Chapter 185: Be Prepared
“What are you two doing?!”
Upon returning from tide pooling, Yun Linhai let out an angry roar upon discovering two people acting suspiciously around their home.
Those two people were already feeling guilty, and upon hearing the voice, they bolted like mice seeing a cat.
In the blink of an eye, their figures disappeared.
Yun Linhai and the others quickly returned home to check and breathed a sigh of relief when they found that nothing was missing.
“Those two people seem to be Yun Tian and Yun Feng.”
Yun Linhe recognized the two, his eyes showing disgust.
Knowing what kind of conduct those two had, they were both married and even had children at home, yet they drank, gambled, didn’t work, and even resorted to hitting their wives and children when they got drunk.
Therefore, many people in the village looked down on those two.
Yun Jiao tilted her head, “I saw them yesterday.”
She even carefully thought about the contrast between the two people she saw yesterday and today, and then nodded with certainty.
“What? They came yesterday too? Then what were they sneaking around for today? Just by looking at them, you know they’re up to no good.”
“Jiaojiao, tell me in detail what happened yesterday.”
Yun Linhe had a bad feeling, sensing that those two guys seemed to have targeted their family.
Their family hadn’t shown off any wealth.
Yun Jiao thought for a moment and carefully recounted Yun Tian’s attempt to buy Turtle Xiao Er.
Yun Linhe slapped his thigh immediately, “Damn! Those two grandsons must have their eyes on Turtle Xiao Er. Yun Tian must have realized Turtle Xiao Er is a Hawksbill Turtle.”
The shell of a Hawksbill Turtle is very valuable. Now it’s clear that Yun Tian and Yun Feng intended to steal Turtle Xiao Er and sell it.
Yun Linhe scolded, “They don’t do any proper work. I don’t know where they found out about Hawksbill Turtles looking like this. Those two kids will definitely come back.”
Old Master Yun took a puff of his dried tobacco and frowned, “We need to be vigilant.”
Yun Xiaowu and the others were quite impulsive, clamoring to go beat up those two and warn them not to have any ulterior motives.
“They haven’t done anything yet. If you go beat them up, won’t they turn the tables on us?”
Yun Jiao held Turtle Xiao Er, staring into its pair of doudou eyes.
Then she piously touched its smooth little head.
Poor thing, it’s so small, why does everyone want its little life?
Its fate is truly full of hardship.
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Finally, they discussed it and decided to ask Big Black to come guard their home for a while.
Although they had to guard against thieves, it wasn’t as if they had to be on guard all day; there were still things to do.
First, clean the sand crabs and cook.
Everyone had their own duties, and even Yun Jiao was not idle.
Two puppies and a turtle circled around her feet. She sat on a small stool with her three older brothers, Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth, cleaning the insides of the washed sand crabs.
Yun Jiao would occasionally throw a small sand crab to the puppies at her feet.
“Cat Leader, do you want some crab?”
Cat Leader was licking its fur with its hind leg raised. Upon hearing Yun Jiao call its name, its ears twitched, and it looked over, then disinterestedly continued licking its fur.
Clearly, it was not interested in the crab, which had little meat and was covered in a shell.
Moreover, it had already eaten its fill of fish and shrimp caught by itself at the seaside.
“Jiaojiao, what’s inside this?”
Yun Linhai discovered the stones in the bag Yun Jiao had brought back while cleaning his tools.
Yun Jiao looked up and reacted a little slowly with an “ah.”
“They are strange stones.”
Yun Jiao clapped her hands and then ran over.
The two puppies followed like tails.
Only the unlucky Turtle Turtle crawled very slowly. It had originally been on Yun Jiao’s instep, but with her sudden movement, it was flipped onto its back, and it was now struggling to flip itself over by waving its four limbs.
Yun Xiaojiu and the others watched and laughed uncontrollably.
After watching enough, they manually helped out and turned over the grievance-filled Turtle Xiao Er.
“Does Father know what kind of stones these are?”
Yun Jiao took out the strange stones and poked them, asking.
Yun Linhai scratched his head. His daughter’s question had indeed touched his knowledge blind spot.
“I don’t know, just a strange stone, I guess.”
He had never seen them before, and they were stones that carried their own ‘fragrance.’
Yun Jiao said “oh” and was not disappointed.
Her eyes sparkled as she thought that the box for her found strange objects was almost full. She wanted her Fourth Brother to make her a beautiful wooden shelf to put in her room and display all these things on it; it would look good.
Yun Jiao hugged the stones and went to her room to put them away.
When the sand crabs were almost cleaned, lunch was also ready.
Among today’s dishes were sand crabs, which were crunchy when eaten.
Some were stir-fried with other vegetables. The addition of sand crabs gave the dishes a unique seafood aroma.
After eating their fill, Yun Jiao rubbed her slightly full little belly and let out a satisfied burp.
She couldn’t just lie around; she needed to go for a stroll to aid digestion.
With that thought, Yun Jiao got up, and with the puppies, kitten, little rabbit, and little turtle, she followed her Fourth Brother to Old Mu’s house.
They would also call Big Black to come guard their home for a few days.
Yun Chenbei carried a big bowl full of rice and dishes. As he walked, he occasionally glanced at the string of furry animals behind his sister.
Although it wasn’t the first time, he found them good-looking and cute every time he saw them.
Especially when walking with his sister, the furry animals plus the beautiful young girl, like a porcelain doll, were a great treat for the eyes.
Especially for someone like him who couldn’t distinguish faces.
Looking at them more made Yun Chenbei feel much better.
“Master.”
Yun Chenbei pushed open the door and handed the food in his hand to the old man who was smoking dried tobacco.
Yun Jiao peeked her head in to look.
“Grandpa Mu.”
Old Man Mu looked at Yun Jiao and the string of animals behind her, and his mood brightened.
“Find a stool and sit yourself down.”
Yun Jiao didn’t stand on ceremony. After finding a stool and sitting down, she took the leaves she had picked along the way and fed them to the two rabbits, one black and one white.
The two clean rabbits stood up slightly, as if sitting, their front paws resting obediently, their ears drooping to the back of their heads, and their lips moving as they obediently ate the leaves.
“So well-behaved.”
Yun Jiao loved feeding these fluffy, cute little creatures.
She touched their soft fur; it felt great.
Satisfied!
The rabbits, puppies, and kitten were cute and well-behaved pets to her. Little did they know, the way she sat on the small stool feeding the animals was also a small, soft, cute bundle.
At least in this courtyard, Old Mu and Yun Chenbei’s gazes often fell on her.
Yun Chenbei’s fingers curled slightly.
He wanted to take a photo as a memento.
He didn’t have a camera.
What a regret.
After feeding the little rabbits, Yun Jiao nestled next to her Fourth Brother and squatted down, her beautiful big eyes staring at him without blinking.
Yun Chenbei: ???
“What’s wrong, Jiaojiao?”
He patted her head.
So well-behaved.
Such a well-behaved sister belonged to their family; no one else had her.
Happy.
Yun Jiao said, “Fourth Brother, can you make Jiaojiao a wooden shelf, a nice-looking one, to put Jiaojiao’s collection on?”
Yes, although her things were all found, they were still her collection.
