Before the house was finished, Huang, his wife, their two daughters Shu-ya and Shu-hung, who were in middle and primary school, and their three-year-old son Shu-heng, all slept in a tent on the open ground swept by winds from the north. During those three months Huang Tien-jen, who had always had a strong constitution, twice fell ill with a cold.
早期房子未蓋好時，黃天人夫妻、兩個分別就讀國中小的女兒黃書亞、黃書虹，和 3 歲大的小兒子黃書恆，一家人就在朔野風大的空地上搭帳棚睡覺，在那 3 個月間，身體一向強壯的黃天人就重感冒了兩次。