Zhu Yuanxiang, senior reporter of The Paper
She's 49 and she's 79. One is the mother of an abducted child and the other is the mother of a "trafficker".
The abducted child's mother is Cao Meiling of Jeonju County, Guangxi, whose son disappeared 16 years ago and has not been heard from so far. The abductor of her child was Chen Guangxing of Longshan County, Hunan Province. Recently, Chen Guangxing's mother, Huang Juhua, learned that her son, known as a "human trafficker", had died of poisoning 11 years ago.
The yellow chrysanthemums of "white-haired people send black-haired people" and Cao Meiling, who has no progress in searching for her son, all have the sourness of being a mother. For 16 years, because of their respective sons, these two mothers, who are 30 years apart in age, have crossed thousands of miles to know, "clash", and pity each other.
On January 13, 2022, Cao Meiling and Huang Juhua met again after a gap of five years. Unless indicated, the pictures in this article are all pictures of The Paper's reporter Zhu Yuanxiang
On January 13, 2022, Cao Meiling came to Hunan from Guangxi. After the death of the "trafficker", she hoped to get even the slightest clue about her child from Huang Juhua's mouth, but Huang Juhua could not help her. As soon as the two mothers met, they hugged each other and cried before they entered the house.
Cao Meiling once said that if Huang Juhua helped find the child, she would be recognized as a dry mother.
Huang Juhua said that Cao Meiling was "like a daughter", often carrying gifts to see her, and also helping with farm work, and she was "too willing to go" in her heart.
A three-year-old photo of Jiang Zheng in cao meiling's living room.
Mother of abducted children: 5-year-old son was taken away by "Uncle Peng"
In a mountain forest, Cao Meiling finally found her son Jiang Zheng. She saw that her son was undressed and covered in leaves, "like a wild man." The son asked her: "Mom, why haven't you come to me for so long?" Cao Meiling cried with joy and quickly said, "My mother has been looking for you, and now she has finally found you..."
The above scene is a dream that has haunted Cao Meiling's mind for many years. That time she woke up from bed and felt a trance, "I thought it was true, woke up and pinched my thigh, only to realize that it was a dream." ”
Cao Meiling's home is located in Caiwan Town, Jeonju County, Guilin City, a house with dark red tiles. On the first floor is the clinic opened by Cao Meiling and his wife, and the living home is on the third floor. Entering the living room, you can see at a glance the two photos of Jiang Zheng placed next to the TV, both framed in a golden yellow shell. One was taken when Jiang Zheng was 4 years old , he crossed his hands at his waist and looked very spirited ; the other was taken when he was 3 years old , and he imitated the iconic movement of Diga Ultraman in the cartoon - his right hand clenched in fists. At that time, he grinned mischievously and smiled brightly.
Picture of criminal suspect Chen Guangxing. Courtesy of respondents
Jiang Zheng disappeared on March 4, 2006, when he was five years old.
Cao Meiling remembers that it was Saturday, and her son who was in preschool did not have to go to school. In the morning, as usual, Jiang Zheng bought a bowl of rice noodles from the nearby breakfast shop and brought it back to eat with his mother who worked at the clinic. In the morning, he and the children played not far from home. At about 11 o'clock, Cao Meiling did not see her son and was anxious to look around. Someone told him that a man in a hat led Jiang Zheng to the van to the county seat.
Cao Meiling soon learned that the "human trafficker" who took her son was a Hunan person who had come to the clinic many times to get injections and buy medicines. The man liked to tease the child, and he became acquainted with Jiang Zheng as soon as he came and went, and the child called him "Uncle Peng". She said that once, "Uncle Peng" took Jiang Zheng out of the house and was stopped by Cao Meiling's sister, "Uncle Peng" said to buy candy for the child. He went out for a while and then came back and gave Jiang Zheng two packs of milk flakes.
After her son disappeared, Cao Meiling and her family went to nearby stations and hotels to search for people, posted search notices everywhere, and advertised on TV stations, but they could not find Jiang Zheng and the "Uncle Peng".
