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"sell things?"

After listening to Levin's words, the old man's face immediately showed an expression of interest,

"Aren't you a Muggle-born? Where do you sell things from? Don't tell me there's Muggle stuff in it, I won't accept it."

"Don’t worry about who I am. Levin patted his chest carelessly,"I am also an old customer. I know your rules. They are all products of the magical world.""

"As for where it comes from... We follow the rules, and you must follow the rules too."

"I know, I don’t need to ask where it came from."Strucky waved the hand holding the cigarette and muttered quietly,"Forget it if you don't tell me, I can see it myself."

After that, he stepped forward and was about to open the box, but immediately stopped.

"Oops, I didn’t realize it, but this box is also a good product."

The old man looked at the box and carefully stroked the lines on it with his fingers.

"This style, this processing technique, this old leather, these traces of time... Wait, these traces were made by you today, right? A handmade leather suitcase from the Victorian era can actually make you bump into it!"

Halfway through touching it, Strakey became angry because of Levin's carelessness with the antique, and glared at the boy angrily.

But the boy was obviously not afraid of him, and just said in a casual tone:"Since you cherish the antique so much, then Just buy it quickly, lest it fall into the hands of an ignorant person like me."

"snort! Of course I will buy it," the old man snorted,"but before that, I want to see what good stuff you have, and you actually want to pack it in an antique box."

As he said that, the old man carefully opened the buckle of the box and opened the lid.

There was a whole box of old books neatly packed inside.

Covers made of cow and sheep leather, pages bound with glue and thread, paper full of gaps, and classic printing Chinese and handwritten letters...

Strachi read them one by one and was surprised to find that most of these books were more than 100 years old:

《Toadstool Stories》、《Oops, my feet are deformed》、《Why didn't I die when the fortune teller howled?》、《The Magic of Chadwick (Volume 1-7)》、《Beginner's Guide to Transfiguration》、《jiggly bokley and hawksbocks》、《Hogwarts: a school history》……

They are all wizarding books, and more than half of them are textbooks from Hogwarts a hundred years ago, such as"The Beginner's Guide to Transfiguration"》、《"Hogwarts: A School History" are all revised versions a hundred years ago, with students' notes written on them.

These books, including the Victorian chest, were carefully selected by Levine from the Room of Requirement using the [Appraisal Technique].

The boxes are naturally for the convenience of loading things.

As for why he chose a box of books, it is because Levin believes that selling books is the safest and most cost-effective way.

Looking at the large garbage dump in the Room of Requirement, there are all kinds of waste products in it.

Without wanting to make it known to everyone, what Levin has to do is to use the smallest space and weight to transport out the most valuable items. of goods.

There is an explanation for this.

First of all, of course, magic items are worth more than ordinary items.

However, [Repair Spell] can usually only repair ordinary items. If you want to repair magic items, you must be proficient in magic patterns and alchemy, which Levin cannot currently do.

In this case, Levin could only settle for the next best thing and choose the more expensive ordinary items.

In this way, things like furniture, bottles, cans, etc. are excluded. They are large and difficult to sell.

Apart from jewelry and luxury goods, the best sellers are books.

But luxury goods like jewelry are not easy for ordinary people to give away to the Room of Requirement.

Even if they insist on picking some out, they are not easy to sell - they can easily be regarded as stolen goods.

But antique books are different.

First of all, antique books are widely available, so they are not stolen by thieves and are easy to sell.

Secondly, in the world of Harry Potter, books are not cheap and are much more cost-effective than furniture.

Thirdly, Levin has a massive database and copy skills, so even if these books have missing pages, they can be easily repaired.

At the door of the junk shop,

Strakey read these old books from beginning to end, then from end to beginning, and read them several times, until Levin became a little impatient, and then he raised his head and looked at them with admiration. boy

"Alas, I didn’t see it. Your repair technique is really good. After a pause , he continued:"We are all acquaintances, so let me tell you straight away. Your books have been restored very well, but most of them are old textbooks, so the market is a bit narrow.""

"Therefore, a book can only give you a purchase price of 8 Galleons, and the box counts you 50 Galleons. What do you think?"

8 Galleons?

After hearing this price, Levin thought secretly.

This price is actually similar to that of new books. For example, a fifth-grade potions textbook costs 9 Galleons.

If these books are sold as used books, then this price It is quite high, and if these books are regarded as antiques, the price is a bit lower.

However, considering that these books are shipped in batches, it is difficult to find buyers, and the origins are somewhat... it would not be wrong to lower the price a little. Unacceptable.

Levin thought for a while and counter-offered:"I don't think it's better than this. There are a total of 67 books here. Each book counts as 10 Galleons. If you add the box, you can give me 700 Galleons.""

"A copy actually sells for 10 galleons. Why don’t you grab it?"Strucky suddenly became angry.

