Succubus' Manor

More than half of the spring has passed, and all the seeds that should be sown have been planted. Once the sowing is over, the next busy time will be the harvest. The days in between are relatively free. Chi Yan also arranged a duty list for other jobs. The daily working hours are eight During working hours, there is a short meal break from [-]:[-] noon to [-]:[-] noon.

Chi Yan doesn't think that the longer the working hours, the better. His father often works overtime. According to his father's words: "Things that can be done well during working hours must be delayed until overtime."

It's not the employees who are procrastinating, but the leaders who are procrastinating. There are meetings during working hours, and a decision cannot be made for several hours. When it is time to get off work, the boss will blame the employees for their low work efficiency.You can only leave after finishing the work, and there is no overtime pay.

Chi Yan also said to his father at the time: "There is a labor law! Why don't you pay overtime pay?"

His father touched his head and said in an adult's weary tone: "Things in this world are not black and white, and people will follow the rules."

People who don't want to lose this job will naturally not fight against the company.

Those who have already decided to leave will not go to court with the company because of this, which is time-consuming and labor-intensive. If you have that time, it is better to go to a few more companies for interviews and find a new job.

Especially for a middle-aged man like Chi Yan's father, who still has a mortgage at home and has to save money, and his son is going to college soon, resign?What words?It is too difficult for middle-aged people to go to interviews and compete with young people.

Young people have more energy and require lower wages. The advantage of middle-aged people is experience, but experience is a treasure in the eyes of some people, and it is not worth mentioning in the eyes of others.

It is not necessary for everyone in a project team to have experience. The team leader and a few members have experience, and those who are inexperienced will become experienced after going through several projects. Talents need to be cultivated.

Only newly established companies urgently need experienced veteran employees, and hope that this veteran employee can bring over the contacts accumulated in the previous company.

Chi Yan's father often didn't arrive home until after ten o'clock in the evening, and would wake up after six o'clock the next day. His originally lush hair began to crumble after he was 40 years old, and he looked at least ten years older than Chi Yan's mother.

So Chi Yan hated the inefficient work system very much.

Is there anything wrong with getting people to get their work done in a shorter amount of time?Why do some people still believe that the longer you work, the more you get done?Chi Yan's father was rewarded by the company for one year, because he was the person who worked the longest overtime in that quarter, and he was rewarded with a 1000 yuan supermarket shopping coupon.

His father came home and said to him dumbfoundingly: "They think it's a good thing that I work long hours of overtime."

Chi Yan used to watch TV dramas, and felt that the top executives of big companies were all geniuses, and all of them were geniuses with higher IQs than ordinary people. When he was older and his father started telling him about the company, Chi Yan realized that he was right. The impressions of the company's top management all come from his own "brain supplement".

A huge company is like a kingdom.

The upper level, the middle level, and the lower level are clearly separated, and they are very divided. The leaders at the top hold an annual salary of tens of millions, and they are all talking about business with a unit of [-] million. They have no energy to manage the people below. , tried every means to get promoted, didn't pay much attention to the people below, and often implemented some inexplicable new rules of patting his head.

As for the low-level employees-no one listens to their appeals, and no one cares. The leaders all feel that the employees should do the job well with the salary. As for why they didn't do a good job?That's certainly not a question of leadership.

Chi Yan didn't want his territory to become a company like his father's.

So he made a new rule.

The working hours are from [-]:[-] am to [-]:[-] am, with an hour lunch break, and then from [-]:[-] pm to [-]:[-] pm.

The rest of the time people can allocate themselves.

But he doesn't care about civilians, and the working hours are only for people in the textile room, paper making room and blacksmithing room.

Thanks to Emma, ​​papyrus has also been made now, and people can finally wipe their butts without leaves. The raw material of papyrus is the most common weed in the territory. The leaves are shaved off, the roots are crushed and precipitated, and then processed, which is not very rough. , that is, it cannot be used for writing, because the ink will smudge.

Although the more accessible paper could not be made from this more accessible raw material, the papyrus it produced was very good.

It's a pity that there is a mess outside, and the cloth and sugar in the territory can't be sold.

There are a lot of things that they can't make themselves that don't get resupplied.

And the most important of them all, the salt, is running out.

He had to find a way to get salt.

The salt here is not modern refined salt, and there is not such a good refining process. The method of making salt is mainly by drying or boiling, but it is not diluted. In addition to salt, there are substances such as sodium sulfate and magnesium sulfate that cannot be removed. This kind of salt has a bitter taste, and its color is not so white.

