Old Granny Zhang was listening by the side and understood clearly that Shopkeeper Wu's remarks about Ninth Young Master seemed to indicate he wasn't a pleasant person, which immediately made her anxious. Ever since the incident in Qi City, Old Granny Zhang had been fearful of encountering these noble patrons.
If the nobles were reasonable it would still be bearable, perhaps just suffering some physical pain. However, most nobles were irrational, or rather, they didn't reason with common folk.
Song Chongjin's birth mother had also once been a lady of a grand household. When the family fell from grace, she became like a fresh flower dropped into a mud pit, trampled upon by all. A young lady of her standing could not even become a concubine.
How desolate!
It had not been easy for her own family to escape from the mud pit of Qi City, and she dared not deal again with these powerful and noble officials.
