Elephant News Reporter Li Changyao/Wentu
On the morning of February 17, Yang Dengfeng of Lankao County, Kaifeng City, Henan Province, set off from Lankao County to a caravan club in Huayuankou Village, Zhengzhou City. There, a Luoyang boy named Ma Shuifeng was waiting for him.
After converging with him, Ma Shuifeng will drive his motorhome, which is plastered with pictures of missing children, to drive Yang Dengfeng to Yongle Town, Xianyang City, Shaanxi Province. On February 18, Yang Dengfeng will be there with his biological parents.
On the other side, Xiao Zhenyu, who is called "hero of abduction" and "hero of Xiao" by the family looking for relatives, will also depart from Nanyang City and rush to Yongle Town to join the two.
Thirty-one years ago, Yang Dengfeng, who was in preschool, was transferred from Xianyang City, Shaanxi Province, to Lankao County, Henan Province; 20 years ago, after dropping out of junior high school, he worked for 20 years to find relatives. By chance, Ma Shuifeng received Yang Dengfeng's request for help and forwarded it to Xiao Zhenyu; 5 days later, Xiao Zhenyu basically locked the information of Yang Dengfeng's biological parents; on February 15, the DNA re-examination was reconfirmed.
Behind Yang Dengfeng's successful search for relatives is a successful intersection of Ma Shuifeng and Xiao Zhenyu. The former is a family search volunteer, driving a motorhome plastered with photos of abducted children, driving 130,000 kilometers in 3 years and successfully helping 5 children find their biological parents; the latter is a kidnapping police officer in the Nanyang Municipal Public Security Bureau, helping more than 1,200 families to achieve reunion in 5 years.
The search for relatives is successful, and the perfect intersection between volunteers and "abduction heroes"
Ma Shuifeng did not expect that Yang Dengfeng would find his biological parents so quickly.
Around January 10, Ma Shuifeng received a request for help from Yang Dengfeng, asking Ma Shuifeng to publish his family search information on his Douyin and Kuaishou platforms.
Yang Dengfeng is a native of Lankao, Kaifeng, and is 37 years old. When he was sixteen or seventeen years old in junior high school, a classmate in a village told him, "You were brought here," and he was subsequently confirmed by his adoptive parents. Since then, he has no intention of going to school, and after dropping out of school, he embarked on the road of part-time work and family search.
According to Yang Dengfeng's recollection, he may have been in the preschool class when he was 6 years old, when he met someone who said to him, "Follow me, your parents are waiting for you", he followed this person to a car, and then lost consciousness; when he woke up, he was already in Lankao.
In his memory, he can also vaguely remember that his parents were in small business, his father worked in the factory, and there were younger siblings at home, and when he was a child, he ate a pasta called "hemp food" at home and lived in a large courtyard of a two-story house. The yard has a slope outside the door and the home is close to the road and rail.
But with this information alone, he searched for more than 20 years and never had a clue. A few years ago, there was an aunt in Luoyang Shichi County, suspected to be his biological mother, but after doing DNA comparison at his own expense, it was found that it was not at all.
After receiving Yang Dengfeng's request for help, Ma Shuifeng carefully combed through Yang Dengfeng's information and found three key pieces of information: first, Yang Dengfeng could roughly remember the address of his home, which was in a place called "Gaoling" or "Gaoling"; second, the pasta that his biological parents liked to eat at home was called "Ma Food", similar to cat's ear noodles; the third was that the dialect where his biological parents were located liked to say "I" as "hungry" (because).
Ma Shuifeng's wife is from Xi'an, he knows a little about Shaanxi dialect and food, etc., based on the above information, he preliminarily judged that Yang Dengfeng should be Shaanxi. But Shaanxi is so big, relying on its own strength, it will certainly be difficult to help him.
Ma Shuifeng quickly contacted Xiao Zhenyu, a "hero of abduction" from the Nanyang Municipal Public Security Bureau, to see if he could help Yang Dengfeng find his family. Xiao Zhenyu answered very crisply: It is not a question of whether we can help, helping him find relatives is our duty, and it is also a must-do thing.