"A copy only sells for 8 galleons, you are just trying to steal it!"Levin's tit-for-tat was true.

After the two of them blew their beards and stared at each other for a while, Levin said:"Hey, Mr. Abraham, you can think about it. If this deal is completed, I will come back if I have new business in the future. looking for you"

"And new business! ?"

When Straki heard this, his eyes lit up, and he nodded after silently calculating.

"Okay, deal, you boy. This time I let you take advantage of me."

"Just say yes."

Levin took the dragon skin bag containing 700 galleons and turned to leave.

Since the deal has been concluded, he doesn't mind letting the other party gain some leverage.

"See you next time, Straky, and Merry Christmas"

"Merry Christmas Grimm!"

After leaving the junk shop for a hundred steps, Levin's face burst into a satisfied smile.

This time he was really rich.

No matter in the Muggle world or the wizarding world, money is so important. However, he doesn't want to experience the tight life during the summer vacation again.

Even if he doesn't care about external things, studying magic is the most expensive thing. Having some money on hand is good for both life and research.

With the money, the first thing Levin did was to change his entire outfit.

The wizard's robe, crucible, experimental equipment... were all replaced with new ones.

He even didn't forget to buy a brand new one for Helmer. cage, and a pack of delicious (for Scottish round-faced fat chickens) rat jerky.

Next is Christmas, and he is rich again, which means that Hemer, who has been idle for half a semester, will have to work hard. Oh my god.

For the next time, he wandered around Diagon Alley, trying to find out information that was always the key ingredient for the elixir.

The blood of Riem cow, the ocelot's claw powder, the tail tip hair of the nine-tailed fox, Griffon's beak powder, Bear's paws and Owlbeast's head feathers.

In the end, several old acquaintances, Miss Hayden, the female clerk at the Magical Creatures Shop, and the two shopkeepers at Slugjigs' Pharmacy provided him with

As the largest magical animal store in Diagon Alley, Miss Hayden's store is inevitably connected with poachers.

Miss Hayden revealed that there are indeed several groups of poachers in the East trying to find mysterious creatures like the nine-tailed fox. They claimed that they had clear information.

Hayden did not think that the other party could really catch the nine-tailed fox.

This magical creature has the ability to consume its tail to cast mysterious spells.

No matter what the desperate situation, as long as one tail is sacrificed, the nine-tailed fox will can escape.

And the sacrificed tail can grow back in decades.

But as long as the group of poachers can push the nine-tailed fox to this point, it will be easy to get some tail hair.

So Levin left it to Miss Hayden asked for 50 Galleons, please pay attention to the news in this regard.

As for the shopkeepers of Slugjigs Pharmacy, they brought news about Ream cattle blood.

Although the annual output of this kind of blood is very large, Few, but they do have the right channels.

After all, they also have a background.

"Magic Potions and Potions" written by Arseny Giger is the potions textbook at Hogwarts.

Horace Slughorn He also served as the Potions Professor of Hogwarts for 50 years (his successor was Snape).

So Levin left 100 Galleons as a deposit, and he would be able to get a copy of Riem Cow during the summer vacation. blood.

Levin was very happy to learn that he had obtained two precious materials in one go.

But the remaining four were relatively slim.

Among them, the head feathers of the owl beast were not considered for the time being. This thing has never been in the Harry Potter world. As a native creature, Levin can't expect owl beasts and water ghosts to suddenly cross the world and come here.

The ocelot is a famous magical creature in the Americas.

It can walk upright and run faster than an arrow. Its eyes are said to have hypnotic and photographic powers. The ability of telekinesis.

A college at Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry is named after it, and its hair is also the material for the core of American wands. The claws of ocelots are not a mainstream potion material, but since wizards in America can get it Hair, you may not be able to get claws.

I will consider this thing when I have time to go to the United States.

The Bear is a magical creature from the East, also known as the Bear. It is a terrifying creature that looks like a giant bear.

This thing comes from the far east, and Levin can't get his hands on it for the time being.

The only one that seems slightly easier to deal with is the gryphon.

The griffon, also known as the griffon, is a magical animal native to Greece.

This is an ancient magical creature. They have the forelimbs, wings and head of a giant eagle, while the body, hind legs and tail are like a lion. They mainly feed on raw meat and have a ferocious temperament, but skilled wizards can also fight with them. It makes friends.

Gryphons once spread across Europe and were widely found in wizards' records at that time, but now few people can hear of their traces.

Instead, their descendants from horses—hippogriffs (also called hippogriffs)—were widely bred by wizards as their substitutes.

But magic materials are another matter.

The hippogriff can replace the griffin as a mount, but it cannot replace the griffin as the medicinal ingredient for elixirs.

Compared with ocelots, bear bears and owl beasts, although griffins are rare, they are at least a native animal, so next, Levin decided to start looking for griffons first.