The ninth ancestor Wu Qin died prematurely, leaving his wife, a lady named Ye (1156-1214), a widow after only two years of marriage. The widow had to sell her dowry and work day and night to raise their fatherless one-year- old son by herself. After managing the household alone for several difficult years, the family gradually became rich. Despite her wealth and abundant property, the mother always taught her son to be compassionate and charitable. In her old age, she generously spent money commissioning statues of the Buddha, building bridges and donating coffins to families that couldn’t afford a burial. Her son Wu Wei understood his mother’s compassion and built a tower, on which he could see as far as ten miles. If he noticed a household had no cooking smoke even on a snowy day, he would send the poor family a bag of millet secretly. Someone praised his kindness with this poem: “Who left millet quietly, on a dark snowy night? All we see is someone walking on the high road under the bright moonlight.”