Chapter 1: Lin Chong at the Mountain Temple
Lin Chong was exiled to Cangzhou and assigned to work guarding the fodder storage. It was a cold winter with heavy snow falling. Lin Chong lived in the mountain temple and guarded the fodder every day.
One night, Lin Chong heard movement outside. He looked carefully and saw several dark figures moving near the fodder storage. Lin Chong thought to himself: "These people must be bad people. They want to burn the fodder storage."
Lin Chong quietly walked out of the temple and saw that the fodder storage was really on fire. Those people were holding torches and setting fire. Lin Chong was very angry. He thought: "These bad people harmed me once, and now they come to harm me again."
Lin Chong picked up his weapon and rushed out. He fought with those people and finally defeated them all.
Lin Chong knew that he could not live in Cangzhou anymore, so he decided to go to Liangshan Marsh. There were many people like him there, all of whom were wrongly accused by the court.