Chapter 225 Christmas at Greengrass Manor
"Okay, but will it really not disturb you if I go?" Les finally agreed to the Greengrass sisters and accepted their invitation.
"Yeah!" Daphne and Astoria couldn't help cheering.
"Of course not. There will definitely be a lot of guests at home this year. You should be worried about whether you will be disturbed by the guests." Daphne responded with a smile.
Rice originally thought that Astoria's statement of "emptying a treasury" was an exaggeration, but the morning after accepting the invitation, an owl email changed his mind - the owl brought A golden invitation.
It is based on gold, and several lines of beautiful characters are outlined with silver wire: [Dear Mr. Les Lint, this year's Christmas dinner is about to be held. On behalf of the Greengrass family, I would like to extend my sincere greetings to you, We look forward to meeting you at Greengrass Manor. The invitation is the key to the manor, please keep it properly - Henry Greengrass]
There is also a series of numbers in the upper left corner of the invitation, which are returning to zero as time passes. Obviously, this invitation is actually a door key. When the time reaches zero, it will take the invited guests to Greengrass Manor.
After seeing this invitation, Les felt that Astoria might be a bit conservative.
After a lot of complicated chores, the first semester of this school year is over.
Overnight, students were ready to go.
In fact, there is nothing to prepare. Going home for Christmas is different from going home at the end of the school year. How can there be so much luggage to pack? Bringing some textbooks and assignments from professors is enough.
Some little wizards don’t even bring their homework, and they choose to create miracles on the last night of the Christmas vacation.
Sisters Rice and Greengrass traveled lightly, carrying almost no luggage and just carrying a school bag.
Daphne and Astoria didn't know very well, but Les had put all the things he needed into a backpack that was under a traceless extension spell.
The three of them boarded the return Hogwarts Express together.
With the sound of the whistle, the train carried a group of little wizards towards London in the white snow.
As the train departed, Les caught a glimpse of red outside the carriage door.
As soon as he opened the carriage door, he saw several red heads. The aisle outside the door was almost filled with "Weasley family buckets": Percy, Fred, George, Ron and Ginny, in In the sea of red hair, there was still a hint of black - Harry was actually in the car.
"What are you...?" Les was slightly confused. After asking about the situation, I found out that the Weasley family had also received an invitation from Mr. Henry.
This is normal. Although the Weasley family is a little poor, their family is indeed a pure-blood family with a long history. The Greengrass family should send an invitation even if it is out of courtesy.
As for Harry appearing here, it's even less surprising. The Boy Who Lived, the savior of the wizarding world, as long as he is willing to come, the Greengrass family will send the invitation to him as quickly as possible.
Looking at the group of "Weasleys" in the corridor, Les felt that this year's Greengrass Christmas dinner would be very lively.
When the train arrived, Les wanted to go to Diagon Alley to stay temporarily, but Astoria's simple words attracted his attention.
"Dad has invited many pastry chefs from other countries. We can taste their creations first and then decide the weight of the dishes to be served at the dinner."
Les suddenly changed his mind. He wanted to experience desserts from all over the world and feel the changes in world cuisine over the past millennium. It should be developing in a good place, right? Can’t the whole world take a giant step backwards in terms of diet like the UK?
The wizarding world's regression is understandable, and Muggles have no reason to regress in terms of food - this is just one-sided. The fundamental reason for the decline of the British culinary community and the regression of the wizarding world is the same, both are more Simple and institutionalized things have replaced operations that originally required more effort.
Simpler and clearer spells have replaced the flow of magic, and industrialized assembly-line dishes have replaced local delicacies. So that after a thousand years, Rice could not find a wizard who understood the flow of magic in Hogwarts, and there were only You can find British dishes like fish and chips and black pudding.
Fortunately, not every European country has the same culinary development as the UK. France, Italy, and Turkey have all retained the essence of their own cuisines, giving diners the greatest comfort for their taste buds.
After Les stayed at Greengrass Manor, he was shocked by the various desserts from thousands of years ago, among which the desserts from Turkey were particularly amazing. Turkish desserts that use a lot of pistachios, walnuts, dried fruits, honey and butter are "sweet" throughout.
One of the desserts called "Angel Hair" amazed Les the most: it first fried two layers of hair-like thin noodles until golden brown, then soaked the fried noodles in sweet syrup and then fished them out. A cheese filling is added between the strands, and finally the surface of the dessert is topped with chopped pistachios.
You can feel the heat exploding in your mouth with every bite, bringing an unparalleled sense of happiness.
Surrounded by all kinds of desserts, Les was like soaking in a honeypot. The amount of desserts he consumed every day shocked even Daphne.
"Should we be more restrained?" She often tried to dissuade Les tactfully, but Les would not listen to her.
"Sweets are the source of happiness!" He would always reply to her with this sentence.
Soon, Christmas Eve arrived.
Greengrass Manor suddenly changed its appearance: the valley that was originally a little bleak due to the arrival of winter was "filled" with green leaves and flowers overnight, and every tree was re-grown with young leaves and flowers. Various styles of small gift bags hang from the branches. When opened, some exquisite small gifts will be revealed, such as wizard chess and top hats, but most of them will be consumables such as candies and salutes - there is a high probability that guests who come will There is no shortage of a wizard's chess set, but it is still nice to be able to set off a salute and light fireworks.
After being decorated, the valley looks like spring from a distance.
At first, Les thought that these flowers and leaves were conjured by magic, but when he took a closer look, he was shocked: the Greengrass home was actually decorated with artificial flowers and leaves, which was much more luxurious than the flowers conjured by magic. too much!
Every flower and leaf looked so lifelike that Les was secretly speechless.
Before nightfall, the first guests to arrive at the manor were a group of magical animals obtained by Mr. Henry.
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The second update is here! (〃-ω)
Here’s another picture of middle-aged Adrian:
I will try my best to schedule the next update at midnight.
