On the contrary, the birthday boy Pei Tang lay depressedly on the table, holding his cheeks and staring at Xu Sishi in a daze.

Shen Mingzhu touched her daughter's head and asked, "If you are unhappy, why did you agree to lend the necklace?"

Pei Tang looked at her in confusion: "Didn't you ask me to lend it to her for a while?"

"I am just discussing this with you. You are the owner of the necklace and have the right to refuse or agree."

Pei Tang pursed his lips, looking depressed.

"Guoguo, you chose to lend the necklace today, which helped others, but you were wronged. So, if you don't want to wrong yourself in the future, you have to learn to say no, do you understand?"

Pei Tang said in a muffled voice: "But if I refuse, will others think I am stingy?"

"Think about it, why don't other kids ask you to borrow a necklace? Don't they like it?"

Pei Tang looked at the friends surrounding Xu Sishi. They were all staring at the necklace with burning eyes. How could they not like it?

"The other friends know that the necklace is your birthday gift and your favorite thing. A gentleman does not take away what others like, so no matter how much they like it, they will not ask for it."

"But some people only care about their own joys and sorrows, regardless of other people's moods and feelings. For such people, you don't have to blindly accommodate and cater to them. We don't owe them anything, so why should we be frustrated and wronged for them, right?"

Pei Tang nodded happily, "Yes! From now on, I won't lend my necklace to anyone who asks me to borrow it!"

Shen Mingzhu stopped talking about this topic and didn't continue.

You can't digest too much when you bite off more than you can chew. As for the principles and truths of how to behave in society, there will be plenty of time to teach you slowly in the future.

She changed the subject to something lighter, "How did you coax Han Xiuxiu today?"

Pei Tang was secretly proud, "She likes my butterfly hairpin very much. I said that as long as she doesn't cry, I will give it to her, and then she stopped crying."

"Yes, you handled this matter very well. You are good at understanding the other party's psychology to solve the problem. However, if a similar situation happens again next time, what will you do? You can't give away your things every time, right?"

Pei Tang said seriously: "Cheating is wrong. If Xiuxiu doesn't correct herself, I won't play with her anymore."

Shen Mingzhu felt relieved when she heard her daughter's answer.

She doesn't care whether her daughter will be successful or not, but she will never let her daughter be bullied or teased.

Apart from the two minor incidents caused by Han Xiuxiu and Xu Sishi, the birthday party was generally a success.

In addition to birthday wishes, Pei Tang also received a bunch of small birthday gifts.

There are greeting cards, piggy banks, sketchbooks, pencil cases and so on.

Pei Tang also prepared return gifts in advance to thank her friends for coming from afar to attend her birthday party.

The return gift was a handmade painting she made herself, framed in a seven-inch frame, with her own handwritten blessing words on the back.

As the birthday party was coming to an end, Pei Tang handed out handmade paintings to each of his friends.

When she delivered it to Xu Shisi, she stopped and said, "Sisi, can you return the necklace to me?"

Before this inquiry, she had already looked for Xu Sishi three times.

Every time Xu Sishi said she would wear it for a while, but she ended up wearing it for the entire afternoon.

When Pei Tang asked her for the necklace again, Xu Sishi did not feel ashamed. Instead, she covered the necklace tightly with her hands.

The way she protected her food seemed like she treated the necklace as her own and was unwilling to return it.

Pei Tang didn't indulge the other party this time, and directly reached out to ask for it, "Give me back the necklace, this is my birthday gift from my mother!"

"Sishi, return the necklace to its owner quickly. It's time for us to go home," her mother urged.

"I don't!"

Mother Xu tried to take off the necklace, but Xu Sishi turned around and ran away to hide.

Seeing that her daughter refused to return the necklace, Mother Xu had to discuss with Shen Mingzhu and wanted to spend money to buy the necklace.

Shen Mingzhu did not agree or refuse directly. Instead, she took a paper and a pen and listed the production process, materials and costs of the blue crystal necklace one by one.

"Guoguo, come here."

Seeing Pei Ziheng waving at her, Pei Tang curled her lips and ran over.

"Brother, she took my necklace."

There was a tearful tone in his voice, and it was obvious that he had suffered great injustice.

Pei Ziheng glanced at Xu Sishi, who was clutching the blue crystal pendant not far away and was secretly proud of herself. He squatted down with a slightly raised lip corner and gently wiped away her tears with his fingers. His voice was calm and doting: "Crying can't solve the problem. You should get it back the same way you gave it away."

Pei Tang opened his eyes wide, obviously not understanding.

"Use any method you can think of. Don't be afraid, I'm here. Even if you poke a hole in the sky, I can protect you."

Pei Tang lowered his head and thought for a moment, then turned and walked quickly towards Xu Sishi who was not far away.

As if sensing a bad premonition, Xu Sishi turned around and tried to run, but was caught up by Pei Tang after only a few steps.

"Give me back my necklace!"

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"Aunt Mingzhu, Pei Tang and Si Shi are fighting!"

Shen Mingzhu looked up and saw her daughter angrily grabbing Xu Sishi's collar.

"Thinking of poetry!"

Seeing her daughter being bullied, Mother Xu hurried over.

Shen Mingzhu followed closely behind.

Pei Tang acted quickly and successfully got his necklace back before Mother Xu arrived.

Xu Sishi sat on the ground and cried loudly because she "lost" the necklace.

"Pei Tang, why are you bullying my Si Shi?"

Mother Xu pulled her daughter up with concern and yelled at Pei Tang without any hesitation.

Shen Mingzhu went forward and hugged her daughter, then turned to Mother Xu and said, "Your Sishi occupied the necklace and refused to return it, but my Peitang just wanted to take it back. How did that count as bullying Sishi? But your Sishi borrowed something and treated it as her own. This kind of parenting is really eye-opening."

All the parents present stood on Shen Mingzhu's side and condemned the Xu mother and daughter.

Mother Xu was so embarrassed that she still insisted, "It's just a broken chain. Can't I buy it from you? You can just buy another one."

Shen Mingzhu handed over the list in her hand, "This is the craftsmanship and cost of the necklace. Since your Sishi likes it so much, you can just make another one according to the above. There is no need to use my Guoguo's second-hand goods."

Just as Mother Xu was about to reach out her hand, the list was snatched away by another mother.

"Let me see, my Hanhan has been bothering me the whole afternoon, insisting that I buy her one... Wow! It's so expensive!?"

After seeing the final total of the expenses, the parents hurriedly returned the list to Mother Xu.

"Forget it, it costs two hundred dollars, and I can't afford to spend that kind of spare money."

When she learned that the necklace cost two hundred yuan, Mother Xu's face turned red and white.

She has no job and stays at home to take care of the children and her parents-in-law. Her husband works in a state-owned enterprise and earns only about 200 yuan a month. The family of five depends on this 200 yuan for food.

She is almost crazy if she uses this money to buy a chain for her child to play with!

"Oh, mother Sishi really loves her child. I can't bear to wear such an expensive necklace myself."

"What kind of family are we and what kind of family are they?"

The parents' teasing seemed like a joke on the surface, but it was actually a satire on Xu's mother's self-righteousness.

However, the young Xu Sishi did not understand these twists and turns, and really thought that her mother could afford to buy her a blue crystal necklace of the same style, so she immediately begged loudly:

"Mom, I want a necklace, I want a necklace..." (End of this chapter)