Chapter 1176: Chapter 350: [New Cave Dwelling]_3
He gently clapped his hands, and more than a dozen servants filed out of the side rooms, quietly walking to the front yard and standing in front of Chen Yan, standing motionless and not even breathing.
If you took a closer look, these were not real people, but paper effigies, albeit painted with human features. They were crafted quite realistically, so much so that from a distance, one might mistake them for real people.
These paperman puppets can currently handle some simple tasks like cleaning and moving things.
If you want them to perform more complex tasks, such as planting, gardening, or even kitchen work, you need to personally instruct them. It’s akin to controlling them with your mind; after a few times of practice, it equates to inputting a fixed program, and the paper figures can repeat the programmed tasks.
Chen Yan waved his hand, "Scatter out, and get to work."
In fact, speaking was just a way for Chen Yan to fulfill his desire to pretend; these paper servants were not controlled by voice; they were driven by the mind.
More than a dozen servants scattered and each went to their tasks.
Some took tools to sweep the front yard, while others went to the back courtyard.
Chen Yan directed four servants to the backyard.
Originally, there was a lotus pond in the backyard, but since the mansion had just been completed, it was merely an empty pit, not even water, let alone lotuses.
The four paperman servants jumped into the empty pond, using tools to clear the pond bottom and then arranged items like pebbles.
Chen Yan watched these tireless puppets work and nodded with satisfaction.
Not a penny spent on wages, no need for food or drink, and working tirelessly day and night—capitalists would be brought to tears!
As for wear and tear, these papermen were not made from ordinary paper; they were crafted by the apprentices under the Golden Blade Master. Their skills were exceptionally solid!
Don’t be fooled by those disciples acting small under the Golden Blade; outside, they could be considered artifact refining experts in the Southern Border.
The warehouse held a reserve of two hundred spare paperman puppets, but Chen Yan felt that since not many people lived in the house now, he only activated fifteen puppets to first handle the daily cleaning and maintenance work.
Once the lotus pond project was completed, they could save a few more.
As for the craft of paper figure making, Chen Yan also got it from the Golden Blade Master, but he didn’t plan to make them himself; he thought of teaching a few paper figures so that they would learn after several repeats.
If papermen are excessively used up in the future, he could let these figures make new figures themselves.
"The craftsmanship, keeping it to myself instead of going elsewhere. If I were to set up a sweatshop with it, any company like Foxconn would get shut down."
Watching the paperman puppets incessantly working in the lotus pond, Chen Yan nodded with satisfaction.
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A large mansion with three entrances and three exits was constructed—it was the dwelling Chen Yan prepared for his spiritual retreat.
Although the villa was good, it was, after all, in a mundane neighborhood with too many people, and many things couldn’t be executed there.
Moreover, the most critical issue is...
Now at home, there was a Saint who had already awakened consciousness!
Too many secrets of mine make many things inappropriate to do at home.
Nor was it appropriate to place the retreat into the Mirror World—the Mirror World lacked Primordial Qi.
After walking through the three sections of the yard from front to back again, Chen Yan carefully considered if there were any omissions.
As for the lotus pond, he planned to plant Beautiful Glow there. Later he would plant the original fruit given by Beautiful Glow in it.
And the Heaven-Swallowing Treasure Beast, that big toad would be kept in the lotus pond.
At this thought, Chen Yan casually released the Heaven-Swallowing Treasure Beast.
This creature was much larger than a basketball, with a round body, and if it were painted with gold lacquer, it would closely resemble the legendary golden toad.
However, this creature was rather silly and cute, neither croaking nor jumping but staring at him with large eyes.
Chen Yan stared at it, feeling a spark of inspiration.
"You’re called the Heaven-Swallowing Treasure Beast and look like a golden toad, so from now on, you’ll be called ’Golden Treasure.’"
Well... this creature was easy to feed, as it could eat anything...
Glancing around at the paperman puppets digging in the lotus pond, filling it with stones, they’d already dug a lot of soil, heaped one shovel after another into a pile.
"Alright, alright, nothing else to feed you with now, so eat the dirt for now."
After speaking, he picked up Golden Treasure, tossed it onto the pile of dirt, and pointed with a finger.
Golden Treasure stared wide-eyed at Chen Yan, frozen for a good five seconds, unmoving.
Finally, after a prolonged mutual gaze, Golden Treasure began to budge its plump body, hopping twice and falling onto the pile of dirt, opening its mouth...
As he watched Golden Treasure start to eat, Chen Yan nodded with satisfaction.
He summoned a paperman puppet specially assigned to watch over Golden Treasure, feeding it with dirt and promptly collecting Golden Treasure’s excrement—after all, its raising was for its excrement.
Having arranged a paper puppet excrement collector, Chen Yan looked back at his sparse house and slapped his forehead.
"There’s still furniture to furnish, otherwise, I can’t eat and sleep on the floor."
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To procure furniture, Chen Yan wasn’t interested in personally running off to a furniture store to buy it.
With money, how could he not find a tool for the job?
Having left the Chen mansion from the lake, Chen Yan returned home and took out his phone to scroll through his WeChat friend list.
Hmm, which tool would be the most handy to use?
Chu Keqing could certainly do well with it, after all, her Yunzong Academy was designed with ancient architecture.
But Chu Keqing was currently in Port City.
Fang Dahai, Fatty Fang, Boss Fang, also wanted to make friends with him. But even though Boss Fang might be willing to help, he’d likely just hand it off to an assistant, plus he was too shrewd; asking him for a favor would incur a debt of gratitude.
The most crucial point is...
Boss Fang’s rustic aura was too strong; his aesthetic might end up making the house look like a country squire’s house.
Oh?
Got it!
This tool, well, it was perfectly suited to the job.
Both a person and a dog.
A flunky!
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