Drinking black tea calmly at Hogwarts

In front of the No. 233 vault on the ground floor of Gringotts, today's manager on duty is standing guard outside with a few security guards, while Zhang Xu is doing an inventory in the vault where he keeps his private money.

When Voldemort returned from the cauldron two years ago, Zhang Xu got a lot of extra money from a group of Death Eaters, and later gave Harry Potter half of the money for selling his blood.

Method After Zhang Xu took Hufflepuff's gold cup away, he never came back to this vault, so he didn't know exactly how much money and things were stored there.

Especially later he used the gold coins in this vault as a favor and allowed Dumbledore to borrow the money here as the operating expenses of the Order of the Phoenix, as long as Lao Deng put the IOU in the vault. Still believable.

So only Zhang Xu and Dumbledore knew to open this vault. When Zhang Xu heard Harry say that the dice Dumbledore left for him rolled only the numbers two and three, he could be sure that Dumbledore Here is what Lido left for himself.

It's just that the vault, which has never been taken care of, is really messy. I don't know what Dumbledore put here, so Zhang Xu simply asked the goblin from Gringotts to help with statistics.

Several goblins in Gringotts who specialize in inventory work are busy in the vault at the moment. They are specially trained employees of Gringotts. Under the restraint of magic, they are not afraid of revealing the secrets in the client's vault.

The first to complete the work was the goblin who was in charge of counting the stack of IOUs written by Dumbledore. He listed the time, loan amount, notes and total of the IOUs written by Dumbledore over the years on a piece of parchment.

Zhang Xu looked at Dumbledore's loan summary table calculated by the goblin, and found that Lao Deng had been borrowing money since 1996. He didn't borrow much at the beginning, but as time went by, the amount of each loan was getting higher and higher. , In the end, the total amount of loans had reached a very high number. If Zhang Xu wanted to ask Lao Deng to pay back the money, Lao Deng probably had to go to a pawn shop first.

"Did he not plan to pay it back from the beginning, or did he think that I would not ask him to pay it back?" Zhang Xu looked at the list and said to himself, "And this matter must not be known to the outside world."

Zhang Xu can be sure that if this matter gets out, the news of a certain reporter the next day must be that he asked Voldemort to help Dumbledore collect debts, and Dumbledore yelled at the Death Eaters, "I borrowed the money on my own merits, Why do you have to pay it back, if you want money, or if you want a life" and then his life is gone.

After reading the loan summary form, Zhang Xu turned over the next page. At this time, he unexpectedly found that there were only two lines on this page. The first line was "Repayment Summary Form", and the second line was Dumbledore's physical loan Records of loan repayments.

"Go and get this thing." Zhang Xu pointed to the repayment record and said to the fairy next to him.

After the goblin left, Zhang Xu began to study this weird repayment record.

He found the undated repayment note from the bottom of a stack of IOUs. The handwriting on it was Dumbledore's. That's right. Old Deng paid 230 three Galleons for a box to repay the money.

However, the repayment time stated on the repayment summary form was July. Zhang Xu calculated that that day happened to be the night of Lao Deng's resurrection.

When the goblin came back with a half-meter-long black wooden box, Zhang Xu asked him, "How do you know the date?"

"The magic of the Gringotts vault will mark the storage time of each item that enters the vault, and only the goblin can see it." The goblin said.

Zhang Xu nodded, then hurriedly walked out of the vault with the black box, and asked the manager on duty who was guarding the door outside, "Who stored this box?"

The manager on duty glanced at the box in Zhang Xu's hand, then took out a notebook, searched it for a while and said: "The only one who entered the vault that day was the house-elf of Hogwarts, and it has the credentials to enter the vault. .”

"Thank you." Zhang Xu said disappointedly.

After returning to the vault, Zhang Xu suddenly lost interest. After the goblins counted all the items and gold coins in the vault, he let the goblins go out first, and then forced himself to look for Dumbledore in the vault. down the trail.

After carefully flipping through the vault three times, Zhang Xu had to be sure that the only thing left to him by Dumbledore was the black wooden box besides the stack of IOUs.

It was a plain black wooden box, tightly bound by a thin rope.

Magic was cast on the rope, and Zhang Xu tried several methods agreed with Dumbledore before untying it.

After opening the box, Zhang Xu was stunned.

In addition to a Shuangfeiyan mechanical mouse without the mouse cable, there is also a magic wand inside.

The slightly enchanted mouse was his token of entry to the vault for Dumbledore, and apparently Dumbledore returned it.

What was even more terrible was the magic wand on the side. If Zhang Xu read it correctly, this wand was the legendary Elder Wand that Dumbledore had been using all the time.

Zhang Xu looked at this wand that he wanted to borrow several times to play with, but Dumbledore never agreed to it, and couldn't understand what old Deng was thinking.

Zhang Xu checked the box again. There was no letter, note or other information in it, and there was no writing left on the box. He even opened the mouse, but found nothing.

Looking at the Elder Wand in his hand, Zhang Xu felt that it was like a roasted sweet potato just taken out of the fire. Although it was very fragrant, it was also very hot.

Having said that, this guy should be Lao Deng's funeral object, Zhang Xu thought.

Could it be that Lao Deng learned from his old friend that Voldemort was looking for the Elder Wand, so he gave the Elder Wand to himself, if Voldemort heard the news again?

Zhang Xu didn't want to think about it any more. If this was the case, unless he honestly handed over the Elder Wand, Voldemort would definitely attack him, even if his two children were in his hands.People like Voldemort who have not experienced family warmth are more likely to choose a career between career and family.

Zhang Xu asked himself, if Voldemort threatened him with his life, or even the lives of his relatives and friends, would he hand over the Elder Wand?

Of course it will, Zhang Xu thought, not to mention the Elder Wand, even if Voldemort asked him to hand over Harry Potter, he would tie a bomb on Harry with tears in his eyes, and then pack Harry up Okay send it over.