The girl struggled to retrieve her piece of iron, but was thrown into the straw pile in the distance by Yu Qiuping's hand. Where is her strength as strong as Yu Qiuping, even if she struggles hard in his arms, there is still no way.

"What's your name?" Yu Qiuping asked.

The girl was silent and did not answer Yu Qiuping's question, but continued to whisper in a somewhat trembling voice: "Hit... Rob! ”

"Be good, obedient," Yu Qiuping himself didn't expect that he would suddenly use a child-like tone. He asked softly in the surprised eyes of the five companions around him, "If you answer my question, I'll rob you, okay?" ”

This sentence seemed to have magical power, and it suddenly quieted the girl in her arms. The girl nodded slightly, as if in response to Yu Qiuping's condition.

"What's your name?" Yu Qiuping asked softly.

The girl was stunned for a moment, and said softly: "Longzi." ”

"It's called Longzi," Yu Qiuping touched Longzi's head lovingly, "Then can you tell me why you came out to rob?" ”

Long Zi's eyes flickered, and he whispered with some hesitation: "I'm hungry, and no one has given me food to beg, so I have to rob." ”

Yu Qiuping only felt his heart tremble, and the indescribable distress welled up in his heart. He took out a small string of copper coins from his bosom, "Take it, go buy some food, these are what you robbed." ”

Ryuko obviously hesitated, but shook his head in solution: "I want to eat." ”

"Want to eat? Okay, too. Yu Qiuping was stunned for a moment, and handed the rest of the dry food in his arms to Long Zi. When Ryuko saw two rice balls and a steamed bun, his eyes immediately exuded excitement.

"Silly child...," Yu Qiuping smiled bitterly, "Do you know how much rice balls and steamed buns I can buy with the money I gave you." ”

Ryuko shook his head, got out of Yu Qiuping's arms, and bowed heavily to Yu Qiuping, "Thank you, Master Samurai!" ”

"You know that we are samurai," Yu Qiuping pointed to himself and his companions behind him, "Then you little girl, dare to come and rob us?" You can't beat us. ”

Yu Qiuping looked at Long Zi, and Yu Guang looked at the small shop behind him. He was stunned, and asked suspiciously: "The old woman in that small shop is obviously weaker and better at robbing, and it is obviously easier to rob her, why don't you rob her?" ”

"It's not easy for the old woman to make money, I robbed her of her money, what should she do..."Ryuko looked at Yu Qiuping with innocent eyes, and said softly as it should be: "The samurai lords are not short of money at a glance... It doesn't matter if I'm robbed. ”

…

Silly boy, why are you so kind?

Yu Qiuping only felt that the beating of his heart seemed to stop suddenly for a second, and then the heart-rending pain spread throughout his body. "I can't even eat... Silly boy," Yu Qiuping felt his eyes moisten a little, "If you want to rob, you can't be so kind..."

People who can't give up anything can't save anything.

However, to Yuqiuping's surprise, Ryuko did not gobble down the hard-won food, but carefully carried the food and ran away quickly.

"What's the matter, Yuqiu is a good person?" Maeda Toshiya snorted and patted Yu Qiuhei's shoulder, "Have you taken a fancy to this little girl?" Staring at people? ”

·

Ryuko is an orphan. Maybe you weren't born an orphan. But at least for as long as she can remember, she was an orphan. She doesn't know when everyone started calling her Longzi.

She was adopted in an orphanage on the edge of a small mountain village. It is said to be an orphanage, but in fact it is just a place for orphans to help each other. At the head were two older boys, both of whom had been abandoned and survived by begging. Later, whenever they saw another abandoned orphan, they would pick them up and raise them in their small thatched huts. The two of them are not very old, because they have been malnourished since childhood, and they have little strength, so they can basically only steal and beg to make a living. As a result, the other six younger children they picked up followed them in begging and stealing. Although everyone had a very hard time, the children were not sensible, and as long as they could eat a half-full meal, they were all very happy.

Over time, the people in the small mountain village also learned that their group of children who did not learn well were stealing chickens and dogs all day long. So, three days ago, the villagers burned down their thatched huts and drove them out. Two older children were injured trying to protect their only thatched hut. Because there was no medicine and no food, they both died soon.

So, the eldest of the children is the dragon son.

Without a place to protect from the cold, the children were frozen in the cold autumn nights. Ryuko gave all the clothes that could be used to protect himself from the cold to the other children, and he wore a samurai suit that was already tattered and could only barely be called clothes, and he didn't know when he picked it up. Ryuko's neck was frostbitten when he was a child, and he was particularly afraid of cold when it was cold, but the area above the chest of this samurai suit was basically rotten. Longzi had no choice but to endure the pain in silence.

