She followed a travelling doctor selling medicine, but couldn't make enough to eat. The only thing to do was to be taken in as an "adopted daughter." Little did she expect that her new home would be a brothel; she fled.
廖瓊枝隨著江湖郎中賣藥，賺來的錢不夠付飯錢，只好給人家當養女，豈料新家竟是「私娼寮」，嚇得她趕緊逃跑，由於沒有別的謀生技能，唯一的辦法就是進戲班子。