"Quit howling. I haven't done anything to you." Li Yichen rolled his eyes at him. "All right, go back and pack up. You're coming back to Jinling with us today."
"Do we have to rush? Anyway, where's Jinling? Is it far?" Xiaobei stopped howling at once and said glumly, "I wanted to say a proper goodbye to my friends."
"Not that far. Only a little over four thousand kilometers. We'll fly to Urumqi today, stay the night, then fly to Jinling first thing tomorrow," Li Yichen said irritably. "Besides, are you really that close to your friends?"
"Pretty close, I guess. We became friends through fighting." Xiaobei thought for a moment. "We get into a fight about once every three days on average. Now that I'm suddenly leaving, I'm going to miss them a bit."
Vroom, vroom, vroom... Just then, the roar of motorcycles rang out. More than a dozen bikes charged toward them, kicking up clouds of dust.
"Dad, he's the one who beat me up." The motorcycles soon stopped in front of Li Yichen and the others, and more than twenty people climbed off. Five or six children ran out from among them and angrily pointed at Xiaobei.
"You did this?" Li Yichen asked in disbelief. All five or six children had bandages wrapped around their heads, and their faces were covered in bruises.
"Yeah." Xiaobei nodded sheepishly. "I asked them for that piece of blue-and-white seed jade, but they wouldn't give it to me, so I started fighting."
"Did you have to hit them that hard?" Li Yichen was speechless. "You beat their kids up like this. Of course their parents were going to come after you."
"I'll just give it back, then," Xiaobei said glumly.
Li Yichen rolled his eyes. "Giving it back isn't going to