Baby Wei Ying woke up with a jolt as he fell from donkey in his dream. He was laughing and trying to climb to his mother's lap. But as he put his hand on lap he found that it's a dumpster and there was no one around. His eyes filled with tears. He tried to pull his body from the ground when his stomach growled. He remembered that he was running away from dogs, when a dog suddenly bit him he tried to shake him away, he got success in the end, but in between he fall into a dumpster and got knocked out. He groggily stand and start searching food in the dumpster, he found a bag filled with rotten vegetables, he start sorting it out. And luckily he found a carrot, a few peas and a fresh pack of grapes. He ate a few grapes and carrot. He took out a cloth and wrapped all remaining food to save it for later, atlast he climb out to find a place to sleep as it is nearly sunset and winter's cold wind is seeping in his bones, which is getting unbearable for him.
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About 2 hours later he found a broken inhabitant carriage, happily he went inside and laid down to sleep, but the sleep is far from his reach as he was extremely cold and have already slept for 2 days. He hopped out of carriage and went for a casual stroll. On the way he saw an old blind lady bagging for food, from the looks it look like she hadn't eaten in days, Wei Ying took out his food and put it in her bowl smiling and went to his carriage and lie down, while covering himself with some straws he picked up on the way. He also create a sort of barrier around him to prevent the water reaching him, which was dripping from the sealing. In the silent night he recalled the dream he had, unconsciously his hand went to his wrist and he went in to a deep slumber with a smile on his face.
Wei Ying woke up by afternoon and found himself drenched with water. He hopped out of the carriage and bring out all the straws to dry them up. But he fainted due to high fever. And another day went by as such and Wei Ying woke up in wee hours( around 1 a.m.) because of hunger. He searched in his pocket and found some peas from day before he ate it and drink the water( from porcelain which he got from a lavishly dressed lady a year ago) and scrunched inside the carriage and the morning came with him sitting inside carriage.
Wei Ying fever has died down by now, but he was exhausted and left with no energy, so he went to ask for food as he hadn't eaten anything in two days.
But got beaten by big boys. Atlast he went to find food in dumpster. He was searching through it when a rattle drum rolled down near his feet. He looked up when a shadow approached him, and his all worries melted as he looked in the eye of the person above, he smiled as thought by his mother.
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