On the 18th day of the first month in the fourth year of Jiaqing (1799), it was only half a month before Gan Long's death and only seven days before Xiao Shenyang was imprisoned. Jiaqing sent his ministers to the prison in Xiao Shenyang and gave him a white silk to kill himself. Little Shenyang knew that his death was coming, and he couldn't help feeling sad. He began to write poems:

This has been a dream for 50 years, but now it's time to give up. He thinks cigarettes are the back of his body.

This poem seems to rhyme, and the meaning of the first two sentences is still very clear, because Xiao Shenyang was born in the fifteenth year of Qianlong (1750), when he was just 50 years old. It was certainly a dream and a nightmare that he fell from the peak of power to the abyss. The last two sentences are obscure, probably belonging to some kind of curse or retribution after death, but it is not convenient to make it clear.

After writing the poem, Xiao Shenyang hanged himself in a melancholy mood and ended his life. This is the price he must pay for taking bribes. Small Shenyang died, and his dream of wealth and power never woke up. The image of a generation of great greed is fixed in the long river of history.

In the 10th year of Jiaqing (1805), Ji Xiaolan died of old age in Beijing at the age of 82. Before he died, he wrote down his elegy: "The official sea rises and falls like a gull, and the book of life and death is like a squid."

After Ji Xiaolan's death, posthumous title became a writer, which highly affirmed his literary talent. Fan Jiang said in the History of Sinology that he was a well-educated Confucian. "He is frank and funny, and people call him Chen Ya. However, suddenly hearing his words is close to humor, and thinking about it is also a famous saying. " In other words, Ji Xiaolan is not only knowledgeable, but also a man of temperament, and his humor is reasonable. It should be said that this evaluation is basically in line with reality.