"My father had just passed away and my mother was bedridden by illness. My wife's business was experiencing difficulties," he recalls. He, his mother, and his children were all squeezed into a one-bedroom apartment, the children sleeping in one room, and Hsiao and his ailing mother in the other.
「那時父親剛去世，母親又重病在床，太太的生意也橫生波折，」蕭泰然回憶，他和母親及孩子們擠在一間兩個臥房的公寓裡，孩子睡一間，他和生病的母親睡一間。