His mother too would drive the family's pigs to forage on wasteland outside the village. Most days she would take a handful of slices of dried sweet potato and ask the neighbors to boil them for her son along with their rice.
由於全家外出工作，母親也要趕豬到郊外野地上「放牧」，常常都是抓了一把蕃薯簽，託鄰居煮飯時順便幫兒子煮一下。