Lin Xiuqing shot Ye Yaodong a reproachful glare too. "I told you to watch the children and keep them away from the shore and out of the water. Instead, you deliberately took them to play on the beach, and now they're soaked."
"Huh? You're wronging me here. I did everything you told me to. I didn't bring our two boys out. The ones I brought aren't ours, so it's fine!"
"Uh..."
Lin Xiuqing paused, then looked at the backs of the children running home in the distance. It really did seem that her boys weren't among them.
Were those two actually being so good? Everyone else had run out, but they alone had stayed home?
Why did she find that so hard to believe?
"What are they doing at home? How could they stand staying in? Did the sun rise in the west?"
Ye Yaodong gave her a mischievous grin and handed over Ye Xiaoxi, who kept leaning forward in his arms. "You'll know when you get home and see."
With that, he bunched up the mouth of the large burlap sack on the ground, then turned around and hoisted it onto his shoulder.
This heavy?!
Luckily, he'd been getting exercise for almost two years. Otherwise, his wife would have put him to shame.
He also picked up three of the buckets on his left with one hand, leaving the other two for A Qing.
Puzzled, Lin Xiuqing followed him home, carrying the child in one arm and the buckets in her other hand.
Their family really did have more buckets than anyone else. Some had been handed out with washbasins as village subsidies, while others had been snatched from other people aboard boats...
Ye Eldest Sister-in-Law and Ye Second Sister-in-Law had already shouldered their sacks and gone ahead, chasing