32 Chapter 32
◎Teaching people is like breeding, it requires a lot of effort◎
The leader struggled helplessly under his feet and begged for mercy, "What's your name, sir? We'll definitely avoid you when we see you next time."
Mu Yun grabbed him by the collar and lifted him up. "Since you call me Master, I must do my duty as an elder and help you wash your eyes with the manure water."
The others were so frightened they tried to flee, but then a lame old man emerged from the alley. Their faces paled, and they finally remembered who they were. One moonlit night, the two men threatened to throw them into the cesspool if they encountered them again.
Several people complained bitterly, wondering why they didn't check the almanac before going out today.
Mu Yun carried the people and walked briskly in front, while Qi Song followed behind with the four people like driving ducks and geese.
They found a cesspool and kicked a group of people down with a few kicks.
Zhaojia Village, the hill behind it.
Gui'er pulled Cheng Xi to see the progress here, but her mind was on the path in the distance.
A high platform has been built on the hill behind the mountain. Standing on the platform, you can see an area of 10 to 20 miles in radius.
There was no one on the path leading from Puyang City.
The sun was setting, and we should have arrived by then.
Gui'er was a little anxious. "What if we run into another big bug along the way? I could come along and lend a hand."
Cheng Mu's gaze fell on the two remaining circles of cultivated terraced fields. "Big tigers won't always be around. How can you, a girl, spend all your time thinking about hunting tigers?"
Two granaries have been built, and there is space left to build five or six more. Each granary can store 50 shi of grain. Within three years, the output of the existing fields will be able to fill these granaries.
Of course, this is an ideal situation and does not count as consumption.
Moreover, these granaries are just a cover. After they are repaired, will they really store all the food here? As the saying goes, a cunning rabbit has three burrows, so of course one's wealth should be placed in a place where others cannot find it, such as her space.
"Mrs. Cheng, look, that's them!"
Gui'er became excited. In the distant fields, a group of people appeared.
The car is right, the people are wrong, and the animals are wrong.
"Why are there so many people?" Gui'er was puzzled. "This can't be them."
After waiting for a long time, the figures became slightly clearer. Gui'er counted, "...five, six, seven people. Is the one in front leading...a horse?"
The people coming from that direction at this time should be Mu Yun and the others.
The two waited patiently until the people came closer and they were finally able to recognize them. Guier shouted and rushed down from the hill behind to meet them.
Mu Yun and his companions went to Puyang City and brought back corn seeds, five people, and a wounded horse.
After welcoming the people, Gui'er excitedly circled around the horses. Mu Yun settled the people and horses, then went into the side room to report to Cheng Mu about what had happened in the past two days.
"So these guys are the city's ruffians and down-and-outs?"
"It was before, and it is my sister-in-law's person now." Mu Yun handed the personal contracts of several people to Cheng Mu.
Cheng Mu was surprised that he actually bought the person who robbed him.
Mu Yun and Qi Song threw several people into the cesspool and made them suffer. After they washed themselves clean, they invited them to a meal. They learned that these people had relied on their relatives who were garrison soldiers in the city to act tyrannically inside and outside the city. Sometimes they would hit themselves with bricks and ask for other people's property, sometimes they would commit fraud, and sometimes they would rob people, which was abominable to both humans and gods.
Since the beginning of this year, the garrison has undergone significant changes. The backers of several people have been punished for crimes, and the way for several people to rob others' property has been blocked by another group of backers, and their lives are very miserable.
Since they were complaining, Mu Yun simply threatened and seduced them. In the end, they all felt that they had almost no chance of making a fortune living in the city, so they might as well follow him, where they would have enough food and drink and be happy for the rest of their lives.
As for selling their bodies, they did it voluntarily. Mu Yun found an official and paid a total of two taels of silver to get the indentures stamped by the government.
Just now, Cheng Mu officially met these people. They were typical second-rate guys. Although they sold themselves as servants, they still looked at her with frivolous and dissolute eyes. Their whole demeanor was lazy. Their only advantage was that they were young.
The oldest of them was only seventeen, and the rest were fifteen or sixteen. They were all short and thin as sticks. At first glance, they looked like they were only thirteen or fourteen years old.
The advantage of being young is that second-rate habits have not yet been deeply rooted and can be corrected, but it just takes some effort.
"Take care of these people for now. Teaching people is like breeding. It requires a lot of effort. Be bold and learn by doing."
Mu Yun agreed, "Uncle Qi said to correct our behavior and habits first."
Cheng Mu nodded. "The desire for pleasure and laziness are inherent in human nature. They are accustomed to threatening, defrauding, and robbing others of their property without any restraint. Does Uncle Qi have some rules?"
Mu Yun told the truth, "Qi Bo was a bodyguard when he was young, and later became a steward. He has his own way of dealing with wicked people."
"That's great, I'll learn from you too."
When talking about the arrangements for these people, Mu Yun said that they would be placed on the hill in the back mountain first, and when they were well taught, they would be brought to Cheng Mu to serve.
No longer having to worry about their food, accommodation, education and transportation, and with more people working, Cheng Xi felt much less worried.
"Take these dozen taels of silver for yourself, and ask me for more if it's not enough." Cheng Mu sold ginseng for 150 taels in Puyang City, but only took 100 taels.
Mu Yun handed the corn seeds to Cheng Mu again, thinking he had received a unique share. Unexpectedly, she said, "The day before yesterday, County Magistrate Huang sent two dou of corn seeds. I thought he got them through some channel. Are they being sold in the market now?"
