Chapter 474: Engagement

Finally, this nervous day arrived. Harry wore a brand-new dark blue shirt with silver buttons on the cuffs, and sat upright on the sofa in the living room. Beside him, Sir Crawley, who had seen many big scenes, was leisurely drinking a cup of black tea.

At this time, the door opened, and Sirius walked in with his re-combed hairstyle and an extremely stiff suit. He looked even more nervous than Harry, adjusting his dark green tie loosely from time to time, and tightening it again after a while.

Finally, they heard the crisp sound of Apparition. The three stood up one after another and walked to the door to prepare for the welcome—at this time, Zhang Qiu walked down the stairs with her father. She wore a lilac robe today, and her father, although also wearing a complete suit and tie, had a pleasant smile on his face and looked like a very easy-going person.

After a round of pleasantries, they sat down one after another, and then Sir Crawley introduced the situation as agreed: "As you can see, I am Harry's maternal great-uncle, George Crawley, and this is his godfather, Raphael Crawley."

"Nice to meet you, nice to meet you, my name is Zhang Wei, you can also call me my English name John Smith." Mr. Zhang said. "Of course, I fully understand that you have two elders present here, because Qiu's situation is also quite special, but she still has a master, right."

"Master Xuanjun is currently busy with a very important matter, so much so that he can't get away, so only I came to discuss with the two, uh, the future of the two children."

"Oh, then let me say it first." Sir Crawley said. "I am the current owner of this manor, and these Muggle wealth will be left to Harry to inherit later. This is all I have to say. After all, I am not a wizard, which might be a bit inconvenient for your Statute of Secrecy."

"Right, I will support all decisions of Harry and his godfather." Before leaving, he said so.

The remaining people looked at each other, and then Sirius said first: "Then Mr. Smith, I wonder what you think of the children's relationship? After all, I am also mainly supportive."

"Ha, ha, I am also supportive." Zhang Wei paused for several seconds, then continued, "Of course Master Xuanjun is also supportive, so, logically speaking, we can start preparing for the engagement."

"So smooth?" Sirius said in surprise. "Don't you have anything you want to know, or want to discuss?"

"Well, to tell you the truth, Qiu was taken away when she was very young and taught by Master Xuanjun. So this time Master Xuanjun gave the opinion of support, so I basically didn't have any other opinions." As he spoke, his sense of responsibility as a father gradually flooded up. "So I want to ask, Mr. Harry Potter, what does he do in the Wizarding World?"

Good question, a good question that stunned everyone. Although Harry defeated Voldemort, won the Triwizard Tournament, became the reserve president of the Order of the Phoenix, and became the Dark Lord with a fake identity, and was about to enter the Ministry of Magic, but in the final analysis, he was still a seventh-grade student at this moment.

"Still in school." He answered honestly.

"In school, ah, that is promising." Zhang Wei glanced at Zhang Qiu beside him. "As for Qiu, because she insisted on staying here, she currently has a job at the embassy. From, from the income point of view, it should be quite suitable. Of course, because she has property in the Muggle World, I believe the economic pressure in the Wizarding World will be much reduced."

Sirius was hesitating whether to talk about the Fenrir Group, or just simply introduce the savings of the Black family, or just need to talk about the inheritance of the Potter family.

"Yes." Harry responded subconsciously, because his thoughts were still on the previous question—he hadn't actually thought about what work he would do in the future.

"And the Wizarding World shouldn't be as safe as our side. I still want to ask how Harry's spell level is." Zhang Wei said sincerely. "According to some rumors I heard, there is someone called Voldemort or something, who might fight a war in the future. It's better to have a skill."

Harry hadn't used spells to fight properly for two whole years. Facing this question about spell level, he could only say the truth helplessly: "Self-protection is still possible."

"Well, don't demand too high." Zhang Wei breathed a long sigh of relief. "Children can still rely on their own struggle. Bread will be there, and milk will be there."

Sirius suspected that Harry was looked down upon. He couldn't help but want to start explaining—

"And! Master Xuanjun mentioned to me," Zhang Wei suddenly raised his volume, topping Sirius's words back. "The Great Ming in the future might be even more chaotic than here. Qiu is still good here, which is good for everyone. Anyway, that's what he said, so let's discuss the date next."

"Great Ming?" Sirius's attention was immediately attracted by this word he hadn't heard before.

