One evening, A-Shuen and his family sat together for dinner. He took a look at his father and said angrily, “Old man! Why do you keep dropping food all over the table? You have even chipped your bowl! Take care not to drop your bowl, for I won't buy you a new one!” His father's frail hands gripped the bowl even more carefully. After dinner, A-Shuen told his father, “Your straw mat is so stinky it can kill a fly! I don't intend to get you a new mat, so stop wetting your bed.” A-Shuen's father was deeply hurt by what A-Shuen said, but he endured it in silence.

His father's health soon deteriorated, and one day he woke up coughing so hard that he passed out on his straw mat. A-Shuen's son, Tianding, shook his grandpa and said, “Grandpa, what happened to you? Wake up! Aren't you going to play with me?” As Tianding couldn't wake him, he went to find his father.

When A-Shuen saw his dying father, He told Tianding, “Your grandpa is about to die. I will wrap him up in his straw mat and bury him in the fields.” Then, he picked up a shovel and started to dig a hole in the fields to bury his father. He dug fast and deep. After a while, Tianding brought his grandpa's chipped bowl to the field to find his father. He asked A-Shuen, “Father, what shall we do about grandpa's chipped bowl?” A-Shuen took a look at the chipped bowl and said, “This bowl is as useless as the straw mat. Let's bury it too!” Suddenly, Tianding opened his eyes wide and told his father, “Father, how could this bowl and mat be useless? When you grow old, I will also let you eat from this chipped bowl, and give you this mat to sleep upon, just like how you treat grandpa!”

A-Shuen cried with shame upon hearing what his son said. He ran back to his father and said, ”Father, forgive me! I never took good care of you! It is all my fault!” He quickly carried his unconscious father to the hospital to see a doctor. From then on, A-Shuen took very good care of his father, who lived to a ripe old age.

傍晚，阿順一家人圍在圓桌吃晚飯，他看著父親的模樣，忍不住生氣說：「你這個老頭子，吃個東西飯菜掉滿地，碗都已經被你敲破了，再不當心點兒，就沒有碗可以用了。」父親瘦弱的雙手小心翼翼地捧著碗。過了一會兒阿順又對父親說：「你那張草蓆已經臭得能熏死蒼蠅了，我不打算換新的，你以後別再尿床了。」父親聽著阿順的話，心裡雖然難過但也只能默默承受。

父親的身體一天比一天差，一大早起床就不停地咳嗽，咳完後竟然昏倒在床上，孫子添丁看見了對爺爺說：「爺爺，你怎麼了，快點醒醒，你還要陪我玩呢！」添丁叫不醒爺爺，趕緊找爸爸來幫忙。

阿順看著奄奄一息的父親，就對添丁說：「爺爺快死了，我要用草蓆把爺爺包起來埋在菜園裡。」說完後，就拿著鋤頭在菜園裡賣力的挖洞。過了一會兒，添丁把爺爺的破碗拿到菜園問阿順說：「爸爸，那這個破碗該怎麼辦呢？」，阿順看了便說：「這個碗和草蓆一樣，都沒用了，就一起埋了吧！」忽然，添丁睜著大眼睛對父親說：「阿爸，怎麼會沒用呢？等你老的時候，我也要用這個破碗給你吃飯，用那張草蓆讓你睡覺，就像你對爺爺那樣啊！」

阿順聽完兒子的話，不禁流下眼淚，跑回屋裡對父親說：「阿爸，對不起！我沒有好好照顧你，都是我的錯。」便馬上背著昏迷的父親到醫院看病。從此以後，阿順非常盡心盡力地孝順父親，父親也在他的照顧之下長命百歲。