After Yang Dengfeng's information materials were sent, Xiao Zhenyu contacted Yang Dengfeng at the first time and immediately arranged for the staff to brave the snow to take blood samples from him. Subsequently, he docked with Officer Li Mengtian of the Xi'an Police. Through the joint efforts of the police in Nanyang and Xi'an, Yang Dengfeng's biological parents were quickly locked.
On February 15, Ma Shuifeng received Xiao Zhenyu's report on the successful DNA comparison between Yang Dengfeng and his biological parents.
(Ma Shuifeng took a video before his search for a relative)
Yang Dengfeng's search for relatives was successful, which seemed to make Ma Shuifeng more excited than Yang Dengfeng. As a family search volunteer, I have had such a perfect intersection with the "abduction hero" and realized the reunion dream of a kidnapped child, which is more important than anything.
Driving a motorhome plastered with photos of missing children, he embarked on the road of public welfare to find relatives
The conspicuous label on Ma Shuifeng's body now is that of a Luoyang boy who drives a caravan full of photos of missing children and goes around looking for relatives. The reason why Yang Dengfeng asked Ma Shuifeng for help was obviously that he was more recognized by these labels on his body.
Before 2019, Ma Shuifeng was a "full-time contract foreman" on a construction site in Taiyuan, Shaanxi Province, leading a group of workers around to do projects, with a large annual income. But in 2016, after watching the movies "Dear" and "Lost", he began to pay attention to the group of family searchers and connected with some of them.
Ma Shuifeng is a native of Luoyang, Henan, his wife is from Xi'an, Shaanxi, and he works in Taiyuan, Shanxi, so he is familiar with these three places. Whenever he met a parent in these three places, he would arrange meals, accommodation, transportation, etc.
But what really put him on the road of public welfare to find his relatives came from a self-driving trip to Tibet in 2019. On that road trip, he met two parents looking for children, one from Sichuan and one from Hubei, dressed in very torn clothes, and were preparing to scoop water from the river with a cup of water. Because he happened to encounter a traffic jam, Ma Shuifeng went down to ask them if they needed help, and then let them get into his car.
Through the chat, it was learned that the two were looking for their children. Because they heard that there were many children begging along the Sichuan-Tibet Line, they wanted to see if they had any children of their own. After years of searching for children outside, they had no income, so they could only search on foot on the Sichuan-Tibet Line.
On the way back, Ma Shuifeng pondered: they came out with only two children's photos, and if they were to paste photos on the car, they could at least paste dozens or even hundreds of photos. In this way, one can help the family looking for children, and the other can also give a warning to the person who sees it, which will play a role in cracking down on abduction and preventing abduction.
(Ma Shuifeng's RV search information)
In November of that year, he bought a motorhome and posted more than 230 pieces of family search information on the body; after the Spring Festival in 2020, he drove this caravan full of family search information and embarked on the road of public welfare to find relatives.
In September of that year, after seeing his deeds, Wang Li and Xue Mei, a couple in Changzhou, Jiangsu Province, also modified their trucks and posted more than 300 photos and information of missing children on the body, and embarked on the road of public welfare to find relatives with him.
"My car is Car 1, theirs is Car 2, and cars 3 and 4 will soon join us." Ma Shuifeng said.
Public welfare search for relatives for two years, traveling 130,000 kilometers, to help 5 children find a home
In order to expand the influence, Ma Shuifeng has wholesale more than 1300 pieces, covering more than 20 mobile phone models of tempered film, in the park or scenic spot where there are many people, set up a stall film, as long as someone is willing to take any 9 photos about family search, posted in their circle of friends or vibrato and Kuaishou, he will give them free film. In his opinion, the more people see it, the more hope of finding the child.
In addition, he contacted the manufacturer and posted the family search information on mineral water bottles and snack bags.
Driving a caravan everywhere to publicize has become the norm of Ma Shuifeng's life. In just two years, he traveled to Henan, Hebei, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Tianjin, Liaoning and many other provinces, covering more than 130,000 kilometers.
