July 1, 2018, is an unforgettable day for Liang Hua. On this day, he found his daughter, who had been lost for 13 years.
His daughter Jinglang, who is 18 years old this year, has been living on the other side of the ocean for all these years, and now her name is Kelly, and she is already an American citizen.
How did 5-year-old Liang Jinglang lose it?
Who brought her to the United States?
May 20, 2005, is an unforgettable day for Liang Hua.
At noon that day, he left work with a tired body, and as soon as he reached the door of the dormitory, he received a phone call. The call came from my brother, who said with a crying voice:
"Brother, it's not good, Xiao Jinglang is gone."
Liang Hua, a native of Leizhou, Guangdong, was born in 1973 at the age of 32.
At the age of 22, he married his lover Wu Qinmei. After marriage, they had a total of 5 children, and the missing Liang Jinglang was his second daughter, who was only 5 years old at the time.
At that time, Liang Hua worked in the Ronggui area of Shunde, while his younger brother Liang Tian worked in the Galanz factory. In May of that year, Liang Hua took his 5-year-old daughter from home to him. But because there were regulations in the company that no children were allowed in the staff dormitory, Liang Hua temporarily sent her daughter to her brother's residence, a simple rental house.
Speaking of the scene of the child's loss, Liang Hua still remembers it vividly:
"I distinctly remember that it was May 20th, and the morning was still clear, but at noon it suddenly began to pour down."
In the afternoon, after the rain passed, Liang Hua's phone suddenly rang.
His brother called and told him that Xiao Jinglang was missing. Liang Hua was very anxious and asked, "Isn't Jinglang resting in the rental room?" ”
When he asked this, his brother cried on the phone. Liang Hua immediately hung up the phone and flew to his brother's dormitory.
He and his brother began going door-to-door in the neighborhood, then went out into the streets, calling for their daughter.
Later, the uncle of the commissary at the entrance of the dormitory said that he saw a little girl, and he did not know whether it was Xiao Jinglang, who walked out of the rental building alone and did not know where to go.
In this way, Liang Jinglang disappeared from the sight of his family.
Shortly after the child went missing, Liang Hua quickly called the police. After receiving Liang Hua's report, the police station attached great importance to it and immediately mobilized all the duty preparations and police auxiliary forces to find Liang Hua's missing daughter.
The surrounding stations, docks and densely populated places are full of police officers looking for figures. A large number of investigation circulars have also been posted in the streets and alleys.
As long as a little girl with similar characteristics is found, the police will immediately drive there.
But despite this, the small crystal wave was still like water dripping into the sea, and there was no news.
The disappearance of the child has completely changed the life of Liang Hua's family.
The child was lost from his brother's dormitory, and the younger brother was full of guilt. In order to wait for the child to return home, the younger brother consulted with the old man downstairs of the rental house and paid a small commissary under a heavy gold plate, where he would wait in place and watch for the return of his niece.
After his daughter was lost, Liang Hua was even more distraught and worried, and he could no longer concentrate on going to work. As long as I got off work, I ignored my fatigue and shuttled through the streets and alleys between Shunde and Zhongshan, and never gave up looking for my daughter.
In order to find his daughter's whereabouts, he had to change jobs every once in a while, each in a different neighborhood.
However, day by day, there was still no news of her daughter.
In 2009, Liang Hua made an important decision to work in Beijing. What he thought in his heart was that this was the heart of the motherland, people from all over the country, and it was possible to attract the attention of the big media, and maybe he could help him find his daughter.
With a vast sea of people of more than 20 million people, it is not easy to find someone to talk about.
Liang Hua's hopes were ultimately disappointed, and the loss of his daughter did not attract any special media attention, and he returned to Guangdong with hope that he would go north without success.
In this way, spring and autumn came, seven years have passed, and my daughter is still missing. Liang Hua's whole person is also much older, and his weight has dropped from 138 pounds to 92 pounds. The man's body has shown some signs of collapse.
In 2011, Liang Hua walked heavily back to his hometown in Guangdong, and his mother tearfully persuaded him:
"It's not a solution for you to always do this, you can't live alone for her, but also think about the rest of the family."
Liang Hua woke up like a dream, at this time, the younger daughter was already eight years old, and had already passed the age of enrollment.
"If you continue like this, our family, I'm afraid it's really going to collapse." His wife, Wu Qinmei, also said worriedly.
"Well, I'm not looking for it for a while."
Faced with the worries of his loved ones, Liang Hua chose to compromise, after all, he still had four children to take care of, and he took three of the five children from his hometown to Shunde and let them go to school here.
The purpose of this is obvious, that is, to take care of the children while continuing to search for the second daughter.
Poor parents in the world, although there are five children, but the world's parents will not be too much, not one less.
At the dinner table, Liang Hua has always reserved a seat for his second daughter, and he hopes that one day the child will return home and reunite with the family.
