Chiba came to the thatched hut and looked inside, but there was no figure in sight.

He turned around and walked back down the path ahead.

After walking a while, some thatched huts appeared on the side of the road, and some children were playing on the side of the road.

It's a small village, it's not big, it's a small mountain village in the middle of nowhere.

Chiba had been following the path to the entrance of the village, and suddenly saw a person sitting in front of the stone monument at the entrance of the village, staring blankly at the road ahead as if watching something.

Or maybe they're waiting for someone to return.

Chiba walked over, sat down beside her, and began to look at her.

It was a little girl of about five years old, with a pair of pigtails, a dirty face, and only a pair of large eyes as pure as black gems.

The small clothes on his body were patched and tattered, even a pair of small shoes on his feet had toe holes, his big eyes were full of grievances, and tears flashed from time to time, and his small body looked so pitiful and lonely.

Chiba turned her head and glanced to the west, the sun was about to set, but the little girl still had no intention of going back to her house for dinner.

Still looking in one direction, at the corner of the path in front of the village.

There, there seemed to be some hope that attracted her gaze, making her so selfless that she couldn't take her eyes off.

It's as if you can't see it anymore.

Chiba didn't bother her, just sat on the side and silently accompanied her.

There is no talk, only companionship.

Chiba felt that this was the best way for her.

Perhaps, the person she was waiting for will never come back.

But I couldn't tell her.

At least not yet.

……

Finally, the sun went down and the sky gradually darkened.

Night falls, and the moon rises over the hills.

Chiba glanced at it, and the bright moon was a little big and bright.

Bigger than the moon I've seen in other worlds.

The little girl reluctantly got up and walked back to the village step by step.

From beginning to end, she didn't say a word.

I just glanced at Chiba a few times, found that I didn't know him, and continued to walk home.

Chiba got up and followed her until she reached the humble thatched house at the back of the village.

The little girl used a pair of dirty little hands to push open the tattered fence door, sat down at the door, and looked at the path outside the door in a daze.

I didn't go to get food, as if I wasn't hungry.

But her stomach was already "gurgling" and screaming.

She was hungry.

But he didn't have an appetite at all.

Perhaps, she just wanted to share the food with that person, delicious.

Only with that person can she be happy and eat deliciously.

But now, she is the only one left, and what she eats is not fragrant and happy.

No one made her a bronze ring and gave him a grimace mask to play with in order to amuse her.

Those pictures have always been fixed in her heart, in her mind, she can never forget, and happiness also stays in those moments.

No one understands her, only that person is her only signatory.

Yearning.

It is the little sun in her heart, which will always illuminate the path she is going.

Even if darkness comes, it can't stop her from pursuing it, see him again.

So she began to look for him, to find his reincarnation, reincarnation.

Find the past from the future, and find the future from the past.

She found two people who resembled him, believing that they were both reincarnations of that person.

Chiba could see the expectation in her eyes, the gaze waiting for something to come back.

He also knew that this little girl was none other than the ruthless emperor in his childhood.

She also knows who she is waiting for and who she is looking forward to coming home.

She also knew that her brother would never come back.

Because after the people of the Feather God Dynasty took her brother away, they would kill him.

In the end, all that awaits will be a skeleton and a tragedy.

Whether her brother was sent to Earth to fight and die, or was killed by them, her brother's death was inseparable from the Feather God Dynasty.

People are taken away by them, and there is a certain responsibility.

It is not excluded that this matter has nothing to do with them.

The ruthless emperor didn't see how his brother died.

Since then, she has left home alone and disappeared from people's sight.

After that, she became a ruthless emperor who was feared by everyone.

She was so young, it was difficult for her to survive alone, and her life was even more difficult after her brother was taken away.

Usually the village patriarch would bring her some food to ensure that she would not starve to death, which is why her brother asked the patriarch and the villagers to help him take care of his sister when he was taken away.

Then she went up to the mountain to pick some wild fruits and vegetables to satisfy her hunger.

Since no one cared about her, her whole body was dirty, and her small clothes and shoes were in tatters.

