"Look at you, child, always so polite; you won't even comfortably call me 'Old Madam Zeng,' insisting on making me feel old," Mrs. Zeng chided with a smile, her brows softened in kindness, evidently a good-tempered elderly lady.
Lixiu, upon hearing this, repeatedly said she dared not. Outsiders did not know she was sold to the Mo Family and was their servant; yet she was acutely aware of it herself. If she carelessly disrupted the social order and her family's true identity were to be revealed in the future, it would be very upsetting, and it might lead to unfavorable views towards the Mo Family.