Just as Emperor Longchang was lost in his fantasies, Zhuge Liangcai beside him turned green in the face. He spun around and berated his distant relative, "Sixth Sister-in-Law Guihua, what nonsense are you spouting? Our patrol squad has never bullied others by throwing its weight around. Hurry up and apologize to these two elders!"
"Liangcai, you heartless bastard!" Sixth Sister-in-Law Guihua cursed. "Wasn't I speaking up for you? They're only two doddering old men. What, can they turn the heavens upside down?"
"Shut up!" Zhuge Liangcai was thoroughly enraged. "You are tarnishing the Wang Clan's reputation. What the Wang Clan detests most is bullying others through power. Let alone these two ordinary elders—even a beggar by the roadside, so long as they obey the law and do no evil, we will give them respect and help."
"Zhuge Liangcai, how dare you speak to me like that? Don't forget, our relatives helped tend the ancestral graves of your family's two forebears." Sixth Sister-in-Law Guihua sneered. "Your whole family has made it big now, so you look down on poor relatives, is that it?"
"If our ancestors saw you people sullying the main family's good name like this, they would probably crawl out of their graves in fury and point at the spines of us juniors." Zhuge Liangcai sneered. "If not for the Wang Clan doing everything in its power to rescue tens of thousands of refugees and help us rebuild our homes back then, our ancestors would have died long ago. Sixth Sister-in-Law Guihua, if you refuse to apologize, then go back to Lingbei Prefecture."
"I will convene a meeting of the Zhuge Clan and move the graves of our two ancestors to Xinping Town."
Though Zhuge Liangcai was young, he was an elite graduate of the Wang Clan School with