"We are not your biological parents, you were picked up by us at the Chengdu Railway Station 26 years ago..." In 2020, Wen Deqiang, who was lying on a sickbed, called his son Wen Hongcai and confessed this secret that had been hidden for many years.
Suddenly hearing his father say that his life was another situation, Wen Hong dropped his jaw in shock, and it was difficult to accept for a while.
He walked out in confusion for a long time, and he didn't know if he should believe it? He couldn't figure out that his parents, who had taken care of him in every way, were not biological.
After several days, Wen Hongcai, who had eased up, walked to his father's bed again and silently shed tears.
At this time, Wen Deqiang was already dying, and he used his last strength to tell Wen Hongcai that he must go to find his biological father and mother, otherwise he would leave with a lifetime of regrets.
Wen Hongcai
Wen Hongcai agreed, he really did not want to look at his father at the time of his death. He also wanted to understand the mystery of his own life.
But who are Wen Hongcai's biological parents? Why was he adopted by Mr. and Mrs. Wen Deqiang?
Rescue in front of the train station
In the first month of 1995, Wen Deqiang and his wife had just finished the New Year in their hometown of Ziyang City, Sichuan Province, and quickly took their children to work in the provincial capital of Chengdu, where they ran freight.
In the rental house in Chengdu, his wife Zhou Yizhen usually takes care of his 5-year-old son with polio and his 3-year-old daughter at home, while her husband, Wen Deqiang, drives a truck day and night to make money, and the couple jointly supports this small and warm home.
One rainy day after the Lantern Festival, Wen Deqiang drove a truck past Chengdu North Railway Station, and accidentally saw a four- or five-year-old boy standing on the side of the railway station crying, wearing a duck-tongue hat and a sweater jacket covered with mud.
Seeing that it was going to be dark, and the little boy in the rain was crying helplessly, Wen Deqiang had compassion and decided to stop and look at it.
"Don't cry, what's your name?" Who did you come out with? He found the little boy who was shivering with cold and wanted to help him find his family, but the little boy did not answer his questions and just stood there crying.
Helpless, Wen Deqiang picked up the poor boy and took him back to the rental house.
Here, Mr. and Mrs. Wen Deqiang bathed him, changed his son's clothes, and let him eat a hot soup meal. But when he asked him questions, he wouldn't answer.
"His family should be in a hurry, I will take him to the train station tomorrow to find his family." Zhou Yizhen understood very well the feelings of the little boy's family.
Zhou Yizhen got up early, washed the little boy, ate breakfast, and said hello to the neighbors to help take care of his two children.
They squatted at the train station, believing that their families would definitely find them there.
However, watching the people coming and going, no one came to claim this child, and when the sun went down and it was dark, Zhou Yizhen took the little boy home with some disappointment.
Zhou Yizhen
For the next two days, they insisted on squatting at the train station, but they still did not wait for the little boy's family.
Zhou Yizhen, who had no way, took the child to the local police station, and the police at the police station registered the child's situation and began to investigate and search.
However, limited by the level of science and technology at that time, the police could not find the child's family for a while and a half, so they suggested that Zhou Yizhen adopt the child first, and when his family came to find it, they would bring it over to claim it.
"That's all there is to it, we can't let him live on the street, and then it will be troublesome to be abducted by human traffickers." After Zhou Yizhen thought about it, he agreed.
Since then, the little boy has lived with Zhou Yizhen and his wife in the rental house. During this period, Zhou Yizhen's two children played with him, and the little boy became more and more cheerful in such a warm and inclusive environment, and the laughter and laughter often filled the small rental house.
However, the family lived in a joyful atmosphere for a few months before encountering a thunderbolt on a sunny day.
"Hong Cai is gone." Zhou Yizhen saw her husband who rushed to the hospital, and told Wen Deqiang the bad news with great sorrow, and then lay on her husband's body and cried.
It turned out that because the couple's biological son had suffered from polio since he was a child, he was not in good health and never survived the torment of illness, and eventually died prematurely. Zhou Yizhen and his wife, who lost their young son, washed their faces with tears all day long, and their minds were full of memories left by their son before he died.
But life has to go on, after a period of time, Zhou Yizhen and his wife finally came out of sadness, they looked at the adopted little boy in front of them, almost the same age as their own son, for several months no one came to claim, feeling very cute.
After discussing with Mr. and Mrs. Zhou Yizhen, they decided to help this child who had just reached the age of school to register for the household registration, and the name was wen Hongcai, who was called Wen Hongcai.
