(4000 words!Thanks for the reminder from Guardian Wings, the issue about the concentration of the Moon Essence has been revised!)

Inside, Donald glanced around the furnishings in the house, which were similar to those of ordinary civilians, not as good as his mansion in Red Maple Town. Although the Merliner family was downtrodden before, there were some noble items used to fill the scene, which was far from being comparable to ordinary civilians.

William couldn't help but feel very embarrassed when he saw that there were only two log high stools in his house, and there was no other place to sit.

At this time, Donald sat on one of the wooden stools without any disgust, and looked at William's face, and said:

"William, you don't have to feel inferior, a person's background is not something you can choose, but you can work hard to change your identity. The mages believe that although their identities are different, everyone's soul is noble, as long as he is not polluted by evil thoughts such as greed and jealousy!

When William heard this, he was even more ashamed of his performance.

When Donald saw that the time had come, he proposed his intentions.

"For William, you were fired from the club, I have a certain responsibility for this matter, if it weren't for you reminding me of the temperament of Master Naron and the others, I would definitely suffer from the other party, but you were jealous of those two mages, this is the result I don't want very much!"

William was grateful to hear Donald's explanation, but his words were incredulous.

"My manor is newly built, and the housekeeper is busy, so there is still a shortage of a chief chamberlain, if you are interested, you can manage all the male attendants and servants for me, and your wife can also temporarily take the position of the kitchen steward, so that the wages of the two of you should be enough to support the life of the family!"

As if in a dream, William muttered:

"Is this all true?"

Donald replied in the affirmative.

"Of course, if you decide to become a member of my Merlina family, your two eldest sons should have some samurai foundation, they can serve as my knight squires, receive some etiquette and basic training, although I have not obtained official knightly qualifications because of my age, but as a hereditary knight heir to inherit the glory of the ancestors of the Merlinna family, I am still qualified to recruit knight squires. ”

"And I heard that you want your youngest son to become a mage, then he can temporarily be my apprenticeship, get in touch with some basic mage knowledge, and if the talent is good, I can take him as a full apprentice. If he doesn't have the talent to become a mage, you can also consider making him a scholar. ”

"Are you satisfied with this arrangement?"

In the face of Donald's proposal, William was speechless with excitement, but nodded again and again.

Then I listened to Donald's words, full of majesty:

"Since you're satisfied, I'll put the words first. ”

"These benefits I have given you require your family to repay them with loyalty. What the Merlinna family needs are loyal servants and men, not diners who come and go! If you can't do this, you can choose not to accept this opportunity, then I will also give you a hundred gold soles as a reward for the help you gave me before, which should be enough for your family to live a prosperous life for a few years! How you choose is up to you!"

William didn't think much of it, gritted his teeth and formally saluted Donald to meet his new master.

Such an opportunity is so rare for a civilian like him, ordinary civilians don't know, ordinary ordinary civilians have their own plans, they would rather become an adventurer or join the army to find a chance to be promoted, rather than become a low-status servant and work for a nobleman.

There were still some who were ashamed to be servants of the rich and noble, but he knew how wrong this pride of the common people was. Pride is good, but without the capital of pride, then your own pride is very ridiculous in the eyes of the superiors. And as a civilian, how can there be a way to get the capital of pride?

Unlike those commoners who were ignorant due to lack of education, William knew through what he had seen and heard in the mage's guild that under the gods, everything in this world was in the hands of the nobles and the powerful, and how difficult it was for commoners to be promoted.

Whether it is, etiquette and other book knowledge, or martial arts and spells and other professions of cultivation mysteries, are in the hands of the aristocratic class, the common people can not receive the relevant education at all, since the beginning of human history, it has been continued like this, so many years have passed, the nobles are still nobles, and the commoners are still ignorant.

Even with a few exceptions, it was for a very lucky few.

Take, for example, joining the army and pursuing military exploits! Commoners can only be the lowest soldiers, while nobles and professionals can more or less mix with officers. Once any merit has been made, it is also the meritorious command of the officers, and the ordinary soldiers are mostly rewarded with some money. The soldiers fought desperately, but in the end, the merits were enjoyed by the officers, so there is actually no way out of the road of joining the army to find a way out. The best outcome is nothing more than retiring with an injury and getting a small amount of Kinsol to spend the rest of his life.

Only a handful of lucky people in history have been promoted from civilian to officer, and have been awarded the merit of continuing to advance. But these promotions were achieved by the generosity of thousands of civilian soldiers, and William, who understood this, had long since lost hope for this.

He only hopes that his sons can become professionals, and if they don't get ahead and become high-level powerhouses, they will at least live a better life than ordinary civilians.

Now there was a great opportunity in front of him, and to be a servant of the nobility, he was not as disdainful as those commoners. Especially to become a servant of a nobleman with a kind temperament and great potential for development like the young mage in front of him.

Generally speaking, the servants with higher status under the aristocracy not only have access to a lot of knowledge and education, but once their loyalty is affirmed by the master, maybe a lower-class nobleman will emerge after a few generations.

As long as you have an aristocratic status, you will have a lot of opportunities to get in touch with more knowledge and climb to a higher status. This is something that ordinary civilians cannot achieve even if they have money.

And once his two eldest sons become knight squires, then they have a certain chance to be promoted to knights, maybe their family doesn't have to wait for a few generations, they can produce two knight masters and become a nobleman.

In this way, William's family officially became Donald's servants, and when the two children returned from this samurai training, they would move their families to the newly established Night Manor of the Merlinna family.

