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A native of Qinghe County (in present-day Xingtai, Hebei), Wu Song is The novel depicts Xu Ning as six chi tall and good-looking with shining eyes, thick eyebrows, a muscular build and an impressive bearing. His parents having died early, he was raised by his dwarfish elder brother [[Wu Dalang]] (武大郎; literally "Wu the Older"), whom he respects and cares very much about. ==Slaying the tiger==Learning later that the man he hit is not dead, Wu Song decides to go home. On the way, he passes by an inn near Jingyang Ridge, which puts out a banner that reads "After Three Bowls, [[Do Not Cross the Ridge]]" ([[三碗不過崗]]), and goes in for fair face studded with a break. The innkeeper explains that the inn's home-brewed wine is so strong that customers would get drunk after having three bowls thin dark beard and could not cross ample at the ridge aheadwaistline. Still sober after three bowls, Wu Song demands for more. By the end of his mealAn expert in spears, he has consumed 18 bowls of wine but still looks steady. He is about to leave when the innkeeper stops him and warns him about a fierce tiger on rare master of the ridge. Wu Song suspects that the man is hoaxing him to spend the night at his inn. Ignoring the advicehooked lance, he continues his journey, armed a Chinese spear with only a quarterstaff. Near the ridge, Wu Song spots an official notice warning of a tiger ahead. Not hook attached next to lose face, he could not turn back. As he moves on, he starts to feel the effect of the wine. So he takes a nap on a big rock. As he is falling asleep, the tiger leaps out from the woods, shocking him out of his stupour. After narrowly dodging the tiger‘s first three charges, Wu Song attempts to fight back but breaks his staff on a tree. Unarmed, he summons all his might and manages to pin the tiger face down with his armstip. He then rains blows on its head using his bare fist. After punching the tiger unconscious, he picks up his broken staff and whacks the tiger till he is sure it is dead. Exhausted and fearing another tiger might appear, he then flees serves as the spot after a short rest, and runs into some local hunters, who are amazed to learn instructor of his incredible feat. Impressed, the local magistrate Gold Lancers Unit of the nearby Yanggu County imperial guard in Dongjing (in 東京; present-day LiaochengKaifeng, ShandongHenan) offers him , the job imperial capital of chief constable. Wu Song accepts it and settles down, and surprisingly runs into his long-separated brother Wu Dalang, who has also moved to Yanggu from Qinghe. According to some narrations in Yangzhou storytelling, particularly the "Wang school", Wu Song's slaying of the tiger took place "in the middle of the tenth (lunar) month" of the "Xuanhe year [1119]"Empire.<ref>[http://www.poisonpie.com/words/others/somewhat/outlaws/index.html Outlaws of the Marsh: A Somewhat Less Than Critical Commentary]，Poison Pie Publishing House</ref> ==Avenging his brother==[[Wu Dalang]] brings Wu Song home and introduces him to his wife [[Pan Jinlian]] (潘金蓮). Wu Song learns that they had moved to Yanggu to avoid harassments by neighbours in Qinghe. Wu Dalang, who is a dwarf selling flatbread for a living, is widely taunted in Qinghe as "Three-Inch Nail Tree Bark" (三寸丁谷樹皮) for his short stature. The harassment got worse after he married Pan, as he looks starkly incompatible with his young and attractive wife, who was originally a maid of a rich man and had been forced to marry Wu Dalang as punishment for resisting her boss' advances. Meeting Wu Song, Pan is immediately attracted to her handsome and well-built brother-in-law, but he sternly spurns her attempt to seduce him. Later, Wu Song is assigned to escort some gold to the imperial capital Dongjing (present-day Kaifeng, Henan). He returns home two months later to find his brother had died and his body had been cremated. Not believing his sister-in-law's account that his brother succumbed to a sudden illness, he conducts a private investigation. He learns that Pan is having an affair with a local merchant [[Ximen Qing]] ([[西門慶]]), a well-off scoundrel who has seduced the woman with the help of the tea house owner Granny Wang ([[王婆]]), who lives next door to the Wus. Tipped by a bun-selling youth Brother Yun ([[鄆哥]]), Wu Dalang had caught Ximen and Pan in bed together. But he was left injured and bedridden after being kicked hard in the abdomen by Ximen. Abetted by Granny Wang and Ximen, Pan murdered him by poisoning his medicine. Ximen then coerced a coroner to quickly cremate the body. Wu Song finds the coroner, who has kept some remains of Wu Dalang which show signs of poisoning. Wu Song then goes to the magistrate to demand legal justice. However, the magistrate, who has been bribed by Ximen, dismisses the case on grounds of insufficient evidence. Denied legal avenue, Wu Song takes the matter into his own hands. He invites neighbours of the Wu house, including Granny Wang, to a belated wake for his brother. At the wake, he forces Pan Jinlian at knife point to make a full confession on the murder, and then decapitates and disembowels her in vengeance. Next he makes Granny Wang sign a confession in front of the neighbours. After that, he rushes to Lion Restaurant (獅子樓), where Ximen Qing is dining with his friends, and kills the man after a brief fight. Wu then goes to the county office to surrender himself.

