On February 23, 2019, the exit of Dalian North Railway Station.
An old man over half a hundred years old had been waiting here for a long time, and he looked at the time, and it was already more than one o'clock in the afternoon.
"It's coming soon!" The old man thought with some nervousness and excitement in his heart.
He raised his hand to straighten his clothes, suppressed the tears in his eyes, and stared intently at the exit of the station, until a young woman appeared, making him completely broken, and the tears broke the embankment.
Similarly, the young woman couldn't help but cover her face and cry after seeing the old man with a face full of vicissitudes.
It turned out that this was a long-lost father and daughter.
The two met again, and the joy and excitement of the reunion were rubbed into silent tears, and they could not calm down for a long time.
Zhou Yi
How did the father and daughter separate in the first place? What kind of life have they lived over the years? How did they get together again?
A 6-year-old girl wanders the streets
The old man's daughter's name was Zhou Yi, and she was only 6 years old when she was separated from her father.
More than 30 years ago, Zhou Yi was born in Dalian, Liaoning Province, and lived a carefree life. At a young age, she didn't know what her parents' feelings were, but what was certain was that they had never treated themselves badly.
But I don't know from the day in my memory, she never saw her mother again, and after understanding things, she learned that her father and mother were divorced. Her mother remarried to a distant place, and since then she has not been heard from, leaving her and her father to live together.
Compared with those orphans, Zhou Yi was still lucky, at least he still had his father's company.
But not long after, his father was arrested and imprisoned for a fight, and a complete family is now only 6 years old, Xiao Zhouyi, who has been alone ever since.
Zhou Yi, who was already sensible, waited at home for his father to return, so he went out to look for it. But when she was young, she didn't know where her father was, walking aimlessly in the vast city, getting lost after turning around, and even the way home could not be found.
Helpless, she began to cry, her stomach urging her to eat, and the penniless Zhou Yi could only give up looking for her father and rummage through the garbage heap to pick up what she could eat.
In this way, Zhou Yi became a little girl who was wandering on the street.
Some well-meaning people saw the ragged, disheveled little Zhou Yi and thought she was very pitiful. Ask her where she lives and where her parents are, and she'll just shake her head and say she doesn't know.
In desperation, well-meaning people can only send her to the relevant departments, hoping to return home as soon as possible with the help of the government.
But Zhou Yi did not want to stay here, she only wanted to go home.
After running out several times, she was adopted by a man who looked like she worked at a train station.
Zhou Yi followed the man back to his residence, and at first the man greeted her warmly and cared. This made her feel that she had met a good person, and gradually regarded him as a relative.
A few days later, the man took Zhou Yi's small hand and said seemingly sincerely: "Little friend, I am busy with work these days, and I can't take good care of you." I sent you to my brother's house and asked him to take care of you for a while. Wait until I'm not busy, and then pick you up, okay? ”
The innocent Zhou Yi believed it to be true, and was coaxed and sent to his brother's house by the man. There is a town of Chengguan in Shibing County, Qiandongnan Prefecture, thousands of miles away from Dalian.
When the man left, he also smiled and told Zhou Yi: "You have to be obedient here, I will come to pick you up soon." ”
Unexpectedly, the man never came back after he left, leaving Zhou Yi alone to wait for him here.
At first, Zhou Yi would wait for the man's arrival with full expectations. But as time passed, she stayed here longer and longer, but she never saw the man's shadow, and gradually began to wonder whether the two were brothers.
So she cried and questioned the family, but every time she got the answer that "two are brothers". At this time, she missed Dalian more and more, missed her father, but did not know what to do, and could only live here all the time.
Married and have children, missing my father
The family was not wealthy, had many children, and had a difficult life. Zhou Yi's arrival was nothing less than a worse thing for them, but they did not abandon this little girl because of this, and always treated Zhou Yi as their own child.
Zhou Yi has lived here for a long time, and she has feelings for each other, and she finally accepted this place when she couldn't go home.
The name of the couple also changed from "uncle and aunt" to "mom and dad".
