Jimu news reporter Zhou Pingying
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On November 16, in Xueji Town, Laohekou City, Hubei Province, Hongjiang, a deaf and mute person who had gone missing from Hebei, was finally reunited with his family. In the past 12 years, Chen Xiaofeng, a young man after the 80s, took care of him as a relative and formed a deep friendship with this man who was 14 years older than him.
First sight: Encountering homeless people on the street, wearing summer clothes in winter is only a comparison
Day in the countryside starts particularly early. At about 10:00 a.m. on the morning of the 18th, a reporter from Jimu News came to Chen Miao Village, Xueji Town, Laohekou City. In the Green Peak Layer Cooperative, Chen Xiaofeng has been busy for half a day, and after yarding the newly dragged corn, he changed into a clean white cotton jacket, but he could not hide a layer of ash on his pants and shoes.
Although it is known that the deaf and mute man has the surname of Du, the villagers and Chen Xiaofeng's family are accustomed to calling him "dumb" in dialect.
Chen Xiaofeng is not tall, with a round face and small eyes. He clearly remembered his first encounter with Du Hongjiang.
Chen Xiaofeng (left) and father Chen Fengquan (right) pose with the deaf-mute Du Hongjiang
At that time, he had just returned to his hometown of Laohekou City from Chaozhou, Guangdong Province, and worked in an electrical appliance factory in the city, with a monthly salary of about 2,000 yuan. In the winter of 2009, when it was colder than it is now, that morning, he came out of the factory on a motorcycle and saw a man on the side of the road, wearing short sleeves and a pair of sandals in the winter, carrying a rag bag on his back.
Seeing this scruffy man, Chen Xiaofeng couldn't help but remember that when he was 17 years old and just went to Chaozhou to work, he only had more than 30 yuan on his body, and he said that the good factory recruited people and did not recruit, he also carried a bag, and he stayed alone at the door of the ceramic factory for two nights.
So he stepped forward to greet the man, who knew that the man just shook his head but did not speak, and there was something in his hand. Thinking that the man may not have eaten, he also compared a eating action with his hand. The man nodded and followed him to a small restaurant next door. Xiaofeng said that the dumb man ate a large pot of rice that day.
After eating the meal, Chen Xiaofeng was sure that this was a deaf and mute person. He made a mistake. I live in the company dormitory, and I don't have any money, so I can't bear to leave him behind. So he rode a motorcycle back to his home in Xueji Town, 30 kilometers away.
Chen Xiaofeng's mother, Sun Jinlian, said that when she saw her son leading such a person home, she did not accept it at first. "He himself is married and has a family, has a wife and children, and the burden of the family is very large, and he is nosy." However, for dinner that day, they still prepared a table of meals and invited the man to the table.
When he saw that the man was polite and polite, the stone in his heart was also put down--"I don't feel like a bad person, he only eats the dishes in front of him, and he doesn't copy them around in the bowl." Sun Jinlian said, especially when he saw that his feet were frozen red, and a pair of slippers cracked a few holes and basically could not wear them, it was pitiful.
Just like that, the mute stayed. This stay is 12 years.
Bad heart: legs and feet festering stomach pain spent savings for his treatment
"When a man brings him back, he adds a pair of chopsticks, and he eats whatever we eat." What Chen Xiaofeng did not expect was that trouble soon came.
Chen Xiaofeng does not smoke or drink, but he can do everything dumb. Therefore, Chen Xiaofeng confessed to the neighbors of the commissary and recorded the account on his head. Dumb is also not polite, at the beginning took a dozen yuan a pack of Yellow Crane Tower cigarettes, two packs a day. Xiao Feng was embarrassed, and went back to the dumb man and said, "I don't have any money, I can smoke almost." "Dumb people also understand things, and then only take five or six yuan of cheap cigarettes."
Within a few days, Chen Xiaofeng found that there were several wounds on the dumb calf, suppurative and ulcerated. So, he was taken to the village clinic for treatment. Xiao Feng wanted to go to work, and before leaving, he told the village clinic that all the expenses were recorded on his account.
The doctor in the village clinic told jimu news reporters that the dumb can be treated more than once or twice. I remember that shortly after the dumb man came, the Chen family found that the dumb man always pressed his stomach from time to time, and also took him to the health room to see, and later took him to the hospital in the town to check, and stayed in the hospital for a month. Dumb has no ID card and no medical insurance, and all medical expenses have to be paid by Chen Xiaofeng.
