Hogwarts: I Really Don't Want to Be a Wizard - Chapter 143

c142 Great Britain’s final glory

A long time ago, Grete had a hard time understanding the meaning of this difficult tone.

After all, even if he was smart, he had to learn the pronunciation that the old pastor called traditional classical.

If it wasn’t for getting more benefits for the welfare home, he would never torture himself with this kind of thing.

As a pragmatist, Grete rarely pleases himself.

He always thinks that it is reasonable to do the right thing at the right age.

When you are young, you should fight for your future, rest and enjoy yourself, and you can be free and happy without worries after you have made achievements.

Therefore, from childhood to adulthood, he has been strictly demanding himself.

Whether it is studying or exercising, as long as it is a plan made by himself, it is basically completed without discount.

Normally, learning this pronunciation way is far more costly than rewarding for Grete, and he would not spend too much energy on it.

But he just learned it, squeezing out almost all of his remaining free time, studying day and night.

It took him almost a whole year to successfully graduate with the approval of the old pastor.

However, now Grete is grateful to his past self.

If he had not been grateful and wanted to do more for the welfare home.

He would not have mastered this classical pronunciation.

Naturally, he would not have been able to ask passers-by for information without exposing his identity like now.

From time to time, I heard the voices of various passers-by discussing the New World. Sailors, merchants, and even patrolling copper hats were talking about the big ship in the port that was almost full of gold.

Grete was a little confused. If he remembered correctly, the word New World would only be used when studying American history.

But looking at the citizens on the street, none of them looked like historians.

But they all used the New World, a long-standing name, to refer to America.

Looking at the clothes and the surrounding environment of the people around him, Grete had a bold guess in his heart.

However, he still needed to confirm it.

Where is the best place to get information? Of course, it is the tavern. Under the stimulation of alcohol, men will discuss everything from family matters to international affairs.

Secondly, it is the vegetable market.

This kind of place for making a living has always gathered all kinds of people.

Here, whether it is oil, salt, sauce and vinegar as necessities of life.

Or news as spiritual adjustment, you can often get the latest news.

However, for Grete, the most convenient place to collect intelligence now is the vegetable market.

First, there are not many people in the bar at this time.

In addition, he doesn’t know where the nearest tavern is, but there is a vegetable market not far from him.

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Those who come to the vegetable market at this time are all serious people who want to make a living.

Those ruffians who are looking for trouble are still sleeping in their quilts.

These enthusiastic stall owners don’t care whether you buy anything or not.

As long as you find a stall, pretend to pick and choose, and chat casually, you can get a lot of gossip.

If you are generous and buy some generously, as long as the stall owner is not busy, he won’t mind standing up, relieving his waist pain, and chatting with you.

Walking into the market, Grete heard the jingling sound of coins from various stalls, which made him certain of some things.

When he got closer to the stall, he saw the ancient coins that were very different from modern ones, and Grete’s eyes instantly became helpless.

However, he still didn’t give up, so he found a stall that not many people visited to get information.

This stall was a cooked food stall, and there were not too many things on the stall, and the variety was not very rich.

There were just some roast chickens and grilled steaks on display.

Grete was not surprised. If it was really what he guessed, the era of the Great Discovery of America, everything would be excusable.

After all, this was the last glorious era of the British Empire. When the development of America was completed, the whole world would stand up and walk to the card table with a Declaration of Independence, firing the first shot against Great Britain.

From then on, the relationship between America and Britain would slide into a conjugate father-son relationship that everyone liked.

The new trend-setter will also gradually climb to the forefront with the times, and become the recognized world hegemon in the future.

When Gret was young, he often heard sailors bragging in the taverns at the docks.

Talking about the glory of their ancestors, or the history of the rise of those nobles who looked well-dressed.

“It was just luck. If I could go back to that time, even if I had a sampan, I would dare to go out to sea to make money. I have to take some risks.

I can’t starve to death at home!”

It is hard to understand that Britain, a country that colonized the world, plundered the world’s wealth and resources.

But their citizens did not get much welfare.

At the same time, there was prosperity and depression at the same time.

The nobles in the upper class of society were indulging in sensual pleasures and feasting every day, and they cruised to various banquets every day.

When they pursued their appetites, they disliked the red wine flowing from the oak barrels for not having enough fruity aroma, the steaks served on the silver tableware were not juicy enough, and the rare treasures shipped back from distant countries were not to their taste.

People at the bottom of society were still thinking about their next meal of black bread, and they didn’t know where to find it.

On the same street, the gentleman and the lady walked around the mud pits filled with black water with ruddy faces and disgust on their faces.

The housewife, who had finally dug out a few rotten vegetable leaves from the trash can of the vegetable market, rushed home with a look of joy.

These vegetable leaves could keep her hungry child, who didn’t even have the strength to cry, alive for another day.

In such a social context, the consumption of meat is simply not something that ordinary people can afford.

It is understandable why the boss of such a big store didn’t prepare too much.

In the envious eyes of the crowd, Grete walked over.

“Give me a roast chicken.”

If you want to get intelligence, the most appropriate way is to spend a lot of money.

The boss, who was bored and chasing flies, would have a good chat with Grete for the sake of gold and silver.

However, after the boss looked up and down at Grete’s outfit, he just raised his eyes and squeezed out a sentence from his teeth.

“Boy, get out of here quickly, I don’t have any leftovers for you.”

There was no way. After lying in the garbage dump for more than a month, even if the little guy helped him clean up from time to time, it was difficult for him to maintain his dignity.