Whenever the night was quiet, Liang Hua and his wife would often secretly weep and sigh, and their eyes would always stare at the door, hoping that it would suddenly be pushed open, and Xiao Jinglang would jump in front of them.
Baby daughter, where have you been?
Yes, where is Xiao Jinglang, life or death?
We turn back to the perspective of Little Crystal Wave.
At the beginning of her father's arrangement to her uncle's house, everything was as usual, and her uncle hurt her and loved her, and Xiao Jinglang soon became familiar with life around her uncle.
But my uncle also has to go to work, and it is not okay to have no one to take care of him when he goes to work. It just so happened that the uncle and his roommate and colleague were not in the same class, and the uncle had a clever move, just when he went to work, let the roommate accompany his niece.
The roommate is also a responsible person, taking good care of Xiao Jinglang.
On this day, the roommate was in a bit of a hurry and needed to go out for a while, and the child was sleeping again, so for safety, he locked XiaoJinglang in the house.
Unexpectedly, Xiao Jinglang woke up, saw no one in the house, shouted for half a day and no one answered, couldn't help but be a little scared, climbed up the window sill on the first floor, jumped outside the house, stared forward in confusion, and went out to find his uncle.
When she went out, it happened to rain in the sky, which made her even more frightened and desperate to run forward.
After a while, the rain passed and the sky cleared, and Xiao Jinglang slowed down and began to look for a way home. But looking around, the streets were so strange that I had never seen a face before.
Xiao Jinglang was overwhelmed, and as he walked, he cried and shouted.
The streets were crowded with people, everyone had their own business, and no one noticed the poor little girl, her cries drowned out by the horns of vehicles, the roar of factory machinery, and the cries of vendors.
At the foot of the Dongfeng side bridge of the Xiaojiao Bridge in Zhongshan City, Guangdong Province, an old man wandering on the street noticed her.
"This is whose child, crying here, the traffic around is too dangerous, and this parent is too incompetent." The old master muttered in his heart, and quickly went forward to take Xiao Jinglang's hand and asked, "Little girl, where do you live in your family, where are your parents, how can you run alone on the street?" ”
Don't say Xiao Jinglang, it is an adult who has just arrived and does not know where she lives, so she can only answer "looking for an uncle" and the like, as for the specific location of the residence, the little girl of course has no comment.
Coupled with the fact that her family is in Leizhou, shunde can't understand the words, and because of the nervousness, the two sides can't communicate at all.
The old master had no choice but to send her to the Zhongshan District Police Station.
The police on duty here also couldn't understand what Xiao Jinglang said, and when they arrived at the police station, Xiao Jinglang cried even harder, how could she not be coaxed, and could not get any useful information from her mouth.
If it is placed in the present, the police will definitely use the network platform to publish the child's information, and in a few hours, the news will spread throughout Guangdong, and the child can go home smoothly.
At that time, the Internet was not yet developed, effective social platforms had not yet been established, and the police had no choice but to send their children to the local welfare home.
As soon as he arrived at the welfare home and saw so many strangers, Xiao Jinglang was more nervous and more frightened, and simply did not say anything, and it did not take long before he could not even say his own name.
In this way, Xiao Jinglang became a child without a master, settled in a welfare home, and also had a new name - Zhongfengmin.
Children in welfare homes are generally adopted before long, and the state encourages eligible caring people at home and abroad to adopt orphaned children who have been abandoned and lost. During the period, a young couple once adopted Xiao Jinglang, but after a few years of adoption, the two children divorced, the woman was unwilling to raise, the man was single and did not meet the conditions for adoption, and could only terminate the adoption relationship, and Xiao Jinglang was "retired" back to the welfare home.
In September 2012, an American couple came to a welfare home and proposed to the relevant authorities that they wanted to adopt a Chinese child.
Xiao Jinglang is already a 12-year-old girl at this time, although she developed later, this age is actually more embarrassing, and few Chinese people are willing to adopt such an "older" child, which is equivalent to losing the favor of the "adopter market".
Seeing the blue-eyed and yellow-haired Americans, Xiao Jinglang was not afraid of the stage at all, and also greeted them with a friendly smile and took the initiative to greet them.
The person in charge of the welfare home was also relieved to see the situation, so Xiao Jinglang followed the American couple across the ocean to the other side of the ocean and became an "American".
After coming to the United States, her adoptive parents gave her the English name Kelly. They created good learning conditions for Xiaojinglang and let her attend private schools with high fees.
Liang Jinglang is also very competitive, although the start is too late, can not stand her study hard work, the results are very good, less than two years, as if with her own academic physique of her grades caught up, each course to take A, so that the classmates born in the United States are ashamed of themselves, praise her.
