Chapter 2801 Red Hunger (3)

  Rabbits will usually dig several holes for themselves, and will not eat the grass beside the nest, so as to avoid their nest being discovered.

  They are not like social animals, they have companions to watch out when sleeping or resting, so they have to be careful on their own.

  Foxes always give people a sense of cunning, that is because they prey on rabbits. If they were not cunning, they would have starved to death because of lack of food.

  Before man was incapable of building shelters, caves under cliffs were man's chief refuge, so convenient that some caves are still in use even in civilized societies.

  It is not only a hiding place, but also a warehouse, and sometimes a handicraft workshop. Modern man found processed stone tools in these caves, as well as murals on the rock walls. Most of them depict hunting scenes, not only the prey, but also the weapons in people's hands.

  Humans at that time, compared with the pleasure and stimulation brought by hunting, obtaining the nutrition needed for survival was the primary purpose. Due to the limitation of hunting ability, not every hunt can be successful. Compared with gathering, it can obtain a more stable source of food.

   "I still don't understand why Patsy would keep a mouse as a pet."

  During the herbal medicine class, Charlie was talking to Pippa McMillan while putting the newly picked Yuxinmei in the cage.

  The fruit of this plant does not droop like a normal fruit, but is upside down as if floating, which looks a bit like an airship plum.

   "I think raising mice is more normal than raising hairy crabs." Pippa said, putting a Yu Xinmei that was trying to slip away into the cage. "At least they are sold in pet stores."

   "Just because it's sold in the store doesn't mean it's normal." Charlie said.

   "I heard that Snape had pets, what kind of pet do you think he would have?" Pippa said to Charlie.

   "Your boxes are almost full," Pomona said to Charlie and Pippa. "Put them in the storage room."

  Charlie and Pippa hugged the cage containing Yu Xinmei, talking while walking.

  Pomona sighed secretly.

  From the time Barnaby refused to kill Pitts, the house-elf who interceded for Barnaby, with the Killing Curse, he had no contact with his parents, even though he was only 6 years old at the time.

   Living in a place like Azkaban, he would be crazy if not dead, but Barnaby didn't care much about his parents.

  If it weren't for the school's requirement to have pets, he wouldn't even bother to keep hairy crabs. He might have liked Kettleburn's swallow-tailed dogs a little, after all, they were active and turned their bellies over when the wizard touched them.

   But it’s also possible that “sniffliz” asked them to.

Liz's real name is Liz Tuttle, she is a top student in the Care of Fantastic Beasts class, she has a snow sculpture named Artemis as a pet, she likes those animals, like a second Newt Scamander . Due to Kettleburn's inconvenient legs, she sometimes became his teaching assistant, and she demanded that all magical animals be treated "equally".

  When everyone was young, Liz sniffed because she always had a runny nose, which led to her nickname "sniff". Now she doesn't sniff her nose anymore, and she looks pretty, but the students in the same grade still call her that.

  Normally speaking, a beautiful girl should be invited by many people, but no one invited Liz to the Celestial Ball.

   Sometimes it can be annoying to be so uninterested.

  After the get out of class of the third graders was over, and there was no class for the day, Pomona began to pack the freshly picked Yuxinmei.

  Hagrid once sat by the campfire and told Pomona such a story. One day he was in the forbidden forest and saw a lone wolf. It had just snowed heavily and there was no sign of prey for the wolf to follow. But there is a crow in the tree, and it has become an ally with the wolf. Small animals like rabbits are not wary of the crow, after all, the crow is not like an eagle. When it let down its vigilance, the lone wolf who followed the crow attacked the rabbit. The wolf got the food, and the crow also got a share.

   One of the first animals domesticated by humans was the dog. While helping humans hunt, wolves can also share a piece of meat and bones, so that the wolf becomes a dog.

  But not all wolves will eat food thrown to them by people. The effect of Yuxinmei can make animals that eat it have a stronger ability to "accept" the impossible, and it is the favorite of magical zoologists all over the world.