Grete was not angry. He reached into his pocket, fumbled for a while, and threw a small piece of gold on the boss’s table with a thud.

Of course, he didn’t have the currency of this era, but it didn’t affect his payment.

Speaking of this, I have to thank the goblins of Gringotts.

Although they are treacherous, they are in order to maintain the style of the financial system they control.

Their metal currency, whether it is gold galleons or silver Sickles, is made of pure gold and silver with full weight.

There is no other metal mixed in like the Muggle world.

It just happened to be convenient for Grete to melt the gold coins into gold in his pocket with magic.

The color of gold is the most simple and charming color in the world.

The shop owner did not expect that Grete, who looked like a beggar, would throw out a gold nugget.

A roast duck is only two pounds, and this small gold nugget is enough to buy all the meat in his shop.

Two pounds may not seem much, but you have to know that in this era, the annual rent of a manor is only one hundred pounds.

For the upper-class nobles, a few hundred pounds may be the standard for a meal.

However, nobles will not appear in such a vegetable market in a civilian area.

This is why the shop owner only prepared a few cooked foods.

After all, not many people here can afford it. He may not be able to sell all the things on the table until dark.

Seeing that Grete was not a beggar who came to ask for food as he thought, the boss immediately stood up enthusiastically and put on a welcoming smile on his face.

Now looking at Grete’s dirty outfit, and thinking of the large ship that had docked at the port not long ago, saying that it was a gift to the king, and brought a cabin of gold and silver.

The boss’s mind suddenly understood.

He felt that Grete must be a sailor. Only those lucky guys who said they had gone to the Kingdom of Gold would treat gold and silver as money.

The boss didn’t think that the sailors who rarely left the port would come to the city.

Shouldn’t they be intoxicated in Yingyan Street near the tavern?

The thoughts in his mind did not affect his actions. He quickly put the gold into his sleeves, looked for an opportunity to take a bite, and then became more enthusiastic to greet.

“What do you want to buy? I’ll pack it for you.”

Grete said calmly, “Pack it as you like, as long as it’s meat.”

The boss understood instantly. This is indeed the style of those sailors.

In addition to them, only the purchases of nobles would be so rich.

He hurriedly put up all the grilled chicken steaks on the table, and then rubbed his hands embarrassedly.

All the things on the table, added together, were not as valuable as the gold he had pocketed, but he didn’t want to give back the gold he had just received, thinking of what others had said about the generosity of these sailors.

Then, his little eyeballs turned cunningly in his eye sockets.

“Sir, you must be a sailor who came back from the New World with the big ship in the port.

I heard that there is gold everywhere in the New World, and I wonder if you can give me some advice.”

Looking at him rubbing his hands, Grete couldn’t help but know what he was thinking, but he was also looking for an opportunity to talk to the boss more and get to know the era he was in.

“It’s okay, but I haven’t been back for too long, I almost forgot what time it is now.”

Not hearing Grete asking for change himself, the boss instantly became excited. He thought that he must accompany this sailor well, maybe if he is happy, he won’t ask him to give change, right?

Besides, he was really curious about the New World. Recently, everyone was talking about the Golden Kingdom. He also wanted to go there and make a fortune.

I heard that the captain who presented gifts to the king would be made a viscount recently.

That was a noble lord. These dirty sailors could become viscounts.

If it were him, he would become an earl.

The shop owner couldn’t help but get excited when he thought about being able to enter and leave the noble manor that he dared not even imagine in the future.

“That’s right. I finally came home, so of course I have to take a good rest.

I heard that King Charles is going to confer the title of captain on you recently. That’s great. You will become a noble lord in an instant. ”

Charlie?

Grete thought about it. The most famous King Charles in England is of course Charles I. He was the first king in Europe to be publicly executed.

Adding the highly recognizable name of the New World, Grete immediately understood the era he was in.

He actually crossed hundreds of years and returned to England in the 17th century.

It is hard to imagine that the combination of the time stabilizer and the panel is so powerful.

The magic world is capable of returning to the past for a short time. Hermione relied on the time converter that Professor McGonagall applied for her to surpass Grete in grades that year.

Become The “best” student of Hogwarts.

However, since any magic based on time is fickle, even the slightest change in the past may have devastating consequences in the future.

The universally recognized rule in the magic world is that the longest time is about 5 hours without serious damage to the traveler or time itself.

Therefore, the time converter can only take people back five hours at most.

If it is longer, it may cause unimaginable harm to the person who travels through time, or time itself.

It’s not that no one has tried to travel through longer time, but in all the records, those who don’t respect time have not tried it. Come back again.

Those people only tried to cross a year, a few months, or even just a day.

The shorter the time span, the less damage will be suffered.

What about Grete?

He crossed several centuries. If others say that he does not respect time, then he can be said to have played with the long river of time.

Going against the long river of time for several centuries, he was only paralyzed for more than a month.

Grete felt that even if he recorded this incident, no one would necessarily believe it.

People in the future will probably regard this incident as a legend, just like a campus horror story with no source. No one has seen it, and no one can confirm it. No one can overturn it.

Now, Gret also understood. No wonder no one could contact him after he took out his mobile phone.

That’s because his mobile phone can only cross the distance of space, and can’t break the interval of time.

After realizing that he really appeared in the seventeenth century, Gret instantly began to be restrained.

He was not worried that he could not go back. The panel could bring him here, so it was naturally able to bring him back.

What Gret was worried about was that if he did something here, it would lead to earth-shaking changes in the future.

He did not belong here. The world that was about to enter the new century was his original world.