Some people write their future with a blank piece of paper. Shen Yan took a blank piece of paper and changed someone's life.
In the twelfth lunar month of winter, Shen Yan set up a broken table in front of the county government office and made a living by writing petitions for others.
If you can't afford three cents a piece, half a bowl of food will do.
He originally thought that his life would be nothing more than writing decent grievances for the poor. Until that day, a widow came to him and asked to overturn the verdict for her dead husband.
A piece of paper was submitted to the county government office, but no one dared to accept it.
That night, his table was smashed, his widow disappeared, and the Lu family, the largest grain merchant in the county, also targeted him.
Starting from a corpse that refused to close its eyes, Shen Yan sued for land on behalf of tenant farmers, sued for food for disaster victims, sued for the lives of prisoners on death row, and sued for injustice on behalf of poor families.
After writing and writing, he realized that the people could not win the lawsuit, not because they were ignored, but because they did not know who they were fighting.
He writes petitions for the living and speaks for the dead.
