話說趙斌抬頭一看，見王興夫妻在這裏吊著，身受重傷，不由大吃一驚。
话说赵斌抬头一看，见王兴夫妻在这里吊着，身受重伤，不由大吃一惊。
Now, Zhao Bin looked up and saw Wang Xing and his wife hanging there, badly hurt, and he could not help being greatly startled.
書中交代：這一所花園，乃是秦丞相的二公子秦桓的花園。平日秦桓就不安本分，他倚仗著他父親是當朝的宰相，他哥哥已死，就剩了他一個。他任意胡為，手下養活著許多的打手，時常在外面搶奪人家少婦幼女，搶了來就要霸佔了。如其本家找來，他叫手下的打手一陣亂棍打死。到府縣告去，衙門不敢接呈子，都知道他是宰相的公子。因此大家給他起了個綽號，叫追命鬼。今天是他在花園內看書，看書也不瞧正書，也無非是淫書邪說，正瞧的是唐明皇信寵楊貴妃。瞧到得意之處，自己便乃拍案驚奇。旁邊有管家秦玉，平常最得臉的人。說道：「公子爺為何這樣喜悅？有何得意之處？」秦桓說：「你不知道，怪不得唐詩有云，
『虢國夫人承主恩，平明騎馬入宮門。卻嫌脂粉污顏色，淡掃峨眉朝至尊。』
這個楊貴妃果然是生的好。」秦玉道：「公子爺，是你親自所見麼？」秦桓說：「這奴才，竟說渾蛋話。那是唐朝，此是宋朝，我如何能親眼得見？」秦玉說：「目今有一個人，比楊貴妃生的好，真是天下少有，世上所無。我自出生以來，就瞧見這樣一個美人，身材不高不矮，模樣不瘦不胖，眉毛眼睛，都是生得好看」。秦桓本不是好人，一聽此言，眼就直了，連忙說：「秦玉，你在哪瞧見的？」秦玉說：「咱們府門口有一個擺果攤的王興，他家就住在木頭市。那一天小人買了兩張楠木椅子，想要僱一個人替我挑到我家去，偏巧沒有相當人，我就上王興家找他去了。一叫門，正趕上他的妻子出外。小人一見，果然長得是國色天香，天下少有，第一等美人。打那一天我瞧見，我就要告公子爺，祇因未得其便。」秦桓道：「不行呀？好與不好，在王興家裏，還能算的是我的人嗎？你可有甚麼主意？想法把美人給我弄來，我必定多賞你銀子。」秦玉說：「公子要這個美人不難，你能花二百銀子，奴才有一條妙計，保管今天美人到手。祇要公子爺捨得賞我二百兩銀子，我就替你出個主意。」秦桓說：「去至帳房給拿。」二百銀子到手，就在秦桓耳旁說道：「祇須如此如此。」秦桓一聽，哈哈大笑，說：「你就去叫他去。」秦玉到了外面一瞧，見王興正把果攤擺好，說：「王興，公子爺呼我來叫你。」王興趕忙託付看街的郭四照應果攤，跟著秦玉往裏走。王興笑嘻嘻，祇打算是要賣幾兩銀子，必是公子要甚麼好果子。來到花園裏丹桂軒，一瞧追命鬼秦桓正在那廊子下坐著，兩旁站著有幾個家丁。王興連忙過去行禮說：「公子爺呼喚小的來，有甚麼事情？」秦桓說：「王興，你家裏有甚麼人？你多大年紀？照實說。」王興不知是甚麼一段事情，趕忙說：「公子爺要問，我家裏就是小人，我母親今年五十歲，我今年二十二歲，我妻子十九歲，家中就是三口子度日。」秦桓一聽，這小子一陣狂笑，說：「王興，我聽說你女人長得不錯，我給你二百銀子，再娶一個，把你女人接來給我罷。」王興一聽此言，打了個冷戰，心想：「我若一說不答應，必然一頓亂棍把我打死。」心中一忖度，王興說：「公子爺在上，小人有下情上告。我娶妻並不為別的，為的服侍我老娘。待我老母死了，我把妻子送與公子爺，我也不敢領二百銀子賞。」秦桓聽王興之言，正要說你去罷。那旁秦玉過來說：「公子爺，你休聽他此話，明明是搪塞你，他母親今年纔五十歲，再活三十，他媳婦已五十歲了，豈不送了來養老嗎？」秦桓一聽，勃然大怒道：「好一個狗頭！你敢在你家公子爺面前搪塞，實在可惱，來！把他替我吊起來！」眾惡奴就把王興吊起來。秦桓說：「秦玉，你有甚麼主意？把他女人給我誆來。我叫他看著跟他女人成親。」
书中交代：这一所花园，乃是秦丞相的二公子秦桓的花园。平日秦桓就不安本分，他倚仗着他父亲是当朝的宰相，他哥哥已死，就剩了他一个。他任意胡为，手下养活着许多的打手，时常在外面抢夺人家少妇幼女，抢了来就要霸占了。如其本家找来，他叫手下的打手一阵乱棍打死。到府县告去，衙门不敢接呈子，都知道他是宰相的公子。因此大家给他起了个绰号，叫追命鬼。今天是他在花园内看书，看书也不瞧正书，也无非是淫书邪说，正瞧的是唐明皇信宠杨贵妃。瞧到得意之处，自己便乃拍案惊奇。旁边有管家秦玉，平常最得脸的人。说道：「公子爷为何这样喜悦？有何得意之处？」秦桓说：「你不知道，怪不得唐诗有云，
『虢国夫人承主恩，平明骑马入宫门。却嫌脂粉污颜色，淡扫峨眉朝至尊。』
这个杨贵妃果然是生的好。」秦玉道：「公子爷，是你亲自所见么？」秦桓说：「这奴才，竟说浑蛋话。那是唐朝，此是宋朝，我如何能亲眼得见？」秦玉说：「目今有一个人，比杨贵妃生的好，真是天下少有，世上所无。我自出生以来，就瞧见这样一个美人，身材不高不矮，模样不瘦不胖，眉毛眼睛，都是生得好看」。秦桓本不是好人，一听此言，眼就直了，连忙说：「秦玉，你在哪瞧见的？」秦玉说：「咱们府门口有一个摆果摊的王兴，他家就住在木头市。那一天小人买了两张楠木椅子，想要雇一个人替我挑到我家去，偏巧没有相当人，我就上王兴家找他去了。一叫门，正赶上他的妻子出外。小人一见，果然长得是国色天香，天下少有，第一等美人。打那一天我瞧见，我就要告公子爷，祇因未得其便。」秦桓道：「不行呀？好与不好，在王兴家里，还能算的是我的人吗？你可有甚么主意？想法把美人给我弄来，我必定多赏你银子。」秦玉说：「公子要这个美人不难，你能花二百银子，奴才有一条妙计，保管今天美人到手。祇要公子爷舍得赏我二百两银子，我就替你出个主意。」秦桓说：「去至帐房给拿。」二百银子到手，就在秦桓耳旁说道：「祇须如此如此。」秦桓一听，哈哈大笑，说：「你就去叫他去。」秦玉到了外面一瞧，见王兴正把果摊摆好，说：「王兴，公子爷呼我来叫你。」王兴赶忙托付看街的郭四照应果摊，跟着秦玉往里走。