Little marvel: Chinese girl, 9, walks miles along remote mountain road alone after day’s work on farm to seek help with studies, melts netizens’ hearts


By Liya Su

Girl from remote village in southwestern China turns up on stranger’s doorstep just before dark to ask for help with homework. She works all day on her family’s farm but little girl’s uneducated mother is unable to guide her through her books. — SCMP

The touching story of a little girl in southwestern China who undertook a lonely 40 minute-trek along a remote mountain road as darkness fell to ask a relative stranger for help with her studies has moved millions of people on mainland social media.

The stranger, a woman surnamed Ran, from Chongqing municipality in Sichuan province, has told how the unnamed little girl, in her third grade, walked several miles in a mountainous area as daylight began to fade, Feidian Video reported.

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