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Vagabond sweeps streets 8 years after kind gesture

(China Daily)
Updated: 2008-12-27 09:50

A homeless man has volunteered to sweep the streets for eight years after he was given two steamed stuffed buns by a cleaner in Baishishui township of Pubei county, the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region.

The man surnamed Chen, 40, has become a well-known figure among locals who were touched by his attitude.

Cleaner Li Daqing bought Chen two buns when he came across him in a local street at the beginning of 2000.

To Li's surprise, Chen followed him and swept the streets as he started to work the next day. To his further surprise, Chen kept on sweeping the streets, for about eight years.

(Nanguo Morning Post)