During the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, there lived a family of fishermen surnamed Fu at the foot of Wuyanling Mountain in Wenzhou. There was a son named Fu Shijie in the family, who was intelligent and diligent. The family farmed when they were busy, and fished when they were idle. Their days were clean and leisurely. However, one day, a sudden disaster broke that comfort.

The matter had to start with Fu Shijie's uncle. Fu Shijie's uncle was a military general who had made great contributions to the court, but he was upright and offended Shaanxi Governor Bi Yuan with his words. Bi Yuan's backer in the dynasty was Heshen, so he didn't pay attention to one of the generals at all. The little envoy's plan caused Fu Shijie's uncle to beheaded all over the house. Fu Shijie's parents were not spared either. Fortunately, Fu Shijie was visiting friends that day and escaped.

In order to avenge his relatives, Fu Shijie went incognito, studied hard, and a few years later asked someone to introduce him, recognizing the thief Bi Yuan as his father. Seeing Fu Shijie's good looks and outstanding literary talent, Bi Yuan immediately betrothed his niece Laneige to him.

The first step of the plan was very successful. Fu Shijie thought that he had won the favor of Bi Yuan, and now as long as he studied hard, once he got a reputation, he would not have to worry about avenging his dead relatives. Unexpectedly, on the wedding night, Fu Shijie hesitated in the face of his beautiful wife, who was like flowers like jade. After all, Laneige was innocent.

For days Fu Shijie had been deliberately avoiding Laneige. He did not expect that the old thief Bi Yuan, who had a poisonous scorpion heart, would have such a gentle, considerate and understanding niece.

In the face of Lang Jun's neglect, Lanzhi was suspicious. She couldn't guess what she had done wrong, so she specially prepared a table of wine and food in the boudoir, and pulled Lang Jun to drink and chat.

Faced with his sweet wife's soft words, Fu Shijie hesitated several times, but when he thought of his situation, he dared not reveal the slightest bit of truth, so he swallowed the words that came to his mouth. He was already a little drunk and quickly fled back to the study.

aspire to win

After some painstaking study, Fu Shijie was finally ready to go to Beijing to take the exam. He thought that he had made small achievements in studying hard in the past few years, and it was not a big problem to be named on the gold list.

Before leaving, Laneige prepared her husband's luggage and said, "Officially, the invigilator this time, Wang Wenhua, has been my uncle's friend for many years.

Fu Shijie thought to himself, if Laneige knew that he was in the exam to kill her whole family, I don't know how hated he would be!

According to Laneige's instructions, Fu Shijie went to visit Wang Wenhua as soon as he arrived in the capital. Wang Wenhua was also a die-hard friend of Heshen. After reading Laneige's letter, his two broomstick eyebrows were twisted into a ball. After pondering for a long time, he said something that made Fu Shijie puzzled: "Nephew, you are still young, you should play more when you first come to the capital, and don't take the word merit and reputation too seriously."

Coming out of the palace, a trace of unease crept up in Fu Shijie's heart. Fortunately, not long after, the exam began, and that trace of unease quickly disappeared with the wind.

Unfortunately, Fu Shijie's hopes were dashed, and he had no place in title of the gold list. He returned home disheartened, but Laneige seemed to have been prepared and said, "Official, you are still young, so why rush to become an official?

How could an unsuccessful champion do justice for his relatives? Faced with Laneige's comfort, Fu Shijie could only sigh and plunge into his study again.

These days, Fu Shijie has been recalling the process of rushing for the exam. After thinking about it, he doesn't understand how he failed.

Just when Fu Shijie was puzzled, Laneige broke the secret in one sentence. Laneige said, "I asked Uncle Wang, and he said that your article answered brilliantly, but there was a murderous aura between the lines, so he didn't dare show it to the emperor at all. So it seems that if you want to take the top spot, you have to adjust your mentality first.

Spring and autumn came, and in the blink of an eye, it was the year of the big exam. This time, Fu Shijie was well prepared and determined to win. Before leaving, Laneige wrote another letter and asked Fu Shijie to bring it to Wang Wenhua.

In this exam, Fu Shijie used his full attention, carefully savoring every word, and speculating word by word. Every time he answered a question, he thought about it several times, and after a few games, he was exhausted.

On this day Fu Shijie was lying in the inn with his eyes closed to rest when Wang Wenhua suddenly sent someone to take him to the mansion.

