To make up for the debt owed to Lin Qingping and Gu Juncheng

Zhiyuan looked aggrieved but insisted he had done nothing wrong. "Those two ate my shaved ice without paying and tried to run away. They were bullying us because we're just kids! How could that be..."

"Wait a minute!" Gu Juncheng seized on the key words. "What do you mean by eating your shaved ice without paying? Did you sneak out to sell shaved ice?"

Zhiyuan: ...

Chen Lei tugged at his clothes from behind, "You let it slip, Zhiyuan!"

Then let's just tell everything!

Zhiyuan, holding his breath, grumbled, "The problem isn't that we came out to sell shaved ice! It's that those two ate the shaved ice and didn't pay! They even yelled at us! They also took Qingtian's fish! And they didn't pay either!"

"And who is Qingtian?" Gu Juncheng listened, feeling that things were getting more and more complicated.

“Qingtian is a fisherman’s child,” Political Commissar Chen explained from the side. “She often helps her parents sell fish.”

Hearing this, Gu Juncheng had already guessed the general situation. Judging from the bruises on the faces and necks of these young men, they must have beaten someone up, but he didn't know...

Gu Juncheng paused for a moment, then asked, "Did you win or lose?"

"Gu Juncheng!" Lin Qingping pinched him hard from behind, warning him through gritted teeth.

What kind of father acts like this?

If kids get into a fight outside, do you ask them whether they won or lost?

Zhiyuan's eyes lit up when he heard this, "We won!"

He was very proud of himself, puffing out his chest.

A thick layer of gloom settled over Lin Qingping's face.

Zhiyuan had sharp eyes and immediately noticed his mother's expression. He lowered his head, adopting an apologetic posture.

Gu Juncheng continued, "You won and you still look like this?" With a mocking sneer, he pointed at each of their faces. All four of them had bruises, which looked like scratches from fingernails.

“They’re in a worse situation!” Zhiyuan scoffed.

Chen Lei finally dared to interject, "They are adults, and we are children!"

“Yes! One of them even brought a knife!” Wang Yufei chimed in.

"Zhiyuan is the best. He knocked the knife out of that bad guy's hand, then flipped over and gave him a back throw, and the knife fell to the ground." Fang Tuan's son, Fang Yi, was the youngest of the four. When talking about how Zhiyuan knocked the knife away, his eyes lit up with admiration.

"Yeah, and then you picked up the knife!" Wang Yufei was still angry when he talked about it. This kid was too fast. Wasn't he afraid of hurting himself with the knife?

"My dad said that to deal with bad guys, you have to be quick, ruthless, and accurate!"

Fang Tuan had a headache. If Fang Yi went back and told his mother this, he would get scolded again.

Then, the four children began to describe in detail how they subdued the two bad guys, one after the other, like storytellers, their faces beaming with excitement.

The four fathers listened with great interest, unaware that Lin Qingping's face had darkened to the point of a rage.

Finally, Gu Juncheng noticed that Lin Qingping hadn't moved for a while. When he turned around, he saw her calm face.

"Ahem." He coughed, signaling the children to stop talking.

But the four of them were so engrossed in their conversation that they weren't willing to stop. One by one, they started acting out their story right there in the police station.

"Shut up! Anyone who says another word will be locked up in solitary confinement!" Gu Juncheng's eyebrows furrowed, his imposing manner radiating authority.

The four children finally realized that the atmosphere had changed again and immediately fell silent.

"Master Gu." A voice sounded at the door; it was the police station chief.