Hogwarts: I Really Don't Want to Be a Wizard - Chapter 142 The Last Glory of Great Britain

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

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

It took almost a whole year for him 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 closely at the clothes of the people around him and the surrounding environment, 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, a gentleman lady with a ruddy face and disgust on her face walked around the mud puddles filled with black water.

The housewife, who had finally dug out a few handfuls of rotten vegetable leaves that were not too damaged from the trash can at the vegetable market, rushed towards her home with a look of joy on her face.

These vegetable leaves can keep the hungry children in her family for one more day.

In such a social background, the consumption of meat is simply beyond the reach of ordinary people.

It can also be understood why the boss of such a large shop did not prepare too much.

In the envious eyes of everyone, Grete walked over.

“Have a roast chicken.”

If you want to find out information, the most suitable method is tantamount to spending a large amount of money.

The boss, who was already bored chasing flies, would have a nice chat with Gretel for the sake of Jin Yin.

However, after the boss looked at Grete’s outfit, he just raised his eyes and said something through his teeth.

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

There was no way, after lying in the garbage 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.

Gretel was not angry. He put his hand into his pocket, fumbled around, and dropped 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 him from paying.

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

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

Their metal currency, whether it is gold Galleons or silver Sickles, is cast with enough pure gold and silver.

It is not mixed with other metals like in the Muggle world.

It was just convenient for Gretel to have it in his pocket and use his magic power to melt the gold coins into gold.

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

The shop owner also didn’t expect that Gretel, a guy who looked like a beggar, would throw out a gold nugget casually.

A roast duck only costs two pounds, and this seemingly small nugget is enough to round out all the meat in his shop.

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

For upper-class aristocratic gentlemen, a few hundred pounds may be just the cost of a meal.

However, noble gentlemen would not appear in such a vegetable market in a civilian area.

That’s why the shop owner only prepared a few cooked foods.

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

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

Now I look at Gretel’s dirty clothes, and think about the big ship that docked at the port not long ago, saying that he would bring a cargo of gold and silver as a gift to the king.

The boss suddenly understood.

He felt that Gretel must be a sailor, and only those lucky guys who said they went to the golden country used gold and silver as money.

The boss didn’t even think about it, that sailors who never left the port would actually come to the city.

Shouldn’t we get drunk on Yingyan Street near the pub?

The thoughts in his heart did not affect his actions. He quickly put the gold into his sleeve, took a bite of it, and then greeted him more enthusiastically.

“Whatever you want to buy, I’ll pack it up for you right now.”

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

The boss instantly realized that this was indeed the style of those sailors.

Apart from them, only aristocratic gentlemen can be so wealthy.

He hurriedly plated up all the grilled chicken steaks on the table, and then rubbed his hands in embarrassment.

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

Then, his little eyes turned cunningly in their sockets.

“Sir, you must be the 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 insights. “

Looking at the way he was rubbing his hands, Gretel couldn’t help but know what he was thinking, but he was also looking for an opportunity to chat with his boss to get a better understanding of the era he was living in now.

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

The boss suddenly became excited when he didn’t hear Gretel asking for change. He thought that he must keep this sailor with him, and maybe he wouldn’t need him to give change if he was happy.

Besides, he is really curious about the New World. Everyone has been discussing the Golden Kingdom recently. He also wants to go there and make a fortune.

I heard that captains who present gifts to the king will be made viscounts in the near future.

That’s a noble lord, these dirty sailors can become viscounts.

If it were him, he wouldn’t be able to become a count.

The shop owner couldn’t help but get excited at the thought of being able to enter and leave a noble manor that he couldn’t even imagine.

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

I heard that King Charles is going to knight you as captain recently. It’s great. You’ll become a noble lord in no time. “

Charlie?

Gretel thought for a while, and the most famous King Charles in England was of course Charles I. He was the first king in Europe to be publicly executed.

Coupled with the highly recognizable name of the New World, Gretel immediately understood the era he was in now.

He actually crossed the gap of hundreds of years and returned to England in the seventeenth century.

It’s hard to imagine that the combination of the temporal stabilizer and the panel can be so powerful.

Going back to the past briefly, the wizarding world is capable of doing it. Hermione relied on the time turner that Professor McGonagall applied for her, and she surpassed Gretel in grades that year.

Became the ‘best’ student at Hogwarts.

However, since any time-based magic is fickle, even the smallest changes in the past can have devastating consequences in the future.

It is generally accepted law in the wizarding world that the maximum time without serious harm to the traveler or time itself is approximately 5 hours.

Therefore, the time turner can allow people to go back up to five hours.

If it goes any longer, it may cause unimaginable harm to the person traveling through time, or to time itself.

It’s not that no one has tried to travel longer in time, but according to all records, those who don’t respect time have never come back.

At most, those people just try to span a year, or a few months, or even just a day.

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

What about Grete?

He spanned several centuries. If others did not respect time, then he could be said to have played with the river of time.

The reverse flow lasted for centuries, but in the end it was only paralyzed for more than a month.

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

People in the future will probably regard this incident as a legend, like a campus horror story that cannot find its source. No one has seen it, no one can confirm it, and no one can disprove it.

Now, Grete also understood. No wonder no one could contact him after taking out his mobile phone.

That’s because his mobile phone can only span the distance of space and cannot break the gap of time.

After realizing that he really appeared in the seventeenth century, Gretel instantly became restrained.

He doesn’t worry that he won’t be able to go back. The panel can bring him here, so he has the ability to take him back.

Grete is worried that if he makes any move here, it will lead to earth-shaking changes in the future.

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