There are two main sources of salt, sea salt and well salt.

Their place is far away from the sea, so there is no need to think about sea salt, and well salt is also unlikely. The only way to get salt is to buy it.

"I just don't know who to ask to buy it." Chi Yan has many available merchants, but he is most assured of Josh, probably because he has known Josh for a long time, and Josh is still risking his life Brought him cotton, they were, in a way, grasshoppers on a string.

It's just that he sent Josh out as soon as he arrived, which is really inhumane.

The butler was pouring ink by the side, checking the quills by the way, taking away the unusable ones, and filling in the usable ones.

Kadi also stood aside, seeing that the housekeeper did not speak. He was silent for a long while before saying, "My lord, I can go with you."

This is a good way. With Chi Yan's own people like Kadi following the merchant, he doesn't worry about the merchant playing tricks.

Chi Yan thought about it and felt that this method was feasible, so he smiled at Kadi and praised: "Your idea is very good."

Cardi was suddenly praised, and his entire face quickly flushed red.

He opened his mouth several times, but couldn't speak. He only dared to look at Chi Yan cautiously, trying to convey his excitement from his eyes.

But this time, Kadi flirted with the blind man, and Chi Yan didn't intend to let Kadi go out.

Dort has already gone out, and the butler is getting older. The child of the old friend of the butler is still on the way, or has encountered some danger, but has never arrived, so Kadi, as the second candidate, began to be emphasized by the butler. Teach, a successor to the housekeeper, more responsibilities are on the territory, beside the lord, so Kadi will not be sent out.

In the end, Chi Yan decided to let Josh buy salt, and the person he sent to protect him was Dahe besides the demons.

Since Dahe returned with the merchants, he still went to work in the blacksmith shop and quickly adapted to the life in the territory. He was not at all unhappy to let him go out this time.

Ever since he went to the city and dealt with the merchants, Dahe is no longer so afraid of the outside world.

The people outside are also very ordinary, they don't have overbearing heads and six arms, they don't show their teeth and claws, and many people even live worse than them. And those insidious businessmen are actually very limited. After all, there are not many businessmen who really want money or life. Most of all, I hope to earn more money and enjoy life more.

Dahe has a good relationship with Hei now, and has become the deputy director of the "kindergarten". After work every day, he and Hei take care of those children together. Hei is clumsy, and a baby he brought back cannot walk. I sew some cotton diapers, which I have to change frequently, and washing diapers has become a daily routine.

There is always a child's milky smell on her body.

Occasionally Dahe's mother would come to help.

The older children who have "graduated" from kindergarten will also take care of the newer children.

So when Dahe goes out, Hei will stay behind, and there are still so many children to take care of.

It was also when he was about to let Dahe go out that Chi Yan realized that there were so many orphans in his territory. In his impression, those children brought by Hei already had jobs, not working as orphans in the castle. The servant, just went to the weaving room, or other places.

Because of this, he didn't give them much special care, just made their job easier than adults.

It's not that Chi Yan is inhumane, but Chi Yan's decision after careful consideration.

In a group environment, people are more likely to feel a sense of belonging and integrate into the environment.

Just like a school, Chi Yan went back to visit it two years after graduating from junior high school. He had just graduated two years ago and knew all the facilities in the junior high school like the back of his hand, but when he really walked in, there was an unavoidable sense of strangeness. Feelings remind him that he doesn't belong there, he's just a "guest".

Only the students and teachers in the school will have a sense of belonging and will not feel that the school environment is unfamiliar.

With their own jobs, the children can not only quickly integrate into the group and get out of the haze of the past, but also cultivate the concept that those who do not work cannot eat.

"They were all picked up from the city?" Chi Yan touched his forehead.

Hei is a big picker of children, he seems to have no other hobbies other than picking up children, and he is willing to starve himself for these picked children, and distribute the food to them, so he loses weight quickly, but even so, he doesn’t Asked for help from others.

He regards those children as his own responsibility, and does not think that others should pay for his responsibility.

Cardi nodded: "The youngest can't speak or walk, and the oldest is six years old."

Hei was all raised in his house. For these children, Hei did not move into the new house, but gave up his own room and lived in the old house. Although it was a house with four walls and no room, it was big enough for the children to live in. Can live.

Chi Yan felt for a moment that Hei was a kind person.

A good person in the true sense, he only gives to the children and does not ask for them.

"Let the kitchen prepare two bowls of paste for the young children every day." Chi Yan rubbed his chin, "Let Hei take care of the children well, don't let him do other jobs, and pay him the average salary."

