Chapter 1 Chris

"Why are you standing there? Peel the potatoes! It's almost business hours. If there isn't enough by then, you won't be able to eat this week."

"Huh? Oh."

Lu Yunkai came back to his senses, glanced at the impatient man in front of him with a cigarette in his mouth, turned around and walked into the kitchen.

Sitting in front of the huge stainless steel basin, looking at the large basin of potatoes, he was a little distracted.

It has been two months since he came to this place.

In his almost lost memories, he vaguely remembered a sudden epidemic, which unfortunately affected him, who was running a seafood stall.

Although the medical staff tried hard to treat him, he was unable to defeat the disease.

As soon as he closed his eyes and opened them, he found that he was still alive.

In the broken fusion memory, he was an orphan. A kind-hearted British gentleman adopted him and brought him from his hometown to a small British island in the North Atlantic.

It's just that good people don't always live long. The kind-hearted adoptive father died in an accident two years ago. After that, he was sent to this beer hall owned by his adoptive father's brother.

This uncle and his adoptive father are completely opposite people.

Acerbic, moody, and the core of a football hooligan organization.

Little Lu Yunkai also fell from heaven to hell and became a child laborer for this unscrupulous man.

Lu Yunkai even felt that he could be reincarnated in this body because the poor boy before him was starved to death by that unscrupulous man after he failed to run away from home.

Just now, a fat, middle-aged woman wearing ill-fitting old clothes with a bit of messy hair came to the beer hall after business hours.

He brought a letter written on vellum and sealed with wax.

She called herself Professor Sprout and came from a magic school called Hogwarts. She told Lu Yunkai and his guardian uncle that Lu Yunkai was admitted to this magic school.

The grumpy uncle showed his attitude towards the visitor directly by taking action: he picked up a beer bottle on the bar and threw it at her.

But during the flight, the beer bottle turned into a brown bird and landed on Sprout's shoulder.

The uncle was frightened.

But still rejected Sprout.

"I don't need any monster magicians in my house! No need!"

While roaring at Sprout to leave, he drove the unwilling Lu Yunkai here to continue peeling potatoes.

Lu Yunkai took out the brown paper letter from his trouser pocket.

"Dear Mr. Lu: We are pleased to inform you that you have been admitted to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Enclosed is a list of required books and equipment. The semester is scheduled to start on September 1st. We will start on July 3rd. I'll be waiting for your owl to bring you your reply eleven days ago. Sincerely, Vice Principal Minerva McGonagall."

Lu Yunkai read the letter again.

wry smile.

Today is the last day of July. Where can I find an owl to reply?

The man didn't bother to take the letter away from him because he wasn't worried about Lu Yunkai sneaking away to the magic school behind his back.

Lu Yunkai couldn't even walk out of the two blocks near this beer hall.

As a well-known football hooligan, there are police patrols outside the beer hall all year round. Lu Yunkai tried to run away from home before, but was sent back by the police.

Lu Yunkai had a dark feeling that those people outside were just waiting for him to be tortured to death by this bastard, so that they could throw him into prison for that reason openly.

It would be better not to give yourself an inexplicable hope in the first place and then destroy it!

"Meow."

Suddenly, a cat's meow reached the ears of Lu Yunkai, who was at the bottom of his mood.

"What do you mean, I'm so annoyed!"

Lu Yunkai didn't even need to look at it to know that it was the stray cat that always came to the store to get food and drinks.

It has mottled yellow and white fur and a big belly, but its face always has a sharp mouth and monkey cheeks. Lu Yunkai often secretly feeds it some leftovers from fried fish in the kitchen.

"Meow."

"Are you bothered? There will be leftovers after get off work... What are you doing with a stick in your mouth?"

Lu Yunkai glanced at the cat behind him in annoyance and smiled absurdly.

It was a wooden stick that was slightly curved in the middle, thin at one end and thick at the other, but polished very smooth. It was about twelve inches long, about the same length as a cat.

"Meow." The cat meowed and threw the stick in front of him.

