Lin Qingping and Gu Juncheng

Chapter 348 Stand Until Your Father Gu Returns

Upon hearing this, Yun Xiaoshan shrank back, his smugness instantly vanishing. He turned around, but the courtyard gate blocked his view. However, his father's voice came from outside, "Yun Xiaoshan, I heard your voice from far away. Are you inside?"

When her son didn't come home after school, Liu Yan didn't know where to look for him. She asked the teacher, but couldn't get any answers. The teacher only said that he had gone to the next class several times during breaks. She asked the teacher of the next class, but the teacher hadn't seen any other children either. However, she found out something unusual: Du Xiaomai, a student in this class, was missing.

Yun Yan immediately understood.

Isn't Du Xiaomai Zhiyuan's sister?

So he made his way to Zhiyuan's house, but the lights were off. Then he could faintly hear his son's voice.

"Yun Xiaoshan!" Yun Yan called out again.

Yun Xiaoshan shrank his neck and waved his hand at Lin Qingping, meaning to keep quiet and not to say that he was there.

Lin Qingping glanced at him, squatted down and spoke to him, "Yun Xiaoshan, you can't lie to your parents."

Yun Xiaoshan lowered her head, looking dejected. "But my dad will scold me."

"Yun Xiaoshan, didn't you say you were in charge of your family?" a child suddenly shouted.

Yun Xiaoshan turned around and glared angrily at the child.

Lin Qingping's gaze swept over the group of children before turning to Yun Xiaoshan and saying, "Yun Xiaoshan, I'm going to open the door now. Thank you for helping Xiaomai today, but you're still young. Although Dad will criticize you, think about it, doesn't Dad love you more than anything else?"

Yun Xiaoshan thought for a moment and nodded.

“Yes, so how worried must your parents be when you disappeared?” Lin Qingping took his hand and walked to the door. “Come back with Dad, Yun Xiaoshan.”

Lin Qingping opened the door, and Yun Yan stood at the door, looking at his son whose face was covered in red and gray patches.

"I'm sorry to have worried you." Lin Qingping handed Yun Xiaoshan over to Yun Yan.

Looking at his son, Yun Yan could already picture it in his mind: just how badly had he damaged someone else's house to leave so much "evidence" on his face?

Yun Yan felt ashamed and quickly said, "I'm the one who should apologize. I'm sorry for causing you trouble."

“Uncle Yun.” Zhiyuan suddenly came out.

"Hello, Zhiyuan." Yun Yan had always had a good impression of Zhiyuan. Just by looking at how this kid led a group of children to practice boxing, you could tell he had excellent leadership skills!

Zhiyuan glanced at Yun Xiaoshan. Although his relationship with Yun Xiaoshan had been awkward for a long time, neither good nor bad, it seemed that Yun Xiaoshan was involved in everything that his friends did. It was really strange!

Today's events, no matter what, are all for Xiaomai. As Xiaomai's older brother, he must take responsibility for this.

"Uncle Yun, could you please not criticize Yun Xiaoshan today? He was trying to help me. If you have to criticize someone, criticize me instead!" Zhiyuan said sincerely.

Yun Yan listened with great interest, "Oh? How did you help me?"

Yun Xiaoshan got anxious and yelled at Zhiyuan, "Why should I ask you to take the blame for me? Humph, a real man takes responsibility for his own actions!"

Yun Yan found it quite amusing to see his son acting like a "man".

Yun Xiaoshan pushed him away, saying, "Come on, let's go home. I'll go home with you, okay?"

Yun Yan went along with it, letting his son push him out, and said goodbye to Lin Qingping as he backed away.

On the way home, Yun Xiaoshan told him the whole story. "Dad, you don't know how wicked Du Xiaomai's grandparents are. They call her a bad woman. Du Xiaomai is such a good person, how can she be a bad woman?"

"Isn't Du Xiaomai Zhiyuan's sister? What happened to her?" Yun Yan asked, amused.

"What does it have to do with Du Xiaomai being nice and Zhiyuan disliking her? Aunt Lin is Zhiyuan's mother, and she's wonderful. She makes delicious snacks and has a beautiful smile." Yun Xiaoshan had her own logic.

Yun Yan couldn't help but find it even funnier. Yun Xiaoshan continued, "Hmph, we came to avenge Du Xiaomai, but who knew that Du Xiaomai's grandparents would call us wild children and tell us to get lost? We said this is Du Xiaomai's home, and if they left, they wouldn't be able to curse Du Xiaomai anymore, right? But they said this is their home, it's for their grandson. Dad, this is clearly Du Xiaomai's home! They're so bad that they even want to steal Du Xiaomai's home! So we decided to drive the bad guys out and help Du Xiaomai protect her home."

"Oh? Aren't you afraid? You're just kids, what if you can't beat the adults?" Yun Yan patiently analyzed the situation with him.

Yun Xiaoshan was a little smug. "Hehe, I told them my dad is really powerful, he's some kind of official, so they wouldn't dare hit me! Later, Xiaoyuanlian and the others copied me and said the same thing, and those two bad guys were terrified!"

Yun Yan's expression then turned serious.

After a while, I talked to Yun Xiaoshan about the pros and cons. I first praised him for his loyalty in helping his classmate, and then I raised two points: first, in similar matters, one should discuss with an adult and not act on one's own; second, the trend of "my dad does this or that" is not advisable, etc.

Yun Xiaoshan listened attentively and nodded, "Dad, so you won't scold me or hit me?"

"No, this won't happen again."

Yun Xiaoshan tilted his head and asked again, "Was it because Li Zhiyuan pleaded for me?"

Yun Yan thought for a moment, "Partly, yes, and partly, you realized your mistake yourself."

Yun Xiaoshan snorted, but his eyes were shining brightly.

After Yun Xiaoshan and his father left, a bunch of little kids were still standing at Gu Youlian's house.

Lin Qingping thought, no, she still had to send these children back one by one, "Xiao Yuan..."

She had barely spoken when a deep voice came from behind her, "What's going on? What are you all doing standing here?"

Upon hearing this, Zhiyuan quickly turned his head and exclaimed in shock, "Dad Gu..."

Upon hearing this, Gu Juncheng keenly sensed something amiss. "Did you do something bad?"

"No! I didn't!" Zhiyuan quickly retorted.

Lin Qingping took a look and thought, "Goodness, this is exactly the kind of man I need. Now that the people have arrived, let's use them for now!"

She entrusted all the children to Gu Juncheng, asking him to take them home, making sure they got home safely, and also reminding them not to forget to apologize to their families.

Gu Juncheng was completely bewildered. If he wanted to apologize, there had to be a reason! Or had Zhiyuan really caused trouble?

His gaze then drifted towards Zhiyuan, who hid behind Lin Qingping.

Seeing that Lin Qingping was urging him to leave quickly, he had no choice but to take the children and leave first, hoping to find out the truth along the way.

After everyone left, Lin Qingping found two more locks, locked Gu Youlian's house door, and then locked the courtyard gate as well. She took the key with her and then returned home with Zhiyuan.

After entering the house, Lin Qingping pointed to the ground.

Zhiyuan understood immediately; he knew it was punishment—he had to stand in a circle, just like his mother used to stand in a circle.

"Stand here until your father comes back!" Lin Qingping felt exhausted and needed to take a shower to recover.