Mrs. Dai is a spiritual person, and she said, "You're right, now that both the master and I are getting older, the sooner I conceive, the better. With the nanny and the teachers watching over them, I'm much relieved."
After returning to her own residence, she pondered over these words repeatedly, grasping their meaning, and sent the old servant to the Military Department to summon her husband to talk.
Gu Jingcheng took a break and came back, asking his wife, "What's the big matter? Could it not wait until I finish my duty?"
Mrs. Dai ordered the windows and doors to be tightly shut, and sent the maids and nannies out to guard the door before saying, "By the time you're off duty, I'm already asleep. I've barely seen you this month; there's something I want to ask you, to see what it means."
So she told him what Qin Yuan had said.