"The more I worry about something, the more it happens." Cao Meiling cried.
In 1999, Cao Meiling, who had studied at the Health School, married Jiang Pingyuan, a village doctor. More than a year later, Cao Meiling gave birth to Jiang Zheng at the county maternal and child health hospital. "I was born two days and one night, and I was given birth to protophylaxis." Cao Meiling remembers that after the birth of her son, he weighed 7 pounds and 8 taels, and was the only baby boy born that day in the hospital's delivery room," the nurse said, and the girl in the boat that day finally came to a boat. ”
When remembering her son, Cao Meiling's face finally showed a smile.
In the mother's impression, Jiang Zheng was lively and active when he was a child, often generously sharing snacks with other children, and sometimes talking very funny. "One night he peed his pants and he said, 'Mom, it's raining a little bit again."' Cao Meiling couldn't help but smile. She remembers that her son would listen to her sing nursery rhymes every night before going to sleep, and every morning when he got up, he would kiss her, "First kiss my forehead, then kiss my face, then my chin..."
When he was a child, Jiang Zheng had a round face and single eyelids, and liked to laugh. When he was one year old, a neighbor hugged Jiang Zheng and joked: "Such a beautiful child, 100,000 yuan is asked for." Cao Meiling was anxious as soon as she heard it, "What a joke, her own children are priceless." ”
Cao Meiling said that at that time, she thought with some fear: "If my son is abducted, he can only look at the photos." ”
Chen Guangxing's parents' home.
The 1990s to the beginning of this century were the high incidence of child trafficking in China. Cao Meiling remembers that shortly after Jiang Zheng was born, one of her cousin's 7-year-old sons was abducted and died in an abandoned house near the Jeonju Railway Station; when Jiang Zheng was more than 3 years old, she saw a program on TV about abduction, and a 4-year-old child in Hunan was abducted to Liuzhou, Guangxi, and was retrieved after suffering. She was particularly sensitive to such things, and she often told her son not to talk to strangers outside and not to sit in the car outside.
"I said to Zheng Zheng, if you are abducted by someone else and meet a new mother, you will not see my old mother." Cao Meiling recalled, "My son said to me at that time, mom I will not go with people, I don't want a new mother, I want you as an old mother." ”
Cao Meiling said that when Jiang Zheng was four or five years old, she was always able to memorize her family's address and phone number. In the days before she was abducted, she also passed the test for her son, "he came out in one breath." ”
However, the son was abducted and never heard from again.
Cao Meiling, who washed her face with tears for many years, changed from the beautiful bride in the wedding photos of the past to a thin woman with blackened eyes, protruding cheekbones, and thinning hair. She is 6 years younger than her sister, but many people think she is the sister.
How to find a son? This caused Cao Meiling a headache. The son's skin is white and tender, and there are no particularly obvious marks on his body. "I also said at the time, if one day you are abducted, how will your mother find you?" You don't have any marks on you. Cao Meiling blamed herself for the "crow's mouth": "How did I have such a thought at that time, I feel strange now." ”
Once, when she helped her son take a bath, Cao Meiling found a small "mark": there was a small mole on the back of the second toe. "I don't remember if it was my left foot or my right foot." Cao Meiling said to herself, "I told you at that time that the foot of a mole has traveled all over the world." Now Mom is really going all over the world looking for you..."
Suspect's mother: It took more than a decade to learn that her younger son had committed suicide by taking poison
Who is the "Uncle Peng" who abducted Jiang Zheng?
Cao Meiling later learned that before her son was abducted, the man, who claimed to be surnamed Peng, had been living in the town for about two months, renting a hotel for 60 yuan a month. The man speaks with a Hunan accent and usually likes to buy lottery tickets.
On the evening of the day jiang zheng was abducted, "Uncle Peng" called Jiang Zheng's home. At that time, Cao Meiling and others were looking for children outside, and it was Jiang Zheng's grandmother who answered the phone.
