Chapter 276 Helga's Way of Generating Income

After signing the contract, Dumbledore stood up, shook hands with Hufflepuff, and then quickly left Rupert's Dessert Shop.

Les approached Helga and asked her with a smile: "How does it feel to be a professor at Hogwarts?"

Hufflepuff smiled bitterly: Because of this, she has changed from the owner of the school to an employee. But it's already good, at least she doesn't need to sneak into the school like Salazar said.

Although she has a place to stay in the school, who would choose to sneak into the school openly?

"By the way, is a hundred Galleons a month a lot or a little?" After Dumbledore left, Hufflepuff reacted and wanted to ask Les what level her salary was at.

"Should be fine?" Rice was not very clear about how much money an ordinary wizard in the magic world could make in a month. He had heard Fred and others complain before that their father Arthur Weasley, who worked in the Ministry of Magic, received 50 Galleons a month. So Hufflepuff's salary of 100 Galleons plus 50 Galleons of research funding should be quite generous, right?

Of course, when he saw the last item in the contract, Rice couldn't help laughing.

"Helga, you're paying for your life."

"Superstition." Hufflepuff rolled her eyes in response: she didn't believe in the so-called "curse". The false Nordic gods were crushed to ashes by them, so why are they afraid of this?

Hufflepuff was too lazy to continue chatting with Rice. She had a very heavy task now, and she had to have a full understanding of the modern magic world before school started.

"I'm going to the bookstore to buy some books--" At this point, Hufflepuff froze in place: she suddenly realized that she didn't have the currency used by modern wizards. When she signed the contract with Dumbledore just now, she forgot to ask him to pay part of his salary in advance.

Fortunately, she still has her old friend Salazar to rely on.

Rice directly gave Helga the books he had bought before, and then told her that she could take the potion ingredients and other things on her to the shops in Diagon Alley or Knockturn Alley to exchange for money. He made his first pot of gold in Knockturn Alley, and also met the Greengrass family there.

Hufflepuff nodded and followed the advice of her old friend. However, her situation was much worse than Rice's at the beginning, because she didn't carry too many good things with her.

"In fact, you should change your thinking." Rice coughed twice and gave Helga a wonderful idea.

"Do you know? Our "relics" are quite popular in the modern magic world." Rice winked at Helga: "All kinds of magic props, anything that can be related to the four of us can be sold at a sky-high price."

"For example, if you put a badger head on your wine glass and then age it, it will be an extremely precious Hufflepuff relic."

Helga: !!!

"Isn't this... not good?" She hesitated, because it felt like a fake.

"What's wrong with it?" Les asked in confusion: "You are Helga Hufflepuff herself, right?"

Hufflepuff nodded.

"You used this wine glass, right?"

Hufflepuff nodded again.

"Then what kind of fake is this? This is the real treasure passed down from Helga Hufflepuff, the founder of Hogwarts!" Les' words made Helga feel like she had suddenly opened her eyes.

She no longer hesitated, picked up a wine glass and went to find a buyer.

Of course, the antique dealers in Diagon Alley and Knockturn Alley are not fools. Just a badger head can't make them pay real money. But if the cup is attached with Helga's spell, it will be different.

After being pointed out by Salazar, Helga completely opened her mind. She took out three exquisite golden wine glasses one by one and tapped them with her wand one by one. Soon, the three wine glasses changed one by one——

The first wine glass had a relief of a badger and an eagle, and on the bottom of the glass was written in Latin: [To my wise friend, Rowena Ravenclaw, I hope the sweet wine can accompany her to sleep]

The relief on the second wine glass was a lion and a badger, and the Latin on the bottom of the glass was: [To my brave friend, Godric Gryffindor, I hope he can enjoy mellow beer after a hearty battle]

For the third wine glass, Hufflepuff was a little bit creative and carved a badger and a snake on it, as well as a Latin blessing, and then she scraped off the snake relief and blessing.

With these three wine glasses, Hufflepuff picked an antique shop that looked good and walked in.

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After parting with Hufflepuff, Les didn't rush to leave Rupert's Dessert Shop—he still had an important thing for Rupert to do.

After this summer vacation, he will be a third-year student at Hogwarts. At this point, he will also unlock the permission to go to Hogsmeade Village, provided that he obtains the signature of his "guardian".

Although sneaking into Hogsmeade is not a difficult thing for Rice, as a lawful person, Rice respects the school rules on the surface and is willing to follow the rules.

So Rice had to get a guardian's signature, and according to the persona he had set for himself, Rupert was his guardian, so he found Rupert.

Rupert naturally had no objection to this, as long as Rice didn't think it was a loss of status.

A few minutes later, Rice left Rupert's dessert shop with a signed form and a large bag of desserts. Now, he was going to Greengrass Manor to deal with a little tail he left there.

After returning to Greengrass Manor, Rice went straight to the room where Banban was.

The sound of Rice opening the door startled Banban. It suddenly widened its eyes, and the whole mouse trembled with excitement: Finally someone came, he was locked up in this small room all these days, and he was going crazy!

Rice opened the cage door and took Banban out of the small cage.

Banban, who regained his "freedom", was so excited that he almost shed tears: this cage is too small, and being locked up in it is simply torture!

It tried its best to act cute, hoping to win the favor of the little wizard in front of it, so that it could be taken by the side like it was in the Weasley family - it really didn't want to be locked in a cage again.

However, the opposite happened. In the eyes of Rice, who saw through its identity, Banban's behavior was not cute at all, but rather quite terrifying: Just imagine, an adult man trying to be cute in front of you...

Rice grabbed Banban's neck skin, lifted it up, and stared directly into its small black eyes.

Banban couldn't help but shudder: the eyes of this little wizard were as cold as a pond in late autumn...

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The second update is here~

Seeking monthly tickets at the beginning of the month

There is another chapter in the evening, everyone can read it in the morning~

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