Abducted for 30 years and searching for relatives for 17 years, the Chongqing boy was finally reunited with his parents

Source: West China Metropolis Daily

Abducted for 30 years, after 17 years of searching for relatives, the Chongqing boy was finally reunited with his parents

After successfully recognizing his relatives, he said that "it will help more abducted children find their families"

After 30 years of abduction and 17 years of searching for relatives, Zhou Tianpeng finally found his way home.

This is a country road located in Fandian Village, Xianlong Town, Yongchuan District, Chongqing.

February 5, 2022, the fifth day of the first lunar month. This day, for Zhou Tianpeng, a Chongqing boy who has been abducted to Henan for 30 years, is the most exciting and nervous day in his life. After more than 10,900 days and nights of waiting, the 33-year-old finally returned to his home in Xianlong Town, Yongchuan, Chongqing, to recognize his biological parents.

This hug

The family has been waiting for 30 years

At about 10:00 a.m. on February 5, Zhou Tianpeng set off from Chongqing's Yongchuan District. He sat in the back seat of the car with flowers for his mother, somewhat nervous.

On the way home, Zhou Tianpeng didn't say much, but from time to time told the scattered memories of the past: "Adobe house, there is a clay pot with a missing mouth at home, when I was a child, I always took eggs from the gap... I've been to Beijing, Hebei, Guizhou... Met a lot of nice people. ”

More often, Zhou Tianpeng just looked at the scenery that was constantly receding outside the window, and his eyes were rosy.

The car skirted a winding road, near the village entrance, and a white-haired old man leaned over to the window and greeted Zhou Tianpeng warmly.

Zhou Tianpeng's eye sockets gradually moistened.

At 11:06, the car drove to the mouth of the village, the sound of firecrackers sounded, and the villagers held up small flags in their hands and accompanied Zhou Tianpeng's family to wait at the mouth of the village.

Zhou Tianpeng just got out of the car, his elderly parents recognized him at a glance, and the two old men covered their faces and cried and cried.

Zhou Tianpeng, who was holding flowers in his hand, trotted all the way, kneeling in front of his parents, and the family of three embraced and cried.

Subsequently, Zhou Tianpeng helped his parents to go home. I saw red lanterns hanging at the gate, more than a dozen tables of reunion banquets in the courtyard, and banners hanging on the walls - "Welcome Zhou Tianpeng home to recognize the ancestors and return to the ancestors."

In the courtyard, mother He Youfang reached out and stroked her son's face, and her voice trembled a little, "I am much thinner than when I was a child, have you suffered a lot outside?" Now that we are finally back with us, Mom will definitely make up for your lack of maternal love for 30 years. ”

Hearing this, Zhou Tianpeng's tears flowed down again, and he held his mother's hand tightly and did not want to let go.

The son was abducted

The mother has long been deeply remorseful

For the past 30 years, He Youfang has been blaming herself. She hated herself for being careless and causing her son to be abducted, "That day I took him to the market, went to the toilet alone, and came out to find that the child was missing." ”

Information is blocked, transportation is inconvenient, there is no clue, after the son was abducted, the family has been looking for, but has not been able to find. He Youfang fell into painful self-blame, "When he was a child, he was very fat, he had a lot of food, his mouth was very sweet, his personality was very outgoing, I always dreamed of him, in the dream he said to me, 'Mom, you hug me, hug me', but whenever I stretched out my hands to hug him, he disappeared." At this time, I always wake up from the dream, and the tears are not stopped. ”

On January 30, 2022, He Youfang and her husband learned that their son had finally been found, and the two were so excited that they could not sleep. After agreeing with their son to go home on February 5 to recognize their relatives, the two could not sleep all night. When she couldn't sleep, He Youfang went online to watch the relatives search videos that her son had sent on the Internet over the years, and after watching it, she was distressed about her son's suffering and couldn't sleep.

Left home at the age of 3

He was abducted from Chongqing to Henan

On the eve of the Spring Festival in 1992, 3-year-old Zhou Tianpeng was abducted and sold to Henan.