王兴笑嘻嘻，祇打算是要卖几两银子，必是公子要甚么好果子。来到花园里丹桂轩，一瞧追命鬼秦桓正在那廊子下坐着，两旁站着有几个家丁。王兴连忙过去行礼说：「公子爷呼唤小的来，有甚么事情？」秦桓说：「王兴，你家里有甚么人？你多大年纪？照实说。」王兴不知是甚么一段事情，赶忙说：「公子爷要问，我家里就是小人，我母亲今年五十岁，我今年二十二岁，我妻子十九岁，家中就是三口子度日。」秦桓一听，这小子一阵狂笑，说：「王兴，我听说你女人长得不错，我给你二百银子，再娶一个，把你女人接来给我罢。」王兴一听此言，打了个冷战，心想：「我若一说不答应，必然一顿乱棍把我打死。」心中一忖度，王兴说：「公子爷在上，小人有下情上告。我娶妻并不为别的，为的服侍我老娘。待我老母死了，我把妻子送与公子爷，我也不敢领二百银子赏。」秦桓听王兴之言，正要说你去罢。那旁秦玉过来说：「公子爷，你休听他此话，明明是搪塞你，他母亲今年才五十岁，再活三十，他媳妇已五十岁了，岂不送了来养老吗？」秦桓一听，勃然大怒道：「好一个狗头！你敢在你家公子爷面前搪塞，实在可恼，来！把他替我吊起来！」众恶奴就把王兴吊起来。秦桓说：「秦玉，你有甚么主意？把他女人给我诓来。我叫他看着跟他女人成亲。」
A word of explanation: this garden belonged to Qin Huan, the second son of Chancellor Qin. Qin Huan had never kept to his proper place. He relied on his father being chancellor of the reigning court, and with his elder brother dead, he was the only son left. He did just as he pleased. He kept a crowd of hired thugs and was forever carrying off other people’s young wives and daughters, and once he had carried a woman off, he kept her by force. If her family came looking for her, he had his thugs club them to death. If they went to the prefecture or the county to lodge a complaint, the yamen dared not accept the petition, for everyone knew he was the chancellor’s son. That was why people had given him a nickname: the Life-Chasing Ghost (Zhuiming Gui). Today he was in the garden reading — and even when he read, he did not read proper books, only lewd books and wicked tales. Just now he was reading how Emperor Ming of the Tang doted on Noble Consort Yang, and when he came to the best part, he slapped the table in wonder. Beside him stood his steward Qin Yu, the servant most in his favour. “Young master,” Qin Yu said, “why are you so pleased? What’s the good part?” “You wouldn’t know,” said Qin Huan. “No wonder the Tang poem says:
‘The Lady of Guo, favoured by her lord,rides through the palace gate at dawn;scorning the powder and rouge that would sully her colouring,she brushes on a touch of moth brow to face the Most High.’
This Noble Consort Yang really was a beauty.” “Young master,” said Qin Yu, “did you see her with your own eyes?” “You slave,” said Qin Huan, “talking pure nonsense! That was the Tang dynasty and this is the Song dynasty. How could I have seen her with my own eyes?” “There’s someone right now,” said Qin Yu, “who’s better-looking than Noble Consort Yang — truly rare under heaven, not another like her in the world. In all my born days I’ve seen just this one beauty like that. Not too tall, not