Cardi has no objection. He has become more and more like the butler recently, but he doesn't chat with Chi Yan like the butler. Except for his more lively eyes, he is as serious as the butler in the rest.

Hei got the news very quickly. When he got the news, he was taken aback for a moment, then pinched his arm in disbelief, and pulled out an extremely ugly smiling face. It was hard to tell whether it looked like crying or laughing.

Demons have no extra sympathy and kindness. Hei insisted on picking up and raising children, and was ridiculed by many demons.

"Are you crazy about wanting to be a mother? Picking up these cubs is not for eating. You don't look like a demon."

"How can there be such a weak and stupid thing like you among the demons?"

But because he didn't have enough food and became so thin, the sarcasm became louder.

The Demon Race is a strange race with constant internal strife. Even if they come out, they don't know how to write the word "unity".

Compared with other races, the demons are more like "children".

Joy, anger, sorrow, and joy are all based on mood, and I never know how to control them.

Once a demon shows a little bit of "humanity", it will become a different kind.

Hei, as an outlier, can be included in the book, so that students of later generations can write a long paper with their ears and cheeks.

It is estimated that there will be many students who hate him, wishing to travel to this period, and pull Hei's ears to make him a bad demon to the end.

Taking care of the children became Hei's job, and Hei did it with ease. When Da He came to say goodbye to Hei, Hei said to Da He: "The adults said to give the cubs a messy meal twice a day."

Hei grinned at Dahe, the smile was not very pretty, but the joy came from the heart, his eyes were shining.

Dahe was also happy: "I heard! You will be able to eat well in the future!"

Hei rubbed his stomach in embarrassment.

The children gathered around, either hugging Hei's legs, or stretching out their arms to hug Hei. When the children found their seats, Hei was almost submerged, but he didn't find it hard. The weight seemed to be heavy for him. Just fluffy clouds.

The children greeted Dahe with their big eyes of different colors: "Uncle Dahe."

They are called Uncle Dahe and Papa Hei.

Da He patted their heads one by one: "Uncle will be away for a while, you have to be obedient, do you understand?"

The children nodded in confusion, not knowing where they were going.

Hei also knew that he could not go out with Dahe. Before he was outside, he looked down on Dahe. He felt that Dahe, like other human races, was cowardly and cowardly. friend's friend.

He felt that he and Dahe had something in common, and this commonality made him feel that he was not so alone.

At least Dahe won't laugh at him for taking care of his children.

The youngest baby probably found that no one was paying attention to him, so he howled loudly. Hei had no choice but to walk over with a group of children on his back and hug the baby. Once he was hugged, the baby stopped crying. It seems that the purpose of his crying is to be hugged.

On the third day, Andrew was sent to the kindergarten by Chi Yan, and asked him to teach the children first with a specially formulated literacy teaching book.

Andrew, a half-way teacher, was driven to the shelves, and he couldn't refuse. After a day of class, he pulled out more than a dozen hairs by himself. The "student" still didn't remember a single letter, and he created his own pronunciation. The actual pronunciation is very different.

In fact, when he walked into the "classroom" and just attended a class, Andrew collapsed.

Seven or eight children used their small throats to mumble the effect of a group of ducks. Andrew felt that it was better to teach ducks than children.

But for the task assigned by Chi Yan, Andrew couldn't just quit, he could only hold his nose and be the teacher.

Teaching the children is only the first step. After the children can recognize the entire "alphabet", spell simple words, and complete the literacy task of [-] words, Andrew will become a qualified teacher and be able to carry out large-scale literacy activities.

Now everyone in the territory has something to do, Chi Yan has nothing to do, other than formulating a series of rules, he just started to think about how to improve his life, so Josh wanted to bring back some vegetable seeds besides salt, the most common vegetables It’s best to bring some, as long as it’s too difficult to plant.

Chi Yan also asked Anna to soak wheat germ to make maltose. Although there is no glutinous rice and only katuo, it will be no problem to try.

Anna soaked the wheat in water overnight, then spread it flat on a wooden frame, sprinkled water several times a day, and waited for the malt to emerge, and it took about a week for it to grow.

Then, under Chi Yan's guidance, Anna soaked the katuo in water first, then steamed it, mashed it into katuo mud and let it cool.

After that, wash the malt several times, chop it into slag, mix the broken malt and katuo mud with some water, and then let it stand in a pot with residual temperature for several hours to ferment.

