He has even more vivid recollections of the annual "pond draining," when the grown-ups together drew all the water out of the pool with foot-operated pumps to clean the sludge from the bottom, while the children busily grabbed the fish and shrimps flapping about in the puddles and collected them into baskets. The joy of the whole family working together like that is a memory which Li Chu-fa cherishes deeply.
更鮮明的記憶是每年一次的「涸埤」，大人齊力踩水車把蓮花池的水抽乾，好清除底部淤泥，小孩子們則忙著將在淺水中跳躍的魚蝦裝籃，那樣全家一起幹活的快樂教李聚發深深懷念。