As soon as he got to the square, my brother ran directly to a sculpture and kept looking around and feeling around. I can't help wondering. I saw a sculpture of an uncle with a big straw hat on his head, a vendor on his shoulder and a rattle in his hand. The image is very realistic. Seeing that we were so curious, grandpa came over and asked kindly, "children, do you want to hear the story of grandpa exchanging chicken feathers for sugar?" My brother and I replied in unison: "Yes!"
Grandpa said that in the early 1970s, there was no reform and opening up at that time. Due to the underdeveloped economy at that time, Yiwu was sparsely populated, and everyone didn't even have enough food and clothing. Forced by real life, hardworking and intelligent Yiwu people thought of a good way-chicken feathers for sugar. At that time, Yiwu people fried sugarcane into brown sugar, then processed the brown sugar into ginger sugar, and then brought some small department stores, such as needles, threads, buttons, hair clips and so on. , used to exchange chicken feathers, and finally sold chicken feathers to earn the difference.
At first, I was only in a nearby city, and I gradually gained some experience, and then I went further and further, such as Jiangxi. At first, they didn't know where to change more, so they had to carry the load and watch while walking. It's hot and cold on the way. I go out for at least half a month, and sometimes it takes half a year or a year to go home. My shoes are lame every time I go home. How difficult the journey is. It is inevitable that you will encounter all kinds of difficulties when you go out. I remember once, my grandfather was walking on a remote hill road and saw the sun go down, but he couldn't see the nearby village. After a day's walk and the dry food I brought, grandpa was exhausted. My grandfather thought, are you going to spend the night in this barren mountain tonight? Just when my grandfather was at a loss, he saw an old man pushing an agricultural dirt truck in the distance. At this time, my grandfather, like grasping a straw, was busy asking him how to get to the village near him. This uncle is very kind. He realized his grandfather's difficulties and the difficulty of going out, so he took the initiative to take his grandfather to his house for the night and helped him stir up the burden of vendors. That evening, my uncle also asked my family to cook a big bowl of sweet potato glutinous rice for my grandfather. Grandpa ate it very well and often lamented: There are still many good people in this world!
On another occasion, because it was a few days before New Year's Eve, every household would kill chickens to pay New Year's greetings and get a lot of chicken feathers, all of which were wet and the burden would be particularly heavy. So, grandpa thought of a way. He decided to hide the chicken feathers in one place and come back to get them at night when no one was around. However, it is not a simple matter to find a place that will not be discovered. After careful consideration, I finally decided to hide on the ridge of a paddy field. However, when I went to get it at night, I couldn't find the chicken feathers. Grandpa was in a hurry, you know, it was a few days of hard work and cost. After sighing, grandpa still didn't give up and kept looking for more than two hours. In the end, things are much more complicated and chicken feathers are found. Grandpa is very happy. It turns out that I was too flustered when I was hiding during the day, and I remembered the wrong place. This incident taught grandpa a profound lesson, so he often taught us to handle everything calmly and not to panic.
After listening to grandpa's story, I have a deeper understanding of "chicken feathers for sugar", which brings us a spirit of being brave in innovation, not afraid of suffering and perseverance. This spirit can inspire us to study and live better!