Chapter 45: The Prophecy Maiden
"Yes. Xiao Yi couldn't guess his thoughts, but she could see Charles's actions.
"You said yes, and it will. Lin Qian's pointful words made Xiao Yi panic for a while.
It didn't take long for Charles to arrive as promised, and Xiao Yi played the role of a maid again, serving tea and pouring water, and then sitting silently on the side to keep accounts.
"I am also very saddened by Ling Lang's death, and I also ask Patriarch Charles to mourn. Lin Qian came up and pointed directly at the other party's sore spot, which was not subtle at all.
Charles said nothing with a gloomy face, at least for now, Lin Qian is still one of the suspects.
"The patriarch should have visited Boris once a few days ago, right? I don't know what I found?" Lin Qian didn't care about the other party's attitude at all, but he didn't need to deliberately curry favor with the other party in order to clear his suspicion because the other party doubted him.
"Boris injury is real. Charles's words show that he is still very suspicious of Lin Qian.
"I know, what else?" Lin Qian put on a confident posture, in fact, he didn't know, but this incident confirmed his other conjecture.
"You know?" said Charles. Can you know that he is really injured, unless he sent someone to do it, right?
"Of course, I also know who is behind the scenes. ”
Charles's eyes narrowed unconsciously: "Who is it?"
He was ready to make a move, as long as Lin Qian said the word "it's me", he would not hesitate to do it directly.
"Princess Ante. ”
Lin Qian didn't go as he wished, which made him slightly disappointed, but he soon fell into the contemplation of another conclusion.
"There are three masters of the Nanyang tribe who have not yet returned, they did it, and they are the uncle of the little prince. The three uncles were not related to the prince by blood, they were the sons of other elders. Lin Qian thought he had given a reasonable explanation.
"Do you think I'll believe it?" said Charles, sneering.
"You'll believe it. Lin Qian glanced at Xiao Yi uncertainly, didn't she say that Charles would believe it?
Charles turned around and left, he didn't know what he was thinking, he had a conflict with Lin Qian, and he couldn't say words of thanks anyway.
Walking out of the Magic Guild, Charles walked straight to his home, and the old butler in the back hurriedly ran up to ask questions.
"Master of the house, do you really believe him?"
Charles paused for a moment and nodded, "Letter!"
The old butler followed suspiciously.
The plan to establish the Higher School of Magic has been decided, and Lin Qian is not ambiguous, and directly spends 2,000 gold coins for the construction of the site. The location was set on the edge of the palace, not far from the Magic Guild, but the land of several merchants was expropriated, and all of them were demolished and rebuilt.
The Magic Guild and the Higher Academy of Magic, the two organizations that the opposition later called "embarrassed and traitorous", quietly kicked off.
However, this is not within Lin Qian's current work goals, what he has to do at this stage is to accept more than 1,000 students from the Magic Academy.
It was almost 7 days to travel from the Academy of Magic to the Blue City, which was the most basic means of transportation for ordinary people. In order to complete Lin Qian's task as soon as possible, in fact, in order to get rid of the entanglement of these students as soon as possible, Dean Green rented more than a hundred super large carriages to transport all these students, which was no less powerful than a small battle, of course, the cost of this was not known whether Green paid out of his own pocket or paid from Lin Qian, because Lin Qian had already given him all the money to build the branch.
After four days of hurrying, this group of students finally arrived outside the Magic Guild Building, neatly lined up in more than 20 rows, and occupied the entire open space in the square. And Lin Qian stood on the steps outside the building, feeling like he was talking. Perhaps because he was used to the big scene, Lin Qian was no longer nervous, and he still remembered all the lines he had prepared clearly.
"Ladies and gentlemen, first of all, welcome to the Magic Guild. Your dean has already told you the details, so I won't talk nonsense anymore. ”
It's not nonsense, but Lin Qian still spoke like those leaders, and said a lot of things suddenly.
"The Magic Guild is meant to serve all the magicians in the world, and you are only a part of it, but you are the youngest part. Our guild itself is just as young, it has only been established for a short time, and it is in desperate need of talent, and it is just as vibrant, ready to show its presence in the future.
"You may have been the pride of the sky in the academy before, and you may have been the pride of your parents at home, but here, you are just an ordinary staff member. You're enjoying the treatment of the guild and serving the others, and the two are a bargain, a contract, and if something goes wrong with either one, the other will collapse.
"Everyone's work tasks are randomly assigned, some may be responsible for the release of tasks, some may sit at the front desk to receive each magician, some may just run errands to pass the word, and some may be responsible for the production and research of magical items behind the scenes......
"Maybe you're not interested in your work, but that's okay, even if you do it perfunctorily, I'll pay you the same. You have to remember that I don't need any commitments, I don't need any slogans like hard work, there is no bond between you and me, and I live on that little salary. And for the sake of that salary, you should work hard to complete your part.
