Kengkeng immediately cooperated and shouted, "Yes! My mom said this is called 'golden shit attracts wealth'! Touching it brings wealth, smelling it brings longevity!"
Wawa also jumped up and down: "Sir, please feel it! You can calculate how much gold I have at home by touching it!"
Sai Shenxian looked at the pile of "gold shit" and then at the people around him pointing and talking, and felt his scalp tingling. He had calculated Shen Weiwan's identity, and he didn't dare to get angry. He was also afraid of being laughed at if he stayed any longer, so he had to pack up his stall in a hurry: "Today's time is not favorable, let's calculate it another day!"
"Sir, don't go!" Shen Weiwan chased after him for two steps, "You haven't calculated how much this shit is worth! Can't you figure it out?"
Sai Shenxian walked into the alley without looking back, and the onlookers burst into thunderous laughter. Someone shouted, "The Seventh Prince's Consort is amazing! She can even scare away a con man with shit!"
On the way home, Kengkeng looked up and asked, "Mom, can that fake shit really bring wealth?"
Shen Weiwan scratched her son's nose and smiled cunningly: "Silly boy, this is called psychological tactics. Scammers see that even our shit is so precious, so naturally they dare not target us anymore."
Xiao Yu laughed aside and said, "Madam, this tactic is truly superior to the original. If the general's ancestor knew that his descendants used his tactics to trick scammers, he would probably crawl out of his grave and applaud."
Back at the Prince's Mansion, Chun Tao brought hot water for Shen Weiwan to wash her hands. Looking at the soybean powder dissolved in the basin, she couldn't help but frown: "Madam, your fake shit is too real. I almost vomited when I saw it from a distance just now."
"Of course," Chen Weiwan wiped her hands and instructed the maid to put away the wood ash. "Our ancestors said that when you cheat someone, you must pay attention to details. Oh, and put the remaining soybean powder in the warehouse. You can use it next time you cheat someone."
Xiao Yu looked at the bags of soybean flour gradually piling up in the warehouse and sighed helplessly: "If this continues, the warehouse of the Prince's Mansion will really be converted into a soybean flour warehouse."
That night, Shen Weiwan was reading "Memoirs of a Traitorous Ancestor" by candlelight when she suddenly burst into laughter. Xiao Yu leaned over and saw tiny words written in the corner of the page: "The art of fake feces can lead to the method of 'golden urine'. Mix sulfur, honey, and cinnabar until it turns golden. Place it in a container and it will become liquid gold..."
"Hahaha! Our ancestor is truly a genius!" Shen Weiwan laughed so hard she slapped her thigh. "Next time we encounter a liar pretending to be rich, we'll just use 'golden urine' to fool him!"
Xiao Yu's face changed, and he quickly pressed the page of the book: "Madam, there's no need to try this 'golden urine', right? What if it gets on you..."
"That's not necessarily true," Shen Weiwan raised her eyebrows, her eyes flashing with excitement, "you should be brave enough to try everything."
Xiao Yu held his forehead with his hand: "Forget it, forget it. Just don't add it to my tea."
The moonlight shone softly outside the window. Laughter from the prince's palace filtered through the leaves of the sycamore trees, startling the nightingales perched beneath the eaves. Shen Weiwan knew that with this book, "Memoirs of My Deceitful Ancestors," her "deceitful career" would reach new heights. In this life, she would not only defraud the scoundrels of the land, but also carry forward the shrewd wisdom of her ancestors, making the con men of the Dasheng Dynasty tremble in fear at the mere sight of "shit" and flee at the mere sight of "piss"!
The next morning, Shen Weiwan brought Kengkeng and Wawa to the General's Ancestral Hall. She lit three sticks of sandalwood and smiled at Shen Lie's tablet, saying, "Don't worry, ancestor. Your 'golden shit' technique has been carried forward by your granddaughter! The next time I trick someone, I promise it will be even more exciting than you did back then!"
Kengkeng and Wawa imitated him by kowtow- ing banging their little heads against the mats, saying, "Grandpa, next time, teach us how to make 'sugar shit' with sesame and peanuts!"
Xiao Yu stood at the entrance to the ancestral hall, looking at the mother and her two children, shaking his head helplessly. Sunlight filtered through the carved window lattices, illuminating the soybean powder in Shen Weiwan's hair with a strange shimmer. He knew that the "era of deception" of the Dasheng Dynasty would only become more and more exciting under the Shen family's rule. And he could only willingly become the happiest "victim" of this deceitful family—as long as he didn't have to touch that pile of fake soybean powder shit.
Before long, a new ballad spread throughout the streets and alleys of the capital: "The Seventh Prince's Consort is truly amazing! She's made of soybeans, honey, and grass ash, kneaded into golden shit to scare liars. She's so beautiful that even the gods would call her grandpa!"
When Shen Weiwan heard the ballad, she was teaching Wawa how to use a mold to make a "golden shit" model. She smiled with her eyebrows curved, and said to Xiao Yu beside her: "Your Highness, listen, the people are praising us!"
Xiao Yu watched as the tip of her nose was stained with soybean powder again, and lovingly wiped it off for her with a handkerchief: "Yes, yes, my wife and the children are the best. But next time you try to trick someone, can you notify your husband first so that I can stay away in advance?"
"That won't do," Shen Weiwan smiled like a cat stealing fish, "Your Highness is the head of the Prince's Mansion, of course you have to participate in the 'deceiving business'!"
Sunlight streamed through the window lattice onto the "golden shit" model on the table, shimmering with a strange light. Shen Weiwan knew this was just the beginning. In the days ahead, she and her family would employ even more of the "magic tricks" passed down by their ancestors to solve the world's injustices and live out their own unique and most exhilarating lives!
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