The Old Man with the Spring Onion Leaves

Have you lately seen the Old Man pushing a wooden cradle filled with fresh green spring onion leaves coming through the Zuhai-Macau border crossing toward the the market in Macau around ten in the morning ?
He was doing that when I met and talked to him about two years ago. He had on a cloth cap, faded grey shorts and a short-sleeved shirt and a pair of old sandals. He had just cleared through the Chinese border checkpoint without a passport or document. He told me had been doing that each morning for over twenty years. He would push his cradle fully loaded with the vegetables to sell to customers in the town and returned back the same way later about noon.

He told me he owned a small plot of land for planting his vegetables just past the border on the Zuhai side. Most of the immigration officials on both sides of the border knew him well and never asked him for his personal documents. I told him that Macau had been returned to China and there was therefore no need for him to have travel documents to cross the border.

He looked at me without understanding and just laughed at what I said and pushed off down the road with his vegetables.
If you are in that vicinity, I hope you have seen him.

I think he's still doing what he did, crossing the border each morning.