Ku left the local fruit marketing cooperative in 1966 at the age of 32 and went back to growing fruit. Although the marketing cooperative under the Kuomintang wasn't as corrupt as it had been under the Japanese, says Ku, it wasn't a collection of choir boys either.
民國五十五年，三十來歲的古德福離開了青果合作社，回到自己家裡從事老本行──務農。