The maid, upon hearing this, immediately fell to her knees in terror and pleaded, "Miss, it's all my fault, I will never dare again, please don't sell off my family."
Having served the young mistress for many years, no one knew better than she the extent of her mistress's cruelty. When the mistress was just eight years old, she had dared to push a maid who displeased her into the lotus pond to drown; after marrying into the Previous Uncle's House, she could, without blinking an eye, kick a pregnant maid and cause her to miscarry. Threatening to sell their family to a mine was not just to scare her.
"Remember the words you've just said. If there's a next time, I will sell off your family far away! Also, if those people are caught by the Government and you get exposed, don't you dare say anything that would cause trouble for me. Otherwise, nobody can protect your family, not even your newly born nephew. Do you hear me?"
