Wu Qingzhang, in contrast, had to quit writing to care for their growing brood. Indeed, their son Rongzhe feels his mother got a rough deal: “ Our dad married young and quickly fathered six kids, but often went off with his drinking buddies to play cards and Chinese Go, as if he were still single. ”
更有甚者，「父親當年夢幻輕狂，由於太過年輕便成家，早早就生下半打孩子，卻常獨自出門與朋友打彈子、玩撲克、喝酒、下圍棋，把孩子全部丟給母親一人照顧，好比自己還是單身漢一個，」吳融哲很為母親抱不平。