穆弘天究星 · 24
Leaf 24 of the marsh · 没遮拦 Unstoppable
Mu Hong 穆弘
In Water Margin 水滸傳 (c. 1400) · rank 24 of the 108 Stars · nicknamed 没遮拦 “Unstoppable”
The squire of the ferry road, who collected tolls from everyone except the one man who mattered.
The great deeds 大事記
- ch. 37
Chasing a Guest to the River
潯陽江追客He chases a tax-dodging exile to the water's edge — and finds he has been hosting the most wanted man in China.
- ch. 40
Boats and Brothers at the Scaffold
江州劫法場He brings his boats and his brothers to the Jiangzhou execution ground.
- ch. 114
The Plague at Hangzhou
杭州染疫The plague that took the victors of Hangzhou took him before the city was even counted.
結局 The ending
He sickened after the campaign and died before the appointments were read out. The township that had paid for his temper for years got its silence back for nothing.
The book itself: how it ends, and who was left — The ending