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?
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