Xie Yuecong, 30 years old, his dream is very simple, as a successful person to drive a car "home" to accept the welcome of his father and fellow villagers.
It was only this Spring Festival in 2016 that this rural youth, who had been away from home for 6 years and had no news at all, failed to return to his hometown in a beautiful way.
After graduating from junior high school in 2003, Xie Yuecong, who stayed in the countryside with the elderly, went to Guangdong to rely on his parents, and then traveled to Shanxi, Jiangxi and Zhejiang, without a skill, he could only work for a short time at the construction site, obsessed with buying lottery tickets to get rich, during which he left his family without saying goodbye three times, and was "forced" to go home three times because he had no money.
On January 19, the surging news reporter met Xie Yuecong in Hangzhou, and the staff of the Hangzhou aid station would escort him back to his hometown in Changning, Hunan.
In 2015, the Hangzhou Rescue Management Station rescued a total of 9,133 people, including 1,800 people who were rescued by special recipients such as the disabled, mentally ill, and critically ill patients, and 378 minors; a total of 9,148 people left the station, of which 5,295 were provided with tickets to return home, 540 were escorted by local governments, 339 were picked up by family members and units, and 8 people were resettled, of which 43 minors were escorted and resettled.
Unwilling to stay in the countryside, he had to wander the cities. The surging news reporter followed and recorded Xie Yuecong's journey back to his hometown throughout the whole process, and also tried to tell the experience of this wanderer with the "dream of getting rich" for 13 years.
[January 19, Hangzhou] Xie Yuecong sits in the rescue car of the Hangzhou aid station. In the morning, Xie Yuecong left the Hangzhou Seventh People's Hospital, where he had been staying for more than 20 days, and the doctor's diagnosis certificate said "mental abnormality".
[January 19, Hangzhou] The staff of the Hangzhou Aid Station took Xie Yuecong to the police station to check the information and handle the relevant procedures.
[January 19, Hangzhou] Xie Yuecong has been worried about the 200 yuan and some clothes in the shed, and when he returns to the place where he lives, he finds that the entire shed has been demolished. The wall of the shed also reads," "Buy lottery tickets, win the jackpot, go back to your hometown." ”
[January 19 Hangzhou] After arriving at the Hangzhou aid station, Xie Yuecong was arranged to take a bath in the bathroom. Xie Yuecong, who is nearly 175cm tall, looks very thin, and he said that he has gained a little weight in the hospital and was thinner before.
[January 19, Hangzhou] At 8 p.m., Xie Yuecong was praying that he could go home safely, saying that he should rest well at night, and the road home tomorrow would be very hard.
【January 20, Hangzhou】At 7:00 a.m., the staff of the Hangzhou Aid Station sent Xie Yuecong to Hangzhou East Railway Station. Traffic is crowded during the morning rush hour, and Xie Yuecong, who has not taken the car for a long time, is somewhat unwell.
[January 20, Hangzhou] At 10:00 a.m., Xie Yuecong took the high-speed train from Hangzhou East to Changsha South, which was his first high-speed train.
【January 20, Changsha】At 2:00 p.m., Xie Yuecong was picked up by the staff of the Changsha Aid Station and picked up the Changsha Aid Station. Xie Yuecong had been staring at the search notice on the service rail. In the more than six years since he left in 2010, Xie Yuecong has not called home. His parents had also posted a search notice in his hometown to find him.
【January 20, Changsha】At 2:30 p.m., the staff of the Changsha Aid Station registered Xie Yuecong's identity. Xie Yuecong did not dare to look directly into the camera, and his avatar was taken several times before he succeeded.
【January 20 Hengyang】At Hengyang Railway Station, Xie Yuecong and other Hengyang staff picked him up and dropped him back in Changning City. Xie Yuecong was always nagging along the way that he hadn't taken out the clothes in the shed, and it was humiliating to go back now.
[January 20 Changning] Changning Aid Station, Xie Yuecong was a little emotional after arriving, he said that he did not expect to be able to get home in one day, it used to be several days.
[January 20 Changning] It takes about half an hour to drive from the city to Dongshan Village in Yangquan Town, Xie Yuecong's hometown.
[January 20 Changning] On the bus home, Xie Yuecong always shook his head, saying that he did not make money and was really embarrassed to go home.
[January 20 Changning] Xie Yuecong's family lit firecrackers as soon as the car arrived and welcomed him home.
[January 20 Changning] Relatives and friends in the village have come to Xie Yuecong's house, hoping to see this child who has not returned home for 6 years.
[January 20 Changning] The town cadres gave Xie Yuecong a condolence payment, and Xie Yuecong was a little embarrassed.
[January 20, Changning] At 11:00 p.m., the guests all left, and Xie Yuecong's family of three sat at the table, and no one spoke.
[January 20, Changning] At 12:00 p.m., my mother touched Xie Yuecong's face, and Xie Yuecong did not know how to communicate with his family.
[January 21 Changning] At 7:00 a.m., my father made breakfast for Xie Yuecong. The TV in the living room is newly bought and the only major appliance in the house.
