Once, on his way home from school in third grade, Chou Cheng picked up a curved branch. After he pulled off the leaves its shape resembled a snake, so he pared away some of the bark to leave a pattern resembling snakeskin. He then put it under his bed and forgot about it-until his mother came to his room to call him to supper and screamed, thinking it was a real snake.
國小三年級時，有一回周澄在放學途中，撿回一支彎曲的樹枝，褪去樹葉後，形狀像蛇，周澄隨手拿起小刀刮去部分樹皮，刻成環節狀，看起來就像條雨傘節，刻好後隨手擱在床底下，不意母親進房喚他吃飯時，誤將樹枝看成真蛇，嚇得失聲大叫。