孙立地勇星 · 39
Leaf 39 of the marsh · 病尉迟 Sick Yuchi
Sun Li 孙立
In Water Margin 水滸傳 (c. 1400) · rank 39 of the 108 Stars · nicknamed 病尉迟 “Sick Yuchi”
The commander who used his own uniform as a skeleton key.
The great deeds 大事記
- ch. 49
A Uniform Turned Jailbreak Key
提轄反登州The Dengzhou commander turns his own uniform into a jailbreak key for the Xie brothers.
- ch. 50
Riding in as an Old Friend
臥底祝家莊He rides into Zhu family village as an old friend with a garrison behind him, and opens the gate from inside.
- ch. 119
The Only One Sent Home Whole
還鄉登州He survived the campaigns and went home to Dengzhou, the only man the mountain gave back whole.
結局 The ending
He went home a surviving officer with the ranks he had bought by turning on his own kin in the Yinzhou plot. Nobody in the book is recorded congratulating him, and he never mentions it either.
The book itself: how it ends, and who was left — The ending