解宝天哭星 · 35
Leaf 35 of the marsh · 双尾蝎 Double-Tailed Scorpion
Xie Bao 解宝
In Water Margin 水滸傳 (c. 1400) · rank 35 of the 108 Stars · nicknamed 双尾蝎 “Double-Tailed Scorpion”
The younger Xie brother, who followed a tiger straight into a frame-up.
The great deeds 大事記
- ch. 49
Tracking a Tiger into a Trap
毛太公賴虎He tracks the tiger onto the squire's land and straight into a frame-up.
- ch. 49
Freed on the Wedding Day
顧大嫂劫牢Freed by Gu Dasao's wedding-day jailbreak, he takes the mountain road with his brother.
- ch. 113
The Trap-Cave at Wulong Ridge
烏龍嶺陷坑He fell in the trap-caves of Wulong ridge in the dark of the last campaigns.
結局 The ending
He followed his brother over the same cliff. The book reports the two deaths in a single sentence, which is more than either of them got anywhere else in it.
The book itself: how it ends, and who was left — The ending