Volume 1 The Lonely Arcane Road 006 Self-recommendation
Early in the morning, Charlie stood on the top floor of the Orchid Garden, looking at the Mage Tower in the distance.
At the top of the mage tower, a small metal ball is supported by three metal pillars, the metal ball is inlaid with colorful gems, glowing, and various halos of light gather together along the surface of the sphere to form a magic river, the magic river under the action of some strange devices, scattering a light blue light curtain, enveloping most of William's castle, magnificent and solemn, the magic of magic is breathtaking.
Through the light curtain, all kinds of strange plants and some busy figures dressed in servants can be faintly seen, and it seems that Master Ron's botanical garden has entered a state of work.
Charlie remembers a small detail, when passing by the edge of the magic sign area, Brian casually mentioned that the magic area is recruiting workers recently, and entrusted Griffin to handle the matter, resulting in more strangers in the castle recently.
In other words, if Griffin is bribed by some members of the Pavel family, then Charlie may also have an accident at Fort William, and Brian repeatedly tells Charlie not to leave the Orchid Garden at will, and the security measures in the Orchid Garden are the strictest in the castle.
However, this is an opportunity, a good opportunity to turn around, even in the face of danger, Charlie decides to break a taboo mentioned by Brian - entering the archmage's botanical garden.
Charlie searched the servant's room in the Orchid Garden, found a well-fitting dress, changed into it, and went straight out of the garden, with inexplicable apprehension, stepping across the boundary that Brian had told him to cross.
Charlie followed the signs to the edge of the magic area, which was a semi-public area with no magic taboos, and he followed the two lean men into a room where a middle-aged man with a gloomy face sit.
"Are you all the ones Griffin arranged to come over for a trial work?"
Hearing this, Charlie was secretly happy in his heart, and he found the right place.
The two people in front of them had wooden expressions and were slightly restrained, and after hearing the question, they subconsciously nodded vigorously, Charlie looked at it and nodded.
The middle-aged man asked, "Didn't you say that there were only two people in the morning?" Why was there one more? Who didn't follow the arrangement?"
The two men looked at each other, and then cast their suspicious gazes on Charlie, even they felt that this white and chubby young man was very different from himself, and he was not the same kind of person.
At this point, Charlie felt like he had to say something.
"Sir, my name is Ethan, and I am the distant nephew of Brian, the housekeeper of the Orchid Garden, and I have recently rushed over to join him, and I saw that you are recruiting, and I want to come and try it, if Mr. does not believe me, you can consult Uncle Brian. "Charlie made up a fake identity for himself.
The middle-aged man looked Charlie up and down, frowned, and said, "Well, I will ask him to verify this matter, but the caretaker of the botanical garden is a manual job, and the working hours are more than ten hours a day, which is very hard, I am afraid that with your body, I am afraid that it will not work?"
It's no wonder that he discriminates against Charlie, his bubbly fat body really doesn't look like a hard-working person.
Charlie smiled and said, "What does it matter? Anyway, it's a trial work, it's a matter of your words, and there is no harm in having one more choice for you." ”
The middle-aged man was very satisfied with his deferential attitude, and laughed: "That's right! Although your kid is not very good, his brain is quite smart, in addition to being diligent, the nurses of our botanical garden also need a little brain, so let you give it a try!"
Charlie nodded silently and stood side by side with the other two, and at this moment, Charlie clearly felt the wary gaze of the two men beside him.
As the senior servants of Fort William, the two men can do things for the archmage, for them, it is a gilded opportunity, if they can work steadily for a few years, their status and treatment are much more "noble" than ordinary servants, not to mention, they also bring some unspeakable secret missions.
"My name is Martin, and I'm the director of Archmage Ron's Botanical Garden. The middle-aged man took the lead in introducing himself, and muttered: "Griffin has always been reliable in his work, since you can enter the castle, I believe that you all have clean backgrounds, and I will not dwell too much on your origins."
The cost of the botanical garden is not small every year, the herbs we handle are very precious, and we must find some hardworking, obedient, reliable, and intelligent caregivers to ensure excellent output, so the importance of your work is self-evident.
And our salary is worthy of this position, and the income alone is several times more than that of your ordinary miscellaneous labor, and your salary in the botanical garden for a year can comfortably live in Haynes for two or three years.
Of course, the requirements are not small, the three-day trial is a necessary test for the botanical garden nurses, whether you can stay, it depends on your performance in these three days, now, I will tell you about the test requirements of these three days......"
