Chinese students at Hogwarts.

Chapter 39 Accelerating the plot

When Zhang Xiao rushed across the field to the log cabin, he found that the atmosphere in the cabin was a bit dignified, so he poked Hermione quietly.

"what happened?"

The little witch's face turned red again, she moved to the other side, and whispered:

"We suspect that Professor Snape was responsible for the loss of control of Harry's broom, and Hagrid disagrees."

"That's impossible, listen, little ones." Hagrid said seriously. "Snape can't do that. Dumbledore trusts him, and that's enough."

Harry and Ron exchanged glances. The two of them had a little secret, and they hadn't had time to tell Hermione and Zhang Xiao. After all, one was in the Cold War, and the other didn't have many chances to meet.

But now Harry decided to get straight to the point. .

"I found out something about him," he said to Hagrid. "A few days ago, Ron and I got confused and were sent to the fourth floor by the spiral staircase, just in time to see Snape coming out of that room!
I saw a big dog with three heads in it, and I heard him swearing about the passage below the dog. I didn't hear the rest, but I'm sure he wanted to steal something guarded by the big dog. "

Hermione exclaimed:
"You went to the fourth floor? My God, there is a big dog with three heads there? It's too dangerous! Headmaster Dumbledore said, don't get close to it!"

Ron said impatiently:
"Alright, Hermione, we don't want to go either, we were sent there by the stairs, and if we didn't go there, how would we have discovered Snape's plot?"

Hagrid put down the teapot heavily: "Did you see Fluffy with three heads?" he asked.

"Lu Wei with three heads?"

"Yeah - it's mine - bought it from a Greek guy I met last year - I lent it to Dumbledore to keep it -"

"What?" Harry asked eagerly, Ron and Hermione also pricked up their ears, and Zhang Xiao wandered away, staring at the vegetable field outside the window.

Dumbledore's game to test newcomers, why did he get involved.

"Come on, don't ask any more," said Hagrid roughly. "That's Secret Number One, understand?"

"But Snape wanted to steal it."

"Nonsense," Hagrid continued, "Snape, who is also one of the Guardians, would never do something like that.

Now, all of you listen to me - you are meddling in things that have nothing to do with you.This is very dangerous.Forget the big dog, forget what it's watching, it's between Professor Dumbledore and Nicolas—"

"Aha!" said Harry, "so there's a Nicola May involved, isn't there?"

Hagrid was furious, he was angry with himself, he changed the subject bluntly and said to Zhang Xiao:

"Little guy, some vegetables in your vegetable patch seem to be ripe. What kind of vegetables are those? They grow so fast!"

Zhang Xiao was overjoyed. Looking out of the window, it turned out to be cabbage. He didn't know how Hagrid planted it. It was growing in a hurry.

He hurriedly ran outside to pick some, rinsed it with clear water like a spring, ran back to the cabin and shouted at Hagrid:

"Hagrid, do you have any meat here? Pork would be best."

Hagrid rubbed his head and said doubtfully:

"I killed a wild boar a few days ago, and there is still some meat left, what's the matter?"

Wild boar?Although it was not delicious, Zhang Xiao, who was already too hungry for Chinese food, didn't care about picking and choosing, and directly took out a bunch of seasonings and pots and pans from the Qiankun bag, and rolled up his sleeves.

The three little ones also surrounded them curiously, Zhang Xiao bluntly ordered the three to fight, Hermione was in charge of heating the pot with a blazing flame, Ron was in charge of cutting the meat, and Harry fanned the fan to add fire.

Hagrid completely forgot what happened before, and smiled as he watched the four of them bustling around.

First wash and blanch the wild pork, then heat the oil in a pan, stir-fry the meat until it turns slightly yellow, throw in any cooking wine, green onion, ginger, garlic, light soy sauce, and cinnamon star anise.

Ron whispered to Harry:
"Is this the recipe of the East? Why do I feel that it is similar to brewing potions?"

Harry nodded in agreement. When he was at Aunt Petunia's house, he often had to help with the cooking. He had never seen so many things put there.

Zhang Xiao pretended not to hear. He looked expectantly at the Chinese cabbage stew in the pot. Nothing could stop him from eating at this moment.