As the saying goes, good people have good rewards, and the children that Zhou Yizhen and his wife kindly picked up filled in the family's shortcomings. With this new son, their hearts are more comfortable, and their lives have ushered in new hopes.
Watching Wen Hongcai and his sister carrying a small school bag to school together, playing happily and playing, Wen Deqiang and Zhou Yizhen felt relieved and liked in their hearts, and they regarded this adopted son as their own.
And Wen Hongcai also spent a happy childhood, he did not remember that he was adopted by this family, in his memory, he was a member of this family, he was The biological son of Wen Deqiang and Zhou Yizhen.
In 2005, Wen Hongcai, who was about to step into the door of junior high school, could not continue to stay in Chengdu to study, because his parents' freight business here was not easy to do, and he could only return to his rural hometown in Ziyang City to develop.
"With mom, dad and sister, it's the same where you go to school!" Wen Hongcai, who has just graduated from primary school, is particularly sensible, and the most important thing in his heart is this warm home...
Looking at their son's smile, Wen Deqiang and Zhou Yizhen were both happy and sad in their hearts. Whether to tell the child the truth or not, they can't decide...
A family search after learning the truth
In 2008, Wen Hongcai joined the army after graduating from junior high school, and this time, it was more than five years.
Zhou Yizhen and his wife had not seen Wen Hongcai in the past five years, thinking day and night, and finally waiting for the news of their children's discharge.
Wen Hongcai and Zhou Yizhen
"Is that Hong Cai?" Seeing the young man in military uniform walking in the distance, Wen Deqiang and Zhou Yizhen, who had been waiting at the entrance of the village for a long time, were very excited, and they quickly greeted him and hugged him, and the family was excited.
But just a few days after the reunion, Wen Hong was about to leave again.
"You raised me so big, it's time for me to repay you." Wen Hongcai wanted to go to the city to work and earn money to repay his parents.
Looking at the distant back of his son, who had grown up, Wen Deqiang and Zhou Yizhen knew that in a few years, they would have to tell him the truth, and he had the right to know. This is also a matter of concern that Zhou Yizhen and his wife need, but the old couple feels a little lonely.
At the same time, they also feel a little lucky, because for more than a decade, what they were worried about (Wen Hongcai's biological parents came to the door) did not happen, they did not lose their son.
However, the world is uncertain, and this matter of Zhou Yizhen and his wife has not been there until 2020, because Wen Hong is busy working to make money, and he has not yet married at the age of 30.
But Wen Deqiang could not wait, his health deteriorated after years of hard work, and finally he could not hold on to it in this year and collapsed on the bed.
When his life was in danger, Wen Deqiang decided not to leave any regrets, he found Wen Hongcai, and told him the truth of his life in 1510, and this appeared at the beginning of the article.
After listening to his father's mouth about his own life, Wen Hongcai, after the initial confusion, decided to follow his father's instructions and embark on the road of finding relatives.
After taking care of his father's affairs, in early 2021, accompanied by his mother, Wen Hongcai came to the Public Security Bureau of the Linkong Economic Zone in Ziyang City for help.
At that time, the Ministry of Public Security organized public security organs across the country to carry out a "reunion operation" to find abducted and missing children.
Therefore, Wen Hong registered the information, collected blood samples, and entered DNA to facilitate the comparison and investigation of the police.
Zhou Yizhen was in front of the tomb of her husband Wen Deqiang
After DNA comparison and field visits by the public security organs, it was finally confirmed that Wen Hongcai's biological parents were a couple named Xie Zhenquan and Chen Fuzhen in Sihong County, Suqian City, Jiangsu Province.
Zhou Yizhen, who received the news, was both happy and sad, and although he found his son's biological parents, he had fulfilled her husband's wish before his death, but he might also lose his son from then on.
But she knew that she couldn't be so selfish, and since her son had found his biological parents, she should accompany him to recognize him.
So two days before leaving, Zhou Yizhen came to the cemetery where her husband was buried in Houshan, and Zhou Yizhen told her husband under the Nine Springs that Wen Hongcai had found his biological parents, and he could rest assured.
After returning home, the family packed up their bags and boarded a train to Jiangsu early in the morning of May 7.
