Rebirth of the Millennial: Getting Rich After Parents Get Laid Off

Chapter 57 One word, poor
The Shen family could not come to a definite conclusion on this matter. Everyone knew that it was impossible to do so, but they could not get over the hurdle in their hearts.

Li Xunli had no choice but to play the ostrich and stop thinking about it, deciding to deal with it coldly.

Unexpectedly, when Li Xunli went to the porcelain kiln the next day, she saw Chen Manyu again at the corner of the wall at the entrance of the porcelain kiln.

He was still wearing the same blue coat as yesterday, but he must have not gone into his family's abandoned porcelain kiln today, so his clothes were clean.

After seeing Li Xunli coming, she stood up shyly, smiled at her, and called her, "Auntie Li."

Don't hit someone who smiles at you, and Li Xunli already had sympathy for Chen Manyu.

She smiled and nodded, then asked him, "Manyu, why are you here again?"

"I didn't get my clothes dirty today, so I'll help you pound the ingredients!" Chen Manyu patted his chest as if making a promise.

Li Xunli paused and asked, "Does grandma know you're here?"

Chen Manyu shook his head: "Grandma and Grandpa went out and told me to stay home and not run around."

Li Xunli thought of what Li Huifen said yesterday, and suddenly her heart was filled with mixed feelings.

She looked at Chen Manyu, who was standing there a little stiffly, but looking at her with bright eyes, expecting her to give him something to do. She felt a little soft-hearted: "Come in with me first. Your grandma and grandpa are not at home. Do you have lunch?"

Chen Manyu grinned and said, "Yes, my grandparents left some big steamed buns and small fish at home!"

Li Xunli understood. Perhaps Aunt Huifen had already understood her attitude yesterday, but she was reluctant to tell Chen Manyu, so Chen Manyu came over again.

"Then why did you come here? It's so cold." Li Xunjin used the key to open the door of the porcelain kiln and asked Chen Manyu to follow her in.

As soon as he entered, Chen Manyu's eyes were glued to the raw materials and utensils, and his eyes flashed with a bright light. "I'm here to help Aunt Li, for free! No money! Grandpa and grandma don't know, I'm here secretly! I want to be like Grandpa and make ceramics!"

Li Xunli was very surprised. She thought that Aunt Huifen didn't tell Chen Manyu, but it turned out to be Chen Manyu's own idea?

Yes, even if there was an accident, Chen Manyu was already 10 years old when the accident happened. He understood some things he should understand, and Aunt Huifen seemed to have been slowly teaching him the things he didn't understand over the years.

She could hear and see that what Aunt Huifen said about Chen Manyu being a slow learner and slow to understand was true.

Perhaps people like Chen Manyu are more suitable to inherit some porcelain art because he is more pure.

Li Xunli believes that everything she does is to support her family. Her pursuit of porcelain art needs to be based on having enough food and clothing and not having to spend a penny carefully.

But she also understood that what was more important for Chen Manyu now was how to survive.

Art and survival, survival always comes first, then art.

Li Xunli didn't say anything else. She just took Chen Manyu to familiarize himself with some materials and utensils that he had never seen when he was a child. Then she told him to go home and eat if he was hungry and not to stay in the porcelain kiln.

Chen Manyu nodded.

Li Xunli is going to start making those fragile porcelain sets today, which include two hollow exquisite pendants.

Zhang Hengyun wanted to stuff something in it, then smash it and take it out.

Because the embryo base is thin, Li Xunli needs to be very careful when carving.

At first, she could still distract herself to watch Chen Manyu, but gradually she no longer had the time. As more and more parts of the embryo base were hollowed out, the area under force became smaller and smaller, so she had to be more and more careful.

The rhythmic sound of pounding materials echoed in the porcelain kiln. Li Xunli was so engrossed in her work that she didn't notice when the sound stopped. Only after she had completely carved the two exquisite hollow pendants and placed them on a special drying device and stretched herself did she think of Chen Manyu.

I turned around and found that the person was no longer in the porcelain kiln.

But next to the pounding utensils, there were three bamboo winnowing baskets filled with sifted raw material powder.

Li Xunli looked at the fine powder in the three winnowing baskets, sighed deeply, and made a decision in her heart.

After returning home, Li Xunli announced her decision at the dinner table: "I've decided to take Manyu in as an apprentice."

Shen Rongzhou and Shen Qingqing both looked at Li Xunli in surprise.

Li Xunli sighed deeply and told her husband and daughter what Chen Manyu said and did at the porcelain kiln today. "...This kid will definitely come again. I can't let him work for nothing, right?"

Shen Qingqing looked at her mother and knew that it was basically decided that Chen Manyu would be an apprentice.

"Then, Mom, how much salary are you going to give him? Or should we just give him three meals a day as Aunt Huifen said?"

Li Xunli thought for a moment and said, "Let's go to Aunt Huifen's house this afternoon to discuss it."

After dinner, Shen Qingqing followed Li Xunli to Chen Manyu's house.

Chen Manyu's house is located in an area a little further back from the archway next to the Li family's old house.

But that area is basically uninhabited, with only one or two elderly people who are unwilling to leave.

The further they walked, the closer Shen Qingqing got to Li Xunli.

It is so desolate, so desolate that it is scary.

Fortunately, Chen Manyu was playing right in front of his house, so he could see where his house was at a glance.

"Aunt Li!" When Chen Manyu saw Li Xunli coming to his house, he thought she was here to tell his grandparents about him sneaking into her porcelain kiln that morning. He panicked for a moment, quickly threw away the branch sword in his hand, and shouted anxiously.

This shout directly called out Li Huifen and his grandfather.

Li Huifen was still holding the dishes she had put away for washing. When she came out and saw Li Xunli standing at the door with a child, she was stunned for a moment, then handed the dishes to her husband and went over to him, "Xunli? Why are you here?"

Li Xunli explained her purpose: "Aunt Huifen, I want to talk to you two about taking Manyu as an apprentice."

After hearing this, Li Huifen was stunned for a moment. She looked at her husband and saw excitement in each other's eyes. "Come on, come on, come in!"

Shen Qingqing followed her mother in. As soon as she entered, she could smell the smell of rotting wood, but apart from this smell, everything in the room was very clean.

The only electrical appliance was a clean electric fan placed in the corner, and the only other thing was a lonely light bulb hanging from the beam.

There are two side rooms on the left and right sides of the main hall. It can be seen that they are the rooms of the old couple and Chen Manyu. The doors are open, and there must be windows, so some light comes into the room.

Most of the paint on the adobe wall has fallen off, revealing the earthen bricks inside.

All in all, one word to describe it is poor.

　The next chapter will be later~
　　Happy Lantern Festival!
　　(End of this chapter)