Chapter 99 Paying Debt

"You really don't want to live in my house?"

"No, or I'll be in trouble... ahem."

Lu Yunkai glanced at Hailin, who was standing beside him with a teasing smile, with a bit of embarrassment, and stopped talking.

"What?"

Daphne's dictionary obviously didn't have words like "marrying into the family" or "living off a gigolo", so she had no idea why Lu Yunkai refused to live in her comfortable castle, and preferred to live in the Leaky Cauldron.

"Daphne! Since Lu Yunkai doesn't want to, don't force him. Anyway, he will come to your house often to see you, right? It doesn't make any difference!" Hailin looked at Lu Yunkai's dilemma and finally spoke up to help him out.

"Well, don't worry, I don't have much to plan for the summer vacation, and... Chris, if I go to your house with me and damage the expensive furniture in your house, I can't afford to pay for it."

"Meow! Don't take me! It has nothing to do with me!"

Chris, who was squatting on Lu Yunkai's shoulder, shook her head.

"Oh." Daphne looked at Chris with a bit of frustration and nodded.

She thought Chris didn't like her!

After watching Daphne leave with her mother, Lu Yunkai took the bus and came to the Leaky Cauldron.

Tom, the owner who was cleaning the bar, saw Chris squatting on Lu Yunkai's shoulder. The sincere smile on his face made Lu Yunkai feel happy.

Just like the Christmas holiday, Lu Yunkai reserved a room in the Leaky Cauldron. Although Tom didn't want to take Lu Yunkai's money, after learning that he was in trouble, Chris was very concerned about Tom's situation. Chris came forward and stuffed the money into his counter.

Since it was given by Chris, Tom had to accept it.

After throwing the big box full of books and luggage that he would use when going to school in the room in the bar, Lu Yunkai didn't rush to rest, but went directly through the back wall and came to Diagon Alley.

The owner, Mrs. Zabini, went to King's Cross Station to pick up Blaise from school today. Zabini Magic Items Shop was closed naturally, and Lu Yunkai was definitely not here to look for his partner.

He came here to buy an owl today.

Before the summer vacation, Hermione and Ron both found Lu Yunkai and reminded him not to ignore their letters during the summer vacation. Lu Yunkai felt very aggrieved about this: he did not receive any letters from anyone last year.

It was not until after school started that Lu Yunkai saw the letters that had been piled up for a summer vacation in his dormitory.

After learning about this, Hermione found out through research that the Ministry of Magic, for the protection of minors, stipulated that except for special official letters that they must receive (such as notices from Hogwarts), owl letters cannot be received outside of home and school. Lu Yunkai does not have a real home address now, so all letters sent to him will be sent to Hogwarts...

In order to prevent this from happening again, Hermione used her spare time (Ron: God knows where she got so much spare time) to study the transportation rules of owl letters and found that the relationship between magic pets and their owners could be used to bypass this rule.

The solution Hermione gave was that if they wanted to write to Lu Yunkai, they would write the recipient address in Hogwarts, so that the letters would be sent to Lu Yunkai's dormitory. And when these letters were sent to school, they would belong to Lu Yunkai's "personal belongings". After that, Lu Yunkai could arrange for a magic pet owl belonging to him to take the letters back to the Leaky Cauldron in the name of "carrying things for the owner".

Ron was very disdainful of this kind of "taking off pants to fart" behavior, but Hermione said that her family was a Muggle family, unlike Ron, who only needed a handful of Floo powder to play with Lu Yunkai.

This sentence made Ron unable to say anything more.

In fact, with the price of two Sickles per spoon of Floo powder, Ron could not come to Diagon Alley to find Lu Yunkai at any time...

Ahem.

In addition, Harry obviously could not expect to have the opportunity to leave his uncle's house to play, and if he wanted to contact Lu Yunkai, he would probably have to write letters, so Lu Yunkai agreed.

Ella Owl Shop is located in a small and not very eye-catching store in Diagon Alley. Almost all the students in Hogwarts who use owls as magic pets buy their owls here.

Including Harry's Hedwig, who Lu Yunkai always thought was very beautiful.

Well, in fact, after seeing Chris's white-haired lynx form in the Forbidden Forest this winter, Lu Yunkai was not so envious of Harry.

But this still did not affect his intention to buy an owl, and he would definitely choose a snowy owl.

And compared to Hedwig's snow-white feathers with a few black spots, Lu Yunkai was more inclined to buy an owl that was snow-white without any other colors like Chris's lynx form.

This requirement, which was not made for practicality but purely for beauty, would naturally lead to an increase in price...

But Lu Yunkai didn't care.

So after paying more than ten times the price of a normal owl, Lu Yunkai finally took a pure white owl from the owl store as he wished.

