Chapter 99: The Real Fisherman

There are countless people in this world who have died from eating poisonous mushrooms, but if you ask who is the most famous...it must be Siddhartha Gautama.

That is the World Honored Sakyamuni!

He ate the last meal of sandalwood tree ears offered by the blacksmith Cunda in Kushinagara. After being poisoned, he went to Nirvana between the two Sara trees beside the Bhati River.

When Sakyamuni passed away, the two trees suddenly bloomed with white flowers, which is also known as "the death of the two forests".

The sandalwood tree ear is a kind of magic fungus unique to India, which is a highly poisonous mushroom!

There are more than 400 known species of mushrooms with obvious toxicity in the world, and if you add magic fungi, there will be even more.

Every year, little wizards are poisoned by eating mushrooms by mistake, so as an herbal medicine teacher, Sprout must teach students how to distinguish poisonous and non-toxic mushrooms.

Dean Thomas of Gryffindor raised his hand and asked a question that no one would be able to ask without suffering from cerebral thrombosis for twelve years:

"Professor, since these poisonous mushrooms are so dangerous, why not eliminate them? Otherwise, there will be a steady stream of wizards accidentally eating them..."

He had accidentally eaten a hallucinogenic mushroom before, mistook a swallow-tailed dog for a witch, and kissed it... He was eventually bitten three times and was forced to drink rabies inhibitors for a week.

"Because these mushrooms are not grown for wizards to eat!" Professor Sprout laughed angrily:

"Those poisonous fungi are important raw materials for many potions. Even the antibiotics abused by Muggles are also extracted from fungi."

"And..." Professor Sprout said seriously:

"Most types of mushrooms are symbiotic bacteria. They must live in symbiosis with magical plants and are an important part of helping plants live better... By the way, this is the focus of the final exam."

After hearing the professor's reminder, the little wizard took the feather pen to remember.

Professor Sprout summarized a host of benefits and concluded by emphasizing:

"Although poisonous mushrooms are poisonous, they still have many important uses. When you see mushrooms in the future, please do not deliberately damage them or even step on them to death. This is also a sign of respect for magical plants."

Professor Sprout led the students through the fields of mushrooms, constantly introducing the mushrooms of different colors. When passing by a field of red mushrooms, she reminded her emphatically:

"This is the Laughing Orphan. After eating it, he will become hallucinogenic and do strange things. The main manifestations are mental abnormalities, dancing and singing, laughing wildly, and visual hallucinations."

"The most amazing thing is..." Professor Sprout smiled: "This kind of smile is only for wizards, other magical creatures will be fine."

Everyone is staring at Xiao Gu, is it so magical? !

"Okay, next I will take you to collect jumping toadstools. Now, who can tell me what the characteristics of jumping toadstools are?"

Hermione wanted to raise her hand to answer this question, but suddenly she found that Rolf quietly bent down and used her body as a cover to secretly pull out the magic weapon.

Luo Fu is going to pick some mushrooms and plant them in his box.

The girl rolled her eyes, smiled mischievously and moved to one side, completely exposing her vision.

Of course Professor Sprout saw this scene, she said loudly.

"Mr. Scamander, will you answer this question?"

Luofu quickly turned around and found Professor Sprout looking at him. He had both stolen and stolen goods on the spot. The young man said with some embarrassment:

"The jumping toadstool has a keen sense of its surroundings. Once it senses that someone is trying to pick it, it will jump quickly to escape."

"That's right, five points for Hufflepuff." Professor Sprout raised his eyebrows and said, "And you have to concentrate. After class, you stay and help the magic man fertilize."

Rove glanced at Hermione. The little girl was suppressing a smile. The corners of her mouth raised, then she quickly suppressed them.

"Toadstools can jump, so you need to use a bacterial net." Professor Sprout pointed to the net not far away and said:

"One for each person, and the wizard who collects the most jumping toadstools gets fifteen points!"

The students all ran to get the bacteria-catching nets, fearing that they would get the worst net if they were too late.

Hermione raised the corners of her mouth, turned sideways, stared at the side of Rolf's face, and said triumphantly: "Have you been caught stealing magic?"

"Do you dare to bet? Hermione." Rolf challenged: "A new bet."

Hermione wanted to refuse. After all, she had just lost and was now helping Rove make the potion for free. She also had a slightly longer memory.

But in the end, it was really uncomfortable to hold it in, and she couldn't help but said: "What are you betting on?"

"Whoever collects the most beating toadstools...will win!" Luofu said softly: "If you lose, stay and fertilize the magic orphans for me.

If I lose, you won’t have to brew the potion for free, and I will also pay you a salary, which is the same as Shirley’s salary... Do you dare to bet? "

Hermione thought for a moment and said, "You can bet, but you are not allowed to use your strange magic."

"Okay, I will definitely not use any magic." Luofu smiled, he never stayed overnight for revenge.

Everyone got the bacteria traps, only Harry and Ron stayed where they were, whispering together.

Professor Sprout frowned, and she walked over and said sternly: "What are you talking about!"

Harry was startled, he turned around and lied quickly:

"Sorry, Professor, Ron and I...were discussing that mushroom. You just said it would cause diarrhea after eating it, right? Ron said it would cause coma, so the two of us started arguing."

Ron nodded in agreement, as if Harry's words were true.

"You remembered it wrong, Mr. Weisley, this is chicken mushroom, and eating it will indeed cause diarrhea..." Professor Sprout said softly.

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"Will eating too much kill people?" Ron asked.

"No." Professor Sprout looked at them suspiciously.

"Okay, hurry up and catch the mushrooms, others have already started!"

"Okay, professor, let's do it now!" Ron saw Sprout turned away and whispered, "Do you really want to use it, Harry?"

"It won't kill anyone anyway." Harry gritted his teeth.

In order to prevent the jumping mushrooms from escaping, they were planted in a glass house.

When the students lined up to walk in, the group of mushrooms felt the ground shaking, and they drilled out of the soil and jumped towards the ceiling.

The mushrooms in pieces looked like spores, and like flying red umbrellas.

Fortunately, there was glass all around, so they couldn't escape and could only jump around.

Rolf was holding a mushroom-catching net, with the grid spacing being neither too big nor too small. Smaller mushrooms could move freely through the grid, but larger mushrooms would be caught.

This was like fishing, providing indirect protection for the fry.

Rolf casually caught a mushroom, which fell on the big net and kept jumping and hitting.

Rolf reached out and grabbed the jumping mushroom, which was alive and well in his palm... The pink mushroom was very beautiful.

In Hermione's astonished eyes, Rolf threw away the mushroom-catching net, opened the black suitcase, and took out a special fishing rod.

A real fisherman can fish anywhere... for non-fish creatures!

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