In his memoirs Chen Shao-pai revealed that, "one day, a letter came unexpectedly from the Canton pharmacy, saying that Dr. Sun had disappeared, that it was getting impossible to do business, that income was not meeting expenditures, and that there was only a little money left.
陳少白曾在回憶錄中透露，「有一天，忽然廣州藥房裡有信來，說先生失蹤了，藥房開銷很難，入不敷出，只剩十幾塊錢了。