The crime of trafficking in human beings is a common phenomenon facing human society, and although the mainland has severely cracked down on the illegal and criminal acts of abducting and trafficking in women and children, the most primitive and barbaric act of trafficking is still lingering in all corners of the country.
The abduction and trafficking has seriously depleted the physical and mental health, freedom and other personal rights of the abducted person, and because the abduction and trafficking has led to the separation of countless families' wives and children, the destruction of the family, and the indelible harm to the families of the abductees.
Whether in the city or in the countryside, poor or rich, the pain of losing relatives is unbearable, and I have heard countless tears and cries cutting through the atrium, but there are few echoes in my ears that have been separated for many years.
In the Yunnan-Guichuan area in the 1970s and 1980s, countless women and children were ripped away as goods by passing vehicles, and since then they have left their hometowns and floated in the ravines that do not see the light of day, giving birth to children for men they have never known, and fulfilling their filial piety.
Are they all doing well? This is an untouchable scar in the heart of every abducted family. Today, with the construction and development of information technology and transportation facilities, more and more traffickers are able to find their relatives and return to their golden dreams many years ago with the help of their families and society.
"My mother-in-law was abducted." - A call for help 32 years late
On February 13, 2019, the Shanwang Town Police Station of the Weiyuan County Public Security Bureau in Neijiang City, Sichuan Province, received a call for help from Datong, Shanxi Province. The woman on the phone spoke young and earnestly explained her intentions.
It turned out that when she communicated with her mother-in-law with a thick accent, she accidentally learned that her mother-in-law was actually abducted and sold to Hunyuan County, Datong, and she hoped that the Shanwang Town Police Station would help her check whether there was a woman named Zhang Dengxiu in the missing person file more than 30 years ago.
Received Zhang Dengxiu's daughter-in-law's call was Ye Wentao, an auxiliary police officer at the Shanwang Town Police Station, who immediately reported it as soon as he heard the woman's request on the other end of the phone, and then the police Officer Chen Zheng inquired through the "one standard and three real" system, unfortunately, there was no Zhang Dengxiu's household registration information in the system.
The woman on the other end of the phone was silent when she learned the news, and soon after, she learned more personal information about "Zhang Dengxiu of Shanwang Town" from her mother-in-law.
Zhang Dengxiu has not received a systematic education since he was abducted and sold to Hunyuan, and he runs housework in the remote countryside every day, the village pronunciation is difficult to discern and illiterate, and it is very difficult for his daughter-in-law to communicate with her, and even the name of the town of "Mountain King" has been heard by his son and daughter-in-law several times as "Sanwen".
It is precisely because of this that Zhang Dengxiu remembers that he was transferred from the town to Weiyuan, Zizhong, and Chengdu many times, and finally sold by human traffickers to Datong Hunyuan County. Since the son and daughter-in-law learned that their mother was a trafficked woman, they had mixed feelings, and they never expected that things in the TV social column would happen to them.
After several thoughts, considering that Zhang Dengxiu had missed his family for many years, his son and daughter-in-law decided to seek for their mother.
They followed the route of Zhang Dengxiu's abduction all the way to investigate, focusing on the area around Yunguichuan. In this way, year after year passed, just when Zhang Dengxiu was thinking about this child infinitely from his family and worried about her safety, Zhang Dengxiu, who had left his hometown for many years, could not help but feel confused: Are the family members, parents, brothers and sisters, are they still in their hometown?
The daughter-in-law once again added some vague memories of Zhang Dengxiu, informing the police that her mother-in-law's family once opened a small noodle restaurant on Sanwang Street, but because she was too young to remember her parents' names. Over the years, the vicissitudes of sangtian, looking at the large and small noodle restaurants on Shanwang Street, looking for a noodle restaurant surnamed Zhang more than 30 years ago, no doubt looking for a needle in a haystack.
Combined with the "five major operations" visit in the spring, the local police found the older and more senior work tasks in the Sanno community to visit and investigate together, and finally, under the unremitting search, 32 years ago, Zhang Liyin's family once opened a noodle shop in the town and had a missing young daughter.
So why can't you find the information of Zhang Dengxiu? The police went through the files of that year and found that the Zhang family had reported the case after Zhang Dengxiu disappeared, but because there was no news of her for 32 years, her household registration information was cancelled, and because of its age, there was no record in the system.
"Did you lose a sister named Zhang Dengxiu?" Zhang Dengjun, who was at work, suddenly received a phone call, and Zhang Dengjun thought of his sister who was abducted and sold, and his heart was infinitely sour.
After the police got a definite reply, they once again sent a recent photo of Zhang Dengxiu sent by Zhang Dengxiu's daughter-in-law to Zhang Dengjun, and Zhang Dengjun was surprised to see the photos sent by the police, this is his sister! His sister is still alive! The sister and mother in the photo are printed in a mold.
A phone from Datong Hunyuan, Shanxi, crossed thousands of mountains and rivers, and picked up a family hotline that had been cut off for many years.
