In Ganyu County, Jiangsu Province, there is a village with a large population surnamed He, and villager He Zicai lives in this village with her husband Sun Qiangcai. Although the family is not very wealthy, life is very prosperous, because a son and a daughter have grown up healthily and have good grades.
This "model family" in the eyes of the villagers was completely broken by a phone call after the beginning of spring in 2012, and even the entire Hejia Village was boiling......
01
The beginning of spring is a busy season for farming, and it is also a good time for many newlyweds to buy wedding wine. At the beginning of March, He Zicai's sister was busy and went to the next village to attend a wedding banquet. Before the party was dismissed, a hurried phone call came to the home of her sister He Zicai.
The phone was answered by He Zicai, and his sister's familiar voice came from the microphone, He Zicai answered a few times, but then heard the words that made her almost go into cardiac arrest:
"Sister! Your girl didn't die! ”
My sister has only a few words, and Sister Lei is scorched on the outside and tender on the inside. He Zicai was stunned: "What did you say?" ”
"The girl you gave birth to is alive! Someone saw it, in Ergaozhuang Village! ”
On the other end of the phone, it was the excited sister, and on the other end of the phone, it was the sister who was so shocked that she couldn't say a word anymore.
In the depths of the strong heart of this strong rural woman, there is always a soft knot in her heart that has not been untied:
Before the two children, He Zicai was pregnant with a daughter. This is a premature baby with a miserable life, who just came out of the mother's womb, and died before he could cry or open his eyes to see the light of the world.
Over the years, looking at a pair of children who have grown up little by little, He Zicai, who is very gratified, often turns around to secretly wipe the tears from the corners of her eyes, she has sighed in her heart countless times, if their sisters did not die young, and make a happy family of five, how good it would be!
As a first-time mother, she suffered misfortune, He Zicai didn't tell too many people about this matter, and even a few insiders like her sister tried to avoid mentioning it, which made He Zicai sad. But what's going on today, my sister wants to make such a big "joke" with herself?
Faced with her sister He Zicai's questioning, her sister left a sentence "I have photos!" And he rushed over.
It turned out that when a guest at the same table was chatting, he joked, "The girl from the xx family in the village can't be your daughter, right?" As he spoke, he opened the photo album of his phone and found the photo: "Look at it, it doesn't look like you!" ”
My sister was shocked when she saw the photo for the first time, she didn't realize how much the girl in the photo looked like herself, and vaguely felt that she was more like another person.
"It's more like her sister He Zicai!" "It's not like her, it's like He Zicai!" "That's right!" The guests gathered around looked at the photo and said in unison.
As soon as others shouted like this, the guest and He Zicai's sister reacted, if the girl in the photo is somewhat similar to He Zicai's sister, it is exactly the same as He Zicai.
He Zicai's sister carefully looked at the facial features of the girl in the photo, and compared her sister's appearance in her mind, and before the last few dishes were served, she couldn't help but get up and find a secluded corner and call her sister's house.
How many people will take the jokes of the banquet seriously? If my sister is serious, it can only mean that it is indeed too similar! My sister arrived, turned on her phone, and the MMS message at the top was from the guest who was joking.
"Oops!" As soon as the photo was opened, He Zicai finally couldn't help shouting, she patted her sister's shoulder and was surprised: "Yes!" Looks so much like me! ”
However, there are so many Chinese people, and there are too many people who look like each other without relatives and no reason under the sky, can this girl really be her own girl? Thinking about it, He Zicai's thoughts couldn't help but go back to the late autumn season in 2000......
02
At the beginning of 2000, He Zicai began to vomit nausea and vomiting, and her gradually bulging abdomen showed that she had successfully conceived a child for her husband Sun Qiangcai. When he was supposed to be raising a baby with peace of mind, her husband Sun Qiangcai went wrong.
During a party drinking, Sun Qiangcai got into an argument with someone after drinking, and finally quarreled and actually moved, and finally succeeded in proposing a year-long "nest head package" because of deliberately hurting people.
