Settle at Hogwarts

Chapter 263 Picking Grapes

Not long after, Lin Zhenhua walked in with a pot of tea.

"Come and have a try, Maoshan is evergreen. These are all cooked by the villagers themselves. If you like it, I can take you to the tea farmer's house to see it later."

Tabor didn't have high hopes at first, but after just taking a sip, a hint of surprise flashed in his eyes.

As we all know, Britain does not produce tea, and most of the raw materials used in British black tea are broken black tea produced in places such as India and Sri Lanka.This type of tea is basically processed by machines, and the quality is not very good.

Therefore, Tubo only preferred juice when he was at Hogwarts, occasionally choosing coffee and almost never touching black tea.

"It's very good. If possible, I would like to take some back and drink it myself."

Tabor shook the tea cup in his hand, savoring the lingering sweetness in his mouth.

"Of course. If Old Man Chen knew that his tea could be sold abroad, he would definitely be very happy!"

Severus also took a sip of tea. Although he didn't like sweets like other children, he still didn't feel much about this bitter drink.

"If you don't like it, you can try something else."

Tabor looked at a greasy menu with other drinks on it.

"We have a lot of vineyards around here. How about some grape juice for the kids?"

Lin Zhenhua enthusiastically recommended it.

Tabor nodded in agreement without any hesitation.

He is not short of Galleons. Even if he does not have the bills here, he can still exchange them with the Ministry of Magic here.

"Wait a minute, I'll go to the fields to select some early-ripening grapes."

"Do you still need freshly picked ones? Can we go to the grape fields together?"

Taber suddenly thought of many parents who would take their children to experience fruit picking.Even if Severus has an herbal medicine class in the future, he probably won't have the chance to get his hands on a fruit that doesn't move.

"The ones picked fresh will have the richest juice. The grape field is behind the house, please."

Following Lin Zhenhua to the back of the house, Tabor found that most of the grapes here were not ripe yet, and only a few ripe ones were hanging between the vines.

"Sev, how about trying to pick grapes with your own hands?"

Severus looked at Lin Zhenhua, who was holding scissors and preparing to climb the ladder, and asked a little strangely: "Why doesn't he use magic? He only needs a cutting spell and a floating spell, and it can be easily removed."

Tabor rubbed the new stubble on his chin and didn't know how to answer for a while.I was relieved that Severus knew how to use magic flexibly, but I also felt that he seemed to rely too much on magic.

"Don't you think the fruit picked by your own hands will be sweeter? It's like bread mass-produced by Muggle machines, it has no soul."

"So there are souls in the bread baked by house elves?"

Severus' expression was a little horrified. No wonder he thought freshly baked bread was more delicious. Could it be that he had really eaten a lot of souls?

The corners of Tabor's mouth twitched. It was impossible for anyone to be totally clueless.

"This is just a way of saying it. In my opinion, Duoduo pays great attention to the ingredients and processing process, so the bread it makes will be more delicious. Just like people are alive when they have souls, food in this world There is no real soul born in the food, but the producer can inject his heart into the food.”

Severus nodded with some vague understanding, but silently wrote down the parts he didn't understand. In his opinion, he would eventually understand it all when he grew up.

“So try it now and pick a bunch of grapes with your hands.”

Tabor happily picked up a pair of scissors and put it into Severus's hand.

"The little bunch on top looks ripe."

Severus grabbed the scissors and was lifted high by Tabor, stopping steadily in front of a bunch of grapes.

"Crack."

The moment the grape stems were cut off, a whole bunch of purple grapes followed gravity and hit the ground in front of Tabor.

Tubo put Severus on his shoulder with one hand, and steadily caught the falling grapes with the other hand.

"Severus, how are you? Do you feel anything?"

"No."

Severus felt that cutting off the stems of a bunch of grapes was no different from cutting off other potion materials that needed to be processed.

"Would you like to try one? You picked this with your own hands."

As he spoke, Tabor mobilized a little bit of magic power and used exquisite control to summon a small stream of water to clean each grape.

If you don't look carefully, you might just think that there is some dew on the grapes.

Severus looked at the grapes in Tubo's hand, picked one from the top and put it into his mouth.

The sweet taste, with some cold juice, instantly filled the entire mouth, and even the heat that originally filled the whole body disappeared a bit.

"It's sweet."

Tabor put the bunch of grapes into the basket.

"The grape juice will also have your share of the credit later, it will be delicious!"

Seeing his uncle's happy expression, Severus also laughed.

"Mr. Prince, the grapes here are very good."

Lin Zhenhua walked over here carrying most of the basket of grapes.

If it weren't for the fact that he was wearing clothes that clearly didn't look like a farmer, Tabor would have thought that he was an out-and-out farmer.

"It's indeed very good. But what I didn't expect is that you people who have mastered the mysterious power will actually work with your hands in such a down-to-earth manner."

Lin Zhenhua smiled very kindly: "This can be regarded as a kind of practice. There are no house elves on our mountain like you. All the things that need to be done are done by the brothers in turn."

Tabor looked at Severus beside him, his expression full of thoughtfulness.

Perhaps, some necessary housework magic and food magic need to be learned carefully.Otherwise, Severus might not be able to survive without Dodo and the other house elves.

Although the existence of creatures like house elves gives wizards more time to study other magic, it also greatly weakens the wizard's ability to take care of himself.

Thinking about myself, it seems that I have never washed clothes seriously once in my life.Either leave it to Dodo or the house elves at Hogwarts.

If one day the house elves rebelled, I'm afraid the first ones who would be unbearable would be those pure-blooded nobles who are not working hard.

"Severus, remember to learn some simple cooking when you go back. If Duoduo is gone one day, you need to take care of yourself."

Tabor did not use a consultative tone. He believed that he only needed to spare a few days, which would be enough for Sif's smart brain to understand all the basic household chores.

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