In the 23rd year of Guangxu's reign, Qian Shouye, the landlord of Qianjiazhuang, used the "Cuttlefish Account" to devour Zhang Tiezhu's three years of hard-earned money. His son Zhang Xiaoshan set up a series of tricks: first he smashed vats and bottles to trick the landlord, and then used magnets to mess up the feng shui of his ancestral graves. When Qian Shouye demanded a "three catties of wind" betrothal gift, Xiao Shan used a waxed cowhide bag to seal the air and weigh it, and even steamed out the rice soup writing on the forged IOU in public.
On the wedding night, the house was surrounded by torches, and the sound of metal banging from the villagers shattered the Qian family's hegemony. In the end, during the lawsuit over the ownership of the improved Quyuan plow, Xiu'e recited the "Household Code" in court to expose the forgery of the land deed. With a wave of his pen, the county magistrate returned thirty acres of irrigated land to his neighbors.
