 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,
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who
recognize him as a chief, and to propose that responsability
to every man he admires.
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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