In 2009, seven children sat in front of the old man's bed in a small village in Laibin Town, Xuanwei City, Yunnan Province, the 15th year the family had been looking for Ma Qiang.
15 years ago, 5-year-old Ma Qiang went out to play after lunch, but this play completely disappeared.
Over the years, the old man has worked hard to find Ma Qiang, but the years are not spared, and the fatigue of the years and the pressure in the heart make the body worse than a day, and finally pass away.
Before his death, he hysterically told his children: "No matter what, I must find my grandson and take him to my grave to call grandpa."
The children nodded with tears in their eyes.
What the hell is going on here?
Why do families point the finger at their stepmother?
How did the family find Ma Qiang?
Let's step into today's story and explore this reunion that is 24 years apart.
The child is missing, and the family suspects:
Ma Qiang was born in 1989 in a small village in Laibin Town, Xuanwei City, Yunnan Province, and his parents did not have a good relationship, often quarreling over trivial matters.
After 3 years, the marriage was completely broken, according to the prior agreement, Ma Qiang and his two-year-old sister lived with his father, grandfather and grandmother, and the mother left the small village and eventually remarried.
Watching the two children grow up slowly, Ma Qiang's father realized that he had to find a mother for the two children, so under the introduction of a friend, Ma Qiang's father remarried with a woman from the same village.
The stepmother has a kind personality and treats Ma Qiang and her sister very well, but she still wants to have another child.
Ma Qiang's father felt that it didn't matter, he wanted to be born.
However, Ma Qiang's grandparents tried their best to stop it, saying that there were already two children in the family, a boy and a daughter.
Because of this incident, the stepmother and the grandparents quarreled, and later because of the intensification of the contradiction, the Ma Qiang family of four left the grandparents' house.
Later, the grandparents were afraid that the stepmother would wear "small shoes" for Ma Qiang because of this incident, and would come to Ma Qiang's house every three or five minutes to visit, and each time she would bring a large bag of delicious food.
This life lasted for nearly a year, and the relationship between the two sides eased somewhat, and just when Ma Qiang's father wanted to move back home, an accident happened.
At the end of 1994, Grandma came to Ma Qiang's house as usual to deliver food, and after lunch, five-year-old Ma Qiang went out to play, and Grandma did not care about it.
But at night, there was still no trace of Ma Qiang, and Grandma suddenly panicked, she ran all over the village, but never saw Ma Qiang's figure.
She began to contact Ma Qiang's stepmother, and the two of them asked about the little friend who played with Ma Qiang at noon, according to the child's description, "at noon, I simply played for a while, and then went home, and Ma Qiang was at the door at that time."
After hearing this, Grandma realized that Ma Qiang might be abducted by bad people, and she hurriedly sent a telegram to Ma Qiang's grandfather and aunt Ma Ailing, which read, "Ma Qiang is missing, hurry back."
Ma Qiang's grandmother
After receiving the telegram, the two rushed back to their hometown, and after the family gathered, they immediately looked around for Ma Qiang's traces.
There is a pond 50 meters away from Ma Qiang's house, and the father guesses that the child may have accidentally fallen into the water, and a group of horses have been busy by the pond for four hours, but Ma Qiang's shadow is still missing.
At the same time, Ma Ailing ran all over the train station, and the bus station even found the surrounding reservoirs, but ma Qiang was still missing, and he completely disappeared like the evaporation of the human world.
At night, the Ma family, who had been busy for a day, sat at home to discuss countermeasures, and then someone said: "Is it possible that Ma Qiang's stepmother abducted and sold Ma Qiang in order to have a child?" ”
This reason has attracted the attention of the Ma family, who have thought that there is such a possibility.
On the same day, I found my stepmother, and after a pressed question, my stepmother still did not change her face.
Because there is no evidence, the matter is closed.
But after this incident, the stepmother and Ma Qiang's father divorced.
Later, some people suspected that an old lady in the village had abducted Ma Qiang, and someone saw that the old lady had contact with Ma Qiang that day.
Grandpa died, online search for relatives:
This view that the old lady abducted Ma Qiang was immediately rejected, because the old lady was a distant relative of Ma Qiang and had no motive at all.
Later, Ma Qiang reported to the police and embarked on the road of searching for relatives with the assistance of the police.
However, this search is more than ten years, the Ma family has traveled all over the motherland in order to find Ma Qiang, and the elderly grandfather has personally fought.
One day in 2009, Grandpa fell ill on the way to find Ma Qiang.
Before dying, all seven children sat in front of the bed, and Grandpa choked up and said, "Find my grandson no matter what, take him to the grave when the time comes, and call me Grandpa."
As soon as he finished speaking, Uncle Tai passed away.
Later, the Ma family regrouped and "went out" again, this time with their grandfather's dying will to go to the road of finding relatives.
With the development of the times, the information network has become more and more powerful.
In 2017, Ma Qiang's aunt registered information on the search for relatives online, hoping to find the long-lost children through the power of the network.
I have to say that the power of the Internet is really strong, and a few days later, the volunteers of the Search for Relatives Network called.
