Yan Qing offers a little eye candy to the emperor’s mistress in exchange for her help.
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Water Margin 110: VIP
The bandits roll out the red carpet, and you won’t believe who’s coming to dinner.
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Water Margin 109: Deceit
Prospects of peace ride on the all-important question: Is that a comma or a period?
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Water Margin 108: Burned
YOU SUNK MY BATTLESHIP! (And torched my fleet and killed my generals and burned my camp and …)
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Water Margin 107: Coverup
You just lost 60,000 men on your campaign? What are you going to tell the emperor? Wait … not telling him is actually an option?
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Water Margin 106: War
The hawks at court get their way, as a huge imperial force descends on Liangshan.
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Water Margin, Supplemental Episode 005: Monastery
A dive into the minutiae of monastic life.
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- The Origins of Buddhist Monastics Codes in China: An Annotated Translation and Study of the Chanyuan Qinggui
Water Margin 105: Wine
We secretly replaced our heroes’ imperial wine with swamp water. Let’s see if they … oh crap they totally noticed!
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Water Margin 104: Wrestling
After delivering justice on heaven’s behalf in his usual manner at the fair, Li Kui dabbles in a more comical delivery of justice at a nearby county.
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Water Margin 103: Heads
Li Kui and Song Jiang wagered heads, and heads they shall have.
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