Shame and love: a yellow dress, a sisterhood
Thirty-two years ago, Zhang Shan, who had been working in Xinjiang, was preparing to return to her hometown in Sichuan. She is at home, there are sisters and sisters, 18-year-old, she took on the burden of supporting the family early, alone to go to other places. But she doesn't feel how bitter, her younger siblings are very sensible and cute, plus her parents run a noodle restaurant in the town, the business is decent.
The family's life will definitely get better, Zhang Shan thought.
Thinking about this, Zhang Shan sped up the pace of going home, her bags were all gifts for her family, a bright yellow dress, for her cute little sister. The little sister is 17 years old this year, born like a mother, innocent and simple, industrious and down-to-earth, in two years will be able to say a good family.
Zhang Shan, full of joy, pushed open the door of her home: "I'll come back!" However, the scene that should have been a family reunion did not appear as scheduled, and there were only doubtful parents in the family: "What about your sister?" She's not going to pick you up, how come you came back alone? ”
Her sister, as soon as she heard that her sister was going home, couldn't wait to run to Ma Daozi, more than ten kilometers from home, to pick her up.
Zhang Shan immediately panicked when she heard it, did her sister go to her sister's house to play? But now that the curtain is low and the night is dark, my sister can no longer be measured and impossible to make her parents anxious...
Besides, she didn't suspect that her sister had indeed gone to pick her up, the two sisters had a good relationship, and the sister would not go out in her name on the day she was coming back—after all, she still had the yellow dress that her sister liked.
Something must have happened. Zhang Shan was panicked in her heart, and as soon as she opened her mouth, she already had a crying voice: "I came back all the way, and I didn't see my sister." "Where did it go?" The Zhang family's parents and siblings were shocked when they heard this, Ma Daozi is the only way to enter and exit Weiyuan County and near Zizhong County in Shanwang Town, and even if Zhang Dengxiu fails to get to Ma Daozi, the two sisters should meet halfway.
My sister disappeared on the way to pick her up. As soon as Zhang Shan thought of this fact, she couldn't help but feel like a knife, no matter how many years have passed, when she mentioned her little sister Zhang Dengxiu, who was lost that year, Zhang Shan couldn't help but cry bitterly.
She regrets, she hates, if she goes home one step faster, if she tells her little sister not to come to pick her up, if she usually tells her to keep her eyes more and stay away from the strange vehicle... Unfortunately, there is no if, the yellow dress of 1987, in the Zhang family's wardrobe, hung for 32 years.
"In case my sister comes back and can't find me." It is not that no one has advised Zhang Shan to find a partner, but she insists on not marrying, one is that she feels guilty about her little sister Zhang Dengxiu, and the other is that she wants to take good care of her old parents who have lost their little daughter and are overly sad.
In her memory, the days when her sister was lost, the sky at home was dark. It was April and May, and the Zhang family opened a noodle restaurant in the town, and Zhang Dengxiu also helped in the store. As soon as he heard the call from his sister home, Zhang Dengxiu couldn't wait to run to Ma Daozi, and the old couple of the Zhang family was hindered by the busy business in the store, so they had to smile helplessly and went with their daughter.
Who knows, this has been a year, a difference of thirty-two years.
After her sister was lost, her parents no longer had the heart to run a noodle shop, although she did not say it, but Zhang Shan could always hear her mother sobbing in the middle of the night and the endless sighs of her parents.
Zhang Dengxiu did not know that when she was abducted by human traffickers and was terrified and crying, her parents, sister, and brother went to the Chengdu-Chongqing Railway one after another to go to the county town of Dizizhong and neijiang City to look for her.
When she was resold through cities, he ever thought that in that city, his father, mother and sisters took her pictures in a low voice, asked one by one, and described her appearance: "Round face, ponytail, like to wear red clothes, very pleasing to life." How many times had the answer been negative, the apologetic shaking of the head, and the smoke clouds an empty rejoice.
Zhang Shan watched as the family's savings finally bottomed out, and her parents were still borrowing money from relatives to continue looking, while they were sad, they did not dare to give up. She traveled to every area around Sanno Town and reported the case to the police station, but in the end it did not help. In her memory, the little sister is very stubborn, and she loves to sharpen her mouth, and her reaction is always half a beat slower than that of other people's sisters.
But the little sister was only a year younger than her, and her courage was still so small, she did not dare to imagine that the tragic experience of those abducted girls in the township fell on her own little sister. Whenever she celebrates her birthday, she always remembers that her little sister's birthday is also in the first month, and the birthdays of the two of them are only four days apart. At the turn of the spring and summer in 1987, Zhang Shan no longer loved birthdays.
After that, the borrowed money also ran out, and the parents were not good enough to borrow money from relatives who were not rich, so they borrowed money from the bank and continued to look for it, thinking that one day they would find it. I heard that someone saw that Zhang Dengxiu was tricked into getting into the car, so the second elder of the Zhang family looked around and asked carefully, but it was only that sentence that turned over.
