During the Jin Dynasty, Shi Chong was a high-ranking official in Luoyang, the capital, and he was quite famous.

On this day, a beggar came to the gate of Shi Mansion. This beggar was in his twenties, with a high nose, and was a Hu from the Western Regions. The disciples of the Shi Mansion threw a few pennies to the beggar, but the beggar in the Western Regions ignored it at all, and instead laughed and said, "We are beggars. If we want to beg for food, we can go to ordinary families, and if we want to ask for some money, we can go to ordinary rich families.

The doorman held back his smile and asked, "Are you here to ask for a book?""

The beggar in the Western Regions said, "Yes, I want to ask for a copy of Huainan Zi. Now the books on the market are copied around, and they are not the same. Your mansion must have the real copy."

Just then, Shi Chong came back and asked the beggar why he wanted to ask for books. The beggar said that his name was Zhou Cheng. He came to the Central Plains with his family and learned a lot of Han poetry.

Shi Chong saw that Zhou Cheng was talking extraordinarily, so he couldn't help but say a few more words to him. He did not expect Zhou Cheng to be knowledgeable in ancient and modern times. As soon as Shi Chong was happy, he took Zhou Cheng in.

This week, Zhou Cheng was smart and well behaved, and he was very good at talking. Gradually, Shi Chong began to pay attention to Zhou Cheng.

Shi Chong was very rich, but Wang Kai, another high-ranking official in the capital, was very unconvinced and always wanted to suppress Shi Chong. Of course Shi Chong didn't buy it, and the two of them fought for wealth. After a few rounds, because Zhou Cheng kept giving Shi Chong ideas, Shi Chong gained the upper hand. In this way, Zhou Cheng and the butler Shi Qing became the celebrities in front of Shi Chong.

In the blink of an eye, it was winter, and the cold wind outside was bone-piercing, and the trees were withered and yellow. On this day, Zhou Cheng said to Shi Chong, "Although Wang Kai was at a disadvantage, he must not be convinced. The master can invite him to dinner and make him convinced."

The housekeeper on the side, Shi Qing, said, "Eating is nothing more than delicacies from the mountains and seas, what new tricks can you come up with?"

Zhou Cheng smiled and took out a plate from the kitchen, which was filled with green chives. How could chives grow this winter? Shi Chong dipped a little and put it in his mouth.

Zhou Cheng said, "I made this up myself. We invited General Wang to his house and let him eat leeks in the winter. We told him to break his head, but he couldn't get such a good thing."

Zhou Cheng continued, "I saw this method in an ancient book in the Western Regions, and now only the three of us know it. As long as it is not leaked , Wang Kai can't imagine how he can compete with you for wealth."

Shi Chong was overjoyed and decided to invite Wang Kai and several famous ministers to his home for dinner in a few days. Unexpectedly, Shi Chong received an invitation from Wang Kai the next day and invited Shi Chong to his home for dinner. Shi Chong thought it would be better, and he had nothing to say to Wang Kai at that time.

Who knew that when they arrived at Wang Kai's house and just sat down at the dining table, Wang Kai put a plate of special seasonings in front of everyone, and a strong fresh fragrance drilled into their nostrils. At a taste, Shi Chong was dumbfounded. Isn't this the winter chives that Zhou Cheng just made? When the guests tasted it, they were all full of praise. Wang Kai asked Shi Chong proudly: "I heard that you will also have a treat in a few days. I don't know what strange smell you have prepared for us."

Shi Chong's face was embarrassed, and he didn't know how to answer.

He rushed home angrily and immediately asked Zhou Cheng to think again. Zhou Cheng said, "No one has ever made this winter chive in the Central Plains. If no one told him, Wang Kai would not know how to make it.

When Shi Chong heard this, his anger shot up from his heart: Zhou Cheng and he wouldn't tell him how to prepare the winter chives, but it must have been spread by the housekeeper Shi Qing. He immediately ordered someone to arrest Shi Qing and search Shi Qing's residence. Sure enough, he found a lot of silver from the bottom of the bed, and there was still the mark of Wang Kai's family on the seal.

Shi Chong was furious and immediately ordered someone to hang Shi Qing.

