For the first part of his life, he was ceaselessly on the move, traveling all over China, north and south. Besides Kwei-chow the place he lived in the longest was Hunan, but even that was only for two years, he figures.
對他而言，前半生馬不停蹄，行遍大江南北，除了貴州待得最久，後是湖南，仔細一算，也不過停了兩年。