"Meow! You really have too much money to burn."

Chris was very angry about Lu Yunkai's decision.

Of course, it might also be because it didn't like any white-haired animals.

Then the owl that Chris insisted on naming Sophie went to work almost immediately: As a test, when leaving Hogwarts this morning, Hermione arranged for the owl in the tower to send a letter to Lu Yunkai. Lu Yunkai had to see if Sophie could get the letter back.

If not, then this summer Harry and Hermione could only wait for Lu Yunkai to remember to write to them and let Sophie bring their reply back.

Of course, with Lu Yunkai's dislike of writing letters, they probably wouldn't receive any more contact from Lu Yunkai until they came to Diagon Alley to buy school year items.

After buying the owl, Lu Yunkai took Chris to Knockturn Alley, the shop of the old man Eli.

When Eli saw Chris, he was as happy as Tom just now, but his way of being happy was to complain.

"Luckily you're not dead! Otherwise, what should I do with the 1,000 gold Galleons I lent you?"

After hearing the old man's words, Lu Yunkai, who had forgotten about this matter, quickly took out three pieces of parchment worth 1,000 gold Galleons from his space bag.

"Anyway, we're going to learn divination next semester, and Sybill Trelawney happens to be the one teaching us divination, so I'd better redeem the crystal ball!"

Lu Yunkai said this with a serious face.

He didn't care about Chris, who was jumping up and down beside him and complaining about Lu Yunkai's stupid behavior.

Elai was also shocked by Lu Yunkai's "generosity", but after hearing Lu Yunkai say that this was not all his assets, he smiled and accepted one.

"Although I'm not used to doing business at a loss, I don't like to take advantage of others."

As Eli said this, he took out the old crystal ball from the box guarding on the side and handed it to Lu Yunkai.

"Come and see if you need anything in the future. I still have a lot of good stuff to sell here."

Eli said this as he smiled and sent Lu Yunkai out of the store.

"Meow! What good stuff can he have here! He's just trying to trick outsiders."

Chris continued to complain about Eli.

But Lu Yunkai knew that this cat definitely didn't have this attitude towards this old man.

How should I put it? Lu Yunkai felt that if he could live another 60 years, he and Blaise might become like this...

This made him quite envious.

After leaving Eli's store, Lu Yunkai returned to Diagon Alley and walked into another store.

A terrifying journey.

The only travel agency in Diagon Alley.

In fact, he has been interested in this store for a long time. Since he first came to Diagon Alley in the summer of the year before last, he knew that this was the only travel agency in Diagon Alley, and he wanted to experience the wizard tour group.

In the first year, because he had no money, he could only watch the excitement outside the store with Harry.

In the second year, he had money, but he couldn't withdraw the money from the system balance, so he could only watch the excitement outside the store by himself.

This year, his income was finally "laundered" through Zabini Magic Items Shop. Even if he took it out, he would feel justified and not afraid of being checked. So he planned to take a week during the summer vacation to experience the real magical world outside of Hogwarts.

And this plan is also his only official arrangement for this summer vacation.

Of course, he is not the only one who is interested in the wizard tour group. Daphne, who learned about Lu Yunkai's arrangement, was full of envy on her face.

"I also hope to go and see it... But Astoria will enter Hogwarts next year, and my mother will definitely not have time to take me. Father..."

Daphne has said so much. If Lu Yunkai continues to play dumb, I'm afraid Chris will not forgive him.

"Let's go! Let's go together! I'll pay!"

Lu Yunkai said this to Daphne very generously.

Then in exchange, the excited Daphne gave him a big hug in the lounge in public...

Well. Because of this, Lu Yunkai was laughed at by Blaise for three days.

So this time, Lu Yunkai felt that he had to arrange the travel.

Money and such are not a problem.

"Hello... Oh! Isn't this Lu Yunkai! Why are you here?"

Lu Yunkai just pushed open the door of the horror tour, and a woman sitting at the front desk, who was wearing heavy makeup and looked pretty but a little old-fashioned, immediately smiled and said to him.

"Sister Irene, hello!" Lu Yunkai smiled and nodded.

Well, there is no store in Diagon Alley that Lu Yunkai doesn't know. The clerk of this horror tour is a witch who has just graduated from Hogwarts Hufflepuff School for two years.

Lu Yunkai knew her when she just graduated and started working in this store the year before last. At that time, this sister felt sorry for Lu Yunkai who ran away from home to study magic, and she also treated him to a cold drink. For Irene, who had just graduated, it was still a lot of money!

It was because of that experience that Lu Yunkai always had a good impression of this beautiful sister.

I just really don't know what kind of social beating this pretty witch who graduated has suffered in the past two years, and she has become the heavily made-up girl she is now...