too short; not too thin, not too plump; brows and eyes all lovely.” Qin Huan was no good man to begin with. At these words his eyes went fixed. “Qin Yu,” he said quickly, “where did you see her?” “There’s a man named Wang Xing who keeps a fruit stall at our mansion gate,” said Qin Yu. “His home is in Mutou Market. One day I’d bought two nanmu chairs and wanted to hire somebody to carry them home for me on a shoulder pole. As luck would have it, there was nobody suitable, so I went to Wang Xing’s house to find him. I knocked, and just then his wife came out. The moment I saw her — truly the pride of the nation, heavenly fragrant, rare under heaven, a beauty of the very first rank. Ever since the day I saw her I’ve meant to tell you, young master; I just never got the chance.” “What good is that?” said Qin Huan. “Pretty or not, she’s in Wang Xing’s house. Can she be counted as mine? Have you got any ideas? Find a way to get the beauty for me, and I’ll be sure to reward you well with silver.” “Young master,” said Qin Yu, “if you want this beauty, it isn’t hard. If you can spend two hundred taels of silver, this slave has a clever plan that guarantees the beauty in your hands this very day. Just so long as you’re willing to reward me with two hundred taels of silver, I’ll come up with a plan for you.” “Go to the accounts office and get it,” said Qin Huan. With the two hundred taels in hand, Qin Yu whispered in Qin Huan’s ear: “All you need do is thus and so.” Qin Huan heard him out and roared with laughter. “Go and call him, then.” Qin Yu went outside and saw Wang Xing just setting out his fruit stall. “Wang Xing, the young master has told me to call you.” Wang Xing hurriedly asked Guo Si, the street watchman, to mind his stall, and followed Qin Yu inside. Wang Xing was all smiles. He thought only that he was going to sell a few taels’ worth — the young master must want some fine fruit. They came to the Dangui Studio in the garden, and there was the Life-Chasing Ghost, Qin Huan, sitting under the veranda, with several house servants standing on either side. Wang Xing hurried over and saluted him. “Young master, you called for me. What can I do for you?” “Wang Xing,” said Qin Huan, “who is there in your family? How old are you? Tell me the truth.” Wang Xing did not know what this was all about. “Since the young master asks,” he said quickly, “at home there’s me, and my mother, who’s fifty this year. I’m twenty-two