Chapter 962: 962: Only I Can Guard It (9)

Chapter 962: Chapter 962: Only I Can Guard It (9)

The three burly men wanted a quick fight and were impatient upon seeing Nie Xiaowu, a short guy, blocking the way. One of them kicked him down with a single foot.

The floor was slippery and icy cold in winter.

Nie Xiaowu, who fell on his butt, felt an almost splitting pain.

Enraged and about to get up for a decisive fight, a nearby shop suddenly raised its shutter with a whoosh, and with a quick thought, he came up with an idea.

He threw his head back and wailed, “People, save the child! Someone’s snatching a kid, snatching a girl, snatching your beloved little girl!”

“Quick, people, hurry, hurry, hurry! Your little girl is about to be taken away!”

His wails, shrill and bursting with all his might, echoed down the street, where several shops were open. However, due to the cold weather and the deserted surroundings, there was almost no one around.

But Nie Xiaowu’s cries brought several shopkeepers out to see what was happening.

Seeing the three imposing men entangled with two others, they thought they might be gangsters, a common enough sight they preferred not to get involved with. They instinctively wanted to retreat, which infuriated Nie Xiaowu: “Why are you all retreating! These people are about to snatch your little girl, and yet you turned me over to the police station last time, why not deal with these three! Move it!”

Nie Xiaowu kept howling, desperate.

They were so eager the last time they handed someone over, why aren’t they eager to help now! What kind of people are they!

Meanwhile, the noodle shop owner also stuck out his neck and said to the onlookers, “Seems like they’re here for Jiaojiao.”

“What!”

“Why would they snatch Jiaojiao!”

“Where’s Jiaojiao, has she been taken?”

“…” Upon hearing this, the shopkeepers exploded in reaction. They knew each other as neighbors and hastily ran out. Seeing that Ruan Jiaojiao and Xiu Xi were inside the noodle shop owner’s store and not kidnapped, they breathed a sigh of relief.

Turning to see the three mighty men, they coordinated a swift exit to the side and began shouting door to door, “Come out quickly, quick! They’re grabbing a miscreant! Hurry, get up and get moving!”

In less than a minute, by spreading the word, nearly the entire street of shops opened their doors.

The most enthusiastic was the meat vendor, who, shirtless and holding a long butchering knife, barged out of his shop, fiercely glaring at Nie Xiaowu and Duan Shaoyang.

Nie Xiaowu had already gotten up from the ground and quickly asserted his innocence, “Not me, not me, it’s those three!” Pointing at the three burly men.

The bun shop owner, wielding a kitchen knife, ran up to Ruan Jiaojiao and the others, sizing them up to see if they were uninjured and finally with a sigh of relief said, “Little girl, you alright? You guys should hurry to school, leave this to us!”

The tone was so bold, it made Ruan Jiaojiao sense the aura of a heroic bandit.

“…” Ruan Jiaojiao.

She felt the situation was developing strangely.

Not to mention the three burly men, who were completely dumbfounded and couldn’t quite react to the situation at hand.

Xiu Xi, on the other hand, held Ruan Jiaojiao’s hand, thanked the bun shop owner, and led Jiaojiao towards the school.

“Brother Xiu, about this situation…” She was a bit curious about who the three people that were clearly here to snatch her were.

“It’s fine; the uncles and aunties will take care of it later. We’re going to be late for class,” Xiu Xi said, clearly not taking those three men seriously either.