Soldier girl Yen Hsiu-feng's father owned a silk mill in Hangzhou, and was also a partner in a hotel. He and his wife had only the one daughter, on whom they had always doted, and they were naturally unwilling to see her go far away from home to fight the Japanese.
嚴秀峰的父親在杭州經營絲綢廠，另有旅館股份，和太太就這麼一個獨生女兒，從小疼愛有加，自然捨不得女兒一人離家千里去參加抗戰。