雷横天退星 · 25
Leaf 25 of the marsh · 插翅虎 Winged Tiger
Lei Heng 雷横
In Water Margin 水滸傳 (c. 1400) · rank 25 of the 108 Stars · nicknamed 插翅虎 “Winged Tiger”
A constable whose purse, forgotten once, cost a singer her life and him his post.
The great deeds 大事記
- ch. 14
Chains a Drunk in Marshal's Hall
靈官殿鎖劉唐He chains a drunk vagrant in a temple and nearly executes the man who would start the war.
- ch. 51
The Cangue That Killed a Favorite
枷打白秀英He forgets his purse at a singing-house and wears the cangue for it; his mother is struck in the street and the magistrate's favourite dies under the blow.
結局 The ending
Killed at Hangzhou in the same assault that took Liu Tang. The boy he had beaten to death over an opera ticket, and the officer he had become, died inside one morning.
The book itself: how it ends, and who was left — The ending