On the Seven Towers

The feeling of the whole town of Alano has changed since the change of the world.

The originally calm and lifeless atmosphere has become lively. According to the words of the mayor Chen Hansheng, in the new era where the Chinese manage this place, everyone will find their place.

After the baron's land was redistributed, Chen Hansheng led the former serfs, now farm employees, to do militia training in the early morning and evening, farmland water conservancy construction during the day, and cultural and agricultural knowledge learning at night. He must improve the efficiency of each farmer and free up more hands to go to the forest farm, fish pond, mine, and factory.

These former serfs have never lived a tight life, nor have they lived a meaningful life.

It's not that no one complains that life is more tiring now than under the baron's rule. But Chen Hansheng only needs to hold up the carrot of food and money, plus the comparison of those prisoners and coolies, to make these people hide their lazy thoughts.

There will be a competition for training tasks, production tasks and learning tasks. Those who practice the most standard, complete the most planned tasks, and learn to read the fastest will be rewarded with better food. The outstanding ones will even receive bonuses of bronze shields and silver spears. Those who do not do well will naturally have to do more and redo the tasks. Those who show malicious behavior will even have their rations deducted or receive corporal punishment.

The instructors, team leaders and technicians under Chen Hansheng are not the cautious teachers on Earth, and the new employees are not fragile students. When it is time to take action, they will not miss any whips. These days, the carrot and stick method has achieved very good results.

Even many free people in the town were attracted by these treatments and signed up to join the farm work.

Chen Hansheng would take time out almost every other day to join the work of water conservancy construction. Not only him, but also warriors such as Kalanda, Wang Zifeng, and Mareno, as well as magicians such as Glade and Crete, would join the work with others whenever they were free.

This is an unimaginable thing in the minds of the locals. For the serfs, Chen Hansheng is equivalent to replacing the position of the baron. Digging pits with a baron and building walls with a magician are things you can't hear in the most fabricated stories.

At the beginning, there were always rumors that these strange Chinese were pretending to win people's hearts. But as time went on, when Chen Hansheng and others appeared in the fields again and again, all the rumors became jokes.

"I tell you, this is the power of example." Chen Hansheng, dressed in linen clothes, holding a hoe, said to Kalanda, who was also dressed for work, "As long as we take the lead, their efficiency can be increased by 30%. It's worth it!"

"I can't imagine that the first time I took a hoe would be to follow you." Kalanda smiled, and the coarse cloth clothes just set off her heroic appearance. She is now the president of the Women's Association and an idol of many local women. Every time she took the lead to work, the women of the Women's Association behind her worked hard like chicken blood. Although Kalanda had no experience in farm work, nothing could withstand the powerful strength and fighting spirit of the senior warriors. As long as she takes action, today's advanced people will not escape her palm.

"Does it feel good?"

"It's a very strange feeling. I always thought that labor was a very painful thing. I didn't expect that there would be some pleasure in fighting with everyone!"

"That's because we helped everyone find the meaning and value of hard work."

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Almost everyone found a place, except for one person: Jenny, the daughter of Baron O'Farrell. Because she was still young and had no crime, she was left in the town, which made her the most out of place here. Almost everyone avoided her, and she often received hateful eyes when she walked on the road.

Fortunately, she was accepted as an apprentice by Glade and became a disciple of a magician, which obviously gave her an umbrella of protection. Glade was not a human being and had no interest in taking care of the little girl's daily life, so this task was handed over to her senior brother Crete.

In the newly built elementary school, Crete finished a Chinese class and sighed heavily. The speed at which the students below mastered new words was very different. In the same class, top students like Jenny mastered all the words, but the dumber kids may not have learned any.

"Everyone else can go, go back and review well, there will be an in-class test tomorrow. Remember not to run around, two people have gone missing in the past two days. You are all teenagers, you should be more careful. Doris, Mara, Andre, Rosa, you guys stay. We still have some time before the adult night school starts, we must make up for it."

Doris's face flushed, she lowered her head and said nothing. She was the oldest in the class, but she had no talent for learning. This was not the first time she stayed to make up for it. She secretly glanced at Crete, who seemed to be younger than her. This beautiful teacher who looked like a girl was much better than her in both appearance and inner qualities. She felt that she had been listening to the class very seriously, but she had not remembered as many words as the teacher. The shame in her heart overwhelmed her again.

Several other children were also the hardest hit in the class, but most of them were not as ashamed as Doris, and some of them did not realize what problems would arise if they were not good at studying, because they had never been in a classroom since they were born, and did not know what learning was like.

Krete waited for everyone else to leave and said, "Let's get started. I'll tell you those words again from the beginning."

The others opened their textbooks dejectedly, waiting for Krete to start, but heard another person walking back from the door. It was Jenny. She mustered up her courage, walked to their side and said, "Krete, let me talk to them. You are about to break through to become a low-level mage, and you need more time to meditate and think. I have learned magic words before, and I am familiar with these contents."

Krete was a little surprised. In fact, with Jenny's level, she didn't need to take classes here, but because she had nowhere to go, or because she felt safe following Krete, she listened to every class. It's just that she hardly spoke in class before, and I don't know what happened today. Krete said, "You come to review for them?"

"Yeah."

"What do you think?" Krete asked the others.

Someone muttered, "Teacher, is she good enough? She is younger than us."

Krete found that this was a good opportunity for Jenny to integrate with these people, so he said, "I believe she has enough knowledge, but I don't know if she can teach you well, because I couldn't teach you well either. Maybe someone else will make progress?"

Seeing that no one raised any objections, Krete left Jenny and walked out of the classroom.

Jenny looked at the other four people with some expectation. She struggled for a long time before she mustered up the courage to ask Krete for this request. She took out the textbook from her bag and said, "Then, let's start with this word..."

Before she finished her words, a voice came from her side: "Stop!"