Drink Black Tea Calmly at Hogwarts

After dinner at Hogwarts, Zhang Xu came to the Muggle Studies professor's office and began to prepare the test papers for the first class of next semester.

The family will transfer to Edinburgh early tomorrow morning to return home. Although he really wanted to stay with his family, but after dinner, his grandfather drove him back to Hogwarts on the grounds that work was his priority.

The fire in the fireplace was not very bright, and there was a puff of white smoke. Under the conduction of the homemade geothermal system, the heat generated by the fire is brought to the entire office floor, causing the indoor temperature to reach over 20 degrees Celsius.

It was cold and windy outside the window, but it wasn't snowing. After finishing his work, Professor Zhang walked to the open window next to his desk and suddenly opened the entire window.

A cold wind of several degrees below zero flowed into the office, diluting the smell of cumin in the air and making the fire shake. It was not clear whether it was due to paperwork or carbon monoxide poisoning that Professor Zhang was dizzy. It made me feel excited all over.

After blowing the cold wind for a while, Professor Zhang's head became clearer.

"Dong dong dong"

There was a knock on the office door.

After waving his hand, the door opened, and an unexpected person walked in.

As soon as the visitor entered the office, his nose twitched slightly and he smelled a smell that should not have appeared in the professor's office.

She looked at the fire that smelled of cumin not far away, and the corners of her mouth twitched.

"Your office is really..." She thought for a moment, "It's as unique as you."

"Thank you for the compliment." Zhang Xu turned his back to the window, propped up his hands, and sat on the window sill, "Why are you here?"

"I just came back from the principal. I just listened to her talk about Hogwarts all night, and what you should pay attention to as a professor at Hogwarts." The visitor answered while walking to Zhang Xu's door Next to him, after asking for his permission, he sat on the chair next to the desk opposite him, "I can't believe that you have brought so many interesting changes to Hogwarts."

At this time, there was another "dong dong dong", and then Harry pushed open the office door unceremoniously, "Zhang, please lend us your office to do our homework. The common room is too noisy..."

Harry saw a man and a woman living together in the office, and habitually said "Hey, he's not here" before exiting and closing the door skillfully.

"I didn't expect Mr. Potter to be quite interesting."

As soon as the other party finished speaking, the door to the office was suddenly pushed open with a loud "bang", and Harry walked in holding the Marauder's Map.

"What's going on? Your name is not on the map?" Harry asked in surprise, "Who are you?"

"She is Professor Ellenbecca Rodney, the assistant professor of mathematics at Hogwarts." Zhang Xu introduced to Harry, "Next school year, after Professor Scarlet resigns, the position of mathematics professor will be taken by her. Come take over.”

"Although I have been selling coffee in Hogsmeade for several years, I have a 'Qualified Teacher Certificate' issued by the Secretary of State for Education." The person who came was none other than Teacher Rodney. "As for me, I'm not on your map. The name is just a little trick, Mr. Potter."

Harry wanted to say something else, but was driven away by Zhang Xu with a curse.

Zhang Xu was not surprised at all that Rodney's name did not appear on the Marauder's Map. As a group of people who walk on the edge of knives, they naturally go further than wizards in terms of secret infiltration and other aspects of magic.

What surprised Zhang Xu was that the person who replaced Scarlet would be her. He had long known that Scarlet had found a successor, and he also knew that Rodney had retired a few days ago and had taken over the original job of Nelson, who was still recovering from a serious injury. So when he heard about Rodney going to Professor McGonagall just now, he knew whose class she was going to take.

"How did she find you?" Zhang Xu asked curiously.

"One day when she came to our store and chatted with us, she happened to mention this matter. At that time, we were thinking about finding a job after retiring.

So we hit it off immediately. Rodney replied, "You don't have to sit by the window like you're ready to run away, do you?" It looks like I'm forcing a debt from you. "

"After all, this is a school. It's better for us to keep some distance." Zhang Xu replied.

"Tsk..." Rodney glanced at him disdainfully, "Although you are quite to my taste, and I might not refuse you if you come to me, but you haven't moved me enough to allow me to put down my dignity and take the initiative to deal with you. You are so aggressive. Of course, if you make various demands on me on the pretext of reducing my sister's huge debt, I can only agree with tears."

"Can you really agree to all kinds of requests?" Zhang Xu immediately became energetic after hearing this.

"What do you want to do?" Rodney put his hands on his chest, pretending to be like a frightened bird.

"From now on, I will leave the grading of Muggle Studies homework to you." Zhang Xu said happily.

"I knew it would be like this." Rodney spread his hands and said, "If you have time now, how about you take me to take care of the castle?"

