From this passage, one can see the desire of this "adoptee" to run away from his circumstances. Perhaps Cheng himself was disappointed that he could not grow up around his birth mother and father despite the fact that his uncle treated him as his own son, so in the story, A-Wang's mother dies while giving birth to him.
從這段文字中，隱約可以感覺到他對自己養子命運的「逃跑」渴望；儘管舅舅對他視如己出，但不能在親生的父母家長大，是否曾是鄭清文生命中的一種缺憾？