Prefect Chen Junmou passes the sentence of exile on Wu Song. He is to be escorted by the guards, Wang Hong and Wang Liang. Wu Song wants to wait for his sworn brother, Shi En, to come and make an agreement with the guards, so they sit for a while in a teahouse close to the court. At this point, Jiang Zhong sends someone to invite Wang Hong to a noodle shop for a meal of noodles, bribing Wang Hong to murder Wu Song.
知州陳君謀發落武松，王洪、王亮是押解武松的解差。武松爲了等拜弟施恩和解差協商，就在衙門附近的茶館稍坐片刻。此時仇人蔣忠派人將王洪叫到一家麵館吃面，買囑王洪將武松殺害。