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Chapter 4047 4049 [The inheritance of the Prince family]

"Didn't you say you wanted me to perform?" Xiang Nan said with a slight smile, "Even if you want to leave, wait until I finish my performance."

As he spoke, he began to play the guitar. A relaxing and joyful melody immediately sounded, and Xiang Nan also began to sing along with the melody.

"I once had a heavy burden on my shoulders, which made me feel overwhelmed.

Every day I feel so heavy that it’s hard to get rid of it!

……

  I'm stumbling along the way, bumpy road ahead

Go through this troublesome journey!

……

  Stroll along the river

I have lifted my burden and now I will move forward lightly

I'm high-spirited (I found my freedom)

......"

"Traveling Light", also known as "Traveling Light", was written and sung by Joey Hanson, a famous singer who has won a Grammy Award. It became a sensation after its release in 2002.

……

After Xiang Nan finished singing the song, everyone present looked at him in amazement.

They all underestimated Xiang Nan, thinking that he came from a poor family, had never been to school, had not received a formal education, and naturally could not spell, play musical instruments, or understand music theory...

So they were sure that Xiang Nan could not compose songs and therefore laughed at him to their heart's content.

But unexpectedly, Xiang Nan's performance really shocked them.

The song "Lightly Equipped" has a pleasant melody and touching lyrics, and Xiang Nan's moving voice adds a lot of color to the song.

They really didn't expect that Xiang Nan could have such a song. It was really incredible and really beautiful.

"Severus, you sing so well!" Lily was the first to praise loudly.

"Great!", "Amazing!", "It sounds great!", "He's so awesome~" everyone echoed.

Even Penny, who was usually mean, looked at Xiang Nan with a somewhat fiery look in her eyes.

Michael and Jack's faces turned red. The more they scolded Xiang Nan, the more painful the slaps they received.

"Thank you for your guitar. It's a really nice guitar." Xiang Nan said with a smile and returned the guitar to Michael.

Michael's face flushed and he took the guitar awkwardly, wishing there was a crack in the ground so he could crawl into it quickly.

"Okay, let's play a game. I've prepared a game called 'You Draw, I Guess'. Who wants to play?" Lily Evans said, not wanting the awkward atmosphere to continue.

"I'll do it, I'll do it~" Everyone raised their hands.

Lily Evans immediately took out the whiteboard and the prepared questions and asked everyone to play the game. As the game progressed, the unpleasantness just now soon disappeared.

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At four o'clock in the afternoon, the party ended and everyone went home. "Severus, thank you for coming today and thank you for your gift." Lily walked Xiang Nan to the door, "I'm sorry that Michael and Jack treated you like that. I apologize to you on their behalf."

"It's okay, I'm used to it." Xiang Nan waved his hand and smiled, "I won't blame them."

"You're such a nice person." Lily nodded. "My parents asked me to tell you that they welcome you to visit our home often."

It turned out that Lily Evans' parents were a little worried when they knew Xiang Nan was from Spider's End Alley. But after seeing the gift he gave, they thought he was very talented.

After all, it is not an easy thing for a child in his teens to draw such a good oil painting.

And when the children had a conflict just now, the couple noticed it immediately. However, they respected their daughter's opinion and prepared to let her handle the matter herself, so they did not intervene at the first time.

Unexpectedly, Xiang Nan impressed everyone with a light and pleasant song, and also impressed Lily's parents. In their opinion, although Xiang Nan was born in Spider's Tail Alley, he was talented and polite, and they welcomed him to be friends with their daughter.

"Tell your parents for me that I thank them." Xiang Nan nodded and smiled when he heard it. Does this count as appeasing his father-in-law and mother-in-law?

……

In the next few months, Xiang Nan persisted in learning magic knowledge, and it happened that their family had a large number of magic books.

Irene Prince was born into a pure-blood wizard family, but the Prince family was dwindling in number, and some of their ancestors had married Muggles, so the author of "The Pure-Blood Guide" did not include the Prince family in the "Twenty-Eight Sacred Clans" when compiling the book.

This is not surprising. The Potter family, which also has a long history but a declining population, is not included in the "Sacred Twenty-Eight Clans". In fact, not all the families included in the "Sacred Twenty-Eight Clans" are pure-blood wizards.

Although the Prince family is a pure-blood family, it had declined several centuries ago, and each generation was weaker than the previous one, so not much property was passed down to Irene.

Just like Voldemort’s ancestors, the Gaunt family, although they were descendants of Salazar Slytherin, they were not good at business and lived a luxurious life, which led to the family property being squandered within a few generations and becoming penniless paupers.

But as the saying goes, a rotten ship still has three thousand nails, and a lean camel is bigger than a horse. As a pure-blood family, the Prince family still has a heritage.

Just like no matter how poor the Gaunt family is, they still have the Resurrection Stone and Slytherin's locket; no matter how poor the Weasley family is, they still have a magical clock that can display the status of their family members...

The Prince family inherited a room full of magic books, which almost filled up the house in Spider's End. This was a collection of the Prince family from generation to generation, including books on potions, spells, herbology, transfiguration, magic literature and many other subjects.

Thanks to these books, when Snape first entered school, he knew more spells than half of the seventh-grade students. This also shows how rich the Prince family's collection of books is.

During this period, Xiang Nan read a lot of books and learned a lot of magic, including a large number of evil spells, poisonous incantations and curses.

The difference between these three types of curses is that evil curses are usually less harmful, such as biting curses, stinging curses, numerous obstacles, loss of strength, hanging upside down, burning hot fire, etc.

Poisonous curses are usually related to black magic and cause relatively great damage, such as the pus-flowing curse, the leg-locking curse, the bat-spirit curse, the stick-stuck-teeth curse, the crazy-growing-toenails curse, etc.

Curses are the most malicious and destructive black magic, such as the three unforgivable curses: the Imperius Curse, the Cruciatus Curse, and the Avada Kedavra Curse, as well as the Invisibility Curse, the Resurrection Curse, the Fiery Flame Curse, and so on.

Many of the magics Xiang Nan learned were not mentioned in the textbooks, which greatly enriched his knowledge and improved his strength.

Because the more spells you know, the more options you have when you use them. Moreover, a skilled wizard will usually arrange and combine spells and cast them together to form a combo, making it difficult for the opponent to defend and causing greater damage.

For example, when Molly Weasley faced Bellatrix, she first used Petrify to Death to restrain her, and then used Shatter to Fragment to kill her instantly.

This is the power of "combos". The more spells you know, the richer the permutations and combinations, and the more difficult it is for the enemy to defend.