His little girl was so tiny, yet she already seemed quite a handful. She was barely bigger than a speck and could already curse at people. Wouldn't she end up the ringleader of all the village children?
But he only had his own clumsiness to blame, so he had to accept his fate and coax her.
The child had plenty of backbone, though. She clung to Lin Xiuqing and refused to let go. Only when the Old Lady coaxed her, saying she would take her to see the chicks, ducklings, and goslings, did she agree to get down.
"What a little terror!"
"Why don't you mention how much it hurt when you dropped her?" Lin Xiuqing snapped, then sent him off to work. "Go dig up a piece of ginger from the field for me. We're out."
"Oh."
Once Father Ye brought the seafood back from the pier, he started helping clean the fish and had no time to fiddle with his camera.
Of course, he still hadn't seen his mother return.
Even when he and his friends started eating, there was still no sign of her.
She was probably floating on air from all the villagers' compliments. Who needed a meal when all those nice words were enough to fill her up?
After three rounds of drinks with Mother Ye still absent, Father Ye sent Ye Chenghu out to find her. The two boys had already finished their meal and left the table to play.
Quite a while later, Ye Chenghu finally ran back. "Grandma's at the shop. She told me to come back first. She'll be here right away."
"Then never mind her."
Who knew that "right away" would mean another half hour before she finally came in, beaming?
"You've started eating already? I'll just stand and have