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

Chapter 19 Goodbye Annie
six months later.

Thunder City, the old town.

This slum area, which only occupies one-sixth of the entire city's area, has gathered almost half of the city's population. The streets are narrow and rugged, and animal and human feces can be seen everywhere, mixed with rainwater and various domestic sewage on the street. Bare buttocks and barefoot children play on the road without any scruples.

Colin followed his memory and accurately found the charcoal shop with the rags on it.

We haven't seen each other for half a year, and Anne Heckert's petite body hasn't changed in any way, and she is still busy at the booth. The difference is that the charcoal shop that was originally dark has now become a relatively clean "drink shop" ".

Different from the exquisite beverage shop at the entrance of the concert hall in the garden area, there are only two half-person-high wooden tables here, a few relatively complete earthen pots and pottery bowls are arranged neatly, and there is a car parked behind the booth. A small wooden cart that is only wide for one person.

As soon as you get closer, you can feel the coolness. In this hot and smelly street, it can be called a fairyland on earth.

"How do you sell ice water?"

"It's cheap, one copper plant and one bowl, and you can stand here for half an hour."

Annie scooped water out of the crock seriously, and suddenly realized that the voice sounded familiar. When she looked up, she found a familiar smiling face.

"Colin!? Is it really you?"

The young girl almost jumped on both feet, turned around the wooden table excitedly, wanted to pull Ke Lin's clothes for confirmation, but suddenly remembered something and stood still.

Ke Lin took the initiative to step forward and made a one-touch meeting and hug ceremony, and said with a smile:

"You really are a man of action, and you have already bought a small cart."

Annie's face was filled with an unstoppable smile: "Yes, but this is an agreement with Uncle Bernie. I will use the car first, and then I will pay in six months after I earn money."

Loan and pay in installments?

While Colin was admiring, someone was already urging Annie to add water.

"Wait a minute, Colin, I will sell out soon." Annie hurried back to the shop.

"It's only noon, and it's the best time for business, so why are they almost sold out?" Ke Lin walked towards Annie while wondering.

"Business is not easy."

Annie lowered her voice and said, "A guy from the Association of Magicians discovered the same business opportunity, and he seemed to have friendship with the magicians in the Association. He took all the big ice cubes and left some leftovers. For me, you know, the smaller the ice cube, the shorter the storage time."

Ke Lin smiled and said, "So you see, doing business requires not only brains, but also connections."

"Ah, no!" Annie exclaimed suddenly after dealing with the last guest.

"What's wrong?" Colin was taken aback.

"Why did it become a topic of talking about me again? Obviously the most important thing now is your situation."

Annie's face was full of gossip, and she lowered her excited voice and asked, "Are you really accepted as a disciple by Master Roman?"

"Yes." Colin nodded honestly.

"You disappeared for half a year. At first Roy and I were excited, but later we became worried, afraid that you would not meet Master Roman's requirements and be dealt with secretly."

"Do you think the magister is so scary?" Colin laughed.

"It's really scary, powerful magic, mysterious spells, weird experiments, and when you think about those messy experimental materials..."

"Ok."

Colin smiled: "I'm fine, it's just that I'm too absorbed in studying and forget the time."

This is indeed true.

In the past six months, he has devoted himself to magic learning with crazy enthusiasm and terrifying concentration. Tessa tried to persuade him to take more rest several times, but he was perfunctory with the excuse of "reading this book". In the end, Roman personally She stepped forward to stop him, for fear that this proud student who had finally received it would become the first magician to die of exhaustion, and forced him to go out for a walk.

Colin, who was kicked out of the Magic Tower, immediately thought of Roy and the others, but because he was afraid of causing unnecessary trouble by rushing to the academy, he chose to see Anne Heckert first.

"By the way, how is Roy doing?"

"Don't be too kind to him, because of your relationship, the dean often chats with him." Annie smiled, and then sighed: "But because of Jennifer's affairs, I have been very troubled recently."

"What happened to Jennifer?" Colin wondered.

"Jennifer's family has a close relationship with the Princes' family. I tried my best to help her apprentice before, thinking that there would be rewards in the future, but then you stepped in and all the investments in her family were in vain. To her It's also getting colder, and I heard that even next year's tuition fees will have to be figured out by herself, and if she can't continue her studies, she might be forced to marry."

Annie finished dealing with a guest again, dried her hands in her free time, and said in a low voice: "Jennifer has secretly shed tears several times, it's so miserable, although we are good friends, we really can't get involved in this kind of rich family affairs .”

Ke Linxin said that there are poor people in the canal area who sell their children every day. Even if Jennifer is forced to marry, she will still be rich and honored for a lifetime, and it will not be miserable.But thinking that what happened to her was more or less related to him, he couldn't say that.

He turned to ask: "How is Prince now?"

While scooping up water for the new customer, Annie said, "His father sold all the property in Thunder City and left the Kingdom of Tulum with Prince. Rumor has it that he is going to the Western Continent."

What a good man Mr. Princes is!
Taking a lot of money from someone and even robbing the other party's teacher, Ke Lin actually felt that he was a little unkind.

He was silent for a moment, and said, "Annie, it's not very convenient for me to go to the academy, can you help me find Roy."

Annie smiled and said, "No, we will meet in the canal area every rest day, and Jennifer, I'm ready to go when the ice water is sold out."

"That's great." Ke Linxin said that luck is good.

"They must be overjoyed to see you."

Annie seemed to foresee the joy when a few friends met, so she quickened her movements. After a while, the ice water in the two crocks were all sold out.

She tidied up the booth swiftly, then raised her hand excitedly:

"Set off."

"Go?" Colin was taken aback.

"Of course, I ran so fast, oh, I forgot you..." Annie suddenly became embarrassed.

"The canal area is not close to here, let's rent a carriage." Colin said.

"Oh." Annie was not polite when she thought of the current identity of the person in front of her.

The two walked out of the old city on foot, and called a rental carriage near the King's District, negotiated the price, and boarded the carriage to set off.

"Good guy, four silver shields, I want to sell 400 bowls of ice water. Before we went out with Jennifer, we could only call a rickshaw at most, and it was the first time for us to take a carriage." Annie suddenly lost and said: "Now Jennifer may not even Rickshaws don’t even dare to ride.”

Colin smiled and said, "Didn't that guy Roy take the opportunity to show his courtesy?"

Annie said: "Of course there is, but Jennifer is very strong, and she won't receive this kind of favor at this time."

"Yes." Colin nodded.

(End of this chapter)