Chapter 87 Getting Ready

Lu Yunkai felt that he had planned everything, but it was really hard to wait for the opponent to make a move.

Ever since Luna passed the message to Ginny that day (Luna told Lu Yunkai that she passed the message to Ginny that day), Lu Yunkai was very careful when he was in school.

He hid in the crowd carefully, waiting for Madam Zabini to help him deliver the chickens to the school.

But even if it was Madam Zabini, he couldn't tell her directly that he was going to use these chickens to deal with the basilisk.

He couldn't even tell Madam Zabini that this matter was urgent.

He could only ask Madam Zabini about the preparation of the chickens every time he sent something to her through the item transport cabinet, but she always pushed him back.

"Why are you in such a hurry? We're going through the formalities!"

Lu Yunkai also just realized that there were a lot of formalities to go through when buying things from the Muggle world into the magic world, such as first making sure that the batch of things had not been tracked in the Muggle world, and then inspection and quarantine... otherwise it would be considered smuggling.

Generally speaking, the Ministry of Magic is too lazy to deal with this kind of smuggling. After all, there are many Muggle-born wizards, and it is unlikely that you can cut off their ties with their original families: You said that Hermione brought a cake from home to share with Harry and Ron, is it smuggling? Lu Yunkai bought a gold ring from the Muggle world, is it smuggling?

It was just because Mrs. Zabini had just lost a lawsuit some time ago. Although she won, she offended some people in the Ministry of Magic. She is in the spotlight recently, and she doesn't want anyone to take the opportunity to get angry.

The lawsuit was actually Lu Yunkai's fault.

There was a wizard who had a little bit of affection for Mrs. Zabini and took the opportunity to buy a space bag to talk to her. He found that the magic potion lucky bag that Lu Yunkai came up with during the Halloween holiday, which Mrs. Zabini complained about not being able to sell at all, actually contained explosive corrosive potion.

This matter was spread by him in a boastful tone, and the Ministry of Magic knew about it, and then the Ministry of Magic sent people to investigate it strictly.

After all, the Explosive Corrosion Potion is strictly prohibited from being sold publicly.

But Madam Zabini found a loophole in the French text, saying that she only sold space bags that were not refundable, and the potions inside were given away as gifts, which could not be considered as public sales. The Explosive Corrosion Potion only restricted sales, not gifts or possession, so she was innocent.

The staff of the Ministry of Magic also did not find evidence that Zabini Magic Items Shop was not selling space bags: all bags were the same price, there was no magic or mark to indicate what potion was in the space bag, and all space bags were left for customers to choose.

There was indeed a bottle of Explosive Corrosion Potion given away in the space bag, but there were many other bags that only contained cheap goods such as herbicides and recovery potions...

After half a month, the investigation was left unresolved, and inadvertently, it helped Madam Zabini promote the lucky bag sales strategy.

As a result, many wizards, out of pure curiosity, spent a sum of money that was actually not small to try their luck at Zabini Magic Items Shop.

Most of the potions here are potions that can be bought at Sluggiggs' pharmacy not far away for half the price or even less than a fraction, but there are always a few people who buy some very rare potions.

There are even some potions that Lu Yunkai prepared according to the recipes that are said to have been lost in the book that Daphne gave him...

The business became so popular without any reason.

So much so that Mrs. Zabini found that her small shop, which originally wanted to make money by selling magic items, has become mainly engaged in magic potions.

But as long as there is money to be made, she doesn't seem to mind this.

In order to balance Lu Yunkai's workload, she even hired two wizards to help her make some common potions.

As for the lucky bag itself...

She chose to go directly to Knockturn Alley to buy it.

There is an inconspicuous little shop there, and an old man has been buying various second-hand space bags recently, one Galleon each, unlimited.

Well, partnership, partnership.

But as a result, the wizards who were originally ordered to investigate Mrs. Zabini were a little upset, and they have been hanging around outside Zabini Magic Items Store recently.

The matter of the chicken can only be delayed again and again.

Fortunately, although I don’t know why, it seems that Voldemort is not in a hurry to eliminate Lu Yunkai, this "hidden danger".

It was the end of January when Lu Yunkai finally waited for good news from Mrs. Zabini.

…

"My mother wrote to me and said that the chicken you asked her to buy before will probably be delivered next week."

At lunch time, Blaise, who was sitting in the restaurant while eating and receiving owl letters, said to Lu Yunkai who was sitting next to him.

"Oh, if she hadn't said it, I would have forgotten it."

After hearing this, Lu Yunkai's eyelids twitched wildly, and then nodded.

