On July 24, 2019, in a residential building in Shiyan, Hubei Province, a middle-aged woman who was cooking in the kitchen heard the phone ringing from the living room, dried the water droplets on her hands, and then picked up the phone.
The man on the other end of the phone, who claimed to be a police officer, asked, "Do you have a sister in your family who has been missing for 12 years?" ”
The middle-aged woman was very vigilant, although she did have a little sister, but she had been missing for 12 years, and the family thought that she had died a long time ago.
Holding the psychology that the other party was a phone fraud, the middle-aged woman said: "What are you doing?" Don't try to cheat me out of my money. ”
The man on the other end of the phone patiently said: "I am a police officer in Hongshan District, Wuhan, and your sister has found it." ”
The middle-aged woman was wary: "Then you ask my sister to talk to me, and I will see if it is true?" ”
Did the police really find the sister of the middle-aged woman who had been missing for 12 years? In the twelve years since my sister disappeared, what kind of hidden feelings did she have?
"The Woman Picking Up the Trash in a Broken House"
In July 2019, the police in Hongshan District, Wuhan, were carrying out the collection of basic information of "one standard and three realities".
On July 22, police officer Xu Yatang, as usual, came to patrol the jurisdiction with his colleagues and collected information along the way.
When they came to a dilapidated residential building waiting to be demolished next to a university, Xu Yatang's colleague said: "This kind of dilapidated house is definitely not inhabited, so we don't have to look at it." ”
It was summer, and half-man-tall weeds were growing wildly around the dilapidated houses.
Uninhabited for a long time, it was used as a temporary dump by nearby residents.
The perimeter of the house is full of all kinds of household garbage, which emits a foul and pungent smell under the baking of the hot sun.
It doesn't look like it's going to be inhabited, and after a colleague suggested skipping the area, the rest agreed.
However, Xu Yatang felt something was wrong in his heart.
Xu Yatang told his colleagues to go to other places to collect first and go to the building to have a look.
Xu Yatang's colleagues thought about it for a while, and they felt that Xu Yatang's idea was right.
Although it is overgrown with weeds, it is also a house that can shelter it from the wind and rain.
In case someone lives here, missing out is a mistake in their work.
Then colleagues and Xu Yatang searched near the house.
When Xu Yatang walked to a garbage dump next to the house, he saw a disheveled woman there.
The woman was very thin and wore a short sleeve that could no longer distinguish the original color.
The woman was rummaging through the trash can for something, and when she found half of the bread in the trash can that had been soured, she shoved the bread into her mouth.
The trash can emitted a foul smell of decay, but the woman didn't seem to feel it at all.
Xu Yatang covered his nose and walked behind the woman: "What are you doing here?" ”
As a police officer's intuition, Xu Yatang felt that the woman might need his help.
The woman who picked up the garbage was startled by Xu Yatang, and the "sour bread" in her hand fell to the ground.
The woman staggered a step, the snakeskin bag beside her kicked, and the empty mineral water bottles scattered on the ground.
The woman's eyes dodged under Xu Yatang's gaze, and she held on for a long time before she could only promise: "I am picking up garbage." ”
Xu Yatang sensed that something was wrong, and just recently when he was collecting basic information, Xu Yatang asked, "Do you have an ID card?" Where does the family live? ”
The woman pointed to the dilapidated building and said, "I live on the third floor here." ”
But the house behind him had long been abandoned, and Xu Yatang asked the woman to take him to the place where he lived.
The staircase of the house had long been closed, and the woman took Xu Yatang around the path.
Back where the woman lived, she still needed to climb the guardrail.
Because the woman who picked up the garbage could not show her IDENTITY, plus she made a living as a wanderer.
Xu Yatang then asked her, "Are you experiencing difficulties in your life?" ”
The woman nodded, then stopped talking.
Xu Yatang and his colleagues took the woman back to the Nanhu police station, and along the way, the woman who picked up the garbage was silent, sitting in the police car with her head bowed.
It was not until I returned to the police station, under the patient questioning of the police, that the woman in front of her spoke about her life.
This wandering woman is called Wang Xiaojuan (pseudonym), whose hometown is in Shiyan, Hubei Province.
During the inquiry, Xu Yatang was also surprised to find that the woman in front of him was actually a college student more than ten years ago!
So what happened to Wang Xiaojuan? Reduced to wandering?
"College students look for jobs without success and become homeless"
The picture has nothing to do with me
Wang Xiaojuan was born in Shiyan, Hubei Province, to an ordinary peasant family.
She was the second eldest in the family, and she had an older sister who was four years older than herself.
