There is a group of fierce bandits in Zhoushan. They guard the official road from Lingxian County to Tianxian City and make a living by robbing passers-by of their property. Lu Laoliu was originally a weak scholar, but he had been studying hard for twenty years but could not even pass the examination to become a scholar. In order to study, Lu Laoliu dispersed all his family wealth. His parents died young, and he sold the only inheritance left by his ancestors, a mud house that was about to collapse, and prepared to go to Tianxian City to start a small business to make a living. Unexpectedly, he was kidnapped by bandits on Zhoushan Mountain on the way.
The gangsters were all rough men, illiterate. As more and more property was stolen, their boss realized that he was in urgent need of a bookkeeper, otherwise the property would have been used by his younger brothers to eat, drink, and gamble. So when he found that Lu Laoliu, who was traveling alone, had in addition to two ingots of silver and a few thin clothes, a pile of books he couldn't understand in his luggage, he forced the thin scholar to be his accountant.
At first, Lu Laoliu was like a rabbit thrown into a wolf's den, trembling and crying, begging the gangsters to let him live. The other gangsters found him amused by the sight of his nose and tears, so they always threatened him by saying that they would skin him and throw him into a pot and cook him. At this time, only the boss picked him out from the gangsters like a chicken, fed him and showed him the property they had stolen. After a long time, he discovered that the boss wanted him to be his accountant.
Intention: The good and evil of people's hearts can never be explained clearly in one sentence.