A lot of things happened in August 1918. After the failure of the Hundred Day offensive, Germany failed again in the Second Battle of the Marne River, and could only retreat and retreat to the Hindenburg line, completely losing the initiative and hope of victory on the battlefield to the Allies. The epidemic of the disease was controlled in some areas, but the overall spread speed continued to accelerate. Many people even experienced the second and third rounds of infection, and their resistance was getting worse and worse, and the mortality rate was also getting higher and higher. Quidditch World Cup was therefore suspended. A guy named Zhao Mai spent the only remaining gold coins in his hand, bought a store in Hogsmeade village, began to decorate, and began to plan to open a pharmacy.

Passing the ordinary wizard level exam is equivalent to "adulting" in magic, and Zhao Mai has some corresponding rights. He can wear a pointed hat, wear a wizard robe with formal badges like a real wizard, receive regular services from the Gringott, and buy his own wizard house and land. Someone is going to sell Hogsmeade's house. Zhao Mai looked at the price and thought it was more appropriate, so he bought it.

This is a thin and narrow two-story wooden building with a thick chimney on the side and a storage loft that is about the height of Zhao Mai. The original owner used this place as a place for rest in summer and winter, but was always harassed by Hogwarts students, so he came less and less. The house was neglected to manage, and a lot of dust accumulated, which basically became a shelter for various small creatures. Before the house collapsed, the original owner decided to sell it casually for a price and then completely moved to the Mediterranean coast of the sunny beach.

When Zhao Mai took over, the house was already shaking. Zhao Mai also deliberately pushed the wall with his hands. His huge force strengthened by his spiritual supernatural power pushed the old house, making it keep screaming "Don't push, can't stand it anymore, let me die", thus successfully cutting off the selling price. After he took over the "Dangerous Building", he just bought some wooden boards and used wood plastic surgery (wood shaping technique) to transform them into a soft and permeable state, drilling in the gaps of the damaged wooden walls to repair those damaged places. Some termites living in this house structure and feeding on wood caused the quality of the house to decline, were driven away by Zhao Mai with natural force to find a new home, and would not return to harass the house again.

The house is thus clean, sturdy and vibrant.

"Don't you need to drive away those mice and spiders?" Xiaohua flew around the house, looking for the gap that Zhao Mai might have missed, and naturally she would find some small creatures who did not follow the advice.

"I don't mind them here, but they may bite the medicinal materials we bought and the potions we made." Zhao Mai thought for a while and said to Xiaohua: "You can find a place in the house to resettle them. Just say that there is a safe area and you can move freely. After leaving there, you have to take risks yourself."

"I don't want to talk to them." Xiaohua shook her head and said, "I am a sensation tree. I am very clean. Not to mention rats and bugs, even birds cannot come to me. You can also use animal conversation skills yourself, so go by yourself. There is a small window that opens outward in the east corner of the basement, so leave it to the animals."

Zhao Mai nodded, summoning the natural force to strengthen his understanding of animals in order to achieve the purpose of communication. Although he is well-versed in languages, the dialogue between animals cannot be translated. The sounds made by animals can indeed express emotions and different meanings, but they cannot be considered as a language. Most of these sounds are a sound reflex passed down by the reproduction of ethnic groups according to the needs of the environment, expressing responses to specific stimuli. The most important element of language is to produce abstract concepts, which are higher than real objects.

The same animal will produce completely different sound signals due to the different living environment and ethnic groups. This requires the natural force to strengthen the ability of "animal understanding and communication" and achieve a state of similar conversation. It is necessary to understand animals and let animals understand the meaning of druids. Zhao Mai cast a spell and saw the reserved food on the way to find mice and spiders. He was suddenly curious about what it would say.

"Aliang, what are you thinking now?" Zhao Mai squatted down and poked it.

The reserve grain turned around and exposed its belly and was about to scream a few times, but suddenly it felt something was wrong. It looked at Zhao Mai, sniffed its nose, then opened its mouth and stuck out its tongue, making a breathing sound of "Ha...ha..."

"Come on, say something? For example, what do you want to eat the most?"

The reserve grain eyes rolled around, got up and licked Zhao Mai's face with his tongue, wagging his tail hard, but he just didn't say anything, not even the original "Wang" or "Wang Wang". No matter how Zhao Mai teased it, he couldn't do it.

I don't know if he is really stupid or too smart. In short, what he is in his mind is not revealed to Zhao Mai at all. If he doesn't have time to spend a whole day with him, Zhao Mai shook his head and left. The reserve grain watched the owner leave, his eyelids trembled, and he looked around, and continued to lie down to sleep. It felt that being stupid was the highest creed. For example, the spell dodge training is not too difficult to avoid various magic wand rays after hard training, but he suffered a loss after finishing training. The reserve grain knew that as long as it made a few intentional mistakes, Zhao Mai could maintain the training. Then, maintain a higher success rate, and it would always have extra meat to eat! Something like this can't tell anyone...

Zhao Mai settled the miniature residents in the house, and then used magic to let the dust go to the trash can, and the broom and mop work automatically to clean the house. He planned to allocate the rooms on the second floor so that everyone could have room for living, rest and study. The first floor is his potion laboratory and also serves as a workshop. There are very few gold coins left on him, and in order to carry out more research, he needs a way to make money. Potions are his best at present, especially some potions used in large quantities. His production efficiency is much higher than textbooks and the cost is lower than that of pharmacies outside. There should be a good market.

As for sales, using a vending machine is a good choice. In terms of automation, or "magicization", the progress and development of the wizarding world far exceeds that of the outside world. Most clothes have the functions of "folding it up by yourself" or "climbing it on the hanger automatically", and shoes can "pull it on the mop by yourself". "Automatic spell" allows items to judge simple conditions and then do things, just like programming languages. Mechanical vending machines have been invented, and Zhao Mai needs to do it is to use automatic spells to make it more advanced. In an era when computers are still nearly 30 years old, Zhao Mai can try simple programming.

For Zhao Mai, this process will be full of fun.

From the outside, the house has been renovating and has not opened the door for a while, but inside, everything is basically ready. Zhao Mai turned all the raw materials into elixirs for cold treatment and packed them in a bag. Looking at the basically empty medicinal materials cabinet, Zhao Mai knew that he had to solve the problem of raw materials. The remaining gold coins needed to be taken care of, and he really didn't want to use gems to go to the goblin bank for exploitation. Just kidding, let the goblins take charge of the banking industry, and I don't know what the wizards thought. If they knew about the fate gold coins, they might have sighed a long time ago. They would rather start another war with the goblins than take back the bank?

By the way, the wizard defeated the elves, so they enslaved them into "household elves". Has there ever been a battle between the wizard and the goblin? Who wins and who loses? Zhao Mai thought about it and just passed the exam, and it seems that the entire history of magic did not write about this, which is a bit intriguing.
Chapter completed!