However, the little girl said the people only asked her to escort a patient and offered her 30 cents. This pay was suspiciously high, and more importantly, they only gave her a 10-cent deposit. It didn't sound like a legitimate job at all; it sounded like she was being scammed.
"Yes, I was looking for work at the hospital entrance earlier when a family arrived with an elderly woman. They said they’d forgotten their money and asked me to help them get her inside. They told me to wait for them to go home and fetch the cash, and then they'd pay me the remaining 20 cents."
The little girl held the bowl Sheng Xia had filled with pork bone soup, smiling as she explained how she had landed the job.
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