"Of course, if there are any special circumstances, abnormal exam performance can be discussed separately."
"But Zhang Xin’s grades have always been like that, she’s worked hard, but her exam scores have always been just mediocre."
"Mom, can I go play soccer with my classmates tomorrow and not come back for dinner?" At dinner time, Gu Yijing pleaded with a pleasing look on his face.
"Play soccer?" Lin Xiaoguai raised an eyebrow, "Are you sure it’s not fighting?"
"Definitely not, definitely not." Gu Yijing assured her, "If you don’t believe me, ask Little Sun. He knows, it’s with people from other schools."
Lin Xiaoguai looked at Han Yiheng, who nodded and said, "That’s right."
"Then where do you plan to eat?" Lin Xiaoguai asked Little Spring Breeze.
"Just randomly pick a restaurant to deal with a meal, it’s not like I’m broke," Gu Yijing said nonchalantly.
"Mom, I also want to go," Shen Yiqiao spoke up.
"What are you going for?" Gu Yijing said unhappily.
"I just want to go!" Shen Yiqiao huffed.
Lin Xiaoguai knew she liked to join in the fun and considering that she’d been at home learning to make handicraft soaps with her for several days, she said, "If you want to go, then go."
"Mom, you’re the best!" Shen Yiqiao happily kissed Lin Xiaoguai and then looked at Gu Yijing with a challenging gaze.
Gu Yijing pursed his lips; if this girl went, could he still go to the game arcade or the skating rink?
"If Qiaoqiao is going, then I might as well go too," Han Yiheng said from the side.
He knew where his brother usually hung out and was concerned he might bring his sister along, so he planned to go and keep an eye on things.
Seeing that three of the quadruplets were going, Lin Xiaoguai looked at her eldest daughter, "Sisi?"
"... Then I’ll go too," Shen Yisi sighed.
Lin Xiaoguai smiled and said, "Let Mrs. Zhang prepare some fruit bento boxes for you."
She wasn’t overly concerned about this; though the quadruplets were young, they had a broad circle of friends, and it wasn’t unusual for them to not come home for meals during the holidays due to visiting friends or being out.
However, she hadn’t expected that an incident would occur this time.
Upon receiving a call from the police station, Lin Xiaoguai immediately drove over.
The police station was chaotic; a large group of kids made the already spacious area crowded, and what was shocking was the disarray of these kids.
Lin Xiaoguai’s attention was immediately drawn to the quadruplets with bruised noses and swollen faces, with Qiaoqiao wiping away tears and crying out in pain.
"Officer, what happened here?" Lin Xiaoguai asked a nearby policeman who was watching the kids.
Pan Xiaolan looked both amused and distressed and said, "It started off with kids from two schools playing soccer, and after the game, the losing side wasn’t satisfied, leading to a quarrel that escalated into a fight. Then one side brought some older kids, and that’s when things got out of hand."
To think this was only her second day of internship and on her first day she encountered such a... bizarre case?
"Got out of hand?" Lin Xiaoguai didn’t understand.
"Two of the kids were quite seriously injured."
Lin Xiaoguai was startled and subconsciously looked at the quadruplets; Pan Xiaolan quickly said, "The few kids who were seriously injured have been taken to the hospital."
Lin Xiaoguai first breathed a sigh of relief and then asked, "What kind of injuries?"
"One has a broken rib, and the other two, one has a cracked head, the other a fractured arm." After a pause, Pan Xiaolan asked, "I almost forgot to ask, which child’s parent are you?"
"I am Shen Yisi, Shen Yiqiao, Han Yiheng, and Gu Yijing’s mother," Lin Xiaoguai replied.
Pan Xiaolan paused and gave her a strange look.
"They are quadruplets," Lin Xiaoguai thought she found the surname differences odd, something she’d encountered before.
"It’s not that..." Pan Xiaolan’s expression twisted slightly before saying, "I meant to say, the three injured kids were beaten by the quadruplets."
"And furthermore, those three children are junior high students."
"What!?" Lin Xiaoguai exclaimed in shock, "...Are you sure all four of them were involved?"
Lin Xiaoguai immediately looked at the quadruplets.
The quadruplets had been paying attention to the conversation between their mother and the police officer, and seeing her look their way, Gu Yijing quickly defended, "Mom, they were speaking dirty words and trying to bully my sister, so I didn’t hold back."
Han Yiheng nodded, "They’re shameless. They lost the game but wouldn’t admit it and even brought some junior high students. Those junior high students saw that Sisi and Qiaoqiao were pretty and reached out to touch their faces, nearly scaring Qiaoqiao to tears. Little Spring Breeze and I stopped them. They suggested a rematch, saying that if we lost, we would have to let them touch Sisi and Qiaoqiao, they even said... they said they wanted to strip them naked to touch."
"What did you say?" Lin Xiaoguai’s face immediately turned cold.
Pan Xiaolan was also stunned, "Why didn’t you guys say this earlier?"
Gu Yijing lifted his chin, "Without mom and dad here, who knew if you would believe our words?"
"Officer, what is your department’s stance on this?" Lin Xiaoguai asked Pan Xiaolan with a cold voice.
"Uh..." Pan Xiaolan was at a loss, "I will, I will go ask my superiors."
After saying that, she didn’t bother to keep an eye on the kids any longer and went to find someone.
"What’s the matter? Are those kids still not talking?" Xu Jinfa was somewhat irritated.
Frankly, this was his first experience with this kind of situation, and it was vacation time. Normally, schools would handle these matters; why would they need the police?
"They talked, they talked. After the mother of the quadruplets arrived, they opened up," Pan Xiaolan whispered to him, repeating everything Han Yiheng had told her.
"You don’t say?" After listening, Xu Jinfa widened his eyes, "I remember those three hospitalized kids are only fourteen or fifteen years old, do they really have such dirty minds?"
"It sounds quite likely to me." Whether it’s fair or not, the world judges by appearances, and the good looks of the quadruplets earned them quite a bit of credibility from Pan Xiaolan. (To be continued. If you work, welcome to Qidian to vote for recommendation tickets and monthly tickets. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users please go to m.qidian.com to read.)