When Chen Ping came of age to take a wife, the neighboring families whether wealthy or poor were all unwilling to part with their daughters to a man like him. But then he met a wealthy man named Zhang Fu. Zhang told his son that he wanted his granddaughter to marry Chen, advice that made his son exclaim in disbelief: "But that guy is very poor and without a job!"
到了娶妻年紀，鄰里更是不分貧富，沒人願意把女兒嫁給他，直到他被富人張負瞧見，張負就告訴兒子說要把孫女嫁給陳平，兒子可納悶了：那傢伙可是一貧如洗又無所事事耶！