SOME residents living near Luoling Market in Luohu District disclosed that a homeless woman, who had been living outdoors in the neighborhood for a few months, appeared to be pregnant. However, the woman kept denying her pregnancy and said she had just been eating too much, the Southern Metropolis Daily reported.

The woman’s few belongings comprised of a faded quilt and a glass bottle under a staircase near the market. The woman stays there at night.

When a recent typhoon hit the city, the woman slept on an old sofa beside a massage shop in the neighborhood. She cleans herself with a tap near the market, and people sometimes give her food and water.

A security guard at the market said the woman had been living under the staircase since last November. Recently some people started to take notice of her and warned her about her pregnancy, but the woman denied that she was pregnant and said instead she was eating too much.

Residents said that they had spotted the woman using an iPhone 7 and living in hotels before, and a man was seen occasionally visiting the woman.

During an interview with the Daily, it was discovered that the woman’s name was Fu Honglin and she was a native of Chong-qing. She came to Guangdong to work before graduating from junior middle school and had been working at restaurants and factories.

Fu said she had spent all of her money and lost her iPhone. When asked why she had chosen to live on the street, she said work was too tiring for her now.

The vagrant said her mother is working as a nanny in Chongqing and her younger brother works at a construction site in Yunnan Province, but she refused to provide their contact numbers.

With Fu’s ID number, police identified the woman and tracked down her home address in Chongqing.

Staff from the community work station in Dongmen Subdistrict said they would try to contact the woman’s family and persuade them to come to Shenzhen and take care of her.

(Zhang Qian, Chen Zixi)