I've been having dreams, weird dreams lately.

In the dream, I was a little boy, the slap was only half the size of me, and the figure in the sunset and the angle of vision were telling me that I was short; The young skin washed by the palms of the river told me that not only was I short, but I was also very young, probably not even five years old.

I live in the north, in some inconspicuous and depraved town in the north. For some reason, the north of the world is a land of ice and snow. I've had enough of the snow, I've had enough of the snow, and as soon as spring arrives and the snow starts to melt, I'll leave here.

But it's still winter, I can't walk yet, I don't have enough clothes to keep warm, I don't have a stone to keep warm, and the cold outside can kill me at any moment.

I'm so hungry and I need to eat.

I had been hungry all night, but it was just dawn when the bastard Ruruti asked me to steal freshly baked bread from the bakery. Didn't he know that the manager of the bakery was once a villain who killed his wife? He never softly fights people! I only stole bread once in his shop, and he actually closed the store and chased me for an hour to vent his anger!

The wound on my back still hurts!

I tried to protest, I didn't want to go to the bakery anymore to find death. But Ruruti was very angry at this, and he yelled at the children under his command that no one could resist him until they grew up to be the next villain to kill him, and then called a couple of the strongest and most powerful teenagers to beat me up, and almost broke me, if it wasn't for the temporary halt of Ruluti.

I was so painful that I couldn't move a single bone in my body, and even my breathing seemed to stop the next moment; Luluti said, this time is just to teach a lesson, next time if you are not obedient, you will break my hands and feet and throw away the wolf dog tethered at the door of the big family!

I knew he would, and last week the new beggar refused Ruluti's call to overthrow Ruluti's control. As a result, without saying a word, Luruti personally broke his legs and threw him in front of the door of the richest man in the town, and he took all the children under his control to force him to watch the beggar climb away desperately, only to be chased by several vicious dogs with a chain ten meters long and eaten by them. Afterwards, I also secretly saw that the doorkeeper of the big family gave Luruti a silver coin, which was used as a snack for the vicious dogs to tip.

Ruruti had me thrown in the ditch of the alley where I slept most often, I was frozen and stiff, and he put the small half of the bread I ate today a meter away from me, and then he left.

When Ruruti put down the food, no one dared to grab it, but as soon as he disappeared from the corner, I knew that the other orphans who lived in the alley would not hesitate to come up and grab the bread and bleed their heads.

As soon as Ruruti left, this scene happened.

And I also know that Ruruti loves the sounds of fighting for food, because I've seen it. There was a time when I was taken by him to make doglegs, and I saw people who had their hands broken before being thrown into the ditch. At that time, Ruruti also put the food not far away, and as soon as he entered the corner alley, there was a loud roar and words that could only be said by grabbing food.

I was startled by the sounds, but Ruluti didn't, he just curled the corners of his mouth very quietly, as if he were to wash his face and comb his hair, and change into a rich man's outfit, such a smile could charm a large number of girls ten years older than me.

But I won't, because I already understand this man, this is a demon in human skin. I won't be fooled by the devil, I'm not going to be a lackey of the devil, I just want to get out of here, far away from this hellish place.

For the next five days, I spent the next five days in the cold ditch like a dead dog. Sometimes when it snows, the cold freezes the water into ice, and I have to break the ice cubes before freezing to death and throw them out, and when the snow starts to warm up again, the broken ice slag will turn into biting cold water and flow back into the gutter.

It's not that I didn't want to get out of the ditch, but I felt my bones freeze, my legs almost froze to death, and the only thing I could do was clench my fists and take advantage of the little chance I had left to survive.

But there are not all good people in the world, and when I was about to starve to death in the past five days, a young lady would come and feed me a little rice to eat.

I know that these rice are leftovers from the richest restaurant in town, this restaurant is run by a traveler, and the new ingredients he brings are delicious, and many rich people like to eat at him, and the restaurant is getting more and more uplifted, and the decoration is becoming more and more luxurious.

This restaurant generally does not easily give leftovers to beggars outside to eat, for fear that there are undercover agents from other restaurants among the beggars, and their cook's skills will be passed on.

After five days, I finally had the strength to crawl out of the ditch. It's strange that I only ate so much food, and that little thing was not enough for me to fill my stomach, but I got better very quickly, although my whole body was still very painful, and the frostbite spread in a large area, but I did not continue to freeze in the ditch until I died.

But from this day onwards, I was finally able to grab back the food that should have been my own, and after swallowing that small piece of bread with all the mud and snow, I felt a faint bit of activity in my stomach, but I was still very hungry, and I still wanted to eat, where are you, young lady, and will you come and feed me today?

But no.

After waiting for three days, my injury healed faster, and the young lady still didn't show up.

I can't help but wonder, is it that the young lady only gives alms to the poor? And I'm not a pathetic person anymore, so she doesn't show up anymore?

On the ninth day Ruruti came again, and he told me to go and steal from the new traveler, and he said that he had seen that the traveler had a necklace with a large jewel, and if I could steal it, I would not only rise in status, but also be able to eat six points of my breadth at every meal.

I was a little hesitant, because anyone who traveled here with a gem and hadn't been robbed of it must be a bad guy, and this time I went, maybe I wouldn't just be beaten up like stealing bread, and maybe even killed.

Ruruti said that he gave me 10 hours to think about it, and as soon as it was dark, it was time to steal something, and he asked me to use my actions to tell him whether to say yes or not.

I didn't agree, I didn't directly refuse, this is my shortcoming, and I like to hesitate in the face of no matter how big the opportunity is.

I walked up and down the town, and I had been called to death by Ruruti every day, and I had ten hours of freedom, and I could no longer be confined to that alley and on the way to steal.

The town hasn't given me much affection for a long time, and even more so now. Every dark alley was exactly the same as the one I lived in, covered with black mud and dirty snow, frozen moss between the brick walls on the left and right, and a dozen beggars lay next to the garbage heaps, and in the garbage heaps there were people who had just died. Maybe it was freezing to death, maybe starvation, maybe being beaten to death, maybe all three.

I don't know what drew me into some strange dark alley, and when I walked in, the foreboding became more and more serious, and then I saw a scene that broke me......

The young lady was sleeping peacefully in a pile of discarded leftovers with her eyes closed, her brows furrowed, the corners of her mouth slightly curled, and she didn't know what she was dreaming about.

But I knew it couldn't have been a sweet dream, for the leftovers under her were full of scarlet blood, and the young lady she-

Only the head remains. (To be continued.) )