What is it like to be a teacher as a magister?

Chapter 83 Preparation
Matthew opened his eyes and found that it was broad daylight.

Habitually looking to the side, he felt relieved when he saw his sister Ellie sleeping soundly.

Except for the past few days, he almost never slept until dawn, and either woke up from hunger or freezing in the middle of the night.

He raised his head slightly, and everyone was asleep.

According to the habit of the previous few days, the people in the manor would come to wake them up about an hour after dawn, and then provide breakfast.

breakfast.

Like dinner, it is a concept that these people have long since lost.

The breakfast was a mush of boiled rye and cabbage, and Matthew could even vaguely see traces of oil in it.

No matter what the future holds, at least the food here is really good. It has been a long time since he has eaten bread without wood chips and wheat porridge without sand.Even on New Year's Day, each of them received a hard-boiled egg, and Matthew chewed the egg shell carefully and swallowed it in the end.

After breakfast, there was nothing for them to do.

They stayed in the wooden house almost all day long, and those who were daring even sneaked outside to have a look. The managers found out and did not beat or scold them, but told them not to leave too far.

Just kidding, there is food and drink here, and you don't have to suffer from the cold. At least before the end of winter, even if you know you will be sold as a serf, you won't leave.

In just three days, Matthew saw his younger sister's face turn red at a speed visible to the naked eye.

And in these three days, almost every few hours, a group of people like them would come in.

It's just that the arrangement is different.

"squeak……"

The cabin door was opened.

It's breakfast time.

It was still rye cabbage porridge, but today each person was distributed a piece of jerky the size of a finger.

Matthew quickly realized that they should be given work today.

Sure enough, after breakfast, the manager asked them to get dressed and walked out of the cabin collectively.

Matthew keeps his sister by his side at all times. If he is doing physical work for a while, he must ask the owner here to let him do his sister's share too. Otherwise, such a weak Ellie may not be able to resist for a long time.

However, it was different from what he imagined.

A group of 30 of them were taken to a ridiculously spacious house, and there were already a lot of people here, and everyone sat on the ground.

Matthew glanced at it, and there were hundreds of people at least.

Like the people present, they sat cross-legged on the ground, and because of the straw, they didn't feel cold.

The direction everyone was facing was a specially painted white wall, and there was a half-person-high table next to it.

"Brother, what are they going to do?" Ellie would only call him brother when she felt insecure.

Although it doesn't look dangerous here, the unfamiliar environment that has never been seen is very disturbing.Matthew even preferred that they be taken to the lumberyard, a place he was more familiar with.

After everyone arrived, the manager ordered them to be quiet.A petite girl with a book in her hand walked in from the small door next to her.

He looked about fifteen or sixteen years old, about the same as them.

The girl was also taken aback when she saw hundreds of people sitting on the ground looking at her. She calmed down after a while, put the books in her hand on the wooden table, and then faced everyone.

"From... today, I will teach you some... knowledge, please listen carefully?"

While everyone was stunned, Annie began to teach according to the "teaching plan" she had prepared for two days, regardless of other people's reactions.

……

After half an hour.

Matthew couldn't help it, and secretly yawned.

He saw that many people around him were like him, listless.

If it weren't for the long-standing fear of the powerful, I'm afraid they would have fallen asleep by this time.

He turned his head and took a look, only to find that his sister was listening to the lecture with a straight back.

"Ai Li, can you understand?" Matthew asked curiously.

"Yes, what this sister said is very interesting." While the little girl replied, her eyes were still fixed on what Anne wrote on the wall in front of her.

"interesting?"

Matthew looked at the handwriting written in charcoal on the white wall.

It was some messy symbols, mixed with letters and numbers, and there were strange and exquisite line patterns.

"But you can't read..." Matthew was speechless.

"You don't need to read." Ellie whispered, but she didn't seem to know how to explain it to her brother.

Seeing that she was indeed listening attentively, Matthew stopped bothering her.

two hours later.

Just when Matthew felt that his neck could not support his head, the girl above finally said:
"That's all for today. Everyone, go back and think about the questions I raised. Tomorrow, we will continue... the lecture."

The sound of breathing one after another can be clearly heard at the scene.

……

When Annie walked out of the "classroom", she was not as nervous as when she came in.

Colin, who was dressed in casual clothes and a black coat, was waiting at the door, welcoming her to finish class with a smile.

"how do you feel?"

"I don't know, anyway, let's just keep talking." Annie let out a long sigh of relief at this moment.

"You spoke very well." Ke Lin smiled and said, "However, I suggest that you pause more at some key points next time, so that everyone has time to catch up with your train of thought. In addition, after a small class in the future, I can try to talk to you. students and ask them directly what they think.”

"Can anyone really understand this?" Annie was very puzzled: "They don't even know what elements and magic are."

Ke Lin said: "The purpose of this course is not to teach them, but to select some people from it. Therefore, it doesn't matter whether you know magic or not now. The formal teaching will start in a month."

……

Go back to the cabin.

