No one can disturb my retirement life in the Red Mansion

Chapter 830: Real Estate in Hogsmeade
Hogsmeade Village is actually a typical classical European town, with two rows of stone houses sandwiched between the main streets of the city. If there is any difference, the commercial street of the main street here is bustling, but once you get to the side, it is low and dilapidated. Of course, this was before.

Previously, this was the only pure wizard village in the UK, but in Ou Mengmeng's opinion, this is a commercial street that was born out of Hogwarts. The houses on both sides of the street are all shops. They do student business.

There was a joke shop originally, but because of Ou Mengmeng's intrusion, the old man bought the shop a long time ago, and also bought a hill nearby and built a house for the Foster family. In the area near the Screaming House in the Wasteland, he built a workshop and Lupin's residence.

After the layout was completed, Ou Mengmeng discovered that this place was actually the Ministry of Magic's territory. It was close to Hogwarts and Hogsmeade Village. Even with the Hogwarts Express, there were only a dozen shops here. Except for tourists and students, there was no one else. Ou Mengmeng, a traditional intellectual, couldn't stand it anymore.

So, together with Lucius Malfoy, they applied to the Ministry of Magic and the Hogwarts Board of Directors and obtained the development rights for the surrounding land.

A Muggle architectural design firm was asked to plan a fairytale town, which was designed according to the topography of the place. It was made like a theme park. Each house is a piece of scenery in the area. This is also prepared for a future tourist city. As the only pure wizard village in the UK, it was a great selling point.

Internally, the selling point is even more prominent. Education! Needless to say, this place is close to Hogwarts. In this plan, Lucius added a plan to build a kindergarten and a wizard elementary school. The textbooks will be Muggle ones, but basic magic control courses will be added.

Before, pure-blooded little wizards were all stay-at-home kids. This was Lucius and Neville's great-uncle, Chief Justice Algie Longbottom, who saw the changes in Draco and Neville and firmly believed that education should start from childhood.

Therefore, if this place is built, it will be the only community in the entire wizarding world with a complete education system.

Because what is the purpose of Hogsmeade? It's Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry! See, in this community, children from three to eighteen years old are all taken care of. Isn't this young couple full of temptation?
In the magic world, people get married early, fall in love in school, get married and have children. Which young woman is willing to stay at home to take care of the children? With the concept of education, even a fool knows that this wave is stable.

Then there is the rigid demand. Young people have to be independent when they enter the society, and they have to prepare a wedding house. There are a limited number of houses in the magic world, and they can't create one out of nothing. Just like Ou Mengmeng's dragon skin handbag, it looks small, but it is just put into a space by the extension spell. But it doesn't reduce the weight. So is it imperative to prepare a safe pure wizard community? Although the pure blood theory of the noseless monster is a bit stupid, a safe, pure wizard community has touched the hearts of countless people at once. This can help each other!

So when the sand table was put up in the sales office of Diagon Alley, everyone was a little dumbfounded. It turns out that you can live like this. You know, in addition to Diagon Alley and Hogsmeade Village, there is also the semi-wizard residential area Godric's Hollow. Many wizards like to live in solitude. They like the feeling of being alone on the vast grassland. But do they really like it? Or do they just find an unowned place, build a house that Muggles can't see, and then live happily?
But Ou Mengmeng has a trump card! On the sand table, Ou Mengmeng had people mark the houses that have owners, such as Professor McGonagall and Professor of Herbology Pomona Sprout!
In order to allow professors to teach better, Lucius also joined forces with the school directors to allocate residences for professors, because they are close to the school and can work better for the school, and a maintenance fee is deducted every month. The house is not theirs, it belongs to Hogwarts. However, professors here, except for Defense Against the Dark Arts, are almost lifelong, so this is no different from assigning it to them.

In fact, most professors have their own houses, but isn’t it particularly tempting to assign them a specially suitable house near the school?
So Professor McGonagall was the first to remove the magic restrictions on her London house, sold it directly, and happily moved to Hogsmeade Village; and the house they gave to Professor of Herbology Pomona Sprout was near the wasteland, where Lucius and the Foster family jointly funded a herbal experimental field and hired her as a consultant. Anyway, you can plant whatever you like, and 10% of the harvest is hers, and the rest is split between Lucius and Owen.

Magic herbs can actually be used in a wide range of areas. For example, whitening, sun protection. These can be used as confidential formulas and invested in worldwide. The Malfoy family is very concerned about their long hair. They have their own unique maintenance secrets, so he established his own cosmetics company. Ou Mengmeng, however, did not participate. She just started a chemical company and only supplied products to several of the world's most famous cosmetics companies. No need to use your brain at all, and the profits are also very considerable.

For Professor Sprout, this was simply her dream house, so she just walked away and moved in. Fortunately, she didn't find anyone to take over, otherwise, she would have really quit her job to grow her favorite medicinal herbs.

With the addition of these two, the professorial residence was stable, since they were the deans of the Lion and Badger Houses. So other teachers followed suit. Except for Professor Snape of the Snake House, all other professors moved in.

It was right for Snape not to move. With his special status, it was not convenient for him to live here, so they did not force him, but they still left him a house at the corner of the community, close to the mountains. Snape went to see it and saw that he liked it. Although he did not move, it was marked there as the residence of the Potions Professor, with a dedicated laboratory inside.

Even if this is not mentioned, but everyone looks at those well-known names. There are only a few wizards, and there is only one magic school. Some bad students may not want to live with professors, but they will change their minds immediately after getting married and having children. Who doesn't want to be a neighbor of the world's most famous Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry? Want to live in the same community with professors! The opportunity is within reach! And the number is limited!
Then all the houses around were snapped up in no time. Many middle-level officials in the Ministry of Magic bought one, and the Weasleys wanted to buy one, but they didn't have the money. So, you see. The concept of school district housing is also common in the wizarding world.

OK, I am being cheesy. My heroine has never really liked making money. She thinks it is useless. As long as she has enough money, it is fine. So I am really someone who has never had any money. I don’t understand the logic of rich people.