At a DNA laboratory, a default rule is not to trust anyone.
Relatives who live under the same roof and who share the same bed may not know what the other person has done.
Here, episodes such as grandpa sleeping with his daughter-in-law, and rich merchants becoming "repeat customers" because too many have happened to even be called adventures.
The polite mr. teaching would deceive, the virtuous and considerate housewife would lie, and the only thing that might point to honesty was the sample stored in the two large freezers of the laboratory.
What is the truth? Appraisers can get them to speak.
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Dramatic
Overall, no one can predict what will happen here.
A small part of the story unfolds out of control. In the morning-rising conference room on the third floor, a couple once had a big fight here.
Men's wallets, mobile phones, and bank cards were thrown out of the window by women. It is said that he claimed to be single for more than a decade, and after a successful career, he found another one outside.
Meanwhile, his teenage child sat calmly next to him, watching his parents fight. Also in this conference room, the original wife who had just paid the appraisal fee to Xiao San turned her head and rushed to the window without a protective fence, fortunately, her own son was quick in the eyes, and finally stopped her.
There are also some people who are too calm, but they seem to be a little frightened.
A woman who was more than 16 weeks pregnant once brought four men to DNA identification at the same time to compare who was the biological father of the fetus in the womb. Four men stood aside, chatting warmly and handing each other business cards.
If you ignore the appraiser who is secretly marveling at the side, the scene is simply eerily harmonious. As a result, the four people and the fetus in the woman's womb were not related by blood, and the woman was relieved and left happily.
(Sample stored in the freezer)
In addition to customers, the media that come to visit with a curious mentality is also endless. One of the favorite hashtags in news reports is called "Marriage Shredder."
In the eighteen years since entering the industry, Sister Deng has seen all kinds of cases. Being friends with her is something to brag about, and she once had a friend who said to her mother, who loved to watch "Zhiyin", "You go to my sister's laboratory every day, and the story of this piece is much more wonderful than "Zhiyin". ”
One of the most dramatic stories takes place more than a decade ago. At that time, Sister Deng helped a "family search meeting" in Wuxi to do public welfare, and she met a woman in her forties who brought her and her father's blood samples to do the identification.
It is said that when her mother was pregnant, her father had already been sterilized, and he refused to believe that the child was his own, and threw his mother out of the house.
In the 1960s and 1970s, DNA identification technology had not yet emerged, and there was no way to prove the identity of a woman. Her mother gave birth to her alone and eventually died depressed in her teenage years.
For more than forty years, women have grown up under the guidance of the "wild children" of the neighborhood and spent the first half of their lives that were not recognized by anyone.
Then she had a chance to prove who she was. A few days later, when the appraiser called to tell the woman the results, the woman in her forties cried out on the other end of the phone.
She lived for more than forty years, was kicked out of the house by her father for more than forty years, and then finally arrived at a definite result: support.
Sister Deng said, "This is a modern version of the story of "Thunderstorm". ”
The meaning of truth
In Deng Jie's laboratory, the number of cases received each year fluctuates in the range of about 1700 to 10,000 with the adjustment of national policies.
Many of the stories come about very simple things, children need to settle down, medical certificates need to be re-issued, and it needs to be determined who will pay child support, but the ultimate truth often leads to a series of shocking secrets.
Sister Deng often receives cases entrusted by the court to help determine the parent-child relationship. A family of four came to her for identification: father, daughter, son, and daughter's child.
In the accounts of court staff, they need to determine who is the biological father of the child and who pays child support to the daughter's child.
Sister Deng was confused at first, "Who is father, did you bring it?" ”
An answer that shocked her even more followed, "Either her brother or her father."
In the end, the results of the identification came out, and the child's biological father was his grandfather.
When telling the story, afraid that these people's relationship is too complicated, Sister Deng explained again, "He should call his grandfather Daddy and his uncle call his brother." ”
There are also stories that have nothing to do with the legal process and have nothing to do with monetary interests. People come to do DNA identification just to compete for a breath.
Thanklessness always occurs, especially in animal kinship identification.
Sister Deng went to a small ravine in Shanxi to do cattle case, through DNA comparison, to determine whether the villagers' cattle were stolen from other people's homes, and the total number of visit fees and identification fees was nearly 10,000, even exceeding the price of this cow. But they are just "not fighting for steamed buns", and the truth is always higher than the cost performance.
(Blood samples used in laboratories for experiments)
The truth is the insistence of the profession of the appraiser, who writes definitive answers to the mysterious story, but sometimes with unforeseen consequences.
In previous years, prenatal non-invasive identification techniques were not yet widespread, and pregnant women usually needed to pump amniotic fluid to do paternity testing for their fetuses, which had a risk of miscarriage of about 1%. Among ordinary couples, few people are willing to take risks, but Sister Deng once met a woman who insisted on smoking amniotic fluid for identification.
When the amniotic fluid was sampled, there were some small episodes. The doctor went into the operating room three times and came out three times, saying that the woman was completely unable to cooperate, and as soon as she was ready to smoke amniotic fluid, she collapsed and cried, and the amniotic fluid could not be pumped out at all.
It wasn't until the doctor talked to the woman in the operating room and successfully pumped out the amniotic fluid for the last time that Sister Deng understood the causes and consequences of this story from the doctor's mouth.
The woman's husband is a polyspermia sufferer. After she became pregnant, the whole family did not believe that the fetus belonged to her own, believing that the woman had cheated on her and was harsh on her. She was angry and felt that she would let her family see the truth no matter what.
The final identification proved her innocence, and the child was born to her husband. The husband's family turned their heads and began to make up, but the woman insisted on filing a divorce proceeding with the court.
Sister Deng can understand the woman's choice, "the child is their family, they are suddenly good to her, she does not accept."
Sister Deng also met a family of five people who came to her for identification. Grandpa took his grandmother, son, daughter-in-law and grandson, carrying large bags of things, from a long distance to take the train, reverse the car, and then the subway, to the laboratory.
The eldest old man took the initiative to mention the story of their family with Sister Deng, the old man looked quite cultured, and told the appraisers in a clear and organized manner that their family, except for him and his grandson, everyone else seemed to be "not very smart", and the villagers rumored that his grandson was born to his daughter-in-law. He said he was angry and wanted to go back with the appraisal report and tell the villagers not to spread it anymore.
The old man said indignantly, the staff who received the case were sighing, this old man is particularly difficult, not far away, with such a family of old and young, just to give themselves a clean.
But when the results came out, everyone was dumbfounded...
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