The effect of public welfare family search is also more powerful. So far, he has helped nearly 10 deaf and disabled people find their homes, and has also helped 5 abducted children find their families.
What makes him most proud is that in May and June last year, he helped zeng Qingjiao, the "female version of Guo Gangtang", to find his daughter Chen Guiping, who had been missing for 27 years.
When Chen Guiping was 4 years old, she played with her sister in xinhua bookstore and was taken away by an "uncle" and has not been heard from since. Like Guo Gangtang, her mother Zeng Qingjiao rode a motorcycle around the country to search for 27 years, still fruitless.
Around the Spring Festival in 2020, Zeng Qingjiao asked Ma Shuifeng for help, hoping to post her daughter's message on his RV, and Ma Shuifeng agreed.
On May Day in 2021, when Ma Shuifeng drove a caravan full of photos of missing children and carried out publicity in the square in front of the Terracotta Warriors and Horses Museum in Xi'an, a tour guide brought a group of Guangzhou tourists to visit the Terracotta Warriors. Tourists have entered the museum, and the guide stands by the caravan of Ma Shui Feng and waits.
Ma Shuifeng asked the tour guide for help, and when the tourists came out, they let them take some pictures of the family search information on the caravan and forward it to their respective circles of friends or Douyin and Kuaishou. The tour guide is very powerful, waiting for tourists to come out with a loudspeaker and call on everyone to come and help.
A tourist took a picture of Chen Guiping's relevant information and posted it in his circle of friends, and was seen by a friend in Shenzhen. After this Shenzhen friend sent Vibrato, he quickly received a clue from netizens, saying that he knew Chen Guiping. After Ma Shuifeng contacted the netizen, he made a DNA comparison through the police to confirm the success of the search for relatives.
"When I first started looking for relatives in public welfare, my wife strongly opposed it, saying that people had not found them for decades, so how could you help others find them?" But he did help people find it.
Running around all year round, the cost is not a small amount. Ma Shuifeng said that last year alone, two family-seeking cars spent at least 500,000 yuan. But he thinks that he spent 500,000 yuan to find 5 children, which is worth it.
On the way to find relatives, Ma Shuifeng set three principles for himself: do not charge parents a penny, do not eat a meal for parents, and do not take a pack of cigarettes from parents. His own engineering team was still operating normally, and he didn't need help.
The police embarked on the road of public welfare to find relatives because of "Lost Orphans", helping more than 1,200 families realize their dream of reunion
On the road of public welfare to find relatives, Ma Shuifeng heard the story of Xiao Zhenyu, the "hero of abduction", and could not help but yearn for it.
Xiao Zhenyu is a public welfare police officer of the Nanyang Municipal Public Security Bureau. He embarked on the road of public welfare to find relatives, which is related to the film "Lost alone", which is a film with the theme of abduction.
In the spring of 2017, Xiao Zhenyu's daughter was born, and in the month of maternity leave with his wife, he watched "Lost Orphans", in which Andy Lau played the father who was nearly half a hundred years old, in order to find his lost son, he abandoned his family and business and embarked on the arduous road of finding a son. There are many families in China who have also suffered the same situation, and they may be like the father in "Lost Alone", who have embarked on the road of searching for relatives again and again, and have suffered disappointments again and again.
Holding his newborn daughter and enjoying this happiness, Xiao Zhenyu had an idea in his heart, that is, to help more families from separated families to realize their dream of reunion. In May of that year, he became a public welfare family search volunteer.
In the process of searching for relatives, he deeply realized that the traditional way of searching for relatives is time-consuming and laborious, and in the current era of big data, the work he is engaged in is related to data analysis, and it will be more convenient to use it in searching for people. After he communicated this idea with the leader, he received strong support.
(Pennant received by Xiao Zhenyu)
(Plaque received by Xiao Zhenyu)
In September 2020, the Party Committee of the Nanyang Municipal Public Security Bureau decided to set up the "Nanyang Micro Police Bureau Xiao Zhenyu Family Search Studio", and relying on the "Ping An Nanyang" public account, established an online information release registration platform, and used public security resources to provide free family search services for the people across the country.
Xiao Zhenyu said that the family search crowd in the studio is mainly divided into three categories: one is the abducted women and children; the other is the long-lost population; and the other is to help the martyrs find their relatives.
"Now on average, we receive more than 10 requests for help every day, from all over the country and around the world." Xiao Zhenyu said that since he began to embark on the road of public welfare in 2017, he and the studio have successfully made more than 1,200 separated families realize their dream of reunion. Among these successful family search cases, there are families from 32 provinces across the country, and more than 20 are from the United States, Myanmar, Vietnam and other countries.
(Xiao Zhenyu helped people successfully find their families)
When the public welfare family search guy encounters "Xiao Hero"
There are not many successful cases of Xiao Zhenyu's impressive family search.
On the eve of the Mid-Autumn Festival in 2020, he received a request for help from Qianxi County, Guizhou Province. The information shows that the six brothers are looking for their mother Zhao Mengling (pseudonym), who has been missing for 30 years. They said that after my mother left home to work 30 years ago, she has not heard from her.
After 4 days and nights of continuous work, Xiao Zhenyu finally found Zhao Mengling, who was abducted and sold to Wei County, Hebei Province, the day before the Mid-Autumn Festival, and on the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, helped the 6 brothers to take their mother from Hebei back to Guizhou.
"I couldn't stand staying up late for a few days, and I wanted to lie on the table and sleep for a while." Xiao Zhenyu said that a situation like this is the norm for his work.
When he first started doing public welfare family searching, he still had his own work to do, and the work of family searching could only be done in the evening or leisure time. Moreover, I have to sit in front of my computer for more than a dozen hours every day. Later, he was transferred to the Anti-Abduction Office and specialized in the work of searching for relatives, and the intensity of the work became even greater.
(Xiao Zhenyu recording search information)
The extra intense workload gave him severe glaucoma and lumbar disc herniation. Nevertheless, he never doubted the significance of spending so much time and energy to help people find relatives, and each time he witnessed the scene of reunion, he became more aware of the significance of his efforts for these families.
Xiao Zhenyu's deeds, Ma Shuifeng has long been concerned. In Ma Shuifeng's two public welfare WeChat groups, xiao Zhenyu was mentioned, and everyone called him "Xiao Hero". Even the contact information of Xiao Zhenyu sent by Ma Shuifeng to the reporter, the note is also "Xiao Hero".
Because of his admiration for "Xiao Hero", in April last year, Ma Shuifeng managed to contact Xiao Zhenyu and paid attention to the platform of Xiao Zhenyu's family search studio of nanyang micro-police station. He also promoted the platform in his WeChat group, and also encouraged families to register the information of their children's disappearance on the platform, so that everyone has one more channel to find their relatives.
Ma Shuifeng's information about the missing children posted on their two RV searches has also been registered on the platform of Xiao Zhenyu's family search studio of the Nanyang Micro Police Bureau, and with the assistance of "Xiao Hero", some families have already realized the membership of the group. "Xiao Hero" to find the successful information, Ma Shuifeng will also be sent to the group, everyone is very excited to see, all hope that one day "Xiao Hero" found, is his own child.
On September 15, 2021, Ma Shuifeng also drove to Nanyang to represent hundreds of separated families in the group and gave "Xiao Hero" a pennant to express their gratitude to him.
Xiao Zhenyu also praised Ma Shuifeng for their public welfare family search and tried his best to support his public welfare family search activities.
The two had such an opportunity, after Ma Shuifeng received Yang Dengfeng's request for help, he was able to contact Xiao Zhenyu for the first time, and Xiao Zhenyu was also able to quickly draw a conclusion in the fastest time and in conjunction with the Shaanxi police.
"In fact, at the beginning, the relationship between Yang Dengfeng and his biological parents was basically determined, but in order to ensure that nothing was lost, we did a re-examination on February 15 to reconfirm it." Xiao Zhenyu said.
The intersection of Luoyang public welfare family search boy and Nanyang "Xiao Hero" has achieved a reunion dream for Henan men who have been working and searching for relatives for 20 years.