杨志天暗星 · 17
Leaf 17 of the marsh · 青面兽 Blue-Faced Beast
Yang Zhi 杨志
In Water Margin 水滸傳 (c. 1400) · rank 17 of the 108 Stars · nicknamed 青面兽 “Blue-Faced Beast”
Last of a line of generals, and the man who lost the birthday convoy.
The great deeds 大事記
- ch. 12
The Ancestral Blade on the Bridge
楊志賣刀He sells his ancestral blade on a bridge for food, and the bully who prices it dies under it.
- ch. 16
The Birthday Convoy Lost
失陷生辰綱The convoy he swore to guard goes to a cart of drugged wine in the monsoon heat.
- ch. 17
The Road to Erlong Mountain
落草二龍山He never recovers from being the man who lost it, and takes the mountain road at Erlong.
結局 The ending
He took ill and died on the march, months before the army he had waited his whole life to serve reached the wall it was sent to break. The officer who lost the emperor's silver twice never got it back, and never got a battle either.
The book itself: how it ends, and who was left — The ending