The matter concerning Gu Rong and the others was a great disgrace for Old Master Zhan San and Young Master Zhan San, especially for Young Master Zhan San, who became the subject of ridicule by many scholars.
As they were resting in Linhe Prefecture, preparing to board a ship back to Jiangnan, they were surrounded by a group of scholars at their separate yard in Linhe Prefecture. At the entrance of their yard, they were cursed at and ridiculed, called worse than animals.
They even claimed such uncle-nephew in the Zhan Family disqualified them from being a noble family, threatening to write to the Family Heads of the Top Ten Families to have the Zhan Family removed from the noble family register, reducing them to even less than a third-rate noble family.
