"Don't eat beef recently."
Albert stared at the evening news on TV, frowned slightly, and said to Grandpa Luke, who was sitting opposite him, reading the newspaper and playing with the cat.
"We haven't eaten beef for a long time, and no one dares to eat beef now."
Sansa put the cut fruit plate on the table and watched the news on TV. The announcer was struggling to report on mad cow disease.
Since the outbreak of mad cow disease in the UK in May, the government has still not found the cause of the disease, and the symptoms are likely to spread to other countries.
"They must have found the cause, but they just don't dare to tell the truth. It's probably because there's something wrong with the cattle's feed." Albert picked up a piece of pineapple and put it in his mouth. It tasted pretty good.
It is said that pineapples were very valuable in Europe before and only rich people could afford them, so many rich people in Europe like to eat pineapples or pineapple candied fruits.
Of course, they love to cook pineapple as a dish.
Under Albert's strong suggestion, the Anderson family has changed the way they eat pineapples. They no longer cook pineapples as a dish, but cut the pineapples into pieces and soak them in salt water for more than half an hour before taking them out to taste as fruit. This way, the pineapples will not have a sour taste.
"Feed?" Luke was surprised and didn't understand why Albert said that. Did he know something
But...what could Albert know? He now spends most of his time in the magical world.
"Cannibalism."
Albert remembered that the cause of mad cow disease was cannibalism. "I remember seeing it somewhere. It is said that the indigenous people of a certain island have the custom of eating the internal organs of the dead, and they have very serious similar symptoms."
"Don't talk so horribly, okay?"
Nia, who had just finished a shower and had wet hair, came out of the bathroom in a light pink nightgown. She wiped her wet hair with a dry towel, picked up a piece of polo from the plate and put it in her mouth, and asked, "Do you still have the beauty potion from last time?"
"Have you used up all that?" Albert was very surprised. He remembered that he had prepared a lot of those things for his home last time.
"My mother took them all away. She asked me to ask you for them." Nia sat next to Albert, rubbing her hair with a dry towel. There was a hint of helplessness on her rosy face. Her beauty potion was almost used up. Girls are particularly concerned about their appearance.
"I still have some here. You can use them first. I'll make some more for you next time when I'm free." Albert felt a faint rose scent coming towards him, which was the scent of Nia's shampoo and shower gel.
Isobel's shampoo had a faint scent of lilac, which she had fallen in love with the last time she was in France, and Albert bought her a dozen of them.
Nia suddenly leaned forward, got in front of Albert and looked him up and down.
"What's wrong?"
Albert reached out and gently pushed Nia's little face away.
"I'm just curious that you can actually use this thing." Nia said as she reached out to pull Albert's cheek, as if she wanted to see if there was someone disguised as Albert.
"Of course I also care a little about my image. Since I can become a handsome guy, who wants to become an ugly monster?"
Albert also used beauty products, of course, and applied a little when washing his face, and the effect was quite good. At least, he no longer had to worry about acne, which was a problem that young men and women aged 17 or 18 were prone to, and no one liked to have acne all over their face.
In a way, Albert is more of a gigolo than Diggory, but no one dares to call him that.
"Don't you want to use a hair dryer?" Albert changed the subject. "It will be easier to dry your hair if you blow dry it. We will go to bed soon."
"Why don't you take a shower first?" Nia asked back.
"Um."
Albert went to the bathroom, he planned to take a simple shower to make the summer night less hot. While soaking in the bathtub, he heard Nia and Sansa talking outside. They were discussing the news on TV, and it seemed that the school also banned beef from being used in food.
“These times are truly terrifying.”
Albert sighed softly, remembering that mad cow disease can be transmitted to humans.
Although milk does not seem to be contagious, this incident directly caused him to lose his appetite for drinking milk in the morning.
When Albert came out of the bathroom after taking a bath, the TV was still reporting on mad cow disease, and an expert was talking to the announcer.
To be honest, Albert instinctively hated the word expert.
