"Mom, I finally saw you..." On the afternoon of March 6, in Songbaitun, Sanjie Village, Liutang Town, Liucheng County, Liuzhou City, Li Jingui, who drove from Guizhou, hugged his mother and sister tightly and cried. The last time their mother and son saw each other was 29 years ago.
The family was not alone, and the mother and daughter were abducted three times
In August 2020, a woman named Wei Xiaohua registered her family search information on the Baby Home Network.
Wei Xiaohua said that when she was a child, her family had a father (who died of an accidental injury) and a deaf and mute mother, an older brother in the third and fourth grades, and a very small younger brother. One night after their father's death, someone took their brother away while the family was asleep.
The home gradually became fragmented, but the misfortune did not stop there. Wei Xiaohua said that when she was in the second grade of primary school, a woman from a nearby village came to her house and took her mother and her home for a few days. After that, they were taken to Guangdong and sold to a man. The mother and daughter escaped several times and were caught and later sold to another man.
"During that time, my mother often beat herself up, and I understood that she hated herself for being powerless and unable to escape the status quo of being controlled." Wei Xiaohua said that she and her mother sneaked out again, met a person at the train station, and the other party said that they could help them go home, and sold their mother and daughter to Liucheng.
After 29 years of separation, Li Jingui finally met his mother and sister Xiaohua. Nanguo Morning Post client reporter Wang Shijie /photo
He has lived in a foreign country for many years and never forgets to find his relatives
When they first arrived in Liucheng, Wei Xiaohua's mother and daughter had also secretly escaped several times, and each time they were found back. Later, she felt that her stepfather was very good to her mother, and when her mother was sick, she also sought medical treatment, and they gradually settled down. She said her stepfather knew that her mother had always wanted to return to her hometown, and in 1995, her stepfather took her mother to Guizhou to look for relatives, but did not find them.
A cousin of Wei Xiaohua's stepfather's family said that Xiaohua's mother wanted to go home, and in 2008, she also took Xiaohua's mother and daughter to Guizhou to look for it once, but unfortunately did not return.
In 2020, Wei Xiaohua tried to contact the baby home website and registered the information of looking for relatives, "My mother was unhappy all year round, she wanted to find a home, she always wanted to go back, and her stepfather also said that every New Year was like this." ”
Li Jingui took a selfie of a family eating a reunion dinner and sent it to relatives in Guizhou. Nanguo Morning Post client reporter Wang Shijie /photo
The information is fragmented and vague, and the search for relatives is repeated
Wei Xiaohua said that when she was abducted, her mother's identity card was thrown away by human traffickers. At that time, he was young, he didn't remember his mother's name, he only remembered his brother's name was "Jin Gui", he remembered that he was called Xiaohua in his hometown, he didn't remember what his surname was, and now he was the surname of his stepfather. She said that when she was a child, when she went to play in the car, she said that she would go to Wangmo, and she suspected that her hometown was in Wangmo, Guizhou. I still remember that my biological father's village was called "North Spicy", and there was a street in my grandmother's house called "Spicy Yong".
Based on the place names provided by Xiaohua, volunteers visited and verified some suspected villages, but were told that there were no such homes. Many netizens have also actively helped, but there has been no breakthrough.
Volunteers draw a map based on Wei Xiaohua's description. Courtesy of volunteers
In November 2020, from what you see to what you eat, from pronunciation to clothing, from rivers to mountains, from houses to trees... In the chat group of relatives, the volunteers asked Wei Xiaohua over and over again, constantly stimulating the impression in the depths of Xiaohua's mind. One volunteer said: "Chatting and talking, often either Xiaohua is asleep or the volunteers are asleep. ”
The mother needle and thread in her hand embroidered important clues
On February 2 this year, Wei Xiaohua, who worked in Guangdong, returned to Liucheng to prepare for the Chinese New Year.
