On the fourth day of June, before noon, the red sun was very hot. Chao Gai Wu Yong and his party of seven people lurked in the pine forest of Huangnigang to enjoy the cool. Come also, come also, sharp-eyed, early to see fifteen people along a quiet road, slowly onto the hillside. One of them is wearing a cool hat, with a green note on his face and waving a cane. This man is Yang Zhi, known as the blue-faced beast in the Jianghu.

Fifteen people came to Degang. When Chao Gai and his party were hiding in the pine forest, they heard a comment from the pine forest: Yang Zhi was not allowed to stay on the mountain, and all the soldiers openly disobeyed orders. At the height of the dispute, Wu Yong ordered people to explore the price in the forest, but Yang Zhi deliberately saw it. Yang Zhi hurried into the pine forest with a bow. Seven people pointed to seven Jiangzhou cars lined up on the ground and called them Haozhou Jujube Merchants. Yang Zhi went to doubt and agreed that all the soldiers should go up the mountain to rest.

Bai Sheng walked to Gorkon with a car full of wine and singing folk songs. It was very hot, so all the soldiers wanted to buy wine to quench their thirst. When Yang Zhi stopped the sergeant from buying wine, Chao Gai and his party took out five dollars and drank up a bucket in an instant. Liu Tang took a ladle from another bucket, took it and ate it. Bai Sheng overtook and stopped, chasing into the pine forest. Wu Yong took the opportunity to go to the pine forest to get medicine, shook it in the ladle and went to the bucket to get wine.

But back to Bai Sheng make a sudden snatch a jilt, fell in the bucket. By this time, the antiperspirant had been unconsciously put into the wine in front of Yang Zhi. Seeing that the remaining barrel of wine had been finished and there was no medicine in the cooking wine, Yang Zhi agreed that all the soldiers should buy wine. Yang also ate half a ladle.

Bai Sheng carried an empty bucket and sang folk songs down the mountain. Chao Gai and Wu Yong and his party pointed to Yang Zhi and other fifteen people and shouted: Yes, yes, I saw that all fifteen people were top-heavy, limp and unable to move. Classical and his party launched Jiangzhou cart, loaded with eleven loads of gold, silver and jewels, and roared off.

The original storyline.

The outline of outwitting a birthday is about how Yang Zhi escorted the outline of a birthday to Tokyo, and on the way (Huangnigang) he was captured by Chao Gai Wu Yong and others. The story focuses on the contradiction between the feudal rulers represented by Cai Jing and Liang Zhongshu and enthusiastically praises the great wisdom and organizational ability of the peasant uprising.

Chapter 16 is very important in the whole book. Prior to this, the novel mainly described the struggle of individual heroes, such as Lu and Lin Chong. The program of outwitting the birth is the collective action of the peasant uprising and the beginning of the heroes' meeting in Liangshanpo.