Chapter 120 Seizing the Opportunity

"It's just that the stores in Knockturn Alley are temporarily closed. It's not convenient for me to show my face recently."

An hour later, in the study room of Brace's home.

When Lu Yunkai came out of the fireplace, he was disgraced, but he was faced with a cleaning spell.

Mrs. Zabini, dressed in black with a thin layer of black gauze covering her face, seemed to have guessed that Lu Yun was coming to the meeting.

After that, she didn't delay and took Lu Yunkai directly into the study.

Close the door and cast the anti-eavesdropping spell in one go.

Then before Lu Yun could ask, she told the answer to the question.

This answer left Lu Yunkai speechless for a moment.

What's the inconvenience? As if you would actually mourn your short-lived husband! How did he die? Is there any wizard in the entire British magical world who doesn't know?

There is just no evidence...

"What about our cooperation?"

"It doesn't matter. Now I don't have to have a store to sell things." Mrs. Zabini shook her head, "The items on the list I gave you before were all customized by someone. Come out, I can get the gold galleons over there, it’s more convenient than in the store.”

"The problem is that I don't necessarily have to be successful! I still have to rely on potions to make money..."

Lu Yunkai sighed in disappointment.

He really hoped that Mrs. Zabini would not open a shop! In this way, he may not have to continue to associate with this dangerous woman. Anyway, she has an unbreakable oath, and it is impossible for her to tell Lu Yunkai's secret.

Now it's even more troublesome. Without a store, it means that only she knows all the customers. Lu Yunkai has completely become her part-time worker!

This woman...

"How much profit can potions make? It's not like you don't have enough money now, so why do you work so hard? I heard from Brace that besides going to class every day, you are refining potions, so why bother!"

"But the problem is, I hired someone to help me grow herbs..."

"Just terminate the contract! The magic contract I signed with her has no penalty!"

"..."

Irene signed a contract with you without liquidated damages because she believed that I would not cheat her! !

Why are there people like you? ?

"What? You can't bear to part with her?" Mrs. Zabini said with a charming smile, "You really raised that girl at home to prepare her?"

"...Forget it, you don't have to worry about it anymore."

Lu Yunkai sighed softly.

Selfish people are selfish after all. One cannot expect a person like Madame Zabini to have any sense of shame.

She can even kill her husband at her own risk, and yet she is expected to be responsible for a poor young witch? over thinking!

"How's your communication mirror going?"

Seeing that Lu Yunkai was kept silent for a long time by her words, Mrs. Zabini also realized that what she just said made Lu Yun feel uncomfortable, and she quickly tried to change the topic.

"Brace didn't tell you?"

"No. He never told me about your affairs." Mrs. Zabini shook her head. "Can you do what you said before and have many people talk, chat and send messages together?"

"Recently, I have been studying the use of mirrors to have face-to-face conversations." Lu Yunkai did not answer, but said something else, "I have tried it between two people without any problems, but I haven't found a way for multiple people to have face-to-face conversations at the same time. One time, there was a mirror It was also broken and almost hurt Daphne, so it may take a while..."

"You should study the text version first!" Mrs. Zabini interrupted Lu Yunkai, "If you can communicate with multiple people at the same time, give me a batch when you have finished it."

"The text version is just a semi-finished product and of little use." Lu Yunkai refused.

And more importantly, give? ?

Why?

"Who says it's useless! I plan to use it to contact customers!" Mrs. Zabini rolled her eyes at Lu Yunkai, "I've thought about it all. If there are reservations on the list I gave you, I will contact you through a single line. If you After I get the magic items that are not on the list, I will send a message to all customers. Anyone who wants it will naturally contact me... What are you doing? "

"It's nothing. I still plan to add the text after the things here are finished." Lu Yunkai calmed down his mood, put a smile on his face again, and continued to express his rejection in a different way.

For just a moment, he was indeed a little stunned.

The sales method that Mrs. Zabini thought of actually coincided with the method that Lu Yunkai had thought of to get rid of her control over him during this period.

So although he had already accomplished the task of allowing multiple people to communicate in the mirror at the same time, he had no intention of telling Mrs. Zabini.

Lu Yunkai's original plan was to build the communication mirror first, then start selling it through Zabini Magic Items Store, and store the identity of the developer in each mirror so that all sold products can receive and send messages. Give this identity.

When the stock of mirrors is large enough, the plan can enter the second step. This identity can receive advertisements and push them to all mirror holders. If the mirror holders choose to receive these advertisements, then Lu Yunkai does not need to accept them. The "Communication Spell Maintenance Charge" for their correspondence guarantees that their mirrors will always be usable.

And the third step after that is to mix the magic items he pulled out of the system into it in the form of advertisements...

Mrs. Zabini had shown enough interest in becoming a "communications operator" before, which made Lu Yunkai think of this method of substituting a person for a dead person, so as to get rid of her control over him, and made her feel that he had to rely on her to contact for advertising and make money, and Lu Yunkai could only do some magic itself. But in fact, even if the cooperation between the two broke down and Lu Yunkai could not get advertising, he could still sell his own products.

But Mrs. Zabini made Lu Yunkai realize again that no matter how good his plan was, it was still useless.

She seemed to want to bypass Lu Yunkai and become the general manager directly.

Lu Yunkai would never accept such a condition.

Otherwise, if one day she figured out how to make this mirror, she would become redundant...

Just like Blaise's several fathers.

You can sell the things, but all the problems must be solved by me personally. This is Lu Yunkai's bottom line.

"Okay then! But in this case, it may not be convenient for me to sell things in the short term." Mrs. Zabini said with some regret.