"Oh, right, you have to say 'China' outside." Zhang Wei smiled. "Then out of consideration for respecting the customs of both sides, Mr. Crawley, what is the general process of your wedding here?"

Harry and Sirius recalled the wedding they had just experienced and couldn't help but show a confident smile. Sirius said seriously: "First, the guests sit at the table of the banquet..."

"No no, that's the last step. I mean, the process before the wedding."

This question seemed to have its own saying, but in front of the vivid example they just thought of, everything seemed a bit strange: no process was needed, it was almost just the upper and lower lips touching, and then they started sending invitations and preparing for the wedding.

Facing the silence of the two, Zhang Wei said kindly: "If there is no opinion here, we can follow the Chinese idea, which has a total of six steps. First, you need to send a cute magical pet to submit the marriage letter, then we will return the gift, then you need to find a divination master to give an opinion, and then send the divination results over. This way the first three steps are done."

Sirius touched his cheek and asked with a guilty conscience: "Cute magical pet, does Kreacher count?"

"Hedwig, right." Harry was also a bit unconfident. "But can he fly so far?"

Zhang Qiu explained helplessly, "Not so cute ones are also fine, emails are also fine."

"Then the divination master, Professor Trelawney?" Sirius asked.

"Hard to say, she never popped out any good words." Harry swallowed a mouthful of saliva.

Zhang Qiu gave a suggestion again: "Lupin is also fine, he is the only true prophet on the field."

Zhang Wei didn't mind his daughter turning her elbow out. He just continued to introduce the process according to the steps: "If there is no problem with the first three steps, the fourth step is to give a gift symbolizing the establishment of the marriage contract. With the development of the times, this gift might involve some large amount of property. However, because I am the one receiving it, so you control it within..."

His eyes turned and turned in the luxurious decoration of Tang Dun, but finally it turned into a relieved smile. "Within five hundred pounds is fine, it's mainly the intention."

"Then it's the wedding date. According to the reason, it shouldn't be urgent, but considering that welcoming the bride and returning home involves China, and China is very likely to suffer turmoil..." Zhang Wei said with some difficulty. "I don't know what to do either. It's impossible to deliberately let the children get married early because of fear of war."

"War?" Harry and Sirius sat up straight at the same time.

"Sigh, Master Xuanjun has to be in seclusion, which leads to some enemies of China starting to move around. In this regard, I am very supportive of Zhang Qiu staying here," his face was full of worry about the future. "But letting the child marry from the embassy or something, it's too shameful. How do you call others to see it..."

"It's okay, they have a bride walking out of the groom's house here." Zhang Qiu shrugged.

Sirius became serious unexpectedly: "Perhaps we can decide on the engagement, which is the first three steps you mentioned. However, I want to understand the war in detail. This sounds very worrying."

"Shh!" Zhang Qiu made a silent gesture quietly. She looked like she was worrying about something. "We won't talk about that. Anyway, it will be fine when the time comes. It's quite casual here."

"Of course, there is still a long time before the official wedding, at least wait until Harry graduates and his work is stable." Zhang Wei said pretending to be relaxed. "Maybe by then Master Xuanjun will also be out of seclusion, and the situation will be different."

Sirius's understanding of war mainly came from Voldemort, and that kind of depression where everyone was in danger was still in front of his eyes. He couldn't help saying: "Mr. Zhang, if you encounter any difficulties in the future, you can also come here to avoid the wind at any time."

"Thank you, you are very generous. I hope it won't come to that step." Zhang Wei breathed a sigh of relief, stood up and shook hands with Sirius. "Then let's decide for now. I am also mainly based on Qiu's opinion."

He left a business card, then turned around with relief and Apparated away.

"Your father is really coming and going in a hurry." Harry couldn't help saying. "Is it because he is not very familiar with you?"

"Yes." Zhang Qiu's eyes drifted. "After all, I lived with Master when I was very young."

"I always feel that you have things to hide from me." Harry looked at her suspiciously. "What exactly happened?"

Zhang Qiu grabbed his arm, as if preparing to Apparate, but she didn't do so, just whispered: "Change a place to talk."

"Then let's go to Gilneas to play?" Sirius also saw that something was wrong and suggested pretending to be relaxed. "Just right, see our prophet." ===== CHAPTER 475 =====