refuse to take any payment for
The Chinese idiom, Pinyin is f ē NW é Nb ù Q ǔ, which means no money; it means no reward. It's from xingshihengyan · a small gap of money makes a strange injustice.
The origin of Idioms
Feng Menglong's Xingshi Hengyan · a small gap of money makes a strange injustice in Ming Dynasty: "it's as clear as water, and it doesn't take any money."
Idiom usage
Subject predicate type; as predicate and attribute; metaphor does not pay. Some of them are barren mountain land. I don't get any rent for the mountain land. Wenkang's biography of heroes and heroines in Qing Dynasty Chapter 21
Chinese PinYin : fēn wén bù qǔ
refuse to take any payment for
drift about without any definite trace like running water or duckweed. làng jì píng zōng
wait for the right price to sell. dài jiǎ ér gū