'Mum and dad, I miss you!' 8 y.o girl sells vegetable on streets for 5 years after abandoned by parents
Yang Xiuxia's biggest wish is to find her parents whom she has never met.
The eight-year-old girl has been selling vegetable on the street of a Chinese city for five years in hope of bumping into her parents, who abandoned her when she was one month old.
Yang said she misses her parents and she wishes one day her parents could come to pick her up from school.
Yang Xiuxia lives in a Village called Lianhu which is a part of the Tangxia Town in southern China's Dongguan city.
Everybody in the village knows her by her nickname, Mao Mao.
Mao Mao was born to two migrant workers who are from Wenchuan city in Sichuan Province.
On May 10, 2008, the couple secretly left Mao Mao on the doorstep of a neighbour before moving away from the village.
The neighbour, named Huang Mengyi, recalled that she heard a baby crying in the wee hours outside her house.
The 70-year-old told a reporter: 'I opened the door and recognized she was the baby of that young man from Sichuan. I rushed to his home, but there was no one to be seen. He had left.'
It was thought that the couple had deserted Mao Mao due to her illness. The child had been born prematurely and suffered from pneumonia.
Since that fateful day, Huang, a retired military doctor, has taken Mao Mao under her wing and raised the child like her own granddaughter.
Huang and her husband run their little farm and sell vegetable to support Mao Mao.
In addition to Mao Mao, the couple have another child, a son named Yang Hengqing. 27-year-old Yang Hengqing was also abandoned by his birth parents, who had left him at the Nanning Train Station in 1988.
Although Mao Mao has never met her birth parents, she thinks of them every day.
In her diary, the fourth-grade pupil wrote in Chinese characters neatly: 'Where is my dad? Where is my mum? Dad and mum are in my dream with me. But when I wake up, I don't see them.'
Five years ago, Mao Mao started helping her grandma Huang sell vegetable. By doing so, she wants her parents to be able to see her if they return to Dongguan.
Pictures taken on February 21 show that Mao Mao sold bok choy, papaya and sweet potato leaves on Chayi Street.
She told a reporter from QQ.com that she charged one yuan for a bunch of bok choy or sweet potato leaves, and one yuan for one papaya.
She put a signboard next to her vegetable stall, which was a letter she had written to her parents.
The signboard said: 'Dear dad and mum, how are you? In 2008 when I was seriously ill, you secretly put me in front of an elderly woman's house at midnight.
'Now I've recovered, I look forward to being picked up by you. Otherwise, my grandma will have to hand me to the government.'
The letter continued: 'Nowhere is home. But at the same time, everywhere is home. I miss having my own home. I miss you, mum and dad.'
Onlookers were moved by the girl's story. Many of them bought vegetable from her, and some urged the parents to return and find Mao Mao.
One passerby told a QQ reporter: 'Since they chose to have the child, they should have raised her properly. It didn't solve any problems by leaving her like this.'
Mao Mao expressed her wish to see her parents through the press.
The eight-year-old said she wanted to know why her parents hadn't treated her illness when she was little, instead they had forsaken me.
'My grandma is getting old. I don't know if I'll be able to carry on studying. If I can find my mum and dad, I'll have a home and I won't be afraid of anything.
'I want to be like my classmates. I want to have mother and father, who can come to pick me up after school.'
She added: 'Mum and dad, I hope you can come and take me home soon.'
'Mao Mao is clever, smart, obedient and brave,' said Zhang Guowei, the founder of 'Let Love Come Home', a Dongguan-based charity group specialised in helping homeless people find their families.
The child was first spotted by volunteers from 'Let Love Come Home' who had seen her stall on the street. Zhang and his colleague reported Mao Mao's story on their WeChat account, a Chinese social media app, and the story received much attention.
Zhang, a father himself, told MailOnline that he was so moved when Mao Mao told him her story that he cried while speaking to the girl.
The 39-year-old man said the next step is to register Mao Mao's details on Bao Bei Huijia, a website helping people connect with their missing family members. He hopes that Mao Mao's parents would see her information and find her.
The man said that Mao Mao's grandmother dare not move homes because he wants Mao Mao's birth parents to be able to find them.
After Mao Mao's parents disappeared, they called their neighbour Huang once and told her they would come back soon to get Mao Mao.
Zhang feared the reason why the couple had never returned could be a tragic one.
'We know that the couple are from Wenchuan, Sichuan Province. They left Dongguan on May 10, 2008. Then on May 12, the Wenchuan earthquake took place.
'We think it might be possible that the parents had been killed by the earthquake.'
More than 87,000 people were killed or went missing during the Magnitude 7.9 earthquake that shook China in 2008.
Nevertheless, Zhang said they would continue looking for Mao Mao's parents.