At that time, Zheng Zheng was crying on the phone, and he said that he missed his mother and wanted to go home. I asked him where he was and he said he didn't know. Jiang Zheng's grandmother recalled that a man on the other end of the phone spoke, "He said that he was in Huangshahe Town and would send the child back tomorrow." A few minutes later, the other party called again, this time answering the phone by Zheng Zheng's cousin. The other party asked "who are you", Zheng Zheng Tangbo felt a little strange, said that he was Jiang Zheng's father, did not expect the other party to hang up the phone immediately, and has not called since.
"The man must have wanted money, and he knew from the voice that it wasn't Zheng Zheng's father who answered the phone, and he probably suspected it was the police, so he never contacted him again." Cao Meiling analysis.
Later, the police station investigated and found that "Uncle Peng" used a fake identity card from Hunan Dao County to stay in the hotel, and had received two remittances from the postal savings office near the hotel.
"One is four or five thousand pieces, and the other is more than two thousand." Xu Shuiyuan, head of the criminal investigation squadron of the Jeonju County Public Security Bureau, recently told The Paper that the jeonju police found out according to clues that the remittance received by the suspect was remitted from Xiangxiang City, Hunan Province. The police rushed to Hunan to verify that the real identity of the remitter was the suspect's brother Chen Guangwen, who was working in a brick factory at the time. The "Uncle Peng" who abducted Jiang Zheng was really named Chen Guangxing, a native of Longshan County, Xiangxi, Hunan.
Chen Guangxing's mother, Huang Juhua. Luo Zhenyu Figure
Chen Guangwen and Chen Guangxing's mother, Huang Juhua, live all year round in The Tani Village of Nongche Town, a remote mountain village in western Hunan Province. She and her wife had four sons, each with the name "Wenwu Duxing", but the sons obviously did not fight for their parents.
In 2006, public security officers throughout the state found Chen Guangwen in the course of investigating the abduction of Jiang Zheng and found that the other party was a fugitive who had been murdered. Chen Guangxing, who abducted Jiang Zheng, was also involved in the murder case that year.
Criminal police officer Xu Shuiyuan found that in 1996, the three brothers, "boss" Chen Guangwen, "old third" Chen Guangdu, and "old fourth" Chen Guangxing, clashed with the forestry station personnel who stopped the car while transporting and selling charcoal in Longshan County, killing a staff member. After the incident, the accomplices Chen Guangdu and Chen Guangxing were sentenced one after another, and the main offender, Chen Guangwen, fled.
This time, Chen Guangwen, who had been on the run for 10 years, was accidentally arrested by the police. According to Xu Shuiyuan, after interrogation, the police did not find that his remittance to Chen Guangxing was related to child abduction. Chen Guangwen said that the "fourth elder" did not contact him later, and he did not know his whereabouts.
According to the court's judgment documents, defendant Chen Guangwen committed intentional homicide and was sentenced to death by the Hunan Higher People's Court in August 2007 with a two-year suspension of execution. Since then, after several commutations, the sentence has been reduced to 16 years and 9 months in 2016, and the sentence is up to April 2029.
Chen Guangdu, the "third oldest," told The Paper that in this murder case, he was an accessory and surrendered voluntarily, and was sentenced to two years in prison, while "old fourth" Chen Guangxing was sentenced to four years in prison.
Ms. Cao said she learned from the police that Chen Guangxing had been robbed in Changsha after his release from prison and had been sentenced to another year in prison. After being released from prison in 2005, Chen Guangxing went directly to Daoxian County, Yongzhou City, to find his ex-wife, and the two clashed. After that, Chen Guangxing went to Quanzhou, Guangxi, and came to Caiwan Town, where Cao Meiling was located.
After Chen Wenxing abducted Jiang Zheng in Caiwan Town, the police chased him online and fled. In May 2009, the Guangxi Public Security Department issued a reward notice to five suspects of child trafficking, including Chen Guangxing.
In May 2009, the Southern Morning Post published a reward notice from the Guangxi Public Security Department to Chen Guangxing and others.