Today, Liang Jinglang has graduated from high school and was admitted to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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When he grew up, Liang Jinglang did not forget that he was a Chinese, did not forget the scene when he was lost, and never gave up looking for his parents.
In fact, as early as when she had just learned to speak English, she seriously told her American parents: "I am lost, not abandoned by my parents." ”
The memory of that time is vividly preserved in her mind: she climbed the window sill with her small hand, jumped to the ground, walked out of the street, and shouted "Daddy, uncle..." in the pouring rain. She left her uncle's rental house and went to a strange world, where she was sent to a welfare home and followed her adoptive parents to the United States.
"It's all my fault, I'm an inattentive kid." She often blamed herself in front of her adoptive parents.
Over time, her persistence and heartfelt affection infected her adoptive parents, who comforted Liang Jinglang to complete her studies first and promise to help her find her biological parents at the right time in the future.
Like Bezos, the richest man in the United States, the phenomenon of American couples coming to China to adopt children was commonplace at the time, and at least 90,000 Chinese orphans have made their homes in the United States in the past 18 years. Moreover, the children they adopt are mainly abandoned babies with physical disabilities, accounting for 80% of them.
Most of them are not as rich as some Chinese think, but this does not prevent them from generously providing their children with medical treatment and schooling opportunities, and American adoptive parents never regard their children as their private property, and they will help these Chinese children find their biological parents whenever they have the opportunity.
When the children reach adulthood, american couples respect the wishes of their children and help their children come to China to recognize their relatives.
In June 2014, just two years after coming to the United States, Liang Jinglang finally waited for the long-lost day, and her adoptive parents took her back to Guangdong, China, to pursue her childhood memories, hoping to gain something from the place she had lost.
Since the beginning of the loss, 9 years have passed, the Rapid Development of the Pearl River Delta, Shunde has been a thing of the people, changing with each passing day, has undergone earth-shaking changes, no matter how to pursue, can not find the place of the year.
After a week of searching, Liang Jinglang and her adoptive parents had to give up, regrettably ended the search for relatives, and returned to the United States with full of sorrow.
However, Liang Jinglang did not give up, as she grew older, her desire to find relatives became stronger, and as soon as she had the opportunity, she searched for people in Guangdong through the network platform and in the vast sea of information.
Not only that, she also took the initiative to frequently publish her own family information on various platforms.
Liang Jinglang's encounter attracted the attention of a large newspaper in Guangzhou, and began to report on her, fortunately, this report was noticed by Liang Hua's sister-in-law, who immediately took photos of the newspaper and other information and sent it to Liang Hua.
On May 3, 2018, Labor Day, Liang Jinglang, who was at home during the holidays, suddenly saw her eyes light up, and her timely chat software received a friend application, showing that the region was China.
She immediately came to the spirit, shaking her hands through the other's application. After adding friends, Liang Jinglang waited for the other party to speak, feeling that time passed very slowly, and every second was like a day.
After waiting for a century, the other party sent a message, and the first sentence was:
"Hello, do you have two spinners on the top of your head?"
Liang Jinglang is still trying to think - there are too many people with two spinners on their heads, which does not seem to be the basis for recognizing relatives.
After a while, the other party's second sentence came again: "Do you remember that when you were a child, your arm was broken and dislocated?" ”
Immediately after, the other party sent a third sentence: "Is there a birthmark on the lower right side of your back?" ”
Seeing this sentence, Liang Jinglang could not help himself, and the tears blurred his eyes, and he replied with a Chinese:
"Dad, don't ask, I'm your daughter!"
Liang Hua, who was far away in Guangdong, saw this reply, and how to hold it, he jumped up excitedly and swung his fists continuously, and hugged and cried with his wife.
13 years, 4700 days and nights, searching, looking for, praying again and again in front of the statue of Mazu, and finally waiting for this day.
Although it is a foregone conclusion, this is not enough to prove that the two parties are related by blood, and it is necessary to go through the legal procedures and do DNA testing and identification on both sides.
With the joint assistance of volunteers and media reporters, Liang Hua and his wife Wu Qinmei came to the Shunde District Public Security Bureau in Foshan City for help.
With the help of the public security, a few days later, the test results came out, confirming that the child "Zhongfengmin" adopted by the American couple in the Zhongshan City Welfare Institute was the lost child of Liang Hua and his wife, "Liang Jinglang".
On the morning of July 1, 2018, 18-year-old Chinese American Kelly (formerly known as Liang Jinglang and Zhongfengmin) and American adoptive mother Sandy arrived at the Guangzhou airport, met and recognized her biological parents, and returned to her father Liang Hua's home in Shunde.
The wanderer, who has been lost for 13 years, finally returns to his parents.
After the reunion, Liang Jinglang left her parents and embarked on a journey back to China with her American mother.
She kissed her parents at the airport and told them:
Mom and Dad, I am your daughter, I am Chinese, this will never change, my daughter will come back!