Chapter 32: Sea Turtle As A Pet
The sea turtle quickly stated: ‘Me, hunting.’
Very good, as long as it can solve its own meals.
Yun Jiao said with a smile to her older brothers: “When we go tide pooling every day, let’s bring it along too.”
The sea turtle: That was close, I almost got put back in the sea.
“How is there such a big sea turtle here?”
When the crowd had come earlier, the sea turtle had hidden behind the reef. Now, seeing that Yun Jiao and the others were leaving, it quickly came out.
Some people had not left, and they saw Yun Jiao and the giant sea turtle.
Yun Xiaowu’s chin almost pointed to the sky: “From today onwards, this sea turtle will be our family’s pet!”
“A pet? Where will you keep it? Does this sea turtle listen to you?”
Yun Xiaowu immediately pulled his younger sister out to show off.
“Jiaojiao, do something for them to see.”
Yun Jiao indulged her brother, and walked slowly forward with her short little legs.
The sea turtle propped itself up on the beach with its flippers, and indeed followed her.
The people around were all stunned.
Yun Jiao’s several older brothers held their chins even higher.
“See? This sea turtle really likes my sister, and it’s obedient!”
The people around watched in amazement and asked Yun Jiao to walk a few more steps.
Although the sea turtle moved slowly, it was indeed following behind her.
“This is too magical, this sea turtle actually recognizes people?”
“Does it follow you?”
Yun Xiaowu and the others shook their heads: “No, this sea turtle only follows my sister.”
“Do you know this sea turtle?”
“We cleaned barnacles off its body before.”
“Why is it following your sister?”
Yun Xiaowu said indignantly: “Probably because my sister smells better. Jiaojiao is so good-looking, animals have good taste too.”
Yun Jiao: “Brother, let’s go home.”
Don’t brag anymore, she was hungry.
Yun Xiaowu quickly followed: “This sea turtle crawls a bit slowly, why don’t we carry it and go together?”
Although the sea turtle was large, it was nothing compared to that orca. The brothers could still carry it.
“Grandma, look what we brought back, a giant sea turtle!”
Carrying the sea turtle, they ran back home panting, and quickly put the sea turtle down.
Granny Yun was cooking and was startled when she came out.
“Why did you bring a sea turtle back?”
“Hehe, this sea turtle wanted to follow us itself.”
“It clearly wanted to follow sister.”
Old Madam Yun walked around the sea turtle: “This sea turtle absolutely cannot be eaten.”
At least the people in Bailong Village don’t eat sea turtles.
Sea turtles not only have the legend of the Turtle Prime Minister, but are also considered long-lived species in people’s minds.
Long-lived turtles are spiritual. They hunt and kill fish out of necessity for life and survival, but it has been passed down from generation to generation that they should not kill indiscriminately, nor should they provoke spiritual creatures lightly.
“Grandma, we won’t eat it. Do we have a big basin? We can raise it.”
Old Madam Yun grumbled: “How can you afford to raise it? A sea turtle this big should be returned to the sea.”
Yun Jiao skillfully went to find dried small shrimp, put some in her mouth, and trotted over with her short little legs.
“Grandma, it’s scared.”
Granny Yun was confused, looking at the giant sea turtle that was calmly staying in the room, with a very stable temperament.
What was it afraid of?
Yun Jiao glanced at the giant sea turtle, and with her fair and tender little chubby hands, offered a piece of dried shrimp. The sea turtle unceremoniously took a bite and ate it.
Watching the sea turtle eat, she chattered beside it, “After eating this, you have to bring me a big one.”
Then she said to Old Madam Yun: “It took us to catch an orca, but the orca was sent back home. It’s afraid the orca will beat it up after going back into the sea.”
Yun Xiaowu scratched his head: “Huh? Didn’t it take us to save that orca?”
From the look of that scene at the time, they, who couldn’t understand the sea turtle’s language, saw it as mutual aid among marine animals, and even imagined touching brotherly affection for it.
And the result was…
Yun Jiao’s little hands gestured in circles: “The orca was playful and liked to spin in circles with the sea turtle.”
Yun Xiaowu and the others: …Alright, understood.
“That’s not right, how do you know?”
Yun Jiao stopped talking and stared at them with her innocent big eyes.
She looked so pitiful that no one asked further.
Yun Jiao happily smiled. Her slightly chubby, snow-white little face was soft and round, and her big, round eyes curved into clear little crescent moons. She looked incredibly soft no matter how you looked at her.
I want to hug her.
Yun Xiaowu couldn’t control himself at all and squeezed his incredibly cute younger sister’s cheek.
So well-behaved!
Yun Jiao immediately retracted her smile and twisted her face away to dodge.
But on the other side was Yun Liuliu.
He also reached out and slowly poked the plump little baby fat on Yun Jiao’s cheek.
He poked a small dimple.
“I want to squeeze too. Sister, why is your face so soft?”
The other brothers also crowded around.
Yun Jiao covered her face and ran away quickly.
I don’t want to. Once my brothers start pinching, it takes a long time.
Before she was one year old, when she couldn’t resist at all, her brothers loved to touch her little face, her chubby hands, and her plump feet.
Her face was so petted that she couldn’t even control her saliva.
Not anymore.
Granny Yun called out with a smile: “Don’t run too far, I made stewed snail meat today.”
Yun Jiao smelled it and turned her little feet, running towards Granny Yun.
“Grandma~”
Her soft and sweet voice was as sweet as could be.
Granny Yun couldn’t stand it and picked Yun Jiao up.
“Come, our Jiaojiao, go try one first to check the cooking.”
Yun Jiao happily wagged her short little legs.
“Let me down, Jiaojiao can walk herself.”
Old Madam Yun was old after all, and she was quite heavy now. Holding someone for a long time was tiring.
After being put down, she followed Old Madam Yun’s heels like a tail.
Old Madam Yun took the boiled snails out in a basin.
“These are the smaller ones picked from the sack of snails you found, eat them.”
Saying this, she put a small sea snail into Yun Jiao’s hand.
She also placed a small dish of dipping sauce in front of her.
This dipping sauce was made by Old Madam Yun herself. Anything they cooked could be dipped in this sauce.
It made the already delicious seafood taste even richer.
Yun Jiao really liked the dipping sauce that Grandma made.
“Brother, have a bite.”
Yun Xiaowu and the others didn’t eat: “If we eat this little bit of meat, you’ll have none left. Eat it yourself, and we can eat it during our meal too.”
The Yun brothers were not jealous at all that Yun Jiao got to eat the delicious food first.
The elders in the family were a bit biased towards Yun Jiao, but they had also enjoyed the elders’ favoritism when they were young. They had all come this way, after all, family resources were limited, and elders could only favor and care for the younger ones a bit more.
Moreover, Yun Jiao, in turn, was very good to her older brothers.
After Yun Linhai and the others returned, and after delivering the food for the workers to the new house that was being built, the family sat down to eat together.
Yun Linhai took out the money from selling sea snails and large yellow croakers that day and handed it to Old Madam Yun.