Fu Shijie thought that the exam had an idea, but as soon as he entered the door, Wang Wenhua threw a basin of cold water on his head: "Nephew, what's the matter with you? Why don't you even write your name after answering the question?"

"I wrote it!" Fu Shijie widened his eyes and recalled it carefully recalled, "For every exam, I wrote my name on the paper!"

Wang Wenhua's head shook like a rattle: "I've been reading the papers these days, and I've finished reading all the papers today, but I haven't seen you. Now, uncle, even if I have great ability, I'm afraid it will be difficult to return to heaven."

It seems that not only is the world afraid of Heshen Bi Yuan, but even God can't help them!

Help fish ball soup

After Fu Shijie returned home, he was sullen and unhappy all day, and Laneige was very anxious to see this. At this moment, Bi Yuan suddenly sent someone to invite Fu Shijie. When he arrived at Bi Mansion, he realized Heshen was going to celebrate his 40th birthday this year, and Bi Yuan wanted to give a generous gift and kiss his ass.

But a character like Heshen has a lot of power and money. It is really difficult to give him a suitable gift to please him.

Bi Yuan thought about it for a long time, and finally thought that Heshen liked calligraphy and painting. If he sent a few couplets, he could not only write some words of praise on them, but also let him appreciate the beautiful calligraphy, which could be said to kill two birds with one stone. But Bi Yuan's words really couldn't be used, so he thought of Fu Shijie.

Fu Shijie endured his anger and wrote ten couplets. These ten couplets were really powerful and applauded Bi Yuan, who was standing by the side.

Bi Yuan dragged Fu Shijie to congratulate Heshen on his birthday. Heshen's birthday banquet was very lively, and almost all the officials in the dynasty sent gifts. Seeing those guys who slapped horses, Fu Shijie was so angry that he almost vomited blood.

After returning from He Mansion, Fu Shijie hid in the study, either drinking or crying, and fell ill within a few days. Just when he was not thinking about food and water, Laneige brought a bowl of fish ball soup and slowly fed it to Fu Shijie. After several days, he finally snatched Fu Shijie back from the hands of King Yama.

After Fu Shijie recovered, he learned that he did not eat or drink at that time, and his condition was serious. Laneige was so anxious that he remembered to use the fish meat in the Wuyanling River and the sweet potato flour by the river to make fish ball soup for him to eat. It was probably this familiar flavor that Fu Shijie swallowed.

After this serious illness, Fu Shijie finally figured it out: the world is not fair, and he can't change it alone. With such great power as Heshen, even if he is admitted as the champion, he may not be able to fight! At that moment, Fu Shijie missed the comfortable life of the Wuyanling Mountains even more, so he told Lanzhi that he didn't want to be a champion anymore, and just wanted to go back to his hometown to open a fish ball restaurant. Unsurprisingly, Lanzhi happily agreed. Since then, there have been more husband and wife fish ball shops by the Wuyanling Mountains.

A few years later, Emperor Jiaqing took over the throne and investigated Heshen. Wang Wenhua naturally couldn't escape the law. When he searched his house, he found two letters, which were written by Laneige to Wang Wenhua back then. It turned out that Laneige's letter did not ask Wang Wenhua to take care of Fu Shijie a lot, but asked him to find a way to prevent Fu Shijie from being admitted to the top spot.

Laneige said she was still young and hoped her husband would accompany her more and did not want her husband to get involved in officialdom too early. In fact, Fu Shijie drank too much in Laneige's boudoir that day, and when he returned to the study, he told himself the truth. Laneige was afraid of how uncomfortable he would be drinking, so he wanted to stay and take care of him, not listen to him.

Laneige was about to go crazy. One side was his uncle and the other was the newlywed husband, both of them were reluctant! Although Laneige knew that his uncle had committed a heinous crime and would be punished sooner or later, Fu Shijie was too naive. He was no match for his uncle at all. In order to protect him, Laneige came up with this method that was not a solution.

The next year, Emperor Jiaqing came to Wuyanling to play and drank Fu Shijie's fish ball soup, which was full of praise. After some conversation, he felt that Fu Shijie had the talent of the champion, and Emperor Jiaqing, who was thirsty for talent, wanted to call Fu Shijie back to Beijing for reuse, but Fu Shijie politely declined.