The village is poor, and usually only provides her with some food, and she has to rely on herself for the rest.

Chiba saw that she was sitting motionless, and her stomach must be hungry, so she went into her kitchen to see if there was anything to eat.

When I walked in, there were only some sweet potatoes and wild vegetables, wild fruits, and nothing else.

It can be seen that she usually eats these foods to satisfy her hunger.

Otherwise, the patriarch and the people in the village will send her some leftovers to eat, as long as she doesn't starve to death.

Poor little girl, after her brother was taken away, she lost the only support in this world, and she never had a happy day.

It was dark, and the mountain breeze was blowing, making the night in this small village extremely cold.

The autumn leaves also rustle on the ground as the autumn wind sweeps through them.

Chiba came out of the kitchen and didn't use the little girl's food.

It's not easy for her anymore, and she can't get her food by hand.

Chiba still didn't speak, so he came to sit down beside her, unwilling to break the expectation and obsession in her heart.

The little girl sat for a while before she got up and walked to the kitchen.

After a while, the little girl came to his side, and something came out of her little hand.

Chiba looked at it as a sweet potato and smiled, "Is this for me?"

The little girl didn't speak, but her eyes said it all.

Perhaps, she is afraid of life, and she is still very cowardly to such a stranger.

After all, the current ruthless emperor is not the ruthless emperor in the future, just an ordinary, ordinary, and helpless, helpless, and pitiful little girl who has lost her brother.

and the future ruthless emperor, there is no comparison at all.

Even though the little girl's hands were dirty, Chiba didn't dislike it and took the sweet potato from her.

The little girl sat down beside him, took another sweet potato and began to nibble on it.

Chiba didn't say much, and gnawed on the sweet potato in his hand, not to mention, this sweet potato is quite delicious and sweet.

Of course, if you eat too much, you won't feel how delicious it is.

Suddenly, Chiba saw a bronze ring on her right finger and thought that this was what her brother had made for her to please her.

There seems to be a grimace mask, but when her brother left, he took the grimace mask with him, which was regarded as a souvenir with her sister.

At the same time, the little girl was not his own sister, but he kindly picked it up.

The little girl finished eating the sweet potatoes and still sat on the threshold waiting for her brother to come home.

Before she knew it, the little girl was leaning on Chiba and fell asleep.

Chiba touched her head, picked her up and put her on the bed, covered her with the quilt again, and then closed the door and exited the room.

And, she slept in a room next to her.

This should be the little girl's brother's room, there is a quilt or something, and there is no dust, because the little girl usually misses her brother and sleeps in his bed to seek protection.

……

The next day.

Chiba was sleeping with Zhengxiang, and suddenly felt that he was pushed by something a few times, and when he opened his eyes, he saw that there was a little girl standing in front of the bed, looking at him with blank eyes.

"Little sister, is there something wrong?"

The little girl nodded timidly and did not speak.

Chiba felt that she was in trouble, so he followed her.

The little girl ran into the kitchen, took a bamboo basket, and walked to the back of the village.

As I walked, I looked back to see if Chiba had followed.

When she arrived at the mountain, the little girl picked the mushrooms she had found, dug wild vegetables, and picked some wild fruits from the mountains.

Chiba realized that the little girl was taking herself up the mountain to find food to satisfy her hunger, so she took a hand.

glanced at the little girl again, in fact, it was not that she couldn't cultivate, but she was born with a special physique, and this kind of physique can't be cultivated according to common sense, so she needs to find another way.

Although it is not as good as his brother's holy body, it is also a constitution against the sky, and the fact that she can later become a ruthless emperor also proves this.

The little girl was tired, her little bamboo basket was also filled with wild vegetables, mushrooms and small berries, and then sat down under a crooked-necked tree.

Chiba sat next to her.

"My brother used to carry me on my back and take me to the mountains to play, digging wild vegetables, picking mushrooms, and picking wild fruits for me to eat, but one day several people came to the house and took my brother away, I don't know when my brother will come back to see me?" The little girl was talking to herself, or she was confiding in him about her past with her brother.