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by 654 on 2008-05-26 15:29:29

"The Deer and the Cauldron" is Mr. Jin Yong's "farewell" work, and also the longest and most unique work in Jin Yong's collection. In his previous works, Jin Yong created countless heroes of the jianghu (martial world), but only in this "The Deer and the Cauldron", with its farcical, absurd, humorous, witty comedic style, did he create the most distinctive character in his novels - Wei Xiaobao, a rogue who moves between the brothel and the palace - a non-heroic, self-reflective little man.

Wei Xiaobao was born in the streets, the son of a prostitute in Yangzhou. This idle youth, through an act of bravery, saved a wandering martial hero named Mao Shiba, thus beginning his extraordinary life - becoming a close friend of the young Kangxi Emperor, outsmarting Ao Bai, being the last disciple of the chief commander of the Heaven and Earth Society Chen Jinnan and the master of the Qingmu Hall, the "Hui Ming Chan" of Shaolin Temple, the White Dragon Envoy of the Divine Dragon Sect, a prince consort, the Far Eastern Earl of the Rus State, and even scheming to marry six beauties (the sect leader's wife Su Quan, Mu Jianping and Fang Yi of the Mu Wang House, Ah Ke daughter of Chen Yuanyuan, Zeng Rou of the Wugang Sect, and his own pretty maid Shuang'er)...