  She heard a frog croaking.

The wild frogs were about to enter hibernation at this time. She followed the sound for a while, and found a glowing frog in a cage with Xinmei. It was actually wearing a bow tie, and it looked like a singer. .

  She thought it was very interesting, so she locked it up in a bubble cage, waiting for someone to come to it later.

  When the sun went down and Yu Xinmei was almost packed, another person came to the greenhouse.

   "All done?" Duncan House asked.

   "All right," Pomona said.

  Duncan glanced at Yu Xinmei who was wrapped as a Christmas present.

   "This year's harvest is good."

   “Probably because I replaced the fertilizer with dragon dung,” Pomona said.

   "What's wrong with this frog?" Duncan looked at the glowing frog floating in the bubble.

   "A lost pet," said Pomona.

  Duncan didn't say anything more, he floated all the packaged Yuxinmei, and left the greenhouse with the dragon like a person holding a dragon ball in a dragon dance.

  Thestral carriages are parked outside, so many Yuxinmei cannot be handed over to owls to deliver, they are not as big as these packages.

   Soon Duncan stuffed all the packages into the carriage, took the driver's seat, and drove it away from Hogwarts.

  Pomona is getting ready to go back to the greenhouse.

   "What's that?" Severus asked as he watched the carriage go away in the night.

   "Delivery." Pomona said "Come in for a drink?"

   She finished speaking and went straight back to the greenhouse without waiting for his reply.

  The first snow in Scotland has fallen. Although it has not yet formed snow, it is still very different from the warm spring in the greenhouse.

  Pomona came to the table under the Yuxinmei tree, poured himself a glass of wine made from Yuxinmei juice, and gulped it dry.

   "Who is that man driving the carriage?" Severus asked from the greenhouse door.

   "You mean Duncan? He's from the Transfiguration Research Office," Pomona said.

   "A researcher to deliver?" Severus asked.

   "He worked for Dumbledore." Pomona smiled and said, "Just like Dumbledore defended you in court."

  He gave a false smile.

   "Would you like a drink too?" Pomona asked, holding up the wine she brewed in her hand.

   "You haven't thought about setting up your own department," Severus said.

   "Thinking about it, but I'm afraid people won't like it." Pomona said.

"who?"

   "You."

  His shrewd calculations were replaced by an unconcealable surprise on his face.

   “I want to make adjustments to the soil and fertilizer composition, and I need a helper,” Pomona said.

   "You mean me?"

  Pomona knew that Slughorn would definitely not join, and judging from the current situation, Snape seemed unwilling either.

  How could the great and aloof master of potions deal with feces.

  Pomona regretted it a bit, she should have told him after he drank the Yuxin plum wine.

   "Otherwise, why do you think I support you?" She showed a tricky look.

  He showed no obvious displeasure.

   "Lucius Malfoy invited me to be Draco's godfather." Severus said, "Why do you think it is?"

  Pomona didn't answer right away.

   "Thank you, without you, this day would not have happened." He said cautiously and indifferently.

   Then he left the greenhouse.

  Pomona poured another glass of Yuxin plum wine, and drank it all in one gulp.

  In fact, Viscount Vermont’s mood is not difficult to understand. The more challenging the “prey”, the more interesting it is. Compared with the pure 15-year-old girl who just graduated from the monastery, Mrs. Du Wei is more challenging.

But he was wrong about one thing. The survival instinct of animals will make them fight back when they are really cornered. Beasts will use teeth and claws, deer will use horns, and wild boars will use their fangs, instead of the ignorance he thought. Overwhelmed.

  In the struggle between life and death, wrong judgment will also kill the hunter. The hare will also carry rabies. After all, it is the prey of the wolf dog. If the rabbit has been bitten by a rabid wolf dog, it will also carry rabies.

  Pomona looked at the remaining red wine in the glass, stuck out his tongue, and licked the juice from the corner of his mouth.

  It tastes sour and sweet, and has a special fragrance, which is not only liked by animals, but also by people.

  (end of this chapter)