this year, and my wife is nineteen. There are just the three of us getting by at home.” At this the fellow Qin Huan burst into wild laughter. “Wang Xing, I hear your woman is quite a looker. I’ll give you two hundred taels of silver to marry another one, and you bring your woman over here to me.” Wang Xing shuddered at these words. “If I say no,” he thought, “he’s sure to have me clubbed to death.” He turned it over in his mind, and then he said, “Young master, sir, this humble one has something to put before you. I didn’t take a wife for anything else — it was to look after my old mother. When my old mother dies, I’ll send my wife to you, young master, and I wouldn’t dare take the two hundred taels either.” Hearing this, Qin Huan was just about to tell him to be off when Qin Yu came over. “Young master, don’t listen to him. He’s plainly putting you off. His mother is only fifty this year. If she lives another thirty years, his wife will be fifty herself. Wouldn’t he just be sending her here to live out her old age?” Qin Huan flew into a rage. “The cur! You dare fob off your young master to his face? It’s an outrage. Men! String him up for me!” The pack of vicious servants strung Wang Xing up. “Qin Yu,” said Qin Huan, “what’s your plan? Trick his woman into coming here for me. I’ll make him watch while I marry his woman.”
秦玉這小子眼珠一轉，計上心來，到了外面，把跟他的三小子叫過來，交代了幾句話，僱了一乘二人轎子，這個三爺跟著來到王興的住家的門首。一叫門，王興的母親由裏面出來，說：「甚麼人叫門？」這個三爺說：「老太太，你不認得我了。姓張，在秦相府花園子有二分小差事，跟我王大哥至相好。今天早起我王大哥剛擺上果攤，他摔了一個跟頭，口吐白沫，不知人事。我等把他搭到花園子去，請個先生給瞧。先生說他的病太利害，要有他的親近人在旁邊看著，纔給治病呢。我王大哥叫我來接我嫂嫂。」老太太說：「也好，我去看看。」那人說：「老太太，你老人家這樣年紀，如到那裏見事則迷。再者留下小婦女看家，尤不方便。」老太太一聽此話甚為有理，到家中和兒媳吳氏一商議，那吳氏也是知三從四德之人，聽說丈夫病了，心內亂了，忙換衣服說：「孩兒去看來。」到外面說了幾句客氣話，上了轎子，抬起來竟奔相府而來。到了花園之內，放下轎兒，把簾子一掀，吳氏看見上房廊檐之下，端坐一位公子，他丈夫王興在旁綁著，吳氏不知所為何因。因那公子打扮的整齊，怎見得？有詩為證：
秦玉这小子眼珠一转，计上心来，到了外面，把跟他的三小子叫过来，交代了几句话，雇了一乘二人轿子，这个三爷跟着来到王兴的住家的门首。一叫门，王兴的母亲由里面出来，说：「甚么人叫门？」这个三爷说：「老太太，你不认得我了。姓张，在秦相府花园子有二分小差事，跟我王大哥至相好。今天早起我王大哥刚摆上果摊，他摔了一个跟头，口吐白沫，不知人事。我等把他搭到花园子去，请个先生给瞧。先生说他的病太利害，要有他的亲近人在旁边看着，才给治病呢。我王大哥叫我来接我嫂嫂。」老太太说：「也好，我去看看。」那人说：「老太太，你老人家这样年纪，如到那里见事则迷。再者留下小妇女看家，尤不方便。」老太太一听此话甚为有理，到家中和儿媳吴氏一商议，那吴氏也是知三从四德之人，听说丈夫病了，心内乱了，忙换衣服说：「孩儿去看来。」到外面说了几句客气话，上了轿子，抬起来竟奔相府而来。到了花园之内，放下轿儿，把帘子一掀，吴氏看见上房廊檐之下，端坐一位公子，他丈夫王兴在旁绑着，吴氏不知所为何因。因那公子打扮的整齐，怎见得？有诗为证：
