Jia Yucun was a poor Confucian scholar living in the Hulu Temple. His ancestors were originally officials, but later they became declining. By his generation, he could only live under someone else's roof and make a living by selling calligraphy and painting. One day, he was study

Jia Yucun is a poor Confucian scholar living in the Hulu Temple. His ancestors were originally officials, but later they became declining. By his generation, he could only live under someone else's roof and make a living by selling calligraphy and painting. One day, he was studying hard when he suddenly heard a woman coughing outside the window. He looked up and saw that it was a maid with a bit of beauty. Maybe it was because of the single dog for many years, Lao Jia stared at him and his eyes were almost popping out. The maid looked back at him while walking, thinking to himself, "Have you never seen a beautiful woman?" It was these two more glances that made Brother Yucun excited, "Is it because my handsome appearance and outstanding temperament that made this woman fall in love with me? Let's see, I will definitely let you be my wife in the future." (Later I became his wife!)

This maid is a maid from the wealthy Zhen Shiyin family. Zhen Shiyin felt that Lao Jia was talented and not an ordinary person, and he would definitely achieve great things in the future. Just when he was poor, he invested 50 taels of silver and gave him two sets of down jackets to help him go to Beijing to take the exam. As a result, shortly after Jia Yucun left, an accident occurred in Zhen Shiyin's family. The only daughter, , Yinglian , was kidnapped by a trafficker. The house caught a fire again and the property was empty. He had to go back to his father-in-law's house and ask for several acres of thin land and start farming. How could a small feudal landlord farm? Mr. Zhen’s land was deserted and he was in a bad mood. He was confused and followed a crazy lame priest to travel around.

continued to say that Lao Jia was going to take the exam, but he didn't expect to enter the top ten in the country, passed the Jinshi, and was promoted to the prefect. Although he is more capable and has good political achievements, he is a greedy person, harsh and mean to others, and is not good at making friends with others. He relies on his talents to take his superiors seriously. As a result, his superiors wrote a book in front of the emperor, saying that he was "crawling, mixed in appearance, pretending to be honest and honest, secretly forming gangs, causing local people to live in poverty", so he was dismissed from his official position. Jia Yucun regretted his past, but on the surface he still pretended to be nothing. After handing over the work, I sent back the capital accumulated by years of being an official back to my hometown and went to travel around.

Maybe, Lao Jia has the fate of becoming an official. According to someone's introduction, he came to the tutor of the salt censor Lin Ruhai and became a tutor, and the student was the famous Lin Daiyu . One day, Lao Jia learned the good news from his old acquaintance Zhang Rugui that "the imperial court will reactivate the officials who were removed before", and Lin Ruhai also helped him write a recommendation letter to his second brother-in-law Jia Zheng , who is a worker in the capital. After meeting, Jia Zheng liked scholars and took great care of Lao Jia, so he gently found a position of "top leader" in Yingtian Mansion.

As soon as he took office, there was a lawsuit. The two families fought to buy a maid and killed him. The family is the little overlord of the Xue family, Xue Pan, and the other is the son of the local declining gentry, Feng Yuan, and the girl who was sold is Yinglian, the daughter of Zhen Shiyin, who was lost back then. After the human trafficker kidnapped Yinglian, she raised her for six or seven years and was not sold until she was twelve or thirteen years old. Feng Yuan was eighteen or nineteen years old and was originally a homosexual. Unexpectedly, after seeing Yinglian, he couldn't extricate himself and insisted on marrying her and asked to pass by three days later. Unexpectedly, the traffickers sold the person to Xue Pan again, trying to run away with the money from the two families. This caused a dispute between the two families, and Xue Pan asked someone to beat Feng Yuan to death.

Lord Jia was very angry when he heard the case, "Haha, is there any law in the world? Killing someone must pay for his life." He was about to order arrest, but was stopped by the "door" next to him who was in charge of conveying the order. Menzi conducted in-depth analysis of the causes and consequences of the matter and the background of the two companies, analyzed the pros and cons, and put forward suggestions. It turned out that the Xue family had a great wealth and had in-laws with the Jia Zheng family who helped Lao Jia become an official. The Feng family members just wanted to ask for more compensation. Menzi suggested that Lord Jia have a personal favor case so that he would go to the Jia family to meet in the future. "You are right. But I am grateful to the emperor. As a local parent, how can I abandon the law because of my own personal gain?" Menzi sneered. "Master, your thoughts are too naive.In this world, if you enforce the law impartially in this case, you probably will be taking off your black hat first. "

The next day, Lord Jia was in a state of disobedience to the law and randomly sentenced the case. After the case was concluded, he immediately divorced two letters to Jia Zhenghe, the governor of the operation, , Wang Ziteng, and said, "I have settled your nephew's affairs, please rest assured. "Then considering that the disciple who gave advice would leak the news, he found an excuse and sent him to a faraway place. The murderer Xue Pan, like nothing happened, accompanied his mother and sister, Xue Baochai, to Rongguo Mansion, and became a guest. He was stumbling with a group of playboys in the mansion, eating, drinking, gambling, and doing whatever he wanted. Poor Yinglian, who was abducted, has unknown life and death.

Lord Jia Yucun, for his future, has long forgotten the kindness of Yinglian's father Zhen Shiyin, for the sake of his future, and sacrificed his benefactor's daughter, and also lost the principle of making decisions for the people, and integrated himself into the dark officialdom at that time.