Wang Xiaojuan has been very well-behaved and obedient since she was a child, and has always been a "well-behaved child" in the mouths of her parents and relatives and friends.
Because of her family's poverty, Wang Xiaojuan's parents can only support their families by doing odd jobs.
It is precisely because of the difficulty of part-time work that Wang Xiaojuan's parents care more about their children's education.
They have always instilled in their two daughters the idea of studying and becoming talented, and to make money from knowledge in the future to get out of the mountains.
However, Wang Xiaojuan's sister is really not a material for reading, her grades are very poor, and she came out to work after graduating from junior high school.
Xiao Juan's sister later married early and married a woman.
The parents put all their expectations on Wang Xiaojuan's body.
Xiaojuan also lived up to the expectations of her family, she has achieved excellent results since she was a child, and she has never let her family worry.
In the second half of 2003, Wang Xiaojuan was also admitted to Huazhong Agricultural University in Wuhan.
It was not an easy task to enter the university that year, and when Wang Xiaojuan received the acceptance letter, her parents at home shed tears.
After that, her parents also hosted a banquet for the villagers in the village and held a promotion banquet for Wang Xiaojuan.
However, Wang Xiaojuan's family is still too poor, and there is no way to take out all the money for college.
Her parents had to take out a loan to send Wang Xiaojuan to school.
Wang Xiaojuan knows the rare opportunity to study, during the school period, Xiaojuan worked hard and thriftily, and always reported good news to her parents.
Wang Xiaojuan has been waiting for the day when she will complete her studies, hoping that she can repay her parents' nurturing grace.
However, the reality is not as simple as Wang Xiaojuan thought.
In June 2007, Wang Xiaojuan successfully graduated from the school.
But she didn't find a job before graduation, like other graduates.
Wang Xiaojuan found that social life was completely different from her campus life in the past decade or so.
The graduation season is fiercely competitive, Wang Xiaojuan is a fledgling student, and it is difficult for any company to look at her.
After graduating from school, Wang Xiaojuan returned home and stayed at home for four or five months.
During her senior year, she ran into a series of walls, which made her avoid going out to find a job.
Wang Xiaojuan's parents also feel very upset about this, and what is the matter with the college students who are hard to provide for, not going out to work?
To this end, Wang Xiaojuan, who has always been sensible, has also quarreled with her parents many times.
In November 2007, Wang Xiaojuan was persuaded by her parents to finally go out and find a job.
But she still couldn't find the job she wanted.
In the past ten years, Wang Xiaojuan has been a well-behaved child among teachers and family members.
All she received from childhood was praise, and everyone praised her for her ability and success.
However, when looking for a job, Wang Xiaojuan can only find some ordinary jobs that are not high or low.
Slowly, Wang Xiaojuan felt discouraged about finding a job.
She didn't want to face the disappointed eyes of her family, and the psychological burden she gave herself was getting heavier and heavier.
What crushed the camel was often only a straw, and what broke through the defense line in Wang Xiaojuan's heart was only a small thing.
After hitting a wall in the interview, Wang Xiaojuan accidentally lost her ID card.
She walked down the street and felt deeply at herself a piece of crap.
I can't find a job, I'm still saddled with a loan from school, and now I can't even keep such a small thing as my ID card.
Her family also has parents who are expected to be daughter Chengfeng, and she doesn't know how long it will take for her parents to live a good life.
This negative emotion filled Wang Xiaojuan's heart.
She felt devastated and decided not to struggle anymore.
Wang Xiaojuan broke off contact with her parents and began a wandering life in Wuhan.
She has lived a life of living in limbo for twelve years.
A week before being discovered by police officer Xu Yatang, Wang Xiaojuan wandered to the vicinity of her alma mater.
Looking at the familiar campus in front of her, Wang Xiaojuan decided to stop and temporarily install her "home" in this small building waiting for demolition.
"Parents struggled to find 12 years"
Since finding out that wang Xiaojuan could not be contacted, her parents have been very anxious.
A few days after Xiaojuan disappeared, Xiaojuan's parents had already reported to the police.
But the police could not find the disappeared Wang Xiaojuan in the surveillance.
In order to find her daughter, Wang Xiaojuan's family also came to Wuhan from Shiyan, but they still could not find her daughter.
They even sold their houses, spent all their family savings, and came to the north, Shanghai, and Guangdong to look for their daughters.
Wanting to drink water, Wang Xiaojuan's parents took tap water in the bathroom to drink.
Feeling hungry, they buy a tasteless white bun.
On the way to find their daughter, they did not have the money to stay in a hotel, and sometimes they slept on the street and slept in the underground passage.
