Crossing the farm gate, the whole family reunites in the disaster year

Lin tilted his head, confusion in his eyes.

Among these Fus, although the others were obedient, they would be more or less lazy when working, and would not move forward until they were whipped. However, Sanfu was down-to-earth and hardworking, and even Old Man Cui praised him.

If you don't want to rest, why would you suddenly say this?

Sanfu lowered his head shyly: "I want to... change my job."

Lin was very interested: "Do you want to deliver goods? Or do you want to do something else?"

Sanfu raised his head and said, "I want to build a house."

There is a new house next to the threshing ground, and when they take a break they will go and watch the craftsmen work.

The ground of the new workshop has been leveled, and the wall is now being built. The yellow mud everywhere is made into bricks and then stacked into neat earthen walls.

These boring tasks seemed novel and desirable to him. The thought of building a house that could shelter him from wind and rain with his own hands out of a pile of yellow mud and wood made his blood boil.

He wants to learn how to build a house!

"Sure." Lin didn't object. If you have a dream, go and make it come true. "Auntie has no objection. I'll take you to find the foreman later, and you'll help out there from now on."

Sanfu didn't expect Aunt Lin to agree so easily, and nodded hurriedly.

"But if you go there, you'll only be able to do the most basic work, the dirtiest and most strenuous odd jobs. Are you sure you can stick with it?"

"I'm not afraid of being tired." Sanfu said without hesitation.

"Okay, Auntie supports you." Lin thought of the other Fu, "We'll go over later, call them in first."

Soon, several other Fu stood in front of Lin, tall and short, standing in a row.

Lin looked at them one by one. They had taken a bath and changed into clean clothes in the past few days, and they looked much better than before.

"Just now Sanfu said he wanted to help out at the new house, and he called you here to see if anyone else wanted to go with him."

Several of the Fu people looked terrified and shook their heads like rattles.

"Don't go."

Building a house is tiring and dirty, so they don't want to go.

Lin did not force them. Instead of forcing them, she preferred to let them choose what they wanted to do.

"Then Sanfu will go by himself. Speaking of which, I'd like to ask if anyone has anything they want to do, or a skill they want to learn?"

The few people looked at each other, not knowing how to answer for a moment, mainly because they had never thought about this question before.

People like them live day by day and never think about the future.

Erfu thought hard for a long time, and suddenly his eyes lit up. Then he stuck out his tongue, but was too embarrassed to say it out loud.

Lin encouraged, "Just say whatever comes to your mind. There are no outsiders here."

Erfu scratched the back of his head and said, "I want to...I want to be a restaurant owner."

"puff."

"Hahahahaha, why don't you want to be a big landlord?"

The other few people laughed so hard that they couldn't straighten their backs.

"What's wrong with being a shopkeeper?" Erfu stretched his neck, "I just want to be a shopkeeper. I want to share the leftovers with orphans who can't afford to eat."

One time, he was so hungry that he sneaked into a restaurant to grab some leftovers, but was discovered and beaten by the restaurant owner.

I was curled up on the ground at that time, and couldn't help but imagine that if he was the owner of a restaurant, he would definitely generously share the leftovers with all the hungry people.

Lin didn't expect his reason to be this, and said seriously: "Restaurant owner, it is not impossible to achieve."

"Gah?"

The laughter stopped abruptly, and several people were stunned.

Erfu stared at Aunt Lin in a daze. He had always kept this idea in his mind and had never told anyone. He had just said it casually. He had thought it was a joke, but Aunt Lin looked as if she took it seriously.

"No, no, no, I just said it casually. I can't read a word, so I can't be the shopkeeper at all."

Lin raised an eyebrow: "If you can't even read, how can you learn without doing anything? How can you know if you can do it?"

Aunt Lin seemed to really believe that he would become the restaurant owner one day.

"But..."

"Jingwen has studied, and his knowledge is recognized even by the county magistrate. Isn't he a ready-made teacher? Let him teach you a few characters every day. If you can recognize two characters a day, that's twenty characters in ten days. In less than half a year, you can recognize hundreds of characters, which will be more than enough for you to use."

"If you can read and write, the rest will be easy. It just depends on your perseverance. Even if you don't become the shopkeeper in the end, just knowing how to read will keep you from going hungry in the future."

Aunt Lin said a few words lightly, as if being a shopkeeper was not that difficult.

Erfu clenched his fists and said, "I will definitely become the shopkeeper."

After successfully feeding a bowl of chicken soup, Lin felt a sense of accomplishment and looked at the others.

"What about you? Don't hesitate and speak boldly."

Sifu: "Aunt Lin, I want to travel the world and kill all the bad guys who bully the weak."

"Then go to the martial arts school and learn martial arts first." Lin's expression was normal. "But killing is wrong. Just beat him up. Next."

"I want to be a doctor. I heard there's a very good doctor in the county who treats poor people for free every month. I want to be like him."

"Then go to the pharmacy as an apprentice, but you have to learn to read first."

Lin was very pleased that these children still had kindness in their hearts. They crawled out of the darkness and turned into a beam of light to illuminate the way back.

The smallest tree mustered up its courage and said, "Auntie Lin, have you ever seen a monkey show? I saw one at a temple fair and it was so spectacular. Can I learn to do it?"

"..."

Lin's forehead twitched. "You're still young, this isn't something you should be thinking about. So, you can learn to read with Erfu first. If you still want to learn monkey tricks in two years, I'll find a way to get you a monkey."

Two years should be enough to mature.

If you haven't changed your mind, then it must be fate.

"Really?! I knew Aunt Lin was the best!"

Lin and several other Fu remained silent.

"What about you?"

Lin looked at Thick Neck.

Thick Neck touched his nose and said, "I haven't thought about it yet."

Lin smiled and said, "Don't worry, just think about it slowly."

Life is not just about being muddle-headed, you can also plant dreams. Even if it is just a small seed now, as long as you work hard for your dream, it will eventually blossom and bear fruit.

Lin took Sanfu to find Cuicui's father. Because of Cuicui's relationship, Cuicui's father immediately accepted Sanfu and promised to teach him personally and let him work as a handyman for him.

This result has exceeded the expectations of Lin and Sanfu. Cuicui's father's words are equivalent to accepting Sanfu as his apprentice.

Sanfu knelt down and kowtowed to become his disciple.

On the way back, he happened to see an ox cart passing by. The village road was narrow, so Lin pulled over to the side of the road to let the ox cart pass.

There were a lot of things piled up on the ox cart, big and small. The bamboo basket was not covered tightly with lipstick cloth, and the pig's trotter inside could be clearly seen. Judging from the shape, it should be a whole pig's leg.

The people on the ox cart were in high spirits. It must be that someone in the village had gotten engaged and was coming to deliver the betrothal gifts.

Having just experienced a good harvest and now encountering happy events, life has indeed gotten visibly better.

Lin was in a good mood.