Look at the Life of Water Margin (40): Ruan Xiao'er tells us what a true revolutionary is
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As soon as Ruan Xiao'er was mentioned, he remembered a picture of a paradise, "Hanging wine outside the fence, willow yin idle cable fishing boat." I saw several small fishing boats on the piles, and a broken fishing net outside the fence. Leaning on the mountains and waters, there are about a dozen grass houses. "That's right, this is the Shijie Village on the edge of Liangshan, Ruan Xiao'er's home." Ruan Xiao'er is a fishing man who eats by the water, you see his dress, you know how poor Ruan Xiao'er's family is, "wearing a torn turban, wearing an old collar, barefoot", an honest peasant look, plus such a local name, it is even more honest. If ruan Xiao'er is so concluded that he is an honest and indisputable person, it would be a big mistake. Although Ruan Xiao'er is a fisherman, he is also a private businessman, and selling private salt is by no means something that honest people can do. Li Jun is a smuggler of salt, Mu Hong has also sold smuggled salt, which one is an honest person who keeps his duty? Ruan Xiao'er's nickname accurately answers what kind of person he is: Li Di is too old! Isn't there an old saying like this, "How dare you move the earth on the head of the age", the age is the star of the year, and when the earth is moved against the star of the year, there will be disasters. If you provoke Ruan Xiao'er, it will not be easy to play, and if you do not die, you will die. Ruan Xiao'er has an extremely strong personality, he can't get sand in his eyes, and he will never be allowed to be bullied by others, otherwise he will try his best to get justice. Sure enough, Ruan Xiao'er's appearance was also born fierce: his face was raised with two eyebrows, and his mouth was slightly fisted on all sides. On the chest is covered with yellow hairs, and on the back there are two horizontal ribs. The arm has thousands of pounds of strength, and the eyes shoot tens of thousands of cold rays. A fisherman in The village of Xiu yan is really too old in the world.
Ruan Xiao's two brothers and three brothers are all kung fu, courageous, and extremely righteous, but such people are also mixed up for a day, and the family is almost unable to open the pot. First the government "harmed the people by moving the shan", and then suffered from the bandits of Liangshan, "Liangshan Po is the clothing and rice bowl of my brothers, and now I dare not go." "Now there is a new gang of strongmen in the berth, and no fishing is allowed." ...... Several thieves and men gathered five or seven hundred people, robbed houses, and robbed guests. We didn't go there for more than a year to fish. Now the berth is in control, and we have no food and clothing, so it is difficult to say a word! "What kind of world can we see, and if this continues, where will the people have a way to live?!" It is not that their brothers are weak, after all, there are many people in Liangshan, and they can't do it, and they don't want to invest in Liangshan Wang Lun.
The Ruan family brothers are not inferior to others, how willing to go on like this, naturally want to live a happy life of "weighing gold and silver, wearing silk brocade in a strange way, eating wine in an urn, and eating meat in large pieces". As the boss, Ruan Xiao'er definitely wants to find a way out for his brother, which is better than holding on to this Shijie Village. Because of this kind of thought, Wu Xueji did not say a word, and Ruan Xiao'er immediately agreed: "Chao Baozheng dares to have a luxurious private business, and has the heart to take us, so that he must be annoyed with the old brother." If there is still such a thing, if the three of us are reluctant to help him with our lives, we will swear by the wine and teach us all to suffer from bad things, and that evil diseases will come to us, and we will die of death. "It is the itch in the heart. Regardless of whether he married a wife or an old mother, Ruan Xiao'er took his two younger brothers to Chao Gai, so the Seven Stars Juyi Wisdom took the birthday class.
In the whole of Liangshan, there is no such poverty as the Ruan family brothers, in order to make a living, they have gone to the road of rebellion against the imperial court. Throughout the ages, the backbone of the revolution is the proletariat like Ruan Xiao'er, and with the spirit of resistance that does not accept defeat and is not willing to be enslaved, they are the real proletarian revolutionaries. For the sake of ideals, they dare to fight to the death. Such people come from the lowest level, they have no culture, no faith, and even have such shortcomings, Ruan Xiao'er is good at gambling, but also greedy and cheap, so wu took the opportunity to pay the wine money he owed before. But it does not affect the resolute and thoroughness of their revolution. Unfortunately, Chao Gai, who was willing to fight to the end, died early, while the successor leader Song Jiang was bent on surrendering to the imperial court, so how could an uprising with different revolutionary determination be successful?
