杨雄天牢星 · 32
Leaf 32 of the marsh · 病关索 Sick Guan Suo
Yang Xiong 杨雄
In Water Margin 水滸傳 (c. 1400) · rank 32 of the 108 Stars · nicknamed 病关索 “Sick Guan Suo”
The executioner who had to execute his own house.
The great deeds 大事記
- ch. 44
Jailer of Jizhou's Two Courts
兩院押獄The executioner of Jizhou, whose sworn brother watches his wife's door closer than he does.
- ch. 46
The Knife on Copper Screen
翠屏山除奸On Copper Screen mountain he settles the betrayal with his own knife, and the road to Liangshan opens.
結局 The ending
Died of illness on the march home. He had taken his wife's lovers' names out of his own kitchen and cut her down on Green Screen Ridge, and the book never once went back to ask him how that had sat.
The book itself: how it ends, and who was left — The ending