Chapter 45: Goodbye Orca
When it was almost time for bed at night, Yun Jiao sat on a small stool washing her feet.
Her fair and plump little feet wiggled naughtily in the hot water.
“Daddy, Jiao Jiao wants to go tomorrow too.”
Yun Lin Hai had a headache: “Daddy and Uncle will go and come back quickly, won’t Jiao Jiao sleep more?”
Yun Jiao pouted: “Okay then.”
If she couldn’t go to the island, she would take the sea turtle to the seaside to play.
The next day, when the younger ones at home woke up, Yun Lin Hai and Yun Lin He had already left a while ago.
They were only unhappy for a moment. Yun Jiao sat on the small stool in front of Mom and obediently had her hair done, then immediately called her older brothers to go tide pooling.
“Brothers, help me carry the turtle.”
The brothers excitedly carried the sea turtle and rushed out.
Shen Yun Lian and Wang Mei chased after them.
“You guys run slower!”
Yun Jiao came to the seaside today purely to play.
Seeing the sea turtle dive into the sea, she also ran around in the water.
“Brother, I want a fishing rod.”
The fishing rod that Daddy promised to make for her still hadn’t appeared.
“That’s simple, I’ll go find a bamboo pole and make it for you when I get back.”
Several people were gathering sea sunflower seeds.
Under the watchful eyes of the adults, Yun Jiao and Yun Xiao Jiu, the two younger ones, didn’t have to work, but Yun Xiao Wu and the others couldn’t keep playing.
Sea sunflower seeds are very small and their shape is very similar to sunflower seeds.
One can imagine how little meat there is in this thing.
But even a mosquito’s leg is meat, and today Shen Yun Lian and Wang Mei’s task for them was to gather a basin of sea sunflower seeds.
The meat that could be obtained from a basin of sea sunflower seeds might only be a bowl.
“This thing is too much effort, when will we finish gathering it?”
There were quite a few sea sunflower seeds here, but picking out the bigger ones little by little was really tedious.
Yun Jiao was also helping, occasionally digging out a clam and throwing it into the basin.
“Jiao Jiao, tell us what else is on that island?”
Yun Xiao Wu really wanted to go to sea.
Yun Jiao shook her head: “Just what Daddy and the others said, and a large patch of kelp, but it was high tide yesterday when we were catching shrimp, so I didn’t have time to check it out.”
“There must be a lot of good things there.”
“Next time I must find a way to go to the island.”
Yun Jiao encouraged him: “Then brother, you try your best to persuade Daddy and Uncle.”
Suddenly, the sea turtle’s panicked voice echoed intermittently in Yun Jiao’s mind.
‘Help… glug glug… Jiao Jiao… save me… ah… so dizzy…’
Yun Jiao stood up and looked towards the sea surface.
“What’s wrong?”
Seeing her actions, her older brothers also looked over.
But the sea was calm, with nothing there.
Yun Jiao walked towards the sea.
“Jiao Jiao, where are you going?”
“The turtle is in danger.”
“Ah? How do you know? Where is it?”
Just then, a black triangular fin emerged from the sea surface.
Yun Xiao Wu and the others exclaimed.
“That… that wouldn’t be the legendary great shark, would it?”
Only the triangular dorsal fin was exposed; the shark’s body was not visible. Yun Xiao Wu’s first thought was a shark.
Yun Jiao shook her head: “No.”
The familiar sea turtle was pushed up, shot out of the sea surface, and spun several times in the air.
Accompanied by its screams in Yun Jiao’s mind, it then fell back into the sea.
At this moment, a familiar large black and white head emerged from the sea.
“So it’s an orca, but why is the orca here?!”
“Jiao Jiao, where are you going?!”
Yun Jiao was going into the sea, of course.
Seeing her dive into the sea, Yun Xiao Wu and the others quickly followed.
Shen Yun Lian and Wang Mei were greatly alarmed.
“Jiao Jiao, Xiao Wu, come back quickly!”
In the seawater, Yun Jiao was as at ease as if she had returned home, like a nimble and beautiful little fish.
She swam to the side of the sea turtle and the orca, then slapped the orca’s large head.
This orca was the one they were familiar with, the one that had been stranded on the beach before.
‘Woooo…’
After being slapped, the orca shook its head and cheerfully started playing with Yun Jiao, rubbing against her.
The sea turtle had become a dizzy turtle. It finally recovered and quickly swam towards the shore, its four flippers moving like blurs.
Those hateful fellows still hadn’t left!
“Jiao Jiao!”
Yun Xiao Wu and the others were still looking for Yun Jiao.
At this time, Yun Jiao, riding on the orca’s back, broke the surface of the sea.
“Brothers, I’m here.”
Yun Xiao Wu and the others swam on the surface and saw Yun Jiao on the orca’s back. They were first relieved, and then shocked.
“No, sister, what are you riding on?!”
“You, you, you…”
The orca, carrying Yun Jiao, circled in place, and its joyful mood could be felt from its sounds.
Yun Jiao held onto its dorsal fin and slapped it lightly.
“Be quiet!”
Her soft and sweet voice carried an inexplicable aura of authority.
The orca obediently quieted down, looking aggrieved, but its tail still wagged like a puppy’s.
“Jiao Jiao, Xiao Wu, Xiao Liu…”
Shen Yun Lian and Wang Mei were very anxious and followed them into the sea.
Standing where they could see the children, they were relieved to see that they were all safe.
“Why aren’t you coming back quickly? How can you be so bold!”
Yun Jiao got off the orca and prepared to swim back.
The orca reluctantly bit her clothes.
Its body was enormous, and if it went further, it might get stranded.
Yun Jiao: “I’m going back, I’ll come play with you next time.”
Then, she sternly admonished it: “Don’t bully the turtle.”
The orca threw a tantrum and rolled around on the spot.
‘Bad turtle, hit it, beat it, eat it!’
Not only did it not listen, but it wanted to escalate.
Yun Jiao gave it a small slap.
The orca became obedient, looking at her aggrievedly.
Yun Jiao: “The turtle is under my protection.”
She slightly lifted her chin, a little person with great presence.
“Go back.”
Pushing the orca, Yun Jiao swam towards the shore.
The clingy orca whined and swam along for a bit, with more than half of its body exposed above the sea.
With its physique, Yun Xiao Wu and the others were still very scared.
Those rows of teeth looked truly frightening.
But seeing it circle Yun Jiao like a puppy, they found it novel.
Yun Jiao patted the orca’s head: “You stay here, I’ll go talk to Mom and then come find you to play.”
After saying that, she didn’t care if the orca understood and went ashore with her brothers.
As soon as they reached the shore, Shen Yun Lian picked her up: “You naughty girl, you scared your mother to death!”
Shen Yun Lian was truly frightened and had tears in her eyes.
Yun Jiao guiltily touched her face with heartache.
“Mom, Jiao Jiao is fine.”
Wang Mei rolled up her sleeves and gave the stinky kids a good beating.
“Stinky kids, you know sister is young and ignorant, but you’re not? Why didn’t you hold her back? What if a wave swept you all away? How would we live!”
They couldn’t even imagine what the consequences would be if these few boys and Jiao Jiao were swept into the sea together.
Even though Yun Jiao was usually doted on, she was scolded this time.
Yun Jiao obediently lowered her head and listened to the scolding.
Yun Xiao Wu and the others didn’t dare to retort either.
“Do you know you were wrong?”
Yun Jiao and her brothers nodded like little chicks pecking rice.
