In addition to my own family, in my heart, there is a mother and a sister, is that I once met in passing but a lifetime so that I can not forget, they, as if it is another of my closest family.

That year, I still remember is 1988, hometown rise a do jujube fever. That is the hometown of people in Hebei contracted under the jujube factory, and then in the hometown to recruit some workers, and then brought to the factory to process jujube.

The factory needed pots to cook jujubes, bake jujubes, and cut jujubes ...... more than one kind of distribution.

That year, I was seventeen years old, listening to the original go to do the date of the people said how how fun, how lively, I actually also do not think to go to the foreman of the contractors there reported to go to cut the date of the name.

Then I was short and thin, one meter four and a half tall, simply like a schoolboy, can be considered a newborn donkey is not afraid of the tiger.

My mother passed away a few years before me, my father did almost everything for me to support, wrong and right, good and bad let me make their own judgments and choices, in order to let me learn to be alone, so this time he did not do anything against.

My family isn't rich, and my dad only about calculated the cost of traveling to the city, and then tightly gave me a hundred dollars. I put clothes, quilts and so on into a snakeskin bag full of living supplies. In this way, I along with the strange adults, boarded the train to the north, full of curiosity to leave home to go to the distant Hebei.

The first time I left home, the first time I sat in a real train. At that time, I felt that the whole person was dreaming, no fear, only novelty, high-rise buildings, green rice paddies, patches of sugar cane, the Yangtze River Bridge ...... a picturesque scenery one by one to show and pass. Let me, a girl who has never been out of the mountains, feel that the sky outside is new, the ground is new, even the air is new.

I am glad I made the right decision, earning money is a small thing, can let me see outside this so many beautiful world, I have no regrets.

I have been lying in front of the car window to enjoy the beautiful scenery. The wind was whistling in my face, and I couldn't feel the coolness of having less clothes on.

Following the packers as they switched trains in Nanjing and cars in Texas. It seemed like I had been dreaming the whole time, and excitement had filled my mind.

After two days and two nights, we finally arrived at our destination - Louli Village, Julu County, Hebei Province.

The condition of the date factory is very poor, plus the day has not built dormitory, temporary all of us, men and women together to make up in the processing plant (a large shed) slept for the night.

The journey was long and everyone was tired. I was dizzy and started coughing. By the faint light of the moon, I walked far away and found a pit to vomit for a while. I coughed until dawn that night.

The next day, I saw that I had vomited some blood last night, and I felt so light that my whole body seemed to be on fire. I wanted to go and speak to the contractor, and that's when I realized that I couldn't make a sound with my voice.

I was so thirsty, but where was the water, and the factory had only begun to arrange for people to cook meals.

Once again my throat was parched and I had to look for water. Not far away, someone is washing clothes, is a well, I walked over to scoop up and drink, who had thought the more you drink the more thirsty. It turns out that this well water is salty.

I have a headache more sharp, I did not think I just arrived in a foreign land is so unlucky, no relatives, alone, want to go to the hospital, but can not pronounce.

Fortunately, the dormitory was not built in those two days, we rest. I heard that this neighboring village also has people from our town making jujube there, the old folks asked me to go to the neighboring village together to find acquaintances.

I didn't want to go, but in order to increase the affection with the old folks, I still went along, and I really didn't expect to run into my brother-in-law there. I'm so happy, I used my hands to gesture, told him how I just arrived, a serious cold, but I do not know where there is a hospital to buy medicine, if really can not be cured, I do not want to die in another country, I now have some money, can you send me home? After comparing, only see brother-in-law face Bo expressionless, I am so disappointed.

After returning to the factory, I thought, maybe I'm not understanding him at all, and then again, my sister's family is very poor, and my brother-in-law has just come to Hebei to earn some money to go home to support his family, how can I let him go back because of my cold, I'm really ridiculous, and it's fortunate that he didn't understand.

In the evening, my condition got worse, I was short of breath, I couldn't open my eyes, and I coughed so much that my whole body ached.

It was the first time I knew what it was like to die. I wanted to say goodbye to my dear father, I couldn't fulfill my filial duty, but there was no phone at that time.

I was curled up in a fetal position, my mind was foggy and I felt like I was dying.

I was lying on the floor of a small dormitory that had just been built (on a bunk) when I heard the sound of someone shouting for food.

I have no appetite, lying motionless, at home a thousand days good, go out a moment of difficulty of the classic phrase, the original is used at this time. I'm not sure how much I'm going to be able to do, but I'm sure I'm going to be able to do it," he said.

I want to get up, but I can't move, I want my father more, but I can't cry.

I can only try to remember the Nanjing, tram, Yangtze River Bridge,......, which I saw along the way.

Unconsciously I knew nothing else. When I woke up again, I heard a girl shouting excitedly in the local dialect of Hebei, "Wake up, wake up, quickly feed her medicine." I opened my eyes and saw a girl about my age talking to a woman in her fifties.

The woman had short, half-white, slightly curly hair, a smiling single eyelid that showed kindness and compassion, and slightly thicker lips. She did look a lot like my mother, who I was probably missing at the moment.

Seeing that I was awake, the woman gave me medicine and I tried to sit up. That's when I noticed that I had a syringe stabbed in my hand and was hanging.

My first feeling was that she had saved me, tears immediately blurred my vision and I couldn't help but say, "Thank you! Thank you!" Turns out I was finally able to make a weak sound.

Later I realized that it was the girl of similar age and I passed by the dormitory, see others are in the factory to eat, only I was lying on the ground shivering all over the body, went in to call me, the results called me not wake up, only to go to tell her mother, finally her mother carried me to her home, placed in her bed and then went to call the doctor to help me cure the disease.

I was fatigued on the way and did not feel well, and a severe cold caused pneumonia, fever, so that shock, the doctor said thanks to the rescue in time, or else a little life are gone.

They boiled fragrant millet porridge for me, and I suddenly felt that I had a big appetite, which was the sweetest meal I had ever eaten in my life.

My illness is cured, I can stand up again, I handed the women for my life to save the money spent, they smiled, but did not accept, said I am a girl to come to this distant place, with money in many places, but also said that can know the distant me, this is fate. I was touched speechless, at this moment only feel everything is more beautiful.

They put me in her home, and the girl ate with the same living with work. It turned out that the girl was the sister of the boss of the date factory, and the woman was her mother, and the girl and I later recognized the sisters.

The girl's name was Li Xiuying, and from then on, we were inseparable, and I taught her to sing our Anhui Huangmei opera, and she taught me Hebei folk songs. I like to eat the big buns under the vermicelli from their place, and she likes to drink the Huangshan Maofeng from my hometown. How I wish she could come to my hometown to see the green mountains and green water here! That's how I became a member of her family. In the meantime, not only her family was very nice to me, but also the people in their village cared about me, and everyone called me Little Boo Dot.

In just over a month's time, the date processing factory came to an end, and I had to return home with my fellow villagers.

Their family sent me to the car, everyone is hard to part with, God is really good to me, I really did not come in vain, I have another mother and sister.

Looking back, once a stranger you met me, you do not hesitate to help, your deep love I cut no return. You are my role model to learn, I will be a good person like you, your spirit, I believe we will pass on.

I got on the train back to my hometown, and a new song sung by Vivi came to my ears: as long as everyone gives a little love, the world will become a better earth, ah .......

This is my life are unforgettable experience, perhaps, for strangers, so unhesitatingly help, is a kind of greatest fate, but for this Ping Shui met but let a person touched by fate, really let me life, hard to forget.