Because of the exclusion of the children in the village, they can no longer ask for anything to eat. Having never left the small mountain village since childhood, they did not know the way and did not know where to flee, so they had to hide in a small cave, hungry and cold. With no choice, Longzi had to take a small piece of iron that he had finally picked up, and walked around the small mountain village, trying to rob passers-by.

After waiting for almost a day, I finally met six samurai. Fortunately, there was a kind brother among the samurai who wore a momiji shawl and gave her something to eat.

"Sister Ryuko!" After seeing the dragon return, the children in the cave cried out excitedly.

"Found something to eat!" Ryuko quickly ran into the cave, looked left and right alertly, and after making sure that there were no outsiders, he carefully took out the two rice balls and a steamed bun in his arms.

"Two people are divided into one, and no robbery is allowed," as soon as Longzi's words fell, the children pounced excitedly, dividing the food in her arms by dividing it by two.

"Sister Longzi is amazing!" Another little girl munched on the steamed bun, "I really grabbed something to eat!" ”

"Have you eaten that sister?" A little boy eating rice balls asked with some concern.

"Sister has eaten," Ryuko nodded with a smile, and then prepared to get up and leave, "Today seems to be the Mid-Autumn Festival, I'll go to the village again to see if anyone eats the leftover grain." ”

"Stay here, don't run around." After the dragon's advice, he held his head high and walked out of the cave quickly.

She was in such a hurry to leave, in fact, because she was so hungry. Watching the children gulp down their meals, you really can't help but want to go up and share a bite. But seeing everyone gobbling up, where can they bear to grab something to eat with them?

I'm so hungry...

She looked up at the round moon in the sky like a fragrant pancake.

When she was begging in the village, she heard an uncle say that the Mid-Autumn Festival is a time for the whole family to reunite. On this festival, no matter how far away relatives are, they will find ways to go home and have a reunion dinner together as a family.

However, although Ryuko understood every word he said, when put together, Ryuko didn't know what it meant. Why do families want to reunite on the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival? Why is it that the family will be happy after a reunion dinner? Isn't it true that you will be happy when you are full?

Or rather... What is home?

A cold wind blew, and Ryuko's bare neck was immediately followed by a biting cold. She hugged her shabby samurai suit full of holes, but it didn't cover her neck at all. She sneezed and clasped her hands tightly around her neck, trying to warm the cold neck with the futile warmth of her palms.

Suddenly, in the night sky far to the west, there was a meteor with a long tail, swaying, quietly streaking across the sky.

"Shooting Star!" Ryuko suddenly exclaimed with some excitement, "Can you make a wish?" ”

"That—" Ryuko let go of his hands covering his neck, folded his hands reverently, and closed his eyes facing the meteor. However, as soon as she left her hand, her neck was cold and aching again.

"I want my neck not to be cold...", Ryuko's first wish blurted out.

After saying that, Ryuko seemed to feel that this wish was a little too ordinary, and he was sorry for this rare meteor. She narrowed her eyes into a slit again, and glanced at the meteor quietly, as if hoping that the gods on the meteor had not heard her wish.

"That doesn't count—" Ryuko reverently folded his hands again, facing in the direction of the meteor.

"Hmm—" she pondered how to make a great wish and make the most of the opportunity. However, the cold wind blew on her neck like a knife, urging her to make a decision quickly.

"Yes—" she said timidly, as if she had brought up something very perverse.

She thought of the countless snowy nights in the past, when she shuttled alone through the streets and alleys, looking at the brightly lit houses, and the family smiling and sitting around the table; I thought of begging on the side of the road, and the parents led the children to walk along the road, and the children held a string of sugar gourds in their hands, and handed them to their parents to take a bite of it...

The word "home" is so distant and unfamiliar that I think of it.

"Can you give me a home?"

·

Suddenly, there was a soft touch on the neck, and the cold feeling was replaced by a warmth. The warmth, starting from the neck, gradually spread throughout the body, quietly penetrating into the cold heart.

She lowered her head, her chin touching a soft mass of silk. As far as the eye could see, it was a burgundy scarf. It's soft and comfortable.

She raised her head, and the young man who gave her food just now, wearing a shawl of red leaves, didn't know when, had already walked to her side. At this moment, he was gently wrapping the scarf around her neck for the last time.

"Silly boy," Yu Qiuping, who followed Longzi and witnessed everything, said softly, "Come home with me." ”

"Both wishes will help you come true."

He wrapped a scarf around her neck. But it also took away one of her hearts.

·

"Home...", that once unattainable wish.

Ryuko raised his head and watched the red leaves rustle in the wind, tears gushing out of his eyes for some reason.

Maybe it's because the neck isn't cold.