Dreaming for 10,000 years

Chapter 130 Quarrel
Dinner was simple, fish, chips and a glass of milk.

Very British.

"Hey, I remember today's dinner was braised lion's head, eight-treasure duck, stir-fried pea tips, Luohan vegetarian meal, and a bowl of white fungus, lily and snow pear porridge. What is this?" Shi Fei frowned as he looked at the dinner.

"Sir, Dumbledore has adjusted your meals. He said that all teachers' meals are the same." House-elf No. 2 hurriedly said when he heard Shi Fei's dissatisfaction.

"What!" Shi Fei was furious when he heard that. "Doesn't Hogwarts provide food and accommodation? What's wrong with me ordering food? Why doesn't Dumbledore let me order food? You all have no objections, but he does. I want to argue with him!"

Shi Fei was furious and put away the parchment he had drawn, and went to find Dumbledore to argue.

I hurried all the way to the principal's office and saw a stone beast with a gargoyle at the entrance to the principal's office, and behind it was a blank wall.

Only if the command is spoken correctly will the stone beast jump to the other side and the stone wall behind it will open.

"Cockroach pile!" Shi Fei gave the command.

Hearing Shi Fei's words, the stone beast jumped away, and the wall behind it opened in the middle, revealing a spiral staircase. Shi Fei went up the stairs.

After a few days in Hogwarts, Shi Fei had already figured out everything about Gilderoy Lockhart, including Gilderoy Lockhart's owl, and naturally became familiar with the lifestyle in Hogwarts.

Every teacher knows the password to the principal's office. It may be changed every three to five days, or every Monday, depending on Dumbledore's mood.

You need a password to go to the principal's office, and you also need a password to go to the student dormitory. Especially since the dormitories of the four colleges are so different, some students even forget the password and cannot go back to the dormitory.

Passwords were required everywhere, which made Shi Fei feel that they seemed to be on guard against something.

We are all from the same school, what are we on guard against?

It can't be a group fight among students, right?

However, behind every outrageous rule, there is an even more outrageous event. Perhaps passwords are the characteristic of Hogwarts!

Dumbledore was in his office, drinking lemon honey tea and reading a newspaper leisurely. Seeing Shi Fei coming in, he said enthusiastically: "Welcome! Welcome, Mr. Lockhart!"

Shi Fei glanced at the back of the newspaper and saw some cars flying in the sky of London.

"Would you like some?" Dumbledore took out a box of crawling cockroaches from the drawer next to him. He took a cockroach and put it in his mouth.

Those crawling cockroaches are the famous candy in the wizarding world - the cockroach pile.

It's hard to imagine the mental state of the person who invented this candy.

"I used to like eating these things too." Shi Fei looked at the pile of cockroaches and sighed, "Until a friend of mine told me that someone ate real cockroaches in the pile."

"What?" Dumbledore's eyes widened, although his eyes were not big to begin with.

He quickly spat out the half cockroach candy in his mouth, which was still rubbing against his mouth. "Oh my Merlin, is this true?"

"Of course!" Shi Fei said seriously, "You know, I have a lot of friends who are book fans, and they always provide a lot of gossip."

"This is horrible." Dumbledore looked at the box of cockroaches in a tangled manner. This was one of his favorite snacks. Now, should he eat it or not...

"What's even more terrifying is that Hogwarts is about to be finished!" Shi Fei said alarmistly.

"Has there been another candy problem? Could it be Buzzing Bee Candy?" Dumbledore said in disbelief.

It was obvious that he was joking.

What's more obvious is that he obviously knew why Shi Fei came here.

"I thought Hogwarts was a thousand-year-old school with a profound heritage, but I didn't expect that I would be stopped after only ordering meals for a few days." Shi Fei said with great sorrow: "Hogwarts even deducted the meals of a teacher. This is unforgivable!"

"..." Dumbledore looked at the boastful Shi Fei. He did not expect that Gilderoy Lockhart would raise the issue of food to the survival of Hogwarts.

"Mr. Lockhart," Dumbledore said gently, "Do you know how many Galleons you have consumed this week?"

Galleons are the gold currency of the wizarding world.

"I don't know, I guess it's not much, right?" Shi Fei said, "How much can one person spend on a meal? Principal Dumbledore is really stingy!"

"Not much, twenty Galleons." Dumbledore said, "This is far more than the teachers' meals. Especially since many of the ingredients are very rare."

"At this rate, it would cost about ninety Galleons a month, or more than a thousand Galleons a year... This is even more than the food expenses of all the teachers at Hogwarts for a year, and far more than Mr. Lockhart's salary."

"Fortunately, I discovered it early. Otherwise, when the year-end settlement comes, the directors will think that I have embezzled the money." Dumbledore blinked and said, "But you know, this may all be what you eat. It is unbelievable that one person eats more than a thousand Galleons a year."

"...Is that a lot?" Shi Fei said, "Each meal only has four dishes and one soup. I have been very restrained at Hogwarts! I have to maintain a good relationship with my colleagues and not let them think that I am so unique that even my meals are very tasteful."

"When I had dinner before, there were 108 dishes, with delicacies from land and sea and all over the world forming the world-famous Tang Dynasty banquet. Even when I had a light meal, there were 36 dishes."

"Now it's just four dishes and one soup, which is really... too simple. I have three virtues: diligence, frugality, and not daring to be the first in the world!"

"Now, even this little bit of request cannot be met in Hogwarts. It is so disappointing. What reason is there for anyone to stay in such a Hogwarts!" Shi Fei slammed the table and said, "I want to resign!"

"Resign?" Dumbledore saw Shi Fei suddenly want to resign after boasting so much. He said seriously, "Mr. Lockhart, you have to think about the price you have to pay."

In the history of Hogwarts, very few teachers would voluntarily resign. On the one hand, Hogwarts treats teachers very well and is very respectable.

The wizarding world is very conservative and there are very few good jobs!

On the other hand, once a wizard joins the school, it is equivalent to signing a contract with Hogwarts. If a wizard violates the contract unreasonably, he will be spurned by Hogwarts and will never be able to set foot in Hogwarts again for the rest of his life!
"Of course, I would rather die if I have to eat British food all day long!" Shi Fei said firmly.

"...I think British food is OK!" Dumbledore said, "After all, it has a history of thousands of years."

"It's not tasty!" Shi Fei bargained: "Unless you let me order the dishes, even if it's reduced to two dishes and one soup."

Saying you'll die if you don't eat British food is just a bargaining trick.

(End of this chapter)