As little girls they usually tended water buffalo and gathered razor grass. While they only weighed about 40 pounds, they were expected to gather two bundles of razor grass in a day, and they always returned home with their hands cut to ribbons. There was no medicine to treat their wounds, so they would just stick their hands in scalding hot water and steel themselves for another day's work.
那時兩人最常被交予的工作是放牛和割芒草，體重還不到二十公斤的小女孩，一天卻必須割上兩擔草，而會割手的芒草總是割得兩人手花花，回家也沒有藥膏塗抹，就是開水燙一燙，明天繼續工作。