"I waited for the children to grow up a bit and only then did I tell them that their father had been killed. When the children asked who had done the killing, I could only make the excuse that it was 'communist bandits.'" It was only when the children reached middle school age that Yeh Yun-yu told them the whole truth.
「等孩子再大一些，我才告訴他們爸爸是被殺害的，至於孩子問是被誰殺的，我只有推說是『共匪』殺的」，葉蘊玉說直到孩子念中學左右，才告訴他們整個事情的真相。