Chapter 127: Lucky Pearl
“Grandpa.”
As expected, they saw Old Master Fu, who had been waiting for them at home.
“Grandpa Fu.”
The old man sat in his chair and nodded at them.
“Are you leaving now? Wait for me.”
Old Master Fu said, “No need to go. I’ve had Xiao Zhang bring the dog over.”
Fu Mingyu wanted to get a dog, so naturally, he had to inform Old Master Fu in advance and get his permission.
Fu Mingyu stopped talking when he heard this.
“Go say hello to them. We’re preparing to leave.”
Yun Jiao accompanied Fu Mingyu.
Granny Yun and the others were still busy in the kitchen.
“What? Leaving already? The meal is almost ready. Why leave now? Eat together first, then leave.”
Granny Yun insisted they stay, and said the same to Old Master Fu outside.
Old Master Fu, like Fu Mingyu, wasn’t one to talk much. Naturally, he couldn’t win against Granny Yun, who could chatter on and on. In the end, they decided to stay and eat the meal before leaving.
Yun Linhai, Yun Linhe, and Yun Jiao’s older brothers carried back those oysters from the boat.
Seeing this, Granny Yun immediately prepared several for steaming and quickly made a dipping sauce.
Grandpa Yun looked at the pile of oysters stacked like a small mountain in the courtyard and felt a headache coming on.
“Why bring so many oysters back? Are we going to eat oysters every day from now on? Although these aren’t expensive, they’re worth some money if sold…”
Yun Linhai’s words directly interrupted his rambling.
“Jiaojiao asked us to keep them.”
Grandpa Yun: …
As the Yun family members who had gone out returned one by one, the small courtyard gradually became lively.
It was stuffy indoors, so they simply moved the tables outside to the courtyard. There weren’t enough seats for everyone, so they divided into two tables, with the children at one table and the adults at another.
The two guards were also called over.
The dining table immediately became lively, especially the children’s table.
Yun Jiao was telling her older brothers about how she caught a whale shark today.
Upon hearing that the fish was bigger than an orca, Yun Xiaowu and the others, who had seen those orcas, gasped with their mouths wide open.
They really wanted to see what a whale shark bigger than an orca looked like.
“Fu Mingyu took photos. He’ll send us a copy once the pictures are developed.”
Yun Xiaowu immediately said to Fu Mingyu, “Then you must remember our address, don’t get it wrong, okay?”
The principle of “not speaking while eating” didn’t exist in the Yun family at all. Of course, the dining table was meant for lively conversation and chatting together.
This atmosphere made Old Master Fu relax a lot.
He looked at his grandson.
Although his grandson’s face was expressionless and he looked like a cold little one, Old Master Fu could feel that he was happy. His eyes were brighter than before.
Thinking about his own home, no wonder this child always wanted to come here.
It was their Fu family’s fault towards this child and his mother.
Fu Mingyu’s puppy had also been brought over, and was now yelping under the table.
Yun Jiao went home and got a chipped earthenware bowl, added pumpkin chunks, some coarse grain, seafood broth, and two pieces of smoked meat and some fish meat, all mixed into a paste and placed under the table.
The puppy immediately ran over and began to eat with muffled sounds, its whole little head almost buried in the bowl. Its tail wagged so happily, it truly wasn’t picky and was very easy to take care of.
Fu Mingyu would also occasionally secretly drop some food into the puppy’s small, worn bowl under the table.
The puppy ate until its belly was round and it stopped yelping, lying obediently by Yun Jiao’s feet.
Because Yun Jiao often visited them, the puppy was most familiar with Yun Jiao.
When Fu Mingyu finished eating and wanted to put down his bowl, he suddenly remembered what Yun Jiao had said before about eating more giving more strength. He hesitated and then ate another half bowl.
He then successfully made himself stuffed.
He had never been so full before.
After finishing the meal, Fu Mingyu was truly ready to leave now.
Yun Jiao handed him two pearls, smaller ones. She was still reluctant to give away the bigger ones; they were for selling.
“Here, to compensate for your bad luck.”
If he wouldn’t let her pay for the photo developing, then she’d give him two small pearls.
“Lucky pearls.”
Fu Mingyu’s hand, which was about to refuse, stopped abruptly.
He looked at Yun Jiao with his dark, deep eyes. How could he refuse when you were like this?
“Okay, thank you.”
Yun Jiao gave him a brilliant smile.
Holding the lucky pearls, their car was also filled with specialties from the enthusiastic Granny Yun and Grandpa Yun: some fresh, live oysters, dried fish and shrimp, and even two pieces of cured wild boar meat.
The puppy Fu Mingyu was holding seemed to realize it was about to leave the place where it was born, and yelped pitifully while being held.
But no matter how pitiful, it had to leave.
They watched the car drive away from the village, waving goodbye.
Who knew when they would see each other again.
Fu Mingyu’s departure didn’t have much impact on the Yun family. At most, they would sigh and think about how pitiful Fu Mingyu was when they remembered him.
Especially after Yun Jiao and Yun Linhe told them about Fu Mingyu’s terribly unlucky streak while fishing.
The rest of the Yun family found it unbelievable. No, could someone really be that unlucky?
Yun Linhe said, “Why would I lie to you? Forget fishing. Just about the oysters, when a few of us open them, we’d find some pearls from them, but that little guy Fu Mingyu didn’t find a single pearl.”
“What? What pearls?!”
As soon as he said that, the rest of the Yun family froze, their eyes widening.
Yun Linhe scratched his head, “Jiaojiao, didn’t you tell the family?”
Yun Jiao blinked, “No. Did you, Dad, not tell them?”
Yun Linhai: …Why is it coming back to me again.
“No.”
The others anxiously asked, “Stop pushing it back and forth. What pearls? There are pearls in these oysters?!”
Yun Jiao took out all her pearls and placed them on the table for them to see.
“These, opened from the oysters.”
Yun Linhe chuckled, “I have mine too.”
Yun Linhai also took his out.
Now, the whole family gathered around and examined the pearls closely.
Yun Chennan couldn’t see very clearly; he was nearsighted, so he had to get close to see things and always squinted.
Yun Jiao said, “Third Brother, you should still get glasses.”
Yun Linhai glanced at him and nodded, “Jiaojiao is right. You can’t keep going on like this.”
Yun Chennan stubbornly said, “I can still see clearly.”
How much would a pair of glasses cost? At least a hundred yuan.
Granny Yun patted him, “Get them. Before, we didn’t have money, so we couldn’t afford them. Now that the family has some money, you need to get good glasses so you can see more clearly when the teacher lectures.”
Yun Chennan opened his mouth, finding it a bit hard to refuse.
He really couldn’t see what was on the blackboard clearly anymore.
However, Yun Chennan was intelligent; even if he couldn’t see clearly, he could still continue learning just by listening.
“I didn’t expect there to be pearls in oysters. Are these pearls going to be sold?”
Yun Jiao nodded, “Yes!”
The luster of the oyster pearls wasn’t very good, and they weren’t large either. Yun Jiao preferred larger, better-colored pearls.
So she didn’t plan to keep these pearls.
“Mom, Auntie, and Grandma, if you like them, keep some.”
