The next day, Lin Feng bought three maidservants to wait on his mother and wife and do the household work.
The maidservants had all been bought through legitimate channels.
There were no human traffickers under the Sword Sect's rule.
Anyone caught trafficking people would be sentenced to death by a thousand cuts.
With the cost of crime so high, no one dared enter that trade.
Yet many poor people who could no longer survive sold their sons and daughters.
These three maidservants were all plain-looking and young, around thirteen or fourteen.
But people in this world matured early. They looked like grown young women already and could handle any kind of work.
There was not much work in Lin Feng's household anyway—washing clothes, cooking meals, watching the children, and the like.
At first, Mother Lin and Zhou Chunlan were somewhat unaccustomed to it.
Mother Lin felt she could do everything herself and even complained that Lin Feng should not have bought maidservants.
After seven or eight days, Mother Lin and Zhou Chunlan got used to it.
Lin Feng taught them the Purple Moon Heart Sutra and Basic Swordplay.
His master did not permit the other sword techniques to be passed on, so he did not teach them.
In the blink of an eye, more than two months passed, and those days were exceedingly peaceful.
The Horse Bandits did not come into the city to seek revenge.
That put Lin Feng's mind much more at ease.
Still, the matter remained like a fishbone lodged in his throat. Such a great enmity could not possibly be written off so casually; there would surely be more to come.
Once he grew strong enough, he would have to find a way to wipe out the Horse Bandits for good.
Just as the old