28 Chapter 28 – Myriad Flowers lodge (1/2)

A woman was walking down the dark halls of the Four Ways Melody lodge.

Deep black hair that was tied into a ponytail went down to her hips and swayed along with them as she walked.

Pure elegance.

That was the aura that exuded from this woman.

Dressed in a black yukata that had lace at the hems of the sleeve and the bottom near her ankles. The Lace was a pure shining silver. Her garments only further amplified the aura she was exuding.

Her feet were covered by plain white socks that made no sound as she traversed into a corridor.

As she walked by the sliding doors that were on each side of the corridor, her slender, smooth and fair hands would knock on the wooden doors. A sonorous melody of a rhythmic tapping would echo through the corridor when she did.

Almost every time, a door would open and a different voice would greet her ”Good morning mistress!”

Now and then the woman would not get a response when she knocked on the door. This would lead to her personally entering the room and then her stern voice would echo out of the room and into the corridor. The person in the room would be lightly chided and woken up.

This woman was Yuki. This was how she would begin every day at the lodge.

She would first wake up before anyone else and inspect the various halls and empty rooms of the lodge. Making sure that the girls had not missed cleaning any. She would then walk through the area where the rooms of her staff were located and make sure the girls had begun waking up.

She would then make her way to the dining room where she would prepare herself a cup of tea and wait for the girls in the lodge to assemble.

Within ten minutes of her wake up call, all the girls would show up in the dining room. Half the girls would go into the kitchen at the back and start preparing breakfast while the other half would be given a lecture by Yuki.

Yuki would usually point out any mistakes or complaints she had received from the girls during this time but the most important part was assigning tasks to each girl individually. Once she was done with this task for the first half of the girls, they would switch roles with the girls who had made them breakfast.

This was a system that Yuki had come up with to ensure that they would all get assigned tasks without wasting any time. The girls also got plenty of time to eat and calm down during the morning because of the lengthy process.

Of course, Fen was also mixed into the crowd along with the newly arrived twin sisters.

Unlike Fen and the others, the two girls had not been trained in anything yet so they were asked to stay beside Yuki.

Yuki spent most of this morning explaining to the twins how the rotations of jobs worked in the lodge as well as explaining how the travelling artists would occasionally give lectures to the staff. She also got the girls to go greet the others and made introductions for each personally.

She even set down a schedule for Elaine and Luna.

Where they would spend one hour every morning being trained either by her or the other girls who had already become specialists in certain tasks of the lodge. After breakfast, they would then join up with Adam and follow him into the dungeon. If he was training they could train with him or choose to attend lectures if they were being given.

Fen was put in charge of teaching them everything they needed to know about being personal maidservants for Adam.

At the end of breakfast as the light of the sun had started to show itself over the horizon, Yuki gave one last pep talk to the girls and sent them to begin their tasks for the day.

Fen led the twin's towards Adam's room to teach them their first and hardest daily task. Waking up the young master.

Yuki also left the dining room and made her way to the front cashier desk.

She waited there for a few minutes and then smiled when she saw two girls dressed in the lodges uniform cheongsam walk in.

The two bowed and greeted her respectfully, then took over the cashier desk.

These two girls were the oldest two that Yuki had hired when she started the lodge. They were both over eighteen now and had gotten married. They lived outside the lodge with their husbands but still continued to work at the lodge.

Yuki had never restricted the girls from having a private life. In fact, she had encouraged it. She was very glad that she could rehabilitate these girls who had lost their future to slavery.

It had never been her intention to do so. All she wanted was a safe place to raise her son. However, in the process of doing so, she had inadvertently created this environment. It was her proudest accomplishment that only lost in comparison to her pride in raising Adam.

Chatting with the two new arrivals for a while and getting to know about their daily lives, Yuki walked back to the dining room where she would wait to eat breakfast with Adam.

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Adam woke up fairly quickly today.

It wasn't that he was excited for the day or that he hadn't slept well. He was actually sleeping quite peacefully till Elaine got frustrated with him and decided to jump on him.