This is another homework that the Li family must do before the year, and all the dishes and chopsticks at home, whether they are commonly used or not, must be cleaned.

"Good!" Li Liang responded.

Early in the morning, Wang Xiulan sent her sister Wang Xiuyan on the bus back to the countryside, and after she saw off her sister, she bought many New Year's goods by the way.

Chinese New Year's Eve is destined to be busy for adults. For children, it's two words, eat and play, plus the new clothes that I look forward to and look forward to.

Li Liang didn't look forward to new clothes, a few days ago, his mother Wang Xiulan took him to the department store while reading a book, but he didn't have much interest in going. Later, his mother specially bought him a brand-new corduroy jacket, and when he displayed it at home, he also won the envious eyes of Wang Chao and Zhang Junjie, who were reading and studying.

After eating the dumplings, he moved out dozens of bowls, plates, plates, and soup bowls in the kitchen cupboard, mixed half a basin of warm water in a large basin, added alkaline noodles and washed them carefully.

Then I rinsed it twice with clean water, and it was cold, the sky was overcast, and it looked like it was going to snow. Fortunately, Li Liang's family uses a pressurized water well, and the groundwater is foggy, and the temperature is higher than the temperature, so it is not particularly cold to wash things in the water.

"Jingle Bell, Ding Bell, Ding Bell, Ding Dong"

Li Liang's family was busy at home, when suddenly there was a crisp sound of iron plate knocking outside the courtyard.

"Chicken feathers and duck feathers for sugar~~~"

A Mandarin with a foreign accent sounded outside, and after a while, the voice of a noisy child could be heard outside the courtyard.

"How to change it?"

"I killed a chicken, how much sugar can I get in exchange?"

"Can I change a broken plastic basin?"

"Can I change the toothpaste skin?"

"I'm going to change it too!"

"Do you want to change the goose feathers?"

The children's voices were noisy and lively, and Li Liang clearly heard Zhang Junjie's voice in them.

What a familiar voice, I should have been one of them in my last life. When he was a child, as long as he heard the jingle of chicken feathers for candy, Li Liang would search for them at home. These sugar changers will not only ask for chicken feathers and duck feathers, but also collect iron sheets, toothpaste skins, plastic basins and other miscellaneous objects.

At that time, the children would collect these household garbage when they were fine, and when the candy changer came, they would take out the treasures they usually collected for candy and eat them.

The sugar of the sugar changer is maltose, and generally they will carry a bunch of baskets, and the baskets are covered with bamboo plaques, and a large piece of maltose is placed on the bamboo plaques, which are covered with a layer of plastic film.

The exchange of goods into the basket, and then the master of the exchange of sugar will hold a small steel plate in one hand and a small hammer in the other, estimate the value of the exchanged object, and knock down a piece of maltose of equal value.

Gluttonous children often eat all the maltose they bought before they get home.

Sometimes the candy changer's basket will also bring shuttlecocks, small scissors, nail clippers, whistles, cannons, balloons and other small toys that children like, which are also children's favorite small objects.

Li Liang was fascinated by what he heard, and he couldn't help but slow down the work in his hands.

Li Shuangzhu, who was on the side, looked at his son's appearance, and thought that he also wanted to eat maltose, so he said with a smile: "Liangzi, you quickly clean up the chicken feathers here and take them out for some sugar!"

Li Liang smiled dumbly when he heard this, but he didn't refuse, he used the dustpan at home to pack the chicken feathers that his father plucked, and went out of the yard with the dustpan.

At the mouth of the alley, a sugar changer dressed in an old cotton coat is bending down, holding iron pieces and small iron hammers, ding, ding, ding, and gently knocking out a small pile of small sugar cubes the size of peanuts and putting them into a small plastic bag.

A child took a bag of maltose and left happily.

Zhang Junjie was in the crowd, Li Liang walked over, Zhang Junjie saw it, and shouted happily: "Brother Liang, my family killed two chickens today, can I exchange a lot of sugar!"

Li Liang was not in a hurry, he watched the sugar changer busy on the side, and in the busy jingling, there were fewer and fewer children around the sugar exchanger.

Zhang Junjie changed to a bag of maltose, took out a piece and handed it to Li Liang to eat, Li Liang waved his hand to signal that he didn't need it, and he was also changing the sugar. Zhang Junjie chewed the sweet maltose at the corner of his mouth and said, "Brother Liang, this sugar is sweet!"

When the children dispersed, Li Liang stepped forward and said to the sugar changer: "Master, I am the feathers of two chickens!"

"Good!"

The sugar changer took the dustpan in Li Liang's hand, poured the chicken feathers inside into the basket, and then knocked the sugar.

Li Haoqi asked: "Master, where are you from, are you working hard to change sugar during the Chinese New Year?"

The sugar changer responded while knocking on the sugar seriously: "I am a native of Wenzhou Yiwu. ”

"Wen Zhou, it's so far from here, why are we here to exchange sugar on such a long runway?" Li Liang asked with a pretended surprise.

In fact, Li Liang knew something about the exchange of chicken feathers for sugar in Yiwuren's previous life.

The development of Yiwu people's "chicken feathers for sugar" and its history and culture has a long history, which can be traced back to the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. But its development has not been smooth sailing.

In the 60s and 70s, chicken feathers for sugar became the target of Chinese attacks, saying that chicken feathers for sugar was "abandoning agriculture and doing business", "throwing Ji down ba", "ziben lord/righteousness/tail", which contradicted the national ban, and it was "the mountain rain is about to come and the wind is full of buildings"!

At that time, Yi Wu, like other places, set up a "Crackdown on Throwing Ji and Dumping BA Office", which drove those who carried blue on the street and set up stalls to fly, and forbade people to go out to exchange chicken feathers for sugar, and people were arrested and money was punished.

However, Yiwu even in the period of cutting Ziben / Yi / tail and severely cracking down on throwing Ji poured ba, the sugar changer went out to exchange chicken feathers for sugar was still thriving, at that time Yi Wu below a twenty-three town, only the town went out to change chicken feathers for sugar as many as 5,000 people, the business scope not only involved in the surrounding provinces of Jiangxi, Fujian and other provinces around Zhejiang, but also expanded to all parts of the country.

With the reform of China's market-oriented orientation and the activity of the commodity economy, Yiwu people entered a new stage of opening up professional markets and specializing in small commodities on the basis of the original chicken feathers for sugar haberdashery sales, and in the mid-seventies, there were hundreds of stalls engaged in small commodities in Yiwu Twenty Three Miles Town, and at the end of the seventies formed China's first generation of small commodity market.

However, due to the restrictions of the policy, the real growth of the Yiwu people's chicken feathers for sugar team was still difficult, until March 24, 1979, Yang Shouchun, then secretary of the Yiwu County Party Committee of the Communist Party of China, published the article "The rattle of "chicken feathers for sugar" sounded again" on the second page of the "Zhejiang Daily", which injected vitality into the development of the entire Yiwu commodity economy.

This article is the first press release in the country to report the significance of Yiwu's "chicken feathers for sugar", and is known as "the first cry of Yiwu small commodity market" and the first "letter of request for the people".