He
is the chief of the outlaws. Nicknamed Timely rain, he is an honest civil servant
famous for his sense of justice and quickness to
repair the faults of corrupted administration.
He suffers in silence of the arbitrariness and corruption
of the imperial justice. Infinitely modest,
he has no cease to deny any authority among the
Outlaws of Water Margin, who recognize him as a
chief, and to propose that responsability to every
man he admires.
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Deeply respectuous of the Emperor's authority,
he suffers from the clandestinity he is obliged
to bear, because of the not-willing murder of his
lover, an unfaithful prostitute. He killed
her accidentally because she was up to denounce
his friendship with Chao Gai, the Heavenly
King, and
other outlaws. He is the unwilling hero of
the novel.
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