"This is a gift from my wife. She bought me this desk after selling her first lot of pigs," says Chung as he sits at the desk and touches its surface. The desk, a tangible sign of Chang's support of her husband's writing career, cost NT $ 900 at a time when Chung made a little over NT $ 400 a month as a primary-school teacher.
「這是我老婆當年賣掉第一批小豬後買給我的，」鍾肇政坐在書桌前，撫摸著桌面說，這張書桌 900 塊，而當時他小學教員的薪水一個月才四百多塊，張九妹對他的寫作有一種生活裡實際的支持。