Sun Huaizong went to arrange for people to dig ditches according to Fang Xiaoyu's instructions, Fang Xiaoyu turned to Lin Feng and smiled: "Brother Lin, how are those orphans?" Lin Feng squeaked a little and stopped talking. Fang Xiaoyu said with a smile: "I said that we will be brothers in the future, since we are brothers, what is there to say." ”

Lin Feng listened to Fang Xiaoyu's words and had no choice but to say: "There are a lot of orphans, there are probably more than 1,000 people in the new harvest recently, but fortunately, the granary is tall, and Uncle Sun asked people to build a wooden frame on it to make a two-story attic to live in." Fang Xiaoyu smiled: "What's so embarrassing to say, I'm afraid I can't afford it?" Lin Feng shook his head and said, "It's not because of this. ”

Glancing at Fang Xiaoyu, Lin Feng said as if he had made some major decision: "I have a good friend named Le Cheng, who has established a gang in the city, and more than thirty people in this gang are thieves. They have recently been suppressed by the government and can't survive, so when they came to the villa to seek refuge with me, I accepted it. After Lin Feng finished speaking, seeing Fang Xiaoyu's face sank, he explained: "Le Cheng is a good person, and he is really hungry and can't stand it before he steals things." His gang was also full of suffering orphans, who he had been taking care of, and they only stole from the rich, never against the poor, and even had surplus food to help the poor. ”

Fang Xiaoyu said in a cold voice: "Brother Lin, what did I tell you before. Lin Feng lowered his head and said, "It's all hooligans, ruffians, thieves and the like." Fang Xiaoyu said: "If I punish you, are you willing to be punished?" Lin Feng said: "I know that I did something wrong this time, and I am willing to be punished." ”

At this moment, among the orphans behind Lin Feng, one person walked out quickly.

Liu Junxi, who was on the side, was afraid that someone would hurt Fang Xiaoyu, so he just wanted to step forward and take him down. I saw that the person who came suddenly knelt beside Fang Xiaoyu and said: "I am happy to know that I am not a good thing, if the young master can't tolerate me, I will go by myself, I just ask you to keep my brothers, they are forced by me." ”

At this time, more than 30 people rushed out of the crowd and knelt next to Le Cheng, and one of them said, "Big brother, let's go with you." The other also said, "If it weren't for the big brother, we would have starved to death, and we would have followed the big brother." Others also expressed their desire to go with Lecheng.

Le Cheng was so anxious that his head was covered with sweat: "You want to stay, now that the government is arresting us, will you go out with me to send us to death?" The first person to speak said, "Big brother, I was picked up by you, and if I die, I will die with you." ”

Fang Xiaoyu said coldly on the side: "What, is it a deep brotherhood to perform here with me?" The man said angrily: "Big brother, let's go, even if we die, we will die with backbone." Thirty other children were clamoring to leave. Le Cheng was so anxious that he didn't know what to say. At this time, Lin Feng stepped forward and said: "Young master, they are all good people, please let the young master keep them, Lin Feng is willing to be punished." ”

Le Cheng said hurriedly: "Brother Lin, you can't do it for us. Fang Xiaoyu suddenly laughed, attracting everyone's sideways. I saw Fang Xiaoyu smile and said: "Okay, very good, you all stay, you will be my Xiaoyu's brother in the future, as long as I have a bite to eat, you will definitely not be hungry." ”

Lin Feng and Le Cheng were excited to say something, but Fang Xiaoyu waved his hand to stop them and said, "I said that everyone should be like brothers when they get together, I hope you can always treat your brothers like this, as long as we are united, we will always have a good life." Hearing Fang Xiaoyu's words, all the orphans, whether they were early or new, nodded heavily.

At this time, Fang Xiaoyu's face suddenly turned cold and said, "But Lin Feng must be punished, do you know what he did wrong?" Le Cheng was about to step forward to say something but was stopped by Lin Feng, he said respectfully: "I made a mistake for violating the young master's order, and I admit punishment." ”

Fang Xiaoyu nodded: "Yes, I punish you to make you all remember that if you want to live a good life forever, you need not only brotherly unity, but also discipline." The so-called family has a thousand heads of the family, and without discipline, no matter how united the brothers are, they will not do much. Of course, I don't want you to just know and listen to orders like wood, if you have any ideas, you can put them forward to me, we can discuss, if your method is better, I will definitely accept it. After all, I am not a god, and I have times when I make mistakes, but once a decision becomes a command, it must be done to the letter, and this is discipline. ”

Seeing that everyone was thoughtful, Fang Xiaoyu turned his head to Lin Feng and said, "This time, if you are a first-time offender, you will not be severely punished, so you will be grounded for one day and not allowed to eat." Lin Feng accepted it convincingly, and Fang Xiaoyu said to Le Cheng again: "In the future, in addition to literacy, you will be trained by me personally." Le Cheng happily agreed, and Fang Xiaoyu waved his hand to let everyone disperse.