"What is this? The cat's repayment of kindness?" Lu Yunkai smiled and shook his head, his depressed mood somewhat relieved, "Okay! Thank you! You didn't bring me a mouse."

As he spoke, he reached out and picked up the branch.

The moment his fingers touched the branch, a golden light burst out from his fingertips.

"This..." Lu Yunkai was stunned.

However, that's not all.

In front of his eyes, some shadows that only he could see flickered.

[System initialization, please wait. 】

Soon, the shadow in front of him changed.

The one line just now turned into a large text, which seemed to be introducing this "system".

Before Lu Yunkai could take a closer look, the cat's meow seemed to have changed.

"Meow, can you understand what I say now?"

"What? Are you talking??" Lu Yunkai looked at the cat.

"Meow, it seems you can understand."

"You can talk? How come I've never heard you say that before?"

Although Lu Yunkai thought it was absurd, he was not shocked. After all, he had just seen a flying beer bottle turned into a bird half an hour ago.

"You only fed me for two months, don't pretend to be familiar with me, meow!"

"Who said only two months?"

"Two months ago you told me yourself that you were just reincarnated here!"

It seems that no matter how lonely you are, you can't talk nonsense! Even to cats, God knows when you will dig a hole for yourself.

Lu Yunkai sighed.

"Meow, no one can understand me except you, you don't have to worry about me telling others." Seeing that Lu Yunkai didn't try to quibble, the cat nodded with satisfaction. "Okay, let's go!"

"Go? Where to?"

"Why? You want to stay here?" The cat looked up and looked around, "Don't you want to go to Hogwarts?"

"How do you know about Hogwarts?"

"Meow, I am the magic pet mentioned in the admission notice. It's just that ordinary magic pets can't speak." The cat stretched out its claws and scratched the admission notice in Lu Yunkai's hand, "Let's go, don't you have to reply to Hogwarts today? If you miss the time, you will have to peel potatoes here for the rest of your life."

"Oh." Lu Yunkai stood up quickly, "Is this system in front of me a wizard's ability? How do I use this thing?"

"Meow? What system?"

"It's these phantoms, what about buying and selling items..."

"Meow? What are you talking about? Are you dazzled?"

"...It's okay. Let's go!" Lu Yunkai shook his head with a weird expression on his face.

Could it be that these things that appeared in front of him have nothing to do with this cat?

Forget it, leave this damn place first, and talk about other things later!

…

“I heard that the league will be changed to a super league next year. I really don’t know what these officials are thinking. Why do they want to change traditional things when they are so good… What are you doing?”

The uncle who was talking about football with his friends on the phone at the bar frowned when he saw Lu Yunkai coming out of the kitchen with two black plastic bags.

But he didn’t notice the twelve-inch long wooden stick on his waistband.

“I’m going to throw away the garbage.” Lu Yunkai answered casually.

“Don’t dawdle! If the French fries are not fried enough tonight, you know what will happen!” The uncle threatened Lu Yunkai.

Lu Yunkai didn’t answer, but walked out of the store with the garbage bag, came to the corner of the street, and threw the plastic bag heavily into the trash can.

“Meow, go to the end of the alley in front, and then turn left.” The cat that came out of nowhere seemed to jump onto Lu Yunkai’s shoulder very skillfully.

"You'll attract too much attention. There are police patrolling nearby. If they see me..."

"What are you afraid of? You have a Hogwarts admission letter on you, which means you are protected by the Ministry of Magic. As long as you don't run to the middle of the road and shout, no one will notice you!" The cat looked disapproving, "Meow! Hurry up! I have to get you some money first."

"Can you get money?" Lu Yunkai looked at the cat in surprise.

"Meow, what else? Do you think that only in the Muggle world can you get by without money?"

"Muggles? What are they?"

"Ordinary people who don't understand magic."

"Why does this word sound a bit discriminatory against ordinary people?" Lu Yunkai pouted.

"Meow, don't worry! I won't discriminate against you." The cat said solemnly, "You have fed me fish for so long, I won't let you starve to death."

"Okay!"

Lu Yunkai walked to the other end of the alley without looking back.

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