There was a family surnamed Wang in Beihewan Town. The family was wealthy and famous in the local area, but he was very stingy and never willing to spend a penny more, so everyone gave him the nickname Wang Shoucai. On this day, Wang Shoucai took the big yellow ox to plow the field. Just halfway through, a dark cloud suddenly blew from the sky, and it was about to rain. Wang Shoucai remembered that there was still a table of dried millet at home, so he tied the big yellow ox to a big tree at the entrance of the village and hurried home. When Wang Shoucai stopped packing and turned back, the cow was gone. Wang Shoucai looked panicked, this was a cow with a few laborers on his head. At first he thought the cow had run away and wanted to look around. After walking a few steps, Wang Shoucai found the severed cow rope and a piece of ragged clothing. He knew this ragged clothing and it belonged to Chao Jun.

It turned out that the cow was stolen by Chao Jun. Chao Jun was a famous scoundrel in the town, who often did things like steal chickens and dogs. Wang Shoucai went straight to Chao Jun's house without hesitation. Chao Jun lived alone, with only one broken house. Wang Shoucai saw that Chao Jun's door was locked tightly, so he looked into the house through the crack of the door and found that the cow was inside. Wang Shoucai had a bottom line in his heart, and he wanted to take this opportunity to kill Chao Jun. So he decided to go to the county to complain. At that time, stealing cattle was a very serious crime. Wang Shoucai met with the county official and told the matter before and after. After the county official heard this, he became angry and dared to steal cattle in his jurisdiction in broad daylight. Hastily sent someone to arrest Chao Jun.

When the county government officials came to the Chao family, Chao Jun was peeling the cow, and the cow's skin had been peeled off, and the cow was dismembered. Now, everyone was there, and Chao Jun couldn't explain why. He was taken away, and Wang Shoucai looked at the dead cow and cried bitterly.

In order to get rid of Chao Jun, Wang Shoucai spent money to give a heavy gift to the county official, which was the first time he was so generous. After receiving the gift, the county official said, "It's not up to me to have the final say. This depends on the confession to approve. I will try my best to use torture to force him to admit it. If not, you can only continue to sue." Wang Shoucai listened to the county official's words, but he didn't dare to force it. After Wang Shoucai left, the county official went to prison and took Chao Jun to the interrogation room. In the interrogation room, the county official said to Chao Jun, "It's not that I have to get through with you, it's that Wang Shoucai doesn't want to let you go. If I can't come to you for a reason, I'm afraid my seat will not be quiet." After he finished speaking, he asked his subordinates to punish Chao Jun, who gritted his teeth and did not say a word. The county official saw that his mouth was very strict, so he ordered him to light a sky lantern. Lighting a sky lantern was the cruelest interrogation punishment at that time, which was to dig a hole in the collarbone of a person's shoulder, put a twist, light it, and let the fire boil away the human oil from the collarbone. The pain could be imagined. However, after a few days of punishment, he tortured Chao Jun to death, but he still did not say a word. Seeing that Chao Jun was a tough man, the county official could not bear to torture him any longer, so Wang Shoucai said, "Are you sure Chao Jun stole your cow?"

Wang Shoucai said, "Sure, when I went to catch him that day, your people also saw him peeling a cow, and that cow belonged to my family."

The county official said, "In my place, there is nothing to try. You can go to the top to sue him." The county official pushed the matter away in one sentence.

Wang Shoucai returned home to pack his luggage and decided to take a trip to the provincial capital. The night before Wang Shoucai was to leave, a scalper rushed into Wang's house. Wang Shoucai's daughter-in-law caught the scalper and recognized it as their lost scalper. When the scalper came back, Wang Shoucai had no reason to sue Chao Jun again, but it was like this, how did it end? Wang Shoucai asked his daughter-in-law to quietly take the scalper back to her mother's house and continued to sue Chao Jun for losing the scalper.

The next day, Wang Shoucai went to the provincial capital and handed the championship to governor of the provincial government. The governor of the provincial government was so evil that he looked at Wang Shoucai's champion and was very angry. Recently, the province was cracking down on the theft incident. This Chao Jun dared to fight against the wind and refused to admit it. It was such a person who was arrested. The governor of the provincial government hurriedly ordered him to go to the county to bring Chao Jun to the provincial government. After Chao Jun was brought up, governor of the provincial government forgot about this matter. Unknowingly, a month passed, and Wang Shoucai saw that the governor of the provincial government had not tried the case, so he had to enter the provincial government again and personally give the governor a generous gift. When the governor saw Wang Shoucai, he thought the man looked familiar, but could not remember where he had met him. After chatting with Wang Shoucai, the governor seemed to remember something, he frowned and said, "Okay, I see, the trial will be held tomorrow." After the governor sent Wang Shoucai away, he went to the prison. He could hear Wang Shoucai's words that Chao Jun might be his younger brother.

If so, the governor of the province saw his brother Chao Jun, who had been separated for many years, in the prison, and the two hugged their heads and cried bitterly. It turned out that the governor of the province was none other than Chao Jun's brother Chao Zheng. At that time, the Chao family fled to Beihewan, and Chao Zheng had just turned thirteen years old. His father died while working part-time in the Wang family of a landlord in Beihewan. After his mother heard of it, she did not come up in one breath and went west. Chao Zheng tried to reason with the landlord's family, but was beaten to death by the landlord's family. Old Master Wang asked the housekeeper to pull Chao Zheng to the wasteland and bury him alive. Seeing that Chao Zheng was pitiful, the housekeeper let him go and let him go to other places to make a living. After Chao Zheng left, the ten-year-old Chao Jun lived begging and mixing in the streets for a long time. As he grew older, Chao Jun became a ruffian in Beihewan.

