An innkeeper in this book colludes with some bandits by breaking the bowstring of an escort, but those bandits are unable to steal the silver on a rich merchant's mules when the escort uses his own hair to restring his crossbow.
An innkeeper in this book colludes with some bandits by breaking the bowstring of an escort, but those bandits are unable to steal the silver on a rich merchant's mules when the escort uses his own hair to restring his crossbow. Immediately before a performance of the opera "Three Generations Glory" during a wedding in this novel, a rat falls into a bowl of bird's nest soup andscalds the bridegroom. This novel includes a section in which a traveller tells the Abbot of Ocean Moon Monastery how he fended off two tiger attacks. This 1750 novel parodies Outlaws of the Marsh by having stars that represent the title characters fall from the sky. It opens by describing Wang Mien, a painter who chooses not to become an official even though he is ostensibly one of the title people. Author Jingzi Wu critiqued the civil service exam in, for 10 points, what novel named for people who are supposedly learned?
An innkeeper in this book colludes with some bandits by breaking the bowstring of an escort, but those bandits are unable to steal the silver on a rich merchant's mules when the escort uses his own hair to restring his crossbow.
The Scholars [or  R Ãº lÃ­n w Ã ish ǐ  ; or The Unofficial History of the Forest of the Literati]