Over the years, "human trafficker" Chen Guangxing has disappeared. The case later became a case supervised by the Ministry of Public Security.
In January 2021, the Ministry of Public Security deployed public security organs across the country to carry out "reunion operations". Xu Shuiyuan, who hosted Jiang Zheng's abduction case, told The Paper that in 2021, the public security at the guilin city and jeonju county levels "combed through the case from beginning to end." The police went to Ta Ni Village in Longshan County, Hunan Province, and took blood samples from Chen Guangxing's parents, Huang Juhua and his wife. After a comparison of the DNA system, the police found an unnamed corpse from ten years ago, which was the biological son of Huang Chrysanthemum and his wife.
The nameless body was found in 2011 at a hotel in Baimangying Township, Jianghua County, Hunan Province. Because the identity information was unknown, the local police disposed of the nameless body and stored its DNA test information into the library.
Xu Shuiyuan introduced that in August 2021, DNA comparison and related investigations confirmed that the identity of the nameless body was Chen Guangxing, the son of Huang Juhua. From the police case file, Cao Meiling saw a picture of the death of "human trafficker" Chen Guangxing — lying on the bed, foaming at the mouth.
"He committed suicide by drinking pesticides." Xu Shuiyuan said that the police found a rent receipt in Chen Guangxing's pocket that year , showing that he had rented a house in Zhongshan County, Hezhou City, Guangxi Province. Jianghua County, where he died, is only a few tens of kilometers away from Dao County, where his ex-wife and son are located.
All indications show that Chen Guangxing's five-year circle of activity in the past five years, from the abduction of Jiang Zheng to the suicide, is likely to be in the area of Hunan Dao County, Jianghua County, and Zhongshan County in Guangxi. Xu Shuiyuan analyzed, which is also a direction to find Jiang Zheng.
In January 2022, the news of Chen Guangxing's death ten years ago reached Ta Ni Village in Longshan County. After Chen Guangxing's second and third brothers got the news from the police station, they did not dare to tell their elderly parents.
Huang Juhua vaguely knew about the death of the "old fourth" from the dialogue of others. Her eyes were red, but she didn't show much sadness in front of outsiders.
Huang Chrysanthemum, who has lived in the mountains for decades, is illiterate. Having four sons was her proudest thing. Peng Yingjun, the village party secretary, felt that the old man of Huang Juhua was a "kind person" and was very protective of his children and juniors.
However, over the years, Huang Chrysanthemum has successively become the mother of a "murderer" and the mother of a "human trafficker", and everyone in the village knows it.
"She didn't have an easy time either." Peng Yingjun sighed.
Cao Meiling often carried gifts and crossed the mountains to Huang Juhua's house to inquire about clues.
"Confrontation": a search that spans thousands of miles
Chen Guangxing was found dead, 15 years after he abducted Jiang Zheng.
Cao Meiling told The Paper, she had mixed feelings after learning of Chen Guangxing's death, "I wish he had died early and skinned him." But after he died, the clue to Find Zheng Zheng was broken. ”
After her son disappeared, Cao Meiling and her family searched around. She wrote letters to many departments, beginning with "Save my child"; she tirelessly accepted media interviews, and every time she told, she burst into tears; she went to Hangzhou to participate in the family search conference and went to Chongqing to do face recognition; she learned to send microblogs and vibrato, always paying attention to the clues of child abduction; the amount of her reward for finding children also ranged from 50,000 to 100,000 to 200,000.
Once, she received a strange phone call in Hunan, who said that it was Chen Guangxing's friend who knew the whereabouts of the child. Cao Meiling immediately called her brother to rush to Zixing, Hunan. "When we arrived, the man called us to remit 5,000 yuan, and he brought Zheng Zheng with him." Cao Meiling said that she immediately transferred 5,000 yuan to the past, and not long after receiving a call from the other party, "He said that Zheng Zheng was bitten by a snake, and he asked me to transfer more than three thousand yuan of medical expenses." Cao Meiling realized that she had been deceived.
