Chapter 507: Don’t ask why

The love of the Chinese for gold was millennia old as it had seeped into their bones. Old Jin had been crude in the right area. Everyone’s eyes shone as they were excited beyond themselves.

‘Nouveau riche’ had been used as a derogatory term for so long. Actually, though, only when one had truly experienced it would they know how truly refreshing this phrase actually was.

If one has never lived unbridled and madly in life before, they should really not shamelessly claim to have cultivated their personalities and seen through it all. Of those who truly live in grand mansions, lording above all yet no longer thinking much of these worldly things, how many of them would not have dictated the winds and the rains, waved gold like soil, held a significant authority or traversed the line between life and death before…

Xu Tingsheng...