Ruan Xiao'er is a true revolutionary, and once he opposes the government, he will go all out and will not leave himself a way out. When the Incident of Zhi Zhisheng Gang occurred, He Tao led more than a thousand people to surround and suppress the village of Shijie, and it was by relying on the three ruan brothers to lead the fishermen out of defeat. When the officers and soldiers arrived, he calmly and calmly advised everyone: "As well, I will deal with him myself, and tell most of the people to go into the water to die, and the little half to kill him." "Five good men led a dozen or so fishermen and squeezed all the officers and men to death in the reeds." One or two dozen fishermen actually defeated more than a thousand officers and men who encircled and suppressed them, which showed that Ruan Xiao'er was born with extraordinary military command ability, had already made arrangements, was confident, and had captured his head alive, "pulling He Tao's legs and crashing into the water." The second time to attack the officials, it was also relying on Ruan Xiao'er's water army, taking the strategy of luring the enemy to go deeper, and the Jeju capital Yin Dian sent a regiment to train Huang An, and the more than a thousand people led by him were completely destroyed, and Huang An became a prisoner.
Ruan Xiao'er is worthy of a true revolutionary, he does not pursue fame and fortune, and focuses on the development and growth of Liangshan. According to the military level of seniority and military achievements, the commander-in-chief of the Liangshan Water Army was none other than him, but Song Jiang, in order to repay Li Jun, gave the top seat of the water army to Li Jun, and Ruan Xiao'er was second to the second place. However, Ruan Xiao'er did not care, and actively cooperated with Li Jun to build the Liangshan Water Army into a steel division. In the battle between the three-dozen Zhujiazhuang and the three defeats of Gao Li's water army, Ruan Xiao'er exerted his ability, made many battle achievements, and made significant contributions to the development of Liangshan.
However, the most emblematic of Ruan Xiao'er's revolutionary spirit was the Battle of Oolong Ridge. The original text reads: "Ruan Xiao'er saw that there were many boats in the water village on the beach, and did not dare to go up, but only looked at the head of the water." Only to see the flag on the Wulong Ridge, the golden drums sounded in unison, the fire platoon was lit together, and the downwind of the beach would come down. The big boats behind them shouted in unison, all of them were long guns scratching their hooks, and they all came down with the fire, only to kill the enemy army indiscriminately. Tong Wei and Tong Meng saw that the situation was difficult to approach, so they put the boat on the shore, abandoned the boat, climbed over the side of the mountain, walked up the mountain, and found a way back to the village. Ruan Xiao'er and Meng Kang, Wu Zi on the ship to meet the enemy, the fire row burned in the future. When Ruan Xiao'er rushed into the water, the rear boat caught up and scratched the hook to catch it. Ruan Xiao'er was panicked, afraid of eating him and taking it to humiliation, and pulled out his waist knife and killed himself. ”
Ruan Xiao'er Meng Kang originally had the opportunity to abandon the ship and escape like Tong Wei Tong Meng, but he gave up, he did not want to be a deserter, and even wanted to die in a battle, Fang did not live up to the name of a good man. Sure enough, when he was caught by the scratching hook, Ruan Xiao'er did not think much about it, and immediately drew his sword and killed himself. Ruan Xiao'er committed suicide by drawing a knife because he did not want to be humiliated, which is the revolutionary's spirit of seeing death as a return. If Ruan Xiao'er did not commit suicide, he might not be humiliated, and even be able to live, after all, Fang La was also a hero and a hero. But Ruan Xiao'er will not think so much, kneeling and begging him for forgiveness will not do it, and betrayal and then make enemies of Liangshan is even more impossible, if he is taken as a hostage to threaten Liangshan, it is even more that Ruan Xiao'er does not want to see, only one death, no worries, but also a heroic reputation. Kong Yue Chengren, Meng Yue takes righteousness, but its righteousness is exhausted, so Renzhi. Ruan Xiao'er used actions to explain what is called benevolence and righteousness, what is Zhengzheng iron bone, and what is standing up to the heavens and the earth! Ruan Xiao'er did not meet a good leader, but although he was alive and dead, he was still alive!
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