The old people say: There are three hardships in life: boating, fishing, and selling tofu!
Zai Zhong sometimes thinks: How come our family is all occupied?
In the family, there are two parents, eight sisters, and my youngest son, making it a big family. My family lives here at the mouth of a river. My parents are old experts and go fishing every day; some of my sisters have already married off, and the remaining sisters buy soybeans, grind soy milk, and make tofu every day; Zai Zhong learned the skill of punting from his father, and they punt on the river every day.
Their family really has taken all the suffering in the world. Every day before dawn, the sisters would get up one by one to get beans; at dawn, Zai Zhong would also get up and punt a boat for those who were eager to cross the river to do business in the town on the other side; the parents were the ones who had the hardest time, because the old couple were so old that they fished less and less, and those who came back were getting later and later. I originally wanted to persuade the two elderly people to stop working so hard, but it didn't work. If we didn't do this, we would have to wait to die.