Zhou Tianpeng couldn't remember how he was abducted, "Maybe it was because of sugar." A scene always appeared in his mind: a woman wrapped in a turban gave him candy, and he couldn't remember what happened next. The only recurring picture is to take a green-skinned train and finally go to Daye Town, Dengfeng City, Henan Province.

Zhou Tianpeng's childhood was not good, and he was raised by a single man, "He often goes out, no one at home cooks, he is hungry and full, and he also does a lot of home and field work, which is more bitter than his peers." In the village, he was often bullied. ”

When Zhou Tianpeng was six or seven years old, he would occasionally hear gossip in the village, saying that he had bought it for three or four thousand yuan for his adoptive family, and he also found that he did not look like his adoptive father. At the age of 16, he confirmed that he was not the biological son of his adoptive father. The breadwinner's aunt told him he had indeed bought it.

17 years of searching for relatives

He firmly believes in reuniting with his biological parents

At the age of 16, Zhou Tianpeng dropped out of school and began to work everywhere. He has been to Beijing, Jiangsu and Hebei, and has worked as a miner, car washer, welder, waiter, and cook, but no matter where he works, he always pays attention to all kinds of family information.

Mr. Zhou had heard a neighbor argue that he might be from Sichuan. When he was working in the coal mine, he met many Sichuan miners, so he asked his co-workers if they had heard of any family that had lost their children, but there was no result.

Zhou Tianpeng was not discouraged, and whenever he saw the search notice posted on the telephone pole, he would always stop and take a closer look. When he sees a person looking for a son on the street, he will also come forward to inquire to see if the stranger in front of him is his family.

"At that time, the Internet was not yet widespread, and they didn't know how to publish search information." Zhou Tianpeng said that later the network developed, and he began to pay attention to family information on the Internet, but he never found any clues related to his own life.

In 2015, Zhou Tianpeng's adoptive father died, and he was deeply shocked, "There is no home, life is not smooth, I even had the idea of taking my own life." Recalling those days, Zhou Tianpeng frowned, "But one night I had a dream and heard a voice calling to me, 'Where are you, child, mother is waiting for you to come back'." ”

Because of this dream, Zhou Tianpeng once again strengthened his confidence to find his biological parents.

By chance, Zhou Tianpeng met the volunteers through the introduction of people, and collected his DNA information into the library.

In the second half of 2021, Zhou Tianpeng began to post a family search video online. In the video, he said that he was probably born between 1988 and 1990, and was abducted and sold to Henan since childhood and grew up in Henan, with burns on the back of his head and birthmarks on the back of his waist.

Fortunately, a Chongqing volunteer helped Zhou Tianpeng spread the search for relatives, and Zhou Tianpeng's cousin just saw this information in the circle of friends. As soon as she saw zhou Tianpeng's photo when she was 14 years old, her cousin suddenly felt a sense of intimacy and immediately contacted Zhou Tianpeng's parents. The next day, Zhou Tianpeng's parents took blood samples.

After the urgent examination and comparison of the DNA laboratory of the Physical Evidence Identification Center of the Criminal Investigation Corps of the Chongqing Municipal Public Security Bureau, on January 30, 2022, the Chongqing police confirmed that Zhou Tianpeng's biological parents were in Xianlong Town, Yongchuan District. Zhou Tianpeng immediately shared the good news with everyone on the social platform, "Finally I can reunite with my parents, and I hope that everything will be smoother and smoother in the future." ”

On the morning of February 5, Zhou Tianpeng finally embarked on the last few dozen kilometers of the road home.

"I waited for this day for a long time, and I was very tired, but I kept silently insisting because I believed that I could definitely reunite with my parents." Zhou Tianpeng said, "My parents said that they have not given up looking for me, and they are sad about the hardships I have suffered over the years, in fact, I am more distressed about them." ”

"Now for me, finding my parents and they're all healthy is the greatest happiness." Talking about his next plans, Zhou Tianpeng said that he would move his hukou back, change his name back to his original name Zhang Xiaobo, and then find a job to accompany his parents. ”

Zhou Tianpeng also said: "I will join the team of family search volunteers to help more abducted children find their families." ”

West China Metropolis Daily - Cover News Reporter Li Maojia Intern Chen Xia