In June 2007, a relative working in Guangzhou gave Cao Meiling a clue that a beggar was begging on the streets of Guangzhou with a child chained to him, and images were published on Internet forums and newspapers. Cao Meiling saw the begging child in the photo and immediately cried into tears. "It's also a round face, even a forehead." She was sure that the begging child was Jiang Zheng, "My son suffered from such a crime, and his eyes were almost blind..."
Cao Meiling and her mother-in-law, who is more than 60 years old, took a day and a night train to Guangzhou, and with the help of enthusiastic people, they found a begging child and found that the child turned out to be a short-haired girl.
After experiencing repeated disappointments, Cao Meiling decided to focus on the "trafficker" Chen Guangxing and his family.
Cao Meiling first went to Longshan, Hunan Province, in August 2006, five months after her son disappeared. She learned from the police that Chen Guangxing was from Longshan County, and she wanted to find out.
The three counties of Daoxian, Jianghua and Zhongshan are shown on the map.
Quanzhou, Guangxi, is about 650 kilometers away from Longshan, Hunan, and there are no direct cars or trains. Cao Meiling's mother, brother and brother accompanied her, took a map, stayed up all night by train to Liuzhou, Hengyang, Zhangjiajie, and then transferred to Yongshun County in western Hunan Province. The road in the mountains is winding and rugged, and Cao Meiling and others are bumped and vomited all the way.
After staying in Yongshun County for one night, the group set off for Longshan County the next day. After taking a car to the vicinity of the township government, Cao Meiling carried fruits and other gifts, climbed the mountain, waded through the water, crossed the chain bridge, and climbed to the path halfway up the mountain, and she simply hid the slightly heavier gifts in the grass on the side of the road. After walking for two or three hours on the mountain road, a group of people came to Chen Guangxing's parents' house.
The Huang Chrysanthemum couple was somewhat wary of this group of uninvited guests. Cao Meiling said that Huang Juhua later blamed her for finding Chen Guangxing, causing her eldest son Chen Guangwen to be arrested. "The old man said, if you arrest my eldest son, don't arrest my younger son again." She was in a hurry to explain, and hoped that the old man could provide clues to the "fourth old" Chen Guangxing, but Huang Juhua and his wife did not bother to pay attention to her.
The mother of an abducted child and the mother of a "trafficker" met for the first time across thousands of miles and broke up unhappily.
After a month, Cao Meiling learned that Chen Guangxing's ex-wife was in Dao County, Hunan Province, and planned to go to the door to inquire about clues. Some relatives suggested that it is easy for young people to enter the village to cause conflicts, and it is better for the elderly to come forward. Therefore, Cao Meiling took Jiang Zheng's grandfather and grandfather, as well as Jiang Zheng's grandfather's friends and grandfather's friends, and a group of people traveled a long way to Dao County. Cao Meiling said that after entering the village, Chen Guangxing's ex-wife's father called out to people to chase them to "move", and he believed that this group of people came to make trouble from Chen Guangxing's side - Chen Guangxing had clashed with his ex-wife many times after he was released from prison.
Cao Meiling fled with the old people who came from afar. In a hurry, a friend of Jiang Zheng's grandfather fell on a mountain road, suffered a head injury and was unconscious, and was sent to the Daoxian People's Hospital, and later transferred to the hospital in Guilin for treatment. "The medical expenses cost a hundred thousand yuan. He was eager to help, and the money could only be paid by us. Cao Meiling said that the injured old man who suffered a stroke after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage is still in a semi-paralyzed state, which makes her feel very guilty.
On the first day of the first lunar month in 2007, Cao Meiling and her brother set off from their home and arrived at Huang Juhua's Ta Ni Village two days later. Cao Meiling wanted to make a "surprise attack" to see if Chen Guangxing would go home for the Chinese New Year, only to see Huang Juhua and his wife, as well as several grandchildren they were carrying.
