While working at a school in the southern part of the island, he met and fell in love with a mute female student. There was a touch of irony when, in 1965, the real and play-acting mutes were married.
這段期間，他認識了該校女學生江美枝，兩人藉手語溝通，真個無聲勝有聲，終於在民國五十四年時結為連理，傳出了「假啞巴娶真啞巴」的一段佳話。