Fish Scales

In the twenty-seventh year of Longping's reign, Shen Zhibai, the candidate for county magistrate, waited in the capital for three years, but there was no vacancy. Someone told him: There is a suppressed case in Qinghe County. After investigation, it will be located. When he went south to take up his post, he stepped into an invisible net. In the Ordnance Bureau, Zhou Laoshuan, an old craftsman, spent his whole life "slowly" resisting his hereditary destiny, and his only wish was to let his son escape; Orihu Liu was forced into desperation by the chief's legal errand of "checking the loom" with a piece of paper. She weaved half a piece of red and white cloth, like blood. ; Cloth merchant Zhao Guangyuan wanted to break the guild's pricing, but ended up becoming a defender of the rules; busker Chen Jiu compiled the story of the tenant's murder of the village chief into a narrative for three days. On the fourth day, the poster was posted all over the city, and he was beheaded - the real writer had long since disappeared among the crowd. Shen Zhibai saw everything, remembered everything, but couldn't change anything. He is the fish in the net and the scales in the net. Two years later, he finally got the job. When he walked into the county government office and opened the first case file, he picked up the pen, but stopped. He remembered what Chen Jiu said: "I didn't write it, I just said it." This is a contemporary fable in the shell of antiquity. The fish scale album is the household registration, the land, the rules, and the grid that no one can escape. Five ordinary people, five trapped ways of living, weave together a web called "Peace". The fish swam away, but the man was still in the net.