In the spring of the twelfth year of Yonghe, Shen Qingci, the editor of Wanjuan Pavilion, was ordered to sort out old files and found a secret letter from his late father Shen Heting's posthumous manuscript. It said, "In the Cangwu case in the second year of Yonghe, the imperial censor Song Zhiyuan impeached the first assistant Zhao Qingyuan, which was actually an unjust imprisonment. The copy is hidden in the pavilion for those who come."
At that time, the editor of Song Jinshu of the Hanlin Academy repeatedly went into the cabinet to check the documents of the previous dynasty, and his behavior was very unusual. Shen Qingci realized that he wanted to find evidence of his father's legacy, so he secretly helped him. The two of them pieced together the irrefutable evidence one by one that Zhao Qingyuan had liaison with the Northern enemy and was embezzling money from border officials.
Zhao Qingyuan took action after hearing the news. He was first banned from the pavilion for "privately possessing forbidden books" and then sent factory guards to hunt him down. Shen Qingci was seriously injured while protecting Song Jinshu. Song Jinshu hugged him and swore: "If the truth is not revealed, I will die with my eyes in peace."
The two finally entrusted Zhou Wenzhen with the evidence and presented it to the cabinet. The three law divisions held a joint trial and Zhao Qingyuan was executed. The Song family was redressed of injustice, Song Jinshu resigned from the Hanlin post, and Wanjuan Pavilion was left to write books together with Shen Qingci. A plaque with the four characters "On paper, the common people" written by the emperor was given to him to commemorate his contribution to uprightness and morality.
Intention: Although the pen and ink are light, they can carry the moral principles of the ages; the daughter is small, but she dares to shine a light on the injustice of the world.