Put the potion bottle on the table in a pochette and invite Marcus to the field.
"This is a material field I made. I use alchemy to make good soil. Look at the quality of the material planted in [appraisal]."
Stop at the corner of the field and encourage Marcus.
"Eh, are you using such good materials to make it? You mean, the lady made the field work?
Marcus is surprised at the variety of materials he has appraised.
"Alchemists who have been apprenticeships mostly use wild ingredients that they usually sell to shops."
Wow! Try making potions with this luxurious healing grass! Looking enviously at my field while murmuring.
I thought it was time to solicit.
"Then why don't you work for us?
and propose to Marcus, who is obsessed with the field.
"Then you can learn to make quality potions instead of making rough potions.
Ah, Marcus's face is brighter.
"But can Daisy hire me?
Well, if you're a six-year-old, I'll ask you the same question.
"Yes, I have money to hire you in connection with delivering potions to the national army. But hey... if a six-year-old says he's your employer, your parents will be worried..."
When in trouble there, the front door suddenly became busy. When I thought about it, it happened that your father, who worked only this morning, came home. Talk to your father and mother!
I hurried back to my father and mother with Marcus.
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I told my father and mother what had happened so far.
"So, Daisy wants to hire Marcus next door, but she's worried about her parents if they made a deal."
My father will check with me on the sofa in the guest room.
"I'm sure Daisy was right."
My mother also nodded.
"Sebastian, is there room for my servant?"
Your father is checking with Sebastian, the butler who was on the side.
... I wasn't even thinking about it with all the momentum!
"Yes, I still have a spare room. It's a room that I haven't used for a while, so if you give me a date around tomorrow, I think I'll be ready."
"Marcus, can I live here? And Daisy's help is going to be a job, but the employer wants me to do it, okay?
Father smiles gently to Marcus with a nervous look in front of the two aristocratic adults.
"Yes, thank you very much!
Marcus lowered his head momentarily.
"Well, let's make a contract later. By the way, why is Marcus already working at that age? Is there something going on at home?
In our country, it is not uncommon for civilian children to work, but there are still many families with that reason. Father was worried about it and wanted to check it at the same time.
"My father didn't die in an accident two years ago, only my mother. But my mother couldn't work because of her illness. I still have a little brother and sister under me, so I have to work. I want to earn my mother's medicine quickly....."
Marcus talked about the family situation with a painful look.
"Is your mother seriously ill?
I ask your father with a worried face.
"I went to see a doctor and he said it was a disease that could not be cured unless it was a high potion or church heel. That's why I have to earn money...."
Listening to that, your father, um, strokes his jaw for a while and thinks.
"Daisy, is Hypotion at home now?
"Yes"
I nodded instantly.
"Marcus, why don't you do this? First, use Daisy's hypothesis to cure your mother's illness. So, since you can't pay for it yet, why don't you pay it back in installments and have it paid back one by one from your monthly salary to the extent that you don't have any trouble living?
Father puts his chin on top of his hands and peeks into Marcus's face.
"How can you trust me to pay you back for such a expensive thing... when you just met me?
Marcus said he couldn't believe it.
"After all, you've always served the alchemist's shop, haven't you? If I wanted to steal it, I could have stolen the hypothesis. But you didn't lose the temptation, and you've been working hard, right?
Your father's face is serious.
"Father. Marcus has no reward for theft."
I also want to help Marcus' mother and insist that Marcus's humanity is okay.
Your father nods, "Yeah."
Well, let's put together a contract that includes that.
Your father moved to the office temporarily.
Marcus was impressed by his father's calculations and was delighted to be able to cure his mother's illness, crying with his arms concealed for a while.
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Afterwards, your father returned to the room with a written contract containing the repayment money.
Then let him know the details and terms of the contract.
It seems that the contract amount was reduced to the contract amount of our ordinary employee, and among the children, but it was better than any shop he had worked at, and I was grateful for that.
"Well, I'll keep your room clean by the day after tomorrow, so will you come home the morning after tomorrow when the church bell rings first? And get your autograph here, and your mother's autograph here."
And Marcus went home with the contract and the hypothesis.
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"Father, I'll pay Marcus the wages."
After Marcus left, I declared that to your father.
"No, it's the parents' responsibility to pay for their children, Daisy. Besides, I think this is an investment for my child's future. You don't have to worry. [M] Besides, I'll add the potion money that Daisy keeps for today."
That's how he stroked my head and went to his room.
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Marcus came in the morning two days later and my hypothesis cured my mother's illness! and thanked him with pleasure for his report.