Chapter 460 The legacy of our ancestors

Bars are as essential to the British as cafes are to the French and teahouses are to the Chinese.

Whenever night falls, office workers drag their heavy steps into bars with flashing neon lights. Some of these bars are for gentlemen, some are sportsmen, some are cross-dressing, and some are only open to gays. The night is full of

All kinds of people used all kinds of cover, and the guests all took off the formal clothes they wore during the day and changed back to their true colors. They looked weird and weird, and none of them were suitable for children to play in.

A bar is not a nightclub. There is no deafening music, and there are no men and women dancing with their heads. This is a social occasion. Many bars are important places to understand local culture. The paintings on the walls and exquisite accessories are more or less consistent with the local culture.

It's like a small local museum.

Some places are even frequented by writers. Shakespeare was a frequent visitor to pubs, and he still wrote while drinking.

The bar does not only sell alcohol, but also provides non-alcoholic drinks for ladies. The Butter Beer from Three Broomsticks has a very low alcohol content.

In the bar, class differences will be reduced. Master Malfoy will be on equal footing with poor Weasley in the Three Broomsticks. Even if you use a private room, the environment inside will not be much better. The charm of the bar is that the people who are usually very serious

People will also become less reserved here, and everyone can chat happily.

But the former owner of the Leaky Cauldron ran it into a place for sneaky people. It was dark, dirty and crowded with many elderly people. Some people even used the bar as a smoking room. Many bars are non-smoking and want to smoke.

Gotta go behind the bar.

The Leaky Cauldron has changed a lot since Hannah took over the business. The dirty long table is gone, replaced by a circle of red booth sofas and small tables composed of round wooden tables.

The walls still retain the original red bricks, with many chocolate frog pictures hanging on them.

There is an open space in the center of the hall where everyone can dance or chat to the brisk music played by the morning glory-shaped gramophone.

The lighting here is also much better, with a lot of green fireflies flying in the lampshades, similar to the Hufflepuff Lounge. The bar is made of blue glass bricks in a grid shape, which looks like fish scales.

The colors of the four houses of Hogwarts are gathered here, and it doesn't look cluttered at all. Many of the people who come and go here are Ministry of Magic staff, and it looks like a place suitable for children.

Hannah, like Old Tom, provides food and lodging for guests. Hufflepuff has always been good at cooking delicious food. The thick broth poured over the mashed potatoes, paired with a small meal bag and fire whiskey, can make the cold wind blow.

People who have been around for a long time quickly recover.

The waiter who served them food was Aberforth Dumbledore, who looked very much like Albus Dumbledore. Even though he had a bad temper, everyone was still willing to greet Aberforth warmly and encourage him.

Wearing the same half-moon glasses as his brother.

But even though everyone was laughing happily at this moment, and the atmosphere was harmonious and lively, it couldn't stop Pomona from feeling depressed. She ate the food on the plate like chewing wax.

Severus drank firewhiskey silently, as if thinking about his own thoughts.

There are fairy tales in the West and fairy tales in the East. Zhang Tao just told them an Eastern fairy tale.

A long time ago, there was a naughty child who loved painting. His name was Ma Liang.

His father and mother passed away early, and he relied on himself to collect firewood and cut grass. One day, he passed by the entrance of a school and saw the county magistrate drawing with a pen. He couldn't help but walked in and said to the master

He said, "I really want to learn painting. Can you lend me a pen?" The master glared at him and cursed, "A poor kid wants to get a pen and learn to paint? What a dream!" After that, Ma Liang kicked him out.

Out the door.

Ma Liang was an ambitious child. From then on, he determined to learn painting and practiced hard every day. When he went to the mountains to collect firewood, he would break a branch, learn to draw flying birds on the sand, and when he went to the river to mow grass, he would use grass.

I dipped in the river water and learned to draw fish. When I returned home at night, I took a piece of charcoal and painted the things I had drawn during the day one by one on the wall of the cave dwelling.

In this way, year after year passed, Ma Liang never stopped learning painting. The four murals of his cave dwelling were stacked with paintings. He also made rapid progress. The birds he painted were almost the same as real birds except that they couldn't scream, but they were worse than fish.

