Xiaomin is a 10﹣year﹣old girl . She lives in Guangdong with her family. Her father has a fish stall（货摊） . Xiaomin usually helps her father at the fish stall on weekends.
One day, Mr. Feng comes to the stall to buy a fish. He sees Xiaomin's father give the fish to Xiaomin. Xiaomin begins to wash it. At first, he thinks the little girl is just playing with it. But then he sees the little girl take out a knife（刀） to gut（取出的内脏） the fish. She is very good at it. When she guts the fish, her father keeps an eye on her all the time.
Xiaomin's father tells Mr. Feng that Xiaomin is a good girl. She learns to gut fish from him. She often helps the family do many things. At home, Xiaomin helps her mother cook dinner, do the dishes and clean the house. Her two young brothers learn a lot from her They begin to help the family, too.
Hearing these words, Mr. Feng thinks the little girl is great and he likes her very much. " She helps her family do something she can. She is really cool! " he says.
