Not Alone

[Yi'er? Is this the little girl's name? Lin Yi or Jiang Yi…? Which one…?], she pondered.

Just a simple thing as a name was actually such a loop hole. Just imagined what would happened if she stated her own name wrongly…

Jing Yi face palmed inwardly. She suddenly had an urge to shake this man in front of her and told him to speak more clearly.

[ And turns out this Lin Feng Yu had left this little sister of his for such a long time… But why?]

Remembered that not long ago Lin Feng Yu had told her that he almost died years ago but then was saved by someone, Jing Yi guessed that maybe that was the reason of his absence. Although it was reasonable, but the more she guessed, the more she got curious.

[Maybe I should try to ask more.], thus she decided to take a little risk. But of course she still needed to choose her words carefully, so that nobody would feel suspicious of her.

"So… you'll stay? For how long?", she inquired.

A big grin appeared on Lin Feng Yu's face. Made him looked like a naughty boy.

"Now after you had your fill, you finally want to speak. Such a glutton…", he said while ruffling Jing Yi's hair. But the moment his hand touched her head, she felt pain.

Hiss. She grimaced and reflexively brushed Lin Feng Yu's hand aside.

Realizing that this action had afflicted a pain to his precious little sister, he immediately pulled back his hand.

"I'm sorry. I forgot that you're still wounded. I'll ask a doctor to examine you tonight.", he quickly took Jing Yi's small hand into his. He didn't know why, but he felt a little bit guilty just now.

He suddenly thought about her hard life all this time. Even though she was just a 10 years old girl, she had to face everything all by herself. And he, being her brother, couldn't stay by her side to protect her.

As his thought started to wander around, unconsciously his grip became stronger.

"It's hurt!" That sudden overly strong grip was surprisingly painful, like being squashed by iron. Made Jing Yi couldn't restrain her voice at all.

His little sister's cry of pain had awakened him. He automatically loosen his grip, but didn't let the little girl's hand go.

"He planned to leave you like this until you slowly die…", he muttered with small voice that almost heard like a hum. Jing Yi saw an indescribable glint in his eyes and his thin pink lips was pressed together so tightly until his jaws became stiff. Bewildered because of his sudden change of mood, she decided to not uttered another words. Looking at this big brother whose pampered his little sister so much, Jing Yi instinctively felt that she had to act very carefully. Who knows what will he do if he accidentally found out something unusual about her?

Both of them was in silence for quite sometimes as each of them was preoccupied by their own thoughts. After a while that felt like forever, Lin Feng Yu, although was a little bit reluctant, finally let her hand go. But his expression didn't softened at all.

"Wait for me! I'll be back and bring the doctor over. For now, just try to sleep, but let the window unlock!"

Lin Feng Yu wore his black cloak back and quickly flew out from the window. This action that just like a scene in a kung fu movie, had successfully made Jing Yi became stunned.

[Is this what they said as kung fu?] Jing Yi couldn't help but wondered in awe. No wonder he was so strong.

She laid her body down on the bed as a faint smile bloomed on her face. Turned out not everything in this place was bad. Some good things maybe will happened in the future. At least for now, she knew that she wasn't alone…

Knowing that Lin Feng Yu would come again later, she tried to closed her eyes and sleep for a bit. But something in her mind had prevented her from drifting deeper into a comfortably and peaceful slumber.

[What should I do from now on?]

Lin Feng Yu had said that Jiang Chen Lu had confined nurse Ning. And without her, Jing Yi realized that she would have difficulties on her daily basis.

Just remember how barren this courtyard was! And also, they didn't allow her to leave…

[Don't mention about food. I didn't even have water to drink. Or for bathing.]

Thinking about bathing, stroking her dirty and messy hair, Jing Yi couldn't help but wrinkled her nose.

[Later I have to discuss everything with him], she thought as she finally closed her eyes and dove into slumber.

…

The dawn had arrived. A knocking sound was heard from outside of the window. Jing Yi awoke in startled.

Next moment, the window was slowly opened and two persons in black jumped in.

"Big brother?", still a little bit sleepy, Jing Yi rubbed her eyes. She lifted her upper body and sat while leaning her back to the head of the bed.

"Nn...", Lin Feng Yu opened his cloak before he gave a sign to the person behind him with a gesture of his hand.

From behind his back, the other person pulled out a wooden box as he followed Lin Feng Yu walked toward the little girl who was sitting on the bed.

Seeing how skinny the little girl was, that person frowned. Everybody in Dongfang was not unaware about how the Jiang family had treated this third young miss. But no one dared to do anything. Anyway, who wants to risk their life for a little girl who is said as a bearer of catastrophe?

Looking at Lin Feng Yu who was standing next to her, Jing Yi immediately asked, "Big brother, do you have water? I am thirsty…"

In fact she didn't drink a single drop since yesterday. Her wounds and messy mind had numbed almost all of her senses.

Hearing her sudden remark, Lin Feng Yu looked a little bit startled. He obviously forgot about something so important!

"D*mn, I forgot.", slapping his forehead, he exclaimed.

Jing Yi inwardly chuckled, feeling amused. She couldn't help but think that this side of him was adorable.

[I wonder if he has a lover yet…]

Lin Feng Yu was totally oblivious of his little sister's thought. He quickly took out a water gourd from his waist and gave it to Jing Yi.

"Drink slowly", he said with concern.

Jing Yi accepted the gourd from him, pulled the lid, and drank the content inside in big gulps. The water inside was very refreshing. Almost instantly, she felt that her body had regained its vitality and the pain on her forehead and chest had lessen a lot.

"What is this water? It is so good and refreshing…", she inquired with a smile.

Lin Feng Yu found that the colour of her face turned to be better, albeit just a little. Thus, he finally sighed in relieve.

"That's not just a common water. It was taken from the spring of heavenly lotus and have a recovery effect.", he said nonchalantly.

[Heavenly lotus?]

Something inside of her memory was stirred. It felt like she had heard about it. But where? She couldn't remember…

[Did I ever read about it or encountered it somewhere?]

As she was still pondering, a cough was heard from the side. The person who still wore the black cloak while holding the wooden box said with a low voice, "We must hurry before somebody come."