Ye Yaodong held the fish by its head with one hand and pressed down on its tail with the other. Watching its mouth open and close, he cheerfully held it out in front of Ye Xiaoxi.
"Fish~ Fish~"
Ye Xiaoxi stared wide-eyed in excitement and kept calling out, even reaching out a curious index finger to poke into the fish's mouth.
Ye Yaodong quickly moved the fish away and gave her an exasperated look. "You can't do that. It'll bite your finger."
She giggled, then eagerly hurried to fetch the bucket beside her.
There was no trace of that pitiful, aggrieved little face from earlier.
After tossing the fish into the bucket, he patted her head. "Lucky you. I'll have your mother steam it for you tonight. Eating sea fish makes you smart. There's no hope for your eldest brother or second brother, so we're counting on you to go to university and bring glory to the ancestors."
Ye Xiaoxi ignored what he was saying. Instead, she ran over to pick up the spatula and squatted down to dig in the sand again, even shoveling some into the bucket.
Ye Yaodong reacted too late. Looking at the sand in the bucket, he felt utterly helpless. She was too little to be any help at all. This useless teammate only made things worse.
"All right, you dig in the sand here by yourself. I'll look around these rocks and see if I can scrape together another bowlful. Otherwise, we'll only have dried seafood tonight, nothing fresh."
Ye Xiaoxi paid him no mind. She rarely got to play on the beach, and all she wanted was to have a good time digging in the sand.
The tide was quite far from where they were, so Ye Yaodong wasn't worried about her running