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Gougou nodded dully.
Nanzhi got up, patted the mud off herself, wiped away her tears, then reached out to Gougou and said, "Gougou, let's go, we're going home."
Hand in hand with his mother, Gougou waved goodbye to Doudou and the others before the mother and son headed home.
"Auntie, will Gougou get a beating?" Shen Miaomiao, noticing that Nanzhi looked quite distressed, asked worryingly.
"Well..." Ms. Liu glanced at the departing figures of Nanzhi and Gougou, also uncertain.
By all accounts, Nanzhi was gentle and probably wouldn't hit Gougou, but seeing how scared she had been, looking as though she had lost her soul, it seemed Gougou wouldn't escape a beating.
"Grandma, I was wrong!" Doudou pleaded with tears in his eyes as his ear was being twisted.
"You little rascal, tell me the truth, where did you take your brothers and sisters to play?" Ms. Liu was not fooled by Doudou's act and continued to twist his ear as she questioned him.