However, it wasn’t until today that I learned this homeless child was not the scammer we thought he was. Because she was Xue Miaoyin.
Xue Miaoyin recalled the past with some emotion. “Back then, my hometown was ravaged by an epidemic, and my parents and sister had all died from the disease. Before her death, my mother instructed my uncle to take me to Yanfeng to find my distant aunt.”
Little did she know that her uncle would also fall ill and die on the way, leaving Miaoyin to make her way to Yanfeng by begging.
For a young girl, the journey was unimaginably difficult. She encountered many ill-intentioned people, some attempting to kidnap her to sell her to a brothel or as a servant in a wealthy household. She narrowly escaped, gradually understanding the cruelty of human nature.
So she covered her face with soot, wore ragged clothes, and made herself look like a dirty, abandoned street child, finally reaching the outskirts of Yanfeng city.
She was so hungry she was about to faint when my brother rescued her.
In her words, my brother’s appearance was like a “god descending to earth”. Not only did he give her food, but he also kindly asked why she had collapsed there. Upon learning she was searching for relatives, he offered to help her find them. However, still wary of strangers and afraid he might be another hypocrite with hidden motives, she refused his offer. Unexpectedly, my brother immediately pulled out all the money he had and gave it to her.
Xue Miaoyin thought she had met a compassionate deity.
Especially for her, who had seen the worst of human nature and suffered countless cold stares, my brother’s actions were so shocking that she was stunned for a long time. By the time she came to her senses and wanted to ask the benefactor’s name and address, he had already vanished.
Later, she found her distant aunt in Yanfeng city, but living under someone else’s roof, she didn’t feel comfortable asking for help to find her benefactor. She drew his appearance from memory and spent ten years searching in Yanfeng city but never saw him again.
