Chapter 303
Chapter 303. Little Brother, What’s Your Name?
“Beat him! Beat him to death!”
“Damn it, how dare you pick up food in my territory, you’re tired of living!”
“Boss, he seems to be really beaten to death by us?”
“He’s dead already?”
In the dim alley, five ragged little beggars stopped beating, holding iron rods and wooden sticks, and retreated a little.
They didn’t look older than ten years old, but their faces, covered in dirt, were filled with ferocity as they cornered a boy.
The tall beggar leading them kicked the boy again and spat.
“Seeking death, let’s go.”
The five little beggars picked up the stale bread from the ground and soon disappeared at the end of the alley.
The alley returned to silence. A grey rat scurried past a toppled trash can. The rat’s head looked up at the sky, which was a hazy grey, and a light rain began to fall.
Seeing this, it squeaked and scurried back into a small hole in the wall, disappearing from sight.
At the same time, the boy let out a muffled groan and struggled to lift his eyelids. The cold raindrops fell on his blood-stained face, and the cold wind blowing against his face also carried a bone-chilling cold.
He gritted his teeth and tried to stand up, but accidentally pulled on his leg wound, gasping painfully.
Finally, he had to lean against the moldy wall and sit down. His tender eight-year-old face was covered in dirt and blood. His only clean black eyes stared blankly at the dimness at the end of the alley.
Xia Feng was also a bit confused at this moment. He realized that he seemed to be this little boy?
But he couldn’t control the movements of the current body. He could only observe the world through the boy’s perspective and senses.
However, it was precisely because of these scenes that more images, hidden deep in the sea of his memory, flashed through his mind. These were sealed memory fragments.
Xia Feng quickly remembered that he had actually transmigrated to this world very early, so early that it could be considered being born into another life.
It was just that a child’s brain would only develop completely around the age of ten, and his past life memories had been sealed, so they had not awakened.
Because of this, when he was a child, he was no different from an ordinary orphan and was often bullied.
Yes, Xia Feng in this life also started in an orphanage. He was abandoned at the orphanage right after he was born. By the age of seven, the orphanage could no longer afford to support so many orphans. They had to banish all those who were over seven years old and had not been adopted, forcing them to fend for themselves.
At the age of seven, he began a life of wandering and begging near the garbage dumps north of the city.
Unfortunately, he was frail and sickly as a child and not as tall as his peers. He looked like a weak little boy, and anyone could bully him.
Once, he was almost dragged into an alley by a female bully. Fortunately, at that time, he had a ten-year-old older brother.
The older brother heroically saved him.
He asked his older brother what “eating chicken” meant. His older brother didn’t quite understand either, but he guessed it might mean cutting off his private parts and selling them on the black market. After all, many wealthy families could undergo heart transplants, so the place where one urinated could naturally be transplanted as well.
Seven-year-old Little Xia Feng felt the darkness of this world once again. He didn’t want to be unable to urinate his whole life, so he became even more cautious in the days that followed.
Unfortunately, half a year later, his older brother died in a fight between two begger gangs.
Without the protection of a smart and strong older brother, his life became even more difficult.
He lived precariously every day. Sometimes he even thought about selling his private parts to that female bully, perhaps he could eat a few full meals before dying.
But it was only a thought.
Then, he struggled to survive for a few more months until today. As usual, he came to the northwest part of the garbage dump to scavenge for food. Unexpectedly, he was lucky enough to find a piece of bread in a trash can.
Although it was hard and a bit stale, for him who could only eat “fern grass,” it was a delicacy.
Fern grass was food that the orphanage distributed to the slums every month. It had a disgusting fishy smell and was extremely unpalatable, but it was filling, and the nutritional value was barely sufficient.
And today, finding the hard bread unexpectedly, Little Xia Feng naturally felt like he had found a treasure.
It was just a pity that the group of five was also scavenging nearby. Seeing him, they immediately launched a life-and-death pursuit.
Little Xia Feng was pursued into a dead-end alley and naturally could not escape being beaten.