Swimmed in the water.

He drew a little hen at the entrance of the village, and there were eagles circling in the sky above the village entrance all day long. He drew a black wolf in the back mountain, which scared the cattle and sheep from grazing in the back mountain. But Ma Liang still didn't have a pen.

, how he wished he could have a pen.

One night, Ma Liang was lying in the cave. He was very tired from working all day and studying painting. As soon as he lay down, he fell asleep. At some point, there was a burst of colorful lights in the cave.

In the light, an old man with a white beard came and gave him a pen.

"This is a magic pen, use it well."

Ma Liang took the pen and jumped up with joy. As a result, he woke up and found out that everything was a dream.

He rubbed his eyes and planned to get up and continue working, but found the pen in his hand.

He was very happy. He drew a bird with a pen, and the bird flapped its wings and flew into the sky. He drew a fish, and the fish swam into the water. If anyone had no cattle, he would draw a cow for them.

If anyone's house didn't have a waterwheel, he would draw a waterwheel for them. Gradually, he got the title of Ma Liang, the master of painting.

Soon the news reached the ears of the county magistrate. He didn't believe that the paintings could survive, so he forced Ma Liang to paint. However, although Ma Liang was young, he was a stubborn man. No matter how the county magistrate coaxed him, he tricked him into painting gold ingots.

He refused, so the county magistrate locked him in a stable and refused to feed him.

In the evening, it snowed, and a thick layer had accumulated on the ground. The county magistrate thought that Ma Liang would either starve to death or freeze to death, so the magic pen would belong to him. But when he walked through the stable door, he found that Ma Liang not only did not

He died, and he also set up a big stove and was eating pancakes while warming himself.

The county magistrate angrily called for his servants to kill Ma Liang, but Ma Liang disappeared at this time.

He drew a horse, jumped on the horse's back, and escaped from the magistrate's home. At the same time, he overturned the stove and let the magistrate's home fall into flames. From then on, Ma Liang disappeared, and there were only occasional legends about him.

Still painting for poor people.

Legend has it that the three Peverell brothers received three items from the God of Death, the Elder Wand, the Resurrection Stone and the Invisibility Cloak. Among them, the Elder Wand was claimed by multiple wizards. It can always be found in the darkest and bloody chapters of the history of magic.

The figure and resurrection stone was passed down to the Gaunt family, and the invisibility cloak was passed down to the Admiring Lear family. Later, because of the admiration Lear family, the father's line was cut off, and it was passed down through primogeniture in the Potter family.

According to legend, the magical writing brush was circulated in the Ma family.

The surname Ma is very common. Like Potter, the writing brush and wand are similar in that they are made of wood and animal hair. The Elder Wand has an elder wand with a body made of elder wood and the hair of the Thestral as the core. Ma Liang's magical pen is said to be legendary.

It is made of sycamore wood. There are different opinions as to what material the hair on its tip is made of. Some people even did not believe that such a magical pen existed until Ma Youjuan appeared.

The British and French allied forces broke into the Old Summer Palace and took away many Chinese treasures. Emperors often like to collect rare treasures from all over the world. When the Manchus entered the customs, they killed many Han people. No one knows whether that writing brush is wandering around.

Went to the palace.

Ma Youjuan is very good at painting, just like the magic pen Ma Liang in the story, and he claims to be from Henan. Chang'an in the west, Luoyang in Tokyo, and the divine capital Luoyang were once the imperial capitals designated by Wu Zetian.

Women are very good at lying. According to legend, she falsely accused Queen Wang of smothering her daughter to death. Then the emperor was furious and deposed his queen and made Wu Zetian his queen.

However, the reality is not what the world knows.

Emperor Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty, Li Zhi, was an emperor who was very good at acting. He had always been known for his benevolence and weakness. He hid behind Wu Zetian and used his illness as an excuse to ignore government affairs. In fact, he let Wu Zetian deal with those powerful people.

The deposing of the king and the establishment of military forces were not due to pure preference, but also because of political issues. To manage a country, a complete law was needed. The "Wude Law" used at the beginning of the Tang Dynasty was based on the "Kaihuang Law" left by Yang Jian of the Sui Dynasty.

