阮小七天败星 · 31
Leaf 31 of the marsh · 活阎罗 Living Yama
Ruan Xiaoqi 阮小七
In Water Margin 水滸傳 (c. 1400) · rank 31 of the 108 Stars · nicknamed 活阎罗 “Living Yama”
The White Stripe in the Waves, who could out-swim a message and out-drown a murderer.
The great deeds 大事記
- ch. 38
Drowning the Black Whirlwind
浪里白條He drowns the Black Whirlwind in thirty seconds flat and lets him up only when the crowd laughs.
- ch. 114
The Ghost at the Water Gate
夜渡涌金門He swims a night message through Hangzhou's moat and into the water gate; the gate was said to have taken his ghost in exchange for the city's soul.
結局 The ending
He put the defeated rebel prince's armour on as a joke and lost his office for it, went back to the stone beach, fished, and lived to sixty. The only brother to get the marsh back and keep it.
The book itself: how it ends, and who was left — The ending