"Assign apprentices and pay them back?" Jiao Ming was surprised when he heard this, but it was not the point he asked, but because the evolution speed of this education system was too fast.

The inheritance of magical knowledge in this world can be roughly divided into three ways. The first is family education, the second is the inheritance of master and apprentice, and the third is the magic academy. Take the children of a small family as an example, when they were seven or eight years old, they received coordinated spells at the nearest mage tower to open up their fire and earth magic talents, and they had already detected their water magic talents in the inevitable bumps and bleeding in their daily lives. Generally, until the age of twelve, there are four or five free opportunities to communicate with magic mediums in coordinated spell casting, and if you have never been able to communicate with any magic medium and are judged to be ordinary people, then the trouble comes, not only do you not think about the inheritance sequence at all, but if you are an only child, it is even possible to cause the translocation of the lineage and branches.

After this first level, it is the second level of enlightenment education, either the family elders, or the junior magic academy, and the results of the enlightenment are diverted. In terms of philistinism, it is better to be a well-kept stamp lord, followed by being sent to become an apprentice craftsman, and at worst to be sent to war. For those who are middle-class and upper-class, it is best to be able to obtain the favor of a master of the Eight Rings or the Nine Rings, the second is to gain the recognition of the family and study on their own with limited family resources to maintain the strength of the family, and then to become a pawn in marriage or marry or redundant, of course, the last option is still the battlefield.

Of course, in the past two years, there have been more high-level magic academies, but because it is a new thing, and there is a not very good start of 'storing protons', it is not accepted by most magic families.

And Jiao Ming became Emily's disciple, and he has been mixed up in the wizard circle for a while, and he has long understood the difference between disciples, apprentices and assistants, which is comparable to the difference between junior high school, high school and university, of course, not in terms of age, but in terms of the difficulty of promotion. The high school entrance examination and the college entrance examination are both common exam papers, but here it is only up to the master to see if you are pleasing to the eye, and the subjective mind is more headache and difficult to quantify than the objective score.

And because in the process of establishing a master-apprentice relationship, the number of masters of the eighth and ninth rings is scarce, so they occupy the vast majority of the right to speak, and their mentality is compared to the battle game, which is probably 'don't want to stuff a pig teammate for me when you die'. It can be seen that the behavior of forcibly blocking apprentices has faintly deviated from the traditional master-apprentice inheritance mechanism, and is developing towards the graduate system of the earth while depriving the 'master' of the dominant power in disguise.

"This is a new idea from Vice President Sasu, and the masters under him have all responded positively and adopted one or two. And we were already short of manpower, and we still needed to hug Sasu's 'thighs', so on impulse, we asked for three places. Emily was a little embarrassed to explain the reason, and used the new words she learned from Jiao Ming, and added: "After all, when I heard that the Mage Tower was expanded into five floors, my head was hot, and now it's too late to regret it." ”

"Let me ask, where did these apprentices come from?" Jiao Ming was stunned for a while before asking.

"Most of them are students from the Senior Academy, otherwise where would Sassu get so many people. ”

"Gray robe?"

"Pick and choose from the file. Emily saw that Jiao Ming's attitude did not seem to blame and dissatisfaction, so she became relieved, and continued: "But I know that you don't deal with those noble children, so you choose all gray-robed students." ”

Jiao Ming first thanked him for this thoughtfulness, and then asked where the three juniors were, but learned that there were still some chores to do, and they could only move from the dormitory after dinner. Although Jiao Ming had a trace of expectations for the 'little junior sister', after all, when the new batch of gray-robed students entered the school, he also helped the student union to be busy, and he had already completed the preliminary screening. Only a few of the freshmen were barely good-looking, and like the other girls, they were malnourished hemp sticks, so they quickly dispelled the idea.

However, when Jiao Ming finished his business and lingered with the ice lotus for a while, and returned to the mage tower to see the four juniors, he was still surprised by the appearance of one of them, and then regretted that this thing was actually a man. After greeting each other and introducing themselves, the four apprentices packed up the room and left, and Jiao Ming asked in a low voice: "Master, why is there one more here?"

"The prettiest one is my cousin. ”

Only then did Jiao Ming notice the subtle similarity in the names of the two, but he still confirmed and asked, "Is it really a cousin?"

Emily chuckled, slapped Jiao Ming's arm, and scolded, "What do you think." ”

Jiao Ming smiled and complimented: "It seems that all of your family members are beauties." ”

Emily shook her head and sighed, noncommittal.