Some modifications have been made to the basis, but in essence it is not much different from the "Kaihuang Code".

During the Zhenguan period, Tian Khan asked Fang Xuanling, Changsun Wuji and others to revise the "Wude Code" and complete the "Zhenguan Code". During the Yonghui reign of Emperor Gaozong, he wanted to change the "Zhenguan Code" again, and this time he participated in the revision.

Among them was Changsun Wuji. At this time, as a minister who cared about life, Changsun Wuji did not attach much importance to the young emperor. He became more and more like the powerful minister Cao Cao, and Li Zhi did not want to become Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty. The overt and covert struggles between the two people followed the formulation of laws.

Opinions were divided and became increasingly fierce.

Queen Wang is a woman, not a strong woman. She cannot help Gaozong Li Zhi in his career.

Wu Zetian was a talented person and often helped Tian Khan handle government affairs. Although Changsun Wuji played no role when Li Yuan and his son rebelled against the Sui Dynasty, his skills were mainly after the founding of the People's Republic of China. He had heard of Li Chunfeng's prophecy: After three generations of Tang Dynasty,

, there was a female Wu in the Tang Dynasty. Wu Zetian happened to be named Wu, so he fiercely opposed the establishment of Wu Zetian as queen.

On the surface it was a matter of establishing a queen, but in fact it was a contest between the emperor and his powerful ministers. The final result is clearly written in history.

Chinese wizards during the Han and Tang dynasties often haunted the court and knew much more than ordinary people. There were many liars in Henan and Shaanxi. People at the foot of the imperial capital were like this. Politicians were good at lying. Mencius' mother moved to her neighbors three times.

, if you stay with a liar for a long time, you will naturally lie.

I can’t tell whether the Henanese who claims to be Ma Youjian is really Ma Zhangtao, but that person is not a kind person. Although he looks like a good person, he also helped a pair of illegal immigrants to uphold justice.

Already.

Before entering the Leaky Cauldron, Pomona went to a Muggle bookstore and bought the book that was last advertised for sale. After Muggle research, there was a major eruption of the Icelandic volcano in AD 536. Researchers have since

An ice core sample was taken out of a Swiss glacier, which contained volcanic glass fragments. Researchers believe that these large amounts of volcanic ash erupted shrouded the northern hemisphere for more than a year, affecting the world for 18 months, and the temperature dropped to the coldest in 2300 years.

period.

Trolls originally only existed in Scandinavia, and later appeared in the United Kingdom, Ireland and other parts of Northern Europe. The migration of animals is related to the living environment. If the original place of residence is no longer suitable for survival, then it will affect

Walk, just like those abandoned ancient cities in the desert, or Pompeii. Before the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, it was the second most prosperous and wealthy city in ancient Rome. Because of the hot springs, it became a paradise for the rich, nobles and

Wealthy businessmen came here to build luxurious villas and enjoy themselves.

However, due to a misuse of magic, the wizard Zacharias Innocenti used the Tarantella spell to make Vesuvius "dance", causing the volcano to erupt and Pompeii was destroyed. If any lunatic uses that kind of spell again,

Which volcano the dance spell makes dance? The volcanic ash covers the entire northern hemisphere as it did in 536. Then because of the abnormal climate, maybe it will be like what was shown in the movie the day after tomorrow. The second ice age will come early, and because there is no sunshine, if

Without enough food reserves, many people will starve to death.

Plant magic, which is useless in duels at this time, will save many lives.

In Dumbledore's will, the first item was to give the Deluminator to Ronald Weasley. It was a gadget he made himself. He hoped to bring light to Ron in the darkest time.

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In fact, it did. When Ron was besieged by spiders in the Forbidden Forest, he used the light from the Deluminator to drive away the spiders.

The Deathly Hallows themselves were also made by humans, but in fairy tales they were made by Death. What Albus left for Hermione was a fairy tale book, and he hoped that she could get fun and inspiration from the book. What he left for Harry was

The Golden Snitch, as a reward for his perseverance and skill.

There is also the Sword of Gryffindor, but even the Headmaster has no right to deal with that sword. Goblins and humans have been fighting over its ownership for thousands of years.
To be continued...