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Jiushu's little brother looked expectantly at her.

Jiushu stood there frozen.

She went through a thousand different ways of putting into words; your mother died, she's not coming back. None of them worked.

"Mother died, why isn't she here? " the boy asked her expectantly. One could see the effort it has taken for him to get those words out. He barely rasped them out, his throat is obviously in pain as he tried to speak.

This…

Hmm..

He knows his mother died?

Jiushu stood there in confusion till it struck her. The little one thought he had died. This is heaven.

"Xiao Xing, Mother is in heaven. Here, it is my special space." Jiushu told him.

"But.. big brother said he will send me to mother." the little one croaked out, even more painfully.

Jiushu did not understand for a moment.

Which big brother?

…

Then it struck her. The powerful man who tried to kill her brother. Anger flooded Jiushu's countenance. Her little brother tried to scramble back from her in fright, which woke her from the red hot mood she was about to get lost in.

"I am not angry with you.. Not angry with you" Jiushu tried a fake smile, her lips contorting unnaturally. Her throat clogged up from the anger, her eyes started watering in anger, one trait her original body and this body both seemed to share. Just what kind of nasty man tells a child that he is sending him to his mother only to kill him?

Jiushu lifted up her face to stop the tears, while trying to calm the little one by gently patting his back. Xiao Xing stopped scrambling away and held on to Jiushu, crying heartbreakingly. That bastard, Jiushu cursed through her tears. When I find him, all the torture in the world will not be enough to quell her anger.

Xiao Xing is already weak for not having had any food for a day or more, and the crying fit dehydrated him even more. Jiushu coaxed him to have a little more water, after that she fed him rice water with a little bit of salt. If it were an ideal world, she will be feeding him a proper ORS solution, but here is the ancient world, so she must make do with what she has.

Xiao Xing fell asleep on a newly made bed, after having his rice water. His fever has gone down long since, so Jiushu already stored quite a few servings of rice water, so she went back to the window. The men seem to be conversing to each other.

The conversation had a great deal of licentious words, but Jiushu gleaned one good news from it. MoQiu's escape is not found out. They are here because they were able to follow her tracks from the burnt house. They wanted to eliminate all the related people as well. Jiushu wondered how high up is the person that they are cleaning up this thoroughly.

It is at this time the picture changed.

There was a new set of feet in front of her. Jiushu knew without even thinking. This is MoQiu's shoes. He came back. Damn.. she can't get out now.

"Catch him." Both ruffians went for MoQiu immediately, but he was able to avoid both and ran out. They followed. Jiushu confirmed there are no more people inside the hollow and came out of her space.

Jiushu was about to follow after the ruffians, but she stopped at the last minute. What can she do if she follows after them? She is not physically stronger than them. She does not know any martial arts, even if she knows any martial arts, she has enough awareness to know a twelve year old girl, no matter how strong, will never be an opponent to the strength of a full grown man. On top of that, she knew these two are martial artists, who are stronger than average men. What can she do?

Let's solve one crisis at a time. Is MoQiu going to get caught by them? … probably not.

Jiushu concluded. This area is MoQiu's home ground, even if the martial artists are from the same area, MoQiu can teleport. No way to beat that. So he will definitely come back here. If she wants to go with him.. …

Carry his luggage.

Jiushu answered her own question. If he is amenable to taking her along, she will carry his luggage. If he is not amenable to carrying her along, then she will take hostage of his luggage. Jiushu is sure it will never get to the second point.

She started storing every knick knack she found in the tree hollow. MoQiu returned before she could go through them all.

"What are you doing?" he asked annoyedly.

"Carrying your luggage for you?..." Jiushu answered cutely, hoping it will work.

It did not work.

"Not stealing?" MoQiu asked expressionlessly.

Jiushu wondered why this guy had suddenly caught the cold president disease. He was fine before. Never mind.. Skip everything that's not conducive to her current purpose.

"I am not stealing." Jiushu told him decidedly.

Jiushu stored the rest of the boxes before MoQiu could say anything.

"Take me with you." she told him.

MoQiu nodded.

Jiushu immediately entered her space. MoQiu picked up the bracelet, took a step and was gone from the tree.

He will not be returning to this area again.

MoQiu did not go to his parents directly.

Jiushu came out of her bracelet as soon as he finished teleporting. During the time she was in the bracelet, she remembered she needed to hear how MoQiu was able to find her little brother.

"Wait! Before we go to uncle and aunty, I want to know how you found Xiao Xing." she asked.

"Xiao Xing?" Mo Qiu asked confusedly. She liked this face better than his expression less face.

"The little boy you talked about in the letter." she answered.

For a moment there, it was on the tip of her tongue to tell him that he is her little brother, but Jiushu refrained. She will keep as much information to herself as possible first. She has trusted him unconditionally once, just for the reason he is the only transmigrated person she met here. It didn't pan out very well. While he did not betray her, Jiushu felt he would definitely do so if justified. She could not trust such a person.