Chapter 637 Awkward Encounter

Goblins may be arrogant, greedy, and disgusting, but there is one thing that even the extreme wizard supremacists cannot do, and that is that they are really dedicated when it comes to money.

In the non-magical world, the regular retention period of bank settlement account management files is 10 or 30 years, and some important documents will be kept permanently. However, in Gringotts, perhaps because there are not many customers, or perhaps because the spirit of craftsmanship is overwhelming, the goblins said that all deposit and withdrawal records and lists of safe items are kept!

This is outrageous.

What the goblins mean is that they have kept records for hundreds of years from the day the ancestors of the Lestrange family opened an account in Gringotts to the day the last descendant of the Lestrange family was imprisoned in Azkaban. With.

Not only Scrimgeour, but even Tom was shocked when he heard the goblins say such words with pride.

If what the goblins said was true, then Gringotts must have dug several huge archives underground. Considering that Gringotts' underground vaults can go miles underground, it doesn't seem impossible.

Tom, Scrimgeour and a group of Aurors just watched the goblins push out one trolley after another from the door behind them, with a mountain of dusty files piled on top.

It looks like the goblins are planning to roll up their sleeves and go to war to prove their innocence.

But at this moment, in the deepest part of Gringotts, in front of the Lestrange family's treasury, a sneaky shadow appeared. This guy is Ragnow who just slipped out of the board meeting. The reason for his appearance here is simple. He needs to quickly deliver the car of gold behind him.

The reason why the greedy goblin appeared here and took the initiative to give money was also very simple: he really embezzled the gold in Lestrange's vault.

Not that he was bold. In fact, who would have thought that this vault would one day be opened again? The Lestrange family has all entered Azkaban, and no one is qualified to open it!

To open the vault, the heirs of the Lestrange family need to go to Gringotts in person. However, all the heirs of this family have been imprisoned in Azkaban, so theoretically the vault is already locked. So what's wrong with Ragno using the vacant gold to make some investments?

Gringotts' Deputy Minister of Investment once said this in an internal meeting: "Flexible investment is an effective supplement to traditional formal investment. For example, if you take out the idle gold in (your) vault and make money by stock trading, It’s also a way to get some income.”

After hearing this, Raguenor was deeply convinced. He suddenly understood, and his enlightenment directly sublimated. Then he took out the idle gold in the Lestrange family's treasury and invested it flexibly.

As a result, the accounts suddenly need to be audited! This was earth-shattering news for him. If his misappropriation of depositors' assets is exposed, he will definitely suffer no consequences.

As for destroying records, it is simply not realistic in a short time. Gringotts' archives are extremely tightly guarded. Even as a director, Ragnor cannot go in and destroy the information. But fortunately, he was very attentive every time he went in to "withdraw money" and remembered the accounts clearly, so it was not difficult to temporarily transfer some money to fill the hole.

He stretched out his hand and placed it on the wooden door of the vault. The slightly old door immediately disappeared, revealing a hole filled with gold coins, gold and silver armor, furs of strange animals, and treasured potions—— It was literally packed, leaving only a narrow path.

Looking at the mountains of gold and silver in front of him, a trace of greed flashed in Ragnor's eyes. These treasures will belong to their fairies sooner or later! He is holding back for now. After all the Lestrange heirs die, won't all the money belong to goblins?

Raguenot dragged the car in with great effort, found an open space by the door, and poured the gold galleons in the car onto the open space.

During this period, he had been carefully controlling his body shape to avoid touching anything in the vault. He knew that all the items in the vault were cast with fire spells and copying spells, which would trigger an extremely dangerous chain reaction if accidentally touched.

"I didn't expect you to actually steal the gold from the vault!" A voice sounded from behind Ragnor, making him break out in a cold sweat.

"Who!" He turned around quickly and almost touched a pair of golden armor.

After seeing the identity of the visitor, he felt a sense of despair: it was his old enemy Bogrod who appeared outside the vault.

But he soon felt relieved because he saw that his old enemy Bogrod also had a small cart behind him! There are more gold coins piled on top than he brought!

The two old goblins looked at each other, both of them feeling a little embarrassed.

Bogrod coughed twice, "I'm not the only one. The other directors also got involved to a certain extent... If I had known you were coming, I would have asked you to bring them with you."

Ragnow:…

The atmosphere was a little awkward.

"Borrow me the light." Bogrod motioned to Ragnow to give way. His fat body almost completely blocked the way.

"Oh, okay." Ragnow quickly walked out of the vault and watched Bogrod pour the gold into the vault.

After dealing with the shortfall, the two goblins quickly pushed the cart out of the ground.

The wizards on the ground were watching the goblins counting their accounts.

"Can you bring over some equipment to detect dark magic?" Tom turned to Scrimgeour and said.

Scrimgeour glanced at the hall full of dementors, and the corners of his mouth twitched.

"The interference is too strong and it may not work properly."

Tom:…

"They won't follow." He suppressed his desire to complain and firmly asked Scrimgeour to get some dark magic detectors.

"Okay." Scrimgeour shrugged. To the Aurors, this was nothing. He quickly dispatched a batch of dark magic detectors.

At this time, a goblin came to the two of them holding a roll of parchment.

"We have already made statistics. There are a total of 20 million and 4762 gold galleons in Lestrange's treasury, thirteen sets of golden armor, and gold cups..."

The goblin announced a long list of numbers like the name of a dish, which shocked Tom and Scrimgeour. Scrimgeour quickly calculated how long it would take him to save such a sum of money based on his salary, and then realized in despair that he estimated that he would not be able to save 20 million galleons since the time of Merlin.

"Director, the car is ready. We can go down at any time to inventory the Lestrange family's treasury." The goblin holding the list bowed to Tom and Scrimgeour, indicating that Gringotts was ready. .

Scrimgeour's face twitched. More than 20 million gold galleons, how long will it last? But Tom, who was standing next to him, agreed - anyway, his purpose was not to count the number of galleons at all.

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