“This is the only one.”
"Maybe he also bought it from the market." Cheng Xi guessed.
"Why did Mr. Huang send corn seeds?"
"Why did you buy it? It's a new thing. Few people grow it here in Yanbei, so they don't know its benefits. I see that the land on the south side of the hill behind us has been prepared quite a bit. After two rains, we can plant some seeds there."
Mu Yun felt a little uncomfortable when she thought that someone was busy with official duties but still cared about her all the time and would try to please her.
The horse they brought back was picked up on the way back. The horse was injured. It was not known whether it ran away because of fright or was abandoned by its owner because of its injury.
Fortunately, the horse's injuries were not on its legs.
If a horse injures its leg, there is almost no hope of recovery. There is a horse farm nearby, and the villagers all know that horses without three legs will be directly dealt with by the horse farm owner after a leg injury.
There was a dart stuck in its buttocks. Qi Song speculated that it was attacked from behind and ran away in fright. After it could no longer run, it rested and drank water by the water on the hill where they hunted the tiger.
The dart is a boomerang, very beautifully made and not for ordinary people to use. Mu Yun kept it for himself.
He brought back some medicine for bruises and wounds from the pharmacy. Because he really wanted to save the horse, he applied the medicine directly to it.
Qi Song judged the horse's age by its teeth. It was four years old, a young horse. Its previous owner had taken good care of it.
What Guier is more worried about is whether it will leave and return to its previous owner?
No one knew the answer to this question. Qi Song only said, "Let it grow for a while, and it will become ripe after a while."
The ruffians that Mu Yun bought were named Sao Hu, Chou Gou, Wu Yong, Chen Hu, and Li Yu.
Saohu's surname is Hu, and his name is Hu San. He gave himself the pseudonym Saohu, which sounds cunning. The others all have real names.
They settled down on a raised platform built on the hill behind them. Mu Yun had bought two layers of straw mats before leaving Puyang City, and they were incredibly soft. The five of them shared a large, comfortable kang, and there was a stove in the back room for cooking and even burning charcoal in the winter.
Several people were very satisfied with their living quarters, especially after learning that those warehouses would be used to store grain in the future. It felt like a mouse had taken up residence in a rice warehouse in advance, and they could even fly in their dreams.
Qi Song set the following rules for them: first, they were not allowed to defecate or urinate within the walls; there was a designated area for this. If anyone smelled a foul odor, they would be beaten. Second, they had to cook their own meals, two meals a day. Third, they had to work every day.
After hearing what kind of work they had to do, a few of them felt exhausted just by listening to it, and were thinking about how to cheat. But after hearing what they had to eat every day, their eyes lit up.
Eat meat every meal.
I didn't lie to them, every meal was filled with fatty meat. They ate the most happily in the first two days. Their bellies were so full that they felt like they were living a god's life.
After three days, I couldn't stand it anymore and felt like vomiting when I saw meat.
Qi Song said it was simple. He wanted to vomit because he didn't do enough work. He must have been cheating. He ate the same food as them every day and did more work, so he didn't do that.
Sao Hu and a few others observed and found that Manager Qi only ate one piece of meat at each meal.
Do they want to eat one too? No, if they eat one, they will lose out. If you eat less, others will eat more. They are used to fighting over food, and the safest thing is to eat what goes into their stomachs.
After five days, he was vomiting and having diarrhea. Whenever he smelled meat, he would wave his hands and beg Manager Qi to never eat meat again.
Because several people were vomiting and having diarrhea at the same time and did not follow the rules for urinating and defecating, each of them was beaten by their companions.
When Cheng Mu heard about this, Qi Song had already tamed several people, because it was true that if you eat too much meat, your body will feel better only if you work hard, and after working hard, the meat will taste better.
I underestimated Qi Song before, thinking he only knew some martial arts.
Next, Mu Yun led them in training, training them like they were training soldiers.
Several people would train and work as soon as they opened their eyes every day, and would fall asleep as soon as they were tired at the end of the day. Over time, their previous bad habits had disappeared.
Mu Yun's horse did not leave. It was carefully cared for every day. The injury did not worsen in the hot weather and healed quickly. Mu Yun gave the horse a new name, Chengfeng.
Riding the wind was not smooth at the beginning and Mu Yun fell many times.
By the time he was finally able to ride on horseback, Xiaoliu and Xiaoqi were almost one year old.
Xiaoliu could crawl when he was less than eight months old and could walk when he was eleven months old, but Xiaoqi still couldn't crawl.
Cheng Mu asked Xiaoliu to teach Xiaoqi how to crawl. After trying many times, Xiaoqi could only arch his back a few times.
Yu comforted her, saying that it didn't matter if boys grew slower, as most boys just didn't grow as fast as girls.
She used Muyun and Guier as examples, but Cheng Mu disagreed. They were all girls, some grew faster than others.
Mu Yun had grown taller and was now an inch or two taller than Cheng Mu. He was still very thin, but had a strong body.
He had just returned from town, having gone there on horseback, to buy things for Xiaoliu and Xiaoqi's one-year-old celebrations. He jumped off his horse with a graceful posture.
So energetic.
Cheng Xi is also young in body, but Xinzi is at the age of a graduate student. How can she not envy those who are young in both body and mind.
"Here are the ritual objects. I also bought weapons and bows and arrows."
When Mu Yun handed the thing to Cheng Mu, she suddenly grabbed his hand.
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