"Kid, hungry? Come on, I'll take you to find some food."
"Stealing? What are you talking about? What kind of talk is that? This is called borrowing!"
"What are you digging a hole here for, kid? Follow the vines to their roots. That's where the sweet potatoes are!"
"Hey, why fight back? They hit us, so this doesn't count as borrowing anymore. They think we're stealing, which means we don't have to pay them back!"
"Burp. I'm full. What are you thanking me for? From now on, I'm your big brother. Just don't forget me when you make it big!"
Leng Qingsong's memories lingered on a haystack, where two children lay rubbing their full bellies, gazing at a sky filled with stars and saying things so utterly childish.
"It's... it's... my... my elder... brother..." Standing at the entrance to the Orphanage, Leng Qingsong shakily opened his mouth wide, yet not a sound came out.
Hot tears streamed down his cheeks like water bursting through a dam, and heart-rending agony made his whole body tremble faintly.
He wanted to force a sound from his throat, but it was so tight he could not release a single breath, the pain like suffocation.
He slumped helplessly to the ground, his expression blank.
The overwhelming grief of those once-beautiful memories and the overwhelming joy of finding Ouyang again had robbed Leng Qingsong of the ability to think.
A million years of forgetting, centuries of waiting, five years of desperate searching-at last, just as he was about to leave, he had found his elder brother's reincarnation!
At that moment, Leng Qingsong wanted only to make it up to his elder brother with a frenzy, to repay him for everything he had owed him throughout those countless years!
*I'll give my elder brother wealth and