Nobody thought, "The Japanese have not been expelled, we have been expelled ourselves." Chao Shu-hsia remembers how her family hurriedly packed a few belongings and boarded a refugee train in the early morning and began their long flight from the invaders.
沒料到的是，「日本人沒被趕出去，我們倒先給趕出來了」，她記得一家人匆匆拋下了偌大宅院，清早擠上連門窗外也攀掛著難民的火車，開始了「剛逃過難，又忙著逃難」的日子。