Zhang Xutian went to the windowsill and closed the window, leaving only a gap to avoid carbon monoxide poisoning.

Without the cold wind blowing in from outside, the temperature in the office soon began to rise.

He came to the stove, grabbed a handful of cumin from the jar on the side, and then sprinkled it on the smoky wood chips beside the fire.

"I noticed it just now." Rodney came behind Zhang Xu, "I have seen people using various flavors of incense, but you are the first to use cumin as incense... Wait a minute , these are all cypress wood you burned?"

Zhang Xu closed the cumin jar and said, "I didn't do this to improve air quality or cultivate sentiment."

After speaking, he waved his hand, and a bunch of lamb legs and several pieces of mutton tied together like bunches of grapes flew out of the chimney.

As he inspected the smoking condition of the lamb leg, he said to Rodney: "I heard about this method of smoking lamb a while ago, so I tried it and it looks good now."

After he finished speaking, he let the lamb leg skewers and mutton strips fly back into the fireplace chimney.

After cleaning his hands with a magic spell, Zhang Xu said to Rodney, "Let's go. I'll take you around the castle to prevent you from getting lost and starving to death in the castle."

"These smoked lamb legs should be good for making noodles." Rodney, who followed Zhang Xu out of the office, said thoughtfully, "Heat butter in the pot, then add smoked lamb leg slices and stir-fry until fragrant, then add shredded cheese, Stir-fry the salt, pepper, rosemary or basil leaves together, and finally add the cooked noodles and stir-fry. If necessary, you can beat an egg before serving."

Zhang Xu nodded, then shook his head, and said, "This way of eating is pretty good, but it's not magic enough."

"So how are you going to eat?" Rodney asked.

Zhang Xu looked at the time, and then said to her: "Come, I will take you to the greenhouse first."

In Hogsmeade, there is a restaurant that imitates the kitchen layout of Hogwarts, and Rodney and the others have been there several times. But when I came to this huge kitchen for the first time, I couldn't help but be shocked by the scale of the place and the busy house elves inside.

There weren't many people in the kitchen tonight, except for a few couples who hadn't seen each other during the Christmas vacation. There were only three Harrys sitting in front of the fireplace writing hard.

At this time, Rodney had not yet recovered from her trip to the greenhouse. She asked Zhang Xu for the seventh time: "Isn't it illegal what we did just now?"

Zhang Xu replied again: "Don't worry, it will be fine if you don't get caught."

Walking to a table in front of the fireplace, Zhang Xu got a set of kitchen utensils from a nearby shelf and placed them on the table. Then he took out the fresh mandrake roots and leaves and other ingredients, and said to Rodney: "First peel the mandrake roots and clean the leaves."

After saying that, he ignored Rodney who was holding the mandrake root and didn't know what to do with it. He went to the smoker in the corner of the kitchen and came back with a piece of freshly smoked bacon.

Under the guidance of Neville, who was originally planning to check the greenhouse, but saw signs of theft in the greenhouse and went straight to the kitchen, Rodney finally mastered the trick of quickly peeling the mandrake roots.

At this time, Zhang Xu also came back with bacon, a small stove and other materials. He said to Rodney: "We don't have smoked lamb yet, let's use bacon instead."

He cut the bacon into moderately thick slices in a way that made Snape angry, and then cut the mandrake root and a sun mushroom that Rodney had peeled into shreds. Place a mandrake leaf on top of the bacon slices, then add evenly mixed mandrake roots and sunshine mushroom shreds, and then roll it into a bacon roll.

Watching the butter melting in the pan and the neatly arranged bacon rolls sizzling in the pan, Rodney said: "This time I finally know what's going on in the 'basement kitchen' in Hogsmeade." Why is Zhang’s weird-looking menu so popular among young people?”

Zhang Xu didn't answer the question, and asked, "What do you think I should use for the last spice?"

"Parsley, sage, rosemary or thyme."

He sang the last line to the tune of "Scarborough Fair."

The four spices of parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme represent love, strength, loyalty and courage respectively.

Rodney heard Zhang Xu's hidden meaning. The first parsley, which represented love, was to make up the number. The other three spices were asking her if she was willing to dedicate her strength, loyalty and courage to Hogwarts.

She smiled, found these four spices on the kitchen shelf, and then sprinkled them together on the fried mandrake and sunshine mushroom bacon rolls.

The smell of spices wafts out of the pan, stimulated by the hot oil, and the aroma of bacon and spices suddenly fills every space in the kitchen.

Not far away, the Harry trio who were doing their homework recalled the days when they smelled the scent and copied the school rules in the dungeon.

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