[January 21 Changning] The mother looked at the photo left by Xie Yuecong when she ran away from home, and she said that she had always treasured this photo and looked forward to her son's return day and night.
[January 21 Changning] Xie Yuecong's mother hopes to be able to take a group photo of a family of three, and she is worried about Xie Yuecong's current state.
[January 21 Changning] Xie Yuecong said that he would spend the New Year at home, and after the New Year, he had no other plans for the time being, and he said that he always had to find a way to make a lot of money.
On January 19, 2016, the biggest cold wave of the year was about to sweep through Hangzhou. At the Hangzhou Seventh People's Hospital, the staff of the Hangzhou Aid Station asked Xie Yuecong if he would like to go home. He nodded and whispered, "Okay, I'll go back." ”
After graduating from junior high school in 2003, Xie Yuecong left his family three times without saying goodbye and was "forced" to go home three times. It had been 6 years since he had returned home.
At 1:00 a.m. on December 29, 2015, Xie Yuecong was spotted by patrolling the streets, and he was already a little delirious at that time. After the police took him to the hospital, the doctor prescribed a diagnostic note that read "mental abnormality." After more than 20 days of treatment, Xie Yuecong's condition has improved a lot.
Xie Yuecong's hometown is in Dongshan Village, Yangquan Town, Changning City, Hunan Province, born in 1986, he is the only son of the family, Yue Zi generation, named "Cong", Yue Cong means more cong, more and more intelligent.
In 1998, Xie Yuecong's parents went out to work. At the age of 11, Xie Yuecong became a left-behind child and lived with his grandparents. Because his parents didn't come home until two or three years apart, Xie Yuecong saw his parents who had returned from work, and he didn't care about them and wouldn't take the initiative to call them.
His cousin, who grew up playing with Xie Yuecong, said that Xie Yuecong liked to play alone when he was a child and did not dare to talk to strangers. "I remember that he once went to the field alone to catch loach, from morning to night, and he didn't come home very late, and the whole family came out to look for him. He said he wouldn't go home without catching the loach."
In July 2003, Xie Yuecong graduated from junior high school, when he was 17 years old, three years later than his normal school children. His mother said that he was a bit playful, his grades were very average, and he was more at ease to bring him around.
His father helped Xie Yuecong find a job as a porter at a cosmetics company in Guangzhou. Xie Yuecong works from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. every morning. Monthly income of 1000 yuan.
For Xie Yuecong, in Guangzhou, everything is so fresh. The first time he went to an Internet café, the first time he took a picture, the first time he put on a suit, and the first time he was robbed.
Mother said it was a Friday at the end of 2004 on which the paycheck was paid. Xie Yuecong took the money he had just sent and prepared to go home. A group of hooligans surrounded him and asked him for money. Xie Yuecong shook his head and said no, shouting, "If you don't want money, you want to die." "The hooligans tied his hands and feet and put him in a nearby river channel, ready to flood him with water.
A passing worker rushed to Xie Yuecong's house, and Xie Yuecong's mother rushed to the river while calling the police, and when he arrived, the hooligans had already robbed the money and fled. Xie Yuecong closed his eyes, and his mouth was still saying "no money, no money."
His mother was worried that Xie Yuecong would be bullied, so he stayed at home as long as he got off work. Xie Yuecong likes to watch TV dramas. He took the money he had saved, bought a CD of Water Margin, and watched it over and over again. Xie Yuecong said that at that time, he admired the heroes and good men such as Song Jiang and Wu Song in the TV series, who could break into Kyushu with wind and fire.
In August 2006, 20-year-old Xie Yuecong ran away from home for the first time. He felt that it was not interesting to go to work every day, and he should be like a good man in Liangshan. He said he just wanted to go somewhere else. Carrying more than 1,000 yuan of salary just issued, he came all the way from Guangdong to Jiangxi.
Xie Yuecong stayed in Jiangxi for 10 days, and finally arrived at Jinggangshan. He said that when he was a child, he mentioned in textbooks that Jinggangshan was a holy place for revolution, and he wanted to come and see it. His father said that at that time, Xie Yuecong had spent all his money, and there was no way to get to Jinggangshan, so he called him hoping to pick him up. When Xie Yuecong's father received him, he did not rebuke him, but only asked him not to run away in the future.
After returning to Guangdong, Xie Yuecong went to work in a splint factory, and his monthly income was still more than 1,000 yuan.
At this time, Xie Yuecong was infatuated with the Internet café and was even quieter. Every day after work, he goes clubbing. But he didn't play games, he watched movies, he said he watched all the French and Iranian movies in the Internet café, and his favorite movie was Iran's "Wind Blowing Willow Tree Quiet", which tells a series of stories that happen after a blind teacher suddenly sees something.
Xie Yuecong said that watching so many movies made him understand what a successful person is. He felt that successful people should at least have a deposit of more than 100,000 yuan, have a car, and play anywhere.
On the high-speed train from Hangzhou to Changsha, Xie Yuecong looked at car advertisements in magazines.
