The outlaws run up against a formidable foe and decide they need to “recruit” some more help.

After a successful siege, the bandits go in search of the man they had come to save.

A look at food and drinks during the Northern Song.

Li Kui gets put in timeout and learns a lesson about messing with Daoist priests.

Li Kui finds himself up to his rear in Daoist shenanigans.

As it turns out, iron-pledge guarantees from long-dead emperors do not count for as much as everyone thought.

The outlaws return to their tried-and-true recruitment tactics, and take it maybe just a step too far.

In a shocking twist, the ancient Chinese legal system delivers some semblance of justice and punishes constable violence, and all it took was sleeping with the magistrate.

The Xie brothers’ relatives mount their jail break, and then we rejoin the Liangshan outlaws outside the Zhu Family Manor.

Some relatives embarrass you at weddings, some get into political arguments at the holiday dinner table, and some threaten to fight you to the death if you don’t help them break some cousins out of jail.