Li Fangfa video said that the son still feels in a dream after returning for four days, thanking the country, the media and caring people for their care and support Video source: Provided by the interviewee (00:30)
After confessing on January 23, 2022, 28-year-old Zhang Yangyang has been with his mother Li Fang. He followed his mother to his hometown in Luohe, Henan, re-walking the streets where he used to play when he was a child, meeting relatives and neighbors, and tasting Luohe peppery soup.
On January 27, Zhang Yangyang told the surging news (www.thepaper.cn) that this Spring Festival, he would accompany his mother to cross the Luohe River. This is the first time that mother and son have celebrated the New Year together after 24 years apart.
Zhang Yangyang and his mother went to drink peppery soup together Interviewee Courtesy photo
At noon on June 6, 1998, Zhang Yangyang, then 4 years old, was abducted in his barbershop. The following year, Li Fang divorced her husband, and since then, she has searched for her son alone and traveled all over the country. Now, finally, it has come true.
Zhang Yangyang said that in the past few days of returning to Luohe, many relatives and neighbors have come to the family, and the relatives are very excited to see him, "The relatives who came yesterday are crying."
Relatives recalled to Zhang Yangyang an interesting story about his childhood. In the eyes of relatives, Zhang Yangyang was chubby and very cute when he was a child, and everyone had to hug him when he saw him; when he was a child, his mouth was very sweet, he greeted everyone, he was very good at calling people, and then the other party would buy him something to eat.
"I'm not impressed by any of that." Zhang Yangyang said, but when he retraced the street where his mother used to open a barber shop a few days ago, the memories hidden in his mind poured out. He remembers that when he was a child, it was still a dirt road, and the buildings on the street side were only one floor, "Now the buildings have been raised, the roads have changed, now it is a cement road, to the corner, there is a kindergarten, I used to go to school there." ”
"These were in my memory before, but some of them felt like dreams, I didn't take them seriously, I thought they were fake." Zhang Yangyang said that he still remembers that when he was a child, he often went to a place, and every time he went there, someone would give him good food.
These days, Zhang Yangyang tasted luohe's spicy soup, "very numb, head a little swollen", and also ate spicy buns with his mother, so spicy that he called out "Mom,
A few days ago, there was a snow in Luohe, which was the first time Zhang Yangyang had seen snow in 24 years, and he also gave a "small snowball" interviewee
This one has chili peppers, it's too spicy." A few days ago, there was a snow in luohe, and Zhang Yangyang, who grew up in Guangdong, saw such a big snow for the first time, and he also made a "small snowball".
The taste of the year on Luohe Street is getting stronger. Zhang Yangyang said that these days are busy receiving relatives and friends, and there is no time to buy New Year goods, and he and his mother plan to buy some New Year goods in these two days.
Chinese New Year's Eve to make dumplings, eat flapjacks for the New Year... The first time in Luohe For the New Year, my mother specially introduced the local customs to Zhang Yangyang. Zhang Yangyang said that in the past, his mother was alone in the New Year, after 24 years, his mother finally found him, and this Spring Festival he had to accompany his mother well and have a happy New Year.