"It's okay, no hurry. I still have some money." Lu Yunkai smiled.

According to what Irene said just now, the price of the things grown in the herb garden is more than enough to cover her salary, and even the daily expenses of the family can be completely solved.

He is not afraid that he will not have extra money on hand.

Hearing Lu Yunkai say this, Mrs. Zabini felt a little regretful, but still nodded and approved Lu Yunkai's decision.

After that, Lu Yunkai left the Blaise family very straightforwardly. Even when Mrs. Zabini repeatedly asked him to stay for dinner, Lu Yunkai refused with the excuse of "already having an appointment".

In order to make the whole statement seem more reasonable, Lu Yunkai really came to the Greengrass family that night.

Daphne naturally welcomed Lu Yunkai at any time, and Astoria, who hardly contacted Lu Yunkai at school, did not dislike his arrival.

So, he had a much more comfortable dinner here.

…

“Brother-in-law, I heard from my sister in the afternoon that you asked her not to go out during this holiday?”

After dinner, in the study.

While writing her homework paper, Astoria asked Lu Yunkai who was studying ancient magic with Daphne.

“It’s not that you are not allowed to go out, but that you should not go to Diagon Alley.” Lu Yunkai corrected.

“Why? I heard from my classmates that the most dangerous place now is Hogwarts. As long as you go out by yourself, there is not much risk.”

“Classmates?” Lu Yunkai was stunned, and then a weird smile appeared on his face, “Male or female?”

“…Ah! Brother-in-law!!” Astoria blushed, “What are you thinking!”

“Male? He obviously wants to ask you out!” Daphne glared at her sister, “Hogwarts is the safest place in England!”

“It’s because Sirius sneaked in!” Astoria’s face became redder.

"That guy can even escape from Azkaban!" Lu Yunkai said seriously, "If you really want to see him, you can make an appointment to go to your house or his house to play..."

"Lu Yunkai! What are you talking about!" Daphne interrupted Lu Yunkai, "How old is she..."

"Didn't you want to invite me to your house in the first grade?" Lu Yunkai laughed, "Why can't Astoria?"

"That's right! Brother-in-law is right!!" Astoria nodded repeatedly.

"Then make an appointment!" Daphne glanced at her sister.

"...I still have homework to do! God knows why these professors seem to have made an appointment to stay together for so many!" Astoria immediately backed off.

"I just don't want students to run out to play!" Lu Yunkai sighed with a smile, "But in fact, as long as you don't go to Diagon Alley, anywhere is safe."

"Because Harry is there?" Daphne glanced at her sister and asked.

"Yeah." Lu Yunkai didn't intend to hide it from Daphne. "The Ministry of Magic wants to set up a trap in the Leaky Cauldron to lure Black into the trap."

"No wonder!" Daphne laughed, "You just stayed on the platform and talked to him to remind him to be safe?"

"Remind? Is it useful?" Lu Yunkai smiled and shook his head and sighed, "He just sent me a message saying that he thought about it carefully and felt that he should take the initiative to cooperate with the Ministry of Magic's plan, so he went to talk to the Auror who was protecting him."

"..."

"Okay, let's stop here today. I'm a little tired. I'm going home first." Lu Yunkai closed the ancient magic book in front of him.

"Brother-in-law, if you are tired, just stay!" Astoria said what Daphne wanted to say.

"No." Lu Yunkai smiled and refused, then got up and left.

He was really tired today, and he still hoped to return to his home and have a good sleep.

Fireplace, Floo powder, everything was already familiar, Lu Yunkai returned to the empty mansion.

Back in the bedroom, Lu Yunkai lay down on the soft mattress and sighed deeply.

I was really tired today.

Harry who didn't listen to advice, Mrs. Zabini who was complicated...

Fortunately, there was Daphne!!

Lu Yunkai suddenly felt very grateful to that girl.

Just when he took out the communication mirror and wanted to chat with Daphne before taking a bath and going to bed, an ugly cat jumped onto the bed.

"Hey, you're back?"

"Meow, why are you talking so weird!" Chris glared at Lu Yunkai.

"I think you are sick. You would rather run back from Hogwarts by yourself than take the train with me."

"I always want to see the excitement of the Ministry of Magic!"

"Have you checked?" Lu Yunkai asked.

"Of course! More than 30 Aurors were dispatched, and no blind spots were left out..."

"Then what? Nothing was found?" Lu Yunkai listened to Chris's words, which were even more sarcastic than his own, and laughed, "Are you going to say they are useless again?"

"After making such a big fuss, they can't find anything. If they are not useless, what are they?" Chris snorted, "Meow, I just want to tell you that I'm back. I've been running all the way, and I'm tired. I'm going back to sleep."

"Um..."

Before Lu Yunkai finished speaking, a small figure suddenly appeared by the bed.

"Master."

"...What's the matter?"

Looking at Xueli who suddenly appeared, Lu Yunkai was startled.

"There is a big black dog outside the house, and it seems to be looking for your home." Xueli said with a little worry.

"Dog? A stray dog? Just ignore it. It can't find the house anyway."

"Okay, master."

...

I'll explain in advance that for Peter Pettigrew, I decided to use the transliteration of the Taiwanese version of Peter Pettigrew. He's a supporting character who's already dead, so he won't be mentioned many times, so there's no need to worry too much. In fact, I was struggling with whether to transliterate Sirius as Sirius, but I just felt that this character was so popular that I just called him that. I never quite understood why Harry's father, James, should be translated as James without Si, but it's still used that way. As for Peter... well, he really doesn't deserve it.