白胜地耗星 · 106
Leaf 106 of the marsh · 白日鼠 Daylight Rat
Bai Sheng 白胜
In Water Margin 水滸傳 (c. 1400) · rank 106 of the 108 Stars · nicknamed 白日鼠 “Daylight Rat”
The idle villager whose bucket of wine won the birthday convoy.
The great deeds 大事記
- ch. 16
The Bucket on Yellow Mud Ridge
黃泥岡賣酒His bucket of 'wine' on the ridge takes the birthday convoy without a blow being struck.
- ch. 17
Tortured into Naming the Seven
拷供七人Tortured in Jizhou until he names the seven, then pardoned into the mountain's service as a scout.
結局 The ending
The book gives him an illness on the road home and no scene at all. He was the decoy victim of the birthday convoy, the man who broke under the torture and still named nobody worth naming; the entire 108 begins with his bad luck, and ends without noticing he is gone.
The book itself: how it ends, and who was left — The ending