Scholar (Gong Hanlin) is famous for his joking, so he is nicknamed "Haha". This man is very learned and talented. Because I hate the darkness of officialdom, I haven't taken exams for more than 20 years, and I study and practice for peace and quiet. The scholar's wife is a fat sister-in-law (played by Shen Dianxia). Xu Niang is half old, but her charm still exists. She is chivalrous, generous and frank, affectionate when gentle, and powerful when angry. When she saw that the road was rough, she drew out her sword to help her, but often she couldn't accomplish anything, so she often got this troublesome scholar into the whirlpool. Masons are old and good, young and strong, honest and honest, and masons' daughters-in-law are beautiful and virtuous, simple and hardworking; Qiu Jingui, who bullies the weak and fears the hard, relies on his uncle as an academician of the Imperial Academy and his father-in-law as an assistant minister of the official department. He is cruel and treacherous, bullying the city, bullying the city, but only afraid of his wife, grandma Qiu. The rogue Xie cripple is a litigation lawyer and Qiu Jingui's chief strategist. This man is greedy and cunning. Fish begins to stink at the head, his little cripple, is also a thief. He Jiugui, the confused county magistrate, is addicted to alcohol and timid and incompetent. The trial of a case can confuse the original, the defendant and himself. The plot of this play is unfolded among these people. Coupled with this confused county magistrate, it is even more obvious that things are confused and confused.
The story begins with a lawsuit in which Xie, a rogue cripple, tries to seize three acres of ancestral land owned by Ruan Lao, a stonemason. The wicked sued first, and the scholar helped the stonemason win the lawsuit. Xie, the lame man, was unwilling to bribe the magistrate of a county to review with an altar of good wine. The scholar asked Ruan, a stonemason, to pass off an altar of cold water as good wine and won the lawsuit. It coincides with the birthday of the magistrate of a county. Invite the scholar as a guest and entertain the guests with this bottle of "good wine". Of course, this scholar can't help but agree. On the birthday party of the county magistrate, all the squires in the county came to celebrate his birthday. During the dinner, the scholar made up a story to explain the origin of this bottle of "good wine", which frightened the guests and delighted the magistrate, and then opened the jar on the spot. When people drink it, they think it is cold water, but they dare not praise it in unison! Guessing boxing orders and raising glasses frequently. Drink cold water and eat fish for a short time, covering their stomachs one by one. The magistrate of a county was furious and wanted to detain the scholar. He was speechless and had to take him home in a sedan chair. Qiu Jingui's father, Mr. Qiu, came back from his birthday and his family arranged a funeral. Xie lame man didn't get the stonemason's land, so he took the opportunity to tell Qiu Jingui that the stonemason's three acres of land is a treasure trove of geomantic omen. As a cemetery, it can bless future generations' career prosperity. The stonemason refused to sell the land, and Qiu Jingui buried it forcibly, causing public outrage and almost causing a fight. At the tense moment, the scholar took the stonemason away. The scholar used his intelligence to let Qiu Jingui secretly dig out his father's coffin and move it away.
After the provincial examination, the scholar changed his original intention of taking the exam, because he realized that only officials have the right to be the masters of the people, and he was as confident as taking the exam. However, because the examiner was Qiu Wenxian, Qiu Jingui's uncle, although the scholar's paper was outstanding, he was not admitted, and Qiu Wenxian told Lafayette that he had approved the four characters "Never for Syria".
Qiu Jingui found that the stonemason's daughter-in-law was beautiful, so she wanted to take it for herself. Thanks to the lame man, he had an idea, forged an iou and blackmailed the stonemason to pay his debts with his wife. But he didn't want to be a scholar. Qiu Jingui didn't succeed. Instead, he lost his wife's black gold plate to a stonemason, and then Qiu Jingui was pushed around in a wooden bucket. Grandma Qiu had to buy the barrel at a high price and sue the scholar and the stonemason. At this time, the original wife of the magistrate of a county was looking for a husband thousands of miles away, and the scholar made a plan to let the magistrate of a county marry the original wife again.
Qiu Jingui wanted to be a scholar for the magistrate of a county, and sent him a long-delayed difficult case. The magistrate of a county had no choice but to ask the scholar for help. However, after the case was cleared, the scholar became the defendant again. The magistrate of a county cleared up difficult cases, and was also reused by the governor, and was promoted to be the magistrate of Hanyang. Qin Yulong, the new magistrate of a county, wants to woo scholars for his own use. Qin Yulong colluded with the Huangzhou magistrate, embezzled and gave it to the scholar 320 yuan as a reward. The scholar accepted it for a pretence and deliberately went to Huangzhou to report Qin Yulong. Huangzhou magistrate and Qin Yulong are a group, falsely accusing the scholar and putting him in a cell.
The scholar's wife pleaded for the scholar and rushed to the provincial capital to ask He Jiugui, the county magistrate who had been promoted to Hanyang magistrate, to submit the complaint to the governor's office. The governor sent someone to escort the scholar to the provincial capital for hearing. Qin Yulong, the magistrate of Huang An, was afraid that things would be exposed, so he called Qiu Jingui to discuss buying a murderer. The scholar was robbed and killed on the way to the provincial capital, and his wife fell off a cliff with a knife. She was heartbroken and wanted to go to Beijing to sue the imperial edict and rehabilitate the scholar. The scholar's wife is more difficult and wants to die in desperation. ...
In times of crisis, the appearance of this scholar revived the lady's hope for life. The scholar's wife, as the plaintiff, submitted a complaint to the Huang An county government, with Qin Yulong as the presiding judge, and the governor of Huangzhou and Guangpu Cui tried the case successively. When the case was about to come out, Qiu Wenxian came to the hearing with a personal letter from Lafayette, and the case fell into a trough again. ...
The appearance of this scholar has given this case a new turn. Under the conclusive evidence, Qin Yulong, a magistrate of a county, leaked clues, and the magistrate used the topic to win important criminals such as Qin Yulong, Guangpu Cui and Qiu Jingui who robbed the silver relief. ...
The people clap their hands and say yes. As the saying goes, "Those who obey the will of the people prosper, those who oppose the will of the people die, and those who harm the people can all shout and fight."
The scholar went to take the exam again, only to learn that Lafayette's imperial edict was "Never use it", which was the will of Lafayette and could not be changed. The scholar laughed and continued to study and farm at home. As the saying goes, "If you have a lady at home, you will be happy, but you will laugh at the world of mortals." ...