"Your aunt went off to the South Seas when she was young" --every time Grandma mentions her faraway daughter she recounts the story of their parting.
「你姑婆年輕的時候，就到南洋去了」，每次提起遠方的親戚，祖母總是帶著思念，再一次說起那些遙遠的故事… …。「南洋」，指的就是東南亞附近水域內的群島。大約元朝以前，中國一直把這個地方稱為「南海」或「西南海」。