"Xingxing, you go first to line up, then Big Brother, Second Brother... Let's take turns lining up, that way we won't get tired of standing all the time, okay?"
Xingxing asked the question in a soft, sweet voice, but her big, round eyes held a subtle warning: if her brothers dared to say anything bad, she would cry in front of them.
Alright, alright, how could the five brothers dare say no? Whatever the little girl says, we'll do as she pleases.
Xingxing was satisfied. She chuckled twice and ran towards the queue. Zhou Erfu quickly followed with his long legs, but he was still a step too late.
"Ouch." A man who had just finished getting his medicine either didn't see her or did it on purpose, and walked straight over and bumped into Xingxing. The little girl was caught off guard and fell to the ground with a thud.
Her little bottom hurt, and Xingxing's almond-shaped eyes welled up with tears as she pouted in grievance.
Zhou Erfu rushed forward and picked her up, glaring at the man who had bumped into her and yelling, "Are you blind? There's such a big child here, and you deliberately bumped into her!"
The man seemed somewhat flustered, bowing and apologizing profusely, "I didn't mean to, I really didn't mean to. Someone in my family is seriously ill, and I was in a hurry to get the medicine back, so I wasn't paying attention to the road and accidentally bumped into this young lady. It's all my fault, please don't be angry, young master."
The man spoke sincerely, carrying several packets of medicine in his hand. He seemed to be in a hurry to take the medicine back to brew for the patient. The onlookers couldn't help but speak up for him, implying that Zhou Erfu shouldn't have wasted other people's time over such a trivial matter.
The little girl who was hit was not seriously injured, so why press her so hard? Let bygones be bygones.
"You don't know anything! I saw it with my own eyes. This guy deliberately hit my sister. She's my only precious child. If anything had happened to her, he couldn't have paid for it with his life." Zhou Erfu's tone was firm. He was tall and had a loud voice. His sudden shout startled everyone.
The man bowed and apologized again, which drew a barrage of criticism from the crowd. Seeing that things were getting out of control, Zhou Sanfu quickly signaled Zhou Dafu, Zhou Sifu, and Zhou Wufu to go forward and pull Zhou Erfu away.
He stepped forward and bowed to everyone, then apologized in a good-natured manner. Finally, he said to the man, "We've apologized, and we won't hold it against you for hitting my sister. Since you have a seriously ill person in your family, you should hurry back so as not to delay the time, at which point even the best medicine will be of no use."
The man had no choice but to leave quickly, but before leaving he grumbled, "Now you know to let people go. If you hadn't been so unreasonable, I wouldn't have been delayed. If my family member is beyond help, you won't have an easy time either."
Watching the man's retreating figure, Zhou Sanfu pondered. Strangely, the man's back looked familiar; it seemed he had seen him somewhere before.
"That man is a hunter, the one we met in the mountains before. He's not a good person." Xingxing rarely speaks of someone like this, except for the time she met him in the mountains last time, and this time.
After hearing what Xingxing said, Fu Ge and his friends thought about it carefully and realized that this person was the same hunter from before. Was it really just a coincidence?
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