After the fermentation is over, wrap the broken malt and katuo mud with gauze, and squeeze out the juice inside, which is the puree of maltose.

But only by putting it in the pot and boiling it slowly, can you know if it can be formed. After all, the maltose that Chi Yan knows is made of glutinous rice.

A small fire boiled the puree little by little, and the heat slowly rose up and wafted in the kitchen, carrying a scent.

Chi Yan smelled the fragrance and said to Anna: "Isn't it very fragrant?"

Anna nodded vigorously, then looked at Chi Yan with admiring eyes, as if Chi Yan knew everything and there was nothing he didn't know.

Anna stirred the puree until the color turned brown and then stopped the fire.

When it was cold, Chi Yan stirred it with two small wooden sticks to make sure that the maltose was made.

After cooling, the color was quite different from the maltose that Chi Yan had seen. This kind of maltose was white when made. Although it came out of a caramel-colored pot, after cooling, it became crystal clear and slightly white.

Although it has not been eaten yet, this appearance can be compared with a thumb first.

Chi Yan split two small wooden sticks rolled with maltose into two, and handed one to Anna.

There are two flavors with sesame candy. Maltose does not have the fragrance of sesame candy, but the sweetness is stronger. If it is made of grain, there is no smell of additives.

Chi Yan narrowed his eyes slightly, like a big cat sucking catnip, with an expression of enjoyment and fascination.

He seemed to have tasted a bit of modern civilization from this sweet malt candy.

Anna is not like Chi Yan, who can swallow maltose into her mouth in one gulp. She only dares to sip a little bit carefully, but bit by bit, her eyes stay on Chi Yan's face, and she can't move away at all. In the aroma of maltose, she feels A little unrealistic fantasy.

For example, the lord suddenly felt that she looked good or something.

She noticed the relationship between Chi Yan and Kleist, but she didn't understand what love and loyalty were. She only thought that if Kleist could do it, so could others. There is only one adult, but there can be countless lovers.

It's just that her gaze stayed for a long time, and she realized that it was a fantasy, so the sipping maltose slowly occupied all her senses.

Although the maltose is good, the portion is not much, and the katuo is more, but the wheat is less.

Still have to save the amount to pay taxes to the Holy Court.

The people from the Holy Court did not come for a long time, but it was better to come and leave early.

Chi Yan sipped the maltose on the wooden stick, and asked Anna to distribute the pot of maltose to children under 14 years old.

The children here do not have the opportunity to enjoy their childhood, nor do they have any special treatment. Except that they do less work than adults, everything else is the same. Therefore, when they learned that they can eat candy, they all looked calm on the surface and joyful in their hearts. up.

Norma is not yet 14 years old. She is on the tail of 13 years old. She can barely be regarded as one of the children. She successfully got the maltose. It becomes less, but twists more and more.

The little wild boars are arching around her legs. The wild boars give birth to piglets, but the real mother pigs leave the piglets after weaning. little baby.

So the real baby is still raised by Norma.

The other children cherished the licking of the malt candy. If it was not wrung, the malt candy would slide down the wooden stick. The younger kids didn’t know how to wring it, so the older kids wrung their own and helped them wring it. I was in a hurry.

Maltose is sweeter and more flavorful than sugar cubes.

But no matter how much the children cherish it, there will be a time when they finish eating.

Ai Wen didn't finish eating the malt candy, he just sipped a little bit cherishingly, and then went to the kindergarten while twisting. In fact, it was the house where Hei and the children lived. The children brought back are now working in the castle, cleaning up every day and carrying small things that are not heavy.

But he considers himself an adult, and since he is an adult, he has to take care of the weaker people like Hei.

So he brought maltose back, only to find that everyone had them.

Hei also waved at him, and with his ugly face, he squeezed out a barely pretty smile: "Someone came to deliver candy just now."

Ivan shook the wooden stick in his hand, and the maltose was already sliding down, so he twisted it quickly.

Hei touched the head of the child who was licking the candy, and said to Ai Wen: "Eat katuo biscuits tonight! Let's go to the cafeteria to eat!"

The "fuzzy" in Chi Yan's mouth is just a synonym for rice, and it doesn't matter whether it's squishy or not.

Alvin looked around the room.

For some reason, the circles of his eyes suddenly turned red.

His family has been ruined for too long, and he has long forgotten what home is like.

But now he feels at home again.

Hei was taken aback by Aiwen, because Aiwen was already crying.

Aiwen, who considers himself an adult, didn't cry, just shed tears.

He loves this land, loves the people on this land, and this is his home.