And so the two of them put that little interlude behind them and went fishing by the river.
Yes, fishing by the river.
The reason was that Ye Xunzhi had suddenly remarked that she had never fished at night before.
Ye Chuyan had promptly gotten her a fishing rod, and the two set off for the river.
His approach to raising a child was all about going with the flow.
"Brother, I've never fished before." Ye Xunzhi copied Ye Chuyan as she baited her hook. "What do I do?"
"It's easy. Just do what I do and cast the hook out hard." Ye Chuyan demonstrated once.
"Okay, cast the hook out." Ye Xunzhi sank her breath into her lower abdomen, raised the fishing rod high over her head, and swung it hard.
The transparent fishing line traced an elegant arc through the air.
"AAAAAAAH!!!"
A piercing scream rang out, then slapped into the water with Ye Xunzhi's swing.
Ye Chuyan said, "What the hell was that noise? Reel it in!"
Ye Xunzhi hurriedly reeled in her hook. A soaking-wet white bird glared fiercely at the two of them.
"I'm done for, Brother. Isn't this an egret? A nationally protected class-two animal! I really am going to end up eating prison food!" Ye Xunzhi hurriedly pinned down the wildly flapping egret.
"Little sister, you really do have something supernatural about you. Other people catch the navy, but you catch the air force."
Ye Chuyan hurriedly removed the hook caught on the bird, getting pecked on the hand many times in the process.
"Would you please get your facts straight? I wasn't the one who hooked you out of the sky. Turn around."
The egret turned to look at Ye Xunzhi, who was gently stroking its feathers with a look of fascination,