Chapter 22: Christmas in Eastern Europe without Alliance
"Wrong, they are the descendants of humans and unicorns!" Chen Bin shook his finger and said: "That is a very ancient magic research, to find out whether cross-species descendants can increase the magic capacity..."
With Chen Bin's bloody description, more and more junior students covered their ears.
When he was about to blow out the candles, Chen Bin concluded: "I heard, just heard. Ahem, I heard that there are many ancient ghosts whose experiments failed in some toilets and bathrooms."
"Okay, it's time for everyone to go to bed!" After Chen Bin said this, he immediately rushed to the stairs of the men's dormitory.
The candles and oil lamps in the common room were extinguished at this moment. After hearing Chen Bin's words, all the students suddenly felt like urinating.
"Scum!"
"Bitch!"
There was a lot of swearing in the common room.
Then, this week, students from Gryffindor House, regardless of gender, used to go to the toilet in groups, which became a new and strange story in the other three houses...
Christmas is coming.
In the early morning of mid-December, Hogwarts was covered with several feet of snow, and the lake was still covered with thick ice that Chen Bin could not break through.
The Weasley twins did a prank that Chen Bin wanted to do but didn't dare to do - cast a spell to shoot a bunch of snowballs at Voldemort who was wearing a turban.
: Good job!
Everyone is eagerly looking forward to the holiday.
Fires burned brightly in the Gryffindor common room and Great Hall, but the drafty corridors became bitterly cold, and the classroom windows rattled in the biting wind.
Harry didn't want to go back to Privet Drive for Christmas. Harry had signed up to stay at school for the holidays last week, as had Ron and his brothers, whose parents were visiting Charlie in Romania.
"Can you get out of the way?"
The trio were chatting with Hagrid on the corridor, and Draco Malfoy's cold drawl came from behind them. "Do you want to earn some pocket money, Weasley? I guess you hope to guard the hunting grounds after graduating from Hogwarts, right? Compared with your original home, Hagrid's hut must be It’s like a palace!”
Ron rushed towards Draco Malfoy, and just at that moment, Snape appeared on the stairs.
"Weasley!"
Ron let go of Draco Malfoy's shirt.
"Someone provoked him first, Professor Snape." Hagrid stretched out his big, shaggy head from behind the tree and said, "Malfoy just insulted his family."
"No matter what, hitting someone is against Hogwarts rules, Hagrid." Snape said in a smooth voice: "Gryffindor has been deducted five points, Weasley, you should feel lucky , no more deductions. Okay, let’s go, everyone.”
Draco Malfoy, Crabbe, and Goyle smiled triumphantly as they squeezed roughly past the tree.
"I'm going to teach him a lesson." Ron looked at Draco Malfoy's back and said through gritted teeth, "One day, I'm going to teach him a lesson -"
Harry didn't respond. He was also thinking about Snape's disgusted expression, but he was always protecting himself. Also, he felt that Malfoy's behavior was very similar to the young James described by Chen Bin - a weakling who was bullied by more people than by others.
Ron and Harry had a lot of fun after the holidays. There were far fewer people in the common room than usual, and they were sitting in the most comfortable armchairs by the fire, eating all the food they could pick up with a spit and fantasizing about firing Draco Malfoy. Plan, Ron also began to teach Harry how to play wizard chess.
If Chen Bin were here, he would definitely say that these two little brats are in trouble! Is there any evil plan in this world to expel the son of a school director?
The first thing Harry saw when he woke up on Christmas morning was a small pile of packages at the foot of his bed.
"Merry Christmas," Ron said sleepily as Harry groped his way out of bed and pulled on his dressing gown.
"I wish you happiness too." Harry said, "Come and take a look, I have received several gifts!"
Harry opened the top paper package, which was a crudely made flute made by Hagrid himself. In the second small paper packet was a note, a fifty-pence coin from my uncle and aunt. Harry gave it directly to Ron who looked fond of it.
Then there were sweaters and homemade fudge knitted by Mrs. Weasley, chocolates from Hermione, magic imitation cloth armor from Chen Bin, and the last package was an invisibility cloak.
The anonymous package read: "Your father left this to me before he died. It should be returned to you now. Use it well. I wish you a Merry Christmas."
Then, the two embarked on an adventure trip to the Christmas Castle.
The former Soviet Union, now the Crimea region of Ukraine.
Chen Weiguo is now free to take his son to fish for the magic world of the Naama family, while Isabel leads the employees of the alchemy workshop to Moscow to recruit people.
During this trip, Chen Bin visited more than a dozen ancient magical families in Ukraine. He also deliberately bypassed the 100-kilometer radius of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Even if there were magical families there, he would not dare to visit.
The explosion occurred only five and a half years ago. The current sarcophagus is only a flimsy temporary measure, and the new sarcophagus will not be built until 2016.
Chen Bin is just looking for money, so there is no need to take risks, right? Anyway, he didn't dare to test whether the wizard could withstand nuclear contamination.
Talking back to the magical world of the Alliance, some families became very homeless during the disintegration process, and a very few became very wealthy as a result.
Rich families became his agents for enchanted products and potions; the Luobo family bought the magic heritage at the bottom, and even poached them to the Nama workshop, or acquired them together with their workshop.
However, the Nama family's bottom-fishing of Soviet Muggle society was not very smooth, mainly because Chen Bin did not need Soviet assets.
Fortunately, Chen Bin had read books about this period and knew how corrupt the local people were, so he sent people to form an indescribable alliance with them, and successfully took out overseas assets as collateral in various member states, and obtained dozens of ten-year loans with a total amount of more than 7 billion rubles.
Whether there were any violations or repeated mortgages, Chen Bin said he didn't want to know. Anyway, the guide party had hundreds of times more ways than him, and they only owed operable collateral.
The local allies were also very considerate and exchanged 60% of the rubles for US dollars in batches according to the 80% official exchange rate, and the rest was used for him to acquire local profitable companies.
In short, the US dollars have been transferred to his various bank accounts.
Even if the collateral cannot be redeemed with the ruble, which is like waste paper, in the future, the US dollars that fall into Chen Bin's pocket are already four times the value of the collateral, and he also holds a large number of "privatized enterprises" in the alliance, waiting for Chen Bin to sell them to the vampires in Western Europe after the disintegration.
What's more ironic is that most of the gold galleons spent on bargain hunting in the former Soviet Union magic world are also exchanged from rubles.
As early as the Soviet period, Chen Bin hired local wizards to exchange gold galleons with the constantly depreciating rubles, and the scale was dozens of times larger than that of the UK.
The bank opened by the goblins dared not stop this business, fearing that the poor and crazy magic residents would do crazy things, all because there had been more than one case of killing guards outside the bank gate.
The goblins only continued to bleed in the face of daily exchange in the past three years, but if the exchange was stopped, the witch-lich war would break out in Eastern Europe, and the wizards in power would eliminate all the goblins in the country, and it is also very likely to destroy the wizard banks in the country and divide up the underground treasures.