Arms Dealers From Hogwarts

Gold and red floor tiles, staircase guardrails with intricate patterns, carved golden candlesticks, and exquisite marble statues.

The portraits with golden frames greeted Jemini loudly. The celestial portraits on the ceiling were slowly rotating and moving. It was just a hall, which gave Jemini a dizzying feeling.

Jemini knew what kind of life the pure-blooded families in the magic world lived. Originally, he thought that the daily life of Hogwarts was luxurious enough, but he did not expect that compared with the Gray family, Hogwarts was not only big , nothing else...

"Fortunately, my sister received you first." Shirley took Jemini's hand and said softly, "If Adria takes the lead, you will have to endure the cramped environment of their house. "

"Narrow and cramped?" Jemini was stunned.

"It's not that exaggerated, Adria's house is still very spacious."

Charlotte smiled: "The Welfare family is also in Hampshire, and lives in the nearby Welfare Village. It is a family-style village. There are squibs and wizards in the village. In addition, the Welfare family is a herbalist, which is different from ours. , Strictly speaking, the Welfare family is older than our Gray family, after all, it is one of the twenty-eight pure-blood families."

"Herbal farming?"

"That's right." Charlotte nodded. "Our two families have always been friends. If it wasn't for this relationship, I wouldn't be able to support the Gray family's potions industry."

"I see..." Jemini nodded, no wonder Adria and Shirley have such a good relationship.

Shirley took Jemini all the way to the head of the third floor, pushed open a tall brown wooden door, and came to a luxurious bedroom.

"This is your room, Lord Fox."

Jemini looked at the big room in front of him and couldn't help opening his mouth.

What caught my eye was a huge circular room. The floors from the third floor to the fifth floor were all connected, and it was nearly ten meters high. Judging from its location, it should be the tower of the castle.

There is a red carpet with intricate patterns on the ground, a huge carved fireplace is burning with roaring flames, there is a circle of sofas that look very soft in the middle of the room, and there is a brown-red bookcase occupying most of the wall in the north. It was filled with dense books.

Walking along the stairs in the south of the room to the platform above the room, Jemini saw a big bed that was three or four meters long. There was a fiery red curtain around the bed, and the cupboard beside it was full of snacks and snacks of various colors. , open the sliding door of the wardrobe on the other side, and new clothes of various styles are neatly hung inside.

"Is it too thoughtful?" Jemini felt his throat a little dry.

"Bruly make a living." Shirley looked around, for fear that there was still something inconsiderate: "Rum!"

With a crisp sound, an elf with a brown pillowcase appeared in front of the three of them.

"You will be responsible for the living of Lord Fox in the future."

"Yes, Master." The elf named Rum bowed respectfully, his pointed nose touched the ground, and said excitedly: "It is the greatest honor of Rum's life to serve Lord Fox."

"Your name is Rum?" Jemini looked curiously at the house elf in front of him: "Is it the rum from rum? I like rum."

Rum was moved by Jemini's words and trembled all over.

"The name Rum was given by my father, who is in charge of making wine." Charlotte chuckled: "In addition, my name comes from a rose flower called Charlotte, and Shirley's name comes from snow. Liquor, these two are my mother's favorites."

"Ms. Gray must be a very gentle person." Jemini nodded gently.

"Yeah." Charlotte smiled softly: "Stop talking, I think you must be hungry? Dinner should be ready, please come with me."

The dinner at Gray's was extraordinarily sumptuous.

Grilled steak, smoked salmon, and a small bowl full of caviar.

During one dinner, Jemini learned a lot about the Gray family, such as the fact that there are fifty house-elves in Gray Manor.

"I remember Draco saying that there are less than ten Malfoy Manor?"

Jemini squeezed his chin, a little surprised.

"I bought them all." Charlotte wiped her mouth with a napkin and said reservedly: "When I first took control of the family business, many employees quit their jobs because of some relatives who interfered with it, so I simply We stopped recruiting and bought a large number of elves with money.”

"I take the liberty to ask, how much is a elf?" Jemini blinked.

"About two or three thousand Galleons, some are a little cheaper." Charlotte said gently: "Actually, the difficulty in buying this batch of elves is not the money, but the source."

"Because the house-elves are absolutely loyal to the family they serve, coupled with their excellent magical abilities, basically this kind of business will not happen. The elves that the Gray family has now are all from some desperation. Bought it from a pure-blood family."

"Will they sell it?" Jemini asked in surprise.

"If it's not particularly embarrassing, generally no wizard will sell their elf. In contrast, they would rather sell their wives." Charlotte said contemptuously: "I went all over the place for this reason. half of Europe."

"But it turns out that I was right, the elves don't need wages, they work hard without complaint, they are extremely loyal to me, the potions they refine are also above the market level, and their superb brewing skills are also widely praised by the market. If not so If so, the Gray family's potion market would have been carved up long ago."

"Sounds good?" Jemini raised an eyebrow.

"Yes, but there are a lot of coveted eyes." Shirley snorted softly: "For example, the jackal in Wiltshire..."

"Jackal?"

"It's the Malfoy family, they live in Wiltshire next door." Shirley's face was worried: "Lucius Malfoy, that old snot, always wanted shares in the Potions Store, and stumbled on my sister every now and then, so I wasn't always in front of you when I was at school, and it bothered me to see the Malfoys."

"Is the Malfoy family very influential?" This is the first time Jemini knows about this kind of thing. Is this a business situation in the magic world?

"Although their family is very annoying, it is true that the Malfoy family is very influential." Charlotte nodded and said softly.

"We do not import flying carpets in the UK. The main reason is that these families headed by Malfoy, most of the flying broom companies, the Malfoy family have shares, not only these, Malfoy is a big landlord, and the dividends brought by the land alone are enough. Enough for them to have food and clothing."

"I've heard of some, it seems that William I gave Lucius Malfoy the land?" Jemini recalled the course on the history of magic, which mentioned some things about the Malfoy family, although the Malfoy family has always been Just deny it.

"That's right, they've been merging Muggle lands. When the International Confederation of Wizards Secrecy Act was just implemented, the Malfoy family was the most opposed party." Charlotte nodded: "But the secrecy law is one When it goes into effect, they immediately change their stance.”

"It really has their style..." Jemini smiled helplessly.

"But maybe soon, I won't have to worry about the troubles from the Malfoy family anymore." Charlotte pointedly smiled.

"It sounds like you're taking advantage of me?" Jemini took a sip from the glass and heard that it was a sherry carefully brewed by rum.

"It's not like that, Mr. Fox, please don't misunderstand. Sister, she doesn't mean that." Shirley said quickly: "Everything in the Gray family is yours."

"Um...Is that so?" Jemini crossed his fingers on his chin, looked at Charlotte, and smiled meaningfully: "The Gray family...everything?"

Charlotte's face instantly turned red.