"And then I went to look for you, but I couldn't find you." Hua Hua snorted, "Then I continued begging, but that lady who helped me bathe told me I was a boy and even bought me boy's clothes to wear. I thought she was lying to me. That lady had a son, and he said I had a willy and wasn't a girl, that wearing braids was really creepy. The lady even cut my hair short like yours."
The more Hua Hua thought about it, the deeper the memories became. Those distant memories slowly became clear: "Later, when the money ran out and I still couldn't find you, I started begging alone again. Anyway, after that, everything was just me alone, everything by myself. I don't know how long it was before I met my brother, and then we begged together. But my brother was really amazing. We didn't beg for long before he taught me that people need to be self-reliant, not rely on others' charity, that even as kids, we needed to understand this truth, and that we had to learn how to earn our own money."