The two elderly people said that Chen Guangxing had never returned home and had not contacted his family. Cao Meiling was half-convinced. Her husband, Jiang Ping, was so angry that he even wanted to "fight" with the parents of the "traffickers".
When she went to Chen Guangxing's ex-wife's house in Daoxian County, Cao Meiling saw Chen Guangxing's son, who was two years younger than Jiang Zheng. At that time, she had an impulsive idea - to forcibly take the child away, to retaliate with a tit-for-tat, to blackmail Chen Guangxing to come back and tell Jiang Zheng's whereabouts. But then she gave up and gave Chen Guangxing's son a 50 yuan red envelope.
After all, she said, the child is innocent, "one person does things and one person does it."
Cao Meiling and Huang Chrysanthemum are together.
Warmth: rice wine, bacon and "family portrait"
Cao Meiling did not give up and intended to "impress" Huang Juhua and his wife with actions.
In May 2008, she came to Tani Village again and lived in Huang Chrysanthemum's house for a week, helping two elderly people to do farm work: planting seedlings, digging the ground, planting beans, feeding pigs...
One night, Huang Juhua took Cao Meiling's hand and said, "You are such a good person, just like my daughter." "The two got a lot closer at once." I said, after helping me find Jiang Zheng, I will recognize you as a dry father and mother. You have one more daughter and son-in-law, and one more grandson. Cao Meiling said that at that time, she felt that with this meaning, the two old men should help "find a grandson."
Later, some media reported that Cao Meiling recognized the parents of the "traffickers" as dry fathers and mothers. Someone scolded her online for "confessing to being a thief as a father." This made Cao Meiling feel aggrieved. "They misunderstood me." She said that she has always called Huang Juhua and his wife "Uncle Chen and Aunt Chen", and has never called out to Daddy and Mother, "and she can't shout out".
However, the relationship between Cao Meiling and Huang Juhua and his wife is indeed much more harmonious than before. When she went to Huang Juhua's house, she would always bring gifts such as fruit, tobacco and alcohol, and occasionally give the elderly one or two hundred yuan "telephone bill". "I've been there a dozen times in total." Cao Meiling told The Paper, after she became pregnant with her young son in 2010, she rarely went to Longshan, "I feel that there is no effect." ”
In October 2021, Cao Meiling learned from the police that Chen Guangxing, who abducted Jiang Zheng, had been poisoned and killed 10 years earlier in Jianghua, Hunan Province. In January 2022, volunteers Deng Fei, Shangguan Zhengyi and others went to Jianghua County to investigate the suspected young people of Jiang Zheng based on clues provided by netizens - according to time, the abducted child Jiang Zheng is now 21 years old. After DNA comparison, the Jianghua police ruled out the possibility that the young man suspected of Jiang Zheng was related to Cao Meiling.
The hope of searching for a son was once again disappointed, and Cao Meiling was depressed. She decided to go to Hunan again to "find clues" from Huang Chrysanthemum and his wife. She felt that now that Chen Guangxing was dead, the two old men should not have the "concern" of protecting their son.
At noon on January 12, Cao Meiling got into a volunteer car and set off. The car was driving on a winding mountain road, and Cao Meiling, who had taken medicine, did not vomit. Sitting in the car facing the camera, she talked to herself, "talking" to her son who did not know where he was. She told her son that her grandmother had always thought of him and did not close her eyes when she died last year; her father had been drinking for many years and now suffered from cerebral infarction; her mother had the idea of "leaving", "But I think that you will be very sad when you go home and don't see your mother in the future..."
Cao Meiling hopes that her son will remember his own life after seeing the report. She repeated her home address and phone number, "You remembered all of this before. She wiped away her tears with a tissue and continued, "Mom didn't take care of you, she didn't take care of you, and you were taken away by human traffickers." Mom can't stand you! ”
When Jiang Zheng was a child, every night before going to bed, he pestered to listen to his mother sing her own songs. "Zheng Zheng, I'm still singing it to you." Cao Meiling sang while crying: "Mother's little baby, sleep." Mommy's little one, sleeping..."