Qin Yu, the rascal, rolled his eyes, and a scheme came to him. He went outside, called over the third lad who waited on him and gave him a few instructions, then hired a sedan chair with two bearers, and this Third Master went along with it to the door of Wang Xing’s home. When he knocked, Wang Xing’s mother came out. “Who’s that knocking?” “Old lady,” said this Third Master, “you don’t recognize me? The name’s Zhang. I’ve got a bit of a job in the garden at Chancellor Qin’s mansion, and my brother Wang and I are the best of friends. This morning, just after my brother Wang set out his fruit stall, he fell down in a fit, foaming at the mouth and out of his senses. We carried him into the garden and got a doctor to look at him. The doctor says his illness is very bad, and he’ll only treat him if someone close to him is there at his side. My brother Wang sent me to fetch my sister-in-law.” “Very well,” said the old lady. “I’ll go and see.” “Old lady,” the man said, “at your age, once you got there you’d be all at sea. Besides, leaving a young woman to mind the house alone isn’t proper at all.” The old lady thought this made good sense. She went in and talked it over with her daughter-in-law, Madam Wu. Madam Wu was a woman who knew the Three Obediences and Four Virtues. When she heard that her husband was ill, her heart was in turmoil. She hurriedly changed her clothes. “I’ll go and see,” she said. Outside, she exchanged a few polite words, got into the sedan chair, and it was lifted up and carried straight to Chancellor Qin’s mansion. In the garden the chair was set down and its curtain lifted. Under the eaves of the main house Madam Wu saw a young gentleman sitting very upright, with her husband Wang Xing tied up beside him. She had no idea what it was all about. The young gentleman was very finely dressed. What did he look like? There is a poem to prove it:
但祇見──
頭上戴，如意巾，繡帶兒飄，
但祇见──
头上戴，如意巾，绣带儿飘，
What she saw was this —
On his head a ruyi cap, its embroidered ribbons fluttering,
羊脂玉，吐光豪。
羊脂玉，吐光豪。
a jade as white as mutton fatthat sends out shimmering light.
身披一件達子袍，團花朵朵金線繞。
身披一件达子袍，团花朵朵金线绕。
Draped on his shoulders, a Tartar-style robe,its roundel flowers each wound about with gold thread.
粉底靴，足登著。看相貌，甚難瞧，
粉底靴，足登着。看相貌，甚难瞧，
Boots with white-powdered solesare planted on his feet.And his face?Hard on the eyes to meet:
賁拉頭，下巴梢，甌口眼，雙睛暴，
贲拉头，下巴梢，瓯口眼，双睛暴，
a bulging forehead, a pointy chin, eyes sunk deep as bowls, both eyeballs popping,
伸著脖子似仙毫，活巴巴的一塊料。
伸着脖子似仙毫，活巴巴的一块料。
a neck stretched out like a crane’s,a right specimen, as large as life.
願當初，做成時節手執潮。
愿当初，做成时节手执潮。
Back at the start, it seems,whoever made him was all thumbs.
