Study Days at Hogwarts

  Chapter 120 The bird that lays silver eggs

  Before leaving the Forbidden Forest, Hagrid dug up some matsutake for Albert, but the number of these things was rare, and he didn't find many in the end.

  As soon as Hagrid opened the door of the hut, the black hound Fang came out of the hut, happily running around several people, and also liked to sniff around.

  Albert squatted down, touched Yaya's head, and let him settle down.

  Hagrid took out the matsutake from his pocket, put them all on the table, picked up a matsutake, looked it up and down and asked, "Are you sure this thing is really delicious when grilled over charcoal?"

   "Leave it to me to deal with it!" Albert said to himself, he was as stable as Mount Tai on the surface, and his heart was also as stable as Mount Tai.

   "If you want to fish, I have some fresh meat left over here, you can get some to use as bait." Hagrid pointed to the big wooden barrel in the corner.

   "What are you?" Albert looked at the raw meat in the barrel and raised his eyebrows. He just smelled a **** smell, which turned out to be coming from the barrel.

"Food for thestrals. In winter, it is difficult for thestrals to find food. I will occasionally go into the woods to feed them to ensure that the young individuals in the group can survive the winter." Hagrid stretched out his hands and rubbed them. Rubbing Yaya's head, "The rest of the meat is my dinner for Yaya?"

   "Are you sure this thing is really edible?" Lee Jordan asked, staring at Matsutake.

   "Of course." Hagrid lit the unburned firewood in the fireplace, put the copper pot on it to boil, and went outside to fetch a bucket of well water for Albert.

Albert took a sharp knife from the kitchen and scraped off the soil from the roots of the matsutake. After cleaning it repeatedly, he pulled out his wand and made a complicated gesture. He pointed at the newly washed matsutake and said the drying spell. The matsutake evaporated.

"You don't look like a first-year student now." Hagrid looked at Albert, who was casting spells, and sighed softly, "Your use of spells is completely beyond my imagination, it's hard to imagine that you come from a Muggle family? "

   "Yeah!" George sighed softly, "I'll bet the two silver coins in my pocket that this guy knows more magic than a second grader."

  Albert didn't care about the ridicule of several people, and asked, "Hagrid, do you have olive oil here?"

   "There are some left, if you want to use it, I'll get it for you."

   "Excuse me."

  Albert carefully cut the matsutake into thin slices with a sharp knife.

   "You are too stingy!" Li Qiaodan pinched the thin slice of matsutake with his fingertips, and said contemptuously: "How does this thin slice feel when you eat it?"

   "Slice it thinly, it will be cooked later." Albert glared at Lee Jordan, and brushed a thin layer of olive oil on the matsutake. Then I took a piece of wood and turned it into a grill, and used tongs to pick out a few pieces of charcoal that hadn't completely burned out from the fireplace and put them in the brazier, put the grill up, nodded in satisfaction and said: " It finally feels like grilling."

   "I think you're making too much fuss." Fred looked at the busy Albert and rolled his eyes.

   "Well, this tastes good." Hagrid put the sausage he made aside, stretched out his hand and picked up the matsutake that was still roasting and threw it into his mouth, nodding while chewing, "It's very good, but the portion is too small."

  Fred and the others looked at each other, and they swept away the freshly baked golden matsutake as quickly as possible.

   "I found the chewiness of this thing to be alright."

   "However, would it be better to add some salt?"

   "I think it should be dipped in some sauce."

   "Asshole, you all ate up my share." Albert saw that the matsutake he had just baked was snatched away, and couldn't help glaring at the three of Fred.

   "Your portion is for George!" Fred and Lee Jordan raised their fingers to George.

   "Ahem, there are still a lot on the plate anyway." George coughed dryly and picked up the sausage: "How about we roast sausages?"

   "I'll talk about it after I finish roasting the matsutake." Albert glared at the three of them angrily, and continued with his work.

  The barbecue didn't last long. The amount of matsutake was too small, and each person only got a few slices, but everyone had to admit that the taste of matsutake was really good, and the aftertaste was endless after eating.

  After that, they grilled the sausage Hagrid made himself, and drank a few cups of tea before returning to the Gryffindor lounge.

  As for the small biscuits that Hagrid made himself, several people politely refused, after all, their teeth are not that good, and they really can't eat them.

   When they returned to the Gryffindor lounge, the banquet to celebrate Gryffindor's victory was not over, but the prepared cakes and pies were basically eaten by everyone, leaving some toffee and a few vegetable pies.

   "Where did you go?" Angelina stared suspiciously at the four people who had just entered from the entrance.

   "I went into the woods with Hagrid." George said proudly.

   "The hunting ground administrator will take you into the forest." Angelina was very surprised.

   "Albert succeeded in convincing him." Fred explained: "We also heard that Professor Kettlebo, who protects magical biology, lives in the woods."

   "Are you joking?" Shanna came over and joined the discussion among several people.

   "No, it's true, we just met a witch who was going to visit Professor Kettlebo, it seems to be for the bird and snake." Lee Jordan said.

   "What is a bird and snake?" Shanna asked curiously.

  Lee Jordan choked, turned his gaze to Albert, and asked his friend for help.

   "The jays are winged, two-legged animals from Asia that can expand and contract at will, so the jays can either grow so large that they fill all the space, or shrink as the space available."

   "I'm curious how you know so much about birds and snakes?" George joked, "Don't you know "Fantastic Beasts" by heart?"

   "Bird snake eggs are also one of the ingredients for making Felicia Felicia," Albert said angrily, "So I checked it out."

"By the way, the shell of the bird snake egg is made of pure silver, which is silver." Albert looked around, saw the shocked expressions on the faces of several people, nodded with satisfaction and continued, "It is said that the famous writer Gildero Lockhart once used bird snake eggs to make a bird snake egg yolk shampoo, the effect can really "lock the luster", but due to the price and danger, the bird snake egg yolk shampoo could not be produced for the mass market, It was only sold on the black market, but it soon disappeared as well."

   "Why?" Shanna asked puzzled.

   "Because it's too expensive." Albert said naturally.

   "No wonder Felicia is so expensive." Fred said with emotion.

"It's not that expensive, but you can't buy it at all." Albert said angrily: "Later, I specifically checked the raw materials of Felicia Elixir, only to find out why basically no one would make it. The raw materials are very expensive. If it fails in the manufacturing process, it is an unbearable disaster for any pharmacist."

  (end of this chapter)