edge of the field, Xu Jian stopped, looked in the direction of the farmland, and said to Zhang Xu: "Zhang Xu, why don't you pick something to make cold salad?"

Zhang Xu looked at the farmland for a while, then said to Xu Jian with a "hehe" face: "Mr. I don't know what it's going to do to me."

Seeing that Zhang Xu was not fooled, Xu Jian smiled and said to him: "You can do it, you can see the doorway inside."

Zhang Xu smiled and said nothing, he would never say that when he was a child back home, he wanted to run into the medicinal field where precious medicinal materials were planted behind the village to look at it strangely, but after the defensive formation at the edge of the field was activated, it was tied up by the inconspicuous weeds on the ridge It became a dumpling.Later, when he was ridiculed by a group of elders, he heard that the formation in the field was specially arranged by the teachers of the school. In order to prevent the students from secretly picking something in the field, the school also made the same arrangement.After all, the straight-line distance between the two places is less than [-] kilometers, and some medicinal materials used in the school are purchased from the village.

On the next road, Xu Jian roughly explained to Zhang Xu some of the defensive formations in the field.

Not long after, Zhang Xu followed Xu Jian to the vicinity of the cafeteria, and then Xu Jian led Zhang Xu to turn a corner and walk towards the back of the cafeteria.

"Let's go to the kitchen to find Lao Cai, he has a lot of good things there." Xu Jian said.

As a result, as soon as the voice fell, there was a sound like a cow barking from the back door of the cafeteria.

Immediately, Zhang Xu and Xu Jian's eyes lit up, and then they glanced at each other, and they both saw the word "joy" in each other's eyes.

"The sound should be that."

"Yes, it must be that one."

When the two of them rushed to the door of the kitchen, they saw a group of people surrounding a cage, discussing something cheerfully.

After saying hello to a bunch of principals, directors and teachers around him, Zhang Xu carefully looked at the things in the cage.

It was a snake with thick arms and about three meters long. Its body was white and its head was red. The cow-like cry came from its body.

And the temperature around the cage was frighteningly high, like standing next to a boiler.

But for the people around, such a temperature can be solved with a small spell.

"Where did you get this friend snake?" Xu Jian asked.

"Boss Zhang from Fuhu Village brought it when he came to deliver the medicinal materials just now. They caught it at Fangchenggang the day before yesterday, and then sold it to us." Principal Li Jiuxi said.

"It's so big, it took a lot of effort." Xu Jian sighed.

The friend snake with red head and white body is not an ordinary snake, it is a kind of strange beast.Its characteristic is that it can generate heat. When it stays somewhere underground for a long time, the heat emitted from its body will evaporate the water in the surrounding soil, causing local drought.

When they gather and reproduce in large numbers, they can even cause widespread drought in some places.

If they hide near a spring, that spring will become a hot spring.Seriously, it will heat up the surrounding fish.

According to records, there was once a nest of snakes that turned all the sweet potatoes under a piece of sweet potato into roasted sweet potatoes.

Therefore, it is a pest that is seriously destructive to agriculture and is not on the protection list.

In ancient winter, they were often caught and kept as a heater at home, and they were stewed in spring.

At this time, a half-white-haired little old man walked out of the cafeteria, holding a wooden box in his hand.

When Principal Li saw him coming, he said to him, "Old Cai, you have to show your skills today and show Zhang Xu, who is back from England, a good look."

When Lao Cai saw Zhang Xu, he quickly put down Zhang Xu in his hand, came up and shook hands with Zhang Xu enthusiastically, and said, "So you are Boss Xiao Zhang. You are welcome to come to eat every day like last night. Our canteen's year-end awards depend on is you"

Zhang Xu: ーー;

The heat on the friend snake's body is its self-protection measure. When it encounters danger, the heat will burst out, so that predators cannot attack it.Even if it is killed, the temperature of the residual heat in a short period of time is not low, and the corpse without its own magic protection will even be cooked by its own temperature.

This also makes it necessary to solve the problem of heat insulation and fire prevention when people slaughter it.

The easiest way to deal with it is to starve the snake for a period of time to empty its stomach, throw it into a pressure cooker with ingredients and a large pot of water, then cover the pot and close it to death.After the friend snake is drowned and cooled down, the bones and gallbladder are removed by methods such as separation of bones and flesh, and a large pot of snake soup is ready.

But the friend snake caught today is too big to fit in a normal pressure cooker, so I had to choose another way to eat it.

Because the temperature of the snake is too high, if it is handled in the kitchen, the fire alarm may be triggered, so the cafeteria chose to handle it outside.

Soon, Zhang Xu knew what the principal meant by letting Lao Cai "show his hand".

Lao Cai walked to the box he brought just now, stretched out his foot and kicked it, and the lid of the box opened, and inside were neatly lined with handles of knives.

Zhang Xu counted, and there were 36 in total.

Then Lao Cai waved his hand, and the lid on the top of the cage that closed the friend snake was lifted.

In the next second, a shadow sprang out from the cage, and at the same time, the temperature in the air rose a bit.

At this moment, a silver light flashed, and a pointed kitchen knife was accurately inserted into the snake's lower jaw, and the tip of the knife pierced through the snake's head and came out from the back of the head.Then the kitchen knife lifted it into the air, hanging it in the air.

Immediately afterwards, another silver flash lit up on the snake's belly, and another kitchen knife cut open its belly without muddling.

At this time, several kitchen knives flew over, opening the snake's abdominal cavity, and then the kitchen knife that opened its stomach just now cut off the leaked snake gall, and it happened to fall into a flying saucer.

After the other internal organs were disposed of, all the kitchen knives in the box flew up. Except for the one that fixed the snake's head, the other 35 kitchen knives kept flying around the snake like bees around flowers.

In less than a minute, the almost three-meter-long friend snake turned into a steaming slice of meat on a huge plate.

Finally, Lao Cai poured a tablespoon of sesame oil with ginger, coriander, chives and pepper on the snake meat slices on the plate, and the aroma burst out like a bomb, filling every corner of Zhang Xu's nasal cavity.

Principal Li took the steaming plate and greeted everyone around, "Go, go to the box on the third floor."

Xu Jian patted Zhang Xu who was stunned by Lao Cai's cooking knife skill, and only then did he recover from the shock.

Zhang Xu, who came back to his senses, followed Xu Jian upstairs to grab a meal.