张顺天损星 · 30
Leaf 30 of the marsh · 浪里白条 White Stripe in the Waves
Zhang Shun 张顺
In Water Margin 水滸傳 (c. 1400) · rank 30 of the 108 Stars · nicknamed 浪里白条 “White Stripe in the Waves”
The river robber with a two-item menu, and a brother he could never outrun.
The great deeds 大事記
- ch. 37
A Choice of Two Deaths
板刀麵He offers a boarded passenger a choice of two deaths — until the passenger's name turns out to be Song Jiang.
- ch. 40
His Boats Take the River Side
江州劫法場His boats take the river side of the Jiangzhou execution ground.
- ch. 114
The Plague in Taken Hangzhou
杭州染疫He died of the plague in the taken city of Hangzhou, in the same week as his brother's ghost was seen in the water gate.
結局 The ending
He went into the water alone at Yongjin gate to find a way in, and the arrows and the nets came down on the spring with him in it. They pulled him out days afterwards, still holding his breath the way the river had taught all of them to.
The book itself: how it ends, and who was left — The ending