00:00Just because he didn't receive a gift on Christmas Day, the boy couldn't help but complain.
00:05Those words happened to be heard by his father outside the door.
00:08The boy's face scrunched up in fear, but the harsh words and the slap never came.
00:11His father simply turned and walked away without a word.
00:17He ran outside and saw his father take his older brother by the arm and leave,
00:20without so much as a glance back at him.
00:22This kind of undisguised indifference pierced his heart.
00:24Zaza was the bad kid in everyone's eyes, so bad that his parents called him a demon.
00:28He blew out candles in church, stole mangoes from the neighbor's trees,
00:31used a toy snake to play tricks on passersby, and so on.
00:33For this, Zaza was beaten countless times.
00:35But after that day, Zaza became much quieter.
00:38He stopped causing trouble and instead sat outside a restaurant every day with a box,
00:41offering shoe shines.
00:42He wanted to earn some money to buy his father a gift.
00:44But few people stopped on the street.
00:46He sat in the sun with his shoe shine box, waiting all day long.
00:49The owner felt sorry for him and deliberately changed into leather shoes instead of sandals,
00:52then walked over to let Zaza shine them.
00:54Afterward, Zaza carefully wrote down the owner's name.
00:56Every name on that paper was a small ray of light illuminating his bleak childhood.
01:00Only when night fell did Zaza return home and hand the cigarettes he had earned to his father.
01:04After seeing his father take them, Zaza took the chance to say the words he had been holding inside.
01:14Zaza didn't understand his father must have forgiven him.
01:17So why did he still feel so sad he wanted to cry?
01:19Only after that day did he understand that poverty is the dampness that accompanies the entire childhood.
01:23The next day, Zaza ran to the bus stop.
01:25One of the names on that paper was about to leave.
01:27His uncle had fallen very ill and was
01:29from the
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