Hearing the ring of a bicycle bell, Little Douzi and the other kids turned to look.
Lin Lan saw their dirty faces and noticed a dark bruise on Dandan's. "What happened? Did you all get into a brawl?"
Little Douzi ran over and tugged on Lin Lan's arm. "Mom, Dandan got into a fight with a classmate, and we helped." He thought for a moment, then added, "We won, we didn't lose!"
Lin Lan and Yao Xiuyun looked at the boys in surprise. "You really got into a brawl?"
Old Li nodded. "The teacher already made the other kid apologize. Their parents paid for the broken item. As for the kids who fought, the school told them to go find their mothers."
Little Hai tugged on Lin Lan's clothes. "Auntie, he broke Dandan's pencil case, too."
The pencil case was a plastic one Li Xiangyang had bought in Yangcheng City. It had a magnetic clasp and a picture of the master and his disciples from *Journey to the West* printed on it. All the kids loved it.