Sun Huaizong had been watching from the side for a long time, and when he saw everyone walking away, he stepped forward and whispered: "The young master's hand of grace and power has brought people's hearts together, I really admire it." Fang Xiaoyu said: "I was also forced, I really want to get a group of good brothers with one heart and one mind to develop my own career, if I don't have discipline to restrain them now, something big will happen in the future." ”

Fang Xiaoyu feels that there is not much difference in IQ when he is born, and he mainly relies on his own acquired efforts. These orphans have experienced the warmth and coldness of the world, and once they live a good life, they will definitely work hard and study hard, and having these people will definitely be of great help to their future development. Fang Xiaoyu continued: "These are not enough, you gather all the house slaves tonight, I have something to announce." ”

At night, Sun Huaizong summoned the house slaves to the farmland on the edge of the villa, there was no way, the current production efficiency is very low, and each strong laborer can cultivate about 100 acres, so even the cultivation area of Lanting Villa is not large, and the number of people is more than 4,000 people, which is only the result of strong labor, women and children have not come. Seeing that there were so many people, Fang Xiaoyu's scalp was also a little numb, but in order to unite them, he had to hold a meeting with them.

Fang Xiaoyu stood in the middle of the crowd, and in order to let everyone see him, he asked Sun Huaizong to stack a high platform with wood. He glanced at some of the thousands of pairs of eyes that were staring at him, calmed down and said, "I have asked you to come today because I have something to announce. In order to illuminate Fang Xiaoyu's surroundings, Sun Huaizong had some torches lit around him, and those torches soaked in animal fat emitted slow black smoke, which made Fang Xiaoyu's throat tense for a while.

He coughed, cleared his throat and said, "Before announcing the matter, I want to ask everyone now, am I good to everyone?" "In the past, these house slaves were not only tired, but also had no food to eat. Since Fang Xiaoyu took charge of Lanting Villa, although he was tired, he was full of food, and when he was sick, he was allowed to go home to rest, and even asked a few old doctors who came to lecture to bring those female students to see a doctor and deliver medicine, and recently let the children of each family go to school with those orphans for free, so these house slaves still love the new young master very much, because the young master treats them as human beings. Therefore, many people said: "Okay, the young master is good to us." ”

Fang Xiaoyu smiled: "So I'm ready to let everyone get out of slavery and give everyone freedom." Fang Xiaoyu didn't hear the cheers he imagined, and the whole scene suddenly quieted down, and everyone looked at each other. After a while, a bold house slave said, "Young Master, are you going to drive us away?" ”

Listening to his questioning, Fang Xiaoyu knew that they had misunderstood. This is also Fang Xiaoyu's negligence, many countries in this world are still semi-slave societies, and the countries are divided into free people and slaves, and the ratio even reaches one to fifty, and a big family like the Xiang Fang family even controls millions of slaves. Most of these slaves were taken prisoners of war by their ancestors, or sold themselves, or picked up as slaves from childhood, and their ancestors were slaves for generations, and they have never heard of freeing slaves, so it is no wonder that everyone misunderstood.

Fang Xiaoyu smiled: "I'm not driving you away, but I won't let you be slaves anymore." I will give you the land to plant, and I will provide the seeds, and you will only give me forty percent of the annual harvest as rent for the land and seed money. Hearing Fang Xiaoyu's explanation, the slaves in front cheered, and the people behind didn't hear Fang Xiaoyu's words, but when they listened to the words from the people in front, everyone began to cheer.

When the cheers gradually subsided, Fang Xiaoyu said again: "Tonight, you can elect your own leader, reorganize the village, and come to me tomorrow to redivide the land." ”

When Fang Xiaoyu walked off the stage amid cheers, Sun Huaizong walked over and said, "Young Master, this is not good. How to explain this to the family. Fang Xiaoyu smiled and patted Sun Huaizong's back and said, "I have my own measure in what I do." There is one more thing I forgot to tell you, from today onwards, Lanting Villa has separated from the Fang family and become my own property. After listening to Fang Xiaoyu's words, Sun Huaizong smiled bitterly: "This little young master really has a lot of novel ideas, and I don't know if it will work." ”

Back at the residence, Fang Xiaoyu found that a thin black shadow was trembling in the dark shadow at the door, Fang Xiaoyu stepped forward to take a look, it turned out to be Sun Xiaomei. Seeing Fang Xiaoyu coming back, Sun Xiaomei greeted him and said, "Young Master, I have something to do with you." Because he has a good relationship with Sun Xiaohu, he also loves Sun Xiaohu's sister very much, and he hurriedly said: "Why are you still standing outside on such a cold day, go to the house quickly." With that, he let Sun Xiaomei into the house. Fang Xiaoyu brought her a cup of hot water and said, "Drink some hot water to warm up." Xiaomei took the hot water and said, "Young master, I have something to ask you." ”

"Say what?" Fang Xiaoyu said to Xiaomei, who was just eight years old. Xiaomei said: "I want to plead for Brother Lin, he hasn't eaten for most of the day, I secretly sent him food, but he didn't eat, so I came to find the young master." Fang Xiaoyu smiled and said, "Brother Lin must be punished for doing something wrong today, this is discipline." ”

Sun Xiaomei agreed, stood there with his head down, stopped talking and refused to leave, Fang Xiaoyu shook his head, took a pack of dim sum from the table next to him and said, "Okay, I'm afraid of you, you can take this bag of dim sum to Brother Lin to eat, tell him that I gave it to him, remember not to let people see it." Sun Xiaomei, who had a disappointed expression, raised his head and said with a smile: "Young Master Xie Lu, I know that Young Master Lu Dao is the best." After saying that, he shook his two pigtails and ran away. Looking at Sun Xiaomei's distant back, Fang Xiaoyu shook his head self-deprecatingly, closed the door and went to sleep.