Because in June, a young man named Ren Angang in Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province, also registered the information, which was highly consistent with Ma Qiang's information in the experience.
More importantly, Ren Angang's blood sample is highly similar to the blood sample of Ma Qiang's father many years ago, and it is suspected that the father-son relationship is suspected.
However, the blood sample sample sample from Ma Qiang's father is too old to be sampled, and it needs to be reconfirmed.
So the volunteers embarked on the road to find Ma Qiang's father, and finally contacted Ma Qiang's father through Ma Qiang's aunt.
Aunt Ma Qiang
Through blood comparison, in March 2018, the two confirmed that it was a father-son relationship, and it turned out that Ren Angang was Ma Qiang, who had been missing for 24 years.
When Ma Qiang's father learned of this news, tears directly fell from his eyes, and he said emotionally: "After more than twenty years of searching, I finally found it, it is not easy."
Afterwards, with the assistance of volunteers, on April 13, 2018, Ma Qiang boarded a plane to Kunming to reunite with his relatives who had been separated for 24 years.
Aunt Ma Ailing went to the airport, Ma Qiang's parents and others were preparing a welcome banquet at home, Ma Ailing held a banner in the most conspicuous place of the airport " Welcome the lost 24-year-old child Ma Qiang home" banner, and when they met, Ma Ailing directly rushed over, hugged Ma Qiang tightly, and choked up in her mouth: "Just come back...".
Soon they got into the car heading home, and after seeing their father and stepmother, Ma Qiang burst into tears of joy.
At the dinner table, he recounted his experience in that year, and it turned out that the distant old lady had abducted Ma Qiang.
Years of experience, memorial before the grave:
Ma Qiang, who was 5 years old at the time, was playing alone in front of his house, and an old lady sat next to him with a basket on her back.
The little boy was afraid of life and did not communicate with the old lady, and took care of himself to play with the grass.
After a while, the old lady saw that there was no one around and asked, "Little boy, I have candy in my back basket, do you want to eat it?" ”
This sentence immediately attracted Ma Qiang, who was not deeply involved in the world, and he stepped forward with joy, and when he just turned his head over, the old lady actually put him directly into the back basket.
The darkness in the back basket was incomparable, and no matter how much Ma Qiang made a fuss, it would not help.
The old lady carried Ma Qiang on her back and walked a long way, then came to the railway station, bought a train ticket to Xuzhou, and finally sold Ma Qiang to her current adoptive parents.
The adoptive father gave Ma Qiang a new name "Ren Angang", at first Ma Qiang has been crying and shouting that he wants to return to his original home, but time has passed, more than ten years have passed, and he has gradually adapted to his current life.
Although Ma Qiang was only five years old when he was abducted, he clearly understood that his current adoptive parents were not biological parents.
But for years, the adoptive parents treated themselves as if they were out of the woods, and they never owed good food and drink, and he never mentioned it again.
As Ma Qiang got married and had children, the idea of finding his biological parents once again gushed out, and he informed his adoptive parents of this idea.
Unexpectedly, his adoptive parents were very supportive of his idea and provided him with key clues, such as his real name is "Ma Qiang", his hometown is Kunming, Yunnan, and so on.
In 2017, Ma Qiang posted his own information on the search for relatives network, and he also held the attitude of trying it out, but the result far exceeded expectations.
With the help of volunteers, the biological parents were eventually found.
The old woman who took him away also died a few years ago, and in front of the reporter Ma Qiang said that "as long as you come back, there is no need to pursue responsibility."
Because Ma Qiang has had a good life over the years, now that he has a happy family when he marries and has children, his situation is quite good compared to other abducted children.
On April 14 of the same year, Ma Qiang and his aunt Ma Ailing returned to Xuanwei's hometown together, and his father, sister, grandmother, etc. waited for Ma Qiang's arrival at the village entrance.
On that day, Ma Qiang prepared a grand feast for his father, invited neighbors, relatives and a group of people who had helped the family on the way to find relatives.
More than a dozen tables of banquets were full of Ma Qiang's favorite dishes when he was a child, and when Ma Qiang came to his hometown, he was instantly infected by the enthusiasm of the villagers, and dozens of people went forward and hugged Ma Qiang back home.
At the dinner table, Ma Qiang toasted his friends one after another, expressing his help to the Ma family over the years.
When everything was over, Ma Qiang and his father came to Grandpa's grave, he knelt on the ground, with tears in his eyes, and choked in his mouth: "Grandpa, grandson is back, you have worked hard all these years."
On that day, many reporters recorded this touching side, the reunion of 24 years apart, although the two have been different in life and death, but that family affection will last forever.
In an interview with reporters afterwards, Ma Qiang said that he opened a shipyard in Qingdao, the business is not bad, and decided to live back and forth between his adoptive parents and his biological parents in the future to take care of four elderly people.
Ma Qiang participated in shipbuilding work
He also said that he had a five-month-old child, because he was too young to bring it, and when the child grew up, he must let him know that Yunnan is his hometown.
Coming and going, life is normal, only family affection is permanent.
The final return of the twenty-four-year-old child is not only the thought of his hometown, but also the nostalgia for his family!