Her adoptive father and adoptive mother were very kind to her and sent her to school when she reached the age of school, but the poor family could not support the cost of many children's schooling, and zhou Yi was forced to drop out of school before graduation after attending primary school for several years.
Because he was too young to go out to work, Zhou Yi could only stay at home. In her spare time, she always missed her father, but she didn't know where he was now or if he had ever looked for her.
The days passed like this day by day, and Zhou Yi had reached the age when he should get married. Introduced by her parents, she and a local man got married soon after a blind date. However, because Zhou Yi was sent here, there was no household registration and no identity card, so the two did not receive a marriage license.
But this does not affect the relationship between the two after marriage, they run their own small family together, rely on odd jobs to survive, and their lives are satisfactory. Soon, Zhou Yi brought two children to the family.
Zhou Yi with the child
With the arrival of children, they also have more responsibilities on their shoulders, and the money earned by doing odd jobs is used to raise children, and life gradually becomes difficult. Even so, they are willing to eat.
Zhou Yi, who became a mother, missed his father more and more deeply. Over the years, she has been thinking about her father in Dalian all the time. She also wanted to go and look for her father, but she was afraid of getting lost again.
At the same time, Zhou Yi did not know what it would be like to see his relatives again after so many years, would they forget that they had long forgotten themselves? This made Zhou Yi look forward to being reunited with his relatives one day, and he was afraid to reunite with his relatives.
But every time she sees the reunion of families who have been separated from their relatives for several years, more than ten years or even decades on TV and on the Internet, she is very touched. At the same time, she thought of her father, and finally she made up her mind to find her relatives.
His adoptive parents and husband were supportive of this.
So whenever there is time for rest, Zhou Yi will tell his experience through the online platform, hoping that the majority of netizens can help. She would often pay attention to some information about finding someone, but she never received good news.
The turning point came at the end of 2018, when Zhou Yi accidentally saw the website of "Baby Home", and she saw a lot of "Baby" in it that she had returned home, which gave her hope again.
She registered the search information with the attitude of trying it out.
After many years, her memory of Dalian has gradually blurred, but she has never forgotten the names of her parents and the wandering days.
After Zhou Yi filled in his experience, he began to wait. She didn't know how long it would be, but no matter how long it was, as long as there was hope, she wouldn't give up.
Long road to find your family
After seeing Zhou Yi's information registration, the volunteers on the website quickly began to search based on the clues she provided.
I thought that after 30 years of changes, the news about Zhou Yi's relatives was not so easy to find. The website volunteers were ready to fight a protracted battle, but they did not expect that good news would soon come.
A volunteer with the screen name "Ding Chao" found an old man with the same name as Zhou Yi's father. He also had a daughter who had never been heard again after she disappeared 30 years ago, and the news of such a match between the two made "Ding Chao" feel that another family was about to be reunited.
After getting the contact information of the old man, "Ding Chao" could not wait to call the phone.
After the phone is connected, follow the "Hello, Hello?" The greeting said that the father and daughter, who had been separated for 30 years, confirmed that each other was the person they were looking for.
After a brief understanding, it was found that in the information provided by Zhou Yi, except for the change in his father's work, the rest could basically be matched.
The volunteers who returned home knew that Zhou Yi's father was imprisoned for fighting, which led to the disappearance of his daughter. When he was released from prison, he did not see his daughter, and he searched everywhere, but he did not die. As things got longer and longer, his life became more and more difficult, leaving him with no courage to keep looking.
"What if the daughter is adopted by a rich man?" With his current situation, what kind of life can he give her when he finds it! Zhou Yi's father thought so in his heart, but as a father, he did not miss his daughter for a day.
Later, the volunteers added the old man's WeChat, and after in-depth understanding, it was basically certain that he was Zhou Yi's father.
However, to prevent the two from confessing their mistakes, it was decided to conduct DNA identification on the two people.
