"It's all about skills. Uncle Three, if you had a skill, you'd earn more money and the work would be much easier than digging soil, smashing rocks, and carrying wood," said Lian Manman.
"All I know is farming. What other skill could I have?" Lian Shouli replied earnestly.
"Manman makes sense," mused Lian Shouxin. He too wished Lian Shouli could find a job that was easier yet paid more.
"Isn't Uncle Three a carpenter?" Wu Lang suddenly said, "The ice cart Xiao Qi and I have – Uncle Three is the one who planed and joined the wood boards for that."
"That's nothing. I never studied it, just watched others do it and remembered. Then I figured it out on my own," Lian Shouli said.
Lian Shouli was generally acknowledged for his dexterity. Whether setting up a Kang bed-stove, constructing a cooking range, or building a shed, no one taught him. He simply learned naturally by watching how others did it.