Du recommended Bao Tingxi to Ganzhou to find his cousin Du, because he was generous to meet Du and his party. On Wang's recommendation, Bao Tingxi asked Du to sponsor his own troupe, and Du Xinran agreed. Du successively gave Bao Tingxi two hundred and twenty pieces of silver, saved the hapless Bao Tingxi and gave him a chance to die.
Yang Tailor's mother died of sudden illness, and he came to beg Du, hoping to borrow some money. Du is a warm-hearted man. He calculated that it would cost at least twenty taels of silver to hold a funeral, so Wang Beard pawned a box of clothes for more than twenty taels of silver. Give it to tailor Yang. Du's righteous act moved tailor Yang to cry. Du is really a living bodhisattva who helps the poor. He helped tailor Yang just as he helped three sons of Yang Zhizhong and four sons of Loufu, all out of kindness.
Often helping others, Du's money is naturally tight. When there was no money, he began to sell land. The housekeeper Wang reminded Du not to give alms to others at will, but to use the money to run an industry, otherwise he would have to live with an empty purse. Du disagreed with Wang's suggestion.
Du is also a gourmet who enjoys life. All the dishes we eat are prepared at home and are extremely clean. Among them, there are three-year-old ham and half a catty of bamboo crab, all peeled and stewed in crab soup. Although Du is a medical and Taoist family, his living standard is quite high, not inferior to that of an official's family. Du is not good at enjoying it alone. There is an old duck stewed for seven pounds at home. After burying the altar for nine years and seven months, he will invite Zang and Wei to eat duck and taste wine, and Bao Tingxi and he will also come. Nine-year-old wine is blended with new wine, the jar is heated on charcoal fire, and osmanthus trees are used for drinking. Du's wine tasting is quite poetic.
Grandpa Lou's grandson is an orphan's family. Du took the initiative to find grandpa Lou's grandson and gave him one hundred and twenty pieces of silver to go back and do some small business to support his family and serve his widowed mother. Grandpa Lou's grandson was filled with joy when he got the windfall. When he left, Grandpa Lou only gave his grandson one or two pieces of silver for the trip. Lou Gonggong is very loyal to Du, collecting rent and lending money to the outside world, and never seeking personal gain. Du is very satisfied and at ease with this. It is estimated that Du supported the kindness of Grandpa Lou's grandson.
Huang Da, who was in charge of the ancestral temple, knelt in front of Du and said that he had no money to repair the house. Out of pity, Du immediately took out five hundred taels of silver and gave it to Huang Da. Does Huang Da really have no money to repair the house? Do you need fifty taels of silver to repair the house? Did Huang Da lie? Du didn't think about it, and he didn't investigate what Huang Da did with the money. Give the money to the victim, and things will be easy. Du helps others, only cares about the reasons, and never looks at the results. Huang Dache didn't cheat, and Du won't consider it. This also makes Du's family rich and free to use it.
It is not just Bao Tingxi, Yang Tailor and Huang Da who are eyeing Du's money. Zang San Ye is no exception. Third Master Zang took three hundred and twenty pieces of silver and bought a reputation as a scholar. The money was spent, but it was not done. I wonder if what Master Zang said is true. So Zang knelt down and asked Du for help. It's over three hundred and twenty. A kilo is twelve, which is equal to 500 grams, and 320 is thirty kilos, which is equal to fifteen thousand grams. The current market price of one gram of silver is 10 yuan, and three hundred and twenty pieces of silver is equal to one hundred and fifty thousand yuan. With such a large sum of money, it is no wonder that Master Zang asked Du to kneel down. He asked too much. Du was too soft-hearted to stand Zang's begging. He agreed very generously. Master Zang said that he would pay it back slowly after borrowing it, but in fact, he would not pay it back after borrowing it.
The housekeeper secretly advised Du not to spend a lot of money to take care of this endless business just for mercy. Du just wouldn't listen. Doctor Zhang Junmin borrowed 120 taels of silver on the pretext that his son had no money, and he gladly took it out. It seems that people who approach Du every day are trying to get money from Du.
Du Shao Qing is a good man. He is not only charitable, but also saves people from danger. The king county magistrate picked the seal and had no house to live in. Du cleaned his garden and asked the county magistrate Wang to live in it. Du fu's righteous act, the mother who has milk, the tree is gone, the wall is knocked down by everyone, and the person who falls in the rain is many times nobler.
When grandpa servant Lou died, he told Du not to give alms at will, pointing out that Zang, Wang, Bao Tingxi and others were not good people and did not need to give them too much money. Du is used to extravagance and waste, and other people's advice has become harsh advice. Grandpa Lou's kind words are also deaf. However, Du spent nearly two hundred and twenty pieces of silver on Grandpa Lou's funeral, which was considered to be suitable for the servant. Well spent.
After half a year, Du lost all his money. He sold his house, paid off his debts, and left more than 1000 taels of silver. Du decided to live in Nanjing, so he took the housekeeper Wang and his servant Jia Jue on his way. On the way, Wang saw that it was not a problem, and felt that there was no future to follow Du, so he turned around and left. Really, the rich are in favor (the borrower is in favor), and the poor are empty. A master who has no money is disloyal to his slaves.
When he arrived in Nanjing, Du was still generous. He moved to Wuhu and had no money, so he considered wearing it as clothes. Depressed, Du came to Jixiang Temple and met Weiss' great-grandfather. Heroes need help from others when they are in trouble. Great grandfather Weiss gave Du twelve taels of silver.
Feeling the difficulty of lack of money, Du should restrain his style of spending money like water. However, a leopard cannot change his spots. Chi Hengshan wants to set up a foundation to build Taibo Temple, and Du took the lead in donating 320 taels of silver. At the Zhejiang Celebrities' Meeting hosted by squire Xue, Mr. Gao told Chi Hengshan, who was busy building the ancestral temple, that Du was the first scum of his Du family! Spending money like water, I have helped some monks, Taoists, craftsmen and beggars, but I don't want to be with a serious person. In less than ten years, the family business of 60,000 to 70,000 silver was gone. Mr. Gao evaluated Du from the perspectives of scholars, juren and officials. He didn't understand and accept Du's charitable help to the poor, and totally denied it.
Du Shao Qing is an elegant man. He not only maintained the cultivation of scholars to associate with celebrities and officials, but also helped the poor with charity. Just like a spotless lotus, it is pure in heart and does not sink into the secular world. If Du had a little restraint in helping others, he would have a plan to be a good person, and he wouldn't end up in exile.