Tomb raiding: A mere 20 is nothing!

Li Cu: As expected, they came for him.

He was no longer the same person he used to be, and he no longer held any reverence for Wu Xie.

"What happened to my sister who has been missing for many years?"

The rising intonation at the end of the note is extremely provocative.

Wu Xie chuckled lightly: "When I investigated you back then, I didn't find out you had a younger sister."

"That's because your skills are lacking, what does it have to do with me!" Li Chu rolled his eyes at Wu Xie.

Unexpectedly, his good friend, who was completely oblivious, tugged at his sleeve and uttered a wise word.

"Pretty pressure, how come I didn't know you had a younger sister?"

Li Chu couldn't catch his breath and even suspected that Su Wan was doing it on purpose. But when he met the other party's innocent eyes, he gave up again.

He finally spoke up.

"I found my little sister when she was 10 years old. She was so tiny back then, and I felt sorry for her, so I took her home."

"I later found out that she was only one year younger than me. My family eventually adopted her, and she lived with us for four years. When she was 13, she ran away from home and disappeared."

Li Chu's eyes gradually glazed over, lost in that distant yet somewhat warm past...

Li Cu dislikes reminiscing. The painful past is deeply imprinted in his mind, like a maggot clinging to his bone. Every time he recalls it, it is like slowly torturing himself.

He thought that being born into a family filled with violent arguments was the beginning of his misfortune.

When I was a child, whenever my father came home drunk, he would beat my mother without saying a word.

The curses, cries, and the sounds of various objects colliding would instinctively terrify Li Chu.

The enraged father was like a demon in a book, while the mother, kneeling and begging for mercy, was utterly pathetic.

He was 10 years old at the time. He had heard too much about the chaos and commotion in his home since he was a child, and he loathed it. His instinctive fear drove him to want to escape from this "home".

Coincidentally, her father, who had come home drunk, hadn't closed the door completely. Xiao Lichu stared at the crack in the door, and, not knowing where the courage came from, turned around, pushed the door open, and rushed out without a second thought.

He panicked and ran blindly, only caring about running forward.

He gradually stopped when he was completely exhausted and his steps became heavy. Looking around, he realized that he had run into the park that his mother often brought him to.

It was quiet and deserted, with only a few streetlights on.

Belatedly realizing her grievances, Xiao Lichu hid in the park's recreational facilities and burst into tears.

10-year-old Li Chu was utterly devastated.

But as he grew up, Li Chu was incredibly grateful that he had run away that night, otherwise he wouldn't have met his sister.

Xiao Lichu had been sitting on the ground crying for so long that he didn't even notice someone standing in front of him. It wasn't until someone gently patted his shoulder that he flinched, thinking that his parents had come looking for him. Since he had run away from home, he was bound to get a beating.

The fear reached its peak instantly.

But when he cautiously raised his head, several bright yellow flowers came into his view.

They look like little pom-poms.

He recognized the flower; it was planted in the park's flowerbeds. He had asked his mother about it before, and she patiently explained it to him.

"This is called Kerria japonica. Its flower language is noble character, eternal hope, and staying true to one's original aspiration. When Xiao Li grows up, she can give it to someone she likes, an elder, or a friend."

His gaze then moved upwards.

The girl holding the flower branch was thin and small, her small face covered in mud, wearing ill-fitting clothes with tears all over, and her whole body was filthy.

He looked even more disheveled and miserable than him.

The girl was smiling.

The wind blew through the stray hairs on her forehead, revealing a pair of incredibly bright eyes filled with stars, which made the tattered and muddy clothes on her body appear less noticeable.

While Xiao Lichu was in a daze, someone stuffed the branch of kerria into his arms. He subconsciously took it and was about to say "thank you" when he caught a glimpse of the girl's actions and was taken aback.

The girl was holding a bunch of flowers in her other hand. She actually plucked a flower, stuffed it into her mouth, and started chewing it.

One flower wasn't enough, so they plucked another, not even leaving behind the green leaves on the stem.

The movements were as practiced as if they were eating grapes.

But this isn't fruit.

Xiao Lichu suddenly stood up, snatched the flower away, and shouted, "How could you eat a flower? You can't eat this!"

The girl tilted her head, her eyes full of confusion, as if she didn't understand why the other person was trying to take her food.

I clearly gave him food.

Is it not enough?

She was peacefully foraging for food when she suddenly heard crying. Thinking the other person was hungry, she kindly shared her food with them. She hadn't expected the other person to have such a large appetite.

The girl sighed.

Seeing how heartbroken the other person was, she decided not to hold it against them.

But you still have to eat.

The girl turned around, intending to return to the flower bushes, but as soon as she took a step, her arm was grabbed.

"Where are you going?" Xiao Lichu noticed the direction the girl was facing and said urgently, "You're not going to eat flowers again, are you? Where are your parents? Did you run away from home? You can't just starve yourself to eat flowers..."

The other person kept talking, and the girl got a headache listening to it.

They stole my food and stopped me from eating! Damn it!

She punched the other person directly in the face, abruptly stopping the irritating noise.

Xiao Lichu never expected to be beaten. He covered his nose and cried out in pain. He touched a sticky liquid in his hand and looked down to see that his fingertips were stained with blood.

He had a nosebleed.

Unpleasant memories flooded his mind, and panic overwhelmed Xiao Lichu like a tidal wave; he wanted to escape again.

The moment she turned around, the two bouquets of flowers in her arms fell to the ground.

Xiao Lichu stopped in his tracks, the scene of the girl giving him flowers flashing through his mind again.

When a girl eats flowers, it means she is sharing her food with him.

The girl was not as tall as him, and looked to be in kindergarten age. He was homeless and wandered the streets, sometimes so hungry that he could only eat flowers to stave off hunger.

As her older brother, I can't leave her alone.

A sense of responsibility arose spontaneously.

Xiao Lichu took a deep breath, made up his mind, and turned around. Sure enough, he saw the girl squatting by the flower bed. As he got closer, he realized that the girl wasn't even wearing shoes.

Those feet were ridiculously thin, the bones were almost protruding, the heels were rubbed red and had several shallow cracks mixed with mud, it looked painful.

more than.

The girl's exposed skin also had marks of varying depths.

He couldn't even imagine what the girl had been through.

The girl herself seemed oblivious, as if she didn't know how miserable she was, and could still laugh.

Compared to the girl, Xiao Lichu actually felt that he was doing quite well. At least he could eat his fill and stay warm, and he didn't have to go homeless.

His mother had told him that the stray cats and dogs on the street were very pitiful, and many wouldn't survive the winter. So they would often go to the park to feed them.

The girl was dressed so thinly. If he didn't take care of her, wouldn't she freeze to death outside when winter came?

Xiao Li felt inexplicably bitter.

He stepped forward and grasped the girl's wrist tightly.

When the girl looked over, he said, "Come on, come home with me, I can share half of my food with you."