Although her family has good land, as a child Ah Yen never worked in the fields. After her father died, her mother was not physically up to the hardships of farming, and turned to recycling.
雖然家有良田，但阿燕從小沒有下過田，父親過世後，阿燕媽媽的體力無法負荷，轉為從事資源回收。