After receiving this news, Zhou Yi was left in tears of excitement. With the help of volunteers and authorities, the DNA identification results of the two men came out at the end of January. Looking at the 99.99% probability on the appraisal table, everyone was excited.
After determining that the relationship between the two is a biological father-daughter relationship, Zhou Yi can't wait to return to his hometown to see his father.
But at this time, she could not buy a ticket without a household registration and identity documents, and the difficult family could not even afford to pay the fare, which became the biggest obstacle to her reunion with her father.
In order to solve this problem, the volunteers contacted the relevant local departments in Qiandongnan Prefecture and extended a helping hand to Zhou Yi together.
In this regard, Zhou Yi felt very warm and repeatedly expressed his gratitude to everyone.
On February 22, 2019, just a few days after the Lantern Festival, Zhou Yi embarked on the road back to his hometown.
She set out from Guizhou, transited through Beijing and then entered Dalian, and after 31 years, Zhou Yi finally set foot on the land of Dalian again.
From Guizhou to Dalian, Zhou Yi was a little nervous along the way, and her heart was full of excitement and anxiety in the face of the upcoming reunion. Although she is full of expectations for the reunion, after many years, seeing her father again, she does not know how things will turn out.
Back in Dalian, father and daughter are reunited
On February 23, Zhou Yi's father, volunteers, and reporters with cameras were already waiting at the exit of Dalian North Railway Station early. The old man stared at the flow of people at the exit of the station, looking at it, afraid of missing the meeting with his daughter.
Volunteers and reporters on the side are also waiting for the two to meet and witness the happy moment of their reunion.
At about 13:00, Zhou Yi finally arrived at Dalian North Railway Station.
She came out of the exit and saw her elderly father in the crowd looking over to the side.
She threw herself into her father's arms excitedly, tears flowing down uncontrollably, and choked up and said, "Dad, I'm back." ”
After hearing a "Dad", the old man originally had a lot of words in his heart, many questions to ask, but in the end they all turned into four words: "Just come back." ”
The father gently patted his daughter's back with his hand, comforting her, and the two embraced and cried, unwilling to be separated for a long time.
When the mood of the two gradually stabilized, the reporter interviewed the two.
When Zhou Yi knew that the years after his father's release from prison were not good, he said firmly: "No matter what, he is my father, even if my conditions are not very good, I have been waiting for more than 30 years to be reunited with my father, and I will definitely take good care of him in the future." ”
When asked about Zhou Yi's adoptive parents, Zhou Yi told reporters: "They are very good to me, and this time, they are very supportive." No matter what decision I make in the end, they choose to respect it. So I wouldn't ignore my biological father just because I found them, and I would take care of both ends. ”
Speaking of future plans, Zhou Yi decided to live in Dalian for a while, after all, she had to deal with her hukou first, for so many years, she would be restricted from doing anything without an ID card.
Then she will still return to Qiandong, after all, she now has her own family, two children to take care of, and she does not want to be an irresponsible mother.
During his time in Dalian, Zhou Yi held up his mobile phone to take pictures of every place in Dalian. The trams on the street, the high-rise buildings in the city center, and the Dalian delicacies on the table all appeared in her circle of friends, and Zhou Yi happily recorded her life in Dalian.
In 30 years, Dalian has undergone earth-shaking changes. Time has left a wrinkle on his father's face, taking away his youth and taking away the ignorant little Zhou Yi, but what can't be taken away is the blood and blood affection between the two.
His mother remarried, his father went to prison, and Zhou Yi, who was living on the streets, was sent thousands of miles away in Guizhou to be reunited with his biological father 31 years later, and they were absent for 31 years of each other's lives.
In the days that follow, they will spend their lives making up for it.
After helping Zhou Yi go home, the volunteers of "Baby Home" said with emotion: "The constant changes in life cannot break the blood and bones, and it will not let the people looking for relatives lose confidence, and I hope that Zhou Yi's family will get better and better in the future." ”
There are still many lost relatives in the world, and perhaps they have been on the road to find each other, believing that one day they will be reunited.