It turned out that a few days ago, Chao Jun learned something about the governor of the provincial government from a business person who came to Beihewan to do business, and he felt more and more that this person was his brother. Therefore, Chao Jun went to the provincial capital, and after many inquiries, he confirmed that the governor of the provincial government was his brother Chao Zheng. But Chao Jun did not have the money to organize the guards and couldn't enter the provincial government. So he waited at the door for his brother to appear. However, he wandered at the gate of the provincial government for many days, but he did not see his brother come out. Chao Jun did everything he could to not see his brother. He returned to Beihewan in disappointment and found a tavern to drink wine, and when he was happy, he sat down alone. This person was the housekeeper of the landlord's family and helped Chao Jun a lot when he was young. Seeing that Chao Jun was not an outsider, he told housekeeper of the Wang family about his brother through the power of alcohol.

Wang Family Butler asked, "Are you a tough guy?"

Chao Jun said, "I don't even cry in pain when my flesh is cut."

After hearing this, the Wang family steward gave Chao Jun the idea of "stealing cattle" to see the provincial governor. Who could sue the provincial government? Naturally, Wang Shoucai. When Chao Jun heard this, he immediately agreed. However, Chao Jun never had a chance. Until one day, the Wang family steward saw Wang Shoucai take the cow out, and hurriedly ran to tell Chao Jun. Coincidentally, that day, Wang Tianya, a common thief in the town, stole a cow from the outer village. When he arrived at the entrance of the village, he suddenly felt anxious and tied the cow to the big locust tree, which was convenient for him to go to. After receiving the letter from the Wang family steward, Chao Jun came to the big locust tree at the entrance of the village. When he saw that there was really a big yellow cow, he threw down his ragged clothes, took the cow and left. Wang Daya watched as the cow in his hand was taken away by Chao Jun, and he did not dare to shout, just as he was about to admit that he was unlucky. At this time, Wang Shoucai led the scalper over again, tied it to the big locust tree, and then left in a hurry. Wang Daya saw Chao Jun leave his clothes, thinking that if he took Wang Shoucai's cow, Wang Shoucai would definitely find Chao Jun's head. He didn't do anything, and he really took Wang Shoucai's cow. In fact, Chao Jun stole the cow and wanted Wang Shoucai to know that he had lost his clothes on purpose. Wang Daya took the cow home, but before he could make a move, the scalper ran away and returned home familiar with the way. In order to kill the Chao army, Wang Shoucai sent Huang Jun to the provincial capital, even though the cow came back, which just fulfilled Chao Jun's wish. Chao Jun told his brother Chao Zheng everything, and Chao Zheng decided to get rid of Wang Shoucai. At this time, someone outside the door insisted on seeing the governor of the provincial government and bringing a shovel. Chao Zheng looked at it and hurriedly invited that person in. That person was no one else, but the Wang family steward. When Chao Zheng saw the benefactor who saved his life, he dared not neglect and hurriedly invited him to take the seat. The Wang family steward was extremely relieved to see the reunion of the two brothers and asked Chao Zheng how he got to sit in this seat. Chao Zheng laughed and told his experience. It turned out that Chao Zheng had passed out before walking far after leaving Beihewan. Zhang Dashuai's team passed by and saved him. After knowing that he was homeless, they took him in as a soldier. During a mutiny, Zhang Dashuai was besieged in a courtyard, and it was Chao Zheng and seven guards sacrificed their lives to carry him out. The commander later made a comeback, and Chao Zheng and the other eight people were sealed as "Eight Stupid." Later, Chao Zheng became governor of the provincial capital. The Wang family butler listened to Chao Zheng's account and praised him for his good work. At this time Chao Zheng asked him about his intentions here, and the butler said, "To tell you the truth, I came here to intercede for Wang Shoucai. If you fight and kill, when will your grudges be over?"

Chao Zheng pondered for a while and said, "I thought so too, but Wang Shoucai didn't want to let my brother go at all. Can I just stand by and watch?"

Hearing this, the Wang family steward hurriedly said, "Then I will persuade him to take back his position and beg him to let him live." He still pleaded for Wang Shoucai.

After all, the benefactor said, and Chao Zheng agreed to give Wang Shoucai a way to live as long as he stopped pursuing it. Seeing that Chao Zheng agreed, the housekeeper hurriedly got up to say goodbye.

Wang Shoucai did not believe the butler's words at all and insisted on appealing. The butler was really angry and said angrily, "Look under your bed. If you don't leave, you will die." After saying that, he left without looking back. Wang Shoucai looked at the butler's back and looked under the bed with disdain. This time, he panicked, and his bed was full of tobacco. In that era, selling tobacco was a crime of beheading. Wang Shoucai was scared in a cold sweat, quickly packed his luggage and escaped from the inn.

This was arranged by Chao Zheng. He wanted to get rid of Wang Shoucai, so he asked someone to hide the tobacco under the bed in advance. Later, the Wang family housekeeper went to Chao Zheng to plead, and Chao Zheng didn't have time to send troops, so he let Wang Shoucai go.