"Although my mother is deaf and mute, she is skillful. She knew that we had not slept all night after looking for relatives, embroidered with needle and thread the pattern of the wrapping of the headscarf of the women in her hometown, drew on the paper the approximate appearance of the clothes of the women in her hometown, and also drew the straps of the children in the hometown, the woman's wallet, and made an earring. She had also seen others blowing in her hometown. Wei Xiaohua promptly forwarded this information to the volunteers.
Wei Xiaohua's mother painted the costumes of the women in her hometown and also made earrings (top left); the head scarf of the women of her hometown embroidered by Wei Xiaohua's mother (bottom left); the straps for children and the wallet for women (top right) painted by Wei Xiaohua's mother; and the clothes made by Wei Xiaohua's mother (bottom right). Courtesy of respondents
Volunteer "Wind Blowing" said that the costumes painted by Wei Xiaohua's mother are currently worn in Guizhou only in Two places, Ziyun County's Spark Town and Wangmo County's Bairao Township. Wei Xiaohua's mother did not sleep for another night after learning about it, and personally made a clothing buckle and cut out the face that the child wore on his face.
Volunteer "Chongming Kangjian" continued to ask Xiaohua if she remembered the interconnected location of her hometown to the county seat and to her grandmother's house, over and over again. Volunteer "Si Xiang Yu" said that there is a place called Na Rong on her side of her family, which is in harmony with "Spicy Yong"; there is a place called Pendulum na in her lover's hometown, which is in harmony with "Northern Spicy". She also sent her family to visit villages near Spark Town.
On the morning of February 9, the lover of the volunteer "Si Xiangyu", "Deep in the Mountains", found a man in Pendna, suspected of being Xiaohua's eldest brother Li Jingui. Li Jingui trembled and took out the photos of his mother and sister, who had been treasured for 30 years, and said that this was his only thought about his relatives in the world.
On February 23, Li Jingui and Wei Xiaohua's DNA was successfully compared, and Wei Xiaohua was Li Jingui's sister Li Jinhua.
After 29 years, Li Jingui (the six black-clad people on the right) took a group photo with his mother (bouquet), sister (three-bar dresser on the right) and relatives. Nanguo Morning Post client reporter Wang Shijie /photo
After 29 years of seeing each other, the flesh and bones are still not reunited
On the afternoon of March 6, Li Jingui drove from Guizhou to Songbaitun, Sanjie Village, Liutang Town, Liucheng, Guangxi, and cried when he met his mother and sister, and the villagers who were watching were all moved.
After meeting, Li Jingui (center) hugged his mother (left) and his sister tightly and cried silently. Nanguo Morning Post client reporter Wang Shijie /photo
Mr. Li said he was born in 1980, his younger sister in 1985 and his younger brother in 1989. When I was a child, my family was very poor, and I suffered one misfortune after another. One night in 1990, someone went to the house to steal chickens, and when his father found out, he stopped being stabbed by the other party and died after rescue was ineffective. One night in 1991, another person broke into the house and took away his young brother. One day after the Spring Festival in 1992, my mother and sister also disappeared. The police were called at the time, but they were never found.
Mr. Li said he had just entered the third grade of elementary school in 1990 and dropped out of school to help with housework after his father's death. After his mother and sister disappeared, he lived with his grandfather for two years and later went out to work. Because he had no culture, he could only do physical work such as coal mining. After getting married and having children, Li Jingui can better appreciate the difficulties of his parents and miss his mother even more.
After acknowledging their relatives, Wei Xiaohua's mother and daughter, Li Jingui took a group photo with the volunteers. Nanguo Morning Post client reporter Wang Shijie /photo
"Thank you very much to the baby home volunteers for helping us find our loved ones, the next step will be to seek the advice of my mother and sister, if you are willing to go home, you will take them back to Guizhou, if you are not willing to go home, you will stay in Liucheng to live." Li Jingui said, "The next wish is to find his younger brother, who was born in 1989 and was named Li Jinquan, who left no photos before being taken away." Mom remembered that there were two spinners behind her brother's head and one in front of his forehead. When he was taken away, his brother had a fall scar on his hand. ”
Source: Original production of The Southern Morning Post