In so doing, he concentrated his life forces and vaulted into the ranks of the immortals. Then there is the legend of the wife of Lao Laizi. The king of Chu was seeking to retain Lao Laizi as a government official, but his wife was opposed on the grounds that taking a salary would force her husband to bow and scrape to the king.
《烈女傳》卷二裡，說楚王想聘老萊子為官，其妻不允，認為食君俸祿，就要看人臉色。