Wen | Yue Yue
Edited | Yue Yue Kan history
In the center of Dalian in 1988, tramways spread throughout the city, and tram after tram was the only public transportation at that time.
The city is a mixture of exotic small bungalows, but ordinary people's homes are mostly small bungalows.
At that time, the street was full of people, but no one noticed a 6-year-old girl who was rummaging through the garbage can.
She was ragged and her face was dirty. The small body struggled to pull the trash can, picking up the scraps inside.
But there was not much food in the garbage can, so she had to stop all the way and slowly walked to the Dalian Railway Station at that time.
Just as she was rummaging through the next trash can, a middle-aged man came to her side. Looking at the appearance, it should be the staff nearby.
Only to see him crouch down and say a few words, and then the little girl obediently followed him. As she walked out of the train station, the little girl glanced back at the familiar street.
At that time, she did not know that this eye was enough to run through her life for the next 31 years.
The strange woman's police station asked for help and made a concerted effort to send her home
In early January 2019, a middle-aged woman named Zhou Yi came to the Chengguan police station in Shibing County.
She had come for help. At the age of 37, she had no identity card, no household registration book, and no materials to prove her identity.
It's hard to imagine how her life of more than thirty years has come about. In modern society, a "black household" should be difficult to move.
Why did she not think of calling the police until she was middle-aged? What is the purpose of this identification process?
Officer Long, who was in charge of the incident, revealed the answer: "According to her, she was abducted and sold to Shibing County, and she was only 6 years old when she was abducted. ”
From the date of abduction to January 2019, Zhou Yi has been a "black household".
Her adoptive parents were unable to open a false account for her, and after marriage, the in-laws and husbands could not solve this problem.
So in a strict sense, the marriage relationship between Zhou Yi and her husband is not recognized by law, because they did not have a marriage license at all.
Not only that, but even the two children she gave birth to did not have a proper household registration.
Without an ID card, you can't get a marriage license, you can't get a child's hukou, and you can't go to work in a regular unit.
Therefore, in the past 31 years, Zhou Yi has never left Shibing County, and can only rely on casual work to make a living.
So now, she suddenly chose to come to the police station for help, has she already found her biological parents and wants to return to her hometown for reunion?
The answer is exactly that.
"I was 6 years old when I was brought to Shibing County, and I remember my name, my parents' names, and I remember being from Dalian."
The reason why Zhou Yi was so eager to prove her identity was because she had contacted her biological father in Dalian.
In October 2018, Zhou Yi saw a public welfare website called "Baby Home" online.
This website is dedicated to helping abducted children find their biological parents.
With the mentality of trying it out, Zhou Yi registered his information on it. She knew there was little hope, but she couldn't help but want to try it.
A month passed, two months passed, and she waited day by day in great suffering.
Finally, at the end of 2018, a good news came.
Ding Chao, a volunteer from Qiandongnan, found a person suspected of Zhou Yi's father after comparing big data and querying various information.
Qiandongnan volunteers immediately contacted dalian volunteers, hoping that they could help verify the identity of the other party.
And when Zhou Yi heard this good news, she couldn't help but shed tears. Listening to the volunteer's narration on the phone, she seemed to slowly piece together the appearance of her father.
"The volunteers told me that they had found my biological father and that the next step was to take blood and test my DNA."
In addition, the volunteers also told her about her father's recent situation.
Before Zhou Yi disappeared, her father was serving a prison sentence; when the sentence was completed, her father who was released from prison could no longer find her.
The wife divorced and remarried, the daughter's whereabouts are unknown, and the only thing that greets this middle-aged man is confusion and decadence.
In the past thirty years, he has not remarried and had children, but has been searching for the whereabouts of his daughter in the vast sea of people.
Perhaps it was the heart between father and daughter, and they finally found each other. Although 30 years have passed since this day.
When he learned that his father's living conditions were not very good, Zhou Yi also promised: "That is my own father." No matter what, I will take care of him. ”
Although Zhou Yi's own family conditions are not very good, she will still do her best to balance her father and adoptive parents.
