Bai Zhengling's words landed like a series of resounding slaps across the faces of the family heads and young masters.
After all, their ancestors' shameful histories had been exposed in public...
Leaving them utterly humiliated!
The Head of the Chen Family instinctively clenched his cuff. As a child, he had seen the worn-out straw sandals his grandfather had used while pulling a rickshaw.
The Head of the Fu Family lowered his head, remembering how his grandfather had said that local thugs had bullied him when he sold fish, and people sent by Miss Lu had come to his rescue.
Those shameful memories should have served as a warning to their families, yet their descendants had forgotten them completely.
"Enough! So she gave us some money back then! What's so great about that?"
Li Feiyu suddenly roared like a rabid dog whose tail had been stepped on.
He pointed at Yue Xiaofei, his eyes brimming with contempt.
"Miss Lu gave the Li family dozens of gold bars and tens of thousands of taels of silver back then. We'll simply pay you back the original amount! We'll convert it into cash at today's gold and silver prices. You won't be short a single cent!"
"Exactly!"
Xu Ming, the Xu Family's young master, immediately chimed in. "The Xu Family is willing to repay that old favor at its original value too! It's only money, isn't it? We have plenty now!"
"The Chen family will do the same!"
Chen Hao, the Chen family's young master, shouted along with them. "We'll repay that old favor with money. There's no need to acknowledge some young lord!"
"We'll repay exactly what we borrowed back then! That should settle it, right?"
The other families' young masters nodded in agreement, as though money could buy out seventy years of