The Yang family seldom kept servants for more than three or four days because the master and two mistresses always treated them like slaves, as if only by working them to death could they get value for the pittance they paid them.

• 杨宅用人，向来是三五天一换的，先生与太太们总以为仆人就是家奴，非把穷人的命要了，不足以对得起那点工钱。