Wen Hongcai on the train home
Meet across twenty-six years
In Sihong County, Suqian City, Jiangsu Province, learning that the son who had been separated for twenty-six years had finally been found, Xie Zhenquan and Chen Fuzhen were so excited that they cried with a headache, and they hurriedly turned over the photos of their children when they were young, imagining what their son had looked like now.
Wen Hong was only a child
Over the years, the couple has never given up looking for children, and all the platforms related to the search for missing children have gone to ask for help, including Jiangsu Satellite TV's "True Feelings" column, "Baby Home" website and so on.
But there has been no news of their son for more than twenty years, and they are extremely disappointed. These days, this sudden good news is simply a surprise.
The excited couple began to sleep after learning that Wen Hongcai was coming, and they looked forward to the early arrival of that day.
At the moment when Wen Hongcai got off the bus, Xie Zhenquan and Chen Fuzhen and his wife greeted him, and they hugged this son who had not been seen for twenty-six years and burst into tears, and their hearts were difficult to calm down for a long time.
Wen Hongcai's biological mother, Chen Fuzhen
When Wen Hongcai and his sister, as well as his adoptive mother Zhou Yizhen, were taken to their biological parents' residence, a long red carpet had already been laid in front of the door, and Xie Zhenquan's relatives and friends stood at the door to welcome Wen Hongcai home.
At the banquet, full of laughter and touching tears, the long-lost relatives kept pouring out their long-suppressed thoughts! So, why did Wen Hongcai go missing that year?
At this time, Wen Hongcai's biological father Xie Zhenquan choked up and said: "On the seventeenth day of the first month of 1995, I took you back from a relative's house in Yunnan, and when I was changing trains at the Chengdu Railway Station, you suddenly ran away and left me anxious, I looked there for a week, but in the end I didn't find it..."
Wen Hongcai's family welcomed him home
It turned out that Xie Zhenquan, who was looking for his son at the train station all those days, was always in contact with Zhou Yizhen, who was waiting in the same place with Wen Hongcai.
"I hate myself for losing you, I've been around for so many years, I still hate myself when I think about it." Xie Zhenquan was full of guilt and remorse, it was difficult to let go of his heart for more than twenty years, and today he was finally able to say it, and he couldn't help but cry and weep.
From the regret of losing Wen Hongcai, to the interesting things that Wen Hongcai did when he was a child in Sihong, from his experience after he was separated, to the current life situation, the words and emotions that have accumulated for more than twenty years are all expressed at this time.
Wen Hongcai listened to the past and sighed a lot, lived here for a few days, and became acquainted with his biological parents. He also had to make the next choice.
Wen Hongcai and his biological father
"I hope you can live with us, I haven't seen you in more than twenty years, and I really want to take a good look at you and make up for my previous shortcomings." Xie Zhenquan and Chen Fuzhen expressed their thoughts, they missed this son too much.
However, Wen Hong, who had reached the age of establishment, had his own ideas.
"I'll go back to Sichuan, where I'm more familiar, and I'll often come back to see you!" Wen Hongcai made his own choice.
Xie Zhenquan and Chen Fuzhen, who desperately wanted to retain them, could only accept it helplessly.
After Zhou Yizhen heard these words, she finally fell into the big stone in her heart, and she had been worried about losing this affectionate son before she came, and she was always worried. Now, she can finally rest assured.
After saying goodbye, Wen Hongcai and his party embarked on the road back to Ziyang. This time, the recognition of relatives in a thousand miles is a complete end.
epilogue:
Wen Hong was lucky, he met the kind Wen Deqiang, Zhou Yizhen and his wife, got meticulous care, grew up in a warm environment, and with the help of the public security organs, successfully found his own parents twenty-six years later, the ending is very gratifying.
At present, many abducted and missing children are still suffering, and their families are torn apart, so every case of missing or abducted cases can save a family.
The Ministry of Public Security's "Reunion Operation"
With the active efforts of the mainland's public security organs in recent years, the "reunion system" came into being, shouldering the heavy responsibility of helping abducted and missing children find their homes.
It is reported that since the "reunion system" was launched for more than five years, the probability of helping abducted and missing children find a home is as high as 98%, and praiseworthy results have been achieved.
At the same time, the efficient implementation of the "reunion system" requires the joint attention and efforts of you and me, providing relevant clues and information to the public security organs as much as possible to help broken families and lost children. May every household be filled with laughter and laughter.
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4. "Ministry of Public Security: The "Reunion" system has been online for 3 years to recover nearly 4,000 missing children" . Today's Women's Newspaper