Water Margin, Chapter 9 — краткое содержание

Что происходит

1. Li Xiao’er and his wife repay Lin Chong’s earlier kindness with hospitality, then warn him about suspicious visitors meeting camp officials.
2. Lin Chong searches unsuccessfully for Lu Qian before the warden assigns him to guard the army fodder depot.
3. Heavy snow crushes the depot’s halls while Lin Chong buys wine, so he takes shelter in a nearby mountain temple.
4. Three men watch the burning depot and disclose their murder plot; Lin Chong overhears them and kills all three.
5. Fleeing east, Lin Chong attacks farmhands who refuse him wine, drives them away, and drinks from their jar.
6. He collapses drunk in the snow, and the farmhands return with armed men who bind him and carry him away.

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На что обратить внимание

Lin Chong recognizes that the destructive snowfall saves his life. His discovery of deliberate betrayal immediately precedes his violent revenge.

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