 In particular, once, when a man from his county lost his parents but was too poor to give his parents a proper burial, Dou was tilling in the fields, but he dropped his tilling and immediately went to help the man bury his parents, and after this incident he became particularly praised among the people.For a while, he served as the leader of the neighborhood, but after he was accused of crimes, he fled, returning home only after a general pardon.When his father died, more than a thousand people attended the funeral, and Dou refused all gifts given him for the funeral.