The Chinese girl from Hufflepuff is both timid and brave

It had been just over a month since I last visited Diggory's house, but the garden had changed a lot.

The pink and white hydrangeas were replaced by mistletoe vines and many fairies wearing flowing skirts.

There are two Christmas trees hung with ribbons and gift pendants at the door. There are also a few fairies who choose to stay here instead of dancing under the mistletoe.

As usual, I smelled a pleasant aroma after entering the door. Different from the sweet fragrance of the Burrow, the food in Digory's house had a softer and mellower aroma.

Sun Zhu noticed that Fiona always had a faint smile on her lips, while Cedric, who was following silently, seemed a little embarrassed.

She looked at Sun Zhengxing who was left behind with Amos, and heard Fiona say, "Perhaps for the dinner later, I need Amos and Mr. Sun to help. Zhu, if you have anything to do later, let Seide do it for you."

After she finished speaking, she glanced at Cedric, tidied up Sun Zhu's hair, and then walked towards the two men who had just entered.

Sun Zhu saw that his father and Uncle Amos were taken to another place without even having time to drink a sip of water.

"What are they going to do?" Sun Zhu looked at Cedric who was also confused.

"I don't know either. In fact, Mom should have prepared enough ingredients and a large enough venue for the possible Christmas party."

"Don't we need help then?"

"Bamboo, are you sure you don't need to rest for a while?" Cedric shook his head and smiled at her, "If we need it, mom will tell us, and you are a guest, just sit back and enjoy dinner."

Sun Zhu sat down as she was told. To be honest, she was a little tired now. Although she didn't do much exercise today, she was nervous for a while. And she also spent a lot of time thinking about Peter and Sirius.

"Perhaps you need something to drink, lemon tea or honey wine?"

Seeing her tidying up the wrinkles on her skirt out of boredom, Cedric asked.

"Black tea, thank you."

Sun Zhu was not sure about her alcohol tolerance. Although the fruit wine used to entertain children should not be too strong, in her current state, if she accidentally got drunk, it would be a big deal if she spilled any of her secrets.

"Don't be so polite. My mother assigned me the task of entertaining you well." Cedric poured himself a glass of fruit wine. Seeing that she was sipping tea in small sips, he couldn't help but look at the hem of her skirt.

"Hi?" Sun Zhu waved in front of him without him noticing. "What are you thinking about? You look so absorbed in it."

He came back to his senses all of a sudden, looking at her face that suddenly approached him in a daze.

"Your wine is spilled." She pointed to the clear wine that fell on the floor. She straightened the tilted glass in his hand, but it was obvious that he had been in a trance for a while before she noticed.

Cedric came back to his senses completely, his fair face flushed again. While apologizing, he took out a wand from somewhere and shouted "Clean it up".

The spilled wine disappeared without a trace.

"Wow." Sun Zhu couldn't help but be surprised: "You already have a magic wand now?"

"No, it's my mother's." He held the wand close to her eyes. "Silver basswood, dragon heart tendon core. Of course, I can only use it to perform some simple magic at present."

He looked a little embarrassed and simply handed her the wand.

Sun Zhu carefully looked at this wand, which was as charming as its owner. Silver basswood was indeed the most ornamental wood. Sun Zhu even heard that it had prophetic powers, although Mr. Ollivander said that this was a rumor made up by unscrupulous businessmen in order to sell off their inventory.

"You can use a magic wand before you even start school. That's amazing." Sun Zhu was somewhat impressed. She had never tried to cast spells with a magic wand before.

"It's just luck that this wand didn't dislike me." He asked, "Do you want to try, but the dragon heart tendon core seems to be difficult to tame."

"No, hahaha, I'm afraid of uncontrollable accidents." Sun Zhu waved his hand, "I haven't asked you what you were thinking just now, are you too tired?"

"I...I just suddenly remembered, cough..." His face seemed to get even redder.

"If it's inconvenient for you..." Sun Zhu took a sip of red tea and prepared to change the subject.

"No, I was just about to tell you." He seemed to have made up his mind and said, "I wanted to say that my mother said the gift I gave you was inappropriate, but I didn't mean to do this. It's just that my father once told me that you wore a lot of accessories when you went to the Ministry of Magic before... I thought you would like this style."

"Puff... cough cough cough..." Sun Zhu choked on a mouthful of black tea and almost suffocated.

Was he talking about that blingbling plus crystal ball? He had dressed up a bit to “catch” the Niffler, but he didn’t expect it to cause such a misunderstanding.

Cedric patted her back helplessly and apologized: "Sorry, are you okay?"

"No...it's okay." Sun Zhu stopped coughing with difficulty and took a breath.

Cedric looked at her even more embarrassedly. He sighed and used his wand to cast the "Clean Up" spell on her skirt that was spilled with tea.

The tea stains on the skirt disappeared without a trace, and Sun Zhu had to admit that magic was really a very useful thing.

"Thank you, stop apologizing." She looked at the boy's red face and said with a smile: "Actually, except for the flash, everything else is fine. Aunt Fiona's little magic spell is also very useful. I asked my father to use it for me, and it is no longer so... cough."

Cedric gently covered his eyes with his hands, trying to hide his embarrassment.

"Okay." She patted Cedric's shoulder and decided to make her words clearer. "Although that style is my father's aesthetic. He thinks it shows respect."

Sorry, dad, for the sake of her image, you have to take the blame again. In fact, dad does think there is nothing wrong with dressing like that, right?

As for the crystal ball, although she was a little shocked when she first received it, no matter how heartless she was, she would not take other people's sincerity lightly.

"But I actually like this style... you don't have to worry about it."

"Ok."

Seeing that he had no intention of putting his hands down, Sun Zhu could only shake his head and let him go.

The little boy is so thin-skinned. If it were her, she wouldn't care whether the other person likes the gift she gives.

It would be best if she likes me. If she doesn't like me, I can only express my regret without giving any special explanation.

Sun Zhu couldn't help but reflect on whether he should learn from Cedric's politeness and consideration.

Perhaps this would be the emotional intelligence that she would never have in either lifetime.

However, with this little episode, her originally tired mood recovered a lot.

That’s great! I hope that the things that Seide has to worry about in the future will always be such harmless little problems.

Instead of only living in the memories of future people, it becomes an indelible bloody background lingering in everyone's mind on the eve of that tragic war.