Sword and Sorcery and Martial Arts

Chapter 273 Strange Dreams
"I've been having the same dream for the past two weeks," said a tense, burly man sitting in a tavern.

"Well, tell me, I'm listening." Baron asked curiously.

"I always dreamed that I was taking a bath in the river. Through the reflection of the water, I could see a man practicing sword in the woods on the bank behind me. He was practicing sword with both hands at the same time. The practice was not the usual knight practice. "The strong man with a nervous face replied.

"What's there to be afraid of? Are you afraid that he will kill you with a sword?" Baron raised his glass and smiled.

"Two weeks ago he was still in the woods, and he reached the shore last week." The strong man replied with a trembling voice.

"What about yesterday?" Baron put down his glass and asked seriously.

"Yesterday? Yesterday he came to the river!" the strong man suddenly said loudly.

After hearing this, Baron felt a chill on the back of his neck. He looked back and found that there were only a few people in the usually bustling tavern today.

After he drank the glass of wine in his hand, he paid the money and left the tavern.

The sun was rare today, but he still felt a chill standing in the warm sunshine.

He looked around, and there was no one in the town.

"That person must be crazy." Baron shook his head vigorously, forcing himself not to think about that person's dream.

Then he walked towards the paper mill, and he suddenly remembered that today was the first day of production at the paper mill and the textile mill, and everyone in the town must have gone there to watch the excitement.

He just wants to go to a place with many people now.

Baron walked fast all the way. When he arrived near the paper mill, he saw countless happy residents standing around him, and he felt a lot more relaxed.

Rhodes seemed to be giving a speech floating in the air, and the residents of the town were standing around him, and people who came to work from other places also ran over to join in the fun.

Baron suddenly remembered that Rhodes seemed to tell him yesterday that he would make today a holiday and let everyone in the territory take a morning off. This will happen every year in the future to commemorate the start of the two factories today.

He remembered that Rhodes seemed to name this holiday as Labor Day on February [-]st?

It is winter now, and except for places like taverns and grocery stores, almost everyone is resting because there is no work to do.

Therefore, Baron didn't quite understand Rhodes' establishment of this festival.

After seeing Rhodes falling slowly from the air, he pushed away the fanatical crowd and walked towards Rhodes. Hammer and the others were there, and even Gilbert who ran to the Rocky Mountains ran back. join in the fun.

Baron saw Hamer in the crowd, he stepped forward and said, "I heard a very weird story just now, I think it should scare you too."

"Let's talk about it later, I still need to check those workers, whether they really have mastered how to produce." Hamer shook his head.

The main reason why textile mills and paper mills have not started production until today is the problem of personnel training. Hamer needs to let himself know how to operate before he can teach others.

Originally, Rhodes was planning to do this job himself, and wanted to brush up the loyalty of these workers, but he couldn't continue teaching after one day. In just one day, he felt the bitterness of an elementary school teacher. In fact, he felt a little Human understanding may not be as good as elementary school students.

At that time, Hamer just finished training the representatives sent by each village on how to use the new farm tools, and there was nothing for him to do, so Rhodes handed over this task to Hamer.

However, those workers were still very touched by Rhodes personally teaching them for a day. Even if their loyalty was not up to fanaticism, at least they had respect, and they would often speak good things for Rhodes unconsciously.

When Baron saw Hammer turn and leave, he felt that he was a little redundant here. Everyone was very busy, but he was the only one who was free.

In recent days, very few people have been recruited in the tavern. They can go directly to the clerks near each project. Those clerks do not need to interview and can directly arrange jobs for them.

Most people come here looking for some simple physical work to do, and there are still very few people who know how to read, know how to do mathematics, and want to do mental work.

Baron thought for a while that he didn't seem to be good at anything other than fighting, and there was no opponent in Rhode's territory that he needed to deal with.

Most of the robbers have changed their careers. Instead of being arrested and sent to labor reform as free coolies, it is better for Jinpen to wash his hands and take the initiative to find some jobs in small towns. Although the money is not a lot, it is much more at ease than being a robber up.

I feel comfortable spending the money I earn through my own hard work.

Although there were almost no robbers in the territory, Rhodes still didn't let the soldiers in his hands retire and call them back when necessary, but let them continue training.

Baron can't do this either, he doesn't know how to train soldiers, this work is done by the three officers brought by the Chief Grand Maester and the "Ashfire" Raymond that Baron found.

Although Raymond was not familiar with those soldiers and officers, he won their respect with his strength, rich combat experience and advanced training concepts.

Baron found Rhodes surrounded by a large group of people. Those people all wanted to get in touch with Rhodes at close range, just like people on earth seeing stars, and they would have more bragging capital when talking to others in the future.

"Come here first today, I still have things to deal with!" Rhodes shouted loudly, he noticed that Baron, who was full of thoughts, was walking towards him, there should be something.

The soldiers next to him surrounded Rhodes and separated the excited people.

"Do you have anything?" Rhodes asked.

"It's nothing, I just came to join in the fun, and I came over when I saw you here." Baron replied, he originally wanted to share the horror story he heard earlier, but let's share it slowly when we get back.

Rhodes nodded. He still has things to do now, such as checking whether the first batch of paper produced in the paper mill can meet the standards in his mind.

"If you're fine, would you like to visit the paper mill together?" Rhodes asked again.

Baron thought for a while, he didn't have anything to do later, and it's not bad to see new things.

"Go and have a look, I want to know what is the paper you have been thinking about." Baron nodded.

Surrounded by soldiers, Rhodes and the others walked into the paper mill, and after closing the big iron gate, the original noisy voice completely disappeared, and their ears were instantly cleared.

"I originally wanted to share a true horror story with you. I heard it in the tavern just now, and it almost scared me." Baron still couldn't hold back, he really wanted to know if Rhodes would be with him. Just as frightened.

"Tell me." Rhodes was also a little curious about what stories could scare Baron.

According to Baron's personality, he said that he almost scared him, but he must have scared him.

Baron recounted the man's story.

"You mean that person's dream started two weeks ago?" Rhodes asked after listening.

Baron nodded, "How is it? Did it scare you?"

"Is this scary?" Rhodes had heard a similar horror story before traveling.

He felt that the dream that that person had had something to do with him.

Rhodes thought about it carefully, two weeks ago, that is, the second day he discovered the dream world, or the third time he entered the dream world.

The first time the scene appeared was in the weird forest, the second time it was the castle on the territory, and the third time it was in the grove by the river mentioned in Baron's story...

(End of this chapter)