戴宗天速星 · 20
Leaf 20 of the marsh · 神行太保 Magic Courier
Dai Zong 戴宗
In Water Margin 水滸傳 (c. 1400) · rank 20 of the 108 Stars · nicknamed 神行太保 “Magic Courier”
The warden who ran eight hundred li a day and was caught by a seal.
The great deeds 大事記
- ch. 38
Spirit Tablets on His Legs
神行太保He straps spirit-tablets to his legs and runs eight hundred li a day for the Jiangzhou post.
- ch. 39
A Letter Falsely Sealed
假書誤戳A forged letter with the wrong seal stops him on the road, and he is sentenced beside Song Jiang.
- ch. 40
Both on the Jiangzhou Scaffold
法場同判The execution ground at Jiangzhou takes both of them, until the mountain arrives.
結局 The ending
He took the amnesty, grew rich, kept a temple, and one day laughed out loud and was gone. The fastest legs in the empire stopped of their own accord, which is the only message he ever sent without a warrant behind it.
The book itself: how it ends, and who was left — The ending