The Chinese man was forced to stay in India for 54 years, and it was not until the year of his life that he was given the opportunity to return to China, by which time he already had an Indian wife and three mixed-race children.
How did he spend 54 years after being unjustifiably imprisoned by the Indian military for 7 years and exiled to a remote Indian countryside?
How is he doing now after returning home?
This man's name is Wang Qi, born in Xianyang, Shaanxi Province in 1937, although his parents are farmers, but in that era when many people can't eat enough, he can still have school, which shows that his parents have great expectations for him.
His parents have always taught him to study hard and serve the country when he grows up, so Wang Qi has always had a dream of joining the army.
At the age of 23, Wang Qi entered the army and became an engineering surveyor with his surveying and mapping major.
At that time, Sino-Indian relations were tense and a war was waging against India, so Wang Qi followed the troops to the front line at this critical moment, responsible for paving bridges and roads for his comrades-in-arms and clearing roadblocks.
In 1962, on the Sino-Indian battlefield, the mainland army defeated the Indian army to pieces, and it has long lost its previous attitude of contempt for the mainland.
With the victory of the war, the soldiers on the mainland are also preparing to evacuate Wang Qi's unit is resting, preparing to stay on the Sino-Indian border for the night, but it was this night that something happened.
That night, Wang Qi thought that he would return to China the next day, so he wanted to take a walk in the mountains and forests and enjoy the natural scenery.
Looking at the identical trees all around, Wang Qi couldn't help but panic, and shouted loudly to his comrades, but he didn't get the slightest response.
By this time, he had already gone too far, and when the troops were ready to return the next day, his comrades found that he was gone.
The superiors attached great importance to Wang Qi's order as a technical talent, and the whole battalion searched for it in the mountains, but after looking for a whole week, there was no one to see, so they had no choice but to return first.
At this time, Wang Qi was on his way down the mountain, wandering in the mountains for a few days, he had no choice but to find the way down the mountain and ask the Chinese Embassy in India for help.
When I finally came to the road, I happened to come across an Indian truck with the Red Cross logo on its body.
At that time, Wang Qi was very naïve, he thought that the war was over and China was still the victorious country. Indian soldiers should not be able to do anything to themselves, and may help themselves to return home.
However, he did not expect that the car was used by Indian soldiers to escort prisoners, and after getting into the car, he was directly sent to the base camp of the Indian army.
The Indian officer was shocked when he heard that a Chinese had been caught in the unit, and he did not dare to execute him at will, but also tried to pry Chinese secrets out of his mouth.
So Wang Qi was convicted of espionage and imprisoned in New Delhi Prison, and for seven years, the Indian army often sent people to interrogate him, but Wang Qi never confided half a word.
After spending her 30th birthday in prison, Wang Qi also waited for the day of her release. He thought that he could return to China with his freedom, but he did not expect to be sent to a remote rural area by the Indian army.
The village was very remote, difficult and backward, the whole village was surrounded by forests and lakes, and it was almost impossible for one person to get out without following the large army.
Moreover, the village is almost isolated from the rest of the world, and it is a place specially used by the Indian army to eradicate dissidents.
Falling into such a situation, although Wang Qi was very anxious, he did not give up hope of living, but accepted the reality and found a job in a flour mill in the village.
Wang Qi, who has been a soldier, is very able to endure hardships and work hard, so he is valued by his boss, and even his salary is more than that of his colleagues.
The boss saw that he was not young and introduced him to a local woman, Susira.
The people in the village are more miserable, and Susila is no exception, since he was a child, he has no parents and his brother to rely on each other, and he has also developed his independent and kind character. After the two got married, they opened a grocery store in the village, and life was going well, but because of his experience in prison, the people in the village were always pointing fingers at everyone behind their backs.
In particular, a local Indian policeman often went to find fault and bullied him, and in the face of these difficulties, he could only swallow the bitterness in his stomach. Fortunately, soon after, the policeman was transferred, and life returned to peace.
After marriage, Susila gave birth to four children, but unfortunately the eldest son was terminally ill at the age of 28, and in order to treat the child, he spent almost all his savings, but he still suffered the pain of losing a child in middle age.
After this trick, he didn't want to stay here anymore, and began to prepare for returning home, he wrote a lot of letters to China, but they were intercepted by the Indian military. For more than ten years, all the letters he sent were lost, but he never gave up until he finally received a letter from his hometown in 1986. He cried tears of joy and wrote back to tell his experience over the years and his longing for his hometown.
However, there is still a long way to go before returning home. In 2002, when Sino-Indian relations improved, Wang Qi was granted the right to talk to his family on the phone.
In 2009, the family sent their nephew to visit him, and after returning to China, Wang Qi's plight was reported, attracting the attention of people across the country. In the years that followed, the Chinese embassy worked on this until 2017, when 80-year-old Wang Qi finally stepped on the plane back to China.
How many 54 years can there be in life? When he set foot on his homeland again, Wang Qi burst into tears. On the one hand, I am happy for the rapid development of the motherland in recent years, and on the other hand, I am sad for this long-lost time.
When he got off the plane, he saw many of his compatriots in the middle of the road to welcome him, and saw his family hugging him with tears in their eyes.
Although he was forced to stay in India for 54 years, he and his Indian wife already had a deep relationship. Soon after returning to China, she took her wife and children to live in China, and she decided to stay in China for the rest of her life, never leave, enjoy her future life, and experience the prosperity of her motherland.
Wang Qi's return is not only a child wandering in a foreign land, but also a contest between countries, so that all Chinese understand the sense of security that the motherland gives to every Chinese son.
No matter where you are, as long as you care about the country, China will not give up on any of the Chinese descendants.
I hope that Wang Qi can be happy and healthy in his old age. As a former soldier, he should enjoy this hard-won happiness.