Yan Qing
Finally let go by Liangshan, Lu Junyi hurries home. Near his house, he runs into Yan Qing, his other steward who has been reduced to begging on the street as he waits for his master to return. Yan tells Lu that Li Gu, who is having an affair with Lu's wife, has reported to the authorities that Lu is in cahoots with the Liangshan outlaws. Li has also expelled Yan. Not believing Yan, Lu goes home and is arrested by constables responding to alert by Li. Li thus takes over his master's properties and wife. He, however, fails to murder Lu in prison as the chief warden Cai Fu, whom he bribed, has also received money as well as threat from Liangshan. Lu is instead exiled to Shamen Island (沙門島; present-day Changdao County, Shandong). Li bribes the two escorts to finish Lu off along the way. Coming to a wood, the escorts bind Lu to a tree and are all set to kill him there. But they are shot to death by Yan Qing, who has been tailing them.