But times change. Today most of their descendants have moved to Singapore or Penang. Their owners gone, many of the buildings are locked and empty. Others are rented out to ordinary, common people, four or five families squeezed under one roof, some of them with a small store in front that they keep watch over day and night--altogether a disconsolate scene.
然而時移勢易，如今許多子孫都移往新加坡或檳城發展，人去樓空，大門深鎖；有些分租給尋常百姓，往往一處宅院擠上四、五戶人家；樓下則闢為小型店鋪，店家鎮日駐守，門前零落。