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."