"I have allotted each of you plenty of rest time so that you can become a mercenary, to take risks, to progress, to make more money. After learning magic for so many years, isn't it just to use it?So, when you have your free time, go and fight in the wilderness to your heart's content!
"The last thing I want to say is that you are in the prime of your youth, and you are the hope of the future, but if you are not motivated, you are just hope. ”
After Lin Qian finished speaking, he silently added in his heart: Including me. He and his students were all the same age, and they were generally older than Lin Qian, who shamelessly considered himself to be the hope of the future of magic.
Since the number of students has increased tenfold, the workload has to increase accordingly in order to be able to afford the salaries of these students. Capitalists are always profitable, and although the students are not paid very well, the value they create is far greater than what they get. There are many merchants who have issued escort tasks, they may have taken a fancy to the foolproof insurance money, or they may just want to be safe. The guild has a special reviewer to review the level of the mission, and then decide how many mercenaries to recruit and what is the lowest level.
Once the entire guild is operational, it will have a fatal impact on the magic family, and Lin Qian has heard many times that the hired magician in the magic family has broken the contract and decided to become a mercenary. The idea of self-sufficiency and closed family development is like a flat boat in the vast ocean under the powerful tide of capital, and it may be washed away at any time.
"Childe, what you asked me to look for a few days ago, I found a little trace. Clawson held a book in his hand and quietly walked to Lin Qian's side.
"Well, I'll take a look. Lin Qian took the book, glanced at Xiao Yi on the side, and began to flip through it.
Where there are folded pages in the book, it should be a mark made by Clausen. This one is devoted to various anecdotes, many of which are later proven to be magical, but this one seems to be something that magic can't explain.
"In the year 5243 of the blue calendar, there is a strange girl in the crystal city, who can play the changes of time and can speak of good fortune and evil. It is a year of drought, more than 1,000 Dingkou dug ditches to divert water, and the woman said that there will be expensive rain in the near future, and the people do not believe it. The next day the clouds gathered, and then the sky was cloudy, and the rain arrived in the evening, and it was delayed for several days, and then the drought was relieved, and the people began to believe it.
"The strange girl said that she had a dead husband, and she had a daughter, so she could speak, and when she first saw someone, she knew her name, and the strange woman was terrified when she saw it. The Hall clan of Jingcheng is good at magic and wants to summon it, but hundreds of people intercept it, but it is unsuccessful. Later, a neighbor told her that the strange girl had known the trouble, and it was the mother and daughter who walked away at night.
Later, someone said that she had met this woman in the city, and she was not confused, and one day she said that she would go, and everyone did not believe it. Strange women suddenly had strange diseases, called the girl to the bed, stroked her abdomen, and became pregnant. In the middle of the month, the strange girl, whose daughter gave birth to a daughter, and whose father is unknown.
"After investigation, this household has no nationality, how can there be a prophet's daughter? How can there be a husband who is pregnant?
This story is about the anecdote of a strange woman who can predict the change of the weather, can foresee a family calling her, and knows when she will die. Her daughter is also very powerful, she knew the name of the person she met for the first time when she could speak, she didn't have a husband but she could get pregnant, and she just gave birth to a daughter when her mother died.
This has been more than a thousand years ago, and I am afraid that it is difficult to distinguish between truth and falsehood, but there are probably some real elements that can be recorded in the official history. As for Xiao Yi...... Lin Qian heard her say that her father was dead and there was only one mother, and the characters in this story seemed to be able to match.
Lin Qian had long guessed that Xiao Yi's identity was not simple, and the old fox couldn't see through Xiao Yi's strength. Xiao Yi bluntly said that she came with a purpose, and this purpose was to let Lin Qian marry her, but the deep-seated purpose was covered up by the family's secrets, and I am afraid that the purpose was not simple. And these days, whenever Lin Qian fell into doubt, there was always a bright light that was just right to guide him to find out the truth of the matter, and Lin Qian became more and more suspicious.
"Unintentionally" splashed tea on Boris's body, and then Boris showed his horse's feet; "casually" said a gift for the prince, which made the prince happy, and revealed the news that the people of Nanyang were still here, and she also knew her situation, possessed by an old fox, and could only live for five years......
Maybe there was more about the dragon that he hadn't noticed? Lin Qian remembered Xiao Yi's kind reminder before leaving, that the dragon was not all enemies of humans. Earlier, she also knew about the summons of the "Regent", and she also reminded herself to be careful. Thinking about it this way, it seems that Xiao Yi's prophetic ability has been confirmed, unless she has the most powerful intelligence system and knows the truth of the facts.
There are many things that Lin Qian didn't notice, but Lin Qian probably won't know. After the battle of the three masters, Lipsus survived, and it was not impossible to enter and exit the palace with his ability, but Lipsus did not do anything to Lin Qian, or took Lin Qian away, an important reason was that the "person who couldn't see the strength clearly" around Lin Qian.