Admiral of Hogwarts

265 Heading to Brittany

After chatting about these serious matters, the shipgirls and Hugo talked about some things about Christmas. For the shipgirls, the gifts given by Hugo this year made them very happy, so they also prepared some gifts in return.

Of course, as for the specific return gift, the girls are still keeping it secret. They just said that they will give Hugo a surprise on the day before Christmas.

The next three days were very peaceful. Hugo and Hermione almost stayed in the study writing part of their summer vacation homework. Three days later, the Granger family took a plane to Brest early in the morning.

Brest is an important military port on the Brittany Peninsula in northern France and a prosperous city. After leaving the airport, they saw a middle-aged man in a gray suit standing next to a car to pick them up.

"Welcome, welcome, Chris, your wife and children." After seeing the Granger family, the middle-aged man immediately stepped forward and hugged Mr. Granger, and then joined the others one by one. shake hands.

"Nice to meet you too, Gil." Mr. Granger said, introducing his friend and partner to his family.

"This is Mr. Gil Prewett, my college classmate and partner. He is now an accountant and has helped us a lot in finance."

"Just a little help -" Jill said with a smile, and then let everyone get in the car. Soon, the car drove out of the city towards the suburbs, and finally drove into a yard surrounded by hedges.

"This is my family's small farm. We come here every year during the holidays. Today we will stay here, and tomorrow afternoon we can go to the ski hotel under the Alps."

Mr. Prewett introduced after getting off the car. This is a common rural farm in northern France, and it doesn't look very grand. But both the surrounding environment and the architecture of the manor itself make people feel very comfortable and relaxed.

After entering, they first walked through the restaurant. Then they went all the way up the wooden stairs. Not long after walking, they stopped in front of the window at the end of the corridor.

"This is the countryside, so the overall condition of the room may not be as comfortable as a hotel room in the city." After opening the door, Mr. Prewett introduced. "But compared to the hotels in the city, this place is more Breton-"

"This place is already very good." Mr. Granger admired from the bottom of his heart. Although the character style in the room seemed to be older, the neat furniture showed that the owner had done a lot to entertain guests.

What's more, the houses are clearly modern. Therefore, both electrical appliances and bathrooms are fully equipped, and it is not as old as it seems at first glance.

"Actually, if you look out from the second floor, the scenery outside is pretty good -" While a few adults started talking, Hugo and his sister came to their room, then stood in front of the window and looked out. ?

At this time, it was snowing in the sky. Through the falling snowflakes, Hugo looked beyond the fences made of evergreen plants and saw the surrounding farmland that looked a little bare this season.

After packing their luggage, Hugo and his sister walked out the door. But just as he put his hand on the door handle, he was suddenly attracted by a pattern the size of a palm on the edge of the door.

"What are you looking at?" Hermione, who was following Hugo, saw him suddenly standing still holding the handle, so she asked curiously: "Is there a spider?"

"No, look at this." Hugo said, motioning for Hermione to stand next to him, and then pointed to a pattern on the side of the door that was obviously carved with a knife, "What do you think this pattern looks like?"

"It looks like two crossed flower sticks, and they are lit." Hermione said after taking a look, "Besides, I think the person who drew this picture is likely to have compulsion." disease."

"Wait, where did you see obsessive-compulsive disorder?" After hearing Hermione's words, Hugo felt confused. Because he really didn't know how his sister could see the tendency of obsessive-compulsive disorder from this picture.

"It's very simple. Didn't you find that this picture is completely symmetrical?" Hermione said with a matter-of-fact expression. "Even the sparks ejected from each flower stick are exactly the same."

"Okay, what you said may make sense." Hugo raised the corner of his mouth with a look of helplessness, and then said. "What I want to say is, if you ignore the fact that this picture has no border, have you noticed that it looks like Beauxbatons' school emblem?"

"The Beauxbatons school badge - yes!" After being reminded by Hugo, Hermione immediately reacted. "Thinking about what dad told us before, it seems that there is indeed a wizard in this family."

"And that wizard is probably of the same generation as us." Hugo went to look at the carvings on the door and said. "Because this carving mark is very new, it looks like it was carved in the past two years."

After the Grangers packed their luggage and went down to the first floor, they started chatting alone in the warm living room. After all, the snow outside is getting heavier now, so going out is not a good idea.

Just before noon, a car horn sounded outside the door, and soon two ladies walked in from outside the room despite the wind and snow, each carrying large and small bags.

Obviously, Mr. Prewett's wife and daughter came back from shopping abroad. After a brief greeting, everyone quickly got busy with lunch.

Because all the adults present were busy preparing lunch, the task of entertaining Hugo and the others fell on the owner’s daughter. Soon, the blonde lady took them to chat in the living room on the first floor. stand up.

"Excuse me, are you a student of Beauxbatons?" After introducing himself, Hugo asked directly to the girl named Elaine.

The reason why he chose to point it out directly was because he saw that the pattern on the franc jewelry decorated on the brooch on Miss Prewett's chest looked very complicated, but the core of it was the pattern of the Beauxbatons school emblem.

"Uh - are you a wizard too?" Miss Prewett, who was chatting awkwardly with Hermione about a TV series from a few years ago, was stunned for a moment after hearing Hugo's words, and then simply asked.

"Yes, my sister and I are both third-year students at Hogwarts." Hugo replied with a smile, and then looked at each other politely.

"Let's get acquainted again." After hearing what Hugo said, the girl named Elaine laughed, then put her hand on her chest and bowed gracefully. "Fifth grade Beauxbatons student, Elaine Prewett."

After sharing their identities with each other, they all felt a lot more relaxed, because it meant that they finally didn't have to rack their brains to think about what was popular here in the past few years when they weren't living in the ordinary world.

"The giant squid in the Black Lake that can interact with everyone? This is really cool." After Hugo and the others introduced some interesting things in Hogwarts, Elaine showed a surprised expression.

"Our school has ice sculptures that are as unmeltable as diamonds, and there are woodland nymphs singing beside us during meals. But to be honest, there is no creature as interesting as a giant squid."