Ma Degui, a grain merchant in Baishi Village, used floor scales to short-weight, depress prices, block roads and cut off vehicles, and even dug up production roads, forged documents, and mixed in heated grain, forcing villagers to sell their grain at low prices. Zhou Ye led the villagers to install mobile floor scales, repair the old drying ground road, establish a cooperative to rush-harvest the grain, and used account books, surveillance, and recordings to expose his long-term measurement cheating and malicious obstruction. Eventually, an open investigation and accountability check were conducted, and a new cooperative with public weighing and clearly marked pricing was built in the village, so the villagers would no longer be manipulated by a crooked scale.