The 26-year-old Li Luke spoke very slowly and did not speak very clearly, because the 6-year-old fell on the back of his head when picking up the train, and his reaction was somewhat sluggish.
"I can't express what I want to say, and I can't remember many things." Lee Luke said he desperately wanted to remember where his home was, but could not remember.
At the age of 6, he left home and never found his way home again.
20 years of wandering, picking up rags and sleeping on the street, Li Luke has never stopped looking for a home. He often dreamed that the train he had picked when he left home did not start, that he had a good time between the carriages, and then went home along the path next to the railway...
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The 6-year-old pickpocketed the train and left home
Speaking of his home, Li Luke still has some vague impressions - it is a slightly larger county town, there is a river running through the middle of the county seat, there is a large stone mountain next to the county seat, there is a railway station at the bottom of the mountain, and there is a vegetable market.
As for his family, Li Luke remembers that there was a father, a mother, and two older sisters in the family. When he left home, his eldest sister was married, his second sister was still studying, and his grandfather was very kind to him, and he would whistle, "the kind that covers his mouth with his hands and makes a whimpering sound." ”
Li Luke did not know where his home was, he guessed that it was in the north, and in the winter there was heavy snow outside, and their whole family sat on the hot kang and sniffed melon seeds. One winter, he "stuck out his tongue and licked the glass, and he was frozen."
In the winter of his 6-year-old, Lee Luke was playing not far from home, next to a train track. Out of curiosity, he picked up a train, which happened to depart from the station. The train started, and Li Luke was happy and proud, but he soon found that he was getting farther and farther away from the vegetable market in front of his home, farther and farther away from his family...
Li Luke vaguely remembers that he may have fallen off the train he was carrying, and when he woke up, he had a bleeding in the back of his head, "It seems that in a city, I don't know where, I found water to wash the back of my head, and the blood didn't flow..."
The memory is intermittent, and since then, Li Luke has been far away from his parents and hometown, and has become a lonely wandering child.
Li Luke remembers his wandering days, many cities across the country have run through, such as Lianyungang, Harbin, Xuzhou, Yangzhou, Shanghai, Nanjing... I've been to at least 20 cities, and I've been to the kind of trains that pull coal.
"When the train arrives at the station, any city, come down and find some leftovers to eat, stay for a few days, continue to pick up the train, and go to the next place." Li Luke remembers eating the food left over from the stalls and sleeping at the train station and the square, "There are well-meaning people who will give me food and clothes, and when it is cold in winter, I will find cardboard boxes to spread on the ground and wear all the clothes sent by people." ”
In the process of wandering, Li Luke encountered many difficulties and dangers. When he was in Shijiazhuang, someone told him to steal something, and Li Luke, who didn't want to do this, was punched and kicked a lot for this: "No matter what they do to me, I am silently thinking in my heart, 'I want to be a good person, I can't be like them, just like them, I will be ruined!'" ’”
Second home
In 2000, Li Luke pickpocketed a train to Zhengzhou. Since then, he has stopped running around, and Zhengzhou has become his second hometown.
In the first few years, Li Luke lived in Zhengzhou Railway Station, People's Park, Dashiqiao and other places, relying on collecting bottles and selling rags to survive, and was later sent to the aid station.
In the winter of 2003, Wu Congcong, a police officer at the Jiefang Road police station in Zhengzhou, met Li Luke in a rescue station not far from the police station, "At that time, he was only a teenager, dressed in rags, his hands were frozen like carrots, and it hurt to look at it." Wu Congcong said that there were several homeless people in the aid station at that time, and Li Luke was different, polite and intelligent.
Since then, Li Luke has often received help from Wu Congcong and her colleagues. When he can't eat, he will go to the police station, no matter which police officer is on duty, he will give him a copy when buying food.
Lee Luke volunteers
"He's very sensible and enthusiastic, and whether we're patrolling or doing other things, he's very proactive in doing this and that." Zhao Zhigang, captain of the police comprehensive brigade of the Jiefang Road police station, said.
In the winter of 2006, the police station received a report that a merchant's tricycle had been stolen. Li Luke learned from other homeless people that many of the theft cases were committed by a person nicknamed "Wangtian", and he immediately told his police friend, and soon "Wangtian" was arrested and the case was solved.
Li Luke wandered for many years without an identity card, and the police at the Jiefang Road police station all took the initiative to write him proof materials. In 2015, Li Luke had his own identity card.
