That year, he was only eight years old.
I had no school to go to, no place to live, and only a few dollars in pocket money.
He began a life of wandering, with no food to eat, fighting for food with stray cats in garbage dumps, being beaten and scolded by children with families, and being driven away and insulted by adults.
They called him an unwanted beggar, despised him for being dirty, and asked him why he didn't just die.
They were dressed so neatly and looked decent, but the words they spoke were so vicious and unpleasant.
If he didn't know some fighting skills, he would have been beaten to death on the roadside.
The only thing he was thankful for was that he met a little beggar who was also wandering around. He had no name and his face was covered with pits, so everyone called him Ma Zi.
Ma Zi was very thin and small. He had been wandering around a few years earlier than him and was often bullied.
He helped Ma Zi fight off the people who bullied him, and Ma Zi kept following him.
He is alone anyway, so it would be good to have a companion, so I just let him follow me.
It is indeed better to have a companion than to be alone. At least they can grab more food when competing with wild cats, and those children who have always bullied them don't dare to attack them easily anymore.
For the first time, he understood the power of numbers.
He and Ma Zi started to make friends with the beggars in the neighborhood. They united together, tried their best to keep themselves clean and tidy, and found some work they could do to earn money to support themselves.
At his uncle and aunt's house, he had developed the habit of reading every day, and he did not change even when he became a little beggar.
Whenever he had free time, he would take out the books he picked up from the garbage dump and read them with relish.
My uncle once said that books contain golden houses and thousands of miles of grain.
He believes that reading can definitely change his destiny.
In fact, reading really changed his destiny.
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