Lin Nianhe was a man of action. Once the decision was made, he organized the village children to start making shuttlecocks.
The task was simple and there weren't many chicken feathers to begin with. Moreover, most children in the village had some "skills," so in one morning, they turned these feathers from waste into treasure, producing over a hundred beautiful shuttlecocks.
The students were divided into five groups by class and went to sell at the Cooperative Society, the Vegetable Station, the Grain Station, and outside the gates of two factories, overseen by the teachers who had not yet returned home.
The teachers weren't responsible for selling, only for watching the children.
Lin Nianhe, with warming patches all over himself and wrapped up in a military coat, stood in a wind-sheltered spot watching the second graders, each with shuttlecocks in hand and little red faces, wanting to approach the adults coming off work to make a sale but not daring to.