'People have donated more than 20,000 yuan (£2,319) to Mao Mao through our WeChat account. We thank these generous people,' added Zhang.
The eight-year-old girl has been selling vegetable on the street of a Chinese city for five years in hope of bumping into her parents, who abandoned her when she was one month old.
Yang said she misses her parents and she wishes one day her parents could come to pick her up from school.
Yang Xiuxia lives in a Village called Lianhu which is a part of the Tangxia Town in southern China's Dongguan city.
Everybody in the village knows her by her nickname, Mao Mao.
Mao Mao was born to two migrant workers who are from Wenchuan city in Sichuan Province.
On May 10, 2008, the couple secretly left Mao Mao on the doorstep of a neighbour before moving away from the village.
The neighbour, named Huang Mengyi, recalled that she heard a baby crying in the wee hours outside her house.
The 70-year-old told a reporter: 'I opened the door and recognized she was the baby of that young man from Sichuan. I rushed to his home, but there was no one to be seen. He had left.'
It was thought that the couple had deserted Mao Mao due to her illness. The child had been born prematurely and suffered from pneumonia.
Since that fateful day, Huang, a retired military doctor, has taken Mao Mao under her wing and raised the child like her own granddaughter.
Huang and her husband run their little farm and sell vegetable to support Mao Mao.
In addition to Mao Mao, the couple have another child, a son named Yang Hengqing. 27-year-old Yang Hengqing was also abandoned by his birth parents, who had left him at the Nanning Train Station in 1988.
Although Mao Mao has never met her birth parents, she thinks of them every day.
In her diary, the fourth-grade pupil wrote in Chinese characters neatly: 'Where is my dad? Where is my mum? Dad and mum are in my dream with me. But when I wake up, I don't see them.'
Five years ago, Mao Mao started helping her grandma Huang sell vegetable. By doing so, she wants her parents to be able to see her if they return to Dongguan.
Pictures taken on February 21 show that Mao Mao sold bok choy, papaya and sweet potato leaves on Chayi Street.
She told a reporter from QQ.com that she charged one yuan for a bunch of bok choy or sweet potato leaves, and one yuan for one papaya.
She put a signboard next to her vegetable stall, which was a letter she had written to her parents.
The signboard said: 'Dear dad and mum, how are you? In 2008 when I was seriously ill, you secretly put me in front of an elderly woman's house at midnight.
'Now I've recovered, I look forward to being picked up by you. Otherwise, my grandma will have to hand me to the government.'
The letter continued: 'Nowhere is home. But at the same time, everywhere is home. I miss having my own home. I miss you, mum and dad.'
Onlookers were moved by the girl's story. Many of them bought vegetable from her, and some urged the parents to return and find Mao Mao.
One passerby told a QQ reporter: 'Since they chose to have the child, they should have raised her properly. It didn't solve any problems by leaving her like this.'
Mao Mao expressed her wish to see her parents through the press.
The eight-year-old said she wanted to know why her parents hadn't treated her illness when she was little, instead they had forsaken me.
'My grandma is getting old. I don't know if I'll be able to carry on studying. If I can find my mum and dad, I'll have a home and I won't be afraid of anything.
'I want to be like my classmates. I want to have mother and father, who can come to pick me up after school.'
She added: 'Mum and dad, I hope you can come and take me home soon.'
'Mao Mao is clever, smart, obedient and brave,' said Zhang Guowei, the founder of 'Let Love Come Home', a Dongguan-based charity group specialised in helping homeless people find their families.
The child was first spotted by volunteers from 'Let Love Come Home' who had seen her stall on the street. Zhang and his colleague reported Mao Mao's story on their WeChat account, a Chinese social media app, and the story received much attention.
Zhang, a father himself, told MailOnline that he was so moved when Mao Mao told him her story that he cried while speaking to the girl.
The 39-year-old man said the next step is to register Mao Mao's details on Bao Bei Huijia, a website helping people connect with their missing family members. He hopes that Mao Mao's parents would see her information and find her.
The man said that Mao Mao's grandmother dare not move homes because he wants Mao Mao's birth parents to be able to find them.
After Mao Mao's parents disappeared, they called their neighbour Huang once and told her they would come back soon to get Mao Mao.
Zhang feared the reason why the couple had never returned could be a tragic one.
'We know that the couple are from Wenchuan, Sichuan Province. They left Dongguan on May 10, 2008. Then on May 12, the Wenchuan earthquake took place.
'We think it might be possible that the parents had been killed by the earthquake.'
More than 87,000 people were killed or went missing during the Magnitude 7.9 earthquake that shook China in 2008.
Nevertheless, Zhang said they would continue looking for Mao Mao's parents.
'People have donated more than 20,000 yuan (£2,319) to Mao Mao through our WeChat account. We thank these generous people,' added Zhang.
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Source: QQ , Daily Mail.
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