During the year that her husband was serving a prison sentence, He Zicai, who was pregnant with Liujia, had to work in the field with a big belly because she had no economic income. When she should have taken in a lot of nutrients to ensure her health, she was reluctant to touch the slightest bit of meat for several months. The difficult days finally came in the autumn of this year, and He Zicai, who was doing hygiene at home, suddenly felt a sharp pain in his stomach.
Sensing that the child was about to be born early, she hurried out of the house to take her fellow countryman's motorcycle to the hospital in the town. But when he went out and touched his pocket, He Zicai, who was shy in his pocket, was reluctant to pay the relatively high cost of midwifery and maintenance in regular hospitals. She was so heartbroken that she endured the severe pain and walked to the home of Zhu Guanghua, the midwife of Hejia Village.
"Sister Zhu! Sister Zhu! No more! ”
After roaring a few words, He Zicai was physically exhausted and fell on the threshold of Zhu Guanghua's house. At that time, the Zhu family was eating, and when they heard the cry for help, they hurriedly ran out of the hall, and quickly helped He Zicai to the bed to prepare for the delivery.
How the child was born, He Zicai has almost no impression. She only remembered that she fell into a semi-coma under the severe pain, and in a daze, she heard someone in her ear say to her, "It's a girl", but she didn't seem to hear the baby's cry at all.
When He Zicai regained consciousness slightly, Zhu Guanghua whispered to her with a sad expression: "It's too small to keep." This is a euphemism for the child who died after birth.
After lying in Zhu Guanghua's "delivery room" for two days, his mother's family sent someone to take He Zicai back to his home. From beginning to end, she never saw what her daughter really looked like.
When asked why he didn't ask to see the child, He Zicai said that he had no strength at all, and the child was born less than eight months pregnant, and he suffered a lot in the past eight months, so the midwife Zhu Guanghua said that the child "didn't stay", although he was heartbroken, he also accepted such a fact.
Later, when his mother's family came, he just took him away, and as for the body of the baby girl, his mother's family didn't ask much. At that time, she was alone, there was no man in the family to rely on, and it was inconvenient to deal with the infant who died young.
As soon as he thought of this, He Zicai blamed himself very much. Although he didn't have much hope for this unexpectedly premature daughter, he only listened to the midwife's conclusion that the baby was "dead", and he did not confirm such a conclusion with his own eyes.
My sister also knows this detail. Now that I have witnessed a photo of a girl who was born at the same time as my sister's "dead" baby, it is hard not to believe that there are some untold secrets in the meantime.
Once he suspected that the girl from the neighboring village was his biological daughter, the more he thought about the details of the past, the more He Zicai was sure of this conjecture. With Zhu Guanghua's expression when she whispered in front of her in the past, He Zicai even began to feel that this woman seemed to be lying and her heart was empty.
Without further ado, the He Zicai sisters immediately set off to Ergaozhuang Village, and under the guidance of others, they carefully observed from a distance of several meters. The girl's smile and smile entered He Zicai's eyes, looking at this girl she didn't know, He Zicai almost cried, and with the support of her sister, she pretended to be calm and stepped forward to ask the child's name.
The girl was innocent and had no vigilance against her neighbors, and generously told He Zicai that she was the daughter of the Li family in the village, 12 years old this year, and her name was "Xiaojing". After that, he jumped up and went to another place with the other children to play around.
Before looking for relatives and recognizing relatives, He Zicai also put in a lot of effort. She and her sister inquired when they met, and learned that the "Li family" in the mouth of this girl "Xiaojing" was the family of Li Daliang, the former head of Ergaozhuang Village. Although the girl claimed to be the "daughter of the Li family", the villagers all said that "Xiaojing" was not their own, but was brought by more than ten years ago.
After confirming that this woman was not the biological daughter of the Li family, He Zicai immediately returned home and called her husband Sun Qiangcai, who worked at the construction site in the town, and asked him to take a leave of absence to come back quickly.
After the husband came back, the husband and wife summed up, since the suspected daughter was still alive in the world and had not died young, the news had already been put in front of their eyes and into their ears, so they couldn't pretend not to know. If it is his own daughter, it means that the midwife lied back then, and he must come to the door to ask clearly!
