法苑珠林 49.42

49.42

吳逵。吳興人也。孫恩亂後兄弟嫂從有十三喪。家貧壁立冬無被袴晝則傭賃夜還作塼夫妻執事無食自暇。朞年辦七墓十三棺。送耳傭直以供葬事。隣人乃悉折以為賻一。無所取躬。耕償之晉。義熙三年。太守張崇禮辟之。

Wu Kui was a man of Wuxing. After the rebellion of Sun En, his brothers, sisters-in-law, and cousins suffered thirteen deaths. His family was destitute with bare walls, lacking blankets and trousers in winter. By day he hired himself out as a laborer, and by night he returned to make bricks; husband and wife attended to their tasks, leaving themselves no leisure even to eat. In the span of a single year, they provided seven tombs and thirteen coffins, using only his labor wages to furnish the funeral expenses. The neighbors then forgave all his debts as funeral contributions, taking nothing from him, but he personally farmed to repay them. In the third year of the Yixi era of the Jin dynasty, the commandery governor Zhang Chongli summoned him to office.