At the end of January 2019, the DNA comparison results confirmed the blood relationship between Zhou Yi and the other party, and they were like fake biological fathers and daughters.
Before that, Zhou Yi had also applied to the Chengguan police station for help to see if he could issue an identity certificate for her.
Because black households can't buy tickets.
From Guizhou to Dalian, there are about 3,000 kilometers of distance.
One in the south and one in the north, one in the west and one in the east. They form exactly a diagonal line.
At the same time, Zhou Yi's family conditions are not enough to support her travel expenses.
Then, under the coordination of the Shibing County Public Security Department, the "Baby Homecoming" volunteer organization and the Qiandongnan Rescue and Management Center, she finally had the opportunity to return to Dalian.
This road home, she spent a full 31 years. The look back before she left that year also became a trace of obsession on her later search for relatives.
Parents divorced family broken, living on the streets young abducted
Zhou Yi was born on May 24, 1982 in Ganzijing District, Dalian, Liaoning Province.
Ganzijing District is strategically located in the center of Dalian City and acts as a bridge between the main urban area and the new urban area.
Until the age of 6, Zhou Yi lived a carefree and happy life. She is the only daughter in the family and both parents have decent jobs.
Originally, the happy life of the family should continue like this.
But the sky is unpredictable, and people have bad luck.
Many things cannot be changed by human beings. For a 6-year-old child, she is even more unable to understand the thoughts and behaviors of adults.
In 1988, Zhou Yi's parents divorced.
We don't know the truth about this marriage change, even Zhou Yi.
All she knew was that Mom and Dad were separated. The mother quickly remarried after the divorce and moved far, far away.
She was sentenced to her father and still stayed in Dalian. Since then, my mother has not appeared again, and my father seems to have changed as a person.
A "three-good father" who used to work in a disciplined manner suddenly became a drunken and fighting scoundrel.
Without the care of his mother, Zhou Yi's living standards also plummeted.
Starvation has become the norm in her life. Sometimes, there is no need to eat even the leftovers.
Soon after, my father was suddenly arrested on charges of gathering people to fight.
Suddenly, Zhou Yi lost his mother and father one after another. She went from a much-loved "little princess" to a "wild child" who no one cared about.
No one cared about her, no one gave her food to eat, and Zhou Yi, who was only 6 years old, could only live on the street.
Because the house behind him is no longer the "home" in memory, staying there will only be starved to death.
In order to survive, she had to go to the trash can like a beggar to find food.
During this period, there were well-meaning people who called the police several times. After the police learned about the situation, they would send her to a special rescue unit.
However, Zhou Yi sneaked out every time. Maybe she wanted to find her father, or maybe she was worried that he wouldn't find her when he got home.
But as the days passed, my father still did not return. She began to wander the streets all day, walking all the way in search of food.
Until that time wandering to Dalian Railway Station.
When Zhou Yi struggled to pick up the scraps in the garbage can, an uncle came to her side.
"I didn't know what trafficking was. He looked at me pitifully and asked me if my parents didn't want me anymore. ”
"Then he said take me to dinner, and I went with him."
The middle-aged man took Zhou Yi out of the train station and took good care of her in the days that followed.
At that time, Zhou Yi was a child after all, so the two quickly established a relationship of trust.
She had expected the uncle to take good care of her and then accompany her to her father. But within a few days, she was taken on the long-distance train.
The train drifted away, all the way from north to south, and finally arrived at Chengguan Town, Shibing County. This is a small town located in the qiandongnan mountains of Guizhou Province.
"He said he was going to work and couldn't take care of me all the time, so he sent me to his brother's house."
Before leaving, he also assured Zhou Yi that it would not be long before he would come back to pick her up. But 30 years later, Zhou Yi never saw him again.
As for whether the adoptive father was his younger brother or not, the answer was no longer important.
