时迁地贼星 · 107
Leaf 107 of the marsh · 鼓上蚤 Flea on the Drum
Shi Qian 时迁
In Water Margin 水滸傳 (c. 1400) · rank 107 of the 108 Stars · nicknamed 鼓上蚤 “Flea on the Drum”
Ranked 107th for work that won half the campaigns.
The great deeds 大事記
- ch. 46
A Chicken Borrowed at Zhu Village
祝家莊偷雞The Flea on the Drum starts a war over a borrowed chicken at Zhu family village, and is worth every soldier it costs.
- ch. 56
Lifting the Armour Off a Beam
盜甲賺徐寧He lifts the heirloom armour off a beam in the capital, and with it the imperial instructor himself.
- ch. 66
One Lantern Opens Daming
火燒翠雲樓A single lantern in the watchtower is the signal that opens Daming fortress from inside.
結局 The ending
He died of illness on the march home — the fever the later printings name, in a ditch, the flea who had gone up every wall in the empire. Not one of the mountain's rescues works without him climbing it first, and the appointments at the end were made for heavier men.
The book itself: how it ends, and who was left — The ending