Chapter 179 Member Badge

"Brother-in-law? Where did you go so early?"

"... Why did you get up so early?"

"How dare you say that! You ran away so early last night. I was so bored at the party alone that I had to come back early to sleep."

Astoria glared at Lu Yunkai fiercely.

Then, she reached out.

Lu Yunkai took out the mirror he had packed in a wooden box from his pocket and handed it to the little girl.

"Yeah." Astoria was very satisfied with Lu Yunkai's self-awareness.

She opened the box and saw the communication mirror wrapped in a piece of red velvet.

Astoria took out the mirror and looked around, and found that Lu Yunkai had engraved a very complex and beautiful pattern on the back.

"What is this pattern?" Astoria asked Lu Yunkai.

"A magic circle that can help you keep time."

"... You are so annoying!!" Astoria glared at Lu Yunkai fiercely.

She was often late, and because Daphne nagged her about this, Lu Yunkai knew it.

"Of course you don't need to use it! It's not mandatory." Lu Yunkai smiled, "I'm just giving you a choice..."

"Don't tell my sister about this!!"

"No! No!"

Lu Yunkai raised his hands in surrender.

Astoria rolled her eyes at Lu Yunkai, then happily went back to the dormitory with a mirror.

Lu Yunkai breathed a sigh of relief, then came to his seat in the lounge, stretched his waist, and then took out the list of banned books that Madam Pince prepared for him two years ago from his space bag and searched it.

I don't know how long it took.

"Have you had breakfast?"

"Not yet...Are you okay? Why do you look so listless?"

Lu Yunkai instinctively closed the book in his hand, put it in the space bag, then looked up and looked at Daphne in front of him.

Her face was full of fatigue.

"It's because you made me tired last night." Daphne glanced at Lu Yunkai with resentment, then sat beside him, "Do you want to go eat?"

"Well, I'm waiting for you... If you're too tired, I'll go to the auditorium and bring back some food?"

"No need." Daphne smiled at Lu Yunkai, "Have you finished reading the book?"

"No hurry." Lu Yunkai stood up and stretched out his hand to Daphne.

Daphne naturally took Lu Yunkai's hand and stood up.

...

The auditorium was unbelievably clean on Christmas morning. It didn't look like a lively and grand banquet was held here the night before. Now it was empty, but a little lonely.

Lu Yunkai and Daphne seemed to have reserved the place. They sat by the window, eating slowly, not talking, looking out the window, and looking across.

In the blink of an eye, it was a whole morning.

It was not until almost noon that people came into the auditorium one after another to eat and chat.

As for Lu Yunkai and Daphne, who was sitting next to him, everyone who entered the auditorium would take a second look.

With a little bit of envy.

Of course, there were also people who were not so envious...

"You guys got up early!"

Malfoy sat down next to Lu Yunkai, grabbed a piece of bread and stuffed it into his mouth.

"Where's Pansy?" Daphne didn't seem to mind Malfoy's behavior and talked to him naturally.

"I don't know, I didn't see her in the lounge just now." Malfoy poured himself a glass of milk, then took out a small velvet box from his sleeve and handed it to Lu Yunkai, "Here."

"...What?" Lu Yunkai took it with a little surprise.

"My dad's Christmas gift for you." Malfoy looked indifferent, "It arrived this morning. He asked me to tell you that this is something I asked him to help you get, but I don't think there's any need for us to be so distant, right?"

"...Yeah." Lu Yunkai smiled and nodded, then opened the box that looked like a jewelry box.

Daphne, who was sitting across the table, curiously poked her head over.

Inside was a brooch the size of a fingernail, a dark round shape with nothing on it.

"…What is this?" Daphne was speechless, "Is your father teasing Yunkai?"

"Don't talk nonsense! How could Mr. Malfoy just give something away! This thing must be extraordinary." Lu Yunkai interrupted his girlfriend's complaints about Lucius and reached out to take the brooch out of the box.

The moment his hand touched the brooch, the dark surface changed a little.

A relief like a potion bottle appeared on it.

"Yunkai still has good vision." Malfoy said to Daphne in a sarcastic tone, which earned Daphne a roll of her eyes, "This is the membership badge of the Magic Pharmacist Union."

"Magic Pharmacist Union?" Lu Yunkai was stunned.

Never heard of it.

"I haven't heard of it." Daphne spoke for Lu Yunkai, "What does it do?"

"It's a spontaneous association of the best potion masters in Britain and Europe." Malfoy looked like he knew you didn't know. "There are probably less than 200 members now, so most people don't know."

"Such a small-scale association..."