In my previous life, my friends who studied abroad said that in foreign countries, especially in countries where you are not used to food, if you can cook good food, you are basically the father of all the foreign students around you.

Zhang Xiao thought it was an exaggeration at the time, but now it is true!
Time passed little by little. Under the influence of Zhang Xiao, Harry, Ron and Hermione couldn't help looking forward to it. They gathered around the pot and stared at the cabbage and meat in the pot together. .

"Zhang" Harry swallowed, even though his glasses were whitened by the water vapor, he was not willing to leave.

"Is it really as delicious as you say?"

Zhang Xiao also kept swallowing, the chopsticks in his hand were already hungry and thirsty, but if he wanted to eat the perfect cabbage roasted meat, he had to wait until the meat was stewed until the taste of the soup was completely infiltrated.

"I don't know. Whether you like Chinese food or not depends on your taste. If you like it, you will be happy. There are many more dishes in the future!"

The waiting time always passed very slowly, as if a long, long time had passed. Zhang Xiao picked up a piece of meat and put it in his mouth. After closing his eyes and feeling it for a long time, he finally nodded towards the three pairs of expectant eyes.

They immediately cheered, picked up their small bowls, and handed them to Zhang Xiao.

After each shared a bowl, Zhang Xiao added more than half of it to Hagrid's washbasin-sized bowl:

"Hagrid, try it too!"

Hagrid nodded with a smile, and the three little ones picked up the wooden fork, imitating Zhang Xiao's example and inserted a piece of meat first, as if slowly feeling the salty fragrance in their mouths.

Hagrid directly lifted the bowl and poured a big gulp into his mouth, chewing slowly.

Suddenly Hagrid stood up, and he hugged Zhang Xiao, his big eyes were shining, and he said eagerly:
"Zhang! Teach me, this is so delicious! I never thought that wild pork can be so delicious besides roasting!"

Ron and Harry also shouted:

"Zhang! You are right! The restaurant at Hogwarts is really terrible, they are feeding us such terrible food!"

"I swear, if Dali had eaten this kind of food, he would be twice as fat as he is now!"

Only Hermione, who was more ladylike, didn't yell, but her swallowing movements were obviously much faster.

Zhang Xiao struggled to break free from Hagrid's arms. He was almost smothered to death by this enthusiastic big man.

"You all like it?"

Zhang Xiao looked at them suspiciously, and the four crazy heads and shining eyes answered him.

Hiss. Hagrid can understand that he likes food. After all, he is a half-giant, so it's not surprising that he likes food with heavy salt and strong flavor. But he remembered that Zhihu said that foreigners don't like Chinese food, and only like French food and Japanese food.

Could it be that he was deceived by the Muyang dog? ? ?
In the end, he can only attribute it to the fact that some people like it and some people don't.

Everyone had a lively meal of cabbage stew. Among them, Ron also unlocked a new way of eating. He found that the rock cakes would become soft after soaking up the soup. It's a perfect match!
Hagrid's rock cakes were almost eaten!This big man ate almost 30 rock skin cakes in one go, which were about the size of steamed buns.

After dinner, a few people burped and strolled around the campus. This was also Zhang Xiao's suggestion, so they can digest after eating.

The topic turned unconsciously to what Snape stole and the names Hagrid mentioned.

Harry said that he must have read the name somewhere, and Hermione said that he had already had an idea and was going to borrow a few books from the library.

"Actually, I wanted to say it just now at Hagrid, Nicolas May, I know!"

Zhang Xiao decided to speed up the plot, because it was really not something worth spending energy on. If it wasn't for the fear of disturbing Dumbledore's plan to test newcomers, he would have led the three little ones to pass the level.

Facing the three pairs of eyes full of doubts and expectations, Zhang Xiao shrugged:

"Nicole May, Dumbledore's best friend, the only one who owns the Philosopher's Stone, lived to be more than 600 years old."

"That's what's hidden down there."

"If it's correct, it should be the Philosopher's Stone, a magical stone that can make people live forever."

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When I went to Madai on my honeymoon, my eyes were green when I came back a week later, and I didn’t return home. I went straight to the hot pot restaurant with big bags and small bags. It’s not an exaggeration to order a table full of meat.

(End of this chapter)