A masterpiece of late Qing novels praised by Hu Shi as "well-structured", and a world-view koan that pioneered flashbacks in Chinese novels.
This is not a simple revenge story. When the wealthy businessman Ling Guixing smoked his cousin Liang Tianlai and his family of eight to death in a stone room for a fictional "Feng Shui Land", the tragedy had just begun. The real tragedy lies after that: the beggar who spoke out for justice died tragically in the court, and the blatant officials at all levels made money and power weave into a suffocating web, making it almost impossible for the injustice to be vindicated.
The author Wu Jianren tears away the tender family veil, allowing you to see the complete distortion of human nature under greed and superstition; he also uses his pen as a knife to meticulously dissect the corruption of the social justice system in the late Qing Dynasty from beginning to end. Survivor Liang Tianlai's desperate and persistent road to "Beijing control" is not only a pursuit of the murderer, but also a question of the entire era.
The murderer is at large. The victim, Liang Tianlai, made his way from the county government to the capital, but was protected by officials, pursued by bandits, and witnesses betrayed him... The corruption and darkness of the entire judicial system in the late Qing Dynasty were fully exposed in this unjust case.
This is not a fictional legend, this is a real record of late Qing society that is more cruel than fiction. See how a little man spent his family wealth and risked his life to seek impossible justice for the souls of Kujo's relatives.