"Professor Snape is the holder of the record for the youngest member to join before Yunkai." Malfoy interrupted Daphne, "Of course, in fact, Professor Snape was not originally. There was someone younger than him before him, but That person...many people don’t dare to mention it.”

"..." Daphne could no longer continue her complaints.

There are not many people in the wizarding world that many people dare not mention, but you can guess who they are with just your toes.

Professor Snape and that man are both members of this society...

"It must be difficult to join this association, right? Mr. Malfoy has put in so much effort for me... Thank you so much." Lu Yunkai nodded sincerely.

"Not bad." Seeing Lu Yunkai's expression, Malfoy was very satisfied, "But it's actually not that difficult. My father told me that when the vote passed, the group of members heard that you were Slughorn's adopted son. No One who voted no.”

"this……"

"Your adoptive father was once the president of this association and is now the honorary president." Malfoy smiled.

"...Okay." Lu Yunkai smiled helplessly, "But I still want to thank Mr. Malfoy."

"It's true that you thanked my mother. It was she who urged my father to get this for you." Malfoy said with a smile, "The ointments you helped her get and gave away made her look particularly good in front of her friends. "

"Next summer I will bring some ointment with me and go to Mrs. Malfoy's door to say thank you."

"Yeah." Malfoy smiled and nodded.

"You guys talk, I'm leaving first."

Daphne next to her suddenly said something.

"...What are you doing? Is there something wrong?"

"It's nothing, it's just...well, I suddenly felt a little sleepy again." Daphne's expression looked strange.

"...Oops! I didn't see anything special about this badge at first. You don't have to be like this!" Seeing Daphne like this, Malfoy felt a little embarrassed.

He thought Daphne felt embarrassed because she underestimated the things his father gave Lu Yunkai.

In fact, when he saw the letter sent by his father along with the gift this morning, he almost threw the small box away...

Then he directly called the communication mirror and asked his father how he had the nerve to give away such a broken brooch.

"That's not it..." Daphne glanced at Lu Yunkai and stood up.

"Forget it, I've finished eating too." Lu Yunkai also stood up.

"What happened?" Malfoy was confused.

I didn’t say anything inappropriate today, right? It's just a gift...

"Maybe I saw the gift Mr. Malfoy gave me..." Lu Yunkai shook the brooch in his hand, "I feel like I owe me a gift or something."

"Did you give Daphne a gift?"

"It's not important..." Lu Yunkai gave Malfoy a look.

Gave it, last night.

A teacup that can automatically keep black tea warm.

Daphne became more and more depressed.

"Daphne, I'm not talking about you. Every year, Lu Yunkai tries his best to prepare gifts for you, but I haven't seen you... What's wrong? I'll just tell you! Just don't tell me!"

Malfoy felt guilty.

He saw Daphne burst into tears.

He wasn't afraid of Daphne, but when he thought that if Pansy found out that he made Daphne cry, she would probably have to nag him, he almost immediately gave up.

"You!!" Lu Yunkai glared at Malfoy, sighed softly, reached out and patted Daphne, "Why are you crying? It's not like I didn't receive the gift, so you don't have to feel so guilty!!"

"...I didn't send it, so what did you receive?" Daphne touched her face and glanced at Lu Yunkai resentfully, "I never thought about this...and my father and mother didn't tell me to send it to you. Order something..."

"Oh! How dare I ask Mr. and Mrs. Greengrass for a gift! Don't make trouble!" Lu Yunkai waved his hands quickly, "They have already given me such a precious gift. I still want it. Isn't it too shameless?"

"What's so precious..." Daphne was halfway through her words when she realized that Lu Yunkai was pointing at her.

"You are the best gift they gave me!" Lu Yunkai looked at Daphne seriously.

"...Then I didn't give you a gift either!" Daphne's face turned red, but her tears stopped flowing.

"Who said that? You have smiled at me a total of twelve times this morning!"

"this……"

Quiet.

Daphne didn't know what to say for a moment.

On the side, Malfoy was holding milk in his hand, looking at Lu Yunkai, with his mouth open, unable to speak for a long time.

A long time.

"Yunkai, look, we are good buddies, right?" Malfoy put down the milk in his hand and looked at Lu Yunkai seriously.

"...I have something to say." Lu Yunkai glanced at Daphne who sat down again with a red face, but lowered her head and remained silent before turning to answer Malfoy.

"When are you going to teach me... how do you make up these words?" Malfoy said seriously: "It's simply amazing."

"...What do you mean by making up!!" Lu Yunkai glared at Malfoy, "These are all sincere words!"

"I'm serious!"

"I'm serious too!"

"Tch, forget it if you don't want to teach me." Malfoy flattened his mouth, picked up the milk glass again, and took a sip.

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