When the first snow of the season arrived, Quinlan was planting winter wheat in the fields beneath the banyan tree.
The seeds were part of an agricultural exchange program she had applied for through the embassy of Huaguo. Not many countries were willing to offer aid to Hogwarts during this period, but she easily thought of that vast and resource-rich nation.
On the eve of Christmas, monks from the embassy delivered a wide variety of fruit and vegetable seeds to Hogwarts, and in return, they took away a good many Galleons from the school treasury. Quinlan was very satisfied, the embassy was very satisfied, and only the Hogwarts accounting department felt a slight toothache.
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