Drinking black tea calmly at Hogwarts

After the dinner at Hogwarts, Zhang Xu came to the Muggle Studies professor's office and began to prepare the quiz papers for the first class of the next semester.

The family members transferred to Edinburgh early tomorrow morning to return home. Although he wanted to stay with his family again, he was driven back to Hogwarts by his grandfather after dinner because work was the most important thing.

The fire in the fireplace was not very hot, and there was still a puff of white smoke.Under the conduction of the self-made geothermal system, the heat generated by the fire is brought to the floor of the entire office, making the indoor temperature reach more than [-] degrees Celsius.

It was cold and windy outside the window, but there was no snow.After finishing his work, Professor Zhang walked to the open window next to his desk, and suddenly pushed open the whole window.

The cold wind of several degrees below zero poured into the office, diluting the smell of cumin in the air, crowded the fire, and made Professor Zhang who was a little dizzy due to copywriting or carbon monoxide poisoning Give it a shock all over.

After blowing the cold wind for a while, Professor Zhang's head became clearer.

"dong dong dong"

There was a knock on the office door.

With a wave of his hand, the door opened, and a person Zhang Xu didn't expect walked in.

As soon as the visitor walked into the office, his nostrils fluttered slightly, and he smelled a smell that should not have appeared in the professor's office.

She looked at the cumin-smelling fire not far away, and the corners of her mouth twitched.

"Your office is really" She thought for a while, "It's as unique as yours."

"Thanks for the compliment." Zhang Xu turned his back to the window, propped up his hands, and sat on the window sill, "Why are you here?"

"I just came back from the principal, and I just listened to her talk about Hogwarts all night, and the things you should pay attention to when you are a professor at Hogwarts." The visitor answered and walked to Zhang Xu's room. Beside him, after obtaining his consent, he sat on the chair opposite his desk, "Unexpectedly, you brought so many interesting changes to Hogwarts."

At this time, there was another burst of "dong dong dong", and then Harry pushed open the door of the office unceremoniously, "Zhang, please lend your office to do our homework for us, the common room is too noisy"

Harry saw the lonely men and widows sharing the same room in the office, and he habitually said "Hey, he's not here again" before exiting and closing the door skillfully.

"Unexpectedly, Mr. Potter is quite interesting."

Just as the other party finished speaking, the door of the office was suddenly pushed open again with a bang, and Harry walked in with the Marauder's Map.

"What's the matter, your name isn't on the map?" Harry asked in surprise, "Who the hell are you?"

"She is Professor Ellen Becca Rodney, an assistant professor of mathematics at Hogwarts." Zhang Xu introduced to Harry, "After Professor Scarlett resigns next academic year, she will be the professor of mathematics. take over."

"Although I have been selling coffee in Hogsmeade for several years, I have a qualified teacher certificate issued by the Secretary of State for Education." The person who came was Mr. Rod Niro, "As for my name not being on your map, Just a trick, Mr Potter."

Harry wanted to say something, but Zhang Xu drove him away with a curse.

Zhang Xu was not surprised that Rodney's name did not appear on the Marauder's Map.As a group of people who walk on the tip of the knife, they naturally go further than wizards in terms of secret infiltration and other spells.

What makes Zhang Xu feel strange is that the person who will replace Scarlet will be her.He already knew that Scarlet had found a successor, and that Rodney had retired a few days ago, and he had also taken over the job that Nelson, who had not recovered from his serious injury, was looking for.So after he heard about Rodney going to Professor McGonagall just now, he knew who she was going to take over.

"How did she find you?" Zhang Xu asked curiously.

"She was chatting with us when she came to our store one day, and she just mentioned it. At that time, we were thinking about finding a job after retiring, so we hit it off." Rodney replied, "You don't have to sit in the window like this. Look like you're about to run away, it looks like I'm asking you for debt."

"After all, this is a school, it's better for us to keep some distance." Zhang Xu replied.

"Tsk" Rodney gave him a disdainful glance, "Although you are quite to my taste, I may not refuse you if you approach me, but you haven't moved me enough to make me let go of my dignity and take the initiative to attack you Of course, if you make various demands on me on the grounds of reducing my sister's huge debts, I can only agree with tears."

"It's true that all kinds of requests can be agreed." After hearing this, Zhang Xu immediately regained his energy.

"What do you want to do?" Rodney put his hands on his chest, pretending to be a frightened bird.

"From now on, I will leave it to you to correct the homework of the Muggle Studies class." Zhang Xu said happily.

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Knew it would be like this. Rodney spread his hands and said, "If you are free now, how about taking me to keep the castle?"

