I can still remember the tremendous crash that a huge tree made when it fell. Afterwards, a policeman in a raincoat came up the path and stared at me through the mist. Everyone else had gone, so he asked me who felled the tree. I said: 'Our whole village needs firewood.'
那一年，為了柴薪，我們全村背著日本警察的監督在山上伐木，我還記得當那大楠樹倒下時的巨大聲響，一個警員自路上過來，穿著雨衣，在霧濛濛中瞪著我，別人都走了，他問我是誰砍的樹，我說：「全村的人都需要木材。」