"What do you want the chicken for?" Daphne, who didn't know about this from beginning to end, asked Lu Yunkai curiously on the other side.

"Hagrid's chickens were all killed by... the heir of Slytherin!" Lu Yunkai looked around and saw that no one else was paying attention to his conversation with Daphne, so he lowered his voice, "I felt a little sorry for him, so I gave him a few more chickens."

"What's there to be sorry about?"

"The notebook... um." Lu Yunkai coughed lightly, "By the way, Blaise, is your mother's business doing well recently?"

"Well, she said that the potions you gave her were all sold out, and she said that she would send the money to you by owl later."

"Sold out? No?" Lu Yunkai was stunned.

Last night, he sent her a space bag with more than 50 bottles of rare potions! According to the "dilution ratio" they discussed, this is enough for Mrs. Zabini to prepare thousands of lucky bags. How could it be sold out so quickly!

"The store is doing well!" Blaise sighed, "Because of this, she had a big fight with my father two days ago... He thought my mother was affecting his work in the Ministry of Magic."

"...Why are you telling me this?" Lu Yunkai was speechless, "Do you want me to be responsible or what?"

"I just..." Blaise glanced at Daphne next to him, "Forget it."

"What! Talk!" Daphne knew that Blaise didn't speak because she was here, and she was a little unhappy.

"It's just... Hey, don't come to the funeral when the time comes."

"What funeral? Whose funeral? Who are you talking about!!" Daphne thought Blaise was cursing her, and was about to attack Blaise in anger.

Then she was stopped by Lu Yunkai, who was standing next to her with his hair on his back standing up.

"I'm not talking about you! Why are you so excited! Okay, let's go after we finish eating!"

"... Go? Where to?"

"I don't have classes in the afternoon. I'm going to the Forbidden Forest. Didn't you say you would go with me last time?"

"Are you sure there are no spiders in the Forbidden Forest, right?"

"I didn't see any when I went there before."

"Oh, that's good." After hearing what Lu Yunkai said, Daphne quickly stood up and followed him.

Before leaving the hall, she instinctively glanced at the Gryffindor table.

Ginny, who was sitting alone, seemed to feel Daphne's gaze on her, and quickly lowered her head and continued to eat.

Ron and Harry, who were not far away, saw Lu Yunkai and Daphne running out hand in hand again, and both had strange smiles on their faces.

…

"What did you mean by what you said to Blaise just now?"

Wrapped in thick fur, Daphne, whose face was still red from the cold, held Lu Yunkai's hand. It was a little difficult to walk in the thick snow, but she still insisted on talking to Lu Yunkai.

"Blaise's father may not live long."

"Ah? Why? Wasn't his previous injury healed by your phoenix tear?"

"...Don't ask."

"Oh." Seeing that Lu Yunkai really didn't want to say it, Daphne could only nod.

Lu Yunkai held the wand in his hand, muttered something and waved it in one direction, and then waved it in another direction.

This was the Beast Tracking Spell he learned from a book. Last time, Lu Yunkai walked around the Forbidden Forest for a long time, but he didn't even see the shadow of Chris. Although Hagrid persuaded him that Chris would definitely not be in danger, he was still very worried.

This time he came with full preparation.

However, this spell seemed to be useless.

Legend has it that after using a spell with the animal you want to track, a shadow of the animal will appear, and then take the person who casts the spell to the direction of the animal, but in Lu Yunkai's eyes, there was nothing but snow around.

Then he recited another spell with similar effects.

Still no response...

Lu Yunkai prepared four defensive spells and six tracking spells for today's "expedition", all of which he learned from books in the past half month.

He tried all six tracking spells, and changed two or three places in the middle to prevent the failure caused by the wrong location, but none of the spells worked.

Lu Yunkai began to suspect that this kind of spell that was not included in the textbook and was not qualified to be a forbidden spell was mostly fake, or that the Soul-Eating Lynx was not an animal and could not be tracked!

But Lu Yunkai was a little unwilling to give up.

In the preparation to deal with the basilisk, the Soul-Eating Lynx was an important backup weapon, and he had to establish contact with the Soul-Eating Lynx!

Otherwise, if the basilisk hides from the rooster, can he still chase it with two roosters? In that case, even if he kills the basilisk, he will most likely die socially.

Just when Lu Yunkai was a little irritated, a cold wind suddenly blew from the side.

Almost instinctively, Lu Yunkai pounced on Daphne beside him and fell to the ground.

"Woo~~" a strange cry.

Lu Yunkai remembered this cry! This is Chris...

Well, it should be said that it was the Soul-Eating Lynx!