With the tide already turned and the great building on the verge of collapse, there was no safe place left in Flame Capital—not even the Qin family residence.
After slaughtering the two servants who had transformed into beasts, Qin Yueyang ordered all the servants to lock themselves in their rooms and forbade them from coming out. Anyone who did would be treated as fresh wild game. For a time, the Qin residence fell utterly silent, without a single person in sight.
"Second Brother, you're still paying them too much!"
Qin Yueshi sat down in the Qin family's main hall and immediately began complaining. "Several of the Shi family's relatives next door have also turned into beasts... This beast mutation definitely has something to do with the National Salvation and Relief Society. And speaking of the National Salvation and Relief Society, we have to mention Sea Wave Powder... Those two servants must have eaten Sea Wave Powder, which is why they suddenly turned into beasts!"
"They actually had enough spare money to buy Sea Wave Powder. Second Brother, how exactly have you been managing the household? Big Brother isn't home, and you're wasting money like this? If you ask me, you should take this opportunity to punish all the servants by association, cut their wages in half, and take out whatever money they've saved... How could servants with surplus wealth possibly devote themselves wholeheartedly to their work? Don't tell me you don't even understand that principle. Our family wasted two servants this time precisely because you paid them too much!"
The people of Dongyang would have wept upon hearing this, while the Silver Blood Society would have fallen silent.
While chatting with her elder brother, Qin Yueshi no longer concealed her true nature. She nitpicked and berated Qin Leyin for his