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2022-01-31 18:27
At the age of 51, Guo Gangtang ushered in a new starting point in his life. At the largest farmers' market in Liaocheng, Shandong Province, he rented four stalls in one go and started a vegetable wholesale business. After his son found it, he realized that he was going to return to the life of an ordinary person.
Hanging up a sign at the stall, Guo Gangtang quickly reported the progress to netizens in the live broadcast room. He laughed and called himself a greengrocer, but netizens reminded him that it was better to change his name, because the greengrocer was easy to think of a human trafficker.
The sting brought about by the three words "human trafficker" was gradually fading in Guo Gangtang's heart. After the son found it, Lao Guo's tightly locked brow stretched out, and he also gained 8 pounds, with "happiness fat". He said that in the past six months, the family has really had a breath of life. However, for the ordeal experienced in the past 24 years, the couple reached a tacit understanding and rarely mentioned it to their children. He felt that he could not stick to the past, but should live in the present, and if he threw away the suffering he had experienced in the past 24 years to his son, it would be unfair to him.
Looking back, 24 years have passed, and the village road where his son Guo Zhen was abducted has now become an asphalt road. Over the years, Guo Gangtang has always deliberately avoided here. But he will never forget that on September 21, 1997, it was the day his 2-year-old son was abducted while playing on the road.
After the child was lost, Guo Gangtang launched a carpet search of all his relatives and friends, and the results were in vain. So, he rode on a motorcycle, carried a bunch of search notices, two flags printed with Guo Zhen's photos and information, and embarked on the road to the end of the world to find relatives. From Mohe to Hainan, in more than a decade, Guo Gangtang has traveled more than 500,000 kilometers and scrapped 10 motorcycles. In order to find a child, he not only spent all his family money, but also owed hundreds of thousands of foreign debts.
Guo Gangtang wanted to see a map displayed by the news reporter, which was marked with red dots, each of which was where he had been. He said that only by acting on his own can he feel hopeful, otherwise he will sit at home every day, and he can only stare at his wife and children, so he will go farther and farther.
The seeds of change sprouted in 2009. That year, Guo Gangtang went to Hangzhou to participate in the family search conference and met many parents who had the same disease. In the chat group, everyone shared information about finding children from all over the country. In 2012, Guo Gangtang initiated the establishment of the Tianya Family Search Website, and two years later, he set up the Liaocheng Tianya Family Search Volunteer Association, which changed from only looking for his own children in the past to helping everyone find children together.
Over the years, Guo Gangtang has cooperated with relevant departments to collect, sort out and compare family information, and has also established a database. The association and the national volunteer team, rescue stations, etc. have established cooperation, as long as there is information sent to the search group, all volunteers will immediately link up to find people.
Guo Gangtang recalled to the reporter who looked at the news that he had the fastest family search experience, at that time, as soon as the information was sent to the group looking for relatives, a master called him and said that the child was in his car, and then Guo Gangtang quickly got in touch with the child's mother and sent the child back, which took only 17 minutes before and after.
With the help of new technologies, Guo Gangtang has helped thousands of families find their children. And years after year of hard work, he also waited for his own good news.
In July last year, a grand recognition ceremony swept the screen online. People lamented that Guo Gangtang's long road of searching for a son finally had a happy ending, but there seemed to be some regrets in this consummation. The son, Guo Zhen, decided to stay with his adoptive parents, and Guo Gangtang did not intend to hold the family accountable. Many people have said that Guo Gangtang can be regarded as a "second loss of loneliness", but he himself does not see it this way. He felt that the child had the right to make his own choices.
After finding his son, Guo Gangtang's search for relatives to help others continues. In the association's office there is a touch screen that brings together information on various missing persons. Recently, he has been busy developing an artificial intelligence family search software.
In addition, as a celebrity in Liaocheng, Guo Gangtang has more than 9,000 friends in the two WeChat accounts, in addition to looking for relatives, there are also cattle, lost tricycles, lost love... No matter what is lost, many people will come to him for help. Guo Gangtang said that the reason why he is willing to help within the scope of his ability is because he has been touched by too much warmth along the way. To this day, he still remembers one night many years ago, he was riding on a mountain road in Guizhou, the motorcycle lights were broken, and he could only push the car to stop and go. After a long time, he found that there were two beams of light behind him, and when he looked back, it was a small car, and a middle-aged man came down from above. The man told Guo Gangtang that he was not a bad person, or that he saw that his lights were not on, and he wanted to light them up for him. Therefore, every time Guo Gangtang felt uncomfortable in his heart, as long as he thought of that light, his heart would light up.
Look at the news That the News reporter interviewed Guo Gangtang on this day, and his son Guo Zhen came to a video call. Guo Gangtang told his son that these days the family is pasting window flowers, preparing New Year goods, cleaning, these Spring Festival customs are what they have never had in 24 years. Now, Guo Gangtang's family has arrived at the Spring Festival, and there is no longer a need to put an empty set of dishes on the table as before, and the family finally has the opportunity to get together and spend the New Year neatly.
(Look at the news Knows reporter: Mao Rui Meng Lei Editor: Zhang Zheng Chen Jiawen)