The Commandant Zhang Loses His Life Because of His Concubine's Brother; Officer Fan Treats His Cousin's Face

Now to tell the story: Wang Qing was staying in Gong Duan's manor in Gong Family Village. In the cool early morning, as the sun had just risen and a fresh breeze was blowing, he was under the willows in the threshing yard instructing the Gong brothers in boxing and footwork. Suddenly a tall, burly fellow came barging in. He was bareheaded, wearing only a topknot, with a short jacket of fine Leizhou grass-cloth, a thin gauze skirt at his waist, straw sandals on his feet, and a triangular palm-leaf fan in his hand. With his head high and his hands behind his back, he swaggered in and saw an exiled convict teaching men martial arts. He had already heard the day before that at the town east of Mount Beimang a convict had beaten a staff-fighter, and fearing that the Gong brothers had learned some skill, he opened his mouth and cursed at Wang Qing: “You convict in bonds, instead of hurrying along your road of exile, you come here to swindle other people's young men!” Wang Qing thought he was a relative of the Gong family and did not dare answer. This man was none other......