话说范进一家人正在宴上共饮美酒，庆祝范进中举时，突然门外传来了一阵马鸣声，只见一个报录人闯了进来，高声喊道：“报错了！报错了！中举者不是此范进，而是邻县的范进！”顿时，原本热闹喜庆的场面寂静了下来。只见范进脸上的笑容如冻僵了一般，他的老母亲颤颤巍巍地站起身，一步步挪到报录人跟前，断断续续的说道：“真的是报……报错了吗？中举的人……不是我……我儿子吗？”只见那报录的人恶狠狠地说道：“千真万确！”随后，他骑上马扬长而去。只见范进的老母亲一下子浑身无力的瘫倒在地上，晕了过去，范进的妻子赶忙给她灌水。
Speaking of Fan Jin's family, they were drinking fine wine together at a banquet to celebrate Fan Jin's passing. Suddenly, a horse's roar came from outside the door, and a reporter rushed in, shouting loudly, "I got it wrong! I got it wrong! The successful candidate was not Fan Jin from the neighboring county!" Suddenly, the originally lively and festive scene fell silent. The smile on Fan Jin's face was as cold as ice. His old mother stood up tremblingly and moved step by step to the reporter, intermittently saying, "Is it really a mistake? The person who passed the imperial examination... isn't I... my son?" The reporter fiercely said, "It's absolutely true!" Then he mounted his horse and rode away. I saw Fan Jin's old mother suddenly collapse on the ground, feeling weak and unconscious. Fan Jin's wife quickly poured water on her.
范进的脸早已一片煞白，他用呆滞的目光看着胡屠户，浑身发抖，嘴角不停地抽搐，脸上的胡子也跟着抖动了起来，手中握着的筷子早已弯曲。“啪”的一声，胡屠户将手中的筷子怒拍在桌子上，他飞速起身，一步跨到范进面前，凶神般说道：“我就知道你这个畜生是不会有出息的，亏我还在那么多乡邻面前抬举你，现在你让我的面子往哪搁？以后你有多远滚多远，再也不要出现在我的面前。”随后带上自己拿来的钱和肉转身就走，临走时还不忘说一句：“没用的东西，癞蛤蟆，现世宝，呸！”
Fan Jin's face had already turned pale. He looked at Hu Butcher with a dull gaze, trembling all over and twitching at the corners of his mouth. His beard also trembled, and the chopsticks in his hand had already bent. With a loud bang, Butcher Hu angrily slammed his chopsticks on the table. He quickly got up and stepped over to Fan Jin, saying with a fierce tone, "I knew you wouldn't have any success as a beast. I'm sorry I still praised you in front of so many neighbors. Where do you want my face to go now? Roll as far away as you can in the future, and never appear in front of me again." Then he turned around with the money and meat he had brought, and before leaving, he didn't forget to say, "Useless thing, toad, treasure of this world, bah
胡屠户前脚刚走，张乡绅后脚就进来了，边走边说：“哎哟哟！范大才子，你怎么沦落到了这种地步，我还以为你多有能耐呢，原来只是个庸才。快把我给你的房子和那五十两银子，现在立马还给我。”范进因将一些银子给了胡屠户，所以拿不出五十两银子，只得拿出给自己留下的银子，说道：“张老爷，一些银子我给老丈人了，只剩下这么多了，你看……”“啪”的一巴掌，范进的话还没说完，就被张乡绅一巴掌响亮的抽在脸上，一把夺走了范进手中的银子和房契，迈着大步离开了。范进此时已是目光呆滞，脸上的巴掌印清晰可见。他跪倒在地上，放声痛哭起来……这时邻居一窝蜂的拥进来，把屋里原本属于他们自己的东西都拿走了，临走时还都嘲讽范进，甚至有的还向他吐唾沫。当范进从地上爬起来时，他已经神经崩溃了……
As soon as the Hu Butcher left, Zhang Xiangshen came in and said, "Oh my! Master Fan, why have you fallen to this point? I thought you were very capable, but you were just a mediocre person. Quickly give me the house and the fifty taels of silver that I gave you, and give them back to me immediately." Fan Jin couldn't take out the fifty taels of silver he had left for himself because he had given some silver to the Hu Butcher. He had to take out the silver he had left for himself and said, "Master Zhang, I gave some silver to my father-in-law, and there's only so much left. Look..." With a slap, before Fan Jin could finish speaking, Zhang Xiangshen gave him his words. With a loud slap on his face, he snatched away the silver and property deed from Fan Jin's hand and strode away. At this moment, Fan Jin's gaze was already dull, and the palm prints on his face were clearly visible. He knelt down on the ground and burst into tears... At this moment, neighbors rushed in in, taking away everything that originally belonged to them in the room. Before leaving, they even mocked Fan Jin, and some even spat at him. When Fan Jin got up from the ground, he had already suffered a nervous breakdown
没过几日，范进的老娘便去世了，胡屠户把自己的女儿嫁给了邻县的范进，还逢人就夸自己有个中举的女婿，而这里的范进整天疯疯癫癫的，再也无人过问。
A few days later, Fan Jin's mother passed away. Hu Butcher married his daughter to Fan Jin from the neighboring county and praised him for having a son-in-law who passed the imperial examination. However, Fan Jin here has been crazy all day and no one cares about him anymore.