Story 39: Shi Naian Punishes Evil

Shi Naian Punishes Evil

Author: Anonymous

Shi Naian, the author of “Water Margin”, is not only a novelist but also a hero with strong martial arts and courageous actions!

One day in the early Ming Dynasty, Shi Naian was visiting a tea mountain when he met a bully who was robbing a farmer of his tea garden. He was very angry and rushed forward to stop it. The bully saw that the visitor was so confident that he had no choice but to sneak away.

But afterward, after the bully found out where the visitor lived, he hired a group of thugs to surround Shi Naian’s residence. Seeing this scene, Shi Naian just sneered slightly and walked out the door calmly. When the thugs saw his bare hands, they rushed forward. One of them, a big man with a black face, held up an iron rod and struck Shi Naian’s head against the wind.

Shi Naian turned his head sideways and “pulled the flag with the wind” to pass the tip of the stick, grabbed the iron stick with both hands, and at the same time flew up with his right foot and kicked the big man in the abdomen, and the guy rolled out more than ten feet. Far.

Shi Naian danced with the iron rod he had snatched, and it swept across like a whirlwind, scaring the gang members to flee in all directions. One year during the Lantern Festival, Shi Naian went to the streets to watch the lanterns.

Suddenly I saw a bad boy insulting a woman at the end of the street. He became angry, lifted the guy up with his right hand, and then threw him to the ground like a dead dog. The evil young man was so frightened that he kowtowed and begged for mercy.

Only then did Shi Naian spare him. Unexpectedly, the next day, the guy gathered seven or eight rogues to take revenge. Shi Naian calmly found a thick rope, asked the gangsters to tie his legs with the rope, and then asked them to pull hard. However, even though they were all red-faced and thick-necked from exhaustion, Shi Naian’s feet seemed to have taken root and remained motionless.

Then, he took out the iron rod, and with an “Oolong Wag”, he interrupted a big poplar tree next to him with a “click”.

When the scoundrels saw that he had such skill, they realized that they had met a master, and they all kowtowed and admitted defeat.

Later, when Shi Naian wrote “Water Margin”, he integrated this personal experience into the plot of Lu Zhishen subduing the gangsters in Daxiangguo Temple.

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