Chapter 174 Let’s Dance

"Brother-in-law!! You pay my money!!"

"I didn't ask you to gamble!"

"If it weren't for your greed for that broken dragon, I would have earned ten galleons! You pay me!!"

"What does this have to do with dragons! Didn't Dumbledore say that the points were deducted because I destroyed the venue..."

"I don't care!! I trusted you so much, and you betrayed my trust! Pay me back!!"

"So! Cherish your life and stay away from gambling. You will lose nine times out of ten!"

Lu Yunkai snorted, holding the golden egg in his hand and looking at it.

The time has arrived for the second day of the first round of the Triwizard Tournament.

The game the day before was nothing short of exciting. Whether it was Krum using blinding tactics to snatch the dragon egg, or Fleur charming the dragon with her dance, or even more handsome, Harry riding a broomstick used his speed to get rid of the chasing dragon and win the game almost perfectly. Success has become the talk of the town.

However, there are clearly four contestants in this competition, but one of them seems to have no name.

The guy who was deliberately forgotten by everyone clearly got the second place in the total score.

Even when Lu Yunkai returned to the lounge last night, he found that not a single Slytherin showed curiosity about the golden egg in his arms.

It wasn't until a whole day later that someone finally came to talk to him, and the content was actually about debt collection.

He was very upset.

Don't you all want to congratulate me? That's a dragon! !

Harry told me today that he was carried around like a hero by a group of people in the lounge last night!

"Brother-in-law~~~" Seeing Lu Yunkai's attitude of refusing to give money no matter what, Astoria decided to use her trump card.

behave in a spoiled manner.

"By the way, what mechanism do you think this golden egg has?"

"I'll help you find a mechanism, and you'll pay off my sister's debt for me?" Astoria bargained.

"One code equals one code. You and your sister's debts should be settled by yourself." Lu Yunkai shook his head firmly.

Well, during lunch today, Daphne warned him sternly that Lu Yunkai was not allowed to interfere with Astoria asking her to borrow money to place bets this time.

Although my sister-in-law is cute, my wife must listen to her words even more.

"Hmph!!" Astoria kicked Lu Yunkai hard and left.

Lu Yunkai gently rubbed his legs, then looked around.

In fact, it cannot be said that the people in the lounge are deliberately ignoring him, because it is obvious that both men and women in the lounge are secretly looking at Lu Yunkai, but no one comes up to talk to him...

Alas, was it really because my performance yesterday when the dragon's body was being recovered after the game was not noble enough, that I lost the Slytherin title?

You guys! ! Can face be used as food? Do you know how much a whole dragon carcass is worth? ?

childish!

"Open the egg and take a look! Isn't there a seam on it?"

Finally, another person spoke to Lu Yunkai.

"I opened it last night...it was very noisy."

"Noisy?" The Slytherin who spoke had a curious look on his face.

And the questions and answers between the two people also made more people come to Lu Yunkai's side.

This is right! ! I don't believe you are not interested in this stuff!

"Well, it's very, very, very noisy." Lu Yunkai nodded, "My roommate almost broke up with me because I opened this thing in the dormitory last night."

This is not an exaggeration, Blaise really said that last night.

"Shall we listen?"

Finally, another person spoke to him.

"...Cover your ears." Lu Yunkai said loudly to the people around him.

Then everyone in the lounge covered their ears...

These arrogant people! ! They are obviously very curious, but they just don’t come to talk to me! !

Lu Yun cursed, then took a deep breath, and opened the egg along the cracks on the golden egg, like a flower.

An extremely sharp and harsh sound came from inside the egg.

The sound seems to be able to penetrate people's hands and reach directly into their minds...

"stop!!!"

The people in the lounge shouted almost in unison.

The golden egg closed and the sound disappeared.

Silence returned to the lounge. It's just that the current atmosphere is extremely weird.

"This egg...wasn't it broken by you?"

Malfoy, who had been watching the excitement but said nothing, finally came to talk to Lu Yunkai.

He was probably the one who felt most embarrassed about Lu Yunkai yesterday.

Of course, it's hard to say whether it's purely because of embarrassment or whether it's mixed with a little bit of envy and jealousy.

"Probably not. The protective magic on this is quite strong." Lu Yunkai shook his head.

Just this broken egg can be sold in the system for thousands of gold galleons! It’s more prize money than the Triwizard Tournament!

"Then I don't know. This may be your mission!" Now that he had started talking to Lu Yunkai, Malfoy put down his reserve, "Can you find someone else to inquire?"

"There's no rush. Anyway, the next project is in February next year, which is still three months away!" Lu Yun smiled and said, "Let's think about it slowly!"

"Um……"

…

Time just kept running at the end of November.

In the lounge, Lu Yunkai tried hard to repair the impression of himself as a greedy person in the minds of the Slytherin people (meow, what's there to repair? It's not shameful. Chris said so). At school, after everyone was shocked that he had robbed a dragon corpse in front of a group of principals and Ministry of Magic officials, the students who slowly came to their senses finally realized that Lu Yunkai had successfully killed a dragon in front of them while chatting and laughing...

Theoretically, this is much more handsome than Harry being chased by a dragon all over the world and finally getting rid of it. Isn't it?

