Chapter 74: I Must Have Been A Fish In My Previous Life
Shen Yunlian and the others found Yun Jiao’s reaction strange too.
But it’s better that it doesn’t hurt.
“Oh Jiaojiao, that sea turtle of yours ran away when you went out to sea the day you left. We waited for a long time but it didn’t come back.”
Afraid Yun Jiao would be sad, Yun Linhe quickly said, “We’ll go look for it again tomorrow.”
Yun Jiao shook her head: “It’s okay, if it ran away, it ran away.”
The sea turtle probably ran into the sea on its own because she wasn’t home and didn’t want to come back.
Seeing that she wasn’t angry or sad, Yun Linhe breathed a sigh of relief.
Because her foot was injured, she was almost always carried, either by this person or that person.
After finishing lunch, Yun Xiaowu and his brothers eagerly gathered around Granny Yun.
“Granny, we can still eat.”
“Yeah Granny, let’s cut a watermelon. The weather is so hot right now, it’s perfect for eating watermelon.”
“Granny, little sister is injured, she needs to eat well to recover.”
Yun Jiao: …
Can her injured foot be replenished by eating watermelon?
But that didn’t stop her from wanting to eat it too.
Finally, Granny Yun couldn’t stand her grandsons’ pleas and cut a watermelon.
Naturally, she picked the smallest one, but it was enough for the whole family.
Everyone sat in the courtyard, and the little furballs, after getting familiar with the environment, ran back to Yun Jiao.
They nestled by her feet, pecking at the scraps of watermelon she threw down.
After eating their fill, Yun Jiao took a nap.
In the afternoon, during low tide, Shen Yunlian and the others were going tide pooling again.
Yun Jiao: “I want to go, Mom, I want to go.”
“Your foot…”
“Brother will carry me, I won’t run around.”
Yun Xiaowu patted his chest: “Leave little sister to me!”
Yun Liuliu also came closer: “I can protect little sister too.”
“And us too.”
Seeing this scene of brotherly love, Shen Yunlian and Wang Mei were satisfied.
Yun Jiao insisted on going, and since her foot was fine with saline solution, seawater should also be fine.
Thus, favored by her family, Yun Jiao, perched on Fifth Brother’s back, happily went to the tidal flats with laughter.
After the tide receded, unfortunate seafood that hadn’t managed to escape were left on the tidal flats.
Shen Yunlian and the others were busy looking for shellfish, snails, and crabs hidden in the sand, and searching for unfortunate creatures in puddles and reef crevices, so they didn’t pay much attention to Yun Jiao and her group.
“Brother, to the seaside.”
Yun Xiaowu knew she liked to run into the sea, but the seaside was dangerous. Even if she could swim, a sudden wave could easily sweep her away.
“No, you want to go into the sea again. Father and the others said your foot can’t touch seawater.”
Yun Jiao got anxious: “No, no, Father and the others don’t count.”
“I know myself well, going into the sea will heal my foot faster.”
“How is that possible? Is the sea some kind of medicine?”
Yun Jiao: “To me, it is.”
“Brother, brother, brother…”
Although Yun Jiao’s voice was pleasant, being called “brother” like this was a bit unbearable.
“Alright, alright, I’ll take you, but we’ll agree on this first: no going to deep water.”
Yun Jiao’s eyes lit up: “Okay, next time I’ll let Brother ride an orca with me to play in the sea.”
Now it was Yun Xiaowu’s turn to have his eyes light up.
Arriving at the seaside, Yun Jiao had him place her in slightly deeper water.
Then her entire body was immersed in the seawater.
Yun Jiao immediately felt all her pores relax. Her previously sore arms and stinging feet felt comfortable.
She was like a fish, feeling incredibly content the moment she came into contact with the seawater.
“Brother, see, I told you, I feel better when I’m in the sea.”
“I must have been a fish in my previous life, a very, very beautiful fish!”
She was telling the truth.
Yun Xiaowu, seeing her content look in the sea, felt that Jiaojiao might not be wrong.
Yun Jiao continued to dive into the seawater.
The sky was already getting a bit dark, but even in the deeper seabed, it wouldn’t affect her vision.
Since she was already here.
Yun Jiao swam at a height of less than half a meter from the seabed, her dark hair spreading out like seaweed mist, her skin appearing even whiter, like a little elf of the sea.
She saw a small bulging on the seabed and poked at it with her hand, finding a large cat’s eye snail.
Got it.
Found a small octopus.
Got it.
An orchid crab.
Got it.
“Jiaojiao…”
While Yun Jiao was happily harvesting prey on the seabed, she faintly heard calls from the sea surface.
She glanced at what she was holding, she could barely hold it anymore.
So she swam up with them.
“Jiaojiao, you…” where are you?
Before he could finish calling out, a familiar head emerged not far in front.
Yun Xiaowu and the others immediately swam over.
Yun Jiao: “Brother, hurry, I can’t hold them anymore!”
Seeing what Yun Jiao was holding, they were all astonished.
No way, in such a short time, she found all these things?
Yun Xiaowu and the others looked at the crabs and octopuses that were obediently still in Yun Jiao’s arms, wondering if they were dead, otherwise they would be so well-behaved?
But soon they discovered that those things moved, they were all alive.
Especially after they took them over, they moved even more vigorously.
“Hiss… Jiaojiao, where did you find these things!”
Yun Jiao: “On the seabed.”
“It’s so dark now, how could you possibly find them at the bottom of the sea.”
They quickly took these things and swam ashore, throwing them into the bucket.
The sky was now almost completely dark.
“Hurry back, Mother will be looking for us.”
They had secretly brought Yun Jiao here.
Yun Xiaowu squatted down and carried Yun Jiao, who was like a little fish, on his back.
Arriving at the tidal flats, they heard Shen Yunlian and Wang Mei calling them.
“We’re here, coming.”
They returned just in time, but still got a scolding.
Yun Xiaowu and his brothers’ ears were twisted red.
“You have such guts! How dare you take Yun Jiao into the sea, don’t you know how dangerous it is!”
They were all wet, so they couldn’t even argue.
In the end, they could only obediently accept the reprimand.
Yun Jiao also stood with her brothers, facing the wall for punishment.
But due to her foot, it was changed to sitting.
Behind them, the adults glared with sticks.
“You stand there properly, and don’t come back until you know you’ve made a mistake.”
Yun Jiao immediately said: “We know we were wrong.”
Yun Xiaowu and the others nodded in agreement: “Yes, yes, yes, Father, Mother, we have profoundly realized our mistakes.”
Yun Linhe’s voice was languid: “But you’ll dare to do it again next time, right?”
Yun Jiao’s little eyes flickered slightly, feeling a bit guilty.
Shen Yunlian: “Go write!”
Since this punishment was ineffective, they decided to make it tougher.
“Just write your names, five pages of homework, I’ll check it when you’re done, and you’ll only be finished when it’s satisfactory.”
Yun Xiaowu: “No! We really know we were wrong!”
But nothing they said mattered.
Finally, the children gathered around a desk, and even Yun Jiao had a thin homework book in her hand.
Holding a pencil that was only as long as her finger, she frowned tightly, and with great difficulty, she managed to scrawl her name crookedly.