吳氏看罷說：「公子，你是甚麼人？因何把我男人綁上了？」旁邊家人說：「這是我公子，乃是秦相爺之子，還不過來叩頭。」那吳氏尚未回言，祇聽秦桓說：「娘子，你休要害怕。我本是一舉兩得，三全其美，不料王興這個狗頭反不願意起來。我已久仰小娘子這一分芳容，真乃傾國傾城之貌。我想你跟著王興，無非吃些粗茶淡飯，穿的粗布衣衫。我才把王興叫進來跟他商酌，打算給他二百兩銀子，再娶一房。豈不是一舉兩得，三全其美？二百銀子他再娶一個也使不了，又可以發點財，又省得你跟他受罪。把你接來服侍我，我也有一個得意的人。同他一商議，他倒好大的不願意。因此我把他捆上。」吳氏一聽此言，蛾眉倒豎，杏眼圓睜，說：「公子爺，依我之見，趁此把我夫妻放回，萬事皆休。你乃是當朝宰相之子，宦門之後，家中姬妾滿堂，何必與我等作對？公子理宜行善積福修德，這件事要被御史言官知道，連尊大人都要被參。」王興在那裏也說：「公子爺，我在你府門口做買賣，沒有得罪你老人家。你開恩把我夫妻放了罷！」秦桓聽此言，反沖沖大怒，吩咐一干惡奴：「把他二人替我吊起來打！」手下人就把這小夫妻兩個吊起來，用鞭子一抽，這夫妻是把心橫了，就讓他打死，也不想從他。
吴氏看罢说：「公子，你是甚么人？因何把我男人绑上了？」旁边家人说：「这是我公子，乃是秦相爷之子，还不过来叩头。」那吴氏尚未回言，祇听秦桓说：「娘子，你休要害怕。我本是一举两得，三全其美，不料王兴这个狗头反不愿意起来。我已久仰小娘子这一分芳容，真乃倾国倾城之貌。我想你跟着王兴，无非吃些粗茶淡饭，穿的粗布衣衫。我才把王兴叫进来跟他商酌，打算给他二百两银子，再娶一房。岂不是一举两得，三全其美？二百银子他再娶一个也使不了，又可以发点财，又省得你跟他受罪。把你接来服侍我，我也有一个得意的人。同他一商议，他倒好大的不愿意。因此我把他捆上。」吴氏一听此言，蛾眉倒竖，杏眼圆睁，说：「公子爷，依我之见，趁此把我夫妻放回，万事皆休。你乃是当朝宰相之子，宦门之后，家中姬妾满堂，何必与我等作对？公子理宜行善积福修德，这件事要被御史言官知道，连尊大人都要被参。」王兴在那里也说：「公子爷，我在你府门口做买卖，没有得罪你老人家。你开恩把我夫妻放了罢！」秦桓听此言，反冲冲大怒，吩咐一干恶奴：「把他二人替我吊起来打！」手下人就把这小夫妻两个吊起来，用鞭子一抽，这夫妻是把心横了，就让他打死，也不想从他。
When she had looked, Madam Wu said, “Young sir, who are you? Why have you tied up my husband?” A servant at the side said, “This is our young master, the son of His Excellency Chancellor Qin. Come over and kowtow, quick.” Before Madam Wu could answer, she heard Qin Huan say, “Lady, don’t be afraid. I meant it to be one stroke, two gains — perfect all round, three ways over. Who’d have thought this cur Wang Xing would turn unwilling? I have long admired your lovely face, little lady — truly a beauty to topple cities and kingdoms. I thought, staying with Wang Xing, you’ll never have more than plain tea and coarse food, and you’ll wear nothing but coarse cotton. So just now I called Wang Xing in to talk it over with him. I meant to give him two hundred taels of silver to marry another wife. Wouldn’t that be one stroke, two gains, perfect all round, three ways over? Two hundred taels is more than he could spend on another wife; he could even make a little fortune, and you’d be spared a hard life with him. You’d be brought here to wait on me, and I’d have someone after my own heart too. But when I talked it over with him, he was most unwilling. So I had him tied up.” At these words Madam Wu’s moth brows stood on end and her almond eyes went round with fury. “Young master,” she said, “the way I see it, if you let my husband and me go home now, that will be the end of it. You are the son of the chancellor of the reigning court, born into an official family, with a houseful of concubines at home. Why set yourself against the likes of us? It is only right, young master, for you to do good, gather blessings and cultivate virtue. If the censors come to hear of this, even His Lordship your father will be impeached.” Wang Xing spoke up from where he was too. “Young master, I do business at your mansion gate, and I’ve never offended you, sir. Have mercy and let my wife and me go!” Hearing this, Qin Huan only flew into a greater rage. He ordered his pack of vicious servants, “String the pair of them up for me and beat them!” His men strung up the young husband and wife and lashed them with whips. But the two had hardened their hearts: even if he beat them to death, they would never give in to him.