When the police officer helped him apply for an ID card, he asked him what name he gave himself, when he was obsessed with an American movie about street dance, the protagonist of which was called Luke, so he named himself Li Luke. As for why the surname Lee? Luke said Lee was his easiest surname to remember.
Hip-hop "Iron Powder"
Li Luke also did not know why he was so fascinated by street dance.
One day in 2003, there was a street dance performance in front of Zhengzhou Jinbo Grand Mall. Li Luke, who was picking up the bottles, was deeply attracted, watched all afternoon, and forgot to take the bottles he had picked up before leaving.
Liu Chao of the "Hip Hop Gang" street dance troupe noticed the little boy dressed in shabby clothes, "For about half a year, as long as there is a performance, you can see him, and it is an afternoon." ”
Li Luke became the "iron fan" of the street dance troupe, chasing the street dance troupe everywhere, where there was a street dance performance, there was him. At the performance site, he also enthusiastically helped to set up the stage, move props, and take advantage of the work to teach himself street dance.
Liu Chao said that in addition to his love for street dance, Li Luke's kindness and sincerity also impressed the members of the dance troupe, "At the beginning, he said that when he helped us see things, we were still on guard, after all, we were a wandering child." But I slowly found that he was very real, and he couldn't help us see things. ”
Gradually, Liu Chao knew the story of Li Luke's wandering. Sometimes, after a few glasses of wine with Lee Luk, Lee Luk would suddenly say, "Brother, I miss home..."
In order to help Li Luke, a dancer made a MV to find relatives, which was transmitted to the Internet, hoping that more people would help him find a home. After this MV was uploaded, it immediately attracted a lot of attention. Guo Gangtang, the prototype of the movie "Lost Orphans", saw the MV and contacted Yang Zi, a volunteer of the Zhengzhou Ping'an Jinshui Volunteer Federation, hoping that Yang Zi could help Luke find his relatives.
Lee Luke's search for relatives
In 2015, Yangzi found Li Luke. The volunteers sent Li Luke's information to the Internet, found Li Zichang, deputy captain of the case investigation brigade of the Nanguan Street Branch of the Zhengzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau who has long been engaged in simulated portrait work, and painted a portrait of Li Luke's mother through Li Luke's memory.
Lee Luke's dream
Li Luke has participated in too many files to find relatives, fruitless; participated in the national family search conference, fruitless; has also collected blood samples in the "DNA abduction library" of the Ministry of Public Security of China, as long as the parents are also trying to find relatives through DNA on the other side of the network, they can immediately match, but there is no result.
Wandering for 20 years, Li Luke has never given up looking for his family, although it has not been fruitful, but he has always been full of enthusiasm for life.
He thanked the volunteers who helped him find a home, and also became a member of the Ping An Jinshui Volunteer Federation, volunteer organizations have activities, Li Luke will actively participate, he has helped the elderly who have lost orphans, helped the disabled, and also rescued stray animals.
In July 2018, Li Luke met Xiaoping, an 11-year-old stray boy. Xiao Ping ran away from home because of his naughtiness, could not find the way home, worried that Xiao Ping was bad at social schooling, Li Luke took Xiao Ping with him, and also entrusted volunteers to help Xiao Ping find his family. About half a month later, Xiaoping was reunited with his parents.
Lee Luke helps out in the "shared kitchen"
A month ago, hearing that zhengzhou's "shared kitchen" was facing the dilemma of shortage of manpower, Li Luke took the initiative to come to the kitchen as a volunteer. He said that he had a life now with the help of the people of Zhengzhou, and he was grateful for everything here.
In 2019, the cadres and police officers of the Jiefang Road police station helped him apply for public rental housing, and Luke had his own "new home". More than 50 square meters of small two-room bright hall, the bed is donated by the love porridge house, the sofa is donated by the caring citizens, the quilt and bedding are purchased by the loving police Wu Congcong... Although the home is not large, it is full of everyone's love and can satisfy Li Luke's desire for home.
Lee Luke moved into public rental housing
At present, Li Luke has a job: cleaning in a restaurant during the day and doing handyman work in a bar at night. Zhengzhou gave him a stable life, but Li Luke was still eager to return to his home. "For more than twenty years, I have never stopped looking for a home, but I have never had any clues. I already have the ability to take care of myself and the ability to do filial piety for my parents, and I only hope to find my relatives and return to a warm home as soon as possible. ”
Jinyun News reporter Lao Yunfei
Source: Jinyun