Work at the bakery soon settled into a routine, and the children gradually began to familiarize themselves with the route there.
Although they still needed Mo Fei and Aiwen to accompany them, this meant the range of their daily lives had suddenly expanded considerably.
So every one of them was very excited.
Kyle seemed especially happy. Whenever he came back, he would say that he seemed to have seen many magical creatures.
Yet Boer, who was always with him, never mentioned any of these things. This anomaly caught Mo Fei's attention.
He increasingly felt that Kyle might be an abandoned Half-blood wizard.
However, Kyle's eleventh birthday was coming soon, and all the mysteries would soon be revealed, so Mo Fei was in no hurry.
Also, after the shop first began operating, Miss Colleen asked about it several times, but each time she received praise from Stefan and Kalai. After a few such occasions, she put this minor matter out of her mind entirely.
However, she visited the orphanage once or twice every month, sitting there for a while each time and chatting with the children about how they had been.
Gradually, the children all grew fond of this young noblewoman.
Moreover, on her third visit, Colleen actually proposed once again that Mia go to the theater to study.
This time, Mo Fei did not give an evasive answer. Of course, this was also because Mia had, in a rare show of initiative, chosen this path herself.
"Miss Colleen, I'm very willing to let Mia become a servant of the Winter family and then enter the theater to study subjects related to drama. Mia herself has agreed to this as well. However, she is still rather young, after all. I intend to wait until she turns ten before letting her begin her studies. What do you think?"
Mo Fei's agreement did not surprise Colleen. Having such an opportunity was a gift from heaven.
What she had not expected, however, was that Mo Fei would have this child become a servant of the Winter family.
Of course, there were distinctions even among servants.
Some servants recruited by the Winter family simply held a job under the family, while others were truly part of its foundation. These subtle differences were difficult for outsiders to imagine.
Yet from what Mo Fei said, he intended for Mia to become the former: a working professional with the Winter family's name behind her.
Of course, since she would be under the Winter family's name, she would naturally be expected to help them with their affairs. It was an equal exchange.
But in Colleen's eyes, whether she had that name behind her did not matter.
Mo Fei knew, however, that having that name behind her was the key to Mia being able to study at the theater in peace.
He explained in response to Miss Colleen's puzzlement, "Miss Colleen, you may not care about this, but you must understand that we are people at the bottom with no one to rely on. If we encounter any unwritten rules, it will be very difficult for us to handle them. Mia is still young, so she is even more easily deceived. With the Winter family's name to support her, she will suffer a little less mistreatment!"
Colleen had simply never encountered such things; that did not mean she could not understand them.
She glanced at Mia, who was peeking out from a distance, and her heart softened in the end. She agreed.
"All right. When the time comes, let Molly take Mia there. She'll let them know in advance!"
"Thank you for your generosity!"
This time, Mo Fei once again accepted the Winter family's kindness, and his heart filled with gratitude toward this kind young lady of the Earl's family.
A long stretch of time slowly passed amid these scattered, trivial details.
Life at the orphanage also improved greatly, and they all fulfilled dreams they had never imagined before.
In the backyard, Mo Fei finally managed to cultivate a suitable plot of land using his basic farming skill. He planted a great deal of wheat, and once the autumn harvest came, their food reserves would be even more plentiful.
At the same time, he planted plenty of pasture grass on the open ground in the front yard.
It had to be said that the basic farming skill helped a great deal. Both the survival rate and the growth of these plants were exceptionally good.
This also greatly reduced the burden of feeding the cow.
And there was another point not to forget: Mo Fei had also improved his combat and medical skills.
At this stage, the combat skill gave him many fighting abilities, and he taught these skills to the children as well.
Children at an orphanage would be bullied if they did not know how to fight.
Fortunately, Mo Fei taught them in good time, and the children learned very well. They were even more enthusiastic about these simple attack routines than the slow-paced exercises of Tai Chi.
Then there were his medical skills.
Perhaps because he was in Europe and still had few resources of his own, much of the medical knowledge he acquired concerned surgery, massage, and physical conditioning.
This knowledge happened to help resolve the soreness brought on by their combat training.
All his skills seemed to have been a great help.
Over the next few months, he continued to gain Belief Points, all of which he spent on improving skills related to their quality of life.
This also steadily strengthened the orphanage's foundations, and Mo Fei had more and more skills he could teach the children.
However, something unexpected still happened.
Things changed a month before Kyle's birthday.
An owl flew into the orphanage carrying a letter sealed with wax in its talons.
There was nothing surprising about an owl appearing in London, but this owl was somewhat different.
It actually tapped on the window with its beak, then waited politely for the window to open.
Aiwen was the first to discover it.
As soon as the window opened, it flew inside with a letter, and a rare look of excitement appeared on Kyle's face.
Seeing this, Aiwen immediately shouted, "Director, an owl has come to deliver a letter, and it's for Kyle..."
Long ago, Mo Fei had told Aiwen to keep an eye on the children and promptly report anything unusual.
The scene before him was clearly unusual.
Mo Fei hurried over and saw the children gathered around Kyle. The owl stood on a nearby table, tilting its head as it watched the flustered group.
Mo Fei's heart gave a jolt. His suspicions had finally been confirmed. Kyle really was a wizard.
However, he did not seem to have experienced an outburst of accidental magic. Or had he experienced one before coming to the orphanage?
That made Kyle's background even more worthy of attention.
And judging by Kyle's expression, he did not seem entirely ignorant about this letter. Could it be...
The many questions seemed to have brought new problems to the orphanage once again.
However, Mo Fei did not panic. What did this amount to? Tom had not grown up yet. That would be when the real trouble arrived.