He could not tolerate seeing a father who originally had a wife and nine children and who committed suicide because he could not afford their tuition. Ho Fan believed this was a case of "one being dragged to death by the sheer size of one's family."
他不忍見一位父親因有一妻九兒、為孩子繳不出學費而自殺，認為這是「家口拖死人」。