"In the year of my marriage to Madam Yang, I left for the Border Pass, and I ended up staying for five years. After returning to the capital, Madam Yang remained childless for a long time. Anxious, she sought out many physicians and took a year's worth of medicine before she finally conceived. At the same time, Nursemaid Yang in my household was also expecting. That winter, chaos erupted on the northern front, and I spent another year quelling the unrest. By the time I returned home, Madam Yang had given birth to a son while Nursemaid Yang had a difficult labor, and neither she nor the child survived."