Maxim sat down and ordered a cup of Indian black tea. He was a very talkative person. From the initial introduction, he went on to talk about the weather and Hogsmeade, and then gave his own opinion on the latest current events.
opinion.
It wasn't until the cup of black tea with lemon slices was served that he realized the purpose of his trip.
"Excuse me, sir," he said apologetically, "let's get down to business. Well, Mr. Benson Price left his estate to you, so I need you to sign some documents."
Xing Ze realized that this topic would last for a long time, so he called the clerk to refill his cup of tea.
"What an unexpected surprise." Xing Ze said with emotion, "You know, I didn't know Mr. Price at all before."
"Haha, sir, they say that a person will be lucky at least once in his life." Maxim replied with a smile, "Maybe your luck has come."
"Maybe. What did Mr. Price leave for me?"
"Oh, I see that you are a straightforward person." Maxim put down the tea cup and took out a wax-painted document from the hat at hand.
He cleared his throat and read in a low voice: "The small shares of the Comet Trading Company are worth three thousand galleons, with a monthly profit of twenty-seven galleons. An old house in Hogsmeade, and one thousand galleons."
Long’s deposit.”
"That sounds like a lot, where do I need to sign?"
"Um, sir, would you like to sign here?"
Xing Ze shrugged and asked, "Do you have a better place to go? Mr. Maxim?"
"I thought you would want to see the house first before signing. I can accompany you there. It's not far from here."
Xing Ze put his notes into the ring, picked up the cup and took a sip. He didn't speak, he just looked at the man in front of him with a smile.
After a brief and awkward silence, Maxim was the first to speak: "What do you think, sir? Of course, if you insist on going there by yourself, I can give you the key."
"A person is lucky at least once in his life. Mr. Maxim, is that what you say?"
"Yes, sir, they all say so."
The smile on Xing Ze's face became even bigger, "Maybe my luck has been used up, and I don't believe I will be lucky a second time."
The corners of Maxim's mouth twitched slightly. He didn't know how to respond, but fortunately, the young man in front of him didn't mean to let him answer.
"You're not the legacy manager of Gringotts, are you? Ah, no, you are. You need an identity to hide it." Xing Ze looked at the expression of the man in front of him with interest, but besides that confidence and a bit of mockery,
Apart from his smile, he couldn't see any changes.
"Ah haha, you are really good at joking, sir." Maxim laughed and put the document into his hat. "I do have another job, helping people draft wills, and then I charge a small amount of money.
You also know that as a wizard, daily expenses are always very high."
"I have been with Renxu and Snake for a long time today, sir." The wand in Xing Ze's sleeve slipped into the palm of his hand, "We might as well open the skylight and talk openly. Otherwise, I can only ask you to leave."
There was finally some change on the man's face. He frowned and rolled his eyes, probably thinking about how to deal with it.
Xing Ze saw a reckless boy running past the front desk and almost knocking over a clerk. Near the door, two girls were whispering to each other, and their eyes occasionally drifted to a handsome boy not far away.
A couple was flirting in the corner, and two young men were leaning against the fireplace looking for a beautiful girl to seduce. Mrs. Puddieff was carefully brewing a cup of scented tea...
Then the voice brought Xing Ze back from his thoughts, "Where did I reveal my fault?" Maxim asked in a deep voice. When he wasn't smiling, he was more like a rabbit.
" Hypericum perforatum and blueberries."
"What?"
"There are St. John's wort petals on your pants and blueberry juice in your footprints."
Maxim lowered his head and looked at his legs. A few yellow petals were hanging on his left leg. He frowned and raised his right foot. There was indeed a lot of residue from crushed blueberries on the sole.
"So what?" He still didn't understand, and he didn't want to believe that the young man in front of him had doubted his identity based on this alone.
Xing Ze tapped the table with his fingers, " Hypericum perforatum is not common in Hogsmeade. As far as I know, it is only found on the path leading to the Shrieking Shack. I just killed three scoundrels there, and then
Walk through the grassland to the teahouse.
"On the way I passed by Wenrenju Quill Shop. The blueberries planted behind the shop were ripe. I guess they are used to make magic blueberry ink. Like you, I also stepped on a lot of blueberries that fell to the ground. This
What a coincidence, don't you think, Mr. Maxim?"
The rhythm of finger tapping began to slow down, and the expression on Maxim's face gradually became stiff.
"But I don't believe in coincidences, let alone pie in the sky, sir. The mead in the Three Broomsticks Bar is very famous, and it has a special fragrance. Although it is very weak, I can still smell it on you.
"
Xing Ze narrowed his eyes and thought for a while, "But I didn't see you when I went in. I was in a hurry when I came out, so I didn't pay attention. Maybe you were sitting near the fireplace, and it was dark enough to hide your body."
Shouldn't he just be a poor Eastern wizard who is greedy for money? Maxim squeezed out the words from his dry throat: "Wonderful, sir, it is really wonderful. Who would have thought that I lost to mead, blueberries and forsythia."
"I can't hear much praise in the words. Since your hands are still holding the cup, not the wand." Xing Ze turned his face and looked behind him with his peripheral vision, "They are those two people, right? Sit down
The two men in the corner by the back door."
"How did you figure this out?"
"Please, sir." Xing Ze raised his eyebrows, "Two middle-aged men come to a teahouse like this instead of a bar? You are making things too difficult for them."
Maxim picked up the cup and took a sip. He said solemnly: "I don't like people who are too smart, but some people do. Young people, so they want to meet you. No, no, don't use Apparition. To be precise
, they can provide you with information.”
"What information?"
"Mr.R didn't tell you."
Xing Ze made a quick move, and the wand in his left hand stopped in front of the man, but failed to cast any magic. It was a magic artifact, and Maxim's hat automatically cast a stasis spell, and his magic was stagnated in the wand.
middle.
"How many more times can you do this trick?"
"Only once." Maxim pushed the wand away from his eyes with his hand, "Put away the wand, young man, you will scare the customers in the store. I don't mean any harm, I just came to convey an invitation."
Xing Ze lowered his wand but did not put it away. He sneered: "For whom?"