孙二娘地壮星 · 103
Leaf 103 of the marsh · 母夜叉 Female Yaksha
Sun Erniang 孙二娘
In Water Margin 水滸傳 (c. 1400) · rank 103 of the 108 Stars · nicknamed 母夜叉 “Female Yaksha”
The innkeeper whose buns were famously not pork.
The great deeds 大事記
- ch. 27
Buns That Were Not Pork
十字坡黑店The innkeeper of Crossroads ridge whose buns were famously not pork — until the exile she drugged woke up inside his own sack.
- ch. 27
Following in a Merchant's Disguise
結義武松She lived to tell it, and followed him to the mountain in a merchant's disguise.
- ch. 118
Fallen in the Qingxi Yard
青溪殞命She died inside the Qingxi palace yard in the last week of the war.
結局 The ending
Killed at Qingxi, in the last of the battles the amnesty bought. She had kept the road inn where travellers woke up on the slab, and the book hands her a rank and an unremarkable death without once mentioning the inn again.
The book itself: how it ends, and who was left — The ending