《明史·列传·卷一百六十六》
他的家人偷偷把他的妾从城墙上缒下去，想逃走，元吉派人骑马去追了回来，把家人捶打了一顿，所以城中没人敢出逃了。
其家人潜载其妾缒城去，元吉遣飞骑追还，捶其家人，故城中无敢出者。
His family secretly lowered his concubine from the city wall and wanted to escape. Yuanji sent someone to ride a horse to chase and recover, and beat his family members, so no one in the city dared to escape.