Madame Yu got so interested when she read the couplet that she asked her husband to write a couplet in response. To this Yu Yue replied: The spring began cooling with the beginning of time/The rock flew hither from where there was no where.

• 俞夫人读罢这副对联觉得挺有趣，便要俞樾作答，俞答曰“泉自有时冷起，峰从无处飞来”。