Day after day, Wang Xiaojuan's parents never found their daughter's figure as they wished.
The vanished Wang Xiaojuan has become a dead knot in their hearts.
The relatives around them all advised them that Xiaojuan might have died in an accident a long time ago, or give up looking for her.
But Wang Xiaojuan's parents were reluctant to believe their daughter was dead.
To live is to see people, and to die is to see corpses.
As long as they don't see their daughter's body, they believe that her daughter is still alive somewhere in the world.
Every Spring Festival is the most difficult day for Wang Xiaojuan's parents.
Other people's children have rushed back from other places for the festival, but their own little daughter has not heard from them.
They also have a little expectation in their hearts, hoping that their daughter will suddenly appear in front of the family.
They wanted their daughter's disappearance to be just a joke she was making.
It went on until 2019, and for 12 years Wang Xiaojuan had no news, and her parents had also been looking for her for 12 years.
"Goodbye after 12 years"
After Xu Yatang learned that the scavenger woman in front of him was actually a college student who had been missing for many years, he decided to help Xiaojuan contact her parents as soon as possible.
According to the personal information revealed by Wang Xiaojuan, Xu Yatang found Wang Xiaojuan's sister after several twists and turns.
At first, Wang Xiaojuan's sister always felt that Xu Yatang's phone was fraudulent.
It was not until Xu Yatang asked Wang Xiaojuan to talk to her family that Wang Xiaojuan's sister believed that her sister, who had been missing for 12 years, had finally found her.
Wang Xiaojuan's sister immediately transferred the phone to her father.
The first sentence that Wang Xiaojuan's father answered the phone was: "Daughter, you have disappeared all these years!" We're looking for you so hard! ”
Wang Xiaojuan's father on the other end of the phone, listening to the voice, knew that he was a man who had experienced many vicissitudes, but he burst into tears on the phone.
And Wang Xiaojuan, who has not spoken much at the police station, can't help but cry when she hears her father's voice.
The grievances of these years of wandering have been vented at this moment.
After learning the news of her daughter, Wang Xiaojuan's family drove from Shiyan to Wuhan overnight.
That night, Wang Xiaojuan's family met their daughter, whom they had not seen for 12 years, in front of the Nanhu police station.
Xiao Juan, who was a graduate of Qingshi University at the time, is now in her 30s.
Xiao Juan's parents, in the past few years, have also turned gray in their hair and their faces are covered with fine lines.
The moment she saw Xiao Juan, the tears of Xiao Juan's parents could no longer be contained.
They burst into tears, hugged their daughters and cried, "Xiao Juan, is it really you?" Mom and Dad have been looking for you! ”
Although the police have helped the wandering Xiaojuan change into clean clothes.
But Xiao Juan's body was still very thin, and her eyes were full of panic and caution.
Wang Xiaojuan's parents don't know what their daughter has experienced over the years.
But at this point, they no longer consider pursuing their daughter's experience over the years.
As long as their daughter can still see herself, Wang Xiaojuan's parents feel satisfied.
"Reunion is happiness"
After receiving Wang Xiaojuan, her parents took her back to Shiyan's hometown.
Perhaps with the care of her parents and relatives, Wang Xiaojuan's mental state is getting better and better, and her body is gradually rounded.
It was difficult to find their daughter, and Wang Xiaojuan's parents were very excited.
They wrote thank-you letters to the police and sent pennants to the police station.
After Wang Xiaojuan returned home, her parents also knew the reason for her disappearance.
They did not blame their daughter in their hearts, on the contrary, Wang Xiaojuan's parents were always blaming themselves.
Maybe if you give your daughter some more love, your daughter will not end up wandering.
Although Wang Xiaojuan has a university degree, the 12 years of wandering and social disconnection cannot be compensated.
Wang Xiaojuan is now in her 30s, and her parents have reached retirement age.
In order to be able to let her daughter have a way to support herself in the future.
Ms. Wang's parents helped her find a job in a supermarket near her home.
It doesn't take too much effort, and there is no pressure, all Wang Xiaojuan has to do every day is to sort out the goods.
Although the money earned was not much, Wang Xiaojuan no longer had to endure the cold and hunger as she did when she was wandering.
Spring Festival in 2022, this is the third Spring Festival reunion at home after Wang Xiaojuan returned home.
When relatives and friends talked about how their children came out, Wang Xiaojuan's parents could smile indifferently.
It is because they have lost their daughters that they understand the importance of their children's physical and mental health.
Children are not tools to show off, nor can they put too much pressure on children.
Wang Xiaojuan's parents believe that it is their greatest happiness that the family can be reunited now.
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Text | chafing dish