On Tang Shunyan's birthday, he played with toys and showed them off to his friends. His eyes sparkled with such delight and warmth that he felt incredibly proud.
These kids were from wealthy or influential families, and they always wanted what others had.
They had never seen or owned the toys at Tang Shunyan's place. After they returned home from the birthday party, they all wanted their families to buy them wooden toys.
From that day on, a craze for wooden toys began in the new county. Those who bought toys boasted to their peers, and those who hadn't yet or who had fewer unique toys than their peers urged their parents to make purchases.
The Tang Family learned about the craze and first had Hongji stop working on the large wooden figures of immortals, understanding that the rarer the wood, the higher the price it could fetch in the market.