這件事直到晚間，他祇擺著酒喝著，又拷打二人，忽聽東院相府鬧鬼，手下人回報道：「公子爺快瞧瞧去罷。」秦桓一聽，急忙吩咐家人：「前面提燈，快去看看。」家人也要去看鬧鬼，眾人一同走了，這裏一個人也沒有。王興夫妻在此忍痛。王興說：「娘子，你同我受這般委曲。」吳氏說：「該是我二人死在這裏，但是死後再到閻王爺面前告他便了。」正說之間，外面來了一人。王興睜眼一看，原來是探囊取物趙斌。王興說：「哎呀，趙大哥救命罷！」趙斌見王興夫妻周身是傷，走過去先把王興由上面放下來，然後把吳氏放下來。趙斌伸手解王興的繩扣，解不開。捆的太緊，正是著急。後面有一人抱住趙斌。趙斌要使脫袍式把那人捺個跟頭，自己好逃走。那知道用盡平生之力，後面那人如泰山一般，把趙斌抱住不能轉動。是這樣的英雄，今天都會被獲遭擒。
这件事直到晚间，他祇摆着酒喝着，又拷打二人，忽听东院相府闹鬼，手下人回报道：「公子爷快瞧瞧去罢。」秦桓一听，急忙吩咐家人：「前面提灯，快去看看。」家人也要去看闹鬼，众人一同走了，这里一个人也没有。王兴夫妻在此忍痛。王兴说：「娘子，你同我受这般委曲。」吴氏说：「该是我二人死在这里，但是死后再到阎王爷面前告他便了。」正说之间，外面来了一人。王兴睁眼一看，原来是探囊取物赵斌。王兴说：「哎呀，赵大哥救命罢！」赵斌见王兴夫妻周身是伤，走过去先把王兴由上面放下来，然后把吴氏放下来。赵斌伸手解王兴的绳扣，解不开。捆的太紧，正是着急。后面有一人抱住赵斌。赵斌要使脱袍式把那人捺个跟头，自己好逃走。那知道用尽平生之力，后面那人如泰山一般，把赵斌抱住不能转动。是这样的英雄，今天都会被获遭擒。
So it went on until evening. He just kept on drinking his wine and having the two of them beaten, when suddenly they heard that ghosts were haunting Chancellor Qin’s mansion in the compound to the east. One of his men reported, “Young master, come and look, quick!” At this Qin Huan hurriedly ordered his servants, “Lanterns ahead — let’s go and see.” The servants wanted to see the ghosts too, so they all went off together, and not a soul was left there. Wang Xing and his wife bore their pain. “Wife,” said Wang Xing, “you’ve been wronged like this along with me.” “It’s our lot to die here, the two of us,” said Madam Wu. “But after we’re dead, we’ll go before King Yama and accuse him, that’s all.” Just as they were speaking, someone came in from outside. Wang Xing opened his eyes and looked: it was Zhao Bin, Pick-It-from-a-Pocket. “Oh!” said Wang Xing. “Brother Zhao, save us!” Zhao Bin saw that Wang Xing and his wife were covered in wounds. He went over, first let Wang Xing down from above, then let Madam Wu down. Zhao Bin reached out to untie the knots of Wang Xing’s ropes, but he could not undo them; they were tied too tight. Just as he was growing frantic, someone behind him threw his arms around Zhao Bin. Zhao Bin meant to use the Shed-the-Robe move to throw the man head over heels so that he could get away. Who would have thought it? He used every ounce of strength he had, but the man behind him was like Mount Tai, holding Zhao Bin so that he could not move. A hero like him, and today even he was to be caught and taken.
不知究竟如何，且看下回分解。
不知究竟如何，且看下回分解。
How did it all turn out? To learn what happened next, read the next chapter.