During the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, a man named Qian Kun opened a cotton shop outside the north gate of Wuxi City, Jiangsu Province, with hundreds of taels of silver, specializing in exchanging cotton for cloth, and then selling cloth to get the price difference.

There was a family next door to Qian Kun's cotton shop. The family surname was Li. The youngest daughter of the Li family, Miss Li, was thirteen or fourteen years old and very beautiful.

Qian Kun felt that he and the Li family were neighbors, so he always gave Miss Li a few catties of cotton, but he never said it. Miss Li also knew that Qian Kun gave her a lot of cotton, and she didn't tell anyone about it.

After two or three years, Qian Kun did not manage well, lost money, and the cotton shop closed. Qian Kun was hit by this, and in a fit of anger, he fled to the capital, looking for a chance to make a comeback, but unexpectedly, he encountered a liar in the capital again, and his money was cheated away. Qian Kun was penniless, and in order to make a living, he had to be a beggar.

One day Qian Kun went to beg outside Xizhimen and suddenly saw a group of carriages passing by. Among them was a large carriage with a green curtain and a wheel. In the carriage sat a woman with a beautiful head.

The woman in the carriage saw Qian Kun and stared at him for a long time. She suddenly ordered the servant to call Qian Kun to the front of the carriage and said to Qian Kun, "Boss Qian, how did you end up like this?" Qian Kun could not recognize the woman in front of him, so she lowered her head and replied vaguely.

The woman ordered her entourage to bring a steed and let Qian Kun ride behind her to enter the city together. The woman's motorcade stopped in front of a Zhu Men mansion, and then the woman's carriage drove leisurely.

When Qian Kun saw his woman enter the mansion, he asked the people nearby where this place was. Someone replied, "This is the palace. The woman who spoke to you just now is the prince's side Fujin."

After a while, someone came out and called Qian Kun in. The woman introduced herself to Qian Kun and said, "I am the daughter of your neighbor Li. More than ten years ago, I changed cotton in your store, and you gave me a few catties of cotton every time.

Only then did Qian Kun know that the lady in front of him was the little girl Li. Later, Miss Li recognized Qian Kun with a lot of money, and also recognized Qian Kun as a cousin, allowing Qian Kun to enter and leave the palace.

Three or four years later, Qian Kun saved seven or eight thousand taels of silver, and Qian Kun used the money to buy an official position as a county lieutenant. A year later, he was promoted to prefect of Neihuang County, and soon after, he was promoted to prefect of Hejian and became a fourth-grade official. Among this, there was naturally no lack of the strong help of Miss Li from Fang Fujin.

The reason why Qian Kun was able to leap from a beggar living on the streets to a fourth-grade prefect who had risen to the top was all because of his care for the girl at that time. It was really "convenient for people and for yourself."