Fan Xiaodao, a young man from a poor family, was born a chicken thief but was illiterate. He passed the Jinshi examination and entered Bianjing.
When I first served as a judge in Dali Temple, I encountered unsolved cases, palace fighting cases, and unjust imprisonment cases, and I was shocked every step of the way.
The powerful people suppressed him, his colleagues ridiculed him, and the deputy chief examiner held a grudge, trapping him in a wanted prison.
He relied on his wits to solve mysteries, battle with ministers, seize the ledger in a sea of fire, and make a comeback against the odds.
From a "country bumpkin" to a supervisor of the Supervisory Yuan, he broke through the situation with the right way and specialized in dealing with all kinds of dissatisfaction.
It is normal to hide a knife in a smile, and handling cases with hot words has become his signature. People call him "the reincarnation of the blue sky".
Look at how he overturned the entire officialdom of the Song Dynasty with a single burnt eyebrow!
