Harry Potter: Charlie's Candy Factory

Chapter 228 After all, that's not my life

"Dearest Mr. Barnabas Guffey...Listen, Rita, Mr. Black calls me 'Dear' Mr. Barnabas Guffey."

In the editor-in-chief's office, the tall and tall Gu Fei suddenly stood up from the boss's chair behind the desk. While reading the letter in his hand, he raised his head and was pleasantly surprised by the man who was meticulously applying nail polish on the sofa beside him. Rita Skeeter said.

"Yes, yes ... I just heard from the editor-in-chief."

Rita Skeeter coped without raising her head, focusing on her well-maintained nails, and continued to paint them with an eye-catching and exaggerated pink.

Seeing that his competent subordinate was not interested in this, Gu Fei did not dissipate his high enthusiasm because of this. Instead, he paced slowly in the office. While walking, he quietly raised his chest a little and continued to speak loudly read

"Please allow me to send a belated Merry Christmas, I am so surprised and delighted with your Christmas present..."

"...Since the brief exchange in Minister Fudge's office last time, I have been looking for an opportunity to chat with you alone..."

"I just took advantage of this opportunity. If possible, in your free time, I hope to have a drink together and make friends. What do you think?... Yours sincerely, Charlie Black"

The light in Gu Fei's eyes became brighter and brighter. When he read the name signed by Charlie at the end, he even slammed his mouth with some unsatisfactory thoughts. His fingers couldn't help grinding the material and writing on the surface of the paper, as if at this moment he The hearts of all have received some kind of different promotion.

"Rita..."

He called again to his capable subordinate who was sitting on the sofa.

Coincidentally, Rita Skeeter just painted all ten nails properly. After admiring her "beautiful" look beautifully, she was finally willing to raise her head and continue to cheer for her immediate boss, editor-in-chief Gu Fei responded

"Yes, editor-in-chief, I'm..."

It's just that in the voice, there is still unavoidable perfunctory and helplessness.

However, Goofy, who was immersed in his own world, fantasized that he would soon have dinner with the top rich man, pure-blood nobleman, and legendary figure Charlie Blake, who was famous in the entire magic world, obviously did not recognize Rita Skeeter. There was something wrong with his tone, and he continued to speak excitedly

"Look... what did I say? Someone as smart as Mr. Black must have seen the Christmas present I gave him at the first moment."

After finishing speaking, he waved the letter in his hand at Rita symbolically, causing the other party to stare blankly for a while.

"Facts have proved that I was right!" Seeing her rolled eyes, Gu Fei was not only not angry, but also raised his head in self-possession, and smiled slightly, just thinking that this was the performance of Rita Skeeter being subdued .

He carefully folded the letter in his hand and placed it on his desk.Then he felt something was wrong, so he hurriedly reopened the envelope with the Black family crest branded on it, and put the letter paper in it.

After all this was done, Gu Fei finally stopped in the middle of the office, took a deep breath of the cool air, then puffed up his chest, straightened his waist, and then said with emotion:
"Sometimes you really have to believe a word, and that is seeing is believing and hearing is not believing.

When I was not in contact with Mr. Black before, I always heard rumors about him.Said he was a weird guy, said that he was cold and impersonal, said that he did not respect his status as a nobleman, and was willing to work with elves...

At that time, I chose to believe these unfounded rumors when I had never met Mr. Black.But what about the result?From my meeting with Mr. Black last time, I knew that he is an elegant and perfect noble gentleman. Through this letter, I can also be sure that he is a very humane, gentle and kind man! "

After finishing speaking, he hummed a few times proudly, then raised his hand, and took out a Marlboro cigarette that was only sold in the Muggle world from his pocket.After holding it in his mouth and lighting it up with magic, Gu Fei took a deep breath.

After the white smoke was slowly spit out from his mouth, he continued

"Things that someone like me who has only met Mr. Black twice can see, those guys who wantonly spread rumors don't realize it at all.

It can be seen that those who talk about it have never even seen Mr. Black.Or... To put it another way, they are not qualified to meet such top figures in the British magic world. "

After the words fell, he seemed to think of himself, he grinned, showing a mouthful of bright white teeth, then tugged at the sides of his windbreaker, and said unhurriedly

"Actually, it's understandable. After all, not everyone, like me, got a letter from Mr. Black and had the opportunity to be invited by him to have dinner."

Hearing this, Rita Skeeter, who had been watching Gu Fei yelling all the time with cold eyes and words, finally couldn't hold back anymore. Just when she opened her mouth and was about to stand up and pour a basin of cold water on him, Gu Fei seemed to have suddenly remembered something, and hurried back to the back of his seat, found the letter paper, muttered to himself, picked up a pen and began to write on it in unison.

"That's right! I almost forgot, I should write back to Mr. Black first!! Mr. Black is a busy man, I can't make him wait too long."

"...The editor-in-chief, actually..."

Rita Skeeter pushed the weird glasses on her face, hesitated to say something, but was interrupted

"What are you still doing, Rita, shouldn't you go out to find news at this time? Hurry up, move!"

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Walking out of Guffy's office, Rita couldn't help but twitched the corners of her mouth, revealing a half-smile expression.

As the reporter who was in charge of interviewing Charlie Black in the early days, she thought she had collected enough information about that gentleman.He has already studied him up and down.

As the kind of top rich man who doesn't even dare to offend Fudge, why would he personally write a reply letter because of one of your articles?Besides, if Gu Fei was not overwhelmed by the excitement, as the editor-in-chief of a well-known newspaper, he should still be able to see that although the handwriting of the letter's body and the signature at the end are very similar, if you look carefully, there is still a bit of a difference. different.

If Rita guessed correctly, it was probably written by Mr. Black's elf assistant, Mr. Russell.

Of course, seeing her boss's never-before-seen excitement, Rita finally chose not to tell him about it.

"After all, that's not my life."

(End of this chapter)