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"We all advise them to leave it alone, they are not related to your family, your family has no land and no land, and they don't need him to work, and they can't take care of others." They have a good family and have always kept it. Villager Chen Huibing said.
For the sake of being dumb, Chen Xiaofeng also quarreled with his wife. When the mute was taken in, his wife had just gone to Shanghai to work, and she did not return home during the Spring Festival of that year, so she did not know that there was more than one person in the family. Until a year later, when his wife asked him how much money he had at home, Chen Xiaofeng said that he had "no money." The wife was angry, "I send a few thousand yuan every month to come back to your family to raise children, where did you spend the money?" "When my wife returned the next year's Spring Festival, she found that there were many people in the family, and immediately understood everything."
Although the kind wife is unhappy in her heart, she sees that the deaf and dumb man understands etiquette, does not cause trouble, and will take the initiative to help the family grow vegetables and do housework, so she slowly accepts him.
Get along: live in a shack to build a quilt The guy is saddled with a debt of 500,000 yuan
The two young families work outside the home, the old couple brings their grandchildren at home, and in the third year of the mute, Chen Xiaofeng's daughter was also born. In 2015, watching the surrounding layer chickens make money, Chen Xiaofeng decided to start a business to raise chickens.
It was also a winter, Chen Xiaofeng took out tens of thousands of yuan of savings and began to complete the farm. "There was no factory building at that time, so we both built a shed on this barren slope to sleep." Pointing to the grass at the entrance of the breeding plant, Chen Xiaofeng said that he was particularly grateful for the days when he was accompanied by dumb people. The two of them straightened the ground together, built a factory building together, entered the chicken seedlings together, and built a production line together. Work during the day and sleep together in a quilt at night.
The business did not go well, and the two were ambitious, hoping that the chickens would grow up and produce eggs and reap the rewards. However, when the chickens really lay eggs, and also saved more than 1,000 pieces to wait for the shot, the bird flu came. "Chicken seedlings are on credit, corn is on credit. When the young chicken seedlings were bought, they were only sold for 2.5 yuan a catty, and one was sold for 7 yuan, losing half of it. ”
Chen Xiaofeng at the farm
After several months of hard work, the first batch of chickens not only did not make money, but also lost more than 200,000 yuan. Deeply shocked, Chen Xiaofeng locked himself in his room and did not eat or drink for a week without going out.
The mute who lived next door to him was also uncomfortable. Chen Xiaofeng's father, Chen Fengquan, said that during that time, the mute was obviously depressed, and he did not want to give him pocket money, and he also took the initiative to cook for Chen Xiaofeng to eat.
Depressed for a few days, Chen Xiaofeng rolled up the covers and went to a nearby factory to do odd jobs, paid 100 yuan a day. 100 yuan, to support the family to raise two children, the pressure is great! Talking about this experience, Chen Xiaofeng burst into tears.
"Summer beer winter liquor, even in the most difficult times Xiaofeng has not broken dumb tobacco and alcohol." Villager Chen Fengju said that he had seen Chen Xiaofeng give money to dumb people many times, and dumb people would also pat their pockets, meaning that they had money to spend and did not need Xiao Feng to give.
"I've also thought about finding him a job and making him self-reliant." However, there is no ID card, there is no large factory in the local area, the work is arranged randomly, the dumb cannot hear the communication inconvenience, and no one wants him.
Later, Chen Xiaofeng went to the bank to borrow 300,000 yuan to make a comeback. This batch of eggs went offline, and Chen Xiaofeng finally earned tens of thousands of yuan. Who knows, when the third batch of chicken seedlings went online, the epidemic came again. "He and I work at night, dragging eggs to the market during the day to sell." Although they still owe 500,000 debts, the two have accumulated an inseparable family relationship in hardship.
Searching for Relatives: Relentless Searching for More Than Ten Years Deaf-mutes prostrate to their benefactors on their knees
For more than ten years, Chen Xiaofeng has never given up looking for relatives for the mute.
Dumb can't hear, can't speak, can't write, but can write two words, Du and Jiang, and can also write two words, Sichuan. Therefore, Chen Xiaofeng went to the police station to report the case, wanting to check whether the mute was from Sichuan. But nothing was found, and DNA comparisons were fruitless.
