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"Isn't that the truth? As the old saying goes, 'the third generation looks at food, the fourth at clothes, and the fifth at literature.' Our family comes from humble farmer roots; how could we compare to those who have been wealthy for five or six generations? You needn't concern yourself with these matters. Without the accumulation of wealth over several generations, spanning hundreds of years, how could one become such a household? If our family happened to come upon 100,000 taels of silver right now, we would still be nothing more than upstarts," the grandfather said with a chuckle, comforting his wife.
