"You mean... after Lord Sun Jian bought the cloth from you, he also sent someone to buy the Valley of Forgetfulness?"
Zhou Wan'er raised an eyebrow and asked.
"Yes! Absolutely true!"
The shopkeeper, with his old face, was undoubtedly certain.
"I see..."
After hearing the shopkeeper's words, the three women exchanged smiles, already understanding the gist of the matter.
If he hadn't mentioned buying the Valley of Forgetfulness, the three women might still be wondering whether their husbands were keeping concubines outside the marriage.
His statement completely overturned many previous conjectures.
The Forget-Worry Valley is produced in-house; the manor can have as much as he wants to drink every day. Why would Sun Jian need to go outside to sell it?
Seeing the apologetic looks from the three women, Sun Jian shrugged, indicating that he didn't care.
The shopkeeper was still beaming with pride, thinking the deal was a done deal, but little did he know that the clown was himself.
Sun Jian and the three women left his shop without saying a word or looking back.
"Hey, distinguished guests, would you like to keep this fine fabric?"
The shopkeeper chased after him to the door.
Sun Jian gave him an annoyed look. "Shopkeeper, don't ever use Lord Sun Jian's name to swindle money again. If you do it again, Lord Sun will not forgive you!"
"Damn it, they don't even pay the copyright fees!"
After saying this, Sun Jian and the three women left decisively, not even bothering to see the shopkeeper's reaction.
The shop owner was on the verge of tears, looking completely bewildered.
He naturally took Sun Jian's warning to heart, but what exactly was this "copyright fee"?
...
Sun Jian, accompanied by his three wives, wandered around and bought a large amount of things.
The five guards became laborers, carrying a large number of bags and packages.
Seeing this, Sun Jian couldn't help but feel secretly glad that he had brought a few people with him today, otherwise he would have been the one to be treated like a beast of burden.
In addition, Sun Jian discovered that it wasn't just the silk and cloth shop that was abusing his name.
Shops of all sizes in Kyoto are abusing his name to swindle money from people.
I won't go into the details of those who falsely advertised themselves using Sun Jian's name, such as cosmetics, silk fabrics, rice shops, oil shops, and restaurants.
They simply claimed that Lord Sun Jian had come to their shop to buy things, praised their goods, and said he would come back to patronize them again, using this as their promotional tactic.
What's most infuriating is that some brothels in the capital city even use Sun Jian's name for advertising.
Especially in Xifang Third Street, there are two small brothels facing each other.
In an effort to attract business, the two brothels actually had their prostitutes solicit customers right in front of their doors.
One story says that Sun Jian once visited their brothel, chose a girl, and had a wonderful time. He didn't return home until the next day, and even wrote a poem praising their brothel girls for being gentle, beautiful, and talented...
When the brothel across the street saw that something was wrong, all the merchants coming and going rushed into the other side's door.
In order to attract customers, they began to say that Sun Jian had ordered three girls in their brothel the day before, and the battle did not stop all night, and even ordered four more girls to come into the room in the middle of the night.
The merchants were all shocked when they heard this.
Lord Sun Jian was truly amazing!
Without a rest all night, he fought seven women in a row!
What does this tell us?
This shows that the prostitutes in the other party's brothel were not only beautiful and graceful, which is why they were favored by Lord Sun Jian, but also that the prostitutes in the other party's brothel were skilled!
Otherwise, how could he possibly fight seven women in a row and still have a non-stop night?
While admiring Lord Sun's good back, they quickly turned around and chose another option.
If they were the ones doing this, wouldn't they be having an amazing time?
When the brothel saw that all the customers had been taken away, they were furious and started boasting again, exaggerating even more.
They say that Lord Sun Jian came to their place and ordered ten of them at once, and they fought for two days straight!
They not only learned the old tree crouch, Guanyin sitting, and old man pushing from their younger sister, but they even learned the upside-down golden hook!
Holy crap!
Upside-down hook?
Everyone was stunned when they heard the last word!
No matter how much they tried to fill in the blanks in their minds, they couldn't imagine what that scene would be like.
"Wait a minute! Madam, we're not surprised that Lord Sun Jian learned the first few techniques, but how did he perform the final inverted hook?"
The obese madam didn't care about anything else at that moment. Since things had come to this point, she was willing to say anything as long as she could attract customers.
"Why not! As everyone knows, Lord Sun's martial arts skills are extraordinary; even the current emperor's personal guard general is no match for him!"
"How could we possibly compare to Lord Sun's agility?"
Passerby A looked unconvinced, "His martial arts skills are high, we've all heard that. It's rumored that Lord Sun even killed a tiger while hunting in his hometown! We don't doubt Lord Sun's agility, we're just curious about what kind of form that must have taken..."
"What form?! Why don't you gentlemen come in and try it out and see for yourselves?"
The madam herself couldn't explain it, so she started rambling nonsense. Anyway, it was all for attracting customers, so she didn't care what they thought.
If their brothel can open up business in large numbers today, then all their words will have been worthwhile.
Seeing that everyone wanted to try it out, the madam on the other side was even more determined not to be outdone.
The two sides started hurling insults at each other, and in the heat of the moment, they even jumped around and hurled profanities.
When Sun Jian passed by with his three women, he happened to witness the two women arguing back and forth like shrewish women in the street.
These two madams would stop at nothing and say anything at all.
Even more, some people have started saying that even the sows they keep in their backyards have been paid for by Lord Sun, and that he praised them highly afterward!
Upon hearing these remarks, Sun Jian was completely stunned!
This is...
Sow?
Highly praised?
That's going too far!
Sun Jian was so angry he wanted to kill the two madams!
Whether you two make money or not is irrelevant; what's truly disgracing you is that you've ruined your reputations.
I just happened to witness it today. If I don't stop these people, rumors might start spreading that I once forced my way onto wooden stakes, doors, windows, and even ceilings!
The three women, seeing Sun Jian's angry expression, barely suppressed the urge to laugh and quickly pulled him away from the scene.
Only after getting back into the carriage did he finally burst into laughter.
"Husband... how does the sow... how does the sow feel?"
Among the three women, Zhou Wan'er was the boldest, and she immediately started teasing Sun Jian.
Sun Jian looked annoyed and didn't want to talk to Zhou Wan'er.
I need to take care of this matter after some time. It's one thing to not charge copyright fees, but I can't let these people continue to ruin my reputation like this.
Thinking back to the Three Kingdoms period, Zhuge Liang wrote in his "Memorial on Dispatching the Troops": "The late emperor passed away before he had completed his great undertaking."
If someone were to write an article about Sun Jian a hundred years from now, wouldn't that make it seem like the late emperor died before his great undertaking was even halfway done?
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