"Ai Li, what exactly did the lady say today?" Seeing that his sister seemed to be still immersed in thinking, Matthew finally couldn't help asking.

"Well... I don't know how to explain it. Anyway, what she said is so interesting, I seem to have seen another world." Ellie is not only illiterate, but also has a limited vocabulary. Xiu became more and more confused.

"Forget it, as long as you like it."

"Matthew, can you teach me how to read?"

"Yes, I can. Anyway, I'm free now. However, I can only recognize the whole alphabet, and I don't understand many longer words."

"It's okay, I want to learn, just learn the alphabet."

"All right……"

……

However, Matthew's plan to teach his sister the alphabet was terminated on the second day, because the manor added a two-hour class in the afternoon to popularize the most basic literacy and numerical calculations for everyone.

I couldn't understand the morning class, but Matthew was fascinated by numbers.

Those equations connected by symbols are so flawless and accurate that it is amazing.

He finally felt the feeling of his sister.

Can't say enough, it's just fun.

The four-hour class a day, not only did not make Ellie feel tired, but she became more energetic. After returning to the wooden house every day, she would continue to use stones to draw and write on the ground.

A week passed in the blink of an eye.

On this day, after the course ended, no one was allowed to leave.

Annie sat at the door, and every time someone passed by, she would ask him a few questions, and after answering, she could return to her residence.

This kind of test is very time-consuming, and it lasted for several hours, and the last person was sent away when it was dark.

……

"Of the 150 people, 2 people are excellent, 13 people are qualified, and the rest almost don't understand at all." Annie was a little discouraged, probably because her teaching was not clear enough.

"Not bad, better than I expected."

Colin's words were not consolation.

In his eyes, the so-called magical talent does not only refer to whether it is awakened or not, it is even secondary.

What is more important is the elemental idea thinking and the magic pattern concept.

In fact, these two aspects of research do not require mental power at all.

In other words, even an ordinary person can conduct the highest level of magic research as long as he has learned it. At best, he can be equipped with an official magician as an experimental assistant.

However, even in the Western Continent, where the thinking is the most open and the academics are the most prosperous, this kind of situation rarely occurs.

In everyone's mind, magic research, especially high-end research, should of course be the exclusive domain of magicians, not to mention which magician would be willing to be an assistant to an apprentice?

"The next few groups of people have already arrived. This manor should be more lively in two days."

"How many people are you going to accept?"

"It's expected to be 700 to 900 people."

"Can you stay?"

"No problem, there is really not enough space. My senior sister still has two private estates in the suburbs. You can ask her to borrow them first."

"Miss Tessa is really rich." Annie stuck out her tongue.

"But when there are too many people, you will definitely not be able to do it alone. I will find a few more people to help you." Ke Lin said.

"Yeah." Annie nodded.

……

The manor occupies a huge area, but it does not have many buildings.

Except for the huts where the servants lived and the stables and warehouses, there was only a small castle-like building and a few podiums.

Colin himself doesn't live here, so almost all the places where people can live have been transformed into "collective dormitories".

In this case, the accommodation conditions are of course not very good, but compared to the bridge holes and sewers where these orphans used to live, it is much better.

The food problem that Colin has been worried about is the least of the problems.

The food expenses of nearly 1000 people, Ke Lin originally thought it would be an astronomical figure.

However, after Jennifer explained it to him, he found that it didn't cost much.

The food cost per person per day is about 20 copper plants. Based on the calculation of 1000 people, 2 gold langs a day, more than 700 gold langs a year, even if clothing, manor renovation, and the salary of Anne and others are added, it will not exceed one Year 1500 gold lang.

This number sounds like a lot, but compared with what he has done, it is not worth mentioning at all.

And with his current net worth, he really doesn't care much about the money. Not to mention that he can ask his senior sister to reimburse him at any time, the money he earned from the photo recorder and gramophone in the past few months has exceeded 2 gold lang.

……

a month later.

The manor has completely changed.

Several simple wooden houses were built on the open space, and the interior of the castle-like main building was also removed as much as possible of useless decorations to house more and more people.

After the number reached 800, Colin decisively asked Jennifer to stop searching.

Eleanor and two other magicians in her team who failed the assessment were recruited by Colin to help Annie form a "teacher" team.And Angelo and others are still staying in the Gold Chamber of Commerce, assisting Wald with more and more work.

As usual, Matthew and his sister followed the crowd to the place of study.

However, halfway through, they were told that they would go to different places to continue their studies today, and he and his sister happened to be separated.

This made Matthew, who was used to a comfortable life, nervous again. It was not until the manager told them to return to the old place at night that he felt a little relieved.

He and a group of others were taken to a shed that had been converted from a stable.

Standing in front was an elderly man.

It is obvious from his special clothes and the anvil next to him.

This is a blacksmith.

……

at the same time.

Ellie and another group of people were taken to a relatively small room with more elaborate decoration.

The girl who taught them before stood in front of them again.

"Hi everyone, my name is Annie. Starting today, I will teach you about elements and magic."

(End of this chapter)