The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

Chapter 408 Christmas Eve (Please subscribe, please collect, please vote)
"Oh, by the way, Christmas is the day after tomorrow. I'm sorry to bring you here at this time." On the way back, the two seemed very relaxed. At this time, Ryan seemed to have thought of something and apologized.

Hogwarts' Christmas holiday starts five days before the holiday, which means tomorrow night is Christmas Eve. It is not a pleasant thing to be in the wilderness at this time.

"It's okay." Hermione smiled. "I think the good work we do is the best Christmas gift."

In this relaxed situation, it took the two of them just over eight hours to get back to the lake where they started, and then Ryan drove the off-road vehicle back to Lower Tula.

"Just like last time, we want a big plate of beef dumplings and a pot of hot borscht." After dark, Ryan and his friends returned to the small hotel they had stayed at for dinner.

"How was your trip to the Ural Mountains?" the middle-aged woman asked while making dumplings.

"It's OK. The sky is beautiful. Especially the frozen lake reflecting the sky and the sound of the wind blowing through the trees is really beautiful. But it gets a bit boring after watching it for too long so we left. We plan to go to Yekaterinburg overnight."

"That's right, the scenery in the wild is like that." The old lady stirred the soup pot on the other gas stove with a spoon. "You are lucky. Something happened in the north today. More than 20 people who went to the mountains to travel encountered an avalanche. They were rescued by helicopter before you came back."

Ryan and Hermione looked at each other. It seemed that the survivors were safe now. At the same time, the Ministry of Magic personnel also intervened in this matter. Fortunately, the two of them had disguised themselves before and their faces were not seen by the survivors, so they have not been discovered yet.

After eating, the two of them set out on their journey home. At around nine o'clock in the evening, they arrived at the meeting point with Rose Crystal and successfully changed their identities back.

"You had a good time today." Ryan joked after listening to Rose Crystal's report on her whole day's travel. Rose Crystal first went to the Eurasian Dividing Line Monument in the west of the city, then walked around the city, and finally visited the Sevastyanov Palace. However, the most famous attraction in the future, the Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood, was built in 2003 and does not exist yet.

"But it's not exciting to kill giants without you." Just as Rose Crystal said this, Ryan hit her on the forehead. "What do you mean by killing giants is exciting? We are obviously going to uphold justice and rescue innocent people, and we can't even go home for Christmas."

"Yes, yes, I forgot about that just now." Rose Crystal made a cute squatting pose with her head in her hands. "We are justice, and the giants are evil. Killing them is to uphold justice."

After laughing and joking for a while, they drove back to the hotel they had stayed in. The next morning, after breakfast, Ryan and Hermione boarded a plane to Moscow.

"Where are we going next?" Hermione asked curiously, "Do you have any travel plans?"

"Sorry, I just made up an excuse and didn't pay attention to the arrangements. Besides, Christmas in Russia is in January, so it's not as lively as in the UK." Ryan and his friends had already gotten off the plane and were sitting in the car heading to the city. It was then that Ryan realized that he had originally planned to come here alone to deal with the giant problem and then return to the UK directly. He had never considered what to do after coming here with his girlfriend.

But it would be a bit unreasonable to come all the way to Russia without going around. Ryan quickly came up with a good idea: "But I have an idea. I have booked a five-star hotel in Moscow. I think the hotel will arrange a tour guide service."

After arriving at the hotel, they checked in immediately, and then walked straight into the telephone room next to the lobby to make an international call. The call was to China, and they took this opportunity to make international calls to their parents to wish each other a happy Christmas. After chatting for a while, they reluctantly ended the call and returned to the front desk. As the oldest five-star hotel in Russia, the Moscow President Hotel on the Moscow River does have an English tour guide service. Soon after Ryan put away his luggage, he hired a middle-aged male tour guide in his 40s to take them to several attractions in Moscow.

Red Square, Kremlin, Moscow River. Ryan and Hermione had a good tour of Moscow that day, and left many happy memories. They returned to the hotel happily until dark. After returning to the hotel, they found that as a foreign-related hotel, President Hotel Moscow prepared a very good Christmas banquet for guests from afar in the restaurant.

"Oysters, roast turkey, Christmas pudding, lobster, foie gras. The Christmas banquet in this restaurant looks really sumptuous." The Christmas dinner in the hotel was a buffet. Hermione made herself a large plate and walked to the table and said. After a long period of exercise and physical strengthening, Hermione's appetite was close to that of an adult male.

But she is very open about this situation. While eating oysters, she said: "What's wrong with having a bigger appetite and enjoying more food? Especially when you don't get fat."

Ryan naturally agreed with this. He had suffered so much in his previous life to lose weight that tears welled up in his eyes now. Being able to enjoy delicious food without gaining weight is indeed a good thing, especially for those who love beauty. This physique is like a gift from God.

After enjoying a sumptuous dinner, the two returned to their room. It might be because it was snowing outside, so even though the room was very warm, the two felt a little chilly, so they quickly washed up, put on pajamas, covered themselves with quilts, and sat on their beds, leaning against the backs of the beds.

At first they watched TV for a while, but unfortunately there was nothing interesting to watch. Soon they turned off the TV and each took out a book from their portable space bag to read. Soon they were attracted by the content of the book, and the room began to become very quiet, and only the whirring sound of the central air conditioner could be heard.

Two hours later, Hermione closed the book "New Principles of Divination" in her hand and looked at the other bed. She saw Ryan carefully flipping through a large book that seemed to be made of leaves. Looking at Ryan's profile under the warm light, Hermione suddenly felt her heart start to beat violently.

"What's the matter?" It took Ryan more than ten minutes to finish reading the introduction about the enchantments in the weapons forged by the elves. When he closed the book, he saw Hermione turning her head and looking at him blankly.

"Ah, no, nothing." Hermione came back to her senses at this time. She felt that her face was a little hot. Fortunately, the light in the bedroom was not very bright, and Ryan across from her should not have noticed that something was wrong with her. Thinking of this, Hermione quickly found an excuse: "I was thinking about how everyone in the UK spent the holidays."

"They should be doing well, at least they can stay away from Umbridge the Toad." Ryan turned sideways and looked at Hermione. "By the way, when you mentioned friends, I suddenly remembered something."

At this point Ryan stretched out the hand with the ring on it from under the quilt and waved it, and light flashed on both of their bodies at the same time.

"This is--" "This is a secret spell I cast on us before, mainly used to interfere with some tracking creatures. After all, we are sneaking in secretly this time. If someone writes a letter and asks the owl to deliver it and it is discovered by the enemy, we will be in trouble. Fortunately, I remembered it as soon as you mentioned it, otherwise we won’t be able to receive even a single gift tomorrow."

"Merry Christmas then. Good night." "Good night to you too." After saying good night to each other, the two of them just leaned sideways and looked at each other quietly, with smiles on their faces. Due to being tired after running around for several days, they fell asleep quickly after a few minutes.

(End of this chapter)