Mysterious Journey

Chapter 590: Secret Weapon

In this era, the concept of healthy eating wasn't particularly popular yet.

The yogurt fruit biscuits common in later generations had not yet been invented in the non-magical world of Britain. Therefore, what appeared before Eliana now were creations that the Hogwarts house-elves had painstakingly produced after dozens of attempts based on her descriptions.

These yogurt fruit-filled biscuits continued the traditional British biscuit baking method. Besides yogurt and fruit, no other high-calorie, high-fat ingredients were added. In short, even if you ate a little more, you wouldn't gain weight.

Without the assistance of butter, powdered sugar, and milk, the baked biscuits themselves didn't have a very strong aroma, only the original flavor of wheat flour remained.

However, this allowed the sweetness of the fruit filling and the fragrance of the yogurt coating to take center stage, making the originally somewhat dry biscuit softer.

*Crack.*

Eliana gently broke open a biscuit, licked her lips, and her eyes gradually brightened.

"Unbelievable, to be able to create such a distinctly layered baked good by hand. Magic is really useful..."

From the cross-section, she could clearly see that the small biscuit was divided into four layers.

The top layer was a yogurt coating made from low-fat yogurt.

The yogurt layer was matte milky white, giving it an elegant and noble feeling. The thin layer of yogurt adhered to the biscuit, looking particularly tempting, melting in the mouth, with a rich milky aroma, bringing a light sweet and sour taste to the whole biscuit.

The second and fourth layers were the biscuit body baked with fresh wheat, crisp and delicious, with a rich cereal aroma.

As for the most important third layer, it was the fruit filling that occupied one-third of the biscuit's volume, based on dark berries, with a sweet, soft, and chewy texture, forming a clear contrast with the crispy biscuit layers. After being slightly cooled by the Hogwarts house-elves, it had an extra refreshing taste.

Taking a bite, the rich milky aroma, sweet and sour fruit flavor, crispness, softness, and crunch all converged in one biscuit, the taste was three-dimensional and full, the soft berry was sweet and sour, paired with the crispy small thin biscuit, simply...too delicious!

*Crack, crack, crack...*

"...Hmm, this one is strawberry filling, this one is mango filling, this flavor is European medlar, this is raspberry flavored, oh, there's pineapple mixed in here, it should be the one grown in Ravenclaw..."

*Crack, crack, crack...*

"Hmm, can't eat anymore, have to have dinner tonight... *hic*..."

Accompanied by the sound of some rodent gnawing on nuts, the fatigue and laziness on Eliana's body gradually dissipated. The girl gave a small hiccup, looked up at the snack rack that was already more than half empty, and then sat back down at her desk, continuing to process the letters that had not yet been approved.

Licking the biscuit crumbs from the corner of her mouth with lingering enjoyment, Eliana picked up her quill and began to write quickly on the parchment.

"Dear Douglas:

"I appointed you as the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Destiny Group and Chief Investment Officer (CIO) of Gringotts, not to find a mouthpiece or a puppet. Unless there are urgent situations that must be resolved that day, I hope our letter communication frequency is fixed at about once a week...

"Regarding the exchange of [Hogwarts-Galleon], this is indeed our top priority at this stage, but it is destined to be a long process. The wizarding world still needs to understand and accept this new type of composite credit currency. If you think it is difficult to explain [Hog-G] using the Gringotts equity certification qualification, then I suggest that the goblins at the counter can change to a more intuitive and simple alternative description...

"...Of course, the calculation of deposit interest must be strictly accurate. At the same time, you need to clearly inform the wizards that this does not mean that the management fees for Gringotts vaults will be cancelled. It's just that if the currency deposited in the vault is [Hog-G], the wizards will receive a certain amount of interest depending on how long the gold stays in the bank...

"In order to complete the replacement and return of the remaining Galleons on the market as soon as possible, I allow you to temporarily increase the interest rate for seven-day deposits and three-month short-term deposits, but not more than twice the peak of the current commercial bank industry interest rate.

"In addition, as soon as possible complete the calculation of the current market circulation of Galleons in the European wizarding world. After expanding this value by one point five times for the change of new and old Galleons, as soon as possible invest all the excess Galleons in the American market, and closely monitor the depreciation of Galleons in the Americas, and be ready to adjust the exchange rate of new and old Galleons at any time...

"Regarding the Ministry of Magic's confiscation of the Dark Lord's assets, I would like to reiterate that bottom line – all non-monetary assets in the Lestrange family vault must be sealed, and no one is allowed to touch or transfer them in advance, including all officials of the Ministry of Magic. Only when Dumbledore and I are present at the same time can it be opened..."

"...Finally, I have a personal request. I hope that Gringotts or Destiny Group can open a snack production company as soon as possible, and obtain the global food and trademark patents. I will have the Hogwarts house-elves transcribe a detailed copy of the recipes and production methods and send it to you later.

"Bronya T. A. K."

Putting down the quill, Eliana carefully checked it again. After making sure that there were no omissions, she pulled out a sleeping furball from her chest and shook it by its wings by the fireplace in the room.

*Goo? Goo!*

Eliana glanced at the energetic little food reserve and nodded in satisfaction. She tied the letter in her hand to the left leg of the chubby-faced chick, walked to the window of the room, held out her palm, and released her little messenger.

In the corner of her eye, a dazzling red light flashed across the sky along with the shadow of the food reserve gradually flying away. Obviously, a conscientious big turkey was still secretly protecting the safety of this communication channel.

"Tsk, Old Radish is being cautious with these unimportant little details in a way I don't know how to describe..."

Eliana shook her head, closed the window, put all the letters and project proposals on the desk into the magic wooden cabinet next to the desk, and took out a stack of old-looking parchments from the bottom, carefully placed them on the desk.

With the end of the term approaching, in order to firmly suppress a certain smug "Calculating Machine" in the final exam, she had to use the forbidden trick that she didn't intend to use originally, otherwise the first place in the grade might not be guaranteed.

You know, in order to collect these old and broken parchments, she had to take a little time every day to carefully rummage through the garbage dump of the Room of Requirement next to the "office".

Until the afternoon of the day before yesterday, she finally collected the necessary props for mankind to defeat the "Calculating Machine".

Eliana raised her eyebrows and showed a cunning smile.

"Hogwarts past exam papers... Naive little wings, you are bound to lose this bet! A hundred times, a hundred times... *Eheheh...* (*´﹃`*) (*´﹃`*)...."

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Chapter 2, Oh my god!!!