This week I listened to the record of my grandpa's teacher(史子明老爺爺) and listed some of the funny or remarkable things he had been through.

1. My grandpa was in jail for about a month.
    He was sent in there because he was so poor that the  police of the KMT government thought he was the     spy that the CPC sent in order to let the people feel that joining the KMT will end up being poor like him.
    Actually, at that time, many people was sent into the jail because of the same reason. Luckily my
    grandpa's teacher (史子明老爺爺) was a friend of the police in that jail, so my grandpa was able to get
    out of the jail and wasn't badly hurt.

2. After his ex ran away with all his money, my grandpa had to live with his teacher.
    Because of his ex's emotionless(my grandpa let her control all his money), he had been through a really
    tough life. The room which his teacher lived was quite small so the only place he could use as his bed was
    the closet (壁櫥) and there were bugs everywhere in the room so they suffered from their bite. Although
    living there wasn't a nice experience, they cherished the time they had together and being alive.

3. He never made it back to see his family.
    My grandpa had told me that his last time he spent with his family was before he ran away from
    Shandong. He had never gone back to his home even when the government allowed us go to China. He
    was afraid that his sisters will be chasing after him for money and ruined all his good memories.(He only
    send them money twice a year and never met them in person. ) He sometimes told me about his
    grandmother, the New Year's Eve, and the delicious dishes he was only allowed to eat on special
    occasions and he wasn't able to finish his story because he would shed tears to end the story up.

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I also read some books but I didn't find them share the same experience with my grandpa because his
experience was a bit different from other people. Most of the books I read was about the students forced to join the miliarty as a solider but my grandpa was a worker in a factory(He had just graduated from high school) so he was able to avoid that part. I ordered a book called "山東流亡學生研究報告" and it's on its way. I hope I can find something useful in that book.

This week I looked for some old photos of my grandpa.




These are his old thesis!
At that time, you have to finish your thesis to graduate from university and he wrote "the relationship between China and Japan in Tang dynasty."(唐代中日之軍事關係) I also found that many students wrote about Japan, maybe it was because they have been controlled by Japan before.(My grandpa could speak Japanese.)


This is the picture of his class in 1959(CK high). He was about 30 years old then.



This is an interesting picture, he was about to jump off the bridge because his ex broke up with him and took away all his money. He couldn't even afford a pair of socks! That was the reason why he told no one the amount of his allowance afterwards.




This was the first high school he had ever taught and it seemed to be the first year of that school(文山中學). He was a elementary school principal in the mountains when he was 19(?)
and haven't gone to NTU. The main reason was because he could speak Japanese so that he could communicate with the natives.



 
These two pictures was he and my grandmother's date. From the pictures I can tell that his pose was always the same.... Even when he was 80 years old he still used the same pose as the picture at the bottom and seldom smiled!



 
These pictures were their wedding! Actually I was shocked that the picture was quite clear and in a good condition.


From looking at these pictures I learned more things about my grandpa, and it seems to let me be able to join his previous life. I have also heard some stories about him and the tough years he had went through. It was a pity that I didn't hear the stories from him(he always told me the stories about Japaneses and his grandmother). And the full version of his thesis is in NTU now, my mother said that she will ask for the copy. Actually it is a lucky thing that NTU still has his thesis and posted online, there are only few of the thesises of his classmates kept.

1.劉大維（1998）。口述歷史。台北：資訊系歷史作業。

 

2.劉故校長澤民先生治喪委員會（2003）。劉故校長澤民先生行述。台北。

 

3.台灣癲癇之友協會（2006）。活出生命的色彩－與癲癇共舞。宏欣（吳氏總經銷）。

 

4.台灣癲癇之友協會（2006）。癲癇之愛－關懷與叮嚀。宏欣（吳氏總經銷）。

 

5.龍應台（2009）。大江大海一九四九。天下雜誌。

 

6.成湯/口述，成英姝/編輯整理（2009）。我曾是流亡學生。聯合文學。

 

7.李昌民（2007）。流亡學生。秀威資訊。

 

8.馬忠良（2012）。從二等兵到教授：馬忠良回憶。新銳文創(秀威代理)。

 

9.楊以琳（2008）。夢繞成長路。桃園縣政府文化局。

 

10.建中舊校刊

建中舊校刊的部分我之後會去翻找看看有沒有有關我爺爺的紀錄