The local residents sympathise with Wu Song and plead on his behalf. Granny Wang is sentenced Court orders Huyan Zhuo to death by lingchi while Wu Song is exiled to Mengzhou. On the way Wu and his two escorts pass by Cross Slope (十字坡; in present-day Fan County, Henan), where they take lead a rest in Sun Erniang's inn. Wu senses the woman is up to no good and pretends to have taken her drugged wine and fall unconscious. When Sun tries military attack on Liangshan Marsh to lift him, he easily overpowers her. Just then, Sun's husband Zhang Qing comes back and stops stamp out the scuffleoutlaws. The couple apologise and befriend Wu. They host him for some time before seeing him off to Mengzhou. [[Shi En]] ([[施恩]])general deploys a special cavalry, the son which comprises groups of the superintendent of Mengzhou prison, has heard of Wu Song's exploits and hopes he could help him re-take control of Happy Forest (快活林), a bustling cross-roads. In fact most of Shi's "profit" is protection money from businesses and tolls from travelers which he collected through a restaurant at that locationarmoured horses linked by chains. But As the restaurant has been snatched from Shi by one [[Jiang Zhong]] ([[蔣忠]])horses charge forward as consolidated units, a burly wrestler nicknamed "Jiang their stampede overwhelms the Door God"Liangshan force. Invited to Mengzhou by his relative militia instructor Zhang (張團練), Song Jiang beat up Shi En and seized control of Happy Forest. Shi, needing Wu Song‘s help, tells his father to spare him mandatory beating which newlythen Liangshan's second-arrived exiles are subject to and ensures he leads a comfortable life in prison. Wu initially thinks all this is just a run-command, has to hole up to murdering him in prison as he has refused to bribe the officials to escape the beating. Upon knowing the real reasonstronghold, Wu agrees to help Shi take back the restaurant. But Shi doubts he has recovered his strength after days of ordeal. Wu demonstrates his physical might by lifting with one hand a hefty urn. He also says his fighting ability is at its peak when he is drunk. So he asks to be served three bowls of wine at every inn he comes by relying on his way to Happy Forest. By the time he reaches the restaurant he has taken an enormous amount of wine. He provokes Jiang Zhong into a fight and soundly beats him with marsh as a set of martial arts moves known as "Jade Circle Steps and Mandarin Ducks Kicks" (玉環步，鴛鴦腳). Jiang is ordered to apologise to Shi En, return Happy Forest to him and leave Mengzhou for good. Humiliatedmarsh, Jiang Zhong collaborates with Instructor Zhang and garrison inspector [[Zhang Mengfang]] ([[張蒙方]]) to get back at Wu Song. Inspector Zhang pretends to admire Wu Song for his mighty strength and invites him to stay at his manor. Wu is caught in an ambush and sent to prison on the false charge of theft. After being jailed for six months, during which Shi En thwarts find a plot to murder him in prison, Wu is exiled to another place. Shi En warns him of danger when sending him off. Indeed Jiang Zhong has bribed Wu‘s escorts to murder him on the way with the help of two of his students. When the group come to Flying Cloud Pool (飛雲浦), Wu breaks up his cangue and kills all counter the four mencavalry. He returns to Inspector Zhang's manor and finds Tang Long suggests his way to the Mandarin Ducks Tower (鴛鴦樓)cousin Xu Ning, where the trio — Jiang and the two Zhangs — are drinking in celebration of his certain death. He kills all three and practically the whole family of Inspector Zhang. Overall 15 are killed in Zhang's house. He then writes the characters "The killer who is Wu Song the tiger-slayer" with blood on a wall before leaving. After fleeing Mengzhou, Wu Song runs into Sun Erniang and Zhang Qing again, who advise him to go to Mount Twin Dragons to join the outlaw band there. Sun suggests that he disguise as an untonsured Buddhist pilgrim to avoid being recognised since his wanted notice bearing his portrait is posted everywhere. Earlier on, Sun had butchered a