Chapter 362 Generous Christmas Gift
Helga's Christmas gift box is filled with all kinds of precious potion raw materials, from animal and plant materials to precious gemstones and minerals. There were several items among them that Les could tell were from Helga's own collection at a glance, because these materials had disappeared long ago and only people like Helga who lived thousands of years ago could take them out.
The most precious among them are samples of several modern extinct plants.
Rice's storage has long been turned into a pile of rotten wood over the course of thousands of years, but the materials provided by Helga, who traveled directly from a thousand years ago, still have use value.
This was priceless to Les.
Les looked at the materials in the box and had to admit that Helga was quite sincere and she successfully obtained her own forgiveness.
After putting the box away, Les suddenly realized a question: Could he try to plant these things to see if he could resurrect the species?
He didn't know much about the field of plant cultivation, but there were indeed people in Hogwarts who knew this knowledge. He thought he could wait until the Christmas vacation was over to talk to Professor Sprout.
Hufflepuff is also quite good at magic in this area, but he doesn't really want to see his old friend now, because Les really doesn't want to work overtime during Christmas.
Les knew how much Helga owed on orders. If he really agreed to Hufflepuff's request, he would definitely be so exhausted in the past ten days that his soul would leave his body.
The wizarding world squeezes people, much more harshly than the Muggles.
Muggle factory owners could only let their workers work for a maximum of fifteen hours a day. If wizards were ruthless, working twenty-three hours a day with the help of potions would not be a problem.
As for the decline in success rate caused by the decline in energy, it is not a problem in the field - if Les is willing, he can make puppet parts twenty-four hours a day, three hundred and sixty-five days a year.
The problem is that he doesn't want to.
So he decided to enjoy the Christmas vacation first, and then go "work" for Helga when the vacation was over.
Les continued to open the gifts he had received.
Lupert, who was far away in Diagon Alley, London, sent him a large box of sweets, snacks, cakes and ice cream, and he was very satisfied with it.
Hermione gave him a set of Muggle encyclopedias. After briefly reading it, Les regarded it as a treasure. This thing could help him better understand the Muggle world.
He never expected that Muggles would come up with such magical things.
Daphne made him a snake pillow, but to Les it looked more like a crocodile without limbs. He could completely understand why Daphne acted so abstractly, because normal people would not stare at the Snake King carefully.
Astoria gave him an exquisite golden potion making set. Judging from the feel, it should be an alloy of gold and other metals. Otherwise, with the hardness of pure gold, it would really be impossible to use it to prepare potions.
All in all, the things these little guys gave him were quite to Rice's liking.
In the girls' dormitory not far away, Daphne was pulled out of bed by her sister.
"Sister, it's time to open the gifts!" Astoria used a levitating spell to rush into her sister's dormitory with nearly a hundred packages - unlike Les, who was living alone, the two Greengrass sisters always received a large number of packages. Stacks of Christmas gifts from relatives, friends and other pureblood families.
"Well..." Daphne hadn't quite woken up yet. She climbed to the edge of her gift hill in her pajamas, rubbed her sleepy eyes and started to open the gifts.
"The Malfoy family, the Nott family, the Flint family... are really annoying. Are we familiar with them? Why do they send a lot of inexplicable gifts every Christmas." Daphne handed over six or seven items. Gifts with gorgeous packaging were pulled out of the hill and thrown aside.
"It's the etiquette of pure-blood families. It would be rude not to send gifts. Dad also sends gifts to their family every year." Astoria explained. She also understands the calculations of those families. These families have their own ideas. The idea of marrying with their family. After all, their pursuit of pure blood has reached a crazy level, and most of the offspring of this generation of pure blood families are boys. The Greengrass family with a pair of daughters is very dazzling.
However, considering the behavior of those Slytherin boys, Astoria also threw the pure-blood family's gifts into the corner of the dormitory with disgust.
These things will be sent home by them all, and whatever they can sell will be sold. The money earned from selling the gifts will be used as funds for next year's return gifts.
In addition to ceremonial gifts from the pure-blood family, there are also many gifts from relatives and father's friends. They will also open these and look at them, but their priority is very low.
The gift they most wanted to open was pushed to the bottom instead.
The two quickly locked on the small silver and green package in their respective gift hills, took it out, and tore open the outer packaging.
Two small bags appeared in front of Daphne, but only one in front of Astoria.
Astoria:?
Daphne: (*￣︶￣)
"Maybe Les accidentally packed one more~" Daphne suddenly became happy when she saw that she had one more gift than her sister.
Astoria took a deep breath and comforted herself in her heart: One of the gifts must be used to replenish her sister's brain. If she continues to delay like this, she will miss the best time to replenish her brain.
Daphne tore open the first bag and a necklace rolled out.
With sharp eyes, she immediately recognized that it was exactly the same as the necklace that Les had given her before. It was equipped with offensive magic and defensive magic, and could trigger life-saving spells in critical moments.
My previous pair was damaged in Egypt, and I thought it was gone, but to my surprise, Les gave me another pair.
Looking at the necklace her sister received, Astoria suddenly felt a little regretful: she should have started a duel with her sister when she didn't have the necklace. My sister can't use the magic spell on the necklace, but I can. Isn't this a sure win?
After putting the necklace on her neck happily, Daphne opened the second package, and a brooch inlaid with drop-shaped amethyst appeared in front of her.
Daphne frowned slightly: she sensed a dangerous aura from the amethyst of this brooch.
Astoria also noticed a problem.
"Sister, this thing seems extraordinary. If you look closely, the magic fluctuations inside are very scary. I have a feeling that if you activate the things inside, the entire Slytherin College lounge will be destroyed."
Daphne nodded and found that there was a note attached to the small package. It also warned Daphne not to mess around in the lounge and other places in the school, and to only try to use it in the secret room. Once the water droplets in the amethyst are catalyzed by magic, they will form a vast ocean.
Daphne:!
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The second update is here~
The next update will be late at night, everyone goes to bed first~