In the first few years of his visit, Zhou Yi would also ask his adoptive parents about the middle-aged man.
But her adoptive parents would only answer her, saying that the man was indeed her adoptive father's brother. Other than that, they wouldn't say anything.
When he grew up, Zhou Yi didn't ask. She had realized she had been trafficked.
But fortunately, the middle-aged man did not sell her to any messy places.
Although Chengguan Town is remote and her adoptive parents' family is poor, everyone treats her well and does not treat her harshly because she is a girl.
In fact, Zhou Yi sometimes can't understand why his adoptive parents would buy him. They obviously have children and daughters, so why should they raise her as a burden?
Were they really related to the middle-aged man? But if it is a family relationship, why has it not been in contact for 30 years?
In the fifth grade of elementary school, the adoptive parents really couldn't afford Zhou Yi to go to school. So Zhou Yi, like many children in mountainous areas, dropped out of school early to subsidize his family.
She also regretted it, but she understood better the truth of "if it comes, it is safe".
It was not easy for her adoptive parents to raise her with all their might, and the rest of her life was still on her own.
However, because he was a "black household", Zhou Yi could not find any good job and could only stay in the town to do odd jobs.
Later, she married a young man in Chengguan Town. The two did not receive a marriage license, but only set up a simple banquet.
After marriage, Zhou Yi gave birth to two children in succession. The life of a family of four is quite poor, but fortunately, the in-laws and adoptive parents will often come over to take the handle.
And so it went to 2018.
Blood kinship is difficult to give up, and they have returned to their hometown after many years of absence
In Zhou Yi's heart, she never forgot her own parents.
She knew that her mother already had another family, so she didn't want to bother her mother. But she still wants to see her father again, to return to the hometown where she was born.
The father was unaware of the abduction. I don't know how he lived alone in Dalian after all these years.
Whenever he saw other abducted families reunited on the TV news, Zhou Yi always remembered himself.
But in her 30s, she had never even gone out of Chengguan Town, and she knew nothing about the outside world.
What's more, she wasn't sure if she could find her father. What if the father also remarries? So does she still have a home to go back to?
In the face of this entanglement, Zhou Yi was unable to make up his mind. And her dilemma was also seen by her adoptive parents and husband.
From the bottom of their hearts, they hoped that Zhou Yi could find the original family. No matter what the current situation of the original family is, the good guys can't let themselves have regrets.
Moreover, Zhou Yi's hukou problem also needs to be solved urgently. If not resolved, the two children will be affected in the future.
With the encouragement of his family, Zhou Yi finally plucked up enough courage to start the road of finding relatives. Then, she left her message on the "Baby Come Home" public welfare website.
Fortunately, there is no invincible road, and her journey to find relatives does not have any twists and turns. With the help of modern technology and volunteers, the father and daughter finally ushered in a long goodbye reunion.
On February 22, 2019, Zhou Yi arrived at Kaili South Station with a suitcase and an identity document.
She came here 31 years ago, from north to south; 31 years later, she is about to return to her hometown from south to north.
In the square outside the door, volunteers from Qiandongnan encouraged her to send her off.
Zhou Yi, who was full of tears, solemnly bowed to everyone and thanked them: "Thank you! I'm going home, goodbye! ”
Kaili South Station does not have a direct car to Dalian, so she also needs to transfer a car in Beijing.
On the morning of February 23, Zhou Yi departed from Beijing Railway Station for Dalian North Railway Station.
At this time, Dalian North Railway Station, there are already people waiting there. Volunteers from Dalian are accompanying Father Zhou at the exit gate.
At about 1 p.m., Zhou Yi stepped off the train with a nervous mood. When she stood in her homeland again, a sense of familiarity that had been separated for a long time suddenly emerged.
No matter how many years, people will always forget their homeland. Hometown always occupies a special position in the heart.
And when she walked out of the station, the distant father and daughter both saw each other for the first time.
They hugged each other tightly and wept, as if trying to fill the gaps and regrets of the past 30 years.
