Chapter 132: So Many Galleons, Doesn’t It Smell Good?
Mrs. Weasley cursed angrily for more than half an hour, and then pointed her wand at the joke magic products on the ground.
"I'm going to burn all these things now. Next time I see you not doing your job properly and tinkering with these useless things, I will throw you all out!"
"No! Mom, you can't do this!" George said in a broken voice, and he immediately threw himself on the pile of joke products, defending their hard work to the death.
Fred's cheeks turned red, he mustered up his courage, and retorted dissatisfiedly.
"These are not useless things, we will sell them soon! Ivan said people from the Ministry of Magic will definitely buy them!"
"Ministry of Magic? They will only buy your stuff unless they are crazy!" Mrs. Weasley laughed angrily for a moment, and they didn't even look at what they were getting.
An ugly-looking round ball that, according to George and Fred, emit foul-smelling juice when it hits someone.
A retractable ear for eavesdropping, a quill for automatic homework writing, and other random things whose functions I don’t know yet.
From Mrs. Weasley's point of view, only those little wizards who also like to play pranks would buy such things.
"Get out of my way!" Mrs. Weasley rolled up her sleeves angrily and was about to pull George away. Fred begged from the side, but she remained unmoved.
Fred had no choice but to turn his attention to other people in the family for help.
Ron hid behind and watched the excitement. Ginny was willing to help dissuade her, but she shut her mouth when she saw Mrs. Weasley's angry look.
Arthur Weasley turned a deaf ear and looked at the newspaper in his hand. He was very angry about George and Fred's poor grades last school year.
At this moment, an owl suddenly flew in from the closed window with a package tied to its talons. After seeing George and Fred, it let out a burst of happy cries and shouted towards them. The direction flew over
"It's Maka! Ivan must have replied!" Fred said excitedly.
Hearing what Fred said, everyone also turned their attention, and George, who was lying on the ground, suddenly jumped up.
Seeing the excitement of these two people, Mrs. Weasley became even more angry. She grabbed the owl that was about to fall. She wanted to know what these people were up to.
Mrs. Weasley immediately took off the package tied to the owl's feet, turned it over impatiently and shook it vigorously.
George was so angry that it belonged to them, but the next second he was almost blinded by the reflected golden light.
A large number of round, golden objects spilled out from the package, making a clanking sound on the ground. A large number of gold galleons fell everywhere.
"Oh my god, the bag is full of gold galleons!" Ron's eyes gleamed as he looked at the gold galleons scattered on the ground.
One of them rolled to Arthur Weasley's feet.
Arthur didn't care about reading the newspaper at this time. He squatted down and picked it up. After looking at it carefully, he confirmed that these gold galleons were real and not the leprechaun's gold coins.
Mrs. Weasley didn't expect that there would be so much money in the bag, and she opened her mouth not knowing how to react.
"These are all ours!" George and Fred rushed forward excitedly and picked them up one by one. They even took the ones in Arthur's hand and counted them together. They totaled fifty. A gold galleon.
"Where did all this money come from?" Mrs. Weasley frowned, feeling very confused, a little panicked, and a little scared.
Fifty Galleons is no small sum!
"We said that the Ministry of Magic is willing to order our products. These are just deposits. We can earn a total of 200 gold galleons. You can read this letter yourself!" George shook the envelope in his hand and said confidently,
Fred also nodded. He felt that Ivan's letter was so timely. If it had been any later, all their hard work over the past few days would have been burned away.
Mrs. Weasley glared at them fiercely, took the envelope, and read it.
Arthur couldn't sit still and came over to check the envelope.
Ron and Ginny also wanted to see it, but Mrs. Weasley held it high and wouldn't let them see it.
George and Fred looked at them with pride. They both felt that their mother would definitely not stop their research anymore. After all, it was an order from the Ministry of Magic!
After reading the envelope, Mrs. Weasley still couldn't believe it. She looked at Arthur suspiciously, wanting him to confirm.
Arthur pondered for a while, and then spoke out.
"It seems that there is such a thing. Recently, the Executive Department has applied for a batch of funds from the ministry due to personnel injuries. It is about five thousand gold galleons. I heard that a lot of magic items were purchased from a magic shop. "
"That's Ivan's magic shop. We put things there for sale!" George said.
Fred was shocked by what Arthur said about five thousand gold galleons.
They thought that they and George had already earned a lot, but they didn't expect that it was just a drop in the bucket compared to Ivan.
Envy was envy, and after thinking about it carefully, Fred felt that it was quite normal. After all, Ivan's family was the one that officially sold magic items, unlike amateurs like them who did research in private.
Although Mrs. Weasley believed it somewhat after confirming the information with her husband, she still couldn't accept the fact.
"I think you should focus on your studies now, instead of doing such weird things." Mrs. Weasley held the envelope and her speech was not very fluent for a while.
"Mom, this is an order from the Ministry of Magic! If we can't complete it, we will definitely be captured in Azkaban!" George shouted.
"Nonsense!" Arthur slapped the newspaper in his hand on George's head. The Ministry of Magic was not run by dark wizards, so how could it be possible to arrest people casually?
However, after teaching George a lesson, Arthur also helped persuade his wife. Although he would not be imprisoned in Azkaban if he could not complete the Ministry of Magic's order, the family could not afford the huge liquidated damages.
Besides, there are so many gold galleons, doesn’t it smell good?
After a while of persuasion from everyone, Mrs. Weasley reluctantly nodded and agreed that George and Weasley could take part of their time during the summer vacation to complete orders and even research some magic props.
But they are never allowed to use their study time to conduct experiments at Hogwarts, especially if it affects their academic performance!
"If you get any grade lower than E (exceeding expectations) in any of the final exams of the next school year, all these conditions will be invalid!" Mrs. Weasley warned with a dark face.
[Originally, I promised to update the third update today, and the third update has been coded. However, Angel feels that the coded plot is not satisfactory and needs to be revised again, so I will simply put it into the third update tomorrow. 】Thanks to book friends Huangcheng Old Man Never Encountered and Blood Moon Remaining Soul for the reward of 500 starting coins, and book friend 20190223231200016 for the reward of 100 starting coins.