The efficiency of the experiment was greatly improved due to the help of three hard-working and not stupid gray-robed students, but because it required time to give special teaching and instill some knowledge of magnetized iron sheets, the progress of the night did not increase. And Emily's beautiful cousin sat at the table and rubbed his skin and scratched his itch, but the appearance of not being able to concentrate on work was quite helpless, but one night, Jiao Ming put the first label on this product: tired of studying.

Because of Emily's face, even if he is a senior brother, Jiao Ming did not say anything rashly, but he also found from the interaction between the two that the relationship between the sister and brother is quite good, and it is not worse than that of his own brother and sister. In this way, Jiao Ming even stopped interjecting.

After finishing work, Jiao Ming asked for marriage leave, and a group of assistants and four apprentices congratulated him formulaically after hearing about it, and Emily also made a few jokes and gave it approval. However, Jiao Ming noticed that Emily's cousin's expression was quite complicated, thinking that he was troubled by an arranged marriage, so he didn't have the heart to inquire, so he also let the matter go.

After washing up and going back to sleep, even if Jiao Ming moved lightly, the sound of wooden friction when he went to bed still disturbed Xiao Shi, who had already fallen asleep. Jiao Ming hurriedly stopped his movements, but listened to what Xiao Shi said vaguely, turned over and made no sound. With a sigh of relief, Jiao Ming slowly lay down, just closed his eyes but suddenly opened them, what did Xiao Shi just say?

Jiao Ming replayed the memory from a few seconds ago, and reluctantly spelled out the dream words of the little poem was: 'Brother don't worry, I won't tell my sister ......'

If you treat it as a meaningless dream talk, there is no problem, but what if it is not the case? If you take this sentence seriously and analyze it a little, doesn't it mean that there are some things that you don't know but need to hide from someone. Thinking of this, Jiao Ming suddenly remembered several suspected psychotic episodes in the crocodile collar. While worrying and doubting, Jiao Ming tried to search for clues in his memory that he didn't know existed, and analyzed various possibilities, but found nothing. A sense of depression came along with sleepiness, and Jiao Ming fell asleep like this.

When I opened my eyes again, it was slightly dark, and there was a person dressed as a maid in the room. Jiao Ming was startled at first and then looked closely, but it was Nonormele, who had been contained, holding a change of clothes in one hand and a wooden barrel night pot in the other, smiled apologetically at Jiao Ming who woke up, and slowly exited the room.

Knowing that he was too careful, but the weird feeling always lingered, Jiao Ming frowned and thought for a moment, but he didn't even have the mind to go back to the cage, so he had to get up and dress. Xiao Shi on the small bed on the other side of the room also rubbed her eyes and sat up, yawned and stretched her waist, and said hello to Jiao Ming.

"Suddenly changing rooms, are you still comfortable sleeping?"

"It's so much better than sleeping with Shining Scales, she's always holding me down. Xiaoshi broke the news with an innocent face.

Jiao Ming smiled slightly, and asked again: "I heard you talk in your dreams last night, did you dream of your brother?"

Xiao Shi tilted her little head and thought about it, shook her head and said, "I forgot." ”

After breakfast, I watched Xiao Shi and a group of friends go to school at the Junior Magic Academy and Qinglan Academy in the city, and then found the Ice Lotus in the morning exercise venue to confirm that Nonormele had any unusual behavior.

"I've given up monitoring her a long time ago, after all, she's just a little girl with a second ring, and even a spy can't leak some inconsequential information. ”

"You're too casual. Jiao Ming smiled: "But I like it." ”

Binglian just rolled her eyes, and said helplessly: "A few days ago, I caught a spy in the crocodile territory, and he was still the second son of the viscount's family. Such a person is unreliable, let alone other recruited magicians and coolie servants. In that case, just let them listen. ”

"It's okay with the secrets of the ironworks?"

The Ice Lotus pull-up action paused, then let go of the branch and landed, looked left and right, and then whispered to Jiao Ming: "I suspect that the Alchemist Sect has also discovered the rich mineral deposits under the Sicoton Wall, otherwise it would be impossible to suppress the price of metal with sufficient supply." ”

Jiao Ming had never considered this problem, and when he was reminded at this time, he let go of his hand and fell directly. "You mean there's a problem inside the ironworks, too?"

