"But you should turn them down tactfully."
Zhuge Yun curled his lip. "Come up with some nice excuses, some reasons."
"Make the other person feel like it's no big deal to be turned down."
"Wouldn't that be better?"
"You're asking a lot of two kids that young."
Zhao Luzheng smiled wryly.
Even adults couldn't always come up with good excuses and reasons to turn someone down.
Let alone two kids this young.
"Then they don't have to turn them down."
Zhuge Yun grew serious. "Wouldn't it be nice if all the kids could play happily together?"
"And get along well."
"And help each other out when something happens."
"...If they keep acting like this...then when they run into trouble in the future..."
"Maybe people won't be willing to help them."
"Even that kid hesitated this time, and said outright that he hated Lailai and Little Peach."
"Luckily, that kid had a kind heart."
"Lailai and Little Peach looked so miserable that he couldn't bring himself to be cruel."
"So he helped them anyway."
"But what if Lailai and Little Peach had run into a more hard-hearted kid today?"
"They would've seen them and turned around."
"They wouldn't have helped at all."
"They really wouldn't have had anywhere to turn, even if they cried."
"You reap what you sow."
Zhao Luzheng couldn't help nodding.
That was true.
It was quite possible.
If they weren't kind to others or getting along with them, yet still expected people to step up in a crisis...
That was just wishful thinking.
Not everyone was a selfless do-gooder.
Before asking others to do something, they should look at what they themselves had done...
Zhao Luzheng understood.
"This really could be a lesson for them."
"Just don't know if those two kids will