"Cheng-tsai Gets off the Bus," Huang's earliest published work, is the tale of an elderly woman taking her grandson to the city to visit her daughter and son-in-law. Although she is "only 50," "her withered face was deeply etched by life and the passage of time..
他正式發表的第一篇小說〈城仔落車〉，寫的就是一位帶著外孫進城裡去找女兒、新女婿的阿婆，她雖然「才五十歲」，然而「歲月和生活在她枯乾臉上，留下了很深的痕跡」，使得她「給人的印象大約有六十開外的光景」。