But some time later, with business slumping, she accepted the very generous terms of a Taichung-based Pei-kuan company, the Tai-ping Troupe, and we moved south with her to make a new home in an unfamiliar setting, where we had an oven, a cooker and a rain-tub, but no toilet.
爾後因生意不順遂，加上中部有一北管劇團十分禮遇，母親便加入了台中「太豐園」，而我們也跟著舉家南遷，投靠到人生地不熟的鄉村，面對一個有爐、有灶、有水缸，卻沒有廁所的生活環境。