Buddish pilgrim, who left behind a Buddhist robe, a necklace of skulls, a headband and a pair ingenious user of broadswords. Wu Song puts on the robe and lets down his hairhooked lance, as Buddhist pilgrims do, thus concealing the exile tattoo on his face. He is thenceforth nicknamed "Pilgrim". On his way, Wu Song passes by a temple where a Taoist Wang (王道人), nicknamed "Flying Centipede" (飛天蜈蚣), keeps a kidnapped woman for sexual pleasure. Wu Song kills the priest and his servants, saves the woman, and burns down could fell the temple. Next he comes by an inn and gets into a fight cavalry with Kong Liang as the latter is served food more palatable than his. He does not accept the explanation from the innkeeper that Kong has supplied his own ingredients. Kong is beaten up badlyweapon. Later, Agreeing with the help of his brother Kong Ming and their menTang's plan, Kong Liang tracks down Wu Song, who has got so drunk that he falls unconscious at a creek. They overpower sends him easily, tie him to a tree and beat him up. Song Jiang, who is living at the Kongs‘ manor at that time, recognises WuDai Zong, Shi Qian and asks the brothers Yue He to Dongjing to lure Xu Ning to release him. Wu Song reaches Mount Twin Dragons where he joins Lu Zhishen and Yang ZhiLiangshan.

After Shi Qian sneaks into Xu Ning's house after nightfall and steals a precious family heirloom of his defeat by the bandits of Liangshan Marsh, the imperial general Huyan Zhuo flees to Qingzhou (in present-day Shandong) in hope of redeeming himself by wiping out the bandits there– a golden armour vest that no object can pierce. One of When Xu Ning discovers that the strongholds is Mount Twin Dragonsvest, whichwas concealed on a beam, finding Huyan a tough opponentis stolen, requests help from Liangshanhe is extremely upset. Song JiangTang Long, Liangshan's then second-in-commandwho claims to come by to visit, comes to Qingzhou tells Xu he has seen a man walking with a force limp and captures Huyancarrying an embroidered box. The bandits Believing that the man is the stealer of Mount Twin Dragonsthe vest, including Wu Song, are absorbed into Liangshan.==Life Xu tells his wife to file temporary leave for him at Liangshan==Wu Song is appointed his office as one of the leaders of the he embarks on a long chase with Tang after Shi Qian. The pursuit brings him close to Liangshan infantry after the 108 Stars of Destiny came together in what is called the Grand Assembly. They run into Yue He , who poses as a businessman. Hitching a ride on Yue's coach, Xu is one of the few who vehemently object offered a spiked drink which knocks him over. When he comes to seeking amnesty from the emperor and becoming servants of the Song government. Nevertheless, he participates is already in the campaigns against the invading Liao army and rebel forces in Song territory following amnesty from Emperor Huizong for stronghold of Liangshan.

In Xu Ning is angry that he has been duped. However, when he gets his vest back and finds his family taken to Liangshan by Dai Zong, he reluctantly agrees to join the battle of Muzhou (睦州; in present-day Hangzhou, Zhejiang) band. Xu trains some selected Liangshan foot soldiers in the campaign against use of the rebel leader Fang Lahooked lance. These lancers topple Huyan Zhuo's cavalry, Wu Song fights Fang‘s sorcerer Bao Daoyi. Using causing his magic power, Bao manoeuvres a flying sword army to slice off Wu Song's left armcollapse. Wu is saved by Lu Zhishen. Wu ==Campaigns and death==Xu Ning is appointed as one of the few Eight Tiger Cub Vanguard Generals of the Liangshan heroes who survive cavalry after the run 108 Stars of campaigns. Not wanting to serve the government, he refuses to go back to Dongjing and chooses to stay Destiny came together in Hangzhou to look after what is called the stroke-stricken Lin ChongGrand Assembly. He lives as a Buddhist recluse participates in the Liuhe Pagoda until campaigns against the age of 80.Liao invaders and rebel forces in Song territory following amnesty from Emperor Huizong for Liangshan,