Chapter 187: Another Flame Pearl
Yun Jiao returned home, and the incident with Yun Laidai made her mood a little bad.
But seeing her older brothers at the doorway, she became happy again.
She didn’t care what others thought; she had a family who loved her.
“Fifth Brother, Sixth Brother, Seventh Brother, Eighth Brother, Ninth Brother.”
Calling them one by one, Yun Jiao was picked up by them, her head rubbed, her cheeks pinched, and she was even given snacks that she herself had been reluctant to eat.
After sitting aside and watching them play marbles and picture cards for a while, Yun Jiao rested her chin on her hands, staring blankly at two rabbits fighting.
She felt that her family’s rabbits had been getting more and more ill-tempered lately.
They fought each other, pulling out each other’s fur, which flew everywhere.
Yun Jiao reached out to pull a rabbit’s tail, and the tail, which looked round like a fur ball, was pulled very long.
This tail was retractable.
Seeing the two rabbits still fighting, Yun Jiao puffed out her cheeks, wondering if she should find a doctor to check on them.
“Jiaojiao, let’s hang this snail up.”
Yun Xiao Jiu, tired from playing, went back for a drink and saw the conch shell that had been kept in a bucket.
He immediately picked up the conch shell, which was bigger than his face, and went to find his sister.
“Okay!”
Yun Jiao let go of the rabbits’ ears, stood up, clapped her hands, and went with Ninth Brother to hang the conch shell.
For snails, if their openings are hung facing the ground, it won’t be long before their meat will squirm and fall out of the shell.
After hanging the conch shell, Yun Jiao and several older brothers squatted aside, staring blankly.
Of course, only she was staring blankly; the older brothers could entertain themselves with anything they did.
“Jiaojiao, look.”
Yun Xiao Ba brought a notebook to her.
After the notebook was opened, it revealed a drawing inside.
Although it was childish, Yun Jiao could still tell that the drawing was of herself.
And she was riding a big fish.
I have to say, this painting captured some of her features, or rather, exaggerated some of them.
For example, Yun Jiao had a mole just below the corner of her eye, which was slightly reddish.
In the painting, the mole was enlarged and more prominent.
And her bangs, big eyes.
The big fish was shaped like a whale shark.
Yun Xiao Ba also used large areas of blue to render the shape of the ocean, with the blue connecting to a blank space, like an endless sea and sky.
Yun Jiao blinked her eyes: “Did my brother draw this?”
Yun Xiao Ba nodded, with an expression seeking praise on his face.
Yun Jiao naturally praised him generously: “Brother, you are amazing, it looks so realistic.”
Yun Xiao Ba was indeed extremely happy.
However, Yun Jiao wasn’t lying. Yun Xiao Ba had learned to draw on his own; no one had taught him, yet he could match colors very well, with no sense of incongruity. His memory was also very good; the color of the clothes Yun Jiao wore that day was even depicted.
Having received praise, Yun Xiao Ba handed the drawing to Yun Jiao.
“Jiaojiao, this is for you.”
Yun Jiao happily accepted it.
“Thank you, Eighth Brother, you are so kind.”
The young girl was soft, her words sweet, and Yun Xiao Ba, spirited, picked up his pencil and watercolor pens and started drawing again on the stool.
Having obtained the watercolor pens he longed for, Yun Xiao Ba seemed to have endless energy, wanting to draw everything.
The house, the puppy, the sea turtle, the rabbits, the trees, people…
Although the drawings were not yet perfect, the color combinations were very pleasing to the eye, with a kind of lively and healing beauty.
Yun Jiao really liked the drawing her Eighth Brother gave her and ran back to her room to carefully put it in the cabinet.
“It’s falling, it’s falling.”
Not long after coming out of the room, the conch meat had already fallen into the basin placed below.
Several little heads gathered together, looking for treasures.
One minute later…
“Got it!”
Yun Jiao was lucky and found it.
An oval-shaped, beautiful orange-red bead.
The children’s eyes widened.
“Wow!”
Yun Xiao Wu cautiously looked around. Seeing that the house door was closed, he excitedly clenched his fist.
“There really is one, hahaha… our family is so lucky.”
Among the conch shells they found this year, two actually had flame pearls.
They had found several conch shells before, of various sizes, but none had yielded pearls.
For this conch shell, Yun Linhai and the others didn’t hold much hope.
Flame pearls were rare; obtaining one was already extremely lucky.
They never expected that this conch shell would also contain one!
“It’s not as big as the previous one.”
“Nor is it as round.”
But it didn’t matter; this bead could definitely be sold for a lot of money!
The children were so happy they danced with joy, and Yun Xiao Jiu even hugged the conch shell and kissed it fiercely.
Hehehe…
Yun Jiao: …She felt that Ninth Brother was a bit silly with happiness.
The adults were not at home, and having a flame pearl was equivalent to having a thousand yuan. The children stopped playing outside and gathered around the table, looking at the orange-red bead placed on a porcelain plate with a large peony print.
This porcelain plate was found by them in the cupboard, and they thought it was the prettiest one.
When the people who went out to work returned, they found the house quiet.
Not good… they haven’t caused trouble or destroyed the house.
Without even cleaning the mud off their feet, Yun Linhai and the others started calling out.
“Here, here, we are inside the house.”
Their voices sounded sneaky no matter how you heard them.
Yun Linhai and Yun Linhe frowned, what were they up to?
They walked into the room, and the children all looked at them with bright, sparkling eyes, constantly pointing at the porcelain plate in the middle of the table.
It was so obvious that the adults’ gazes followed, and their eyes widened.
“Hiss…”
“I…” He quickly stopped himself, almost letting out a curse word.
“Really?”
Were they seeing things?
They closed their eyes and opened them again. Good, the item in the middle of the table hadn’t disappeared.
“Oh my heavens!”
The excited Wang Mei kept slapping Yun Linhe beside her.
Yun Linhe gritted his teeth, his surprised expression replaced by one of slight distortion.
This showed how hard Wang Mei was hitting him.
However, she didn’t notice it herself, her attention completely focused on the pearl in the porcelain plate, only thinking that the streak of orange-red was extremely beautiful.
A few minutes later…
The adults, having calmed their emotions, also sat down around the table, their eyes staring at the bead and smiling foolishly.
Hehehe… We’re rich.
Old Master Yun rubbed his hands.
“It’s almost New Year, and we unexpectedly got such great luck.”
It was already November, and the temperature in the southern coastal areas was not that cold.
However, everyone had put on thicker clothes.
In another month or two, it would be New Year.
Their family had gotten another flame pearl at this critical juncture.
It made them think that the coming year would be better and better.
For a moment, everyone’s faces were beaming with smiles.
“In a while, you guys take this bead to sell, and our family will have a good New Year.”
Yun Xiao Wu eagerly asked, “Are we buying a pig? I want to see the family slaughter the New Year pig.”
Their family didn’t raise pigs, but some people in the village did, and it was always very lively when the New Year pig was slaughtered every year.
