When you're out and about, even lowly servants are spoiled beyond measure, so unruly—must be something wrong with the family rules too.
Nobody dared say this to Shen Hao's face for now, but many people thought it, especially the self-proclaimed upper-tier types. When they saw the three Xia Nu girls fooling around, they forced polite smiles without intervening, but the scorn in their eyes was plain as day.
Even the three Guards from the Commander's Office, who trailed Shen Hao to secretly protect and keep watch over him, had their own opinions. Of course, they wouldn't step out and "lecture Shen Hao on how to discipline his servants," but they'd gossip about it anyway.
"Lord Shen is skilled, lucky, gifted, well-connected, and a real doer too, but he just can't get past the hurdle of women—what a pity." That was a fairly friendly take; some were nastier.
And you know, the longer gossip goes on, the more distorted it gets—doubling a story is hardly rare.
