He says the work used to be more onerous: once you set the process in motion, you couldn't stop. If he made a mistake, his father would let fly with his long-stemmed wooden pipe and wouldn't hold back. "I really hated the work. I thought of it as forced labor, and considered quitting any number of times," recalls the elder Qiu.
他回憶，以前手工更繁重，一旦運轉就不能停手，而做錯一個步驟，阿爸的長柄木製吸菸筒就會重重落下來，毫不留情，「我真的很討厭這個苦役，好幾次都想放棄！」