On January 13, the surging news reporter followed Cao Meiling and her party to Ta Ni Village, a farmer's car town in Longshan County, Hunan Province. This remote mountain village was connected to a cement road four years ago. Huang Chrysanthemum's home is located halfway up the mountain and is home to three dilapidated wooden houses connected together.
Cao Meiling, dressed in a black coat, got out of the car, she hadn't been here for five years. Carrying two red bags containing 4 bottles of Guangxi rice wine, 1 cigarette and a few pounds of fruit, she walked a few hundred meters along the mountain trail to Huang Chrysanthemum's house. Huang Juhua, who had received the news in advance, was already waiting at the door, and the old man was wearing a red cotton coat and a red hat, but he could not hide his face.
Cao Meiling and Huang Juhua held each other in four hands and did not let go for a long time. The two of them only said a few words to each other, and they both began to cry. Cao Meiling's tears rushed out, and Huang Juhua buried her head in the other's arms sadly.
The two mothers, one's son, whose life and death are kidnapped, and one whose son commits suicide, "the white-haired man sends the black-haired man."
Huang Chrysanthemum's home is very simple, and there is almost no electrical equipment in sight. Her old partner, Chen Caihua, who is over eighty years old, saw Cao Meiling bring him his favorite rice wine and accused her of being "polite". After a while, he told reporters sitting at the edge of the fire pit that his son Chen Guangxing was "bad and cruel", while Cao Meiling was good to them, so that they "did not want to go".
"Although he is no longer here, I still have to scold him in my heart, (abducting people) this kind of thing can not be done." Chen Guangxing's third brother, Chen Guangdu, sighed, "Our family is also miserable, and now it has fallen to this point." ”
This time, Huang Juhua also told Cao Meiling as before that Chen Guangxing had never been in contact with her family, and she really did not know the child's clues. This time, Cao Meiling believed.
Before leaving, Cao Meiling gave Huang Chrysanthemum 200 yuan. Huang Chrysanthemum cut two strips of bacon blackened by the firewood, wrapped them in red plastic bags and put them in a snakeskin nylon bag for Cao Meiling to bring back. One of the two people refused to accept the money, the other refused to take the bacon, and pushed the old man at the door for half a day. Finally, the old man stuffed two 100 yuan back into Cao Meiling's pockets, and asked the village cadres to put the bags containing bacon on the car where Cao Meiling was sitting.
On the afternoon of January 14, Cao Meiling returned to Guangxi. This trip to Hunan still did not find a clue to her son, and she looked more tired and lonely. She began to look forward to Chen Guangxing's eldest brother Chen Guangwen's release from prison a few years later— one year she went to see Chen Guangwen in prison, and "Boss Chen" told her that he would definitely help find the child when he came out.
Cao Meiling felt that Chen Guangwen might be able to recall some clues that his fourth brother Chen Guangxing had abducted and sold children, "hoping that he would fulfill his promise to find children." ”
What makes Cao Meiling happy is that the police now attach great importance to the case of Jiang Zheng's abduction. Liao Weifeng, deputy director of the Jeonju County Public Security Bureau, recently said in the face of the media that he would "use the strength of the overall situation" to investigate this case and look for Jiang Zheng. In recent years, DNA comparison, face recognition and other technical detection methods have made breakthroughs in the fight against abduction. In the "reunion" operation in 2021, the national public security recovered 10,932 abducted children.
"As long as I can find you, my mother is willing to suffer no matter how much pain." Cao Meiling often "talks" to her son these days. In her black satchel, there was still a "family portrait" — a photo of Cao Meiling and her husband standing in the back, and four-year-old Jiang Zheng was "moved" to the front. The child is still crossed at the waist, and the right foot wearing sandals accidentally "stepped" on the mother's left foot.
Cao Meiling asked for a "family portrait" of PS.
Cao Meiling said that when she finds her son, she must take a real "family portrait".
Responsible editor: Wei Jiaming Photo editor: Jiang Lidong