In the middle of the yard, there was a big pot, boiling with steam.
Several teenagers gathered around the big pot, talking loudly, and someone reached into the pot with a spoon to stir.
Yang Zhen walked over and saw that there was a pot of white porridge mixed with green, red, and yellow vegetable leaves.
If you look closely, you can see that there are still some pieces of meat floating around.
"Yeah", he nodded with satisfaction.
This is his request. The beggars cannot go to the street to buy cooked food and must cook at home. This is also to find something for them to do.
When these beggars noticed that Yang Zhen had come in, they all said hello in a flattering manner, and Yang Zhen also nodded with a smile.
It was lively for a while, and he let these people go to eat by themselves, while he found a corner to sit down and looked through the account books for the past two days.
The handwriting is crooked, but every account is clear and the prices are within a reasonable range.
Closing the ledger, he closed his eyes slightly, as if sleeping.
After a while, his face became a little ugly. He looked up at the people who were drinking porridge, and his eyes gradually became cold.
There were only eight people eating porridge at the moment. The captain Jiang Shun was not at home, and Yang Zhen didn't bother to ask.
These people eat well. After finishing the meal, Yang Mabu asked everyone to wash their bowls. Some people grumbled and were not happy, but when they turned around and saw Yang Zhen present, they stopped nagging and obeyed the request honestly.
Then Yang Mabu arranged for two people to wash the pot, and they all did it.
After everyone finished their work, Yang Zhen was about to speak when there was a sudden "bang bang" knock on the door.
A beggar went to open the door, and it was Jiang Shun who came in, followed by two people, the same two people who refused to go down the mountain the day before.
"It's okay to eat here, but you have to leave after eating!" Jiang Shun said to the two people.
One of them hurriedly begged: "Boss, the city gates are closed, where do you want us to go? We will stay here for one night and leave tomorrow!"
"This..." Jiang Shun hesitated a little. His eyes caught sight of Yang Zhen sitting in the courtyard. He stopped immediately and changed his words and shouted: "Young Master!"
"The two of them..." He was about to explain when Yang Zhen waved her hand:
"Okay, I know everything, let them in!"
The two people immediately rushed in excitedly, came over and nodded and bowed to Yang Zhen.
"Bang!" The courtyard door closed again.
Yang Zhen's face was as calm as water.
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"You two, are you going to leave after having a meal? Or do you want to join in?" Yang Zhen asked the two new people.
"Join, join!" the two men replied hurriedly.
"Okay! Then I won't embarrass you. Tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, I'll wash the pots for two days and help cook for two days. Is that okay?"
The two of them hesitated for a moment, then hurriedly said: "No problem."
"Okay!" Yang Zhen took out a stack of official paper: "This is the deed. If you two and the nine of you want to stay in this yard from now on, please sign this deed. If you don't want to sign, After finishing this meal, it’s easy to leave.”
After speaking, give it to Jiang Shun and ask him to distribute it to everyone.
"Find someone who is literate and read it out one by one. If you don't understand anything, just ask me."
Among these people, Yang Mabu was the most literate, and he began to read aloud one by one. If there was a word they didn't know, a few people got together to discuss it. If it didn't work, they asked Yang Zhen.
After reading everything, the salary and benefits given to them are exactly the same as Yang Zhen promised before.
The charter is similar to what was mentioned before. Although not all of the ten articles are written down, there are explanations such as "obey the master's rules."
Finally, there is the punishment, which clearly states that "the master has the right to punish, but it must not hurt lives."
This is also a common rule among major families today, and these people have all seen it before.
So everyone signed and stamped their names one after another. The two illiterate people saw that everyone had signed and followed suit.
Putting away the deeds one by one, Yang Zhen sat carelessly on the armchair and looked at these people again, with no smile on her face.
The voice was even more cold:
"Let me tell you first, how many people have been to the backyard from yesterday to today?"
As soon as he said these words, the noisy courtyard fell silent. Everyone looked at me and I looked at you, but no one said a word.
"Those who take the initiative to confess can have their punishment reduced by half." Yang Zhen said with a cold face.
These people still didn't speak.
"Jiang Shun, Yang Mabu," Yang Zhen began to call the names: "Two of you, one is the captain and the other is the vice-captain. Tell me, who has been in here in the past two days?"
The corner of Yang Mabu's mouth trembled. He turned around and saw Jiang Shun with a straight face and said nothing, so he also closed his mouth and just looked at Yang Zhen with pleading eyes.
"If you don't even say it, then I'll tell it for you!" Yang Zhen sneered and prepared to call the roll.
"Master!" Jiang Shun said hurriedly: "There is nothing in the backyard now. Brothers are just curious to take a look..."
"Bang!" Before he could finish his words, Yang Zhen suddenly slapped the stone table next to her, and the table immediately turned into rubble.
Jiang Shun was immediately frightened and speechless, and did not dare to say anything more. The other beggars were also trembling.
"Sir!" Yang Mabu knelt on the ground with a plop: "I went in and I confessed that I was wrong!"
"Plop, plop..." sounded one after another, and four more people knelt down and begged for mercy.
Jiang Shun and Liu Hao were not among them.
Yang Zhen secretly checked and found that except for Huang Youtian, the other people were all right.
He sneered in his heart, and without rushing to point it out, he said:
"Rules are rules. Since you eat with me, you must abide by my rules. Whether there is something in the backyard or nothing, you can't enter without my permission. If you go in, you have broken the rules and you will be punished. !”
"Everyone who goes in will have two legs broken. I will break their legs as long as they stay in there!"
"Since you took the initiative to confess, then reduce it by half and only break one leg!"
After saying that, Yang Zhen stood up and already had a piece of Xuanyang wood in her hand.
"If you are not convinced, you can resist. It doesn't matter if you all come together." He chuckled.
However, no one dared to resist. They all knelt on the ground, kowtowing desperately and begging for mercy.
Yang Zhen was very bored, but she didn't show any mercy. As her footsteps changed, five people were hit one after another. They all hugged their thighs and howled loudly, their cries shaking the sky.
"Jiang Shun!" Yang Zhen said: "As the captain, you cannot stop things when they happen. You will not report to me afterwards, or even conceal them for them."
"Twenty sticks! Are you convinced?" Yang Zhen stared at him.
"I..." Jiang Shun gritted his teeth, suddenly took off his clothes and threw them on the ground: "I quit, I'm leaving!"
"Leave?" Yang Zhen said sarcastically: "If you want to leave in a year, I will never keep you. Now, if you dare to leave this door, I will break your four legs!"
Under his coercion, Jiang Shun had to lie down. Yang Zhen asked Liu Hao to take action. With him watching, Liu Hao did not dare to show mercy at all, and beat Captain Jiang twenty times with a wooden stick until his skin and flesh were torn.
After teaching Jiang Shun a lesson, Yang Zhen stayed leisurely on the chair for half a quarter of an hour before letting Yiyi take action and cure all six people.
Returning to the chair again, he turned his gaze to Huang Youtian, his eyes as cold as frost:
"Huang Youtian, you are ugly today. Where are you?"
