Chapter 58: Successfully refining his first potion

"I just want to get to the room first. You know, I ate too little last night and am a little hungry now."

"Okay, but you have to promise your mother not to forget to brush your teeth." touching her daughter's head Mrs. Granger said softly.

"Of course, Mom, I will." Seeing her mother leave, Hermione breathed a sigh of relief.

Pulled out the nut cakes and sandwiches left over from last night from the fridge downstairs.

Then she hurried back into he room.

"Wait for a bit!"

Hermione said as she plucked the nuts from the nut cake and placed them in front of Cam.

She then proceeded to open the sandwich and take the bacon out.

"You can continue to eat slowly! I will go to brush my teeth. But don't leave just yet! I'll have to write my reply to Braun in a moment." Waved to Cam and left the room after getting a "Coo" as a reply.

Hermione hurried downstairs to wash up.

"Good morning! Sweetheart!"

"Good morning, Dad!"

"Why are you so happy today?"

Mr. Granger asked with interest.

"Nothing, I had a friend who gave me a Christmas present. I'm done brushing dad and I'll see you later."

"Friend? Does my daughter finally have a friend?"

Mr. Granger couldn't help but think.

But he knows his own daughter the best. She has never had any friends at school.

If it weren't for the fact that he was a classmate with the school teacher, He would have even been scared that his daughter would be bullied at school.

After washing up Hermione hurried upstairs.

"Aren't you going to eat your breakfast?"

"I'm eating in the bedroom!"

Mr. Granger looked at his daughter and shook his head helplessly.

Back in the bedroom.

Hermione saw Cam still eating nuts happily, she couldn't help but feel a little hungry.

She then grabbed a pen and paper and started writing a letter to Braun while eating the nutcake without nuts and the bacon sandwiches without bacon.

"Hello, dear Braun. I am very happy with the Christmas present you gave me. I was also amazed by the existence of magic. ... Finally, I hope your body recovers as soon as possible. Your Hermione."

After writing the letter, Hermione thought about it and didn't know what to give as a gift.

After all, she didn't know exactly what wizards liked. After thinking about it, she finally found a plain golden pen from her drawer. She bought it while she was traveling with her parents in France.

Just as Braun gave her a book, she gave her a pen in return. The pen was wrapped tightly and carefully tied to Cam's body. Cam was still concerned with eating nuts and didn't pay the wizard cub any attention.

He just waited until Hermione ties everything on him. He also managed to finish the nuts that was offered to him. He then proceeded to preen his own feathers with his beak.

Once he realized that the wizard cub has finished tying the reply, then, without waiting for Hermione to speak, he cleverly opened the window with his talons and disappeared.

"What a smart owl!"

...

At the Foley Castle

"Scabies potion: slugs with antennae, porcupine thorns, snake teeth. It is a potion for the treatment of sorcerer's scabies. The only downside to the strong effect and no side effects is that it tastes bad. First, 6 parts of snake teeth are put into a mortar and ground to grind."

Braun recited as he placed the prepared snake teeth into a glass mortar and began to grind them.

It took almost ten minutes for the snake teeth to be ground into fine bone powder.

"Then divide the snake teeth into four parts and pour them into the cauldron. The note for this place is to pour a part every ten seconds."

"Heat for 5 minutes. Wave your wand and wait for the snake tooth powder inside the cauldron to turn yellowish."

"Put 4 slugs, 2 porcupine spines into the cauldron. Stir clockwise with a tin bar for 5 turns. Wait for the ingredients in the potion to mix well and glow with a pale green shimmer."

Seeing that the material in the cauldron has finally changed, Braun suppressed the joy in his heart.

He was silently repeating in his mind:

"Wave your wand and you're done!"

With the wave of Braun's wand, the potion began to change magically and a pale green smoke also began to appear on the cauldron. This represents the success of the pharmacy.

Seeing that the potion succeeded, Braun did not delay.

He quickly waved his wand to extinguish the flames under the cauldron.

Then silently wait for the agent inside the cauldron to cool slowly.

After trying it with a tin rod and finding that the potion was a little sticky, he nodded.

Pour it into a specially made vial of medicine.

Plug the cork.

The potion was a success.

"Very good Braun. But you also forget the most important step."

Mr. Foley said solemnly as he stood across from Braun.

"What is it Dad?"

He was sure that his steps were not a single mistake and he followed the steps in the book.

Without answering, Mr. Foley took a closer look at Braun's potion.

Then he pulled off the cork and sniffed.

"You forgot to taste the potion Braun, the first potion after a potions master refines it is often tasted by himself to make sure there is no problem with the potion."

He then said cheers and drink the potion in one go.

"Phew! It's still that taste. The smell of pigs is still slippery. Not bad son, though. The quality of the elixir is good. If you take it and sell it, you will get at least twenty copper knuts."

"So expensive? Won't two bottles go back to the original?"

Braun was surprised.

As the simplest novice elixir, the scabies potion or acne potion, the price is not high. The cost is even lower and pitiful. The only more expensive one is snake teeth. Six pairs cost almost fifteen copper nits. The other two add up to only twenty copper nits. This adds up to only thirty-five copper nats, which is one silver and four copper knuts. There are five bottles in this pot. Subtract the cost and net earn two silver sickles. The only downside is that the potion takes longer. At least half an hour.

"Otherwise, why do you think Potions Master is popular?"

"Okay, don't talk about it and move on to production. Today your mission is to make a hundred bottles of acne potions. Come on lad! you can do it!" After speaking, he left with a smile.

"A hundred bottles? For a pot of five bottles, its half an hour at a time. Wouldn't I have to practice for ten hours? No, I have to spend eleven hours including the clean up."

In his heart, he cursed his father for being so demanding, and kept cleaning up his hands for a moment. The cauldron and other utensils after refining the potion must be cleaned up in time. One of the reasons for this is to not affect the efficacy of the new potion. Another is the fear of corrosion of the cauldron. Reduces the life of the cauldron.