Time flies, and the young and ignorant little girl has transformed into a mother who stands tall in the sky.
The white colt crossed the gap, and the father who once stood tall in the sky was polished by the years into a silent old man.
Both father and daughter are not the same as they were, but they still retain the purest family affection in their hearts.
After returning to Dalian, Zhou Yi strolled through the streets of the city. These roads were all walked when she was young and wandering.
But it's different.
After 30 years of development, Dalian has transformed from a small port near the sea into a megacity in the coastal economic belt.
In addition, tourism, finance and service industries are also booming.
The old bungalows of the past are gone, replaced by buildings that have risen from the ground.
Street planning is also constantly changing, from the former small road to the current large road, surrounded by green belts.
Of course, there are some old things that have not changed.
The tram is still shuttling through the downtown area, and the familiar sound of the whistle seems to make Zhou Yi return to the past.
"I really didn't expect that after so many years, the tram was still there..."
At the same time, the taste of home-cooked seafood has not changed. It is common for Dalian people to eat seafood, but people in the southeastern region of Qiandong are not good at this bite.
In the past three decades, Zhou Yi has never had "seafood freedom". Now that I have returned home, I have to do as much as I want.
And in the days when the father and daughter are reunited, they seem to be back to their pre-1988 lives.
The original family can no longer go back, but the warmth is still there.
There are also many relatives and friends who have also come to visit. For these kindnesses, Zhou Yi and his father all gladly accepted.
However, she finally chose to return to Chengguan Town.
Affection and affection, neither is thrown away
Leaving was a choice made by Zhou Yi after careful consideration.
If she were alone, she would have chosen to stay in Dalian and occasionally find time to go back to visit her adoptive parents.
But now she is not alone, she still has her own small family. In Chengguan Town, there is a husband who loves her and cares for her, and two children she is pregnant with in October.
The roots of husbands and children are in the far southwest. She can't be alone to force the current family of four to be separated.
Moreover, her adoptive parents were also kind to her.
The middle-aged man at that time, no one knew whether he was a human trafficker or not. And for what purpose her adoptive parents adopted her is not yet known.
However, when she was living on the streets and feeding on garbage every day, her life was also precarious.
It was she herself who chose to go with others, and then her adoptive parents also gave her a place to shelter herself from the wind and rain.
Although the days after the marriage are hard, the family is harmonious and beautiful. For Zhou Yi, this is not a kind of compensation for childhood.
She had suffered so much that she didn't want her children to taste it again.
"I'm not going to give up on either side. I will take responsibility for my own family, my father, and my adoptive parents. ”
After applying for an ID card at the Ganzijing District Public Security Bureau, Zhou Yi finally had a legal identity. From then on, she could walk the world with dignity.
The next thing she had to do was to get a marriage license with her husband and solve the hukou problem of her two children.
Life is long, and the future can be expected. Although there have been many ups and downs before, as long as the family works hand in hand, there is no obstacle that cannot be overcome.
After spending some time in Dalian, Zhou Yi embarked on the return journey. She made a pact with her father that she would come to see him next time with her husband and children.
postscript
As of August 2021, the police have recovered a total of 3,480 abducted or missing children.
Among them, the longest one was 61 years old when he was abducted. That is, he was forced to leave his family of origin in 1960.
By the time he found his loved ones, he was already old enough to be a flower armour.
In contrast, Zhou Yi was lucky. Her search for relatives was not bumpy or long.
Most importantly, her father was still waiting for her.
Child trafficking is one of the most unforgivable crimes, and traffickers are also a criminal group that needs to be vigorously combated.
At the same time, the concept of "buying and selling is the same sin" should also be deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
If there is no buyer's market, there will be no seller's market, and there will be no thousands of families fragmented.
Similarly, parents should learn to be qualified parents. Those who are born without support and those who fail to fulfill their parenting duties are not worthy of being called parents.
May there be no abduction in the world, and may every family be safe and joyful.