Emperor Yongan's words brought Yang Wenxiao back to that day more than fifty years ago, his expression becoming somewhat absentminded, "Indeed, it wasn't just the copper coins that rusted, even the silver had tarnished."
His Yang Family owned vast lands, and before they took up arms, he had thought his family quite wealthy.
But after breaking into the Ruan Family's property, he saw the inheritance of an aristocratic family that had lasted a century – and then he understood how laughable his previous thoughts had been.
Those from the aristocratic families looked down upon the Yang Family, seeing them as country bumpkins, and they had their reasons for this contempt.
They had the heritage to flaunt and the capital to disdain others.
"Ha," recalling those with their chins held so high, the absentminded look vanished from Yang Wenxiao's face, replaced with a mocking sneer, "What about the Shen Family?"