At the end of the year 727 of the Arian calendar, it was a day with light snowfall just like last year. Chengguo Eton College ushered in its first anniversary celebration.
Thinking back to this day a year ago, the first wake-up call sounded in the world of Lost World, which started a prelude to the children's wails.
Of course, after that day, the wake-up number every day is played by recording. Instead of asking Haloumi to get up when the children are still sleeping, and rush to the college from her home in the community in the coldest morning, just to play the trumpet.
It can record surveillance footage and record audio, so it’s not a big problem.
And an event like an anniversary celebration can be considered a first for me. Before this, Midi people would not have any celebration behavior for any organization or anniversary.
If someone were studying on Earth at that time, they would also feel disgusted and uncomfortable with the occasional school celebrations, sports games, etc. After all, he is a figure who lives on the fringes of society and only cares about his own little world. But after taking charge of a college, I thought about ways to gather the centripetal force of the organization, and found that this was indeed the simplest and cheapest way.
However, the academy is based on the model of a military academy. Of course, it is impossible to have a youthful and passionate school festival like in the anime and a campus drama. I didn’t expect that these children would have any achievements presentations or the like. They were all here to learn magic. If they were allowed to show off some achievements that had nothing to do with magic, then the parents would not take their children away the next day. Walk.
Since we can't copy Earth's school celebration gameplay, can't Lin still think of something improved? Anyway, no one knows what the original version looks like. If you make it yourself, it is the first of its kind in the world. Future generations can only make changes on this basis.
The first thing to do is to invite the families of these apprentices. Some people hold it in their hands at home and enjoy all kinds of pampering. Even children from poor mountain villages have parents and families. No one jumped out of a rock. And these people all have one thing in common, that is, they are definitely concerned about whether their children are living well in the academy.
It is meaningful to invite these people to come here on the anniversary of the college to see the environment of the college and their children. From what Juan Javier relayed to Ann Marie, we learned that these children still miss their families even if they don't express it clearly. After all, they are all a group of children, and most of them may have never left the place where they grew up before coming to Wulian City.
Send out an invitation letter stating the time and place. Their families live in Wulian City, or they come from well-off families. Of course, the parents of these children don't have to worry. But for those children who had the opportunity to learn magic only with the support of the Charlie Richard Foundation, one or two of their families also set off long in advance and traveled long distances to Wulian City.
Fortunately, winter is a slack period for farming, so the parents of the subsidized children can take time to come and see how their children are doing.
Since people are coming, of course they need to eat and drink. So Lin imitated the gameplay of a garden party and invited some food vendors to set up shop that day. Anyway, I usually cooperate with this group of people. Every night when P language lectures, there will be such a time, and more and more vendors gather.
In addition, of course, some people related to the academy and prominent figures in the Wulian City were also invited, including magicians and nobles who gathered in this city of magicians.
In fact, this is the same as a noble banquet. Who to invite or not to invite is a science. Not wanting to offend anyone, and since this was the first time for such an event, there was no way to estimate who would or would not come, so Lin sent out invitations widely.
Of course, at such a college celebration, just letting people eat, drink, and connect with each other feels a bit thin. Since children are the protagonists of the academy, it is appropriate to reward the children with the best performance.
It just so happens that every teacher has a pocket watch, and it doesn't take a day or two for these children to get jealous. Some children from well-off families, of course, said directly that they wanted or wanted to buy something. Lin Leng never relented, just to be rewarded for setting an example on such a day.
And good judgment cannot be made by one person. In addition to asking the children to vote by secret ballot to nominate a person they think can be regarded as a role model, Lin also asked the teachers to select a child to receive the commendation. In other words, it will become a rule to select two children to receive commendation at the college's anniversary celebration.
Since it wants to become a rule that will continue in the future, of course some rules must be clearly stated. For example, two candidates cannot be the same person, and what has been obtained cannot be obtained again. After all, the original idea was to give away pocket watches as a reward. If someone is really that good, or bribes everyone up and down, and wins the double crown for five consecutive years and collects ten pocket watches, this will completely destroy the original idea. Kind intention.
