As soon as Ye Yaodong got home, he hurried to rinse off, then went into the bedroom to give his two children a talking-to.
"Son, you can't swim yet, right? Want to learn?"
"Yes, Dad! A-Hai can swim. I want to learn too!"
Ye Chengyang was bouncing on the bed, shouting, "Me too! Me too!"
"Want to eat shit too? If you bounce so hard you break the bed, see if I don't give you a beating." Ye Yaodong glared at the little fellow, then turned to his older son. "That child nearly drowned just now. Were you scared watching that?"
Ye Chenghu hunched his shoulders, remembering what had happened on the beach. He asked hesitantly, "Dad, if I learn to swim, does that mean I won't drown?"
"Unless you fall into the deep sea and nobody notices, then run out of strength without any driftwood to hold you up. Otherwise, under normal circumstances, you won't drown."
"I'm scared..."
"What's a boy like you scared of? Your dad will teach you. I won't let anything happen to you."
He was also worried that the children would get up to mischief and run down to the sea to teach themselves. Although both children had somehow learned to swim in his previous life, who knew whether things would change? After all, he had saved that child today.
Teaching them himself would put his mind more at ease.
"Yes, let your dad teach you. You're not allowed to run off to the sea with your older cousins and learn on your own."
Lin Xiuqing nodded emphatically beside them. She had been terribly worried on the beach too, afraid that the drowning child was one of hers. Most people along the coast made their living at sea, so they had to know how to