Chapter 40: Pigtail (1/2)

The days on the island were relaxing and peaceful.

It’s easy for people to feel happy during this season.

Tang Jinyu has been very happy for these past few days. He likes the sea very much, and he also likes to eat a lot of seafood until his belly turns round.

Whenever Xia Ye finished working, he would take him to the beach. The elders in the family sat on the shore to enjoy the breeze. There was also a small shop selling green coconuts, and bought a few as they sat and drinked as they watched the sea.

The waves on the beach make a rustling sound, the blue waves surge and roar from far to near, like the dull thunder in the clear sky in summer, mixed with the laughter of people running on the beach. It seems that their sadness has been washed away, leaving only relaxation.

Xia Ye walked on the beach with a small tail behind him.

When he bent over to pick up the shells, the little tail also squatted down to pick up shells with him together, and briskly raised the shells in his hands towards him, ”Brother!”

Xia Ye was just picking sea shells and playing around. When Tang Jinyu gave him his shells, he exchanged the shells in his hand with the kid's. The kid put the shells he gave him in his pocket, and smiled with a childish and contented look on his face, extremely happy.

”Brother, this one is pink, so beautiful!”

Xia Ye didn't even notice, and raised his hand to rub the head of the little guy who was trying to praise him, and asked, ”Do you want to drink some coconut juice?”

”Yes~”

Xia Ye took him back and bought a coconut to drink, and asked the children to pick which coconut they liked best. When it came time to pay, Xia Ye taught him how to pay the money himself.

Tang Jinyu took a look at a handful of money and subconsciously grabbed one one yuan. The boss who sold coconuts just now said two yuan a coconut. He was certain that he heard this clearly, and he just needed one more yuan for him to have two yuans!

Xia Ye moved his hand a bit and didn't give it to him, ”Take the dollar bill of two yuan. Didn't you practice writing down numbers yesterday? This one has ‘2' written on it.”

Tang Jinyu: ”Huh?”

Xia Ye: ”Take the two yuan.”

Tang Jinyu had no idea that there would be two yuan worth of money. When Xia Ye stuffed the two yuan into his hand, he held it and looked at it several times. It was the first time he saw this—this was not Tang Jinyu's fault, but this was the first time that he’s ever seen a two yuan.

Xia Ye couldn't help but cough to suppress his laughter: ”I will give you some pocket money in the future, so you can buy things yourself and get more familiar with it in the future.”

Tang Jinyu gave the money to the owner of the ship and exchanged it for a big coconut, it was too heavy for him to carry, so Xia Ye took it and carried it for him for a while

The child stood on his tiptoes to drink the coconut juice, when Xia Ye looked at him, he had the illusion that he was feeling a small animal, and couldn't help but want to rub his little head.

The child was quickly full, so Xia Ye held it back for him and asked him to drink it more slowly.

Chen Suling beckoned them to come over, and asked if they would like to eat snacks. She brought some from the hotel and placed them in a box, like a picnic. ”The hotel provided us with some bean cakes, as well as glutinous rice and red bean stuffing, come try some!”

Xia Ye was growing up at this age, and he can’t help but eat more, so he sat down and ate some. Tang Jinyu looked around the table and divided a small piece of bean cake, but he just drank coconut juice, and he couldn't eat too much at the moment, so he sat beside Xia Ye, and kicked his feet around while eating his bean cake obediently.

The bean cake was soft, glutinous and sweet, with rice flour in it, which makes the bite soft and delicious.

The child's hair was a bit long, and it often fell over his eyes while he was eating. Xia Ye saw this happened several times and couldn't help but ask for a rubber band from Chen Suling, tie up a handful of his hair, and tie it into a tiny pigtail.

Tang Jinyu raised his head to cooperate, and stopped eating his slice of bean cake.

Xia Ye finished tying his hair for him, and he looked at the final result, he couldn’t help but think that his brother looks very handsome with a small pigtail.

Tang Jinyu still had a few strands of hair on his forehead, he was excited to show off his small pigtail to everyone in his family, his small face was already white and delicate, but his eyes were bigger now, and he looked well behaved.

Chen Suling wiped the sweat off her littles son's forehead, and said with a smile: ”Baby is so handsome, mother couldn’t even recognize you, let your brother tie your hair like this tomorrow!”

Tang Jinyu nodded and ate his piece of bean cake happily, and when he finished eating, he took his mother's hand and asked her in a low voice if he could buy a set of toys to dig with.

Chen Suling nodded and said with a smile: ”Of course you can.”

Not to mention a set of toys, at this moment, no matter what the little guy asks for, the Tang family will buy it for him.

He finally realized his dream of bringing his children to the beach. Tang Hongjun was very happy for the past couple of days, and he led his youngest son to buy a set of toys himself.

There were at least seven or eight kinds of sand digging tools in the package that he got, which are very colorful and cute. Tang Jinyu took a small bucket inside and started making sand castles on the beach. The big designer Tang Hongjun squatted to accompany him, cheerfully pointing out where his son needed more structure.

Grandpa Tang also strolled over to build a sand castle with his little grandson, and build one himself, picking up some sea shells for decorations. The bigger shells were placed on top and used as windows, and the little shells built a road. A small piece of broken coral washed up by the waves was used as a tree in his courtyard.

There were more than one family on the beach. Many people took their children out to travel. They can hear the children’s laughter from far away. Chen Suling sat not far away and looked at her husband and baby, whenever her son’s head turned, she would see his small pigtail flick around was obvious to see. She looked at them for a while and couldn't help but smile.

Xia Ye was watching too, and just by watching them, his mood improved a lot.

Tang Jinyu kept playing with sand-digging toys for several days, and didn’t get bored playing with them.

In addition to his father and grandfather accompanying him to building sand castles, he also picks up one of the best-looking shells and gives it to Xia Ye every day.

Sometimes Xia Ye gave him a shell and sometimes two pieces of candy, which was regarded as an exchange. He put the shells on his side of the bedside of the hotel room, probably because tourists have the habit of bringing some shells away. Not only did they not move the shells when cleaning the hotel, but they also gave him a small transparent box to put them in. When Xia Ye happened to see this box, he was stunned how ordinary small sea shells looked really beautiful under the sun.

The child would pick it up very carefully and wash them everyday cleanly. Each shell was round and beautiful, most of them were pale pink, emitting a faint pearly light under the light.