The novel depicts Li Li as having a reddish beard and fiery round eyes like those of a tiger. He is a close friend of Li Jun , who smuggles salt on Xunyang River. Li Li runs an inn on Jieyang Ridge, where he robs customers after knocking them unconscious with spiked drinks and then butchers them to make filling for baozi with their flesh. The three are knocked out. Li Li is waiting for his assistants to come to help cut them up when Li Jun and his two sidekicks Tong Wei and Tong Meng come to his inn for some refreshment.
Li Jun checks the official documents on the escorts and is shocked to learn that the exile is Song Jiang, whom he greatly admires as a chivalrous hero.
In fact, Li Jun has been waiting to meet Song at the river bank for days. Li Li quickly revives the three and apologises to Song Jiang. The four treat Song Jiang as an honoured guest before seeing him off to Jiangzhou. In Jiangzhou Song Jiang is arrested and sentenced to death for writing a seditious poem on a wall in a restaurant.
The outlaws from Liangshan Marsh rush to Jiangzhou, storm the execution ground and rescue him. But they are stranded at a river bank. They come upon the group and ferry them to safety. Together they return to Liangshan, where Li Li becomes one of the chieftains. Li Li is put in charge of an inn that acts as a lookout for Liangshan after the Stars of Destiny came together in what is called the Grand Assembly. He participates in the campaigns against the Liao invaders and rebel forces in Song territory following amnesty from Emperor Huizong for Liangshan.
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