Zhang Xu went down to the window sill and closed the window, leaving only a gap to avoid carbon monoxide poisoning.

Without the cold wind blowing in from outside, the temperature in the office quickly started to rise.

He went to the fire, grabbed a handful of cumin from a nearby pot, and sprinkled it on top of the smoking sawdust by the fire.

"I noticed it just now." Rodney came behind Zhang Xu, "I have seen people use various flavors of incense, but you are the first one who uses cumin to make incense. Wait, you These are all cypress wood"

After covering the cumin jar, Zhang Xu said, "I didn't do this to improve the air quality or cultivate my sentiment."

After he finished speaking, he waved his hand, and a bunch of lamb legs tied together like bunches of grapes and some mutton meat flew out of the chimney.

He said to Rodney as he checked the smoke of the leg of lamb, "I heard about this method of smoking lamb a while ago, so I'll try it, it looks good now."

After he finished speaking, he let the lamb kebabs and mutton strips fly back into the chimney of the fireplace.

After cleaning his hands with a spell, Zhang Xu said to Rodney, "Let's go, I'll show you around the castle, lest you get lost and starve to death in the castle."

"These smoked lamb legs should be good for making noodles." Rodney, who walked out of the office behind Zhang Xu, thought about it, "Put butter in the pot and heat it up, then put the smoked lamb leg slices to fry until fragrant, then put grated cheese, Stir-fry with salt and pepper, rosemary or basil leaves, and finally pour the cooked noodles into it and stir-fry. If necessary, you can beat an egg before leaving the pan."

Zhang Xu nodded, then shook his head again, and said, "This way of eating is pretty good, but it's not magical enough."

"Then what are you going to eat?" Rodney asked.

Zhang Xu looked at the time, and then said to her, "Come on, I'll take you to the greenhouse first."

In Hogsmeade, there was a restaurant that imitated the kitchen layout of Hogwarts, and Rodney and the others had been there several times.But when I came to this huge kitchen for the first time, I couldn't help but be shocked by the scale and the busy house elves inside.

There were not many people in the kitchen tonight, except for a few couples who hadn't seen each other during the Christmas holidays, only Harry's trio sitting in front of the fireplace writing.

At this time, Rodney hadn't recovered from the trip to the greenhouse. She asked Zhang Xu for the seventh time: "Did we violate the rules just now?"

Zhang Xu replied again: "Don't worry, you'll be fine if you don't get caught."

Walking to a table in front of the fireplace, Zhang Xu got a set of kitchen utensils from a shelf not far away and put them on the table.Then he took out fresh Mandrake roots and leaves and other ingredients, and said to Rodney: "You peel the Mandrake roots first, and clean the leaves."

After finishing speaking, he ignored Rodney, who was holding the mandrake root and didn't know what to do with it, and went to the smoker in the corner of the kitchen, and returned with a piece of freshly smoked bacon.

Under the guidance of Neville, who was going to check the greenhouse but saw signs of theft in the greenhouse, he went straight to the kitchen, Rodney finally mastered the trick to quickly peel the roots of Mandrake.

At this time, Zhang Xu also came back with bacon, a small stove and other materials. He said to Rodney: "There is no smoked lamb yet, let's replace it with bacon."

He sliced ​​the bacon into medium-thick slices the way Snape was pissed off, and then shredded Rodney's peeled mandrake root and a sun mushroom.Spread a mandrake leaf on the bacon slices, then put evenly mixed mandrake root and sunshine mushroom shreds, and then roll it into a bacon roll.

Watching the butter melt in the pan, and the neatly arranged bacon rolls sizzling in the pan, Rodney said: "This time I finally know the picture in the kitchen in the basement of Hogsmeade. Why is the weird-looking menu so popular with young people?"

Zhang Xu didn't pick up this one, he asked, "What would you say is the last spice?"

"Parsley, sage, rosemary or thyme."

He sang the last line in the tune of Scarborough Fair.

The four spices parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme represent love, strength, loyalty and courage respectively.

Rodney heard Zhang Xu's hidden meaning. The first parsley representing love is just to make up the number, and the other three spices are asking her if she is willing to dedicate your strength, loyalty and courage to Hogwarts.

She smiled, found the four spices on the kitchen shelf, and sprinkled them on the fried mandrake sun mushroom bacon rolls.

The smell of spices wafts out of the pan under the stimulation of hot oil, and the aroma of bacon and spices immediately fills every space in the kitchen.

Not far away, the trio of Harry, who were rushing homework, recalled the days of copying school rules in the dungeon, smelling the fragrance.