Yet, looking at this another way, if Chang had spent his youth worrying about accumulating money, he would not have had the experiences he did and made his way from being an ordinary soldier to writing such moving works.
可是反過來想，如果張拓蕪從年輕時就關心如何累積財富，恐怕他根本不會刻苦自學、從小兵變作家，更寫不出《代馬輸卒手記》這樣感人的作品。