During the conversation, Fu Leisheng had already penned a well-structured eight-legged essay. Although it also contained over two hundred characters, it was stable and balanced, encompassing an introduction, continuation, exposition, commencement, initial argument, middle argument, final argument, and conclusion—concise yet profound, with resplendent parallel prose, easy on the tongue.
Tian Huaiyi praised its ingenuity and, after blowing dry the ink, said, "The County Magistrate has just passed away, and Xinxiang County is currently without a leader. This makes cheating in the county examination much easier. By the time a new Magistrate is appointed, this incident will have long passed, and no one will investigate."
Fu Leisheng replied, "He's just a Scholar; who would bother investigating?"