Three elderly people sat under a parasol on the deck, drinking tea and chatting. "Young people these days are really unreliable. They don't plan anything for themselves!"

He doesn't even know how to fish, so how could he go out to sea without bringing any food? If he doesn't meet a kind person, he'll go hungry.

I heard they haven't installed satellite phones on their ship yet. They're incredibly audacious; ignorance is bliss!

"They dared to set sail without a professional guide. What if they encountered something at sea and had no one to turn to for help?"

The old lady said, "It's not just the young people's fault, their parents are also to blame."

The children are inexperienced and have no experience, and their parents don't offer any guidance.

It seems they don't pay attention to their child's education and are only focused on making money and working.

Parents nowadays spoil their children too much. There are five or six of them, including several girls, and none of them know how to cook.

Luckily, the boy knew how to cook simple food with water. If they had been dumped on a desert island, they would have starved to death.

"So, kids these days are all highly intelligent but mentally challenged. We need to be careful not to spoil our kids too much in the future."

Now that education has improved, urban children, given the opportunity, are receiving higher education.

There are quite a few undergraduates, master's students, and even doctoral students, but their life skills are deeply worrying!

The elderly people started talking about social issues, while Chen Hong, detached, continued sailing her boat.

The fisherman's life was so comfortable; he had money, a boat, a house, land, and parents and children. Now he has added a lover to his life—how wonderful!

Facing the sea and watching spring flowers bloom, she has already lived a life that thousands of people envy.

She has no need to worry about economic and political issues; being born into a relatively harmonious society is her good fortune.

Quietly help some people who deserve help; a kind deed leaves a lingering fragrance!

Be someone who can share joy with others, making your life more peaceful and carefree.

Once my son grows up and becomes successful, I will have completed my mission in this life.

In the future, I will sail around the world and see different scenery in foreign countries.

As Chen Hong steered the boat, she chatted with her son, "Xiao Bao, have you thought it through? Do you want to go to school in Jinan?"

Yu Yang stroked Black Tiger's head gently. "Mom, do I really have to go to school in Jinan? I can't bear to leave Xiao Hao and Wang Xin."

"It's not necessarily true. But going to Jinan is the best choice."

At your age, if you were in Jinan, you could enroll in an interest class on the weekend.

Mom isn't forcing you to learn any special skills, but you can take some time to cultivate your own interests and hobbies.

For example, if you like drawing, you can't learn it in school. You can take a class in Jinan to learn some basic knowledge and drawing skills.

If you like martial arts, we can enroll you in a martial arts class to improve your physical fitness and build up your strength so you can protect yourself in difficult situations.

If you love music, Jinan offers a wider range of options. Guitar, drums, piano, violin, even guqin, guzheng, and erhu—you can enroll in classes for whatever you want to learn.

Whether it's just for personal enjoyment or wanting to pursue further education and take certification exams, wouldn't life become more colorful?

As the ancients said, "It's never a bad thing to have many skills!" It's always good to learn more specialized skills whenever you have the chance.

Our family isn't short of money right now, so we don't need you to make a living by performing.

But if you understand more, wouldn't you be able to better appreciate the beautiful things in this world?

While listening to his mother, Yu Yang thought for a while and then made a decision: "Mom, I like martial arts and I also like music."

Chen Chusheng looks so cool playing the guitar, I want to learn too! I also want to learn to paint, to paint our family's orchard and the sea and fishing boats next to the village.

Mom, I've decided to go to school in Jinan. If Xiaohao and Wang Xin don't go, I'll learn how to teach them when I get back.

"Anyway, summer and winter vacations are quite long, Mom, can we go back to Yujia Village during the holidays?"

Chen Hong was very happy that her son had finally made a wise decision, and she quickly reassured him.

"Not only can you go back to Yujia Village during the holidays, but you can also pick up Xiaohao and Wang Xin to go to Jinan for fun on weekends when you don't have classes. You won't be separated for too long."

When they were young, they lived in the countryside and didn't have the means. None of Chen Hong and her two siblings had any special talents.

Besides working, she had no other talents; the only things she knew how to do were cooking.

Thinking back to her childhood, every time she visited Uncle Wang and Uncle Liu's house in Jinan, she would see their older siblings learning dance and piano at the Children's Palace, and she would feel very envious.

Every time she saw Uncle Liu's daughter, Sister Liu Xiang, dancing gracefully, she would stare in disbelief.

I dream that I am wearing a colorful scarf and turn into a butterfly, flying on the stage.

When I'm home alone, I secretly drape my mom's floral bed sheet over myself and do splits and jumps on the bed, and practice handstands against the wall.

Now that she has the financial means, she doesn't want her son to have any regrets either.

Whether you can learn it or not is another matter, but you should at least try to learn what you want to learn!

They have the option to try and fail; even if they don't learn it, they won't have any regrets or remorse.

Yu Yang will eventually leave the village when he grows up. We can't let him stay confined to Yujia Village and only associate with a few families in the village.

The world is vast, with countless more sights to see and a wealth of knowledge to learn.

Chen Hong led the elderly and children southward at sea until they reached Shanghai, where they finally disembarked at the port.

I stayed at a hotel in Shanghai for another night and spent a day sightseeing in between.

I went shopping, strolled along the Bund, bought some vegetables, fruits, and food, filled up the gas tank, and headed south again.

Their destination this time was the South China Sea. They had made contingency plans and, taking advantage of the ample time, prepared to set sail for the Dongsha Islands to see the beautiful tropical seascape of the south.

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