Water Margin, Chapter 26: samenvatting

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1. Wu Song surrenders with evidence and witnesses, and the county magistrate rewrites the account to reduce his guilt.
2. Chen Wenzhao secures a lighter sentence: Wu Song receives forty strokes and exile, while Wang the old woman is executed.
3. Traveling toward Mengzhou, Wu Song and his two escorts stop at an inn near Crossroads Slope.
4. Suspecting the landlady, Wu Song secretly pours away her drugged wine and pretends to collapse beside his unconscious escorts.
5. Wu Song overpowers the landlady, but her husband arrives, recognizes him, and introduces himself as Zhang Qing.
6. The couple explain their trade in human flesh; Wu Song requests his escorts’ revival, and Zhang Qing raises an unspecified proposal.

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Wu Song explains how he defeats the trap. His suspicion and deliberate performance turn an apparent victim into the person controlling the encounter.

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