李俊天寿星 · 26
Leaf 26 of the marsh · 混江龙 River-Mixing Dragon
Li Jun 李俊
In Water Margin 水滸傳 (c. 1400) · rank 26 of the 108 Stars · nicknamed 混江龙 “River-Mixing Dragon”
The ferryman who sailed out of the story and became a king beyond the sea.
The great deeds 大事記
- ch. 36
Boarding the Bandit Boat Mid-River
潯陽江奪船The Xunyang ferryman boards a bandit's boat mid-river and fishes Song Jiang out of the law's net alike.
- ch. 119
Pretending Sick to Build a Fleet
太湖託病出海After the campaigns he feigns illness at Suzhou, builds ships with the Tong brothers, and sails out of the story to become a king beyond the sea.
結局 The ending
He called himself sick, stayed on the coast, and by the book's last page was a king in Siam with the marsh's whole fleet gone out to serve him. The only man of the 108 who took what he had learned on the water somewhere new.
The book itself: how it ends, and who was left — The ending