Hu Tutu spent five hundred liang to buy a magistrate position, and on his very first day in office, he slammed the gavel onto his own hand. For his first case, a chicken theft, he ruled that the chicken had run away by itself, and the owner accepted it. For his second case, a dispute between neighbors, he had the two play finger-guessing to decide who wins and loses, with the loser paying compensation. For his third case, a murder case, he let the culprit go and arrested an old man who was watching from the sidelines. His judicial secretary said, "My Lord, this is treating human life as grass," and he replied, "This official has his own judgment." As a result, by a lucky coincidence, the culprit went back and scared himself to death, while the old man was scared into confessing to another old case. The prefect said he solved cases like a god, and he modestly said that this official was just lucky.