Yan Jiansheng is a local tyrant with a family fortune of 100,000 yuan. He has the status of "Guo Jiansheng" and is regarded as a respectable squire. But he also has his brother Yan, whose position in the family and society is higher than his, which makes him suffer all the time.

Yan lived a luxurious life, which made his younger brother Yan Jiansheng disapprove. He is very frugal in food, clothing, housing and transportation, so he is much richer than his brother. Although Yan Jiansheng is timid, he is not a kind person.

His wife is ill in bed and dying. In the side room, Zhao pretended to be diligent and cheated his wife Wang into agreeing to help her make the original match. When the king spits, Yan Jiansheng won't hear this. Lian San said, "In that case, we must ask two uncles to decide this matter early tomorrow morning, so that we can have evidence."

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The Scholars is a novel of Wu in Qing Dynasty. The book was written in 1749 (the 14th year of Qianlong) or earlier, and it was handed down from generation to generation by manuscript, and was first engraved in 1803 (the 8th year of Jiaqing).

Describing the different performances of various people in "fame and fortune" with realism, on the one hand, it truly reveals the process and reasons of human nature being corroded, thus profoundly criticizing and mocking the corruption of bureaucrats and the hypocrisy of imperial examinations at that time.

On the one hand, it enthusiastically praised the protection of human nature by a few characters in a self-centered way, thus embodying the author's ideal. The use of vernacular Chinese is becoming more and more skillful, and the characterization of characters is also quite in-depth and delicate, especially the satirical technique is superb, which makes this book a masterpiece of China's classical satirical literature.

This book represents the peak of China's ancient satirical novels, and creates an example of directly evaluating real life with novels.