At this moment, in the spherical hall in the center of the magic tower, a middle-aged man in a mage robe sat at his desk and fell into deep thought, his fingers were full of shining rings, his hair bun was meticulously repaired, his face always had a majestic expression, he held a quill pen with a pile of scattered drafts pressed under the tip of the pen, and the drafts were full of all kinds of strange symbols.
On one side of the desk stood a girl of about twenty years old, wearing a simple set of mage robes, looking particularly energetic, she stood respectfully aside, holding her breath and not moving.
In front of the wall opposite the desk, a huge copper lamp is placed, the copper lamp ignites a flame, and a huge smoke screen floats above the flame, and more than a dozen dynamic lights and shadows are divided into the smoke screen, which looks like a real-time monitoring screen.
After thinking for a long time, the middle-aged man frowned, put down the quill in his hand, and exhaled a breath of turbidity.
There is no doubt that this man is Ron Schneider, the owner of this magic tower.
The girl asked softly, "Teacher, how is it?"
Ron shook his head, his gaze moving to the mirror image of the magic opposite, a pile of moving images standing across his eyes that would more or less disturb his thoughts.
"Yolanda, I'll move this mirror to your room later, and tell me what happens. ”
Yolanda bowed and said, "Okay." ”
Hey!
Ron's hand was fixed in the air, and following his gaze, a sight could be seen: "Why is he here?"
Yolanda hesitated, "Who's coming?"
Ron pointed to a figure in the magic mirror image and frowned, "Charlie, the son of Archduke Thomas, was deposed yesterday, why is he in my botanical garden today?
Yolanda held her breath and asked, "Teacher, do you want me to ask?"
Ron pondered for a moment and said, "No, Griffin shouldn't have the courage to make the decision on his own......"
As he spoke, Ron paused, and Yolanda didn't dare to urge, so he had to wait patiently for his words.
Ron muttered, "Don't bother with this matter, as long as it doesn't affect the order of the botanical garden, let him go." ”
With that, Ron waved his hand, the flame of the mirror mirror was extinguished, the light and shadow dissipated instantly, and the distractions in his mind were swept away, including Charlie's appearance in the Botanical Garden, they were all small things, not worth thinking about Master Ron.
"Okay, teacher. Yulanda bowed away, she clearly felt the teacher's hesitation, and the smart Yulanda immediately figured out what was going on.
Charlie was deposed, she also knows a little about it, this gentleman really broke his father's heart, even if he bullied men and women in Haynes, this time, he actually hit the princess with the idea, and she is also the favorite princess of His Majesty Philip, it is simply stupid!
Archduke Thomas deposed him in public and transferred him to Fort William, which is not a kind of protection of change of direction, maybe the Grand Duke wants to entrust Charlie to the care of the teacher by the way, but he is embarrassed to speak, and the teacher also understands the intention of the Grand Duke, and is unwilling to take over the problem of the young man, and adopts a compromise strategy, pretending not to know if he does not mention it.
This is a game between big shots, she doesn't need to be overly involved, so considered, Yulanda basically knows it, and she won't overstep her responsibilities and make any small moves. Although Yolanda did not guess the facts, his speculation on the psychology of the big man is undoubtedly very accurate.
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Listening to Martin's words, Charlie felt that there were still some rules and methods in the botanical garden, but when Martin proposed a series of test methods, Charlie scoffed at him, and those cultivation methods opened Charlie's eyes.
Backward!Primitive!Unprofessional!!
The test is full of rote rules, such as: what time to take out the plants to dry, what time to water, how much, what steps to perform on rainy days, and what steps to perform on sunny days......
From these rules, it can be inferred that the concept of the managers of the botanical garden is quite primitive, and their understanding of plant cultivation is limited to finding the right soil, maintaining the level of water and light, which is quite amateurish, and they also sort out a complex set of rules based on these amateur things, and leave it to the caretaker to carry out.
The condition for the caregiver to pass the test is to memorize all the steps and perform them meticulously, without any technical content.
Although Charlie is not a botanist, he comes from the earth and has a certain understanding of the cultivation of plants with his knowledge structure.
On the earth in the 23rd century, especially after combining gene decryption technology, people's research on plants has reached the extreme, and almost all the habits and laws of common plants on the earth have been controlled.
Charlie doesn't need to do this, he just needs to raise these flowers and plants.
It's just that the work of cultivating plants is not two days or three days to see obvious results, but requires a fairly long observation and trial period, and now he needs to face the question, does Director Martin have enough patience to give him a chance to perform?
In order to get a chance to perform, even if Charlie had a way to perform, he could only hold it in his heart, play the game according to the rules set by Martin, and compete with the other two stupid servants to compete for the position of nurse.
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PS: 3/3, the end of the plus, ask for a collection again.