武松
The following tale alternatively known as "Meeting Zhou Tong By Chance" and "Swordplay under the Moon" belongs to the "Wang School of [[Water Margin|Shui Hu]]" Yangzhou storytelling. It acts as a "Shu wai shu" ( – "Story outside of the story"), meaning it takes place during the Water Margin, but is outside of the main storyline. The tale takes place after [[Wu Song]] [[Wu Song#Slaying the tiger|kills a man-eating tiger]], resists the [[Wu Song#Wu Song kills his sister-in-law|charms of his sister-in-law]] and accepts a mission from the Magistrate to transport money to [[Kaifeng]], but before he becomes a bandit. It explains how he came to learn swordplay from Zhou Tong: