In 2012, Kaijiang County, Dazhou City, Sichuan Province.
It was a calm day as usual, and in this slow-paced little county town, the common people were walking leisurely down the street, but this did not include a young lad who looked hurried and his eyes were constantly rolling, as if he were looking for something.
After a while, he came to an alley, where a group of people were gathering to talk, and the young man looked at it carefully, and his face suddenly changed, and he rushed up with an arrow and dragged one of the old men out, shouting loudly in his mouth.
The people around him suddenly rioted, and the old man listened to the young man's Hokkien accent, and he felt inexplicable, he was basically sure that he had never seen this foreigner, until the young man's mouth intermittently said"Twenty years ago... homicide... Trafficker..." After waiting for the words, the old man's face finally changed, because those things had passed for too long, so long that he himself was almost forgotten.
Soon, police cars with sirens roared in, and the policemen decisively handcuffed the old man into the police car under the surprised eyes of those around them.
A few days later, the young man found a village under Yongxing Town in Kaijiang County, and in front of a family, he finally met his father, his biological father, and the village gongs and drums sounded in unison that day, and the villagers all came to this house for a banquet.
What the hell is going on with these chaotic scenes?
The young man named Zhao Yongyong, nearly twenty years after he was abducted from his hometown by human traffickers, during this long time, he persevered through notes, drawings and other ways to save the memories of his childhood in his mind, as well as the characteristics of the face associated with the murderer.
In the end, he successfully recalled the location of his homeland on the guidance of a hometown dish, not only successfully found his family, but also cooperated with the police to arrest the murderers who killed his mother and kidnapped himself and his brother twenty years ago, which was a strange story for a while.
The story begins on the distant july 12, 1994.
In a village in the countryside of Yongxing Town, Kaijiang County, there is an ordinary family, the man's surname is Zhao, and he has two boys with his wife, the older brother is called Zhao Yongyong, and the younger brother is called Zhao Yongkuan.
At that time, the villages in many remote parts of China still retained the custom of catching up with the market, just like visiting the supermarket now, usually every once in a while, people would go to the town market to buy some fruits, vegetables, meat and daily necessities.
Catching up with the market is a very lively thing, and for children, it is even more exciting, because the market can open the eyes, and there are many interesting small items in the market.
On July 12, the day the Zhao family was going to go to the market, the two brothers rushed to the town with their mothers early in the morning, but they could never have imagined that this was a journey with no return.
At that time, Zhao Yongyong was very young, only seven years old, and his younger brother was only five years old, and they followed their mother Xiao Xueqin around the street in a confused way, and after half a day's time, they bought a lot of things. At this moment, Xiao Xueqin suddenly saw an acquaintance.
This person is in the town, usually there are some contacts, this kind of thing is very common, Xiao Xueqin is a warm village woman, seeing the other party beckoning, he felt that the past nagging was also good, so he walked into the person's shop.
She only said two words and was finished, so she let her two sons obediently wait at the door, but after half a day, Zhao Yongyong found that his mother still did not come out of the inside, the child did not understand things, and naturally touched it, but as soon as they entered the door, they saw that the three people were in a group.
It was Xiao Xueqin and two other strange men, one of them covered Xiao Xueqin's mouth and nose with his hand and slammed her head hard, and the other took a short knife that was dangling and brutally stabbed Xiao Xueqin's back from behind. Twice...
Blood flowed out of her mother's body like water, accumulating into a pool underground, the woman's hair was scattered, her shoes were all off, her face was blue and purple, it was obvious that she had just experienced a fierce resistance, but she had long since collapsed, making only a slight whining sound, and her life was gradually passing.
After a while, the courtyard calmed down, and the two brothers of the Zhao family had already been stunned in place, and they stared at their mother being placed on the ground, quietly as if asleep.
Where had the seven-year-old children seen such a scene, their minds were blank for a while, and after half a moment they rushed over to kneel in front of their mother's corpse and cry, and the two strange men who killed people were also frightened, they were afraid that someone around them would hear, so they shouted and scolded, trying to make the two children stop crying.
Where the child cried, the sound became louder and louder, and the two murderers were anxious, directly pulled them over with a punch and kick, directly knocked them unconscious, dragged back to the room, and then quickly cleaned up the killing scene.
After this, the two boys of the Zhao family entered the prison life, they were locked up in the dark cellar, every day even the sun could not see, but there would be people to send some food at regular intervals, these things to eat were even more abundant, but unfortunately the two children were almost scared silly, and they had no intention of enjoying it.
After some time, they were greeted by two other "companions"—two children of similar age to them—who were also locked up.
It turned out that the two people who killed Xiao Xueqin were human traffickers, and there was also a gang of human traffickers behind them, they committed crimes that were mobile, and this time they just came to the vicinity of Yongxing Town, and one of the two men surnamed Pu was a local, that is, Xiao Xueqin's "acquaintance", who was the gang's local "informant".
They originally had no intention of killing Xiao Xueqin, but the real target was Zhao Yongyong and Zhao Yongkuan's brothers.
When the father Zhao Daifu found that the two sons and two sons and his wife rushed to the market and did not return, they could not be found everywhere, and immediately frightened to report to the police, the market was full of people, the police quickly found witnesses, the other party directly pointed out the shop that Xiao Xueqin entered, and the owner of the shop was the man surnamed Pu.
This person is actually very "famous" in the local area, nicknamed "Pu San", is a well-known hooligan, has always been unpopular, before the young hands and feet are not clean, like pickpocketing, and later did other things, but also wandered on the edge of the law, the villagers are far away from him.
Xiao Xueqin said that he knew him, in fact, it was only a few sides, this woman was more honest, so Pu San found this excuse to ask her for a favor, Xiao Xueqin did not immediately agree, but still walked into the shop.
When the police stood in front of Pu San, they already had great doubts about him, but the testimony was not completely credible, but there were no monitoring facilities at all, and a habitual criminal like Pu San who often entered the detention center directly refused to admit it, and the police had no tangible evidence in their hands, and there was nothing they could do about him.
Although the case was a big case, Zhao Daifu also constantly urged, but in the end it sank due to lack of evidence and became a suspense case.
No one knew that the two children they were looking for were in the cellar of the Pusan family, and as soon as the storm passed, they were handed over to the trafficking group, directly loaded into a car and transported all the way from Sichuan to Fujian, thousands of miles away.
The four kidnapped children were pulled out of the car in Putian, Fujian Province, and the seller quickly came to the scene to "select", and soon the four children were sold to different families, and Zhao Yongyong and his brother Zhao Yongkuan were also separated.
Zhao Yongyong's transaction price was 6,000 yuan, and he was bought by a farmer surnamed Xu, who was neither literate nor very poor, but it was precisely because of this that he desperately wanted to have a son to pass on the generations - his wife gave birth to two in a row, both daughters.
So the young Zhao Yongyong became Xu Yang from then on, began to grow up in the countryside of Putian, in fact, as an "only son", he would not be treated too badly, but Zhao Yongyong was more mature since he was a child, when his mother was killed in front of him, he was only seven years old, with the passage of time, many memories of childhood and hometown began to inevitably gradually blur, but the picture of his mother lying in a pool of blood was always incomparably clear.
Later hand-painted scenes
So he stayed in the Xu family for two years and did not open his mouth to call his adoptive parents "father, mother", which made the adoptive father Xu Jinchi feel that this child was too big when he bought it, so he was not familiar with it, with this idea, he was even more afraid of Zhao Yongyong escaping, so he was very strict with him, not only to do a lot of farm work, but also to do a bad job, but also to scold, and at the same time did not dare to let him have too high a cultural level, and forced him to drop out of school before Zhao Yongyong finished primary school.
After dropping out of school, Xu Jinchi dragged an acquaintance to take Zhao Yongyong out to learn the jade carving craft, and also hoped that the child he bought would earn money for the family as soon as possible.
When the apprentice's life is very difficult, not only does he earn very little, the living conditions are also difficult, but Zhao Yongyong is still not afraid, because as long as he can stay away from the adoptive parents who bought himself from the traffickers, he feels that he is very free, and in the time after studying, he also fell in love with painting, but he painted not landscapes, nor characters, but scenes in his memory, any detailed things will be recorded by him with a pen, and he never gives up thinking about his hometown.
