Bai Fei, the young lady, even though her relationship with Bai Yu and the others wasn't great, with the other kids it was quite nice—they'd go up the mountain together to dig for wild vegetables and pick fruit. That was a friendship forged in the mountains, and playing in the mud was part of that friendship.
But these three actually thought playing in the mud was dirty, pah!
As if they were so clean themselves, it was Bai Zhi who had spoiled them rotten.
So at this moment, all the kids were united against the group pet and his cronies.
Some, seeing the fierce look on Bai Ye's face, were even prepared to go behind the Banyan Tree to call for reinforcements.
Villagers without television, what else could they do?
The answer was, to play cards under the Banyan Tree, like Big Two, and to gossip.
The old men, with their smoking pipes in hand, brought out their chess and cards and got started.