03
On the day of the visit, Hejia Village also came with some villagers, I don't know whether to watch the excitement or help strengthen the courage. Sun Qiangcai and He Zicai looked at "Xiao Jing", and their excitement was beyond words.
In the face of the arrival of uninvited guests, Li Daliang, who was born as the village chief, was polite and thoughtful. After leaving the child aside to play, he admitted frankly that this girl was nominally a niece who was fostered in his house, but in fact it was picked up by his daughter-in-law more than ten years ago. After a while, he learned that a couple from a neighboring village had come to the door, and Li Daliang's daughter-in-law also hurried back home.
She said that it was indeed as her husband said, and that the girl "Xiaojing" was picked up by the roadside 12 years ago. At that time, "Xiao Jing" was wrapped in a ball of cloth and placed in a cardboard box, and she accidentally found the newborn baby in the box when she passed by, so she took the abandoned baby home.
He Zicai and his wife still wanted to see "Xiaojing" again, but the child never appeared again. The Li family opened up one after another, saying that there were many abandoned baby girls in that year, and it was not necessarily the children of He Zicai and his wife that the baby girls they picked up. What's more, since the child was "born and gone" at that time, how could it be possible to grow to 12 years old?
When someone else joked about this at the banquet, you husband and wife took it seriously, and really ran to the door? Seeing that He Zicai and his wife wanted to speak and stopped, as if they were unwilling to give up, the Li family, you and I became angry one by one:
"How can two adults do things like children."
"Our people in Ergaozhuang Village have a good temper, and they have already raised a broom to drive people away after changing other people's homes."
When it came to this, He Zicai and his wife had to say goodbye.
After returning home, Sun Qiangcai couldn't help it. When he saw the girl, he felt an indescribable sense of closeness; As soon as He Zicai saw the girl "Xiaojing", his chest was like electricity. But the Li family obviously didn't want to confirm it again, and if they came to the door again, they wouldn't be so polite.
Just when the couple sighed about how to clean up this matter, a word from a neighbor made the couple choose to call the police.
"You two don't know yet, do you? The daughter-in-law of the village chief's family is the sister of the midwife, Sister Zhu! ”
As far as the neighbors know, the daughter-in-law of Village Chief Li is named Zhu Guangye, and the midwife who delivered He Zicai back then is called Zhu Guanghua, which shows that the older Zhu Guanghua is the elder sister, and that Zhu Guangye is the younger sister!
The couple's hearts were shocked, and after some inquiry, sure enough, the relationship between the midwife and the daughter-in-law of the Li family was as the neighbor said, they were a pair of sisters! Since this is the case, it is very likely that his so-called "premature" daughter did not die after birth, but was handed over to his sister Zhu Guangye by the midwife Zhu Guanghua to raise!
When he went out that day, the village chief Li of Ergaozhuang Village still said vigorously: "There is no shortage of children in my family, I have two sons myself, and I have grandchildren!" ”
Thinking of this, the couple was so angry, it was really hard to believe that there was such a vicious person in the world who deceived other people's children when they delivered the baby! So, in anger, the couple reported to the police, accusing the Zhu sisters of conspiring to abduct and sell people.
04
After He Zicai and his wife reported the case, the police came to investigate, and Li Daliang's family did not expect that the honest neighboring village couple would make such a big move. As soon as the police car entered the village, Hejia Village, Ergaozhuang Village and even several nearby villages were boiling.
In the face of the police uncle and the villagers in Wuyangyang, the Li family's trick of sending off guests behind closed doors did not work, and they could only actively cooperate with the investigation.
The police first recorded a record of the relevant personnel, and Zhu Guanghua insisted that the child died at birth, because it was not a good thing, and the mother He Zicai was weak at the time, so she told her the bad news and found a place to bury the child.
But when the police asked to go to the burial site to check it, Zhu Guanghua deduced that he was old and couldn't remember the specific location.
Zhu Guangye also flatly denied that the child had anything to do with He Zicai, and even denied that the source of the child was his sister Zhu Guanghua, who was in charge of delivering the baby. She insisted that the child was picked up in a cardboard box on the side of the road, and because she was soft-hearted and saw the abandoned baby who could not suffer, she took it back to her home and raised it.