However, he had experienced such scenes countless times. He curled up to protect his vital points and reduce damage, and pretending to be dead was also easy for him.
But this dark and hopeless life truly made him numb.
He felt lost. He had imagined countless times what it would be like if he were born into a happy family, with a father and a mother…
“Tap-tap—”
Gentle footsteps approached. Little Xia Feng looked up.
The alley was quiet and secluded. At some point, a girl holding a red paper umbrella appeared in the drizzling rain.
She was wearing a floral dress. The wet umbrella surface was slightly tilted forward, revealing only her dark, soft hair and a touch of her elegant, jade-like beautiful jaw.
Her slender fingers lightly held the umbrella handle, and the red paper umbrella slowly approached Little Xia Feng in the rain.
Little Xia Feng looked up in confusion. Just then, the umbrella surface tilted back, revealing a tender, elegant face. She looked like a girl of about twelve years old, but her slanted eyes were gently curved, giving her a reassuring and gentle temperament.
Under Little Xia Feng’s confused gaze, she bent down and smiled, “Little brother, my name is Gong Changyi. What’s your name?”
Little Xia Feng was stunned. This was the first time he had seen such a beautiful older sister. Her clothes were also beautiful. It was clear she came from a wealthy family. He couldn’t help but feel nervous.
Seeing the boy staring blankly without speaking, Gong Changyi didn’t rush. She just looked at him with a smile, waiting quietly.
Little Xia Feng suddenly came back to his senses and subconsciously replied timidly, “I… my name is Xia Feng.”
!
After a pause, he raised his dirty face and said earnestly in a childish voice, “Xia from summer, Feng from maple leaf.”
“Xia Feng… that’s a nice name.” The girl’s smile was gentle.
“Thank… thank you.”
Xia Feng was a little flustered. This was the first time someone had praised his name.
He was illiterate. His original name was Hei Dan (Black Egg). One day, after having a strange dream, he inexplicably understood some words, so he gave himself a surname and a given name.
“Xia Feng, do you want to come home with my sister?”
“Huh?”
Little Xia Feng was still a bit dazed. “Home?”
The girl holding the umbrella said nothing but smiled and bent down, extending her palm to him.
Looking at the clean, beautiful small hand and the girl’s gentle, bright smile, Little Xia Feng’s heart was filled with suspicion and confusion. He really couldn’t understand what this girl’s purpose was…
For example, like that female bully, did she want to sell his private parts on the black market for money?
But this sister didn’t look like someone who was short of money…
His mind was in a daze.
But at this moment, he didn’t want to be suspicious of the girl’s intentions anymore.
He didn’t want to think about it at all anymore! There was a glimmer of hope in his eyes. He stiffly raised his small hand, but just as he reached the girl’s clean, slender hand, his movement froze again.
His own hand was too dirty.
But in the next moment, the girl’s large hand clasped his dirty small hand, and she said softly with a smile, “Little Feng, from now on, I’ll be your sister. Call me Sister Yi~”
His black eyes widened. He pursed his lips and whispered nervously, “Sister Yi Yi.”
“So obedient~”
“Let’s go, we’re going home.”
The girl briefly bandaged his wound.
Next, he blankly followed the girl into a luxurious sports car and drove out of the slum, which reeked of death.
However, as the sports car passed a corpse transport truck, he unexpectedly saw a terrifying and bloody pile of corpses in the open truck bed, and five very conspicuous, bloody human heads among them.
They were the five little beggars who had beaten him earlier. Now their heads were scattered among the corpses, their faces contorted in despair, looking like they had suffered inhuman torture before death.
None of the five heads were intact. Their blood-red eyes stared blankly ahead, as if looking directly at Little Xia Feng inside the sports car.
The corpse transport truck flashed by, moving away from the sports car in opposite directions.
Little Xia Feng’s face gradually turned pale.
“What’s wrong? Are you feeling unwell?” the girl beside him asked gently.
“N-nothing…”
