Idiom trivia:The prototype of the Chinese idiom “záo bì tōu guāng” became a corrupt official

The story of záo bì tōu guāng is known to everyone in China. When he was a child, he couldn’t afford to buy a lamp in his home. So he used tools to drill through the wall and borrowed his neighbor’s candlelight to study. He tried hard to study hard, and his efforts were not in vain. To the equivalent of the Prime Minister’s official position.

However, after Yu Heng was sealed as An Yue Hou, he became a corrupt official. His son was drunk and murdered. He illegally expanded the boundaries of his own land and invaded more than 40,000 mu of land. After being exposed, he was defamed. People and property are all confiscated.