One evening, however, on the bus on his way home from school, Pan saw a familiar silhouette in military khakis walking along the street. It turned out to be his father, who at that time worked on a military base in Miaoli, walking the seven or eight kilometers home just to save the 2.5 NT dollars that it cost for a soldier to buy a bus ticket.
直到有天晚上，他放學搭公車回家，看到車外一個穿綠色軍服的熟悉背影，竟是當時在苗栗團管區上班的父親，省下兩塊半的軍警票，從火車站走七、八公里路回家。