"It looks like it looks like it looks like it, how can there be such a coincidental thing in the world? I just picked up his child? ”
Zhu Guangye's anger at He Zicai and his wife's questioning was written on his face.
"Do the appraisal!"
"You'll find out when you identify it!"
Yes, with the popularization of scientific knowledge, even the ordinary people who are watching know the authoritative method of DNA paternity testing. In front of public opinion in the village and the police, the Li family, represented by the Zhu sisters, also had to approve of this method of "self-proof of innocence".
Half a month later, the paternity test report came out. Sure enough, there is a reason why she looks so much like He Zicai, and "Xiao Jing" is indeed He Zicai's daughter. In the face of ironclad facts, the lies of the Zhu sisters are self-defeating.
Compared with the grievances and anger shown before, the tough posture of the Li family softened in front of a pile of A4 paper written in black and white.
"I saw that the doll was born prematurely, and it was difficult to feed, and the man in He Zicai's family was not there, so it was difficult to live alone." The midwife Zhu Guanghua confessed that the child did not die at that time, but because of premature birth and malnutrition, he was born dry and thin.
The reason why he deceived He Zicai that the child "couldn't stay" was because he wanted to help her reduce her burden, so he lied that the child had died, and gave it to his sister Zhu Guangye.
Zhu Guangye played the emotional card, saying that he had always wanted a daughter, and asked his sister to help see if anyone had a girl who didn't want it, and if there was, he would bring it to her to raise. So he got He Zicai's daughter who "died".
Zhu Guangye said that in order to treat the weak and thin abandoned baby, she spent a lot of money out of her own pocket, and her family quarreled with him a lot about this, but she felt that she was "doing good deeds". Later, fortunately, the baby girl grew up healthily, so she was raised as her own daughter, because there was really no blood relationship, and she was said to be a niece to the outside world.
She admitted that she knew that the child's biological parents belonged to Hejia Village, but she didn't know which family it was, and she always forbade "Xiaojing" to go out of the village to play over the years.
When the police informed the Zhu sisters that they had subjectively concealed information about He Zicai's biological daughter's survival, and were suspected of human trafficking, the Zhu sisters were immediately afraid. Li Laohan, the speaker of the Li family, said:
"You want people to give money, and you want money to give money! The child has grown so big, if we are good to her, you ask the child, there is no malice! ”
05
The truth of the case was revealed, the biological daughter of He Zicai and Sun Qiangcai did not "die young" at all, and they have been living within five miles of their home! Now I'm a 12-year-old girl!
The Zhu sisters were arrested by the police on suspicion of committing a crime and entered the process of legal proceedings. But in this case, He Zicai, who has been deceived for 12 years, is the victim, and "Xiaojing", who was also deceived and grew up, is even more of a victim.
At a young age, after living and growing up in the Li family for 12 years, he was suddenly told that his father and mother were from the next village, which should be such a bolt from the blue sky for the hearts of young children! In order to reassure the girl and make her accept her biological parents, the police even brought in a psychologist to help guide her.
The Li family also did not want the Zhu sisters to be imprisoned, so they were willing to give He Zicai and his wife some compensation. Considering that the child was finally found and had grown so big, the couple softened, and finally the two families reconciled.
The Zhu sisters were sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment on suspicion of human trafficking, but because they did not have the malicious intent of abducting children, they raised the girl properly, and finally obtained the understanding of He Zicai's family, and were finally sentenced to a suspended sentence by the court.
After some persuasion, "Xiao Jing" finally stopped crying, and her brows were relaxed. At the end of the show, "Xiao Jing" chose to return to live with her biological parents, but the "younger brothers and sisters" in the Li family also welcome her to come back to play with them at any time.
For the happy agreement of the children, He Zicai and Li Daliang also expressed their respect for the children's decisions and did what they thought.
Perhaps "family affection" and "friendship" will slowly fade because of the emergence of the truth, but we all sincerely hope that this unfortunate child can grow up in a friendly atmosphere of reconciliation between the two families, have an optimistic and open-minded state of mind, and handle the relationship between adoptive parents and biological parents.
I also wish the two kind and innocent children a happy life.