[Heartwarming + everyday life + healing + returning to the countryside + cherishing his wife + raising his daughter + making the most of life!]
Lin Manjiang, a renowned expert in ancient architecture in his previous life, is reborn on a summer night in 1980 with master-level woodworking skills honed to perfection.
From the start, his home is bare, his wife is weeping in despair, and their three-year-old daughter has a dangerously high fever and convulsions. They urgently need money to save her!
Faced with the villagers’ ridicule, he has nothing but a piece of discarded jujube wood nobody wants and a few rusty, broken tools. Yet in a single night, without using a single nail, he hand-carves a miniature wooden horse using the long-lost all-mortise-and-tenon technique.
At the morning market, he sets up a stall. Everyone laughs that he’s out of his mind with greed: ten yuan for a piece of scrap wood?
Then an old leader visiting the countryside happens to pass by and, following Lin Manjiang’s instructions, gives it a gentle push.
With a click, the wooden horse comes apart perfectly like a metal lotus flower. The entire crowd falls silent!
The old leader cries out, “A twelve-stage Luban lock! Without even a drop of glue?”
At that moment, the villagers who mocked him are utterly dumbfounded!
See how Lin Manjiang makes his way in an age of scarcity with nothing but a plane and a chisel. Rejecting the factory assembly line, he protects his beloved wife and dotes on his adorable child, carving out the best years of his life with every stroke of the plane and chisel!
The author, cheers, cheers, cheers