In the fall of 2007, the factory owner asked Xie Yuecong and his mother to help pick chestnuts and calculate the daily wages according to the working hours. On the first day of picking chestnuts, Xie Yuecong stayed in the mountains for less than half an hour and secretly went back without greeting.
When her mother called out to Xie Yuecong, she suddenly found that there was no sound. At that time, everyone was in a hurry, and the mountain road of picking was relatively remote, and it was easy to get lost. Dozens of employees in the factory were sent by the boss to find someone on the mountain.
Unexpectedly, after returning home, Xie Yuecong's mother found that he had slept at home. The mother didn't speak, just cried vigorously.
The next morning, Xie Yuecong left Guangzhou again and went all the way to Shanxi. He felt that he should not have picked chestnuts, so he could not make a lot of money. He wants to stay away from his family and go outside to make a lot of money.
On his fifth day in Shanxi, he had no money on his body and found a job at the construction site to do the outer curtain wall. Xie Yuecong said that he was always working as a short-term worker, and he felt that it was always boring to be in one place, and he still couldn't make any money. Xie Yuecong does not have a bank card, and he takes cash on his body for a day.
The Spring Festival in 2008 was also a very cold Spring Festival. Xie Yuecong only had more than 200 pieces left on his body. He bought a hard seat ticket home.
Back at home, Xie Yuecong found that his mother had been bedridden for a long time because of heart disease, and his father was much older. He said he felt sorry for his family.
For the next two years, Xie Yuecong followed his parents. The family of three went to Guangdong again to work.
In May 2010, Xie Yuecong was about to turn 24. His father commissioned someone to help him find a partner in the village. Xie Yuecong refused as soon as he took a bite, saying that he didn't like it. Xie Yuecong's mother cried and scolded, saying that he was not filial piety, his wife did not want it, and he was not young, always running here and running there. The next-door neighbors were already holding their two grandchildren.
On July 15, 2010, Xie Yuecong returned to his hometown in Hunan to apply for a second-generation ID card. It was the day of the local market. He spent more than 200 yuan to the market to buy a bag of apples, a bag of pears, a watermelon, a grass carp, a chicken. Xie Yuecong took these things to his grandparents' house. Xie Yuecong's grandmother said that she was very happy at the time and felt that this grandson had finally grown up.
Xie Yuecong slept at his grandmother's house for one night and then left the next day. This was the third time he had run away from home. He still wants to go out and make a lot of money and come back. Xie Yuecong said: "Where is it good to marry a wife without money?" I can't support myself, and when the time comes, I have to look at people's faces, and I have to make money as soon as possible! ”
Xie Yuecong came to Hangzhou this time, he said that Hangzhou is very famous, the slogan is the city of oriental quality, but also the capital of leisure, there must be a chance to make money, and life should not be too bad.
Xie Yuecong, who just started living in an inn called "Asuka", said it was nice to see the name of the inn. The hotel's daily room rate is CNY 30. After living for more than ten days, Xie Yuecong had not yet found a job, and he could only leave with a backpack.
Xie Yuecong said that the thing he was most afraid of was that he had no place to live outside, and he must find a fixed place. He said it would be nice to have a home. So he went to the construction site to do short-term work and lived in a shed near Qianjiang New Town.
At the beginning of 2015, Xie Yuecong found an opportunity to completely turn around and get rich overnight. One of his friends won 790,000 in a lottery ticket. Xie Yuecong said that he accompanied his friend to buy a K5, and then his friend drove back to his hometown in a beautiful way, and his father and fellow villagers all went to the village to greet him. "That scene was spectacular. Very face-saving. I'm going to go home like this too. Xie Yuecong's tone was full of envy.
So as long as he earns a little money from part-time work, Xie Yuecong will go to buy lottery tickets, as much as 100 yuan and as little as 2 yuan. In 2015, he spent almost 5,000 yuan on lottery tickets. At most, he won 3500 blocks at most. He said he also knew that the odds of winning the lottery were low, but it was at least a hope, a hope that he could make money and go home.
Xie Yuecong wrote on the wall of the temporary shed in Hangzhou, "Buy lottery tickets, win the jackpot, and go back to your hometown." ”
At this time, Xie Yuecong's parents were completely dead-hearted, when this son would not come back. They used the money they earned from part-time work to re-expand the family's mud house.
Xie Yuecong's mother said that for six years, she did not hear from her son. My eyes were about to cry and I was blind. She thought about her son's return countless times, but she felt that she might not come back to send him to the end after he died.
At 9:00 p.m. on January 21, 2016, Xie Yuecong returned home again after a gap of six years. The home was packed with friends and family from the village. Everyone wants to see how he's been doing for the past six years.
Xie Yuecong's father was busy handing cigarettes to those who came, and his mother was busy pouring tea. Xie Yuecong did not open his mouth to call his parents.
Xie Yuecong looked at this renovated home with a blank face. Xie Yuecong saw that his cousin, who had grown up playing since childhood, eased his mood slightly, and whispered to him, "Cousin, where can you buy lottery tickets in the village, do you know?" ”