阮小五天罪星 · 29
Leaf 29 of the marsh · 短命二郎 Short-Lived Second Lord
Ruan Xiaowu 阮小五
In Water Margin 水滸傳 (c. 1400) · rank 29 of the 108 Stars · nicknamed 短命二郎 “Short-Lived Second Lord”
The youngest Ruan, who drank the emperor's amnesty and called it cheap.
The great deeds 大事記
- ch. 16
The Ring That Took the Convoy
黃泥岡舉事Youngest of the three Ruan, he stands in the melon-seller's ring that takes the birthday convoy.
- ch. 75
The Cheap Amnesty Wine
偷換御酒He swaps the imperial amnesty wine for cheap stuff and tells the envoys the mountain drinks better.
- ch. 120
A Joke in the Dragon Robe
戲穿龍袍He wears dead Fang La's dragon robe as a joke, is stripped of office for it, and goes home to his mother to fish out his years.
結局 The ending
Killed at Qingxi. One of the fishing brothers who went to war over a boat, a net and a murder on the river, and never got either of the first two back.
The book itself: how it ends, and who was left — The ending