Just like there is Hogsmeade village next to Hogwarts, there is also a commercial area near Wagadu to provide related services for the magic school.
This commercial street is not far from where they are, just turn a corner and walk two steps after exiting the side entrance of the school.
The street was very lively. The shops on both sides covered basic necessities, including food, clothing, housing, transportation, food, drinks and entertainment. Many outsiders had already appeared. Charles saw Newt and a few old men talking and laughing in the teahouse.
There is also a Wagadu-affiliated hospital on the street, and there are many hotels nearby, which seem to be where the patients' families live.
After lunch, Valentina took Zhang Jingjing and Fang Xiang, whom she had just met, to go shopping. She spotted Charles and Fleur on the way, and the group almost joined the United Nations Security Council.
Shopping with four beautiful girls looks wonderful, but they come from three different countries and speak different languages.
Valentina learned some daily Chinese because her father had been smuggling in the south for many years, so she could have simple exchanges with Zhang Jingjing and Fang Xiang, and she said "old girl".
The two Chinese girls knew some English at Han Meimei's level, and Charles decisively spoke Chinese to them.
Fleur only speaks French, and the only person she can talk to is Charles.
Two minutes after the five people walked together, Charles had no chance to chat with the girl and became a full-time translator.
After everyone walked for a while, the weather became hotter and hotter after noon.
It is impossible for them to wear clothes from Europe now. Charles is wearing gray khaki pants and a white T-shirt, Furong is wearing a light blue skirt and a white short-sleeved shirt, Valentina and Zhang Jingjing, and Fang Xian are all wearing different colors.
Wearing light-colored dresses, everyone is wearing the school badge of their respective school.
Even though I was dressed like this, I couldn't resist the heat, so I found a shop selling drinks and snacks to hide from the sun.
Charles talked and gestured with the proprietress, who spoke fluent English, and soon the proprietress brought everyone a cup of coffee, along with a small basket containing several glass bottles containing different unknown powders.
Then there were all kinds of snacks, candies, and preserves, which were easy to understand, and roasted dried insects were also on the edge of understanding, but the large plate of finger-sized red clay lumps made the five of them study for a long time.
Zhang Jingjing picked up a piece of red soil and said doubtfully: "Are we going to eat this? It's not an elephant."
Fang Xian also said: "Is it because the red soil here is special?"
After translating their words, Charles smiled and said to them: "Try it, maybe you will be able to spray red clay bullets from your nose after eating it."
The two girls looked at him with dark eyes and complained: "Are you the Black Cat Sheriff?"
At this time, a handsome white man in his twenties came over, smiled and said to them in English: "Ladies, and this Gryffindor classmate, do you need me to unlock the secret of the red clay clod for you?"<
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Charles translated his words and asked him: "Who are you, and how do you know that I am a Gryffindor?"
The handsome guy pointed to the school badge on Charles's chest and said: "You can call me Bell. I am also a Gryffindor and now a researcher of magical beasts."
Charles remembered that he had heard this name not long ago, so he asked: "So do you know Hagrid? That short guy."
As he spoke, he gestured with his hand to show Professor Flitwick's height.
Bell laughed and said in surprise: "Oh my god, Hagrid actually became the headmaster of Ravenclaw?! I met him in the Three Broomsticks pub some time ago and sold him a... rug." Charles breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that the other party was indeed from Hogwarts. After the girls agreed, he invited him to sit down.
After sitting down, Bell picked up a piece of red soil and explained to them: "This is a honey termite nest. Honey termites will sleep in the nest during the dry season. People dig out the nest and smash it into small pieces and bake it."
As he spoke, he gently broke the clod of soil from the edge, and soon a termite the size of the tip of a chopstick appeared in the clod. The front half of the termite was normal, but its abdomen was shiny red.
"You're lucky." Bell peeled out the termites and cleaned them before eating the red area. "If you're not lucky, there will be nothing but dirt."
Charles thought to himself, this is time-consuming, but it doesn't take up much energy. It probably has the same effect as eating melon seeds.
At this time, the landlady brought the coffee that Charles ordered for him. Bell pointed to the glass bottle in the small basket in the middle of the table and said: "Here, the coffee is not filled with milk and sugar, but with various spices, which gives it a unique taste."<
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Next, Charles had a headache. He only understood one ginger powder, but he had never heard of the others, so he could only transliterate them.
Bell had just finished talking about the functions of several spices when he suddenly turned his head, as if he was looking at the heaven and earth, drank all the coffee in one breath, raised his eyebrows at Charles, and said: "Professor Kettleburn is here, I'm leaving.
, he saw that he was nagging me again, thank you for the hospitality."
After he finished speaking, he ran away quickly, leaving Charles and the girls looking at each other.
Valentina said while adding spices to her coffee: "He is really an interesting person. I wonder if he studies magical animals in Moon Mountain. I would like to ask him if there are any special trees here."
Charles first added some mint powder to his coffee to moisten his throat, and then continued to translate.
Fleur asked Valentina curiously: "What kind of tree are you looking for?"
Valentina drank coffee and ate candied fruit and replied: "Strong, wear-resistant, light weight, good or bad adaptability to magic, as long as it has characteristics."
"Our aerospace club is developing an aircraft that can exceed 30,000 meters. Now we are encountering some problems with materials. I came here just to find out if there is any suitable wood here."
"Not long ago, our experiment of hitting 26,000 meters failed again. When I flew close to 23,000 meters, the aircraft malfunctioned again and partially disintegrated."
Everyone was frightened at this moment. Fleur thought about how far the distance was on the ground, then recalled the height at which Beauxbatons' carriage flew, and asked her in surprise: "It disintegrated, which means you came from such a height."
Where did it fall?"
Valentina burst out laughing: "It's okay. I'm in the core cabin. I can fly by myself when I fall to 10,000 meters, but it's very cold."
In the following time, Valentina vividly described how their aerospace club started with using a tree as a broomstick and developed to the point where it could stably fly to an altitude of 20,000 meters, which made Charles and the other three girls marvel.
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At five o'clock, everyone settled the bill, returned to their respective residences, changed clothes, and prepared to attend the banquet tonight.
Charles wondered if he could sneak away early during the banquet tonight. He had something very important to do this time.