His first outside assignment before the end of his three-year apprenticeship was a big one: working at the residence of the city's most prominent family (the building is now the Lukang Folk Culture Museum).
在未出師的三年學藝生涯中，第一次外出工作便是件大工程﹘ ﹘到鹿港首富辜家宅院（現為鹿港民俗文物館）做事。