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Du Zhiji was a Baling bravo targeted by Hou Wen.
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Book of Han, Chapter 88Volume 77: Gai, Zhuge, Liu, Zheng, Sun, Wujiang and He · 10 passages
文曰：「霸陵杜稚季。」
"Du Zhiji of Baling," said Hou Wen.
稚季者大俠，與衛尉淳于長、大鴻臚蕭育等皆厚善。
Du Zhiji was tied to Chunyu Zhang and Xiao Yu.
寶前失車騎將軍，與紅陽侯有隙，自恐見危，時淳于長方貴幸，友寶，寶亦欲附之，始視事而長以稚季托寶，故寶窮，無以復應文。
Sun Bao feared Hongyang and needed Chunyu Zhang—who had just asked him to spare Du Zhiji—so he could not touch Hou Wen's target.
文怪寶氣索，知其有故，因曰：「明府素著威名，今下敢取稚季，當且闔閣，勿有所問。
Wen was surprised that Bao's spirit had ebbed, and knew there was some reason for it. He therefore said, "Your Excellency has always had a fearsome reputation. Now, if you dare to take Zhiji, you should for the moment close the office and ask about nothing else.
即度稚季而譴它事，眾口讙譁，終身自墮。」
Move on other cases only after Du fell, he warned, or the city would howl Sun Bao down."
稚季耳目長，聞知之，杜門不通水火，穿捨後牆為小戶，但持鋤自治園，因文所厚自陳如此。
Du Zhiji walled himself in, bored a postern, and hoed his garden until Hou Wen vouched for him.
文曰：「我與稚季幸同土壤，素無睚眥，顧受將命，分當相直。
Wen said, "Zhiji and I are fortunately from the same region, and I have never held the slightest grudge against him. I have merely received the general's order, and by my role must face him directly.
稚季遂不敢犯法，寶亦竟歲無所譴。
Du kept clean; Sun Bao brought no case that year.
明年，稚季病死。
Du Zhiji died the next year.
稚季子杜蒼，字君敖，名出稚季右，在遊俠中。
Du Cang eclipsed his father's fame in the bravo lists.