Chapter 996

She remembered. The person behind the hundred-flavor inn was none other than the City Lord's wife of Xiaoshi City. Setting aside how things were elsewhere, the City Lord's wife of Xiaoshi City was a local tyrant, someone you certainly didn't want to cross without absolute strength. Everyone in the dozens of towns under Xiaoshi City's jurisdiction knew that the current City Lord's wife was not his first wife, but a second one whom the City Lord greatly favored. The Sun family had been rooted in Xiaoshi City for generations. Though now in decline, they still maintained good relations with the City Lord's first wife. The first wife had been a kind person who deeply appreciated the Sun family's moral character and conduct, but she had not lived long, dying just a few years after giving birth to a son.