 His relatives were accused of implication in his "crimes", but rescued his manuscripts after his death, hiding them in coal piles and a chimney and moving them from house to house.Lao She was married to painter Hu Jieqing; together they had a son and three daughters.Lao She's first novel, "The Philosophy of Lao Zhang" (老张的哲学 "Lao Zhang de Zhexue") was written in London (1926) and modeled on Dickens' "Nicholas Nickleby", but is set among students in Beijing.