Chapter 225 Christmas at Greengrass Manor

"Okay, but will I really not disturb you?" Les finally agreed to the Greengrass sisters and accepted their invitation.

"Yeah!" Daphne and Astoria couldn't help cheering.

"Of course not, there must be a lot of guests at home this year, and you should be worried about whether you will be disturbed by the guests." Daphne responded with a smile.

Les thought that Astoria's "emptying a treasury" was an exaggeration, but the next morning after accepting the invitation, an owl mail changed his mind - the owl brought a golden invitation.

With gold as the base, several lines of beautiful characters were outlined with silver wire: [Dear Mr. Les Lint, this year's Christmas dinner is about to be held. On behalf of the Greengrass family, I would like to extend my sincere greetings to you and look forward to meeting you at Greengrass Manor. The invitation is the key to the manor. Please keep it properly - Henry Greengrass]

There is also a string of numbers in the upper left corner of the invitation, which is returning to zero as time passes. Apparently, this invitation is actually a portkey. When the time returns to zero, it will take the invited guests to Greengrass Manor.

After seeing this invitation, Les felt that Astoria might have been a little conservative.

After a bunch of complicated trivial matters, the first semester of this school year ended.

Overnight, the students were ready to leave.

In fact, there was nothing to prepare. Going home for Christmas is different from going home at the end of the school year. How can there be so much luggage to pack? It is enough to bring some textbooks and homework assigned by professors.

Some little wizards don’t even bring homework. They choose to create miracles on the last night of the Christmas holiday.

Les and the Greengrass sisters are lightly packed, with almost no luggage, just a backpack.

Daphne and Astoria are not very clear about it. Les put everything he needs into a backpack with a traceless extension spell.

The three of them got on the Hogwarts Express for the return trip together.

With the whistle, the train carrying a group of young wizards drove towards London in the snow.

When the train departed, Les caught a glimpse of red outside the door of the carriage.

As soon as the door of the carriage was opened, several red heads came into his sight. The aisle outside the door was almost filled with the "Weasley family bucket": Percy, Fred, George, Ron and Ginny. In the sea of ​​red hair, there was also a touch of black - Harry was also on the train.

"What are you doing...?" Les was a little confused. After asking about the situation, he found out that the Weasley family had also received an invitation from Mr. Henry.

This is normal. Although the Weasley family is a little poor, they are indeed a pure-blood family with a long history. The Greengrass family should have sent an invitation even out of courtesy.

As for Harry's appearance here, it is even more not surprising. The boy who survived the catastrophe, the savior of the magic world, as long as he is willing to come, the Greengrass family will send him the invitation as quickly as possible.

Looking at the group of "Weasleys" in the corridor, Rice felt that this year's Greengrass Christmas dinner would be very lively.

When the train arrived, Rice wanted to stay in Diagon Alley first, but Astoria's simple words attracted his attention.

"Dad invited many pastry chefs from other countries. We can taste their works first and then decide the weight of the dishes for the dinner."

Rice suddenly changed his mind. He wanted to experience desserts from all over the world and feel the changes that a thousand years have brought to the world's cuisine. It should be a good development, right? It's impossible that the whole world will take a big step backward in terms of diet like the UK, right?

The decline of the magic world is understandable, but there is no reason for the Muggles to decline in food - this is Rice's one-sidedness. The fundamental reason for the decline of the British cuisine and the decline of the magic world is the same. Simpler and institutionalized things have replaced the operations that originally required more effort.

Simpler and clearer spells replaced the flow of magic, and industrialized assembly line dishes replaced local cuisine, so that Rice could not find a wizard who understood the flow of magic in Hogwarts a thousand years later, and could only find British dishes such as fish and chips and black pudding in London restaurants.

Fortunately, not every European country's food development is the same as that of the UK. France, Italy, and Turkey have retained the essence of their own cuisines, giving diners the greatest comfort on their taste buds.

After moving into Greengrass Manor, Rice was shocked by the various desserts a thousand years later, among which the desserts from Turkey were particularly amazing. Turkish desserts, which use a lot of pistachios, walnuts, dried fruits, honey and butter, carry "sweetness" throughout.

One of the desserts called "Angel's Hair" amazed Rice the most: it first fries two layers of fine noodles as thin as hair until golden, then soaks the fried noodles in sweet syrup and takes them out, and adds cheese filling between the two layers of noodles, and finally decorates the surface of the dessert with pistachio crumbs.

You can feel the heat exploding in your mouth with every bite, bringing an unparalleled sense of happiness.

Surrounded by all kinds of desserts, Rice was like soaking in a honey pot. The amount of desserts he ate every day shocked Daphne.

"Should I be more restrained?" She often tactfully dissuaded Rice, but Rice would not listen to her.

"Sweets are the source of happiness!" He would always reply to her with this sentence.

Soon, Christmas Eve arrived.

Greengrass Manor suddenly changed its appearance: the valley, which was originally a little bleak due to the arrival of winter, was "filled" with green leaves and flowers overnight, and every tree was covered with tender leaves and flowers again. Small gift bags of various styles were hanging under the branches. When opened, some exquisite small gifts would burst out, such as wizard chess and top hats, but more of them were consumables such as candy and salutes - the guests who came here probably did not lack a set of wizard chess, but they were still very happy to set off salutes and light fireworks.

After being decorated, the valley looked like it had returned to spring from a distance.

At first, Rice thought that these flowers and leaves were all made by magic, but he was shocked when he took a closer look: the Greengrass family was decorated with fake flowers and leaves, which was much more luxurious than the flowers made by magic!

Every flower and every leaf looked lifelike, and Rice was secretly amazed when he saw it.

Before night fell, a group of magical animals obtained by Mr. Henry arrived at the manor before the guests.

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The second update is here! (〃-ω)

Another picture of middle-aged Adrian:

I will try to arrange the next update at midnight.