Chapter 4094 4096 [Making Money]

The next day, Christmas.

Early in the morning, Xiang Nan received a pair of old shoes sent by Irene Prince.

Although it was not very good, he still accepted it.

Afterwards, Xiang Nan did not stay in bed, but went to the eighth floor of the castle to prepare to make potions.

He stood in front of the Room of Requirement, thinking attentively, "I want a room suitable for making potions", and then walked back and forth in front of the wall three times.

When he opened the door, he saw that the Room of Requirement had changed its appearance. There were crucibles, scales, mortars, knives, cups, etc., as well as some potion books and some basic potion materials.

For example, Aconitum, leeches, sap grass, grass ridge worms, two-ear grass, figs, daisy roots, porcupine quills, pufferfish eyes, etc.

As far as Xiang Nan knew, these materials were enough to meet the needs of students from grades one to seven in potion classes.

He then brewed a refreshing potion, which was specially used to treat colds. Now it is winter, colds are very common, so the demand is very high. Many families will even buy more potions to prevent colds.

In addition, sleeping potions, euphoria potions, intelligence potions, healing potions, living hell potions, vitality tonic potions, etc. are also popular potions.

Of course, more popular potions include love potions, truth serums, felicity potions, polyjuice potions, etc. This type of potion not only requires superb potion skills, but also takes a long time to be brewed.

For example, polyjuice potions take a month to brew, while felicity potions take six months to brew. If there is a slight mistake, the consequences will be disastrous. Therefore, things are rare and expensive, and a bottle costs dozens or hundreds of galleons.

But Xiang Nan will not brew those for the time being. On the one hand, those potions are very troublesome to brew, and it takes a month or even half a year to brew them, which is really too long; on the other hand, with his potion strength, even if he can brew them, it is very reluctant, and it takes a lot of time and energy.

Xiang Nan brewed potions mainly to make money, or to make people think that he made money from potions, so potions with high output, fast brewing, high quality and low raw materials were the priority options.

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Xiang Nan then began to brew.

He could read books while brewing potions.

This was also thanks to the "two-handed" and "one mind and two purposes" he learned from Zhou Botong. He did his own thing with his two hands, brewing potions while reading books, without delaying either.

And he did a good job. Almost every day after that, he would use the school's owl to send the brewed potions to Adam Giggs.

Adam Giggs then paid him according to the quality and quantity of the potions he brewed.

A bottle of refreshing potion gave him ten knuts, a bottle of sleeping potion gave him one Sickle, a bottle of healing potion gave him two Sickles, a bottle of joy potion gave him three Sickles, and a bottle of vitality tonic gave him five Sickles...

Of course, it was lower than the price he sold it for, but it was also within a reasonable range.

Xiang Nan made potions day and night, earning about 10 Galleons a day, which is about 50 pounds. In this way, he earned 1,500 pounds a month, much more than Tobias Snape.

However, because the potion materials he used were all taken from Hogwarts for free, his potions had almost no cost except for his personal time and energy, and all were profits.

If he purchased the raw materials himself and then made potions for sale, I am afraid the profit would only be 30% to 40% of the current one, that is, about 3 or 4 Galleons a day, and about 100 Galleons a month in total.

Although it is not a lot, it is actually not a small amount. For example, the monthly salary of employees in the Ministry of Magic is only 100 to 200 Galleons.

As he made potions more and more times, he gradually found some tricks and made some modifications to the original recipes, making the potion making process simpler, smoother, and more effective.

For example, the stimulant is made by boiling tranquilizing flowers, heather, and caterpillar eggs. Usually, after taking it, people will have steam coming out of their heads, and their heads will feel like they are on fire. But as long as a drop of leech juice is added, this side effect can be eliminated.

Another example is the euphoria potion, which can make people excited and cheerful after drinking it. But it also has side effects, that is, it makes people easily get drunk, want to sing and twist their noses. But if a little peppermint is added, the side effects can be perfectly eliminated.

In this way, potions with reduced side effects are naturally more popular and help to increase profits. The key is that they can also hone Xiang Nan's experience in brewing potions, allowing his experience points to rise.

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On January 5th, the new semester at Hogwarts began.

Lily Evans, Gregory Foley, Joey Farrell, Benjamin Winslet and others are back.

Xiang Nan also returned to his studies, but after class, he mainly stayed in the library. The room was changed to the room of request.

After all, he needed to study and brew medicine at the same time. Reading to improve strength cannot stop, and the great cause of making money by brewing medicine cannot stop.

"Severus, what are you busy with every day? I haven't seen you for several days in a row?" The people in the same dormitory didn't notice Xiang Nan's elusiveness, but Lily was the first to notice it.

Actually, it's not the fault of Joey, Benjamin, Gregory and others. The main reason is that Xiang Nan rarely goes back to the dormitory and spends most of his time in the library.

So even if he doesn't show up all day, they think he stays in the library. Only Lily often goes to the library to read, so she knows that Xiang Nan is not in the library.

There may have been other things in the past two days, but Xiang Nan was not in the library for several days in a row, and when someone asked him about the dormitory, he was not in the dormitory either, so Lily was naturally curious.

"I can tell you, but you promise me not to tell anyone else." Xiang Nan lowered his voice.

"Okay, I promise you." Lily nodded.

"I've been secretly brewing potions recently and selling them to the potion shop in Diagon Alley." Xiang Nan said quietly.

When Lily heard this, her eyes widened immediately, "Are you actually doing this?"

She really didn't expect that while other students were still playing, Xiang Nan was already making medicine to make money. It was really not easy.

"Yes, on Christmas Eve, Professor Slughorn held a party. I heard Mr. Adam Giggs said that his pharmacy was short of supply, so I boiled some potions and sold them to him." Xiang Nan explained, "I can earn four galleons a day, so I can help my parents a lot."

Lily was very moved when she heard what he said.

She knew that Xiang Nan's family was very poor, so he used to wear tattered clothes, a coat several sizes too big, ill-fitting trousers, and tattered shoes... so that people around him ignored him.

When you come to Hogwarts, except for the new wand, everything else is old. School uniforms, crucibles, balances, telescopes, textbooks...

So it's really amazing that he could think of being self-reliant.