Whenever Li heard his wife singing Japanese folk songs in her lilting voice, he couldn't help but recall a line from a song sang during the resistance against the Japanese called "The Song of the Sword": Go, my sword, slice off the Jap devils 'heads!
每次太太用日語柔柔細細地唱起日本歌謠時，老先生就忍不住來一句東北的「大刀歌」，「大刀，向，鬼子們的頭上砍去！殺！」這樣藉歌聲來「中日交戰」一回，已經成了家裡的固定場景了。