In the previous life, there was a saying that "experts are dogs", and most of the people who appear on TV screens are of this kind.
"Mad cow disease can be transmitted to humans." Albert moved Tom aside and said to the three people who were watching TV, "Just listen to the expert interview program next time. There is a 99% chance that these guys have been paid, or they were thrown out by the government to calm things down."
"Really?" Nia couldn't help but shudder, "Then we used to..."
"Don't worry, it's generally not that easy to get infected. Just don't touch it in the future." Albert reached out and touched Nia's head, comforting her softly.
"What's the reason?" Luke put down the newspaper and frowned, asking, "Why is there a large-scale outbreak of this symptom in the country?"
"It is said that feed merchants mixed some minced cattle entrails and body parts into the feed to provide protein for beef cattle." Albert picked up a kitten from his feet and played with its ears while saying, "This is probably the source of this disaster."
"Those people will do anything for money." Luke looked very angry. Ordinary people nowadays feel very uneasy when talking about this matter, and no one dares to eat beef.
"It's useless for you to get angry here. The government obviously doesn't want ordinary people to know about this, so they asked experts to come forward to calm the storm." Shana said to the two, "You should also go to bed early."
"Um."
After the two elderly people returned to the master bedroom, Albert turned off the TV and said to Nia beside him: "Okay, you should go to bed too. Staying up late is not good for your skin."
"Don't think I don't know what you want to do." Nia pouted, "Someone always sneaks out for a date at night."
"I locked the door at night," said Albert.
"You weren't in the bedroom when I looked for the cat last time." Nia's eyes sparkled with victory. "In fact, you can just bring her home to stay for a few days. Grandpa Luke and Grandma Sansa will probably be very happy that you brought your girlfriend back."
"Isobel is planning to publish a book, and I'll go over occasionally to give her some advice." Albert coughed lightly and said, "After all, I have a copy of the book."
"I thought you would deny it and think your lovely sister was fooling you."
"You forgot that I can easily see through other people's minds." Albert stretched out his hand to mess up Nia and said with a smile, "Just tell me what you have to say."
"I saw a dress in a magazine and I hope it can be my birthday present." Nia got a magazine from somewhere and pointed at the beautiful dress in it and said to Albert.
"Your birthday is still a few months away," Albert reminded.
"Just think of it as an advance payment," said Nia.
"Overspending is not good." Albert reached out and picked up the Daily Prophet from the table, looked at Nia and asked, "Didn't Herb give you 10,000 pocket money? Did you spend it all?"
"I used it to buy some funds and stocks to test the waters. Uncle Charlie helped me set up an account." Nia pouted and said, "So, now I have no money to buy things. I can only ask you to advance my birthday present."
"Aren't you afraid of losing all your money?" Albert was speechless, because Nia didn't lie. She was indeed studying economics, finance and how to do business and make money recently, but she was making small losses most of the time.
"You always need to spend money on trial and error, but not everyone can predict the future like you." Nia said confidently, "I need to accumulate experience and understand the situation."
"That's true, but if you want to try and make mistakes, you can go to the East with Herb. The cost of trial and error there is low, and it's relatively easy to make money, especially with start-up capital. It's easy to make money if you find the right direction. Even if you don't know anything in the future, you can still make money without doing anything."
"No wonder my mother ran over there." Nia suddenly understood why Daisy went to the East, if it was really like what Albert said.
"Okay, it's a birthday present." Albert looked at the price of the dress in the magazine and said to Nia, "It's been a long time since we went shopping together."
"Oh, I knew Albert was the best!" Nia said excitedly, and even hugged Albert and kissed his face, "I will tell Grandpa Luke about going shopping tomorrow."
"You really like taking advantage of me." Albert shook his head.
After returning to the bedroom, Albert tried to contact Isobel through the two-way mirror. While waiting for a response from the other side, he picked up today's "Prophet Newspaper" and flipped through it, but was attracted by an article in the newspaper. He even blocked out Isobel's voice temporarily.
This is impossible!
Peter Pettigrew is dead