Three Power of Attorney

Nineteen-year-old Guo Ershun was looking after the garden of a Western villa in Tianjin when he accidentally dug up 20 silver dollars buried by his previous gardener. He abides by the family motto "A poor man has a strong ambition" and is unwilling to keep huge sums of money for himself. After Manager Mu of the villa learned about it, he lied that the silver coins were fake payments for goods received by his predecessor, and coerced him into handing them over. In fact, Manager Mu himself had embezzled the money and wanted to use this to cover up the evidence of the crime. Guo Ershun remembered his predecessor's instructions and suspected that there was fraud. He used the wisdom of the public to conduct a secret investigation and confirmed the truth about the frame-up framed by Manager Mu. He commissioned the failed scholar to write a petition to expose the crime, and also cleared the grievances of his predecessor. In the end, Steward Mu was taken away by the county government. Guo Ershun's integrity and courage impressed three merchants on Guayi Street, and they all entrusted him with checking the outstanding payments. Three power of attorneys allowed this low-level person to escape from a desperate situation and complete his transformation with tenacity and wisdom, demonstrating the anti-fragile power from the bottom up. This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.