Chapter 403 - Chapter 403: Chapter 395: Treat the Servants Well_1 (1/2)

Chapter 403: Chapter 395: Treat the Servants Well_1

She should be the youngest of the three maids.

People with moles on their eyebrows are said, from the perspective of physiognomy, to achieve great success. Moreover, these individuals are especially intelligent.

Qin Niu had learned some wisdom from the Yan Family’s method of managing servants.

Although maids were servants, once they entered the household, they also counted as half a member of the family.

They might not amount to anything significant, but sometimes they could ruin their master’s important affairs.

If they intended to seek revenge on their masters, it would be an utterly terrifying matter.

It could even lead to disastrous consequences.

Qin Niu had heard of a case where a small landlord bought a maid who was made to work all day and was given only scanty meals, always the worst kind of food. And, if he was displeased, he would drag her into his room to vent his bestial desires.

One time, the mistress caught them in the act.

The landlord adamantly claimed that the maid had seduced him.

The mistress hung the maid up and beat her viciously, punishing her by making her kneel without food.

Everyone thought that was the end of it.

But after half a year or so, the landlord’s three-year-old son fell into a well and drowned.

A few months later, sores festered on the landlord’s head and his feet began to ooze pus and rot away. Despite seeing many doctors, his illness could not be cured.

The man grew thinner by the day, living in constant torment from his sickness.

Within less than a year, the landlord died in agony.

On the day of his death, he was skin and bones, his head covered in festering sores, his feet so rotted they were unrecognizable. His entire foot had turned black, continuously leaking fetid pus.

After the landlord was buried, only the mistress and the maid were left in the family.

Not long after, the mistress went mad.

The maid told outsiders that her mistress was haunted by the deceased master.

One day, the mistress was found dead in the river.

Everyone said the mistress had died by suicide, jumping into the river.

The maid took care of the funeral and asked the villagers to help bury the mistress. Everyone praised the maid for her loyalty and decency.

It wasn’t until later, when the officials’ constables came to the village and shackled the maid to take her away, that everyone learned the deaths of the landlord’s family of three had all been the doing of this maid.

Her intention was to seek revenge against the landlord’s family.

The landlord’s child was tricked by her to the backyard well, where she pushed him in.

He was drowned alive.

The landlord’s strange illness wasn’t due to doing too many bad deeds resulting in sores on his head and pus in his feet; it was because the maid had been secretly poisoning him.

The dosage was very well controlled; she would add the poison to the landlord’s tea or soup each day, eventually causing him to die in excruciating pain from the sickness.

The mistress went mad from being terrorized.

Her suicide by drowning was also a result of the maid’s manipulation.

A perfectly good family ended up devastated and decimated, all because they had mistreated this maid.

When Qin Niu initially bought the maids, he had ideas about how to manage them properly.

It boiled down to three approaches: first, maintain authority; second, show kindness; and third, offer help when they needed it, inspiring lifetime gratitude and loyalty.

As long as these three aspects were handled well, there would be no fear of their disloyalty.

After breakfast, Qin Niu mentioned to his wife that he was stepping out, shouldered a basket, and, with Green Ox, headed towards Black Tiger City.

He enjoyed taking every opportunity to walk to practice the Misty Rain Elusive Step.

This light-body cultivation technique was extremely useful for him.

Today, since he was alone and didn’t have to wait for anyone, his pace was much faster than usual.

In less than an hour, he had arrived at Black Tiger City.

With his Innate Realm cultivation complemented by the Misty Rain Elusive Step, it was indeed not too shabby.

A distance that took an average person four hours to walk, he completed in just one. His walking speed was four times that of a regular person.

And this wasn’t even his fastest speed yet.

If he put forth full effort, it would take him just over half an hour to reach Black Tiger City.

Once inside the city, he made straight for the Cultivation Market.