Later, he gradually had some of his own savings, and he couldn't wait to start using his leisure time to inquire about the whereabouts of his younger brother Zhao Yongkuan around Putian, while also looking for the direction of home.
Jade carving is a good craft, Zhao Yongyong learned quickly, and earned more and more, but his long-term search for his hometown and relatives has made him never able to save much money.
But kung fu pays off, in a coincidence, Zhao Yongyong met a Sichuan customer, the two usually have a good relationship, so Zhao Yongyong went to the door to eat a light meal, the friend's mother is also a Sichuanese, there is a famous "lamp shadow beef" in the dish, because it is cut very thin and got its name.
As soon as Zhao Yongyong saw this dish, his heart clucked a little, he had been deepening his childhood memories for many years, and at this moment he was immediately sure that he had definitely eaten this dish before!
Coincidentally, his friend's mother is from Dazhou, Sichuan, but in addition to Dazhou, Chongqing and other places, there are also Lantern Shadow Beef, but the scope is greatly reduced.
Zhao Yongyong was even more confident, he released his own information through the large public welfare website "Baby Home", and his bizarre life soon attracted the attention of volunteers, who began to launch a continuous search in Dazhou and Chongqing.
Finally, someone provided him with a report from the Public Security Bureau of Kaijiang County, Dazhou, which was about a case of a local mother and son who disappeared at the same time, the time was 1994, which was exactly the same!
When Zhao Yongyong arrived in the local area, he only visited it slightly, and immediately determined that this was his long-lost hometown.
In 2012, Zhao Yongyong, who had been away from the area for 19 years, returned to the village where the Zhao family lived, and the villagers beat gongs and drums to welcome the child's return.
Fortunately, in that market that year, the decoration of Pusan's shop had not changed, Zhao Yongyong recognized it at a glance, and then he went to the town with the public security personnel to arrest Pusan, and the latter also honestly confessed the viciousness of what he had done that year, and the police dug up the skeleton of a middle-aged woman in the ground of his shop according to the testimony, which was completely right with Xiao Xueqin.
The murder and trafficking case, which spanned twenty years, finally came to an end, and less than a year later, with the help of many parties, Zhao Yongyong's younger brother Zhao Yongkuan was also found.
Zhao Yongkuan was luckier than his brother, he was resold twice after he was separated from him, the first time he suffered a lot, when he was treated very well in the second family, Zhao Yongkuan got along well with his adoptive parents and other relatives, and now he is doing building materials business in Beijing, and his life is very good.
The two brothers were finally reunited with their relatives in their hometown, but the reality was indeed as beautiful as no one thought.
Zhao Daifu was indeed extremely miserable at the beginning, and the people of the four miles and eight townships saw that he was really pitiful, so they introduced him to a woman to continue the string, and also re-formed a family.
In the face of the sudden arrival of the two brothers, this stepmother's attitude was very bad, and she even rejected the idea that the two wanted to bury the ashes of their birth mother in the tomb of Zhao's ancestors, which made them feel very cold.
Although Zhao Yongyong has always had a deep obsession and has severed all relations with his adoptive parents, Zhao Yongkuan is not like this, his current family is very happy, so even if he finds his original family, it is difficult to integrate into it in the short term, not to mention that he still lives in the far north.
The same is true of Zhao Yongyong, who wants to return to his hometown, but his father is not close to him, his stepmother is very repulsive to himself, and his brother has his own life, so he has to return to the southeast coast to start his jade carving business after a short stay.
Without the atrocities of the traffickers in those years, the originally happy and happy people of this family would never have suffered such a pain of separation, and they would still not be able to truly break the mirror and reunite many years later.
This is also the reason why the state has always cracked down on human trafficking, although there are still a small number of such phenomena in some remote areas today, but in general, there are very few, and it is only hoped that children all over the world will not have to suffer from the tragedy of being forcibly abducted from their parents and destroying their families.