Lin Wei's skills were well known to Lin Yuan, but she was only nine years old now, and at this age, children should be studying in school. Who would willingly send their child to work and earn money at such young age, if it wasn't for the fact that the family was in such poor condition that they had no other choice?
It was precisely because she understood this that Lin Yuan had sent Lin Wei and Xiao Linshuang to school to study, instead of agreeing to take Xiao He as an apprentice. In her view, studying was what they should be doing at this time.
However, she thought this way, but others did not. The idea that a woman's lack of talent was a virtue had long been ingrained in people's hearts, especially for poor families' daughters—if they weren't at home helping with the household chores, they were out on the streets with a small basket, selling goods to earn silver.
