"In those days the only way I could obtain raw lacquer from lacquer planters was to go to them with cash and beg," recalls Hsu of those boom years. "In Puli one out of every four people was involved in lacquer production, and when people who smelled of lacquer went to buy things in the markets, prices would rise." But the high times didn't last long.
「那時我總是帶著現金到漆農家中去拜託，才能收到生漆，在埔里每四個人就有一個人靠漆樹為生，身上有漆味的人到街上買東西價錢特別高。」