However, the familiar voice made Xiao Xiao stop in his tracks.
He looked in through the gap between the crowd of onlookers.
Then, he saw a familiar face.
Zhou Mingbao.
Grandpa Zhou had brought Zhou Mingbao to Xiao's Teahouse several times, so Xiao Xiao knew it.
What's more, the parents of both parties also introduced the two children to each other.
However, Zhou Mingbao at this time was different from what he remembered.
When we met several times, Zhou Mingbao always smiled happily and looked bright.
The adults around also like to play with Zhou Mingbao.
But now, Zhou Mingbao was crying in his eyes.
…
Zhou Mingbao wiped his face carelessly with both hands. Perhaps the force was too strong, leaving red marks one after another on the child's delicate skin.
"No...I don't know..."
"He made me do it."
He pointed to another child.
…
Including Zhou Mingbao, there were five children in the field.
From the conversations with the adults around him, Xiao Xiao probably knew what happened.
This is a stationery store.
The children Zhou Mingbao were discovered by the store owner stealing items from the store.
Now the shop owner is watching several children and won't let them leave.
He has already taken back the stolen stationery, and is now asking several children for their parents' contact information, and wants to tell their parents about the children's theft.
…
Naturally, the children were not happy.
When it comes to what children are most afraid of, it’s natural to ask their parents.
After the shopkeeper said this, the children panicked.
Then, Zhou Mingbao burst into tears and pointed out the "culprit".
…
"I have no idea……"
"I'm sorry...uncle..."
Zhou Mingbao wrinkled his little face, cried pitifully, and looked confused and innocent.
"No...not me!"
The accused child's eyes widened with a look of shock on his face, "Obviously it was you who asked us to come...you said you found it interesting...and said we competed to see who could get the most expensive thing..."
"It's obviously you..."
"Wow~"
Zhou Mingbao just cried and did not refute the child's words.
Perhaps due to infection, the other three children also cried.
…
The store manager rubbed his forehead with a headache.
He also wants to do business and doesn't have time to spend time with several children.
"alright."
He pointed at Zhou Mingbao's children and said, "You guys go back and inform this child's parents."
He took the arm of the child pointed at by Zhou Mingbao just now and said, "Ask him to come pick him up."
"Wow~"
The kid who was pulled also cried loudly and struggled desperately, "It's not me!"
"Let me go! Let me go..."
…
"Dad, forget it."
At this time, a woman walked into the man and said, "Anyway, there is no loss in the store."
"I don't think these children will dare to do this again next time."
"Let them all leave."
…
"...that's fine."
The store manager loosened his hand on the child's arm and said, "You all can go."
"Don't do something like this again next time, do you understand?"
"Otherwise, not only will the parents be invited next time, but my uncle will also call the police."
The store manager scared some children.
Seeing several children nodding nervously, the store manager waved his hand with satisfaction, "Okay, let's go home."
"It's getting late."
…
Several children ran away immediately as if they had received amnesty.
The schoolbag hit my back, making a "bang bang bang" sound.
Seeing this, the onlookers dispersed and left.
Xiao Xiao continued to walk home.
Unexpectedly, he met Zhou Mingbao again.
Those children were standing under the tree, and the atmosphere... didn't seem very good?
Xiao Xiao couldn't help but slow down.
...
"Why do you say I asked you to steal things in the store?"
The little boy wearing a peaked cap stared at Zhou Mingbao with an angry look on his face, "It's obviously you who asked us to go!"
"Is it me?"
Zhou Mingbao looked confused, "Didn't everyone come up with it together?"
"Then why are you talking about me?"
When the little boy asked this question, Xiao Xiao couldn't help but shook his head slightly.
This idiot.
It's so easy to be led astray.
...
"ah?"
Zhou Mingbao looked at the other children hesitantly.
A chubby little boy immediately shouted, "Hey, what do you mean?"
"It's obviously your fault, don't blame it on us!"
"that is!"
"You said you wanted to go!"
The remaining two little boys immediately spoke out to prove their innocence.
...
"you......"
The little boy wearing a peaked cap jumped up and down in anger, "It's not me!"
"then-"
"alright."
Zhou Mingbao interrupted the little boy in the peaked hat and said, "Anyway, nothing happened in the end."
"Let's forget about it."
"Let's not find out whose fault it is."
...
"......Um."
The chubby little boy and the other two boys looked at each other, and then nodded.
Children are forgetful.
The situation was critical just now and they were very scared.
If parents are really called...
Thinking of the dark faces of the parents who came over at that time, their whole bodies could not help but tremble.
Now that they have left the scene and run around again, their mood has almost recovered.
...
However, the little boy wearing a peaked cap could not accept Zhou Mingbao's words so simply.
If it hadn't been for that aunt just now, his parents would have been called over.
Moreover, he will be the only unlucky person whose parents are called.
At that time, the uncle was holding his arm, and he struggled desperately, but to no avail. He had never been so scared at any time.
Especially among his friends, one slandered him, while the rest were indifferent to his pleas for help.
He suddenly thought of an idiom he had seen in a book -
Isolated.
...
"...That's nice to say."
The little boy wearing a peaked cap had an ugly face and fierce eyes, "Zhou Mingbao, you are obviously the culprit!"
He shouted loudly, "And you, why didn't you tell the truth then?!"
...
Several other children were frightened by the outburst of the little boy in the cap.
Unable to react for a moment, he looked at the little boy in the peaked hat with a frightened expression.
...
"I hate you!"
"I will never play with you again!"
The little boy in the peaked cap turned and left.
...
The remaining children looked at each other.
Their faces don't look very good.
"...Really, why is it so bad?"
The chubby little boy muttered in a low voice, "It's nothing."
"Yeah, I hope everyone is fine."
"Why are you so fussy?"
"mean."
Several children began to complain about the boy in the peaked hat who left.
"never mind."
Zhou Mingbao smiled and said, "If he doesn't play with us, he won't play with us."
"We don't miss him either."
"Um."
"There are so many of us."
"He is the one who is alone."
The children quickly put aside their awkward emotions and smiled again on their faces.