When Yen Yüan died, Yen Lü begged the carriage of the Master to sell and get an outer shell for his son’s coffin.
The Master said, “Everyone calls his son his son, whether he has talents or has not talents. There was Lî; when he died, he had a coffin but no outer shell. I would not walk on foot to get a shell for him, because, having followed in the rear of the great officers, it was not proper that I should walk on foot.”