The three of them built the four walls brick by brick under the harsh sun of southern Taiwan. The seemingly simple wall construction took them a whole year to finish. Hsieh spent two months alone shaping the bricks, and due to their poor water they had to wait for the mortar to dry and fuse to one course of bricks before they could lay the next.
看似簡單的砌牆工程，卻花了她與家人一年的時間才完成，因為光是把磚頭敲出型，就耗時兩個月，且燒黑的磚頭吸水性很差，砌上幾層後就得等待磚塊與水泥密合好，才能繼續往上砌。