Even Cedric Diggory had to stand up and admit that if he went to participate in the competition, he would not be able to kill the dragon. Lu Yunkai's performance is indeed worthy of a Hogwarts warrior. As for money...

You participated in a competition with a total prize of "only" 1,000 gold galleons, and spent tens of thousands of materials in the first round. You would also think about finding a place to make up for the deficit, right?

It must be said that Cedric's carefree attitude of putting the overall situation first at this time made Lu Yunkai have a lot more respect and admiration for this senior who didn't understand how to take good care of the audience before. And it was precisely because Cedric, who was expected by everyone before, came out and said such a thing that Lu Yunkai's pressure was relieved a lot.

So, as time came to December, when the first Hogsmeade weekend after Hogwarts welcomed guests arrived, Lu Yunkai's situation in school was completely different from the situation where he was abandoned by dogs and cats in the first two days after the game.

At least, it was back to normal.

As the first weekend away from school after the arrival of foreign guests, not many students chose to leave school to play in Hogsmeade. Lu Yunkai and Daphne were also part of the group who chose to stay in school.

Because they had more important things to do: practice dancing.

A week before the Hogsmeade weekend, Professor McGonagall told them that the Triwizard Tournament had a tradition, the Christmas Ball.

Although it is not mandatory to attend (but when McGonagall said this in the classroom, it didn't seem like she allowed the students not to attend), she still hoped that the students of Hogwarts could show the style of Hogwarts in this dance.

After all, compared to a competition, the Triwizard Tournament is actually more of an exchange activity between European and British magic schools, and traditionally there seems to be no more elegant way of communication than dancing together...

Especially the two warriors representing Hogwarts, Harry and Lu Yunkai.

But the problem is that dancing, in addition to proficiency, sometimes also depends on talent.

For example, Harry has no talent.

As one of the warriors, he is the well-deserved protagonist of this dance, and Harry is originally a Gryffindor. McGonagall is very concerned about this precious student of hers, but his dancing level... It's hard to describe.

But Lu Yunkai himself is not much better.

If he is better than Harry in one respect, it is that he has a good dance partner...

Well, one of the most important things about the Christmas ball is to invite a dance partner to participate. After class, Harry found Lu Yunkai to complain that he didn't know who to invite to the ball (Lu Yunkai glanced at Hermione who was standing next to him during the conversation and sighed silently in his heart), and Lu Yunkai seemed to have no choice...

And there is nothing to choose! Because Daphne dances so well.

Maybe she has been practicing since she was a child (Lu Yunkai still remembers that Daphne has etiquette classes arranged by her mother every holiday, and dancing is an indispensable part of it). When Daphne dances, no matter the steps or expressions, she is calm and elegant, like a beautiful swan.

And Lu Yunkai next to her is as stupid as an ugly duckling...

So this Hogsmeade weekend, like many Hogwarts students who are determined to perform well at the ball (including Blaise and Malfoy), Lu Yunkai also chose to stay in school and practice dancing.

Astoria, who was not old enough to leave school, became an assistant teacher.

Lu Yunkai even thought that maybe because Astoria had longer legs and a slimmer figure, she danced better than her sister... cough cough.

"Stop!! Brother-in-law! What are you doing! I told you to step on your left foot first, then your right foot! Why are you so stupid? My sister's feet are about to be swollen by you!"

Astoria stopped the magic-driven instrument in her hand and clapped her hands impatiently.

Lu Yunkai had an apologetic expression on his face.

Daphne in his arms did not scold her sister for speaking rudely to Lu Yunkai, because her feet really hurt...

"Stop for a while! Daphne, let me see your feet..." Lu Yunkai embarrassedly helped his dance partner sit on the chair next to him, and then squatted down.

"Ah! No need!" Daphne blushed and pulled her foot back from Lu Yunkai's hand, "I'll just take a break..."

"Brother-in-law, you're so stupid!" Astoria continued to scold beside her.

Lu Yunkai ignored her.

Ever since she bet on Lu Yunkai to win but owed Daphne ten gold galleons, this girl has been looking for an opportunity to scold him. Today she finally got the chance, and it would be strange if she didn't scold him enough.

"Do you want to take some medicine?" Lu Yunkai continued to ask Daphne.

"It's not that serious... It's okay." Daphne hesitated for a while, but still nodded.

"Sister? Do you want to go see Madam Pomfrey? Your injury is never a small matter..."

"Shut up!!" Daphne glared at Astoria.

"...Never? You used to get hurt often?" Lu Yunkai was stunned.

He had never heard Daphne talk about it.

"When she was a child...well, ask her yourself." Astoria was scared.

Daphne's eyes were still as scary as ever.

"It's okay, don't listen to her nonsense."

"...Let's go, go see Madam Pomfrey."

"Really not necessary...Ah! Lu Yunkai! Put me down!!" Daphne shyly patted Lu Yunkai's back.

But the strength was not very strong.

The feeling of Lu Yunkai carrying her on his back without saying anything was not bad...

"Why don't you go back to the lounge first?" Lu Yunkai looked at Astoria.

"Let's go together! I'm worried about her too." Astoria shook her head, and then ran in front of Lu Yunkai.

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