At 21, Ssu-mei accepted her parents 'instructions and married a man. Just as she was pregnant with her second son, the Japanese colonial authorities took her husband off to be a soldier on Hainan Island, and her parents-in-law, her own grandmother, and her infant son all depended on her. She sold sugar cane, picked tea, cleared fields, picked oranges.
黃斯妹在廿一歲奉父母之命嫁了人，懷第二個兒子時，丈夫被日本人拉去海南島當兵，家裡公婆阿嬤三個老人加一個幼兒的生計都靠她。