Binglian shook her head and explained: "I have thought about this issue carefully, after all, there is no absolute secret in the world, and a person as smart as Evan may just hear that we are interested in the Wall of Sicodon, so he will have some associations and start experimenting, and then make discoveries." ”

This statement is a bit far-fetched, but although Jiao Ming can't refute it, he was not convinced, and he believed that it was Evan's intelligence network that contributed to it, so he persuaded: "It's always right to strengthen internal intelligence management, and if something good comes out in the future, it's a pity that outsiders will be cheaper." ”

Binglian hugged her and complained softly: "But those middle-aged women like to talk about these things more than the other, and they can't stop them at all, and they are all elders, so they can't say hard things." ”

Jiao Ming smiled bitterly, speechless, understanding that Binglian was a common problem encountered by all family businesses, and was thinking about countermeasures but felt that his ears were hot, and he heard the beautiful woman muttering and asked: "Will I be like that in the future?

"Absolutely not!" Jiao Ming's voice was categorical, and his arms tightened Binglian's thin waist hard.

The two hugged each other silently for a long time, and the ice lotus finally couldn't bear it anymore, pushed Jiao Ming away, and asked about the improvement of the vine teleportation circle, how many people can be teleported back tonight to participate in tomorrow's harvest celebration and wedding. Jiao Ming patted his chest and packed the ticket, absolutely no problem. Since the vine circle was put into use, not only has the structure design of the magic circle been continuously updated, but the vine's own qi magic communication ability has also gradually increased, and Jiao Ming, who will send several people every day, has a deep experience. And this time, there is also the latest version of the drawings that Emily personally helped to revise, and it is even expected to eradicate the cracks in the space passage from unknown places, so as to achieve the goal of safe transmission and complete the last step of the talent recruitment plan.

"Why don't you take a day off and concentrate on improving the magic circle?" Binglian suggested.

Jiao Ming thought for a while, nodded in agreement, and at the same time found that his tuition seemed to be a complete waste of most of it, Ms. Kexi's classes in the morning were generally making up for sleep, and in the afternoon, the content of Emily's lecture had actually been mastered in the usual experiments, and the social function of the circle of noble children was destroyed because of the principal's small actions, so all that was left was the friendship of the gray-robed students and the right to read the library.

However, when I thought about the plummeting prices of metals and various raw materials, I felt that I had taken a big advantage, and the cement I paid at the beginning was only one-third of the tuition fee by this time.

Sending away the ice lotus, Jiao Ming concentrated on the upgrade and update of the vine circle, and the only trouble was that at noon, Emily, who was going to teleport to the restaurant to eat, looked confused, and then simply forced Jiao Ming to cook, and then pulled his cousin to taste the Chinese stir-fry that cut corners.

After eating, Emily, who rushed to class, stuffed her cousin to Jiao Ming, although it was nominally to help Jiao Ming upgrade the vine circle, but in fact it was just a trusteeship. Jiao Ming only felt that his head was big for a while, and he didn't know how to face this fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy. However, after being busy for a while, this thing left the work assigned by Jiao Ming and ran back to his sister's mage tower under the pretext of taking a nap. Jiao Ming shrugged, happy.

After the teleportation array was upgraded, Jiao Ming sent an idle panicked eight-ring magic warrior back to the crocodile collar, and after confirming that the effect was good, he returned to the crocodile collar in person, and was busy again. When the sun set in the west, it was finally completed, and Jiao Ming teleported back to the Blue Python Kingdom, carefully sensing the situation in the space passage in the process, and found no spatial cracks, but he couldn't tell whether this was lucky or really safe.

Jiao Ming made some minor changes, and learned the bad news from the mouth of Binglian who went home, that Lord Saburu Sharp Hail's leave application that had been approved a few days ago had been withdrawn and he could not attend the autumn harvest celebration and wedding.

"It's not accommodating at all?" Jiao Ming asked rhetorically. There can be more than nine rings strong people at the wedding, after all, it is a face.

"There will be an important competition in the next two days, and Lord Hail must ensure the safety of the students. Bing Lian's face was cold, and there was a strange accent in her lingua franca, obviously imitating the headmaster's appearance.

"The old man did it on purpose, right?"

"I think so too. Binglian snorted, also very dissatisfied.

As the two were talking, the young man in charge of information liaison walked into the vine circle room with the communication box, saluted the two respectfully, and then recorded the communication signal. A few minutes later, another bad news came out, the battle on the front line was urgent, and the crocodile duke, who had already packed up and was waiting for the teleportation, had no choice but to go into battle again, afraid that he would miss his daughter's wedding.

"This ......" the two looked at each other.