Chapter 40: Pigtail (2/2)

Xia Ye picked it up and put it in his hand to play with it, there were five in total.

He gave him a small shell every day, and the little guy would pick the best one for him.

Thinking of the child searching for seashells, Xia Ye couldn't help but smile, It was a little cute.

He put the shells back, and Xia Ye slept peacefully that night.

Not only did he see the same courtyard in his dream, but he also vaguely heard the sound of waves.

Tang Jinyu's small pigtail that he had for the past couple of days, caused a few misunderstandings.

Several children playing on the other side of the beach were watching him. No other children would dare to come close to him because Tang Honjun was always there with him. When Tang Honjun left to get something, all the children ran over.

Xia Ye was watching from afar, and when he saw the other children coming over, he started walking towards his brother. Before he could get any closer, he saw one of the children arguing with another child. The taller boy pushed the other boy and yelled: ”You are not allowed to speak, let him speak for himself!”

The boy who was pushed was not afraid: ”Well, you are not allowed to speak either, let him talk!”

A group of children surrounded Tang Jinyu and looked at him seriously.

Tang Jinyu stood with a small bucket in his hand, and blinked slowly and said, ”I'm a boy.”

The group of children were immediately disappointed, only the little boy who was pushed straightened his chest and said, ”I'll just say it! What's with the pigtail? My cousin is a singer, and he wears a ponytail, and I told him yesterday that boys don’t do that!”

Although Tang Jinyu wasn’t a girl, the tallest little boy still stretched out his hand to try to grab Tang Jinyu to play with them, but before he could touch him, Tang Jinyu was lifted up by the collar.

”Don't touch him.”

The child looked up and immediately smiled when he saw that it was Xia Ye, ”Brother!”

The tall little boy was about six years old, and he stubbornly said: ”Brother, we want to play with him!”

Xia Ye glanced at him, and his gaze fell on his hand and paused for a moment. The little boy blushed immediately, he was about to pull Tang Jinyu with his hands dirty, and the boy quickly put his hands behind his back.

Tang Jinyu was younger than the group of children in front of him, not only is he the youngest but he was also the shortest. Xia Ye didn't trust him to stay here and carried him back with him.

Elder Tang was sitting on a recliner on the shore and resting. He saw two grandsons coming back from the beach from a long distance. Xia Ye walked fast, it seemed strange that his grandson was keeping up with him. While Grandpa Tang was wondering this, he knew why once they got close enough. He saw that Xia Ye was pulling on his grandson, who was kicking his short legs around!

”… I told you that uncle is not here, do you want to change your shoes or do you want to keep playing in the sand?”

”Keep playing in the sand~”

”You didn’t seem worried when you were playing on the sand just now, but why do you suddenly like being so clean all of the sudden?”

”I was worried.”

The two brothers said this as they walked, Tang Jinyu kicked his feet around, looking down at the new shoes on his feet, with a worried look. These were the new shoes his brother bought for him. When he put them on, he realized that they were filled with sand.

Xia Ye misunderstood him, when the child was uncomfortable with sand in his shoes, he took off his shoes and shook off the sand inside, and when he wanted to put his brother's shoes on for him, he saw the child shrinking his feet and saying: ”Dirty, dirty…”

Xia Ye carried him in his arms, ”As long as you like to be clean, others don't know how to be clean as you.” He said this as he lifted the child's little feet and blew the sand clean before putting on his shoes.

Xia Ye didn't know he was able to do this type of action so naturally. He had seen Tang Hongjun do it countless times before, this was the first time he did this, and he did it decently.

Tang Jinyu was not worried that his shoes would still have sand in them, he only felt that his feet were too dirty, and he was afraid of dirtying his shoes.

When his brother blew it, the child's toes curled up, and could not help feeling surprised. Xia Ye put on his small shoes for him, and scratched the bottom of his feet a few more times. After the child begged his brother for mercy, he was let go.

Tang Hongjun returned with a pair of new shoes, and Tang Jinyu changed his shoes himself, and put away the pair of shoes that Xia Ye gave him.

Tang Hongjun took a second look at the shoes, thinking that he could buy two more pairs of this model in the future, it was rare for his baby to like something!

In the evening, Teacher Xia came.

After Teacher Xia was done with work, he was able to come in advance. When he went to the beach to find Xia Ye and Tang Jinyu, the children were tired from playing and couldn’t sleep on the sun loungers under the umbrellas–the children wanted to sleep, but every time the little head slumped, Xia Ye would poked the little guy in the face to prevent him from sleeping.

Teacher Xia went over and said, ”Let him sleep for a while, and he won’t be so tired anymore.”

Xia Ye said: ”My aunt asked me to watch make sure he doesn’t sleep or else he wouldn’t be able to sleep well at night, and be tired the next day.” After Xia Ye finished speaking, the child started to doze off again, as if he could sleep even when sitting, Xia Ye pinched his small face, but the little guy was too sleepy, even when he was forced to wake up he would still have a good temper, and would still smile at Xia Ye.

When Teacher Xia thought of asking him whether the little guy was ‘Angry”, he stopped himself, and shook his head and laughed, “Too good to coax.”

The child who was woken up saw Teacher Xia and opened his mouth to say:”Uncle Happy New Year~”

Tang Jinyu remembered what his parents taught him, it was not the end of the New Year until the fifth day, and it still counted as a New Year's greeting. In the Children's Palace, he would call him teacher along with the other children in the Xiaoluhao Band, and called Teacher Xia uncle privately according to customs, just like Xia Ye called his father Uncle Tang.

Teacher Xia laughed and said to him, ”Happy New Year, Xiaoyu.” He squeezed the child's earlobe, the flesh was puffy, and the earlobe felt very soft and thick.

The child looked up at him with a blank face.

Teacher Xia smiled and said, ”Your thick earlobes are a sign of a good blessing, uncle is blessed with our Xiaoyu's luck.”