Chapter 196: Not Stolen, Picked Up

It turned out that after Lu Xiaoxue and Xia Qingcao had a conflict, she refused to apologize and threatened not to go out for dinner, trying to threaten them. She

originally thought that Lu Baichuan and the others would come to comfort her, but she didn't expect that they didn't buy her tricks at all and left without saying anything.

Lu Xiaoxue was very angry in the room, throwing things and cursing to vent for a while, and she was really bored so she listened to the radio at home.

But as time passed, her stomach gradually became hungry. Usually she was the most greedy, so how could she bear the hunger? Later, she walked out of the house without any backbone, ready to go to the hotel to find her father and the others.

As soon as Lu Xiaoxue walked to the entrance of the yard, she ran into Mai Ergou, the youngest son of the Mai family. Lu Xiaoxue didn't want to go alone, so she asked him to go to the restaurant with her.

Mai Ergou always followed the lead of Lu Xiaoxue, the little bully, so he didn't refuse to go out with her.

The two walked to the entrance of an alley and suddenly saw a group of children playing marbles there. The beads were crystal clear, with colorful strings in the middle, which was very beautiful.

The two children were immediately attracted and stood there watching. After watching for a long time, Lu Xiaoxue's stomach started to growl again, so she pulled Mai Ergou to leave.

At this time, a little boy who was playing with marbles found that two of his marbles were missing. He also found that Lu Xiaoxue was about to go out with her hands in her pockets. He reacted immediately and grabbed her and shouted:

"Lu Xiaoxue, did you steal my marbles?"

"You are talking nonsense, I didn't. Which eye of yours saw me stealing?" Although Lu Xiaoxue was a little nervous, she did not show her fear. She shouted loudly, trying to scare the other party away with her momentum.

"Then do you dare to let me check your purse?" The little boy did not buy her trick and pointed at the purse in her hand.

"You said to check it, so what? Who do you think you are?" When Lu Xiaoxue heard that he wanted to check it, she became more nervous. She covered her purse tightly and was about to get rid of the little boy's hand and go out.

Seeing her like this, the little boy became more suspicious that she had stolen his marbles. He pulled her clothes and refused to let go, saying firmly:

"It must be you who stole it. If you didn't steal it, why would you be afraid of my checking?"

At this time, the other children also echoed:

"Yes, she kept her hands in her purse, and you can tell at a glance that she has something."

"She stole money at home last time. She is a thief. It must be her who stole it."

"Yes, yes, yes, she must have a habit of stealing. She wants to steal everything she sees."

"The money is mine. I can take it if I want. What do you have to do with it?" Lu Xiaoxue argued plausibly, then shook off the little boy's hand and ran out.

However, she was chubby and couldn't run fast at all. Soon, she was caught up by the little boys. They didn't show any mercy to her. The little boy who lost his marbles reached into her pocket and started to feel around.

Lu Xiaoxue was not willing to "surrender". She kept struggling and accidentally hit the little boy in the face with her raised hand.

The little boy immediately got angry and punched Lu Xiaoxue twice. The strong-willed Lu Xiaoxue was naturally angry and reached out to grab him. After a while, the two of them wrestled into a ball.

When the little boy's friends saw the little boy being beaten, they immediately came up to help. When Mai Ergou, who came with Lu Xiaoxue, saw the fight, he was afraid that they would implicate him and beat him up, so he ran away without hesitation.

The kids outside were not used to this big girl. Lu Xiaoxue was beaten and screamed. She didn't know who pushed her. After she fell, she had no chance to get up. She could only cover her head and yell "Help".

At this time, Xia Qingcao, who was passing by with a cart, heard a familiar voice. She stopped the cart curiously and turned around to see Lu Xiaoxue, who had "bullied" her today, being beaten by a group of kids.

Although Xia Qingcao had a grudge against Lu Xiaoxue, his sense of justice prevented him from standing idly by. Moreover, she was his sister's sister-in-law. If he didn't help her, she would go back to her father to complain, and her father might even vent his anger on his sister.

Xia Qingcao didn't hesitate any more, he rushed over, pushed the crowd aside, stood in front of Lu Xiaoxue, and yelled at the boys who beat her:

"Why did you beat her?"

The boys were angry, and when they saw someone coming to help Lu Xiaoxue, they didn't show any courtesy and beat them together.

Xia Qingcao originally came to persuade them to stop

fighting, but he didn't expect these kids to be so unethical and just start fighting. He couldn't just stand there and get beaten, so he had to start fighting back.

Although he was thin, he often did farm work, so his body was stronger than the city kids, and it was hard to tell who was the winner, but there were more people over there, and soon, Xia Qingcao was at a disadvantage.

Knowing that this would not work, in order to seize the initiative, Xia Qingcao seized the opportunity and threw the leading child to the ground, pinning him down tightly under her body. No matter how the children beside her pushed and shoved him, he remained motionless.

Soon the child was suffocated by the pressure. After struggling for a while, he saw that Xia Qingcao was ready to fight him to the death, so he became scared and admitted defeat and said,

"Let me go. I won't fight you anymore. I won't fight you anymore."

The children beside him were also frightened by Xia Qingcao's desperate look and dared not act rashly.

Lu Xiaoxue, who had just been beaten and screamed, now looked at the "brave" Xia Qingcao with a look of surprise and admiration in her eyes.

Xia Qingcao let go of the little boy, who got up from the ground with a lingering fear and turned around to run with his friends.

"Stop." Xia Qingcao didn't care about the pain in her body, she called out to them and asked:

"Why did you hit her?"

"She stole our things." The little boy was a little scared, but he still stopped and said.

"What is it?" Xia Qingcao asked.

"Here." The little boy took out a few marbles from his trouser pocket and said, "This is it."

Xia Qingcao turned to look at Lu Xiaoxue and asked, "Did you take their things? If you did, give them back."

Lu Xiaoxue wanted to deny it out of habit, but when she saw Xia Qingcao looking at her seriously, she didn't know what happened for a moment, and she couldn't tell a lie anymore. She took out two marbles from her pocket and handed them over.

Xia Qingcao took the marbles from Lu Xiaoxue and passed them to the child beside her, not forgetting to save Lu Xiaoxue's face:

"She picked them up, she didn't steal them."