I also heard that some people said that the abductors in the Yunnan-Guichuan area would sell the girls to a long way, preferably Hebei and Shandong, and the family would not be able to find it. The Zhang family did not say a word to pack their bags and went to Shandong and Hebei, three to Shandong, two to Hebei, back and forth is more than a month, looking for no results. Who would have thought that Zhang Dengxiu would be sold to Shanxi?
Although after two more years of searching, the Zhang family's heart was like ashes, and the old couple who had been running around for several years often said: "It should be gone." Thinking of ten thousand terrible possibilities, Zhang Shan's heart was even more remorseful, she knew that her parents were looking forward to her little sister coming home.
Her mother died of illness in 2018, and before her death, she had been worried about Zhang Dengxiu's abduction, and Zhang Shan knew that her mother's heart had a knot. Now, Zhang Dengxiu was able to return home, the yellow dress was still as bright as ever, Zhang Shan took it out, waiting for her sister's return.
Returning home at the end of the old age - "Another Year of the Ming Dynasty"
Although Zhang Dengxiu has been lost for many years, her parents still keep the old household registration book when she was at home, and the old father wiped his tears and said: "Leave a thought." After Zhang Dengjun confirmed that his fourth sister was still alive and learned the good news that he would soon come to Shanwang Town to look for relatives, he immediately informed the eldest sister, the second sister, the third sister and the old father.
Zhang Shan has stayed in Weiyuan since Zhang Dengxiu was abducted and sold, and when she received the news that day, Zhang Shan was working at a barber shop in Weiyuan County, her hands were shaking constantly, but her movements were extremely rapid. Today, she's leaving work early.
That night, Zhang Dengjun set up a WeChat group, and the family made video calls in the group chat, which lasted for more than an hour, and the whole process was filled with tears and cries.
"The little boy left home and returned to the old man, and the township tone did not change the sideburns." To the heartache of the family, Zhang Dengxiu on the other end of the phone was already a woman who spoke Shanxi dialect. Zhang Dengxiu felt that the phone could no longer express her thoughts about her family, and after discussing with her son and daughter-in-law, she decided to return to Weiyuan.
On that day, the snow was heavy, and it seemed that he was also crying for this family affection that spanned thirty-two years, and Zhang Dengxiu's son drove a car, carrying a family, and embarked on the road back home for Zhang Dengxiu. "Past Sichuan", "Now?" After Nanchong", "to Dongxing District"... Along the way, Zhang Dengxiu has been communicating with his family by phone and reporting the itinerary.
This reminded her of many years ago, when she was turned into a van to Datong, Shanxi, and along the way, there were people who kept saying these place names that she felt were very unfamiliar at the time.
Zhang Dengxiu recalled with tears: "The liar threatened me and did not allow me to go home. Because the traffickers repeatedly threatened and intimidated Zhang Dengxiu, the timid Zhang Dengxiu has not dared to find her family, but the nostalgia of this disease has been rooted in her heart for thirty-two years and cannot be ignored.
Zhang Dengxiu's son drove for two full days and one night, and finally arrived in Weiyuan County in one night. Zhang Dengjun also drove the car, waiting for Zhang Dengxiu's family at the Weiyuan toll gate of the Inner Weirong Expressway. Zhang Shan originally insisted on coming, but the younger brother persuaded the excited sister, who also had a father with inconvenient legs and feet and a heart attack.
Zhang Dengjun recalled the memories of the fourth sister many years ago, the fourth sister hurt his sister the most, always left him delicious and fun, made a mistake, and the sky fell and there were four sisters to bear. Thinking of this, Zhang Dengjun's heart was warm and bitter.
Not far away, a white car with an Inner Mongolian license plate drove towards Zhang Dengjun's side, he got out of the car, hurriedly opened the right rear car door, and after many years of absence, his sister walked down, and the sisters and brothers hugged each other tightly.
In this way, Zhang Shan held her skirt and took care of her father while anxiously waiting for her little sister to return. Looking at the bright headlights shining over, Zhang Shan quickly got up, supported her father, and the two embraced Zhang Dengxiu, who had entered the house, for a long time, at this moment, the tears of the family flowed down, there was joy, there was sadness, and there was pity.
Zhang Dengxiu looked at the yellow skirt in her sister's hand and only shed tears. And Zhang Shan told her that although you can no longer wear it, this is a gift from your sister, a gift that is 32 years late. During the conversation, Zhang Dengxiu, who was overly excited, glanced at the photo of his mother hanging in the living room, and fainted with excessive sadness.
She finally came a year late. Under the repeated appeasement of his family, Zhang Dengxiu eased up and told his long-lost family about his laughter and tears over the years. The next day, The Zhang family went to Shanwang Town and presented the police station with a pennant that read, "The people's police are for the people, and the speed of cracking cases is a model."
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(1) "The Skirt for My Sister, Thirty-Two Years Late"