Ju's business eventually went bankrupt, and it was she who hustled around town borrowing money wherever she could to pay off the shop's creditors. When there wasn't money to buy the children even a little piece of sugar cane to chew on, she kept the family's financial worries to herself, not wishing to add to her husband's burden.
在朱銘生意失敗時，她四處賒借，孩子想吃一小節甘蔗都買不起，她都暗自扛起，不想叫朱銘更加煩心。