After getting along for a long time, Chen Xiaofeng's communication with the dumb man became smoother and smoother, and he would ask the dumb man where he came from and what his name was. After asking too much, the dumb man held his head and smashed his head with his fist, thinking that he might have been stimulated, and Chen Xiaofeng stopped asking.
Chen Fengju, a nearby villager, said that the mute often went to his house to play. Once, when his granddaughter was at home playing a puzzle, which happened to be a map of China, he asked the dumb to point out where he was, and the dumb pointed to Guizhou. After Chen Xiaofeng learned the information, he excitedly ran to the police station to inquire, but the result was still fruitless.
Seeing that there was no hope in searching for relatives, Chen Xiaofeng took out his ID card and asked dumb if he was willing to settle in Xueji Town, and dumb nodded happily. Later, the village also issued a certificate, but in the end, for various reasons, the identity card was not completed.
Villager Chen Huibing is a bachelor and knows dumb best. Chen Huibing said that the dumb man has a cheerful personality, and sometimes when he comes to play, the dumb man will give him a few broken eggs. The road in town was lined with poplar trees, and on one occasion the dumb man pointed to the poplar tree and told him and the other villagers that when he died, he would use the poplar tree as a coffin to lie down in. "He didn't expect to find his family either." Chen Huibing said.
At the beginning of November, seeing that the people around him were all vaccinated, Chen Xiaofeng also wanted to let the mute go. Suffering from the lack of identity information, he had become an auxiliary police officer in the village at this time, and he once again moved the idea of finding relatives for the mute. At the same time, the police of Xueji Police Station have always wanted to give this special resident of the jurisdiction an official identity.
On November 12, under the guidance of the police and the oral language teacher, the dumb man wrote the three words "Du Hongjiang" on the paper. By querying the population information, it was found that there was a person in Siying Town, Botou City, Hebei Province, whose information was highly similar to his. On the 15th, the police mobile phone video connected to the other party's family, when they saw the woman at the other end of the screen, the dumb and excited "pounced" and knelt on the ground and prostrated their heads repeatedly.
On the 16th, the family rushed from Hebei to Laohekou overnight. When Du Hongjiang saw the fourth sister who came down from the car, the two rushed to hug and cry together. Loved ones who have been separated for 12 years are finally reunited.
"The same night of the video connection, he also told me that he would not go back. I may not have seen my relatives for too long, and I saw my family come and leave that day. Chen Xiaofeng played a video to the Jimu news reporter, in which a small village in Hebei province pulled up a banner that read, "Welcome du Hongjiang home", banging gongs, drums and firecrackers in unison, and the village set up a banquet to celebrate his return home.
Du Hongjiang's nephew Mu Haiming told jimu news reporters, "Thank you so much for the good people in Hubei, Chen Xiaofeng is too great." Took such good care of my uncle. Thank him on behalf of our whole family. In the future, the Chen family is also our relative. He said that he heard his mother say that when his uncle rode a bicycle to his aunt's house to visit relatives, he may have drunk alcohol and got lost, and he had no money on him. Before wandering to Hubei, it is likely that he was beaten and stimulated by others. "My mother said that if it wasn't good for him, my uncle would have run away earlier." He mentioned that on the day he took his uncle home on the 16th, he found that there was still a box of new clothes in his uncle's room, which Chen Xiaofeng bought for his uncle one after another, and his uncle had not been willing to wear them.
Chen Xiaofeng wiped his tears and said that after 12 years together, he recently learned that his name was Du Hongjiang, born in 1968, 14 years older than him. On the day that his family took him away, Du Hongjiang circled around the farm again and again, and when he was eating, Du Hongjiang suddenly put down the bowl and prostrated his knees to him, and then the car drove out of the yard, and Du Hongjiang opened the car door again and came down, and knelt down a few times before getting into the car.
"There is a lot of reluctance, I hope he will live a peaceful life in Hebei, and the door of my home will be open for him at any time." Chen Xiaofeng said that in the past two days, his 10-year-old daughter also blamed him for how to let Uncle Dumb go.
On the 18th, the day after Jimu News issued the news that the deaf and mute people recognized their relatives, Alibaba Daily Positive Energy awarded Chen Xiaofeng with the "Daily Positive Energy Special Award", in order to encourage his loving behavior, providing him with a bonus of 10,000 yuan.
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