Four years later, Chen married Hsieh Pi-lien, a colleague at the primary school where Chen taught, but the shadow of death hung heavy over this new household as well. Two infant children died one after the other, and Chen's second wife said goodbye to him forever in 1941.
四年後，陳慧坤與新高公校的同事謝碧蓮結婚，婚後的日子，死亡的陰影一直籠罩著這個家庭，兩個嬰兒接連夭折，第二任妻子亦在一九四一年與陳慧坤永別。