In the conference room on the first floor of the small wooden building in Misty Town, Donner meets Danny. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The child was not tall, thin, yellow-haired, blue-eyed, and dressed in ordinary cloth clothes, about the same as every farmer's child in the vicinity of Misty Town. When he saw Donner, he was visibly nervous, and he probably didn't know where to put his hands, first in front of him, and then behind him, as if to hide them from being seen.

"Danny, you're from Misty Village, you should have been to this town, right?" Donner tried to lighten the mood.

Danny shook his head, his nervousness undiminished.

"Dean Laurent said that you are the best student in this batch," Donner looked at Danny with a smile, "but he was also the only one who didn't condense Shenyuan. ”

"Uh-huh......" Danny lowered his head, his face full of frustration and frustration.

"Do you know why?" asked Donner.

"I ...... I'm not the ......" Danny whispered, his sister Dia's words, Danny clutched his fists in anger when he first heard the comment, but now, he himself felt that it was.

Donner smiled and shook his head, "You may not be suitable to be a magician, but it's not a big deal, you know? Of the hundred students that Count Borg brought back this time, none of them condensed the Divine Yuan. ”

Laurent, the head of the Santan Magic Academy, was only a first-level mage, and he didn't have the ability to judge whether a student had condensed the Divine Element, but for Wesley, the Flowing Cloud Mage, it was a clear thing.

Danny looked up in disbelief, "This, how is this possible?"

"It's easy, isn't it?" said Donner with a smile, spreading his hands, "They all lied......"

"Lying?" Danny frowned slightly.

"This kind of thing happens in every magic academy, even those noble students who have already received basic education in the family, after a year of study in the magic academy, only a very small number of them can condense the divine element. Most of those who stayed in the academy to continue their studies lied that they had condensed the Divine Yuan. Do you think it's possible that a whole thousand of you children, except for you, have all condensed the Divine Yuan?" asked Donner with a smile.

As soon as Danny was prompted, he immediately figured out the reason, and said softly: "Compared to going back to farming, the academy is like heaven. ”

"You're right, they have a reason to lie," Donner nodded, "but that makes honesty more precious, don't you think?"

"I, I'm ......," Danny seemed to be tormented, "I just want to go home early and help my father with the farm...... Lord Duke, these days are the time to harvest the wheat......"

Donner was suddenly touched, and he vaguely saw the brilliance of humanity in the ordinary child in front of him - he was not only honest, but also kind, compared to these, his excellent grades seemed less important.

"Do you want to go home and help your father with the farming?" asked Donner, "even if you never have the chance to be a magician again, you will have to be a farmer for the rest of your life......"

"My lord, it's nothing, I'm a farmer's child......" Danny remembered what his father had said to Jimmy that night, he said that the boy would not want to farm because he knew how to read and write, and now Danny wanted to prove to his father that he was not that kind of person.

"Danny, there are some things that are more valuable to you than being a farmer...... Donner certainly wouldn't let such a good seedling become an ordinary farmer.

He stood up, "Let's go, I'll take you to see something." ”

......

A hundred fifteen or sixteen-year-olds, including Danny, were led by Donner and Wesley to a clearing next to Misttown, gathered in front of a windmill.

The children had seen this strange thing from afar since they came to town, but no one knew what it was.

Bruno, the old dwarf craftsman, knew that Donner would bring the first batch of students from the engineering academy to visit these days, so he was ready early and stood by the windmill control lever in a decent manner, just waiting for Donner's instructions to give these children a demonstration.

Donner looked at the nervous and confused expressions on the children's faces, cleared his throat, and said loudly, "You are all the children of the farmer's family?"

After a year of nurturing in the Academy of Magic, these children are no longer scattered, and although they are not unanimous, they are also decent.

"Hmm...... Then you should know that there are some farm jobs that can be done by people, and livestock can also be done. People eat grain, livestock eat grass, and do work, but livestock are more powerful than manpower, so it seems that people are not as good as livestock......" Donner said this, and the children laughed sporadically, and the atmosphere relaxed a little.

"I know that even if you don't say anything about this comparison, you will not be convinced: if there is no one, you will not be able to grow the land with livestock alone. Donner smiled and said loudly, "Yes, there are many things that livestock can't do, they can't make hoes, they can't make sickles...... Well, yes, they don't use tools, but we do!"

When Donner was about to get to the point, he paused again, glanced at the crowd, and said loudly: "Let me tell you, the biggest difference between man and livestock is whether or not they can use tools! I asked Dean Laurent to select you and send you to the School of Engineering, so that you can learn how to make tools, and make tools that will work for us...... Now can any of you tell me how long it will take to grind such a bag of wheat into flour?"

Donner pointed to a sack of wheat on the ground, which looked to be dozens of kilograms.

The children's answers varied, some said one day was not enough, some said it would take two days, others said that if there was a horse to do this, half a day would be enough, and then some retorted that he had never seen anyone pull a mill with a horse when he was so big.

As the children disagreed, Donner gave Bruno a look, who pulled the lever, and the roughly serrated metal discs, which act like simple clutch plates, were pressed together, and the rotation of the windmill blades was transmitted to the grinding disc with a long, piercing sound of metal rubbing.

At this time, the autumn wind is in full swing, and the huge stone grinding disc is spinning rapidly.

All the children's eyes were attracted by the scene in front of them, and they opened their mouths slightly, unable to believe the scene in front of them.

In just half an hour, the wheat is milled for the first time, and a large wooden barrel is filled with fine flour extruded from the wheat core.

After another ten minutes, the flour that had been ground twice looked much darker in color, with a little bran, and even this flour was much better than what ordinary farmers eat at home.

Donner shouted, "Alright." Bruno pushed the lever up again, the clutch plate disengaged, and the windmill blades had less drag and turned faster.

"Isn't it amazing that such a machine?" asked Donner aloud.

There were sporadic responses from the children, and most of them were still immersed in shock.

"But I'll tell you," said Donner, in a more resolute tone, "that this windmill is nothing. What we want to do is a machine ten times more powerful, a hundred times more powerful! The land that now takes a hundred farmers to grow can be planted by only one person!"

Donner said this, glancing at Danny standing in the crowd, the child's face was already full of yearning.

A little further away from the crowd, Lucia watched the scene from afar, as excited as the children.

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