Water Margin, Chapter 50: samenvatting

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1. Song Jiang celebrates Hu Sanniang's marriage to Wang Ying, welcomes Lei Heng, and organizes the stronghold's duties after Lei Heng declines recruitment.
2. A dispute over payment at Bai Xiuying's theater leads Lei Heng to beat her father and suffer public punishment.
3. Bai Xiuying strikes Lei Heng's mother, and he kills her with his cangue.
4. Zhu Tong secretly releases Lei Heng, who takes his mother to Liangshan Marsh, while Zhu Tong receives exile to Cangzhou.
5. Zhu Tong gains the prefect's trust through caring for his son, but refuses Wu Yong and Lei Heng's invitation to join Liangshan.
6. Li Kui kills the child; Zhu Tong pursues him to Chai Jin's manor, learns the recruitment scheme, and demands a condition for joining.

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Zhu Tong condemns the murder even while acknowledging the recruiters' stated purpose. His anger exposes the violence beneath their appeal to brotherhood.

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