If he wasn't waving a cleaver at her, he was setting off firecrackers to harass her. Mother Cheng felt things could not go on like this. She made a momentous decision and that night moved to Taliao Township, ten kilometers away. Because she had no job or savings, she joined the ranks of the 1.38 million "new poor" in Taiwan.
鄭媽媽心想，老是如此也不是辦法，她下了人生最大的決定，連夜搬到 10 公里外的大寮鄉，因為沒工作、沒積蓄，她成了有別於傳統「老、弱、病、童」的台灣 138 萬「新窮人」大軍一員。