Chapter 177 Shirley: I'm no longer young!
Footsteps sounded on the cobbled path.
A young girl with a crisp ponytail walked forward lightly. She also wore a sky blue apron to prevent her robe from being soiled during work.
At the end of the road, there is a green lake. A new wooden house has been built beside the lake, surrounded by a large clump of reeds, verdant and verdant.
Shirley stopped suddenly. It turned out that in the middle of the road, a palm-sized flat tortoise appeared. It dragged its family across the path, heard the sound of footsteps, and crawled back into the lake.
Shirley fumbled in the pocket of her blue apron, took out a handful of food and sprinkled it on the bank, before they quietly emerged from the bottom of the water.
The girl didn't care, she continued to walk towards the wooden house, opened the door and entered, and a pile of bubbling cauldrons greeted her eyes.
On the shelves on the walls on both sides, there are also various magic materials and potions that have been bottled.
There are a lot of items in the room, but they are neatly organized without any sense of clutter.
Rove was sitting by the cauldron, with a flame emerging from the palm of his hand, and he was roasting a few dragon scale fruits.
On the boy's right hand, there was an old "Advanced Potion Making" textbook, and the blank space was filled with dense notes.
The conventional way to deal with dragon scale fruit is to use a knife to break open along the back of the fruit, but the fruit shell is hard like dragon scales, which is easy to hurt hands.
But Snape made improvements in his notes, and proposed the method of roasting in flames, first burning in the flames for thirty seconds, and then using a knife to easily cut the peel.
Rove felt that this method was simply exquisite, and he was a little immersed in it.
After a while, he raised his head, only to notice that Shirley had entered the room at some point, sitting on a chair beside her, resting her chin with one hand, quietly watching him handle the dragon scale fruit.
Seeing the boy look up, Shirley said, "Rove, Fox just came."
"It's coming to eat again?"
"I also sent a book by the way." The girl took out a thick potion book from the wide pocket of her apron.
After Rove took the book, he looked at the apron on Shirley's body. The collar and cuffs were embroidered with magical creatures such as Xixiu... it was so beautiful.
There are more than a dozen small pockets sewn on both sides of the clothes, and Shirley seems to store different things in each small pocket.
Rove alone has seen: melon seeds, freeze-dried, smelling sticks, bandages, blood tonics, quills.
Bits and pieces, like a treasure bag, very interesting.
Rove reached out to the girl's pocket, trying to feel what else was in it.
It's a pity that Shirley slapped the boy's restless paws away. She raised her fair chin and said with a smile, "What do you want to do?"
"Look at what's in your pocket." Rove replied honestly.
"Don't show it!"
The girl with ponytails rarely refused Rove's request. She tilted her head, blinked her eyes and said:
"Who told you not to wear the overalls I sewed for you when brewing potions?"
"Pink work clothes, embroidered with flowers? Is that the work clothes I'm wearing?" Rove gave her a white look.
Shirley opened her eyes wide, feigning surprise and said, "When I sew for you, you can do whatever you want."
"Then you will sew women's clothes?" Rove said with a half-smile:
"Did Hermione make you do this? Don't deny it... she whispered in your ear while you were sewing!
Hermione is full of bad things now, just thinking about how to win me, you should follow her to be bad, right? "
"No." Shirley said innocently, "Hermione just wants me to teach her how to knit a scarf."
Luo Fu smiled and said nothing, he still wanted Shirley to wear a maid's outfit, but she didn't expect her to act preemptively and let him wear women's clothes.
Son-in-law... Ahhh, the little assistant is back!
Rove took the "Powerful Potion" and flipped through it casually. This book gave a detailed description of the configuration methods and materials required for many potions, as well as creepy illustrations:
A witch's head with arms protruding; a man's mouth spewing black blood; and a group of people transformed into other people...
Shirley probed her head and said, "This book looks very dangerous!"
"Well, the potions recorded in the book are not in our textbooks." Rove said softly, "This book has been kept in the restricted area of the library, and students are not allowed to borrow it casually."
"Why did Fox send you this kind of book?" Shirley frowned.
"I wrote to Dumbledore to ask for it." Rove turned back to the catalog page calmly, and he explained:
"Last school year, I took you to the library to catch silverfish, and Professor Dumbledore discovered it.
The principal told me not to go to the restricted area to pick up books by myself, if there is a book you want to read, you can write to him. "
Rove needed the book "Powerful Potion", so he tried to write to Dumbledore, but he didn't expect Fox to send it, and he didn't ask the specific purpose.
Of course, since Rove dared to write a letter to ask for it, it meant that he was upright and frank.
Although this is more troublesome, it can avoid a lot of unnecessary troubles, at least it will not make Dumbledore misunderstand and "interest" him.
"What kind of potion do you want to brew, and you need a book from the restricted area." Shirley asked curiously.
"I need to make Veritaserum!" Rove found the root of Veritaserum and continued:
"I want to catch a house elf, but it probably won't answer my question. Veritaserum is just right for me. Let's boil it first."
Even if Dobby could be caught, he would not tell Rove who Malfoy put the diary on because of the shackles of magic.
At this time, some "illegal means" have to be used.
But Rove had never brewed Veritaserum, which was a highly difficult potion. Fortunately, he has the bonus of "Snape's potion talent", so he can try it himself.
"The feathers of the soundless bird, the bile of the vulture in Sri Lanka, the burocea, the buds of the half-ear grass, the stalactite blocks of Julius in Iceland, the tendon of the ferret heart, the serum of the salamander, the incense powder of India..."
Shirley read the formula of Veritaserum with a soft voice, and said with a frown, "We lack several ingredients in our medicine storage room."
"That's right." Rove nodded.
Among these materials, the feathers of the Juanyin bird are the most difficult to buy, but fortunately, there are such birds in the box, which are the easiest.
"I need to go to the Forbidden Forest." Rove looked at the potion book and said, "I can add a lot of materials there."
Shirley raised her head to look at Rove, her eyes were bright, and she asked with some expectation: "Do you want me to go to the Forbidden Forest with you?"
Rove looked the girl up and down, finally shook his head and said, "You're still too young, let's wait until you grow up."
Xue Li stared at the boy's blue eyes, pursed her lips and said, "I'm already a second-year student, so I'm not young."
Luo Fu suddenly stretched out his finger, lightly tapped the ponytailed girl's forehead, and said with a smile, "I will definitely do it next time."
"You say that every time!" Shirley rubbed her forehead in dissatisfaction, then bit her lips tightly.
Rove hugged the back of his head with both hands, his body swayed back and forth on the chair, he smiled and said:
"Then grow up quickly..."
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(Thanks to "Book Friends 20200804190621236", "Just Love Wailing Water" and "Two No Three Damon" for their rewards.)