They had actually said something so outrageous.
Right in front of the person, they had talked about the person's mom and dad...
The children's mom took a deep breath.
Was there some kind of hidden story behind this?
Why would they...
say something like that to someone?
But no matter what the hidden story was, what they had said... was truly far too much.
Wasn't that like cursing someone's parents?
Who talked like that?
They might have thought they were letting off steam.
But to everyone else, they just seemed utterly vicious.
And that made people feel disgusted with them.
The children looked at one another.
The adults' reactions made them uneasy.
But...
Guo Younin pressed his lips together. "...We didn't say anything wrong."
"Yu Lele's parents are dead."
"Yeah."
"Exactly."
The other two children nodded one after another. "We were just stating a fact."
Huh?
The children's parents froze.
They looked at the teacher and Yu Lele's grandma.
Was what the children were saying true?
If it was...
then what the children had done was still wrong, but it was far less serious.
They were still very young.
They didn't know what was taboo or what it meant to reopen someone's wounds...
Their thinking was simple.
They thought they had only stated a fact.
At last, the children's parents understood what had started the fight.
They gave wry smiles.
Even though they were their own children, they couldn't help feeling...
that the children deserved to be beaten.
It was pitiful for a child so young to lose his parents.
A child without parents was like a blade of grass.
Children without parents were often more sensitive and prone to irritability and anger than other children...
"You're lying!"
Yu Lele's voice sounded as if it