Accepting William's family, Donald was very happy. The Merliner family is rising again, and everything has to start again. He has the Book of Truth in his hand, so what he lacks most is not all kinds of resources, but talents who are loyal to the family.

"This William is a good worker, and his knowledge is not comparable to that of ordinary civilians, and he is also familiar with mage-related things, if he cultivates it well, he will definitely be a good helper in the future. “

On the way back, Donald talked to his butler.

"Although you are capable, but now there are more and more things, and no matter how capable you are, you will feel that you are lacking in skills, so some small things should be slowly handed over to your subordinates to do is the way to improve efficiency, and you will be a lot easier. ”

After returning to the manor, Donald took advantage of the afternoon to inspect the situation in the Night Manor.

With the exception of the villas under construction, everything else has been put on track, including the last farm converted into a vineyard, which has been renovated and trellises have been erected and planted with some of the best wine grape varieties in North County.

It is estimated that the villa will be built before the end of the summer, and by the autumn most of the crops and some of the livestock on the estate will be able to produce.

The development situation is very good, and Donald's mood is naturally good.

That night, he built two more farms on the remaining wasteland between Night Manor and the Tree of Life.

One was converted into a pasture for grazing, and the other was converted into a medicinal plantation to cultivate some rare medicinal herbs and magical plants.

"Young master, the sowing has been completed on the farm, why don't you go and ask a town priest to come and bless it, so that the crops can grow better?"

In the evening, after the butler Curd finished his work before going to bed, he asked Donald.

Donald was reminded of the role of the priest of the goddess of agriculture, but he shook his head and dismissed the idea.

"No, the priest can do it, as a mage, I should be able to study it, as a mage, if it is not necessary, it is better not to turn to the servants of the gods!"

The priests of the Church of the Goddess of Agriculture are generally less effective than the clergy of other True God Churches, but they are very powerful in terms of support, their unique natural magic can promote the growth of plants like the spells of the elves, and there is a farmland taken care of by a junior priest, and the yield will be at least thirty percent more than normal, which is also one of the reasons why the Celt Kingdom, as a remnant of the ancient magic empire, has always resisted the Church of the Gods, but can accept the Church of the Goddess of Agriculture to enter the Northland to preach.

The Celtic Kingdom has few people and many lands, although the land is fertile but not well cultivated, has been lacking enough population, until three hundred years ago, the great and wise His Majesty Celt V established the temple of the goddess of agriculture in the royal capital, and introduced the church to live in the kingdom, the situation has been improved, and the population of the kingdom has broken through from less than 30,000 to as many as 100,000 in just a few decades, and the national strength can barely compete with the old kingdoms on the mainland.

Donald didn't have any magical alchemy recipes, and he was ready to figure out a solution from the Tree of Life.

The essence of the moon gathered in the Moon Well is a substance formed by pure moonlight energy and the power of nature, and its gentle nature can not only restore life and magic, but also have the magical effect of giving birth to plants.

If it weren't for the fact that the Book of Truth had the strength of a high-level artifact, it would not have been possible to manifest such a creation with an almost artifact-level effect with extremely low consumption.

Theoretically, this kind of mutual transformation between matter and energy has surpassed the level of mortal power, and under the true gods, even those legendary beings cannot easily do it.

As soon as I thought of it, the output of the three moon wells for this period of time also went up, and in addition to the share of making moonshine wine, there was still a lot leftover.

Donald began experimenting that night, using different concentrations of diluted Moon Essence to water the crops on the farm.

Originally, the crops on the farm were planted nearly a month later than normal farmland, and several farmers on the farm speculated that this year's harvest on the farm could be one to two percent lower than that of other places.

However, the crops of the manor grew one by one under the action of the natural force full of vitality within the natural enchantment, which made the farmers all look at it differently and praise the employer's manor as a fertile land.

A few days later, when the small plot of the experimental plot that Donald had watered with a concentration of up to 20 percent of the essence stood out and grew far stronger than normal crops, the farmers were speechless in amazement.

Now I know that the identity of the employer's magical mage is not fake, and it is indeed worthy of the mysterious and powerful mage, who can actually promote the growth rate of crops like those farmlands blessed by the priest of the goddess of agriculture.

The peasants of all countries on the continent, whether they are pious or not, are basically believers in the goddess of agriculture, after all, people rely on the land for food, which is also the fundamental reason why the goddess of agriculture, who has been a god for only a thousand years, has become one of the most powerful true gods of the human gods.

Ten days later, Donald's experiment reached a basic conclusion.

"The effect of the Moon Essence of two thousandths is the best, it can probably speed up the growth rate of crops by three times, and the effect of the Moon Essence of one thousandth can only reach 1.5 times, and 0.5 thousandths can only reduce the growth time by 10%. If you use 100% moon essence to irrigate, it is estimated that the crops will ripen in a few days!"

Of course, this can only be imagined, the essence of the moon is now condensed in small quantities, and a part of it has to be blended with two kinds of moonshine wine, so it can only be diluted tens of thousands of times to be able to water all the crops in the estate every month.

Even so, combined with the effect of the natural enchantment, the crops in the manor that had been watered with the essence of the diluted moon were all very lush, saving at least thirty percent of the time compared to the normal growth cycle of crops. In other words, crops that used to take three months to mature can now be harvested in early two months, a little earlier than the normal fields outside that were planted earlier.

In this way, the development and construction of the manor have been greatly accelerated. Relying on the cheating artifact of the Moon Well, Donald could predict that the manor would soon become his biggest source of income.