秦明天猛星 · 7
Leaf 7 of the marsh · 霹雳火 Fiery Thunderbolt
Qin Ming 秦明
In Water Margin 水滸傳 (c. 1400) · rank 7 of the 108 Stars · nicknamed 霹雳火 “Fiery Thunderbolt”
A temper the mountain needed, bought with his own family's ashes.
The great deeds 大事記
- ch. 34
A Suburb Burned in His Armour
瓦礫場絕路Song Jiang burns a suburb in his armour so that Qingzhou executes his family; the mountain offers a sister and a seat.
- ch. 117
First Through the Gate at Qingxi
青溪先登He went through the gate first at Qingxi, as at every gate before it, and did not come out.
結局 The ending
Killed at Qingxi in the last of the battles the amnesty bought. The thunderous tempered spear that had been worked into outlawry by a forged dispatch died for a court that had never apologised for it.
The book itself: how it ends, and who was left — The ending