BROTHERHOOD OF LIANG SHAN
Songjiang and his swore brothers had finally defeated fangla and his bandits in this expedition which had killed more than half of liang shan members. finally, left few members who were post a rank by the emperor. Songjiang finally gets to fulfil his and his dead father's wish by honouring his anchestors getting a rank in the imperial.
However, this corrupted cunning gaoqiu requested the emperor to grant a permission to let him send songjiang a bottle of wine to apologise for the biase against him earlier. the wine was sent, huarong tested it first to ensure there is no poison, songjiang drank it afterwards.
Few days later, songjiang and huarong were experiencing stomach ache(obviously the wine was drugged with slow working poison). they know that they were going to die, songjiang had wrote to likui to come to songjiang's room. likui reached, huarong had already collasped. songjiang pointed out to the wine on the the table was poisoned and he had already drank it. Immediately, likui drinks the whole bottle of the wine saying that would reduce the time he will meet his brother in another world. likui stated that other than his mother, there are no else who care for him except songjiang. after awhile where songjiang had passed on a bed. likui closes all the doors and walk to the bed and whisper to the dead songjiang "brother, i will serve you in another world again'.
Next day, its reported that songjiang had given up his life for the imperial. permission was granted that a temple will be built for songjiang's memorial. (WHAT? that's all of the show?) DAng! how come nothing happened to the treacheous guy gaoqiu!! if the ending was better..