On the anniversary of Eton College in 1972, the outstanding person recommended by the apprentices was Lenny, the oldest among the students born in 1972. Although his performance in magic learning is mediocre and not particularly outstanding, he is very convincing in leading this group of children.
In the monthly apprentice autonomous cadre election, despite the condition that he cannot be re-elected, Lenny can become the captain of the apprentice brigade every few months. Even when he is not the captain, he will hold other important positions. This shows his status in the minds of other apprentices.
To the teachers who teach in the college, this big boy is not a scheming person who only wants to win people's hearts; or a good person who will do whatever he wants no matter who asks him to do it. Although he has some careful calculations, it is undeniable that this child has the attitude of a leader. And he was originally on the faculty's pocket list.
Now that the candidates recommended by the apprentices have come out, the teachers of course have to choose the second child besides Lenny. Although several other magicians who had recently joined the academy also spoke, their voice was mainly concentrated on the two veterans, Juan Javier and Eli Huber. Lin occasionally interjected, but it had nothing to do with the selection.
In the end, the child selected by the teachers was a talented girl who passed the Second Ring Apprenticeship Examination at the age of eight--Charlotte. To be fair, Lin doesn't like this way of using talent and performance to determine whether a person is good or not.
But that girl's intelligence and ability to draw inferences from one example and her determination to study hard are remarkable and cannot be faulted. Especially in physical training, he is not inferior to other older children at all. This made Lin Zheng think carefully, is it good or bad for children who are still in the developmental stage to undergo such intense physical training?
In short, under the attention of all the guests watching the ceremony, the magic apprentices in the academy appeared in separate teams. And Lenny, the eldest, and Charlotte, who was still innocent, came out to accept the praise. The prize was a silver pocket watch engraved with their names and the year they won the award.
Such a reward actually caused a commotion in the audience. Starting from the first batch of magicians and a great magician who got the teacher's pocket watch, Juan Javier very coquettishly brought the pocket watch to every social occasion he attended. I always look for opportunities to take out my pocket watch and check the time.
The time server has been announced a long time ago. The forum has also been slightly revised, with the time fixed in the upper right corner of the screen and a size that does not hinder normal article browsing. At the same time, all posts and replies are also timestamped. So for people who frequently use forums, the concept of time already exists, but no one feels the need to use it. Until a certain great magician appeared...
For them, the biggest use of pocket watches is not to check the time and arrange their work and rest, but to show off and show off. Just like when people wear jewelry on their bodies, besides being expensive and showing that the person wearing it can afford such an expensive thing, do they have any other purpose?
Watching someone follow the silver chain, take out a round palm-sized object, lift the cover of the watch in a serious manner, and say: "The time is now 3:27 pm." or "Oh, it's already like this. It's late, it's already nine o'clock in the evening." The nobles and other slutty magicians were all excited.
Want to buy? no way!
If someone doesn't let go, others will be helpless.
Want to demolish it? court death!
The teachers who got the pocket watch kept it as a treasure. How could you be willing to let people take it apart and see what's going on inside?
However, the calculator jointly developed by Juan Javier and Eli Huber seems to have opened a window for everyone, allowing people who have learned the P language to see a different world. It turns out that this programming language can not only be used to design magic towers or forums, but can also be used to create items that are close to life like calculators. And the point is: make money!
If you can’t take apart a pocket watch, why can’t you take apart a calculator?
Someone is unwilling to give away or sell more pocket watches, which makes other people who have some experience in learning P language start to imitate. Although the Magicians Association attaches great importance to and protects intellectual property rights - although there is no such term in the Lost World -, it is quite loose when it comes to judging items.
As long as a few design changes are made to make the item look significantly different, it can be regarded as a new thing. In addition, the time server has been announced for a long time, which also means that anyone can use time content openly and freely. Therefore, in the second half of 727, many types of watches flooded the trading market of Wulian City. But the one with the highest market price is still the Orange Fruit Eton College commemorative pocket watch.