Fu Ding took Shi Qing into a dark room and tied a rope around Shi Qing's neck. Just as he was about to make his move, Zhou Cheng came and said to Fu Ding, "Master still wants me to ask him something.

When Fu Ding left the house, Shi Qing begged Zhou Cheng and said, "Please tell the master I did not betray him."

Zhou Cheng tightened the rope around Shi Qing's neck so that he could not speak loudly. Then he smiled and said, "Of course you didn't betray the master, because I told Wang Kai this method. I received the reward from Wang Kai and then secretly put it in your room."

Shi Qing was shocked and shouted, "Why?"

Zhou Cheng laughed again. "What do you think?"

Shi Qing's face turned ashen as he said, "I understand. The master trusts the two of us the most. If you kill me, you can occupy my seat."

Zhou Cheng pulled the rope and personally hanged Shi Qing. He spat at Shi Qing's corpse and said, "You won't understand even if you die!"

After Shi Qing's death, Shi Chong trusted Zhou Cheng even more. The important activities of Shi Mansion almost always had to listen to Zhou Cheng's opinions. Under Zhou Cheng's planning, Shi Chong won a great victory in fighting for wealth.

After more than a year, Zhou Cheng said to Shi Chong, "I have read poetry and books here and learned a lot of skills. Now I plan to return to the Western Regions to revive my family style." Shi Chongzhen was reluctant to leave Zhou Cheng, but it was not good to force him to stay, so he had to agree.

Another year later, Emperor Jin Wu died, and the newly appointed Emperor Jin Hui was an idiot, causing the "chaos of the eight kings", which led to the dictatorship of King Simalun of Zhao. Simalun, who had long been dissatisfied with Shi Chong, arrested Shi Chong in the name of rebellion and destroyed the three Shi Chong clans.

On the day of the execution, Shi Chong said to Sima Lun, "I have been eating, drinking and having fun all these years, boasting and fighting for wealth, how could I have the idea of rebellion? You killed me to rob me of my money!"

Sima Lun smiled and said, "Since you know that too much money will kill you, why are you still so ostentatious, afraid that the world will not know that you are rich?""

At this time, a doorman tied to Shi Chong suddenly called out, "Master, Zhou Cheng left me a kit before he left, saying that if Master is in danger, he can open the kit and show it to Master. I have been carrying this kit with me, because I am afraid that it will be unlucky and make Master unhappy, so I have never dared to report it to Master."

When Shi Chong heard that there was such a thing, his mind became active again, thinking that Zhou Cheng was smart, and he must have thought of a way to save my life for me long ago. So he lowered his head and begged Sima Lun to open the tip bag and take a look. Sima Lun was in power in the world, and he didn't take the tricks of a nobody in his eyes at all, and waved his hand to let Shi Chong open the tip bag.

Shi Chong hurriedly opened the tip bag, who knew that it would be okay if he didn't look at it. When he looked at it, he shouted, and a mouthful of blood spurted out of his mouth.

Sima Lun ordered someone to take the tip bag, and when he saw it, he laughed out loud. He saw Zhou Cheng writing on it: My family came to the Central Plains from the Western Regions to be a merchant, and they have accumulated countless family wealth for decades. The gold, silver and jade are piled up like mountains, and they did not attract robbers, but they invited you, the governor of Jingzhou, to rob. You Shi Chong is the main envoy, and the one who brought people to my house to rob my house with open fire is your housekeeper Shi Qing. It is pitiful that more than a hundred people in my family suffered a catastrophe, and only I survived because I was away from school. You became very rich by robbing my family of property, but you only know the good of wealth and boast about it everywhere, but you don't know that wealth will still kill you. I sneaked into your house and killed Shi Qing with your hands first, and at the same time tried my best to make you brag and fight for wealth everywhere. I know that one day, the property you stole from my house will also cost you and your whole family's life...

Sima Lun said to Shi Chong, "Shi Chong, Shi Chong, it turns out that your wealth is so rich that you should have died long ago! Just be a ghost obediently, and I will enjoy the wealth you left behind." What Sima Lun didn't expect was that within a few years, the wealth he snatched from Shi Chong would also cost him and his family's life...