Chapter 15

"Your work mainly consists of two things. First, configure the Beauty Potion. Make as much as you can; I will pay you based on each bottle of potion."

"Although your fixed monthly salary is 60 Galleons, you can earn far more than that."

As a qualified boss, Murphy is now extremely fluent in drawing big cakes.

This job sounds very good. Yalishi nodded vigorously. "I will work hard!"

"Very good, the second job. This bag is full of medicinal herbs, some are Dittany, and some are other herbs. You need to crush and mix all the herbs in this bag together, crush them into powder so that people can't tell what the raw materials are at all."

"After mixing, pack them all into cloth bags and stack them in this barn. Someone will come to take these mixed powders away every Monday."

"After these materials are taken away, you go to purchase potion materials. The most important is Dittany, followed by the raw materials for the Beauty Potion. I will give you a list of other potion materials later. Buy as many of these materials as there are in Diagon Alley."

"Someone will bring other herbs on Monday afternoon. You mix the Dittany you bought with those herbs and crush them."

"Crush, mix, pack, wait for someone to take them away, then buy materials, crush, mix, pack... keep cycling. This is your most important work. Do you understand?"

Yalishi nodded blankly.

"What, any questions?"

Yalishi hesitated for a while. "The money to buy potions..."

"I will give you a sum of Galleons every week; I won't make you pay out of pocket."

Yalishi breathed a sigh of relief. It seems he has suffered losses in this regard before?

"One more thing, Mr. Peter Parker, is there a fireplace here?"

"Fireplace?"

"That is... I need to use the Floo Network to go to Diagon Alley..."

Murphy was stunned. "You can't Apparate?"

"I don't have a license." Yalishi looked a bit embarrassed. "I'm afraid of splinching..."

"What a waste..." Murphy sighed.

Yalishi looked aggrieved. "I, I can take the Knight Bus to work here..."

"... Alright, I forgot to mention just now that the work I want you to do needs to be kept confidential. My identity, this barn, what you do with the materials you buy, all need to be kept confidential. You cannot tell any wizard, do you understand?"

"And the Knight Bus... tsk, forget it, I'll make you a Portkey later."

"Sigh, what a headache."

Murphy sighed; wizards are really too useless.

But actually, it's normal to think about it; not everyone in Muggle society knows how to drive or fly planes.

With the Floo Network being very popular in the wizarding world, ordinary wizards don't need to use risky travel methods like Apparition.

On the contrary, it's mostly Dark Wizards or Aurors fighting Dark Wizards who use it more.

"Oh, right." Thinking of Dark Wizards, Murphy felt he needed to give a reminder. "Be careful when you buy potions."

He vaguely felt he was being watched the last two times he went to buy materials.

However, buying tens of thousands of Galleons worth of things at once, it's normal to attract attention.

"Showing off wealth might attract prying eyes. Be more careful. It's best to change your identity when buying materials. Do you know how to make Polyjuice Potion? Keep some on hand. In short, don't wander around after buying things; come back quickly."

Yalishi was already a bit uneasy.

"Mr. Parker, I, can I reconsider..."

"Monthly salary 80 Galleons."

Yalishi had no more problems.

"Then let's start working today. There are quite a few materials in this bag..." Murphy said, suddenly feeling a vibration at his waist, followed by a ding-a-ling sound like an alarm clock.

He was stunned for a while before taking the brick phone out of another Undetectable Extension Charm bag at his waist.

This thing doesn't have caller ID, but Murphy guessed it should be Padelick calling.

Sure enough, after connecting, Padelick's voice came through. "Hello, hello, boss? Can you hear me?"

"I can hear you, what's up?"

"It's hard to explain on the phone. Why don't you come over first."

"Okay, I'll be there."

"Wait, you're not thinking of finding me at home, are you?" Padelick said. "Come to the office; we just rented an entire floor of the Lloyd Building. The address is..."

Murphy felt a bit ashamed. As the founder and big boss, he only just learned his company's address after the move was completed.

Hanging up the phone, Murphy prepared to leave. After thinking, he took out a pen, wrote down his brick phone number, and handed it to Yalishi. "You know how to use a public phone, right? Call this number if anything happens; owls are really too slow."

Yalishi looked blankly at Murphy talking to someone with a black lump, blankly took the note, and blankly watched Murphy leave, feeling that he had come into contact with too many things at once today, and his brain couldn't keep up.

However, thinking of his 80 Galleon monthly salary, Yalishi became happy again.

Mr. Peter Parker is a good man!

Must work hard!

He opened the bag Murphy gave him and began to pour out the medicinal herbs inside.

All kinds of herbs poured out of the bag continuously. At first, Yalishi remained calm; after all, since someone hired him specifically to process herbs, there must be quite a lot.

But a few minutes later, Yalishi was not so calm.

This isn't right, there must be several thousand pounds here, right?

Murphy didn't just buy magic materials, but also a large amount of Muggle herbs to make up the numbers. Compared to the former, the latter were the bulk of the herbs.

When the bag was finally emptied, Yalishi looked at the mountain of herbs and felt his vision go black.

He felt he had never seen so many herbs in his life!

How long will it take to finish processing this?

The 80 Galleon monthly salary is indeed not easy to earn.

Mr. Peter Parker might be a devil!

On the other side, Murphy Apparated to the center of London and then took a taxi to the Lloyd Building.

Seeing the metal building in front of him, Murphy was stunned.

This is not a skyscraper; it is less than a hundred meters high, but its outer layer is completely wrapped in steel, with huge pipes running through the entire building, metal open-air stairs, and large glass curtain walls, making this building look like it should appear in 2187 instead of 1987.

"Cool!"

Fucking cool!

Taking the elevator to the 10th floor, Murphy gave Padelick a thumbs up when he saw him.

"Alright, you kid have an eye for things!"

Padelick was between laughter and tears. Although you are the boss, my son is almost as old as you, okay?

"If you're talking about this building, I think it matches the technological concept you want to achieve. However, we can currently only afford to rent this floor. With personnel, office equipment, etc., we have no money left, and even owe the bank a little."

"What are you afraid of?" Murphy waved his hand. "Heaven gave me talent, it will be used; a thousand gold pieces scattered will return. Build away! If you build us into bankruptcy, that's your ability."

Holding a bunch of magic potions that can form a dimensionality reduction strike against Muggles, how could I possibly lack money?

At most, the early monetization speed can't keep up, but it doesn't matter. At worst, I'll just go find some blind billionaire to "beg for alms."

Murphy has absolutely no psychological burden about taking capitalists' money to develop productivity.

Padelick, however, had a bitter smile. "No need to build, we're already close to bankruptcy."

"Hmm?"

(End of chapter)