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As the little beggar recalled the scene, Yun Jin guided him, and soon drew a portrait based on his description, which she then showed to him.

He examined the portrait carefully for a while, then gestured with his hands. Yun Jin made several corrections as instructed, adjusting it repeatedly until the little beggar finally looked at the portrait and nodded vigorously: "It's him! It's him! Madam, you painted it so realistically! I've never seen such a lifelike portrait before!"

Eagle Claw wanted to correct her, saying "Miss," not "Madam." But after looking at Yun Jin's veiled face and her deliberately feigned aged voice, he kept quiet.

Yun Jin then asked about the child's appearance. After she finished drawing the portrait, she stared at it for a long time.

This child doesn't resemble her, but he does look somewhat like Yun Lang.

Yun Jin was startled, and a vague guess began to surface in her mind, but she remained calm on the surface and continued to ask about the appearance of the servants.

Yun Jin drew them out one by one, and the little beggar nodded repeatedly, saying that these were the people.

After finishing the painting, the little beggar smiled obsequiously and said, "Madam, your painting is so lifelike! I've never seen anything so realistic before. Your skill is truly amazing."

Yun Jin chuckled and asked Chun Xi to bring over the osmanthus cakes she had bought, handing him a few pieces.

The little beggar took the osmanthus cake and wolfed it down, mumbling "delicious" as he ate.

As Yun Jin watched him eat, a strange feeling welled up inside her.

At the age of ten, he was so thin he was skin and bones, and it was hard to tell how long it had been since he had a proper meal.

This reminded her of her original self, Yun Jin, who lived in Yun Dahai's home in Qingping County.

She glanced at his profile picture and saw that his favorability rating had increased from 10% to 27%. His name was now displayed as "San Gouzi" (Three Dogs).

She still spoke softly, asking, "What's your name?"

The little beggar swallowed the osmanthus cake in his mouth, wiped his mouth, and replied with a simple smile, "My name is San Gouzi. My dad said that a humble name is easier to raise, and my dad was right. They're all dead, and I'm the only one still alive."

This statement is heartbreaking.

"How old are you this year?"

"Sixteen."

Yun Jin was stunned for a moment. She was sixteen years old, but looked like a twelve or thirteen-year-old child.

She frowned and asked again, "Where are you from? Where are your parents? Why are you begging alone in the capital?"

San Gouzi's expression immediately darkened. He lowered his head and said in a muffled voice, "My hometown is Xingyang. Three years ago, there was a famine, and my parents took my sister and me to escape it. My mother fell ill and died on the way, my father was beaten to death while working for someone else, and my sister got separated from me. I walked to the capital alone and have been here ever since."

He looked up, his eyes red-rimmed. "I want to go back too, but there's no one home. I don't even know where my sister is. I'm too ashamed to go back to my hometown."

Yun Jin was silent for a moment, then asked, "Then why have you been begging around here?"

San Gouzi's voice darkened: "The streets of the capital are all occupied by members of the Beggars' Gang. If I go to other places to beg for food, I will be chased away and beaten. Only in this area can I stay because no one cares about me."

Yun Jin nodded, then asked, "How did you manage to sneak in through the dog hole to steal food and avoid being discovered by those people?"

San Gouzi scratched his head and smiled smugly: "My eyesight is good, and my ears are sharp too. When I see someone coming from afar, I hold my breath and hide in the shadows, not moving at all. Those guards make a lot of noise when they walk, and I can hear them from far away."

Yun Jin looked at him and asked softly, "If I gave you a chance—food and drink, and you wouldn't go hungry—but it required you to sell yourself into slavery, would you be willing?"

San Gouzi paused for a moment, looked up, swallowed hard, and asked cautiously, "Then... will I get beaten up?"

"As long as you work hard and don't betray your master, you won't get beaten," Yun Jin said.

San Gouzi asked again, "Will we be able to eat our fill every day? Will we be able to wear nice clothes?"

Yun Jin nodded: "Not only will you be able to eat your fill every day, but you'll also be able to wear nice clothes and live in a warm house, so you won't get cold."

San Gouzi hesitated for a moment, then asked, "Then... what kind of work will I be asked to do? I'm not strong enough, I'm afraid I won't be able to do it."

Yun Jin smiled and said, "I won't ask you to do heavy work, just run errands, or maybe you can help me find out some information."

San Gouzi blinked: "I'm okay with this!"

Yun Jin turned to look at Eagle Claw and asked softly, "Could you please take care of him? Teach him some simple martial arts, nothing too advanced, just enough for him to learn how to protect himself."

Eagle Claw glanced at Three Dogs and nodded: "Okay."

Yun Jin then asked San Gouzi, "Are you willing?"

San Gouzi nodded hurriedly, practically kowtowing to the ground: "I'm willing! I'm willing!"

He knelt down with a thud and kowtowed three times to Yun Jin, saying, "Thank you, Madam! Thank you, Madam!"

Yun Jin raised her hand to gesture for him to stand up, then thought for a moment and said, "From now on, your name will be Fusheng. Fu means good fortune, and Sheng means vitality."

San Gouzi, now Fusheng, paused for a moment, then grinned, tears streaming down his face. He wiped his face, his voice choked, "Fusheng, I have a name now! That's wonderful! I have a name now!"

Yun Jin could tell that he kept switching between "I" and "my," probably because he was used to calling me that back in his hometown.

She turned to Eagle Claw, "Eagle Claw, could you please help him get a contract and take care of him for a while?"

She took out ten taels of silver from her sleeve and handed it over, saying, "Buy him a new cotton-padded coat, both inside and out. Take him to take a bath and clean him up."

Eagle Claw accepted the silver note and nodded.

Fusheng was deeply moved by this scene and suddenly lowered his voice, saying, "Madam, I've remembered something else. I don't know if it will be of any use."

Yun Jin raised an eyebrow: "What is it? Tell me."

Fusheng swallowed hard and said seriously, "The people in that house are probably not from our capital."

How did you know?

"I heard those guards talking. They weren't speaking our dialect. They were babbling in a language I couldn't understand, but it definitely wasn't a Beijing accent."

Yun Jin's heart skipped a beat: "Could you learn a few lines?"

Fusheng frowned and thought for a long time before shaking his head: "I don't remember very clearly. I didn't understand it at all back then, so I can't remember it."

He thought for a moment, "Also, that man in the courtyard, I once heard the guards call him 'master.' Also, that man's eyes are terrifying, like knives; I took one look and didn't dare look again."

Yun Jin couldn't help but laugh and ask him, "Why didn't you say so before?"

Fusheng scratched his head, somewhat embarrassed: "I felt those people weren't good people, and I was afraid of getting into trouble, so I didn't dare to say anything. If it weren't for how good Madam is to me, I wouldn't have dared to say anything either."

Yun Jin nodded, looking at him seriously, and said, word by word, "Don't say these things to anyone else in the future. Also, if you encounter someone saying such things outside, tell Brother Eagle Claw or someone close to me, but don't alert them. Understand?"

Fusheng nodded vigorously: "I've got it!"

Yun Jin then turned to Eagle Claw: "Come out with me for a moment."