However, three long years of hectic round-the-clock life became too physically demanding. While the family's financial outlook improved, it did so at the expense of their health. They had no choice but to depart from the prevailing high-volume / narrow-profit-margin route. They then put their younger brother in charge of running a seafood business with their mother.
不過連續 3 年的晝夜顛倒生活與體力透支，雖然改善了家境，卻也賠上多位家人的健康，不得不放棄薄利多銷的大眾化路線，改由小弟披掛掌杓，與母親二人經營起海產攤生意，其他兄弟則各自出外謀職營生。